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POLITICAL HEAVYWEIGHTS Pictured in this January, 1911 photo are Jackson’s
Mayor and Council, all of whom weighed considerably more than 200 pounds. Small wonder
there is no record of any disorder at Council meetings of that era. Seated are, left to right, Will
Taylor, Mayor Henry Fletcher, and Albert Finley. Standing, left to right, are J. H. McKibben
and J. C. Jones. Duplicate photos of this Mayor-Council team were submitted by Mrs. Levi H.
Hurt and Miss Elizabeth Finley.
Edison Wins
Many Friends
At Concert
At the Mother’s Club
Concert last Friday night
Miss Genevieve Voorhees,
violinist, playing in direct
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From a Great American Used Car Dealer
1775: The long ride into battle.
We can no longer take the quartering of British troops.
We can no longer reason with the rulers. We’ve stashed
our supplies in Concord and are preparing for war. Now,
we learn the British are on their way to destroy our
supply base. It’s the night of April 18th. We send Paul
Revere and William Dawes on a gallop toward Lexington
to warn our farmers to form ranks. We meet the British
early the next morning on the village green. We are
ordered to disperse. There are only dozens of us, but we
refuse. A shot is fired. Then, a volley that kills eight of
our men and wounds ten. We will not give up. We will
fight from behind stone walls and apple trees to save our
ammunition. From now on we will be ready to fight at a
minute’s notice. We are the Minute Men. $
J.D. PATRICK
USED CARS
comparison with a New
Edison Phonograph proved
how successfully- Thos. A.
Edison has “re-created”
music. It is certainly
wonderful—even in this age
of scientific wonders—to see
and hear an instrument
actually “re-creating’ music.
So perfectly did the
instrument blend with the
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
violin that the audience could
not distinguish except by
movement of the bow when
Miss Voorhees was playing.
During one number the house
was darkened and until the
lights were turned on no one
knew Miss Voorhees had left
the stage.
—The Jackson Progress-
Argus, March 23,1917
Much Damage
Done By Storm
Of Wiml Sleet
This Section Visited
By Severe Storm
Which Does
Considerable
Damage
The old reliable kerosene
lamps were hauled down from
their back places in Jackson
homes Monday night, brushed
up, wicks trimmed, chimneys
cleaned, and lighted in order to
replace the dark which was
caused by the city’s failure to
turn on the electric current.
Many telephone wires were
down because of the all
prevalent sleet storm, and on
account of the danger of life
and the distinction of the
telephone switchboard and for
other causes known to the
technical mind, it was not
deemed advisable to turn on
the current under such
circumstances.
The Western Union wires and
many poles, trees and limbs
were thrown across the
Southern’s track in numerous
places between Altanta and
Flovilla, and as one result, the
passenger train leaving At
lanta for Jackson at six o’clock
Monday morning did not reach
Jackson until 11:30 o’clock.
A gang of twelve men
arrived in Jackson Wednesday
morning replacing poles and
wires along the Southern
Railway from Atlanta to
Flovilla.
As to be expected, Atlanta
was the center of even the sleet
storm. At least the Atlanta
papers have got it into their
heads that the sleet extended
itself around Atlanta in a
radius of fifty miles. Flovilla, it
is said, happended to be on the
circumference down this way.
The Jackson rural mail
carriers say they were greatly
hindered with fallen trees and
limbs, and the report comes
FIRST OF SIX PLANTS WILL
BE ERECTED NEAR JACKSON
Anew chapter in the history
of Jackson and Butts county
will commence with the work
on the mammoth power plant
on the Ocmulgee river of the
Central Georgia Power Com
pany, and this work will
commence as soon as Hon. W.
Jordan Masse, of Macon,
president of the company
returns from New York where
he is concluding the arrange
ments for a bond issue of
$16,000,000.
These bonds have been
purchased by New York
financiers and the sale of them
and the issue of $20,000,000
worth of stock has just been
approved by the state railroad
commission. The company
intends to build six power
plants on Georgia rivers but
work will be first started on the
big plant along the Ocmulgee
near Jackson. The river, when
harnessed at this point, will
develop 20,000 or more electri
cal horse power and with this
cheap current for lighting,
transportation and manufac
turing purposes will mark a
new era in the industrial
history of Jackson and the
surrounding country.
Before leaving for New York,
President Masse said the
company would bring to
Georgia thousands of dollars to
be invested in manufacturing
plants to use this big amount of
electric current and it is
believed that considerable will
be invested in the immediate
neighborhood of the power
plant near Jackson.
While none of the officers of
the company have expressed
themselves on the point, it is
believed in Atlanta that the
curreht will also be used in
operating a system of interur
ban trolley lines through
middle and south Georgia and
it is believed in Atlanta that
branch lines will be run out
from the main line between
Macon and Atlanta. - Butts
County Progress, Nov. 6, 1908.
1 only regret that I have but
one life to lose for my
country .--Nathan Hale.
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1976
Graduating
Class Contains
21 Members
The 1919-20 session of
Jackson High School will close
Friday night May 21 with the
graduating exercises of the
senior class, when all twenty
one members will receive full
diplomas. This is the first time
in a number of years that each
member has received a full
diploma. This has been a very
successful year for all the
school. Althought the senior
class has labored under many
difficulties, _ they each have
completed their course. The
following young ladies and
gentlemen will receive diplo
mas:
Eloise Beauchamp,
Grace Bankston,
Lucy Bond,
Lois Conner,
Miriam Fletcher,
Jewell Gilmore,
Bernice Higgins,
Lucile Jones,
Bernice McMichael,
Lucy Evelyn Nichols,
Maggie Joe O’Neal,
Mattie Byrd O’Neal,
Lucy Jane Stodghill,
Annie Lee Wall,
Nellie Williamson,
Wade Hammond,
Leonard Lyons,
Carter Moore,
Harry Redman,
Lamar Weaver,
From this list it will be seen
that a majority of the
graduates reside outside of
Jackson. The support from the
county has always been
generous and is an important
part of the Jackson public
school patronage. - Jackson
Progress-Argus, May 21, 1920.
that all of the roads of Butts
were made still more difficult
to travel by such obstacles to
say nothing of the badness of
their natural state in such
weather. -- Butts County
Progress, Feb. 13, 1908.
May Rebuild
Wigwam Hotel
Macon, Ga., January 16. -
The Wigwam Hotel at Indian
Springs, a summer resort
dating back to the days when it
was reached by carriage and
stage coach from Forsyth, will
not be rebuilt by the Macon
capitalists who own if, it was
learned today. The hotel was
burned to the ground on August
21 of last year, the same night
the Brown house in Macon was
leveled by fire.
Simultaneously it was learn
ed that a syndicate of Atlanta
men have in mind featuring the
sulphur water baths on the
reservation and rebuilding the
hotel. The deal has not been
completed, however.
Ed Jacobs, Freeman Hart
and T. W. Hooks, of Macon, are
owners of a lease on the
property that has twenty-three
more years to run. They valued
the hotel at $150,000, and the
insurance was $40,000. They
said that rebuilding in the face
of this loss is impossible.
There are ten acres in the
reservation, which was leased
by the state years ago under a
25-year lease. Besides that
tract, the Macon men own
twelve acres, which the
Atlanta syndicate also is
considering purchasing.
Left standing after the fire
were the Casino, the Eagle’s
Nest, a three-room cottage
furnished, a double garage,
servants' quarters, three
water tanks, a pumping station
and a two-story power house.
There also is an annex of
eighteen rooms. - Jackson
Progress-Argus, Jan. 20. 1922.
Why should there not be a
patient confidence in the
ultimate justice of the
people? Is there any better or
equal hope in the world?-
Abraham Lincoln.
Coldest Wave
In Years
Hits Here
Biting Blizzard
Partially Paralyze*
Business in Sunny
South
Not before in years has Butts
county and Middle Georgia had
a spell of such prolonged cold
weather. Beginning the week
before Christmas there has
been rain, slush, cold and snow
all along.
The coldest weather of the
season, and the coldest in a
number of years, struck here
Monday night. Tuesday morn
ing the thermometer went
down to 11 degrees above zero.
The entire country has been
shivering for the last few days
in the grip of a blizzard.
The second snow of the
season fell here last Friday
night and Saturday. There
have been flurries since that
time, but not enough snow to
amount to anything. The
snowfall here was three inches.
It appears to have been general
over the State.
Asa result of the prolonged
bad weather the roads of the
county are in fearful shape and
travel is seriously hindered.
The only visitors to town
during the past few days have
been those who had urgent
business. It is a question of
what part of the county has the
worst roads —all of the roads
being bad enough.
The fertilizer movement has
been retarded by the bad
weather and bad roads.
Business has suffered a great
deal during this cold spell.
The weather and roads
combined has renderd the
tours of the rural mail carriers
a real hardship, and no one will
be gladder to see warm
weather than these boys
who work for Uncle Sam. -
Butts County Progress. Jan. 19.
1912.
From a Great American Gas Dealer
bv perm ssion of THE BETTMANN ARC HIVE
1770: The street fight of the century.
It isn’t just taxes that rile us. We hate seeing British soldiers
in our streets, our public buildings, even our homes. We
haven't rebelled, and we don’t need soldiers to watch us. Our
townspeople can't hold their tongues any longer. We jeer the
soldiers. Call them "lobster backs." Get the ruffians con
fused. One March day, we get them too confused. They fire
on a Boston crowd, kill five of us and wound several more.
Sam Adams calls it the "Boston Massacre” and makes mar
tyrs of the victims. We arrest the soldiers and try them for
murder. But more important, we get the regiments out of
town. $
CAWTHON BROS.
GAS CO.
SPANISH JACK.
1)
Five years old, fifteen
hands high. He is a pure
blooded animal. Will stand
him at my farm at Jenkinsburg,
Georgia. Terms $lO to insure.
E. R. MERRITT.
Butts County Progress, March 26, 1909
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The call now is for this beau
tiful pattern in
Light Grey
Nu Buck
with neat tip of same material
with grey covered full Louis
heel and S inch top. See them
before sizes are depleted
$7.00
Etheridge, Smith
6 Company
Jackson Progress-Argus. October 22, 1916