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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1918
Page
7
Monday through Sunday many residents and visitors are noted, including Judge J H Ham Mrs B F Watkins and Mrs L D Singley in Atlanta and Macon. Several others travel to Atlanta Baxley Milledgeville and Charleston while illnesses and recoveries including Spanish influenza and pneumonia are reported.
A 19th century style health claim extols prenatal happiness influencing offspring. It promotes Mother's Friend, a shoulder-slapper remedy claimed to relax abdominal muscles, reduce nausea, and ease labor. Advertisement urges readers to contact E. Lamar Building for the motherhood book and to buy the product.
Mr. Elmo P. Colwell spends a furlough in New York with his parents. Miss Lucy Pierce teaches in Forsyth and visits Mrs. Etheridge while her school is closed for influenza. Miss Jessie Wiggins teaches in Forsyth and stays with Mrs. Fletcher and Mrs. McKibben. Mr. J. W. Carmichael visits St Augustine Florida with his son, who is recovering from influenza. Miss Mary Buttrill Matthews recuperates from burns in Atlanta. Mrs. J. B. Hopkins at Georgia Tech Hospital with influenza improving. Mrs. Maurice Wright and daughter plan to join Mr. Wright in Macon for winter. Mrs. O. A. Pound and Miss Martha Pound arrive from Grand Rapids to spend winter here, with Artella Ainsworth joining for a month. Mrs. Rutherford Smith and daughter Iona visit Miss Billie Hamlin en route to Hotel Seminole in Jacksonville.
A committee of ladies asks all citizens to save nut shells for gas masks and deposit them in boxes at the court house and post office. White and colored residents, especially rural, are urged to bring shells to town. Boxes will also be at three drug stores for tin foil.
Claims that catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be addressed by a constitutional remedy. Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure that acts through mucous surfaces with a $100 reward for any untreatable case, offering free circulars from J Ey & Co Toledo.
Thirty four selectmen were summoned for physical examination Tuesday and forty were notified to appear on Thursday. The process began days ago but was interrupted by an epidemic. Twenty eight registrants with pending cases will be summoned for examination next week.
Regular service at the Presbyterian church scheduled for next Sunday evening at seven o clock.
The Georgia State Fair opens November 11 with a sequence of themed days. Openers include Live Stock Day, Counties Day, and Races on November 12, followed by Military Athletic Events Day and other craft and county celebrations through November 21.
An old advertisement touts LAXA TIVE BROSH QUININE as superior to ordinary quinine for tonic and laxative effects without causing nervousness or head issues. It urges remembering the full name E. W. GROVE for the signature and notes a 30c price.
Judge and Mrs J H Ham have purchased the Levi Carter home on North Mulberry Street and will take possession on November first. They will stay temporarily in Mr W I Wagner’s home.
The state polls open next Tuesday for governor state officers congressmen and a United States Senator with county offices also on the ballot. The only opposition to the senator is G H Williams an independent Republican of Dublin against Democratic nominee W J Harris. Judge J H Ham Ordinary has arranged the ticket which includes fifteen constitutional amendments and a notably long ballot.
An 19th century product ad claims Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic destroys malarial germs transmitted by the malaria mosquito. The bottle lists a price of 60 cents.
The financial statement shows the City of Jackson treasurer J A McMichael reporting for the quarter ending September 30 1918. School fund balance from the last quarter was 386 81 and payments issued per vouchers totaled 310 90.
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