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PETITION TO MAYOR AND
COUNCIL
To The Mayor and Council of
the City of Jackson
We, the undersigned, busi
ness men of the city of
Jackson, believing it to be
our duty to make every
attempt possible to protect
our out-of-town cutomers and
to secure for them all the
benefits and privileges that
can be extended by the City,-
realize that the hitching posts
as now erected around the
public square of this City are
a great convenience to the
trading public, respectfully
petition the Mayor and
Council of this City to allow
these posts to remain in their
present condition until other
suitable and convenient
arrangements may be made
by the City for persons
coming into Jackson by
private conveyance.
The J. S. Johnson Cos.,
Buttrill Bros., Jacksoon
Hardware Cos., Jackson Na
tional Bank, Land & White,
Jno. R. Miller, Jackson Drug
Cos., Etheridge-Smith & Cos.,
The Jackson Mercantile Cos.,
Slaton Drug Cos., Jackson
Banking Cos., The City
Furniture Cos., S. H. Thorn
ton, Ham & Carter Cos., Jos.
E. Edwards, T. H. Wilkinson,
J. Arenson, J. W. Jones, J. A.
Jarrell, J. C. Adams, Connor
& Crawford, Jackson
Garage, Buttrill Guano Cos.,
Thaxton Drug Cos., Carter &
Watkins, I. & J. Groodzinsky,
Paul Nolen & Cos.
The above petition has
been presented to every
business man in Jackson for
signing. The printed petition
shows the results.
The arbitrary removal of
the hitching post around the
public square in Jackson has
been temporarily restrained
by an order granted by Judge
Daniel, at the instance of T.
H. Buttrill. The order is of
force only until April Ist, and
after that time will be of no
effect. If you wish the posts to
remain lend your assistance
toward influencing the coun-
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by permission of THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE
1823: We declare "Hands Off.”
Some of the European leaders are calling themselves a
"Holy Alliance.” Spain wants to restore to herself the rebel
colonies in South America. There are rumors that France
will take Mexico. That Russia will come down from Alaska
to seize California. England wants the South American
trade. She asks us to join her in declaring to the European
allies that they keep their hands off. But Secretary of State
John Quincy Adams says we should go it alone, not trail
after an English policy. December 2nd, President Monroe
makes a famous statement in his message to Congress: that
continents of the Western Hemisphere are "not to be consi
dered as subjects for future colonization by any European
powers ...” It reminds us of Washington’s Farewell Address.
It becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine. It will live on.
Addison Rudesal, Inc.
and QJubb
Miss Bessie Compton is at
home from Concord.
Mr. J. E. Edwards spent
Wednesday in Atlanta.
Mr. Harold Ham spent
Sunday in Decatur.
Mr. F. S. Carmichael spent
Tuesday in Atlanta.
Miss Laura Conner has
returned from Covington.
Mrs. Smith Settle was a
recent visitor in Macon.
Mrs. Morrison Settle is
spending the week in Atlanta.
Mrs. J. R. Sams is visiting
Miss Leila Sams in Atlanta.
Mr. W. E. Merck was a
business visitor to Atlanta
Friday.
Dr. A. F. White was a
visitor to Augusta during the
week.
Miss Elizabeth Lewis has
returned to Macon for the
summer.
Mrs. Otis Ball returned
Friday from a visit in
cil in that direction. I believe
that true civic beauty
consists in public conven
iences, and am opposed to
taking any steps which will
not fully protect our out-of
town customers. I cannot see
that hitching sheds in the
rear of a store and back
alleys can ever appeal to the
farmers and their wives in
the same manner as accom
modations on the public
square of our city. Lend your
efforts toward keeping the
hitching post and having the
council of our city look after
them properly.
T. H. Buttrill.
Butts County Progress,
March 31, 1911.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Statesboro.
Mr. M. O. Faulkner has
returned home from a visit in
Monticello.
Mr. Richard Hubbard, of
East Point visited in Jackson
Monday.
Miss Mary Ruth Mc-
Michael visited in Atlanta the
first of the week.
Mrs. J. R Chambliss, of
Covington, visited relatives
here last week.
Miss Georgia B. Linkous is
the attractive guest of Miss
Ruth Conner.
Mrs. J. L. Edwards and
children and Mrs. M. C.
McDonald have returned to
their home in Albany after a
visit with relatives in the
city.
Mrs. Sallie Carson, of
Nashville, Tenn., was the
guest of Mrs. J. H. McKibben
the past week.
Mr. Joe Watkins who has
been attending school at
Black Mountain, N. C., has
returned home.
Miss Mary Lizzie Thomas
has returned from Madison
where she has been teaching
the past term.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Metzger and little daughter,
of Thomson, are guests of
Mrs. Ida Hendrick.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Trapp,
of Whitesburg, are spending
several days in camp at
Indian Springs.
Miss Carolyn Smith is
spending the weekend with
her cousin, Miss Clemmie
Dupree, in McDonough.
The Jackson Progress-
Argus, June 4, 1920.
MR. C. A. PITTMAN ROBBED
AND KILLED FRIDAY NIGHT
BODY RECOVERED FROM
.. OCMULGEE RIVER
..EARLY SATURDAY
. MORNING. CALLED TO
. STORE AND THEN SLAIN
Mr. C. A. Pittman, one of the
most prominent citizens of
Butts county, was called to his
store Friday night, robbed,
murdered and his body thrown
in the Ocmulgee river.
Six negroes, Wallace Mc-
Dowell, Evans McDowell, Lee
Roberts, Jim Goolsby, Tom
Thomason and Flem Lynch,
are held in the Atlanta tower
for investigation by the grand
jury. Evans McDowell, a son of
Wallace McDowell, is said to
have confessed to officers that
he threw the body in the river.
He implicated Tom Thomason
as the negro who did the actual
killing.
The crime, a most brutal and
shocking one, was detected
early Saturday morning when
members of Mr. Pittman’s
family went to summon him to
breakfast. Failing to respond
to the farm bell, members of
the family went to the house
where he slept. There blood
stains were found and officers
and neighbors were then
summoned.
The blood stains led all the
way to the river and then onto
the ferry. The body was
recovered with hooks at the
side of the ferry on the Butts
county side of the stream.
An axe was the instrument
used to murder Mr. Pittman.
His head was crushed in and
one ear almost severed. He
was also stabbed in the throat
and chest several times with a
knife.
The first clue was obtained
when a ledger was found open
opposite the name of McDow
ell. The account of the
McDowell negroes had also
been added up on a blank check
and the amount on the ledger
and the memorandum corres
ponded.
At Wallace McDowell’s
house a pair of overalls with
blood stains were found. The
overalls were said to have been
washed during the night, but
not all the blood had been
removed.
Wallace McDowell, Lee
Roberts and Jim Goolsby were
arrested and placed in jail.
Later Evans McDowell was
captured and made a confes
sion to officers, it is said. In
this confession he implicated
Tom Thomason who was
arrested. All the negroes were
carried to the Atlanta tower for
safe keeping.
On Monday Flem Lynch, a
brother-in-law of Evans Mc-
Dowell, was arrested. Three
packages of money were found
in his house. Lynch was
likewise taken to the Atlanta
tower.
According to a statement
made here Tuesday, officers
obtained a full and complete
confession from Evans Mc-
Dowell Monday night. He is
said to have acknowledged the
crime and takes the full
responsibility on himself.
A speedy trial will be given
the negroes charged with this
murder, according to court
officials. Superior court con
vened Monday and it was
expected the grand jury would
investigate the crime during
the week-end and the trial will
probably be held next week.
Robbery was the motive for
the crime. Mr. Pittman is
known to have kept a
considerable amount of money
on hand, and the party or
parties rowed across the river
in a boat, called Mr. Pittman to
the store on the pretext of
paying a bill and while he was
looking up the account struck
him down with an axe. The
body was then carried and
dragged to the river and
thrown off the ferry into the
water. Return to the Jasper
county side was made by boat,
which was tied to the bank.
The amount of money
obtained is not known, though
it is believed to have been a
considerable sum. The pistol
and keys of Mr. Pittman were
also missing and have not been
recovered, it was stated.
Officers who have investiga
ted the case from the first fix
the hour of the crime between
10 and 12 o’clock Friday night.
The crime, shocking in its
cowardly brutality, aroused
intense excitement throughout
this section. In working to find
the guilty parties, officers of
Butts county have had the
utmost co-operation from Jas
per county citizens and
officers. County Policeman
Bob Oxford, Mr. Jim Burney
and other officers and citizens
of Jasper have been untiring in
their efforts to unravel the
murder and to apprehend and
have punished the guilty
parties.
Mr. Pittman, -viethir of this
robbery and murder, was one
of Butts county’s best known
citizens. He was widely known
both in Butts and Jasper
counties and had operated
Pittman’s Ferry for a long
number of years. He was
successful as a farmer,
merchant and owner of the
ferry. With exception of a few
years spent in Atlanta, he has
been a life long resident of
Butts county.
Mr. Pittman was 68 years of
age. He is survived by his wife,
who was Miss Eugene Fretwell
before her marriage; one
daughter, Mrs. C. A. Bankston;
five sons, Mr. J. T. Pittman, of
Covington, Messrs, E. L. and
DeWitt Pittman, of West Palm
Beach, Fla., Mr. A. E.
Pittman, of Wilmington, N. C.,
and Mr. Charlie Marks
Pittman, of Jackson; a sister
Mrs. W. E. Cantrill, of Atlanta,
and a brother, Mr. Joe
Pittman, of Florida.
Funeral services were held
at Moore’s Chapel Monday
morning at 11 o’clock, and
were attended by a large
number of relatives and
friends. Numerous and beauti
ful floral offerings attested the
esteem in which the deceased
was held. Rev. Henry H. Jones
conducted the impressive
service, and the pallbearers
were Messrs. J. K. Sitton, J. S.
Jackson, W. H. Redding, C. A.
Nabors, C. D. Lee and Walter
Norsworthy. A quartette com
posed of Mrs. W. W. Jamerson,
Mrs. Hamilton, Messrs. R. P.
Sasnett and Avon Gaston,
rendered the music. Interment
was in the church yard. --
The Jackson Progress-Argus,
July 27, 1923.
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1775: A battle lost, but a point won.
Benjamin Franklin is back from England, where he did his
best as a diplomat. Now, he admits that diplomacy won’t
work. We go into battle at Lexington. We take Fort Ticon
deroga. In June, the British storm us at Bunker Hill and
give us three bloody fights. Our gunpowder is low. To save
what we can, our cry becomes, "Don’t fire until you see the
whites of their eyes.” The British far outnumber us. And
soundly defeat us. But we give them what-for. And heavy
losses. Our backwoods militia marksmanship strikes fear
into their hearts and inspiration into our own. They used to
laugh at our lack of spit and polish. They’re not laughing
anymore. And we’re beginning to feel we just might have a
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