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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1921
Page
6
At a Jackson Board of Education meeting on Wednesday afternoon a count of teachers for the 21 22 term was discussed with officials announcing the number and details of assignments.
The Jackson Georgia Board of Education plans a fall term music department and may elect a music teacher after selecting other faculty. Several teachers were elected, others postponed, and salaries largely unchanged. A rule prohibits employing a married lady as a teacher unless abolished by a board majority. Social notes mention visits and a well attended Indian Springs picnic with local gatherings and a singing event.
Jenkinsboro Baptist church adopts resolutions after the death of Henry A Jackson aged young man. Members note his home loving gentle nature and sunny disposition and send sympathy to his parents and sister. A public copy is sent to the county paper and Christian Index. committee members are John O Minter Shirlin Steele and Willie D Woodward.
The Sixth District Rural Letter Carriers Association meets Monday May 30 at Wigwam Hotel Indian Springs. About 125 carriers from thirteen counties are expected with 30 percent of district members. Hon J H Mills will speak and Mr H B Whitaker presides. Additional speakers anticipated and new members hoped to enroll.
The piece argues education funding will rise as drives increase support for causes. It faults the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation for criticizing the State Department of Agriculture, claiming the department is efficient and doing as well as the federation could under current conditions.
The Jackson post office has received pistols issued by the postmaster general to deter robberies after several hundred thousand dollars were stolen nationwide. Rewards are offered for capture of robbers and employees are armed to defend facilities. The piece ends with a curfew suggestion for Jackson’s night streets and a literary aside about Andrew Carnegie’s imagined death.
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