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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
MONEY TO LOAN
AT LOW RATES OF INTEREST ON
CHOICE FARM LANDS AND IMPROV
ED CITY PROPERTY
H. M. FLETCHER
Jackson, Ga.
J. THREATT MOORE,
Attorney At Law.
Office in Crum Building,
fkson : Georgia.
Will practice in all the* Courts.
SAM LEE
First-Class City Hand Laundry
Next door to Joe Leach’s stables.
Jackson : : : : : Georgia
Patronize Home Industries
THE FARMERS
L CO-OPERATIVE FIRE
-INSURANCE CO. OF GA.
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£. B. Kinard, Gen. Agent.
J. Matt McMichael,
Local Agent.
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
DR. O. LEE CHESNUTT
DENTIST
I Office in New Commercial Building
back of Farmers’ Bank.
Phone No. 7.
$100,000.00
TO LOAN on'Tarm lands. Rea
sonable rate of interest. See me
before you borrow any money on
farm.
W. E. Watkins.
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Sc. L. REDMAN,
attorney at law.
Office in CarterWarthen Building,
JACKSON, GA.
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URGE -CROWD ATTENOED
OAK HILL SCHOOL REUNION
Another Reunion Planned
Next Year
On last Friday, August 4, we had
the pleasure of attending the reunion
of the former teachers and pupils of
Oak Hill school on the old school
grounds near the big dam. /
When we arrived a good sized crowd
had already assembled and were en
gager! in exchanging greetings, hearty
handshakes and renewing those pleas
ant ties and memories that have held
them in the strongest bonds of friend
ship throughout the years since they
were boys and girls together. Some
were inspecting the modern new school
building with its up-to-date furniture
and fixtures, etc. The old building
still stands, but has been converted into
a dwelling house. It was right amus
ing to see some of the older men play-
ing the old games of town ball, paddle
cat, bull pen, leap frog, etc. They had
cast aside the cares of life and for the
time being they were boys again in
spirit, and experiencing some of the
joys of old school days. . The
forenoon was thus spent and in
telling and recalling school day remin
iscences, with new arrivals constantly
coming in until a crowd of about five
hundred were on the grounds.
Finally someone said something
about dinner and straightway there
was a bringing forth of baskets, boxes,
trunks, etc., and right here we hardly
know how to proceed to do justice to
this feature of the occasion. The usual
stereotyped way of putting it, we be
lieve, Editor, is to say “the table
fairly groaned under the load of good
things,” but when it was seen how in
adequate the table was that had been
provided, it was decided to spread it on
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S. H. THORNTON
JACKSON, GA.
UNDERTAKING, LICENSED EMBALMER
Full line of Caskets and Robes to select from
My careful personal attention giv
en to all funerals entrusted to me
All ('alls Answered Promptly Day or Night
Day Phone 174 Night Phone 193
For Sale
6 room house, large lot, on
Avenue, with water and lights.
Come to see me if you want a
bargain.
On North Mulberry st., one two
story 11 room house, 1 acre lot with
servant house and barn. Will sell
at great bargain.
225 acre farm 214 miles south of
Jackson. This place is well im
proved and will sell for S3O per acre.
100 acres I*4 miles west of Jackson.
About 20 acres out at Harkness
Heights will sell cheap.
Also have a considerable amount of
bank stock for sale.
J. B. GUTHRIE REALTY CO.,
Real Estate and Renting Agents
Harkness Building Jackson, Georgia
the ground in the shade of the stately
old oak trees. A long row of table
cloths were spread out on the leaves
and grass and it would be no more of
an exaggeration to say that the earth
fairly trembled under the load of good
things than putting it the usual way—
< the table groaned etc.” The crowd
ate with the relish of sure enough
school boys and girls, and wefeel safe
in saying that more than seven baskets
of fragments were taken up. Several
tubs of lemonade and ice water had
been placed conveniently around the
grounds.
After dinner the crowds assembled
in front of the old school building
where Mr. Guthrie took several pic
tures. It was a matter of regret that
none of the former teachers were pres
ent. In ISSS Mr. VV. H. Black more
taught the Oak Hill school and lived
in a small house on the school grounds
that had been built by the patrons of
the school. The writer went to school
to him that year and boarded with
him and his good wife who still sur
vives him. We cannot resist the temp-
tation here to try to pay a feeble tri
bute to this grand and good old man:
A native of Tennessee who in child
hood had sat upon the knee of Andrew
Jackson, in young manhaodassociated
with Andrew Johnson and other dis
tingueshed men of that day. A gentle
man of the old school in the very
highest sense, the beginning of the
civil war found him practicing law
and editing a country newspaper in
middle Tennessee, a member of a prom
inent and wealthy family who cast
their lot on the side of the Confederacy
and lost all save honor. He came to
Middle Georgia and taught school in
Jones, Jasper, and Butts counties. He
taught at Jackson, Indian Springs and
Oak Hill and is held in pleasant re
membrance by many older citizens of
the county.' His influence uplifted the
lives of the many boys and girls he
taught, and to many of whom the
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door of opportunity seemed closed, but
he pointed them to the fool prints of
such men as Jackson, Johnson, Lin
coln and the many other great men
and women who had made their own
opportunity. Dear old Prof. Black
more, tliy remains have slept for a
quarter of a century ’neath the sighing
pines in Bandy Creek cemetery, where
also lies .buried Butts county's greatest
woman school teaehor. Miss Bailie
Jenkins, but the influence of both still
lives in the thoughts and memories of
those who came under the uplifting
influences of their noble lives.
But back to the school reunion. Sev
eral short and interesting talks were
made. Uncle Joseph Jolly told of how
Iron Springs disirict had made a record
ol'forty bushels of wheat per acre be
fore the use of commercial fertilizers;
of how a bale of cotton grown in this
district had taken a premium at a
World’s Fair as the best bale of cotton
in the world. It did tkn; crowd good
to hear this venerablegentleman whom
they all loved, bring his speech to the
closing climax by claiming, in addi
tion to the many other things he had
enumerated, that his native district
had produced more pretty women than
any other section of the stale. Mr.
Jim Hodges made an interesting com
parison of the school advantages of
forty years ago and those of the pres
ent time. He said that the equipment
of the average sciiool boy of forty years
ago consisted of one blue back spelling
book, one thumb paper, one or more
stone bruises, several sore toes and
some patches on the* western hemis
phere of bis pants. Among others who
made interesting talks and said some
of their school day recitations were
Sheriff’Crawford, Dr. Harper, C. L.
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Yours truly,
S. B. KINARD
Maddux, J. D. Thomas, Ben Hodges,
O. E. Smith and several others.
Before the crowd dispersed it was
unanimously agreed to hold another
reunion on I lie first Friday in August,
11)17. The writer was requested to
write something of the events of the
day for the Progress-Argus hut we feel
that this is a feeble efl'ort to do justice
to this happy occasion. On our way
home we caught ourselves humming
that old school song, one verse of
which runs like this:
“Ah, those days unheeded flew,
For little then 1 knew
The value of that pencil, slate and rule.
If I but had the chance today
What attention 1 would pay.
To the teaching of lliat dear old vil
lage school.”
B. K. Bmith.
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