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STARK NEWS
By Mrs. B. A. Williamson
Rev. and Mrs. R. W.
Jenkins and Mr. J. L.
Hathcock spent Wednesday
and Thursday in South
Georgia. Rev. and Mrs.
Jenkins visited in Moultrie
and in Albany where they
spent Wednesday night with
Rev. Jenkins’ mother, Mrs.
J. L. Jenkins, while Mr.
Hathcock visited with his
sister and her husband, Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar Hanson.
Chuck Standard, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Sam Standard of
McDonough, spent part of the
weekend with his grand
father, Mr. Harold Standard.
Mrs. Fannie Swint of
Atlanta is spending several
weeks here with her sister,
Mrs. Bessie Cawthon.
Wesley, little 2M> year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Cook, became seriously ill
and was admitted to Eg
gleston Children’s Hospital
early last week. His condition
improved and he was
returned home late Thursday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Kersey,
Eddie Kersey and Miss Reba
Kelley attended the Daytona
“500” auto races in Daytona
Beach during the weekend.
Mrs. Lewis Cawthon visit
ed Mrs. Asa Smith in Georgia
Baptist Hospital on Wednes
day. Mrs. Smith was dis
missed from the hospital
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. James B.
Williamson of Macon were
spend the day guests Satur
day of Mrs. Lillian William
son.
Gary Pearson, a student of
an Atlanta College, spent the
weekend with his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H.
Morgan, Miss Mary Lou
Morgan and Mrs. Elsma
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By Kilene F.
A good Hollandaise Sauce
can be used many ways and
dresses up vegetable dishes.
It is perfect served with fresh
brussel sprouts, broccoli, or
asparagus. I have priced
these vegetables in the
market and, believe it or not,
the fresh are cheaper than
the frozen or canned. The
taste and texture is superior,
too. These vegetables are
easy to cook-just place them
in a small amount of water
and simmer until they are
bright green and tender
(about 10-15 minutes). This
Hollandaise Sauce is easy,
too, especially if made in
blender.
BLENDER HOLLANDAISE
SAUCE
V 2 cup butter or margarine
3 egg yolks
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Vt teaspoon salt
dash lemon pepper seasoning
V 2 teaspoon dry mustard
Heat butter in a small
saucepan until bubbly but not
brown. Put remaining in
gredients into the blender.
Cover and blend on medium
speed for 5 seconds. While
continuing to blend on
medium speed, add butter in
a slow, steady speed through
opening cover. When blades
are covered, switch to high
speed and add remaining
butter slowly. Serve im
mediately. Yield: 1 cup.
For a quick dessert idea,
try this idea from Mrs.
Frances Barnes: Serve
Kahlua Liqueur over ice
cream or sherbet. It is
especially tasty served with
orange sherbet.
Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hardy
spent Wednesday and Thurs
day of last week on a trip to
Plains, the Okefeenokee
Swamp and Jekyll Island.
Mr. Lane Cook of La-
Grange visited relatives here
last weekend.
Miss Ruby Lane of Jenk
insburg visited Mr. and Mrs.
Jim McMichael Saturday.
Mrs. Thurmon Mullis spent
Thursday and Friday in
Atlanta with Kathy and
Patrick Branch while their
parents attended the funeral
of Mr. Branch’s sister. On
Friday after Patrick got out
of school Mrs. Mullis brought
the children home with her.
Mr. and Mrs. Branch came
for them Sunday. Miss
Carolyn Mullis, also of
Atlanta, spent the weekend
with her parents.
Mrs. Harold Vaughn en
tered Emory Hospital Mon
day where she will undergo
heart surgery. Her many
friends are hoping she will be
able to return home soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Taylor
spent Saturday with Mrs.
Annie Taylor.
Mrs. Lillie Godsey has
returned home after a stay of
several days in Sylvan Grove
Hospital. Her condition is
much improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Young
are being extended sym
pathy of friends in the death
of Oscar’s brother, Mr. J. C.
Young of Decatur, the
funeral service being held in
Washington on Monday,
February 14th.
Mrs. Fred Hoard and
grandson, Wayne Hoard,
visited Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Hoard and family in Tal
lahassee, Florida on Sunday.
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THE JACKSON PROCRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1977
Mansion of Memories
By CHARLES SALTER
Journal Stale Editor
JACKSON, Ga.—ln recent years
high school students, particularly on
Halloween, have described the old Car
michael home in Jackson as “the ghostly
mansion."
J.R. Carmichael Jr., 74, smiles and
insists there are absolutely no ghos,ts in
the 12-room, two-story Victorian llouse
that his father built in 1897.
But, the beautiful house, a superb
example of the elegance and splendor of
late Victorian-era architecture, is filled
with many memories of his happy, care
free childhood.
Unlike the late author Thomas Wolf,
Carmichael does indeed believe, “You
can go home again."
After retiring in 1966 as manager of
purchasing and supplies with Georgia
Power Cos. in Atlanta, “Red” Carmichael
told his wife, Norma, sister of actress
Evelyn Keyes, that he wanted to restore
the old homeplace in Jackson.
The restoration project was com
pleted at the end of 1972, and the Car
michaels moved into the mansion, a
block from downtown Jackson, on Jan.
1, 1973.
If you count the attic—a storage
area with as much floor space as many
houses—the Carmichael home has three
stories. The house has 12 rooms, seven
halls, five porches, five chimneys, 10
fireplaces, 77 windows and 47 doors.
The double doors at the front are
solid oak, with handsome carvings, nine
feet high, and the screened doors there
still have the copper mesh installed
more than 75 years ago.
Asked how she kept such a big
house so spotless, Mrs. Carmichael
laughed and said, “I have two servants
—me and my husband.”
In his childhood, however, there
were servants—a cook, butler, house
keeper—also a yard man and others
who worked in the barn and on the
farm.
His father, John R. Carmichael Sr.,
was a farmer, banker and owner of the
Carmichael buggy factory. The Car
michaels had 11 children, two of whom
died at early ages.
In the dining room, Carmichael
showed me the oak table, which has six
leaves and can seat 16.
“I always sat on a corner seat, with
Mother on the left and Father at one
end,” said Carmichael. “Morton Strick
land was a waiter, and I can see him
coming in now with a big tray of food.
“Aunt Sarah Fish was a cook. Boy,
you talk about making bread. She could
really make homemade bread on the
wood stove.”
Carmichael fondly recalls days
when the kids became a bit boisterous
and daring, and they went to the second
floor, “skinned the cat” on the round
rotunda, climbed out windows to
scamper across the roof and played on
the turret.
“And, we would hide up in the
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For California cars, write
Consumer Info. Center, Dept.
633 E, Pueblo, Colorado 81009.
The booklet also tells you
about some factors that
influence gasoline consump
tion:
An engine that’s already
warmed up (such as one that
was used in the last 4 hours)
requires less fuel to reach its
most efficient operating
condition than a “cold”
engine.
Trip length also affects gas
mileage. Shorter trips (under
5 miles) do not allow the car
to warm up to its peak
Victorian-Era House in Jackson Looks Haunted,
But It's Only the Spirit of Happy Childhood
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attic,” he said. “One day we accidentally
knocked out the ceiling in a closet, so
then we could slip through there into
that closet on the second floor.”
In each of the 12 rooms was a bell
connected to the kitchen.
“You’d go and hide, ring the bell
and then slip somewhere else,” said Car
michael. “The bell system was actually
installed in the house in 1897, but we did
not have electricity until 1906.”
Showing me the handsome 19th cen
tury and early 20th century furniture
the kids somehow never damaged, Car
michael explained that his mother was
quite a successful disciplinarian.
“She never spanked or whipped any
of us,” he said. “We had tennis courts
out there and played in the yard and
barn. But, if we got in a fight, she said,
‘J.R., you go stay in the parlor exactly
two hours. Ed, you go in the dining room
for two hours.
“ ’Don’t you open that door to
speak to each other. You all stay there
until you feel like you can behave, and
I’ll come back and check on you, and
you can go outside and play with the
rest of the children. Otherwise, you can’t
do it.’ ”
On rare occasions, she tapped their
palms with a butter paddle, warning, “If
you don’t behave, you may get worse
than that.”
When she reminded the kids be
tween 8 and 9 p.m. that it was bedtime,
no protests were heard.
Carmichael fondly remembers the
family prayers and Bible readings by his
parents before breakfast each morning.
Attendance was mandatory, although
some of the kids occasionally were
tempted to sleep late rather than get up
to eat.
“Mother would say, ‘lf you don’t
want to eat breakfast, you still have got
to get up and come to the table with
your pajamas and bathrobe on and sit
there for the prayer,’ ” Carmichael said.
“ ‘Then go back and get in the bed if
you want to.’ ”
He can easily recite favorite Bibli
cal verses and Presbyterian catechisms
learned in childhood at the dining room
table and in prayer groups in the
evenings at his home.
“We would have a revival, and the
preacher would spend the nights here,”
said Carmichael. “We had prayer before
going to bed, and the Rev. Hunt, the
evangelist, was quite an Uncle Remus
man.
“He would go to the sitting room
and tell Uncle Remus stories, then read
passages from the Bible. This was about
operating temperature and
engine condition. So combine
your short trips whenever
possible. This will not only
save you gas, but be better
for the car.
Your car’s condition has a
bearing on how many miles
to the gallon you get. On the
average a tuned-up vehicle
gets approximately 3 to 9
percent better gas mileage
than one that has not been
properly maintained.
And be sure to keep your
tires inflated to the prooer
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1907. We had to go to Sunday School,
whether we wanted to or not. But,
Mother didn’t have any trouble getting
us to go.”
In elementary school days, Car
michael and five neighborhood pals
formed a Seven Up Club in which mem
bers took turns purchasing for just a
nickel a total of seven gingerbread
cookies with icing on top.
The buyer for that day got the extra
cookie.
Sometimes on a rainy day when his
parents entertained guests in the parlor,
his mother told the children to hitch up
the billy goat and wagon and play under
the house, which stood several feet off
the ground.
The boys also enjoyed shooting mar
bles in a ring on the sandy front walk,
playing with their railroad track made
from old fence posts and rails and com
municating with old telephone equip
ment and lines donated by their uncle,
who owned the local telephone ex
change.
They also played baseball on a field
in the family’s cow pasture. Ty Cobb,
the “Georgia peach” who starred with
the Detroit Tigers, was Carmichael’s
childhood hero.
One of his prized possessions is an
album filled with baseball cards col
lected from cigarette cartons in the
years shortly before World War I.
Carmichael chuckled as he recalled
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THE CARMICHAEL HOME DISPLAYS ELEGANCE OF LATE VICTORIAN ERA
It Has 12 Rooms, Seven Halls, Five Porches, 10 Fireplaces and 47 Doors
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Wednesday, Feb. 16,1977 Sl;e Atlanta journal
the day his brother, Victor, refused to
let his mother buy him anew pair of
shoes.
“They dressed up Victor pretty
well,” he said. “Mother took him to a
store, and the salesman showed them
some of the new button shoes.
“The salesman said, ‘That’s the lat
est style.’ Victor thought he said ‘ladies’
style,’ and he wouldn’t have them. It
wasn’t until much later that Mother
learned why Victor didn’t want them. He
said, ‘No, I want boys’ shoes.’ ’’
While his father was manufacturing
the famous Carmichael buggies, one of
the sons, Bert, took a girlfriend for a
ride one Sunday afternoon after hitching
up a horse named Closer.
Carmichael said, “The girl was
from out of town. Bert said, ‘Come up,
Closer,’ and he said it two or three
times. Finally, the girl said, ‘Bert, I’m
about as close as I can get right now.
“And, Bert said, ‘That’s the horse’s
name—Closer—and come up means I
want him to go faster.’ ”
In the sitting room of the Carmich
ael home today are two buggy seats
made in the 1890s, and he has a frame
in the bam but not a complete buggy of
that era.
After walking down memory lane
with “Red” Carmichael, I wished that I
could do what his father had done
build a Victorian mansion for less than
$16,000.
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