Jackson Notes of Visitors and Local Arrivals
Mrs. Jim Chambless visits Miss Pearl Maddox. Numerous residents travel to Atlanta Macon Griffin and New York for visits business or study. High school and college students return home for Thanksgiving.
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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1923
Page
3
Mrs. Jim Chambless visits Miss Pearl Maddox. Numerous residents travel to Atlanta Macon Griffin and New York for visits business or study. High school and college students return home for Thanksgiving.
The Pepperton school presents the second in a series of entertainments at the school house on Saturday night November 24 at seven. Admission is 10 and 25 cents.
Shoe department offers a full stock of bargains in all shoe styles with emphasis on solid leather footwear.
The body of Jim Lake lies in the corner as authorities note a fatal accident blamed on a mistaken pedal. The Graphic reports a car thought to be in brake mode accelerated, causing a deadly outcome.
The Star Store offers a selection of hats and bonnets priced to meet low-cost standards while preserving quality. Shoppers can compare styles and materials to find practical millinery values.
The Progress-Argus will be issued a day early due to Thanksgiving. Advertisers and correspondents should submit copy early in the week. The paper will be printed Wednesday so staff can observe a holiday Thursday.
Star Store advertises big reductions on all ready to wear items with wide discounts across the store shoppers urged to take advantage of the sale.
Mrs. J A Middlebrooks returned from a visit to Fitzgerald. Rev Cody Wilson and family from Jasper Fla visited the Childs home and attended the North Georgia Conference in Atlanta. An oyster supper will be held by County Line church ladies in the vacant Minter store Saturday evening November 24.
A note on new suede slippers in popular shades contrasts with a Kansas editor’s party tale. At a neighbor’s gathering, a hard of hearing hostess mishears a question about the editor’s baby, prompting a humorous misunderstanding about winter illnesses and draft avoidance.
An Alabama man named Rastus is arrested for speeding. He insists he was going seventy miles per hour in a Ford. The judge doubts the claim, while Rastus jokes that his Ford is a special model with Pierce-Arrow glands.
The transit commission notes a surge in riders with subway elevated and surface lines carrying 90,893,000 more passengers year over year, totaling nearly 2.7 billion in two years. Fifth Avenue buses added over 2 million riders, while the average New Yorker rides 456 times annually.
The notice lists business hours from 8 to 5 and 11 to 9 at the Mays Building Office in Jackson Georgia. It identifies the location and general operation times for the office.
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