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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1921
Page
8
The notice warns buyers to look for the Bayer name on packaging to ensure genuine aspirin. It lists approved uses for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and general pain and notes aspirin tablets come in small tin boxes and larger packages from druggists.
A series of social visits and gatherings are recorded with local residents attending events and visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Garr hosted a crowd for a singing on Saturday night. Several residents including A D Williams Wilmer Garr and Mary Lee Flynt are noted for visits to Barnesville Jackson Monroe County and Thomaston.
Locust Grove Institute hosts commencement events May 21 to May 24 led by speakers from Mercer University and area towns. Activities include concert, sermons, oratorical and impromptu debates, dramatic club play, diploma and prize delivery, senior class exercises, and a champion debate on adding a Secretary of Education with cabinet authority.
Several cows for sale fresh in milk or open to exchange for dry cattle. Bailey and Settle listed as contacts for the deal.
Washington reports April cotton usage totals: 408 882 bales of lint and 48 096 of linters consumed. April on hand in consuming establishments: 1 316 015 bales of lint and 212 815 linters. Public storage and compresses hold 5 028 631 lint and 302 408 linters. Imports 18 731. exports 319 933 lint and 4 784 linters. Spindle activity 32 535 725. Compared with last April, consumption and stocks show declines in lint and linters.
That tired feeling signals possible illness and blood disorder. warning to act before bed sickness. It urges using S.S.S. a vegetable blood tonic, with instruction to obtain from a druggist and write to Chief Medical Advisor in Atlanta, Georgia.
A Friday night incident on J. J. Compton's plantation left Hoss Smith dead and Jesse Watts wounded. Watts, employed by George Harkness and Bowden, was arrested after Watts fired with conflicting accounts of self defense. At a preliminary hearing before Justice J. A. McMichael, Watts was cleared of murder but kept on pistol charges.
Legal notices warn county purchases require official approval by judge or county leaders and pledge not to pay nonconforming bills. Also records show Carmichael Buggy Co. petitions to rename to Carmichael Investment Co. and extend charter twenty years with renewal rights. filed in Butts County Superior Court, May 2, 1921.
The Carmichael Buggy Company petitions the Superior Court of Butts County to amend its charter name to Carmichael Investment Co and renew the charter for twenty years from May 2, 1921. The April 9 1921 stockholder meeting approved the name change and renewal. An abstract of minutes and resolutions were recorded in Charter Book No. 1 page 159. DR. D. W. PRITCHETT Eye Ear Nose and Throat Specialist Barnesville GA and Guthrie & Company advertise fire insurance with old line companies.
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