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INDIAN SPRINGS
Mi’s. Becky Reeves of Atlanta, was
guestof Mi>. J. K. Calkins last week,
Mrs. Calkirtß entertained at auction
in her honor Friday afternoon. Sun
day guests of Mrs. Calkins were
Mr.and Mrs. Harry Stevens and Mr.
Kemper, of Atlanta.
Mrs. S. L. Austin, daughter of
M rs. (J. 1. Watkins, came down from
Atlanta to be with her mother during
the week.
The death of United States Sena
ator Park Trammell last week in
Washington from pneumonia was |
deeply regretted as the Senator 1
spent the last four summer seasons
here as guest of the Elder. Mr. j
Trammell was very democratic in j
his tastes and mingled freely with j
the citizens and visitors. He was a
THE END IS NEAR!
' ONLY 9 DAYS REMAIN UNTIL THE PROGRESS-ARGUS’ PRIZE SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST
COMES TO A CLOSE.
ONLY 2 DAYS BEFORE ANOTHER GREAT REDUCTION IN VOTES.
5 YEAR AND EXTENDED SUBSCRIPTIONS COUNT MORE VOTES.
WILL SOMEONE CAIN AN INSURMOUNTABLE LEAD SATURDAY NIGHT? OR WILL
THIS STILL BE ANYONE’S RACE?
THE LEAD CAN BE GAIIVED!
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SECOND PRIZE
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POUR OTHER CASH PRIZES TO BE GIVEN
CLOSING RULES OF THE CAMPAIGN
The Progress-Argus Campaign will close at 8 p. m., May 23rd,
Contestants should place all the subscription stubs of the subscriptions collected the last week
in an envelope—seal it and deposit in the sealed ballot box at The Progress-Argus office, not later than
8 o’clock Saturday night.
The Campaign Manager’s watch will be the official time piece.
No checks of any kind will be accepted as payment for subscriptions that are turned in the sealed
ballot box. Only cash is acceptable.
At the closing hour the campaign will be turned over to the judges selected by the contestants, to
count the votes and determine the winners.
Get Your Winning Votes By Saturday, May 16!
close friend of W. B. Powell who has
known him for over thirty years,
practically managing his campaigns
for Governor of Florida and the U.
S. Senate.
Tuesday marked thirty-three days
since rain fell in this vicinity and in
consequence there are but few gar
dens that are producing any vege
tables and no opportunity of plant
ing. Corn and cotton has to be re
planted in most instances.
! Mrs. A. R. Razar, of Macon, was!
| t)ie charming hostess at a dinner j
party to a number of her friends at
the Elder last Friday.
Mrs. S. O. Ham, of Atlanta, is j
here for the summer the guest of
her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Cornell.
The attendants upon the Watkins-
Garland wedding ceremony were
guests of the couple at a well-ap
pointed and sumpteous dinner at the
THE WINNER MAY CHOOSE BETWEEN THESE PRIZES
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Elder Sunday.
Mrs. Willie Mae Hayes, a bride of
a few weeks, spent the week-end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
I-awson last week.
Mayor and Mrs. Herbert Smith,
Col. B< n J. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. McKenney anda score of others
from Macon participated in the
opening of the Elder Hotel last week.
Since the death of Miss Carrie Col
lier the circulating library has been
installed at the postoffice in charge
of Mrs. Margaret Holloway. Mrs.
Holloway is asking that all who
have books from the library in their
possession to return them at once
as the number of volumes that are
owned by the association is sadly
short.
Among the many picnic parties at
the Springs the past week were those
of the schools of Covington and
(Griffin on Friday; Fayetteville and
Concord on Saturday and on Monday
the Hampton eighth and ninth grad
es under the leadership of the teach
er Miss Martha Ross.
Indian Springs will have the fol
lowing amusement and eating places
this summer: The Casino under
management of Mr. Chambers - ; Dan
ny Hoard with a dancing pavilion
and four bowling alleys; Doc Torbet
refreshment and drinks; Hart, re
freshment's and drinks; Ben Cleve
land dancing in the Hoard building;
Doc Reeves bowling alley in the
Hoard building; Wm. Halloway man
aging the newly erected refreshment
and drink stand at the swimming
pool, besides the soft drink stands of
Hoard, Edwards and Moss. All have
done wonderful business so far this
spring and look for the busiest sea
son of all time. j
Chevrolet Coadh
ON DISPLAY AT SETTLE & ROBISON
An All
Ex
pense
Euro
pean
TOUR
or the
cash
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valent
ol the
TOUR.
Assurance has been given by the
Highway Board that markers will be
placed at various points to and
through Indian Springs on Route 42,
especially at “deadman’s curve” ap
proaching the springs from the south
where many accidents have occured.
A check-up on travel Sunday showed
(hat better than 400 cars were mov
per hour all afternoon. The Springs
had a crow’d almost equal to that of
campmeeting Sundays in August.
Truck loads of machinery, and
supplies and accessories are moving
daily from CCC headquaretrs here
to various camps in the state. The
federal agencies are making aeom
plete clean-up, even removing the
many fire extinguishers used in
fighting grass and forest fires.
TELL ’EM AND SELL ’EM
FRIDAY, MAY IS, 1936
Reports from India to the United
States Department of Agriculture in
dicate that the cotton crop in India
this year will be about 18 per cent
larger than the average crop for re
cent years. The trend of cotton pro
duction in India has been upward for
many years.
The cash income American farm
ers got for the products they sold
in March totaled $513,000,000 com
pared with $467,000,000 in February
and $429,000,000 in March, 1935,
according to the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics.
Seventy million tons of soot fall
on American cities annually.