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★ HELP WANTED ★
Couples wanted, operating self
service grocery store and gas
station. Living quarters
furnished, plus salary and gas
allowance. Apply at U-Serve-U-
Save, 204 W. Vineyard.
MANAGER TRAINEE
Expanding consumer finance
company offers position with a
future to a personable and
aggressive individual. Must be
high school graduate and own
automobile. This is an
outstanding opportunity to join
one of the south's most
progressive and growing
consumer finance and multi
industry companies. Our
training program assures rapid
progress to a managerial
position. Excellent starting
salary, many employee
benefits. Contact Miss Coleman
at Mann Finance Corp. 305
Thomaston St. Barnesville, Ga.
Manager Trainee for local
business. Salary, bonus, free
insurance, paid vacation, and
retirement plan. Apply in
person to 426 W. Solomon St.
One Hour Martinizing.
WANTED: Truck drivers. Need
department of Transportation
qualified drivers. Semi tractor
trailer Experience necessary.
Good pay, fringe benefits.
McKenzie Tank Lines
Milner, Ga.
Across road from Dixie Pipe
Line.
Apply in person.
MANAGEMENT TRAINEE
Excellent training program . .
for an excellent position. Our
unique Management Training
Program follows a well
planned, comprehensive
schedule . . . provides you the
best opportunity to develope
quickly into a manager of a
Consumer Finance Branch
office. Liberal employee
benefits and regular salary
increases based on your
progress. High School
Graduate.
APPROVED FOR VETERANS
ON THE JOB TRAINING
BENEFITS
PACIFIC FINANCE
535 W. TAYLOR STREET
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Atlanta Journal has
opening for reliable person with
car to handle afternoon
newspaper route in Griffin.
Wonderful opportunity to
supplement your income with
over $2,000 per year for only
about 2 hours of your time each
day. For information phone 228
1983 between 11 a.m. and 6:30
o.m. after 6:30 phone 228 1198.
WANTED: Truck driver,
3 oloron Homes. Jackson, Ga.,
’75 5167
WANTED: Construction
aborers. Be at Walter Hall
Shell Service Station ,
nterchange of Hwy. 20 8. 81 on
nterstate I 75, McDonough,
3a., by 7:00 a m. See George
inellgrove. Chaney Fence Corp.
Equal opportunity employer.
HELP WANTED: Experienced
drywall men needed. 227 1566.
Wen wanted for Hampton and
Atlanta area. Security work,
dart time or full time. 946 4870
>r 633 4561, Atlanta.
HELP WANTED: Experienced
dlumbers, able to run job alone.
Sood pay. Call Robert Jones
128 1878.
HELP WANTED: Clerical
treferred with Frieden
Wachine experience. Also need
lemmers for towels, napkins,
md tablecloths. Also cutters,
■xperienced. Apply in person
qutheastern Textile Co.
HELP WANTED: Service
tation attendant wanted. Apply
n person. I 75 & 155 or call 957-
575.
MANAGER TRAINEES
outheasts largest self service
hoe chain is now taking
pplications for manager
•ainees. Salary open,
pplicant must have high
chool education or equivalent,
o prior experience necessary.
le will train qualified person
>r management position. Upon
ompletion of training
elocation will be required
ompany benefits include
ospitalization and life
isurance, paid vacation, sick
;ave, profit sharing other
onus programs. Apply in
erson Pic 'n Pay, 372 North
xpressway.
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For Any Worthwhile |
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|i Phone 227-2561 1
EH Open All Day Saturday. I
■riffin Finance j
I & Thrift Co. j
. 11l South Hill St. |
K-a G. R. Robinson, Mgr. '
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HELP WANTED: Ladies,
Dairy Queen No. 2. Apply in
person only.
Need 5 men to operate
machines in a woodworking
plant. Also need truck driver
and laborers. Apply Irby
Pallets Co. Pine Grove Rd.,
Locust Grove, Ga.
Industrial Construction
Foreman needed. Capable of
making layout and using layout
instruments. Good job security,
salary negotiable. Call R. W.
Crank, Construction
Superintendent, 468-6423 or 468-
6424, Monticello, Ga. between
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Male or female for janitorial
service. Must be honest,
dependable, and willing to
work. Must have drivers
liscense. No phone calls, apply
Carpets of Griffin, 1137
Meriwether St.
WANTED: Painter, spray man,
able to run crew. 495-5634.
WANTED: Concrete production
workers. Steady work. Start
$2.75 per hour, $2.90 after 90
days. Apply Macon Pretress
Concrete Co. East Battle Creek
Rd., Jonesboro, Ga. 478-6454.
MANAGER TRAINEES
Credit thrift of America,
growing by leaps and bounds,
needs several career minded
men for their management
training program.
Golden opportunity to advance
with a growing company for
men over 21 who have high
school education and a car.
College work helpful, but not
required.
Fringe benefits include a good
life and hospitalization
program, earned sick leave
profit sharing plan etc.
Apply in person to Credit Thrift
of America, College Hill
Shopping Center, 124 W. College
St., Griffin, Ga.
HELP WANTED: Sheet metal
mechanics to install duct. Apply
Gay Plumbing and Heating Inc.
ARTCC, Hampton, Ga.
WANTED: Experienced
electrician and experienced
electricians helpers only. Apply
in person. Brown Electric Co.,
502 W. Solomon, 9 12 and 2-4
Mon. Fri.
kitchen help wanted. Apply in
person, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Red
Lobster, 6550 Tara Blvd.
Jonesboro, Ga.
WANTED: Hairdresser, Styles
by J. Milner, Ga. 358-2248.
Owned and operated by Judy
West and Julie Evans.
WANTED: 8 ladies. Full or part
rime. Sarah Coventry needs
young people like you to become
fashion show directors. We
furnish everything you need to
get started plus you are
furnished with a S4OO kit of
jewelery; yours to wear for as
long as you work for us. No door
to door sales, we train you. For
appointment call 228 8624 or
Atlanta 622-8442.
★ HOMES FOR SALE ★
FOR SALE: 3 bedroom
carpeted brick home, V/j bath,
built-in kitchen, central heat
and air, double carport. Large
patio with brick barbecue pit.
Large lot. $23,900. 1325 Ruth St.
227 6516.
By owner, Hillandale, 4
bedrooms, 2'/a baths, fireplace,
patio, screened porch, fenced
yard. Priced realistic. 227-8044.
For sale: 3 bedroom home with
living room, dining room, full
basement, total electric, carpet,
Eagle Ave. in Bonanza on N.
Expressway. Call Horace Head,
Jr., at Stanley Realty, 227-4253.
FOR SALE: New spacious 3
bedroom brick veneer home. 2
ceramic tile baths, combination
kitchen and dining area.
Paneled den with cathedral
ceiling, wall to wall carpet. Side
entering carport.
Blake Builders Supply Co.
"The Home of Quality"
Call Otis Blake, Jr.
228-1444 or 227-7667
HOUSE HUNTING?
Ask to see our
Album of homes.
SINGLETARY REALTY
10th and Poplar St.
228-8444
FOR SALE: 829 Charles Circle.
Real nice 3 bedroom brick home
situated on wooded lot on quiet
street. Priced to sell. Call
Searcy.Murray Realty 227-4115
or Mildred Reeves 227-4494 after
6.
rOR SALE: 3 bedroom house,
close in. Small closing cost,
make monthly payments. See
Arthur Forrer, 116 W. College
St. No phone calls please.
I BURGLAR ALARMS
Griffin
Electronics
217 W. Taylor St.
/ KITCHEN CABINETS
S. BUILT-IN FURNITURE
UTILITY HOUSES
MEZ-ART STUDIOS
Post Office Box 63
Griffin, Ga. 30223
Phone 404-227-1888
and 227-2500
DAUSET DRIVE
AVAILABLE NOW! Dutch
Colonial 2 story home in prime
southside area; 4 bedrooms, 2'/j
baths, large paneled den with
fireplace; built-in kitchen with
double oven, dishwasher,
breakfast bar, living room and
sep. dining room; entrance
foyer; patio; double garage.
Central heat and air. (Low
forties)
RUTH STREET - Everything
you could desire at a figure you
can afford. Brick. 3 bedrooms,
l'/a baths, built-in kitchen; den
with dining area; patio;
carport; utility room. Deep lot.
Immaculate. Early occupancy.
Convenient to expressway and
by pass. A very special buy
at. ($24,500)
BRENTWOOD DRIVE • Neat
as-can-be brick, less than two
years old. 3 bedrooms, l’/j
baths, living room; dining area;
built-in kitchen; laundry area.
Intercom system, patio;
carport; back yard fenced.
Plenty of privacy, wooded lot on
quiet dead-end street in
pleasant neighborhood.
Convenient to bypass and
Industrial Park area. ($23,950)
DREWRY AVENUE Looking
for a buy in a 2 bedroom home?
This one is very neat and quiet
roomy. Large kitchen and
breakfast area; over-sized
pantry; stove included, space
for freezer; wash er-dryer
connections. Large closets in
the 2 bedroom (one is a walk
in). Nice yard. (West Griffin
School Zone) A bargain
at. ($12,000)
C. Ray Barron, broker
1141/2 W. Solomon St.
227-
Doug Steele
228-
Richard Evans
227-
Joan Montgomery
228-
FOR SALE: 3 bedroom, den,
seperate dining room and
kitchen, living room, carport,
large lot. Near General Motors.
Call Fouch Realty Co. 755-9916
or 622 4352.
Exceptional buy on a 3 bedroom
home. Living room, dining
room, kitchen, bath. $13,000.
Griffin Realty 227 8661 nights
227-7423.
3 bedroom, living room,
kitchen, new bath, central heat,
only $6,900. Call The Realty
Group 946-3211 or James Dozier
227 4409.
FOR SALE: Well kept brick
home, 406 Lakewood. Living
room, dining room, built-in
kitchen, 3 bedrooms, new shag
carpet, carport with storage.
Call The Realty Group 946-3211
or James Dozier 227-4409.
VETERANS - LOOK
No down payment, no closing
cost, and sll7 per month. Move
into a new 3 bedroom brick
home. Immediate occupancy.
Gas, built-in appliances,
carport, outside storage, walk
in closet, paved drive, city
water. Also, non-veteran
financing with 5 percent down.
Call Imperial Homes 228-3210.
Nice 3 bedroom brick home on 3
open and wooded acres. Kitchen
with eating area. Nice living
room, bath, utility room.
Building in back, Jackson Rd.
School. $22,000. Call Tom
Barrett and Assoc., 228-2706 or
Carol Smith 227-7779.
$16,000 WILL BUY this neat 5
room frame house. Carport and
fenced backyard. (Orrs School)
128 N. 2nd Ave. off Hwy. 92. Call
Joy Merriam for appointment
at Searcy-Murray Realty 227-
4115 or residence 227-6233.
418 Leola, Neat 3 bedroom brick
house. Near Barnesville By
Pass. Living room, Kitchen and
den combination, I’/a baths,
inside uutility room and single
carport. Carpeted and newly
painted inside. Quiet street,
nice neighborhood, $21,500. Call
Anne Imes, Searcy Murray
Realty 227 41 15 or 227-0454
nights.
FOR SALE: 2 bedroom garage
apartment. Pay only small
closing cost and make monthly
payments. See Arthur Forrer,
116 W. Colleges!., no phone calls
please.
FOR SALE: By owner, 4
bedroom, 2'/j baths, 2 story
Dutch Colonial. Shown by
appointment only. 644 Brooks
Circle. Phone 227-0830.
★ LOST & FOUNDS
LOST: Male white Setter bird
dog. Vicinity of Senoia. Reward.
Phone 599-3259.
LOST: Red & White Cow with
horns, weight about 750 lbs. in
vicinity of Country Club. Phone
227-2892.
I ★CHILD CARE I
AND BABY SITTING ★ |
Want to keep children in my
home. 227 8876.
FOR SALE: 40 acres at
Williamson over 1,000 ft. road
frontage. Owner 227-5950.
50 acres of land out of Orchard
Hill in Lamar County with 3
acre lake. Will subdivide. Bank
financing. Call Horace Head,
Jr., at Stanley Realty, 227-4253.
For sale: 60 acres just off
Griffin by-pass in Pike County,
zoned for trailers. Will sell all or
10 acre tracts. Bank financing.
Call Horace Head, Jr., at
Stanley Realty 227-4253.
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John Blakely Mills home at North Hill and Tinsley street.
Historical Society
John B. Mills House
to become headquarters
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is
the second in a series of 10 on
houses the Griffin Historical
and Preservation Society will
include in its restoration
program. This article deals
with the John Blakely Mills
home on North and Tinsley
streets. The Society plans to
restore the house and use part
of it as its headquarters. The
information on the house was
prepared by Dr. Elizabeth A.
Lyon of Emory University,
consultant for the Griffin
Society.)
The Lewis-Mills House is a
finely detailed Greek Revival
structure situated on a corner
lot at North Hill and Tinsley
Streets along the northernmost
boundary of the original town
plan of Griffin. It is a starkly
geometric, two-story, hipped
roof building fronted by a
monumentally scaled portico.
Four colossal square-profile
Doric columns support a simply
molded entablature under a
pediment whose gable roof is
perpendicular to the facade.
The walls are brick stuccoed
over and scored on the two
street facades. Low ’(angular
pediments on simpiy molded
vertical panels frame the tall
windows of each story. Original
six-over-six light windows
remain in the second floor while
first-story panes have been
replaced by larger units,
probably done during a
remodeling in the nineteen
twenties. The molded detailing
elaborates all windows of the
front and two side faces of the
building, although the pattern of
the openings is varied on the
north facade. Here, instead of
four windows evenly spaced, a
pair of windows in both rear
rooms reflects the special
window treatment of the
original dining room in the
northeast corner. At the back of
this face a two-story wing,
carried out very much in the
spirit of the original section
although with arched window
openings, is a later addition.
The entrance doorway is
framed by rectangular fan and
side lights separated by fluted
strips, and enclosed within a
low triangular lintel and
pilaster strips. This treatment
is echoed in the doorway to a
hanging balcony above. An
additional refinement in the
exterior detailing, which also
appears in windows inside the
house, is the angled recess in
which the door opening is
placed. Similar framing and
side lights, with the angled
recess omitted, appear in the
rear doorways at both levels.
Here a two-story porch extends
Beautiful country home sites in
new Kleanair Subdivision.
Drive out Newnan Hwy., turn
left on Ga. 74, Hollonville Rd.
Approximately V/2 miles on
right. Bank financing. Call
Horace Head, Jr. at Stanley
Realty, 227-4253.
across the rear facade.
The four-room, wide, central
hall plan is the typical Greek
Revival plan common to
piedmont Georgia in the 1840’s
and 50’s. A straight-run stair
way returned to the upstairs
hall is located at the rear of the
hall. Wide arched openings, now
filled in, lead into both front
rooms. Indentations in the
plaster indicate the former
location of moldings framing
these arches.
The fireplaces of the interior
chimneys are still framed by
the original, low, rectangularly
proportioned pilaster and en
tablature units. Downstairs, the
entablature panel is given
special emphasis by an ad
ditional flat, but curved wooden
panel. Windows upstairs and in
the original dining room
downstairs are recessed on an
angle in a similar manner to the
treatment of the entrance
doorway. Most windows and
doors carry earred and molded
framing.
Although this once fine house
is deteriorated and being used
for several apartments, most of
the original detailing, both
inside and out, remains. The
basic structure of the building
appears sound and very few
alterations in the original plan
have been made to ac
commodate the apartments.
The Lewis-Mills House is an
exceptionally fine example in
this area of the temple front
Greek Revival town house.
Elements of both its interior
detailing and exterior form are
reminiscent of work elsewhere
in the state that is known to be
by architect Charles B.
Cluskey. For most of its history
this building, which dates from
the 1850’s, was occupied by
members and relatives of a
prominent Griffin family, the
Mills. It has long been known
simply as the Mills House.
The house was built, however,
for the Lewis family, originally
from Massachusetts, during the
decade before the Civil War.
Mrs. Emily W. Lewis, a widow,
was living in the house during
the war with her granddaughter,
Lavonia Hammond. Lavonia’s
reminiscences of later years
included a description of the
supper served by her grand
mother to Yankee soldiers in
the big dining room. She also
remembered the temporary
hospital for Confederate
soldiers which her grandmother
with several other women set up
in her home. Robert Toombs,
Alexander Stephens and
Benjamin Hill, all noted
Georgians and friends of her
father, William W. Hammond,
she reports, were entertained
there. After the war, William W.
Hammond, whose wife, Anna
Blount, died when Lavonia was
only six years old, continued to
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live in the house with Mrs.
Lewis and his five children.
Hammond was apprently a son
of Mrs. Lewis by an earlier
marriage. It is rumored that
Mrs. Lewis, a very wealthy
woman before the war, was in
financial difficulty afterward.
The style of living which her
granddaughter remembers
does not indicate this, but the
deed records do suggest some
problems. In 1862, Obediah
Gibson, in return for the
payment of $7500 for two
promissory notes given in 1860,
deeded to William W. Ham
mond the property “now oc
cupied by said William W.
Hammond and Emily W.
Lewis.” Lavonia Hammond’s
marriage in 1878 to John B.
Mills was only one of many that
were solemnized in the family
home. Later, in 1901, when Mrs.
Lewis died, John B. Mills
purchased the home from his
wife’s brothers and sisters.
When Lavonia Hammond Mills
died in 1936 the house passed out
of the Mills family. Owned by a
succession of people and later
rented for apartments, the
house, nevertheless, continued
to be associated with the Mills
family name.
The Mills family originally
came to Griffin from Savannah
during the Reconstruction
period. The Mills brothers,
Thomas R. Charles and James,
had been large shippers of
cotton from Savannah to
Liverpool. They were also large
stockholders in the Marine
Bank of Savannah, who
protected the assets of this bank
in London during the Civil War.
The brothers thus emerged
from the war in a better
financial position than many
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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, October 7, 1972
Southern businessmen. In 1875
Thomas R. Mills retired md
built a summer home, Brook
field, outside of Griffin. Thom
brought with him one of bi
youngest sons, John Blakely
who married Lavonia Ham
mond in 1878 and subsequently
moved into the Lewis mansion.
John and Lavonia had no
children, but John’s younger
brother James Mclntosh had
four. The youngest of these was
named John Blakely and bi:
descendants still live in Griffin.
The house which was built by
the family of Lavonia Ham
mond Mills has been an integral
part of the history of Griffin
from its earliest period of
growth. In addition, it is a fine
example of the architecture of
its era. The stark geometry of
its exterior form, as well as
such interior details as the
carved doorway moldings,
suggest the influence, if not the
hand of Charles B. Cluskey.
This Georgia architect, who
lived and worked in Savannah
in the mid-nineteenth century,
also designed important
buildings in Augusta and
Milledgeville. Since Griffin
families had connections in both
Savannah and Milledgeville,
and Cluskey was in Georgia
during the period when the
house was built, it is tempting to
speculate on the possibility of
his influence. The Mills House,
though not as large, bears some
resemblance in its overall form
to the Governor’s Mansion in
Milledgeville. Even though it
has been neglected in recent
years, this structure conveys a
forceful and monumental ap
pearance on its generous lot at
the corner of East Tinsley and
North Hill Streets.
City lists
building
at $195,072
Forty-eight building permits
issued by the City of Griffin
inspection department last
month totaled $ 195,072.
There were five permits
issued for single family
resid ices totaling $13.3,000, A
permit for a commercial
buildi ■on the Everee Inn road
for $' .000 was issued to Ed
Whatier. Mr. Whatley .said the
building will house three
businesses connected with
manufacturing.
The Griffin Hosiery Mill at
West Broad and 17th streets,
obtained a permit for an ad
dition to their building for
$13,000. Th'. e were 36 permits
totaling $29,422 for residential
additions, liternations, and
conversion - and one $1,200
permit for additions, alterations
and conversions to a church.
Two permits for signs totaled
$1,450 There were two permits
to demolish buildings.
Th city received $1,169
durir . September for the
build " p units and for 72
othei item: which included
phimbinp and electrical per
mits. building codes and city
and zoning maps.
I New Books >
The following new books have
been . kind to the collection at
the i lint River Regional
Library:
HOME ECONOMICS —
‘‘Family Handyman
Maga/me's Home Emergencies
and Repair. l - ’ A handbook of
the procedures to follow when
repairing . nything from a
warped door to a balky furnace,
a leal, roof to a cigarette bum
on fm ‘it’.m : The Sweet Apple
Gat'!' ing B-»ok” by Celestine
Sibley A well -known Georgia
new:/’, per columnist writes on
her ovm experiences in planning
and planting a garden.
HISTORY- “Border Kib
butz” by M. Gorkin — A young
American lew’s searching
appro al of Israel’s frontier
outposts, and of the pioneer
families living under the con
stant threat of imminent an
nihilaiion; “Wars and Rumors
of Wars” by R. L. Shinn — A
World War II adventure that
lasted 171 days and included
brutal interrogation and a six
hundred mile forced march
through Germany.
BIO( “Prelude to
Fame” by Ruby L. Radford —
An account of Crawford W.
Long's discovery of
anaesthesia; ‘Mao Tse Tung”
by J. Archer - An engrossing
account of the life of a powerful
Chinese ruler.
FIC'I'ION “Lakeland Vet”
by Joyce Stranger — A
veteri.i irian strives to combat
the cruelty which man so often
inflicts upon animals; “The
' by Jon Cleary
Th' , iioi l.c a noble title and to
agree . state in England seeks
to Ixcome Prime Minister;
“Binary” by J. Lange — A
suspen:/ ful story in which a
right wing millionaire plans to
exterm >f San Diego at
the time of the Republican
Convention; “Who Came By
Night’ by Nicholas .Roland— A
reiigic novel based on the life
of Ni‘ 1 demus, a ruler of the
Jews: Ihe First Team” by
John ' .dl - The exciting story
of die I hiited States caught up in
what could be the most
dramatic event in history.