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Personal and £oeal A Little Gossip About the Doings of Folks You Know and l on’t Know Little Mary Willis is very sick. J. R. Miller is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Mary Heflin left Monday for Sparta. Bert Jinks has returned from South Georgia. Mrs. Hall Turner and children have returned to Winder. W. I. Wagner was the guest of friends in Atlanta Sunday. Mrs. T. J. Cole of Cedar Rock, was in town Monday shopping. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. McClure visited relatives in Jackson Mon day. Miss Cleo Carmichael will not return to Brenau for the spring term. Jack Currie is out on his farm, near Worthville, having lumber sawed. Mrs. Charlie Jinks of Cedar Rock, was shopping in Jackson this week. Misses Sallie Mae Ball and Eloise Pound spent Thursday in Flovilla. Mrs. George Haynes left Wed nesday for a visit to relatives in Atlanta. Mr. Frank McDowell of Monti cello, was seen on our streets the past week. Little May Giles has been real sick, but is somewhat better at this writing. P. W. Maddox of Griffin, is visiting his parents on Indian Spring Street. Bryant Collier was the guest of homefolks at Indian Spring Sunday. Judge Hammond of Elgin, visi ted his daughter,Mrs. E. C. Robison recently. Mrs. M. C. McDonald has been real sick with an .attack of grippe but is now better. Miss Jennie Bryans of Indian Spring, visited her sister Mrs. H. L. Daughtry Wednesday. Mrs. S. E. Paul returned Mon day afternoon from a ten days visit to friends in Atlanta. Miss Minnie Hammond of El gin, came Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. Will Carter. Mrs. I. B. Smith, the mother of Mrs. T. J. Dempsey, is very ill at her home in Atlanta. Mr. D. F. Thaxton has bought the DixieJßottling Works, recent ly operated by L. P. Jamerson. Ii Miss Peel,lthe nurse of Helen Carmichael, has been dismissed, returned to Atlanta Tuesday. Say “ate - ’ to central and get something to eat from Jim Joy ner. Thornton Buchanan came dowi from Atlanta Sunday to spend the day with homeiolks. Mrs. R. p. Sarnett and chil dren, left Sun lay f -r George ;ow; Georgia, to wsit her parents. T. H. Buttrili went to Atlant; recently and bought a complete equipment for the Jackson Rifles. The Jackson friends of Dr. and Mrs. Nelson will be s-wry to lean they are suffering with the gripp. Mr. and Mrs. Van Fletcher of Fort Gaines, Ga., are receiving congratulations upon the birth of a son. Miss Quinland of Macon, is the attractive guest of her aunt Mrs. I. K. Maddox on East Third Street. Mrs. Emma Mallett and Miss Adel Nutt, were the guests of Mrs. Mote Watts of Fiovilla Friday of last week. Dave Goodson came down from Atlanta Saturday, to spend Sun day with his mother on Lyons Street. Say “ate” —then “eat.” Miss Floy Maddox and Aubert Banks, spent Sunday in Henry county as the guest of. Miss Eva Mason. The friends of Mrs. J. W. Crum will be glad to know that she is convalescing after her recent se vere illness. M”S. A. G. Hitchens and Miss Rosehud, returned Wednesday night from a visit of three weeks to Atlanta. J. V/. Snead and J. V/. Wilson, students of Locust Grove, spent Saturday and Sunday with the family of J. J. Wilson. Mrs. D. J. Thaxton and Mrs. Geneva Carmichael, were quite sick Saturday and Sunday, suf fering from a bilious attack. The school at Old Bethel open ed Monday morning with forty pupils, under the direction of Miss Ophelia Banks. Mary Francis, the little daugn ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Car michael who has been sick for a v/eek, is slightly improved. Mrs. J. H. Carmichael, who has been quite sick for several days, is somewhat improved, but is still confined to her room. Subscribe for The Progress. Miss Clara Nolen, one of the new teachers of the school, is boarding with Mrs. Annie Webb on Dempsey Avenue. The daughters of the Confeder acy have posponed their meeting until Tuesday of next week. All members are urged to be present. Miss Elia H'gg'ns of Allard , is expected soon to visit he; cousin, Miss Florrie Ham. Miss Nellie Cole, an at.tactlve young’ lady of Iron Spring, is the guett this week of Miss Pear Maddox. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. J. Wriglii of Iron Spring spent Sunday witi .heir daughter, Mrs. W. P. Col her. Mrs. Tom Strange returned Saturday to her home in Winder, tfter's week’s visit to her sister. Mrs. Dixie McKibben. Mr. and. Mrs. R. A. Maddoo; >f Atlanta are visiting the family of Mr. J. P. Maddox on Indian Spring Street. Pro’. Butler is now boardin. with Mrs. T. M. Furlow, or Dempsey Avenue. Mrs. Bulle; is expected here real soon. Miss Fannie Lee Leverett of Gatonton, is expected to reach Jackson Friday afternoon for r short visit to Mrs. E. E. Pound. Dr. Tom Fletcher and wife of Forsyth, spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Spencer on Dempsey Avenue. J. M. Darden, of Monroe county, was in Jackson Tuesday to attend the stockholders meet ing of the Jackson Banking Cos. ’Phone—B—“ate. ” Rev. S. B. Cousins, one of the teachers of the Locust Grove school, preached two magnificent sermons at the Baptist church last Sunday. Mrs. W. H. Butler returned Wednesday afternoon from the Piedmont Sanitarium in Atlanta, where she underwent an opera tion for apendicius. After a visit of several week's to relatives in Savannah, Miss Collins has returned to Jackson, and is boarding with Mrs. John Smith. Hugh, the eighteen months old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. King, is critically ill with pneu monia at his home on Mulberry street. Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Car michael of Oak Grove, visited the families of J. M. Leach and D. N. Carmichael the first of the week. Bob Etheridge reports a glo rious hunting trip through Worth county. He returned Thursday night with one hundred birds ar.u divided them liberally among his friends. Mr. Norman Miller, voho is rep resenting Ginn & Cos., visited the public school Friday of last week, and gave a very interesting talk to the students of the high school department. Mr. and Mrs. Vaud Hands and and baby, are guests of Mr. J. C. Merideth’s family on Oak Street. Mrs. Harris’s baby has been ill with a slight attack of pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Roberts of Atlanta, anticipate a visit to Jackson in the near future to the latter’s parents. Beverly is an old Jackson boy, and his friends will be glad to see him. •'HJOMd $ P‘ htmc 6 M( j 8 Phone 8 2 2 I _ | S W B e wl 30 3- 2 c , o 5 Phone V ■ Buoy • o £ JC x ‘ a. Oc " S J S' a- -o 5- ar c o = I .3 n>[ ft g auoiifj 8 Phone 8 aunLjd 8 wne 8 Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Carmichael will move into their pretty new home on West Second Street about February Ist. Mr. Roger Crittenden of Shell man, arrived Tuesday night to attend the McMichael-Dozier wedding. Little Mabel and Emmett Price after a weeks visit to Mrs. J. L. Wagner, returned Sunday to their home in Atlanta. Wanted: Scrap Iron, Brass, Copper and Lead. Jos. L. Wagner & Son. The coming term of the Jack son public school promises to be the best in the school’s history. A large number is enrolled with a regular attendance of over 300 per day. The many friends of little Hel en Carmichael are glad to know she is improving from a recent spell of fever. One of the train ed nurses has been dismissed. Under treatment of Dr. J. E. Woods, Mesdames F. S. Ether idge, E. E. Pound and Mr. Bob Lyons, have been relieved of se vere attacks of rheumatism. Mrs. Virginia Manly of McDon ough, visited relatives in Jackson hst week. She came in search of a house with the view of mov ing back to her old home. There's no place like Jackson. A letter from Cullen Thaxton, a native of Jackson, but now a citizen of Panama, saying he is doing we’l, highly pleased, and s now P >stmastor at Take mi. la dmama. Cullen has many u'icr.ds in this section of the :ouutry who will be glad to hear A nia good fortune. A HAPPY NEW YEAR. A happy new year to the one thousand mem bers in good standing in the Butts County Division Mutual Life Industrial Association of Georgia. Payment of the 10 and nth assess ment, IQO7, must be made on or before Monday next at my office, First National Bank Building, Jackson, Ga. James F. Carmichael, SECY. & TREAS. As The Progress closes its forms for this issue it learns that Miss Florence Carter is still very low. Order your wood from Jackson Fuel Company, at depot. Terms cash. Don’t order unless you have the money. SI.OO per load. *** On Friday evening Dr. Clifford Carmichael gave a delightful stag dinner in honor of the physicians of Monroe. Covers were laid for ten, and a delicious menu was served the guests. Monroe items Sunday’s Atlanta Journal. Buy your groceries and farm snpplies from Ham & Carter Cos. They have a full supply of How ard flour, Georgia cane syrup, rust proof oats, feed oats, plow shares, plow stocks, middle bus ters and other items too numerous to mention, at rock bottom prices and anxious to serve you. Come one, come all. Get your wants at Ham & Carter Company and be happy. Dr. T. D. Fletcher, son of Mr. Webb Fletcher, who has been living in Forsyth, has purchased the home of Charlie Moore of Jen kinsburg and will locate there in the near future. Thursday January 16, from three to five o’clock, little Misses Emma and Laura Allen, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. G- W. Allen, were at home to a number of their friends, the occasion be ing their seventh birthday. Neat ly printed invitations were sent out. Misses Lex and Lena White of Worthville, were in town Wed nesday, visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Currie and Miss Trudie Maddox.