Georgia Public Schools Open with Bright Outlook
The Jackson public schools begin the 1921-22 term on Monday September 5 at 9 am. Enrollment is expected to reach record levels with five hundred students anticipated. The remodeled building proves well equipped with new music and band programs, a stronger faculty, and revised tuition and entrance terms.
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City of
Jackson
Robert VanDeventer
J. R. Jordan
Georgia
Watson
Court House
Supreme Court
Bulls County Board of Education
J. A. McMichael
Board of Education
Hotels at Indian Springs Full of Guests
Jackson reports a large number of guests at Indian Springs with the New Elder Hotel likely staying open through October. The Foy Hotel also hosts many guests and plans to remain open for several weeks. Calumet operator M L King has returned to Jackson for the winter. Get behind your school and let's make this the best year in an educational way the county has ever known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Locust Grove Institute
Collins
L. D. Watson
University of Georgia
University of Tennessee
University of Chicago
National Normal University
Harvard University
T. J. Collins
Mercer University
Mary Will Hanes
Jonesboro
Georgia Normal and Industrial College
Wray Hass
Dawson
Lucile Vassar
Opelika
Ala
Edna Mee West
Atlanta
Department of Music
Brenau College
Atlanta School of Music
Elder Hotel
FOY
J. E. Cornell
New Elder
Indian Springs
Cornell
M. L. King
Calumet
Destructive Boll Weevil Ravages Georgia Cotton Crop
The article warns of severe boll weevil damage across Georgia, predicting the smallest state cotton crop in history at about 700000 bales. It details county by county declines from Jasper to Butts, noting farmers losing fields, early picking and ginning, and widespread devastation estimated through frost.
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Georgia
Hon
J. J. Brown
Jasper
Putnam
Jasper County
Womack
Putnam County
Jones County
Monroe County
Butts
Butts County
Monroe
Jones
Cream Station to Start Shipping Cream Next Week
The Jackson Ice Corporation completes a full cream station setup with cans a DeLav al Cream Separator and Babcock tester. Patrons like Maddox Brothers F H Morgan W E Merck expect first shipment next Monday with frequent pay every two weeks.
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Jackson Ice Factory
Babcock
Maddox Brothers
F. H. Morgan
W. E. Merck
Jackson Ice Corporation
Jackson
Rome
Selma
Ashburn
Eatonton
Seven Georgia counties told to increase assessments
State Tax Commissioner Henry J. Fullbright orders Murray Henry Butts Turner Screven Crisp and Troup counties to raise assessments by 15 to 25 percent above boards of equalization figures. He says the higher levies will push the state total to about 2 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Henry J. Fullbright
County Boards of Equalization
Murray
Henry
Butts
Turner
Screven
Crisp
Troup
Fullbright
Banks Here Will Close September 5 Labor Day
The banks in Jackson will be closed next Monday September 5 Labor Day and a national holiday.
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Jackson
Butts County Aims to Be Banner Peach County
Butts County Fruit Growers Association vows 1000 acres or more will be planted to peaches this winter with 70000 to 75000 trees ordered. The Middle Georgia Orchards Company seeks a $50000 charter to plant across Butts and Monroe counties as demand grows and shipping via Southern Railway is ready. The boll weevil crisis pushes growers to pivot from cotton to peaches praised for size flavor and color.
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Butts County
H. M
van Fletcher
Guthrie
Redman
Middle Georgia
Butts
Monroe
Messrs
J. B. Carmichael
S. B. Kinard
J. B. Guthrie
W. M. White
Jackson
Southern Railway System
Jackson, Flovilla
Jenkinsburg
Southern
Peach Belt
Arbitration of Butt County tax returns opens in Jackson
Arbitration of the 1921 tax returns for Butt County began in Jackson on Thursday morning with a 30 percent increase demanded by State Tax Commissioner H J Fullbright. Judge B S Willingham of Forsyth serves as third board member. E J Reagan and H A Allen represent the local and state sides. The hearing was to start at 10 o clock in the courthouse with many taxpayers expected to testify on property valuations. Butt is among seven counties ordered to submit higher returns.
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Butt
H. J. Fullbright
Jackson
B.S. Willingham
Forsyth
E. J. Reagan
8. A. Allen
Decatur
Fullbright
Court House
Schedule change hearing postponed on Southern Railway route
The Railroad Commission hearing on Southern Railway System plans to make trains Nos 9 and 10 non stop at Flovilla Jackson Locust Grove McDonough and Stockbridge was postponed. Jackson and other towns opposed the move with protests and fundraising efforts, while Monticello residents also protested the current convenient schedule. Mayor Fletcher was told the hearing was delayed and a hard fight to retain the present schedule is anticipated.
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Southern Railway System
Flovilla
Jackson
Locust Grove
McDonough
Stockbridge
Railroad Commission
Atlanta
Monticello
Southern
Fletcher
County Levy Scheduled for Butts County Next Week
The Butts County Commission announces the 1921 tax levy will be set at the September meeting. The school levy is fixed at 5 mills, maintaining last year’s rate, with other business on the agenda for the joint session of the county commission board of education and court of ordinary.
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Butts County
Board of Education
Court of Ordinary
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Peach County
Sackson Public
Annie Lou McCord
LaGrange Female College
Leila Gillbert
Cartersville
R. L. Smith
Wesleyan
Sallie Watkins
Bessie Blackman
West Point
Nannie Belle Jinks
Boll Weevil
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