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1894. “*• ■KT . w. "' i( sk|,|c l'. liol.eit ’ja., ami is • , ~ 1 'oifitv, Ul,i *h (^n^ud^Mav!' an<l ' ,a * ivHy Ir South (’ .'i ? lf Npert. >" 18(32 it w a "' 1 *■. ; a,ul re ceivtMi a JZZT'I l ' a,lleH - Cliinitamauxa Whin” l!e " f services; but he |)artif||l Htl, with ■ 'eco.vnrprt I’etuinccl to the ani'iv’? I ',"' L '~ |,o,;k, n i " u.e lan hauhtt.ttCtrrr?"" “ ' , *'*<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 \( / 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. 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