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1894.
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“ ' , *'*<l lionio to i,isi • ,
i widow oil
motl.e, a,,dl wo younger brother, (hb
*at lioj having lj(*t*n l iin ii
Wa .. \ „ , )u " kl!le<1 during the
"hi’ ciumiienceil life a
1 ‘ muted education. In 1870 ho
' - "" " w<l Id* salary, aceruinw
,ro “ l " # °® ce * i'* acquiring a medical
£>ih E. VV. Mays.
.duration. Ife was quite successful
ki his practice. In 1880 he retired
from practice, and was that year elect
ed to the Legislature and did much
good tor the State anti county.
He is brave, but tender, and is more
Ilian ordinarily loved by the poor. He
is ot a nervous temperament and is
possessed ot indomitable will and
energy, as is proven by the fact that be
has risen from a poor boy to a man ot
wealth and influence.
In 1880 he married Miss Laura J
Gray, daughter of Augustus Gray, and
is now the lather of three bright chil
dren Hubert Lee, Mary Augustus,
“John Billie.”
In polilics be is an independent
thinker, and is the champion of lii
countn and not of any part : cula:
party. He is now devoting his iim v <>
principals to agriculture, in which
industry the greater pari of his money
is invested; though he t has a large
property in Jackson and still more in
Tallapoosa, (Ja. Dr. Mays is i:i the
fudest sense of the .vord a self-made
man.
THE PKESBVTEKIAN 1 111 lU'll.
The Presbyterian Church was or
ganized with nine members in 1887. by
Rev. Henry Quigg and Rev. J. L.
Rodgers, It uo v has 30 members,
among whom are some of our best
citizens. The iirst pastor was Rev.
\V. I). Neath; who was followed by
Rev. M. F. Duncan, and the present
pastor is Rev. J. F. Pharr. The group
of churches to which the Jackson
Presbyterian church belongs pays their
pastor SBOO 00 per annum. Preaching
every third Sunday. The good people
of this brave little church are doing
a good work in the grandest cause
the world ever knew.
Ol It BUSINESS HOI SES.
It is ever a pleasure for the Anars
editors to sing the praises of home in
stitutions, and though some few of our
business men, owing to circumstances
known only to themselves, have failed
to be represented in this issue, it is nev
ertheless a fact that Jackson possesses
some of the staunchest and most wide
awake merchants of Georgia. They
have gained for themselves a world wide
reputation for honesty and fair dealing,
and we doubt if any town in Georgia
possesses more liberal advertisers than
does Jackson in this respect. All honoi
to the merchants of our town: may e>
live long and continue to Hounah m
their chosen branches of business, is the
wish of the A in; us.
if rva M V McKibbeu
The example of Col. ai. '
is worthy of omulatio,. l.y every youns
man in Georgia. From a poor boy, de
pendent upon i.is own resourcea, the
colonel lias arisen to a promt neat man
beloved by all who know h.m, and a *
of .be best legal ligbtso.
is no need of any young man "
of Butts county to gate r,cb*•*“
colonel is now the laigest . i
Butts county, and lie lias go *■■ • •
wealth since tbe war tig o 1L
,midst. Butts county affords ample
wealth for everjf ■ >",; ’ ra neeitll .t
Co,one, Martin Tan
fiuren McKiuben bas set tor you.
Ir. Now is tke time to subscribe, to,
the Jackson -
UK * J. LEK Kf ICON.
.... j*' l ° n * s a na Ove Georgian. lie
as „)i u j n Coweta county just before
the war between the states. If is parents
1 *'ei to Carroll county and settled on a
" n< ai Lai rolton, wlnwe his mother
Stl . After acquiring a liberal eJu
-1 Hl commenced teaching within
two hundred yards of the old school
I 'Use where lie tirst entered school,
-aching many children of parents with
whom he had been a student in his early
•ovhood. After teaching there three
\< aiw he went to visit his sister who
>'ed in Arkansas, and taught there for
two years. \\ lien he returned to Geor
4ia he went into the drug store of his
fjv
f
Dit. J. Lee Byron.
brother-in-law, J)r. J. C. Brown, at
Whitesburg, now of Carrolton, and
studied pharmacy and medicine four
years. He then entered the Atlanta
Medical College in 1885, from which he
graduated March 4th, 1887, and came to
Jackson in April following. By his un
wavering and close application to busi
ness lie has made an enviable reputation.
He is industrious, painstaking, ambi
tious and admirably equipped in profes
sional learning. Though modest and
unassuming, lie is active and untiring,
ever anxious to learn whatever will be
conducive to the furtherance of his pro
fession, do credit to Iris calling and beu
elit suffering humanity. The doctor is
so congenial and pleasant that the sick
teel better in lus presence, and his very
successful practice has so inspired con
fidence in his ability, until people would
really be surprised to hear of one of his
pr.tients dying, which they never do when
their sickness is caused from anything a
fi 11 knowledge of medicine well applied
to the case can remove.
Hie following life insurance companies
for all of which he is medical examiner,
hold him in high esteem: Washington
Life, New York; Manhattan, New York;
Mutual benefit, Newark. x . J.: Massa
chusetts Benefit, Boston; Fidelity Mu
tual,' Plr adeiphia; Nederland Life,
Amsterdam, Holland.
Elsewhere we give a fair representation
of liis residence on Main street, but the
picture of himself does not do him full
justice. Jackson and Butts county are
proud of all such men as Dr. J. Lee
Byron.
Oil! I’IUIIM II AS EDITION.
During the past year we have endeav
ored to make the Jackson Argus one of
the leading weekly newspapers of Geor
gia, sparing neither pains nor expense in
our undertaking. As to whether or not
we succeeded, it is left for out readers
to determine. It has been an exceed
ingly hard year to make a success of al
most any undertaking, but by persever
ance and labor we have managed to pull
out on the top wrung of the ladder, a
little the worse for wear, but with hearts
for any fate. During the next year it is
our intention to give the people of Jack
son and community a live, energetic
paper, up to date in all respects, using
its whole iutluence toward elevating the
morals of ami building up the interests
of our town and county.
Jackson has natural advantages which
have hitherto lain dormant so long that
her oldest inhabitant lias almost forgot
ten she had them. It shall be our effort
to place these advantages before the
people, and if possible by all honorable
means try and induce dissatisfied set
tlers from other portions of the North
and South to come here and locate.
During the year ’95, our principal ob
ject and aim of life shall be toward the
erection of a cotton factory in Jackson.
Butts county and vicinity affords ample
means and produces for an enterprise of
this kind, and that one can be erected
here with but little exertion is an undis
puted fact, even to tne remaining few
croakers and moss-backs who are left to
tell the tale of Jackson’s onward march
toward prosperity. We need it! \\ e
must have it! And if signs aud indica
tions of a promising nature are any cri
terion upon which to base predictions,
we will get it!
As was our custom last year, we issued
a Christmas edition of ten pages, but as
such a paper now would he inefficient to
show the growth of oui town and county,
we are compelled to issue a sixteen page
paper in order to accommodate the pat
rons and do justice to our various enter
prises. We sincerely trust that in >ur
endeavors to work lor the interest of
Jackson and Butts couu.y, we will merit
the favor and approbation of every true
lover of growth and development in
order ihat our labors may not be in vain.
If this Christmas edition is worthy of
a word of commendation, it will afford
us much pleasure for you to speak a
kind word for it to your neighbor and
I ask him to subscribe.
♦GHRISTM/1S EDITION.*
.1. It. C4lt MIC H AEL.
With tin* great trunk iiue, the
Southern rail wav. came the subject of
th:- -ket.-h to Jack-on. He \va- I>* u
and grew up among our people, an-*
no man i- better know n. 11* had lil
tle or n i capital to begin with, but he
made himself felt in the bii'in*-s
world at once, and tho>e who kn \v
him predicted hi- succes- from the
start. The non beast corner of the
square hoi a barren, neglected ap
pearance, and Mr. Carmichael fell in
with a few dilapidated looking shops
The cut above shows how ihat corner
looks today, with perhaps the be-t
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J. It. Carmichael.
bouse in town standing there as a
monument to his business qualifica
tions.
J. R. Carmichael's carriage factory
is worth more to Jackon than per
haps any individual enterprise in this
thriving little city. He has a gentle
manly set of men employed in the
manufacture of buggies, wagons, and
all kinds of agricultural implements,
to whom he pays large salaries each
week, to be spent among our mer
chants. and if there is anj one thing
our people would hate to see discon
turned worse than another it would
be the carriage factory, unless it was
its genial proprietor. Mr. Carmich
ael has served bis county well and at
the same time built for idm.-elfa neat
lifile fortune. The carriage factory,
as well us its owner, is one of the fix
tures of cur town, and Mr. Carmich
ael being native born makes <>ur peo
ple prouder of him than they could
feel it it was otherwise. While Units
county. i< ever glad to welcome ge
tl( fmanly slSangers ail I, give them T
ocL.iut iuii io s/fttle among us,
they will excuse our pardonable pride,
in our own.
Mr. Carmichael knows no sucli
word as fail. He is administrator of*
bis failier-in-law, Mr. l>. C. Kinard’si
estate, and sold the land ot the estate
at twenty dollars per acre, when on
the same day other lauds just as good
did not bring five dollars per acre.
Such achievments as this is one of the
characteristics of the man. Others
ad been hammering away at his new
vocation in a composed way for years,
but he took hold with that wiii which
grows stronger instead of weakening
at obstacles, applied business methods
ami carved an enviable reputation as
well as fortune out of chaos and an
unsettled state of affairs he found.
Mr, Carmichael is no speculator,
and our young men would do well to
emuiate tiis example, for while suc
cess is not attained in a day, the ele
ments ot success is to be found in
every day’s transaction, and every
day of his business lite has been a suc
cessful day.
People are wishing each other the
compliments of the season and exchang
ing gifts. Did it ever occur to you to
send an ailing friend a package of Ayer's
Sarsaparilla? If not, do so now: and try
this medicine yourself, if you need a
tirst-class blood purifier.
W. G. Thompton says his marriage has
been declared off until he can find some
young lady who will take him.
.Even George Carmichael now speaks of
marrying. Next!
.Steve Kinard sayß he and Harold Hig
gins are going to fight a duet sometime
after Christmas. IPe don’t know what
the trouble is about, but presume there’s a
girl at the bottom of it.
Did it ever occur to you that Eob Eth
eiidge is the only unmarried man in the
Carmichael Co’s store.
We omited to mention the marriage, in
last weeks issue of Mr. IF. M. Potts, one
of our best business young men and of the
live firm of Gunn, Potts & Cos., to Jiiss ;
Josie A very, of Newton count}’, and Mr.
Potts as stated aboved, is a man worthy
of such a noble lady. TFe, in common
with their many friends, congratulate
them in the choice each has made and
wish them a prosperous and happy
voyage down the stream of time.
Run your business on the cash
system tins year! Go to F. Z
Curry, Jackson, Ga., who will
loan you money on improved
farm property at S per cent in
terest. It wil be a great saving
;to you if you will do this.
COE. n. V. McKIBIIE*.
The >ubject of this sketch was born
in Butts county and lias lived here all
through hi-eventful life. He was one
of those unfortunate young men who
was called upon to go to battle just at
the time he should have been getting
an education. He joined the Bailey
volunteers at bis country's call, and
lived through the war in spite of yan
kce bullets, having been the recipient
ot three of them. He was tirst
wounded at Lost Mountain, Tenn.,
••gain at Atlanta. Ga,, and a^ain at
Franklin, Tenn. He was always shot
from the front.
When the war was over he came to
hi> lather's home and being so crippled
it was rainfui even to move, iie tied
his hand to the plow-handle and made
a very good crop. What he made he
undertook to use in securing an edu
cation and found it ] erfectly inade
quate, consequently he borrowed
Col. M. V. McKibben.
enough to get through college at
Athens. Every dollar was paid hack
promptly. He was admitted to the
bar hi 1871. He lias kept a boy in
school ever since that time, and at
some periods has kept two at once in
college. The boys he sent to school
went well dressed, but Col, McKibben
entered Athens with patched trousers,
tie started out with this motto:
•‘Never deceive a client or disappoint
a man in a promise,” and lie has lived
up to his rnoito.
Col. McKibben pays more tax to
day than any man in Butts county,
end while he owns considerable town
property, lie is the most extensive
■ r finer in the county. Col. Mclvib
jjjJjfs method ot business is strict. He
jVps id! his promises he ex
fleets other people’to do ihe same
filing; but notwithstanding this, Col.
id. V. McKibben never dirives a man
po the wall, for he is lenient with
[those who would it they could, and
sprees those who could if they would,
file has proven himself a patriot this
tful, for so many who would pay if
they could, and who owe Col. Mclvib
ben, have been spared the mortifica
tion of beiug crowded. It is common
fora man who owes everybody to ad
vocate leniency, but for a man who
everybody owes, figuratively, to rise
above seif interest, and looking round
and seeing the piesent condition of
the country, proclaims: “I have sued
no one and will sue no one unless he
attempts to trifle with me.” This is
no hearsay—we heard him say so.
He says Jackson and Butts county
shall stand, and it is fortunate for
Jackson and for Butts county that we
have such men as Col. Martin Van-
Buren McKibben in it. When we
told him we were going to write this
sketch, he said : “Weil, do.ft say any
thing about me in it, but say all about
Jackson and Butts county.”
Of course we have only touched the
high places, as it were; his life in
Butts county is an open book.
IS HR. ( IIIM* ELIGIBLE !
Iron Spring.
Eds. Argus:
We frequently see the name of Hon.
C. F. Crisp spoken of as a probable
candidate for Vice-President in 1896,
and as we admire Mr. Crisp, we would
like to sec him honored with the nom
ination. But we have heard it said
and seen it iu print, that he was born
in England, and the Constitution ot
the United States says in Article 2d,
Section sth:
“No person except a natural born
citizen, or a citizen of the United States
at the time of the adoption ef this
Constitution, shall be eligible to the
office of President.”
Would that not bar him from hold
ing the office of President or Vice-
President ?”
Please answer the above in the next
issue of the ever welcome Argus.
Occasional.
NOTICE.
A general Flection for Alder
men tor the year 1895, for the
town of Jackson, will be held on
the First Wednesday in Janu
ary, 1995, and the Registration
Books are now open in the May
or’s office in Court House
,i. M. Mills, City Clerk.
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