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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1908)
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT THE ATLANTA FIRE The largest conflagration in the history of Atlanta occurred early Friday morning, when thirty-one store houses were destroyed in the section of the city adjoining the terminal station. The total loss on buildings and stocks is estimated at $1,250,000. The insurance on all of this property is said to be $824,550. One whole block, bounded by Mitchell street, Forsyth street, Madison avenue and Nelson street, and the north side of Mitchell street within three stores of Forsyth street were left a mass of smoking ruins. Forty-two firms were burned ° U Over one thousand people have been thrown out of employment. The fire originated in the candy department of the Schlesinger factory, at the corner of Nelson street and Madison avenue, about 3:45 o’clock in the morning, and it was under full headway before it was discovered and the alarm given. Men were at work in the bakery of the factory at the time. How the fire originated is not known. The entire fire department was called into service and the fire men worked hard against great odds. The wind was high and prevailing from the west at first, which sent the flames over to ward Forsyth and Mitchell streets Work on rebuilding the burnt district will be* begun at once. This announcement was made by the property owners long before the fire engines had been re called from the task of fighting the flames. When a wall was blown down by dynamite at the corner of Madison avenue and Mitchell street one brick left the structure and went flying across the Term inal station plaza. It went like a cannon ball with terrific force and struck the outer wall of the station, where it broke into small fragments. On the roof of a wing of the station a photo grapher was busy getting a view of the ruins, and the brick missed his head by only a few feet. If it had struck him he wo.uld prob ably have been killed. HON. O. H. B. BLOODWORTH. The formal announcement of Hon. 0. H. B. Blood worth for congress from the Sixth District appears in this issue, which means that from now until the congressional primary, called for June 4th, an interesting cam paign will be on. It is, of course, understood that Congressman Bartlett, the present incumbent, will stand for re-election. Col. Blood worth is one of the best known and most popular men in the Sixth District. For twelve years he has been Solic itor of the Flint circuit, all of which is in the Sixth District, and he probably knows more men personally than any other man m the entire district. Bibb, Jones and Baldwin are outside of the Flint circuit but Col. Blood worth, having been in public life so long, also knows hundreds ot people in these three counties. He is naturally endowed with the gift of making friends. He has never yet lost a campaign and that he will put activity in the present race is not at all doubted. Col. Bloodworth was born at Liberty Hill, Pike county, on September 29, 1859. In 1873 his father moved to High Falls which was the home of Col. Bloodworth until he was admitted to the bar in Forsyth in 1881, which has since been his home. He attend ed Milner High School, after wards coming to Gordon Institute where he graduated in 1873, se curing a scholarship to the Um veisity of Georgia, which he at tended and where he graduated with first honor in 1880. After his graduation he taught school for a while before being admitted to the bar. He has served as Mayor of Forsyth and represent ed Monroe county in the legisla ture in 1892 and 1893. Soon thereafter he was elected solic itor of the Flint circuit which po sition he now holds and for which he announced some months ago that he would not be a candidate for re-election. His administra tion as solicitor has been entirely satisfactory to the people. Col. Bloodworth thus far has had a successful and distin guished career and should he be sent to congress he would make the district a man who would always guard carefully the in terests of the people. He will have the warm and enthusiastic support of scores of the strongest people of the district. We direct earnest consideration to the an nouncement.—Barnesville News- Gazette, April 2, 1908. CAPT. DICK MILLEDGE While we do not know who may oppose him, we put down this political axiom, that every acquaintance of Capt. Milledge will support him for Prison Com missioner, and as soon as his candidacy becomes known he will have such enthusiastic followers his race will be already won. If ever there was a genial soul he is one. If ever there was a golden hearted man he is near the top of the class. If ever there was a gentleman of our boasted ‘ ‘chiv alric and knightly age, ” he is one of the brightest. He has lived and practiced every tradi tion of the Southern gentleman, and of the sunshine and good will he has so profusely scattered these many years we truly hope he will reap a rich reward from the hands of honest voters in every section of this great state. Here are our best wishes, Cap tain; if you need them, here are my services. Tell your opponents that while we will be glad to see them, you have long since staked every claim and sunk your shafts deep in every heart in all these diggings and that on the day of our next primary the rich quartz taken therefrom will pan out an enormous return of ballots of pure gold for Capt. R. H. Mil ledge.—Millen News. THE SECRET In the early morning the earth is ahush, seeming to wait expec tantly. The sky in the east grows momently brighter; suddenly it blossoms into the full rose of sun. The birds utter joyous cries, the deWy hedges sparkle, the moun tain wears a crown; Nature smiles like a child that wakes and looks into its mother’s eyes. The young married pair in the neighboring cottage bring their little girl out in the yard that she may see how many buds have opened on the rose bush thiough the night. They lead her to a corner of the yard where behind a clump of lilacs a hen has been setting. During the mght ihe eggs have hatched. The father gently lifts the mildly protecting biddyfend discloses the white and yellow chicks under her nutty breast. The child kneels down, and in an ecstasy of awe and de light regards the wonder. bne remembers when cold, white egfcrs were put under the hen and now these have turned into warm living things that one may love and cherish. How did it come about? . . .... Mystery of the origin of hie, puzzling the child as it has baffle the sages! Will the secret ever be discovered? Now and again a faint “Eureka” comes from the laboratory of the biologist It is whispered with bated breath that the thing has been done. Man has made life. At least, he has succeeded in making the one cell which is the unit of life. Now, when this cell divides, making others we shall see a living creature. Time passes, and we hear no more of the earthworm | which should have evolved mom the unit cell. Instead, there ar new theories -new guesses a. the riddle of the ages. We are told that Haeckel’s proposition of the one cell beginning of. life is all wrong. Life is functional inter action. conditioned by environ ment; life is the result of a cycle of chemical activity. Anything but the breath of God. Thus they grope with the torch of reason after a secret that will never yield itself unless it be to one who reverently seeks it by the light of faith and inspiration. Mary E. Bryan, in Lncle Re mus’s—the Home Home Maga zine for May. SOMETHING NEW FOR JACKSON Don’t Throw Away Soiled, Tom or Moth-Eaten Clothes. By our new Benzo-Process we can make old clothes look new, and we guarantee the moth holes and snags will be almost invis ible after we have repaired them. Clothes cleaned by my process ARE GUARANTEED to stay clean longer than those cleaned by any other method and will be free from objectionable odors. I clean any kind of clothes. KID GLOVES A SPECIALTY Call and give us a trial at our shop, corner Second and Holly streets. All work sent for and delivered within city limits. Just say “Benzo-Clene. ” G. W. WRIGHT, Manager. For Year’s Support. GEORGIA. Butts County. Jodie Youngblood having made application for twelve month’s support out of the estate of C. M. Youngblood and appraisers duly appointed to set apart the same having filed their return, all persons concerned, are hereby required to show cause before the Court of Ordinary of said county on the first Monday in June 1908 why said application should not be granted. This May 4, 1908. J. H. Ham, Ordinary. 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