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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
3
Notice to taxpayers announces J. P. Vaughn will be at the Court House to receive 1918 tax returns from February 1 until May 1, 1918. The date is February 1, 1918, and Vaughn serves as tax receiver for Butts County.
Notice is given that J. W. Maddox holds a Revenue License as retail liquor dealer from July 1, 1917 to June 30, 1918 with place of business at Worthville Butts county Georgia Sheriff L M Crawford 3 8 2te.
W C Stodghill and R F Welch as administrators petition that they have fully adminished J A King estate. They are cited to show cause why they should not be discharged and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in April 1918. J H Ham Ordinary.
Mrs. W M Patrick applies for twelve months support from the estate of W M Patrick for herself and five minor children. Appraisers filed a return and the Court of Ordinary is to hear cause on the first Monday in April 1918 to determine if the request should be granted.
The New Macedonia Baptist Association seeks a twenty year charter to form the New Macedonia Institute to promote Christian education in Jackson Butts County. J. H. Carmichael et al petition to form Georgia Wholesale Company in Jackson to operate a broad wholesale business with $25,000 paid-in capital, branch rights, and permeable charter powers.
Petitioners seek charter approval for a corporation to be known as New Macedonia Institute. The filing requests necessary by laws and a common seal with officers, directors, and trustees to operate, with court order after required advertisement. Clerk J Foster certifies the document March 1 1918.
A Jackson group including W. E. Merck Alderman W. H. Merritt D. M. Thornton J R Thurst on and Hughton Thornton visited Barnesville last Friday to inspect a fire truck recently installed there and to obtain information useful for Jacksons own apparatus purchase. It is not known when the Jackson city may receive its new fire equipment.
A Cincinnati official promotes freezone as a quick relief for corns and calluses and claims it can remove the entire growth with little cost. The note adds a warning about labor and social divisions and mentions Negro women reportedly being used as section hands on the Central of Georgia Railway near Savannah.
The excerpt records an official seal and signature dated March 18 1918. It includes a line about service as a badge of honor and a prompt asking what is being done to help. The readable text centers on authentication phrasing and civic sentiment.
Secretary Lane seeks rapid passage of a bill funding a Bureau of Education campaign to train illiterate adults in the United States and to improve English literacy among foreign born, targeting potential draftees for military service. He cites 5,516,163 adults over ten unable to read or write.
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and build up the whole system while urging Brace up and smile with a 60 cent price.
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