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History ami Oilicials oi limes County.
ALMOST COMPLETE FROM ITS FORMATION TO PRESENT TIME.
PREPARED FORT1IF. NEWS JiY JUDGE R II BONNER
A VALI A I1LE ( ONTHI-
IUIT10N TO JONHS illS-
TORY FOR TIIK (Off-
NKR >hVV ( STONK OUUT IIOIIHK. OF .TIIK
AftPr a diligent research I have
ooft»« acroPfl Ot/unfy historv
hidden 11 Way m the old records
which will no dontit tie of general
interest to the people of tho coun-
ty- * is generally know■ Iho
A* r» conn-
tv of Jones is part of what wm-
once known ns Baldwin county,
An act passed by the legislature
• f Georgia and signed Dec 10th,
]S07 authorized -ix new counties
to tic laid out and identified, out
of the counties of Baldwin and
W ilkiiifeon. The six new count
w ern Morgan, Randolph, Jones,
Putnam, Laurens and Telfair,
The same act that established the
county of Jones authorized that
all the courts and other public
business be held and transacted
• u ti e house of William Jones,
From the best information I can
gather the William Jones house is
tha one now occupied and owned
our worthy citizen, J B Green,
District. It contin-
lied to he the court house ground
until Dec 22, 1808 when the leg-
Mature passed the following act :
“That the site of public build-
ings, in and for the county of
Jones, will be in the town called
and known by the name of Clin-
ton in said comity.” Bonjanxn House
J^bitaker, Speaker of the
WRepresentative, Henry Mitch- Jared
ell, President of the Senate,
Irwin, Governor,
It limy lie news to some to learn
< Hint Clint»n was first named Al-
Imny. The lot of land
202 1-2 acres, on which Clinton
was built, wus O ught from Th»m
ns Johnson for the sum of two
<thousmid dollai'B by the
Court Judges, It was then lain
otT into town lots except four
nc/es which were reserv'd
>>-.4ut house and jail purposes,
seiling”'*fb” rest and using the pm-
creda folr building Court house and
inil, J,"!- \ find where-one lot. (
ucr< »-*•’ *• - wooden a*oo. u i,» n. sj
court house WAR a st ru -
ii r<» Slid stood tor ’F- ib»ly a tow
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JONES COUNTY'S Old) COURT HOUSE.
In tin* year 1 K MV steps were V'l<
eu to build » le-w court bouse,
Robert Hutchins and James
Luvvtli woie the parties commis¬
sioned to secure plans for tho new
court house and they were paid on
(his services, including expenses,
tve >tv dollars. It must be sup¬
posed u d the plans wore “ready
lather than original—
in *p iHohileoluro!
'!'h parties win* took the <*•.»•
I net bihnitd the court house wen
rnjj R unrleit alters. They wore
t ort Samuel and John Aden. 1
Derom .vo a copy of tho order
awatdi g iho coniiact. “It is
ortPfed thut Ahsalum Carter,
Kw:ail ■ . pay to John Allen, the
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JONES COUNTY’S OLD JAIL.
Uiu!njJ«j>'-r of the 11A • W court
ill ML , the st m of four! Inin-
dred and ninty-seven Jotl il> Hli
fifty ms.twiog the oiu fourth
tiie t Hb I cm 11 rn i bif i D o ii
the del‘ «mt.
tek’iig his o ot h»r ( Kill*'
It i mu a gi. \ U‘h
rth, J W Ray \\ ii - Kum 1 ,
| lust ices o" t ho Inferior Court.’ I
20, 181 6, Also: “Mr Henry
Wyche, Clerk of tho Inferior
Con rf — Pay Robert Sam in I one
| hundred and fifty dollar. pr>-
viding tin under part of tin* court
house f< r tin* puypose of a jail,
and his receipt will be good to us j j
or our miucu*-*. r« in Makifcg * jjii o. Thin
Feb 2nd, ifti in nil !
six thousand, one hundred mid
forty ’dollars. Whether this in-
eluded both work and muter i a I we ;
urn left to conjecture.
The last payment was made
follows: “Ordered that the j
Clerk pay to Ilnhert Samuel and ;
John Allen, the underinkers of i
the court house, two thousand, !
five hundred and ninety dollars
nnd twenty.five cents, \\th inter-
e.t thereon till paid, as full com-
peneatinn for the court house, and
| ihat they he discharged fully from
their contract, also it being in
j full 12th. for IKK). all Robert extra charges. Cunning):rm, Jan
| j John thy, Justices.” Humphries, Roger MaeCar-
So the court house was lug,in
in 1810 and must have been fin-
Rlied the latter part of 1818.
There wer.) no tnxi-w levied to
build said court house. Enough
[must fore, from have tho been sale realized, of the there¬ town
! lots to pay for tho building.
The old cbinaberrv and mill¬
lu rry trees around the court house
square, whose gnarled trunks tes-
tify loth, chilly blusls of winti r
jtthd scorching planted there sure tinder of summer, order of
were
onuit in 1822. These old land-
marks have lived through chang¬
ing scenes of slavery, war and
pence. They have shaded ninny
guerutiom and served as props
for weary shoulders and furnished
! rooUiseata for tired or lazy bodies,
They must pass away as did the
quill that penned the old reerrils,
the leg fires thnt warmed tho
j courts, and the tallow candle that
j hgl'ted 4he belated poll holder,
1 The first ini I stood near the
liomeJN Mrs Fannie.E Boss and
j m close proximity to the old e'm-
j etcry. aectus fievor to llave
been a S^jkBftAlTuea 4 -sZ first R'^fe* #t<li eping for
qn^Tu - -lyrCtJi s
Him • ym.^J^Wlien • TT»IS^ nil in
l l.'iitor wWiijutructad to levy a
tux for building a new jail. That
erru'se "as pui'MiM, 1 !:!! 1840 when
it was found that the- funds had
grown should t< such proportions that it
In lot out ut interests. So
in the auuii year the following
tiniquo that order was parsed; “Order¬
ed all tho money in the
hands of t It t 'b rk ot tho court,
belonging to .he fund raised for
the I’urposoof building a jail ha
j this day luuicd nt public outerv
p, the highest Indtlef for tha tune
of twelve months and that ap-
proved n.tes with good security
tortile irincipal and premium bo
required with interest from the
dale of lie notes if not punctual-
ly paid and that tho samo be put
‘i» sums of not . xceeding two hun-
or.-d doll irs. John K Moore,
.lauu p (Jtnv, James Godard, Jus-
............ InfciorCoUit.”
Our tut hers « ei-> too prudent
m h ad themselves with a heavy
hi in" 1 t«u» wise to burden the
p.-ope. ", 1 b «o enormous tax evy.
1 v Watt v' Ut i*.
In studying the lives of these
•.•ailv settiers of June, county **e
very much impressed with
their honesty and industry. I
am s<>rry to say that the
ants have not improved on their
ancestor, except in
Still we have in our county •ome
a ho urn the peers of any and 1
believe we can see, in the not very
this far distance, old a brighter in religious, epoch for
county,
tel led uu I and material things,
and there is no doubt tliut tiie
new court house and jail at
will he in a large measure the
stimulus.
On tho 10th dav of February
1000 tilt Ordinary of said county
ordered an election to be held on
tlie 4th day of April of the same
year to vote on the removal of
li e county site from Clinton to
Gray* In obedience to the said
<<rdt r and election was held with
the following result: Fur remov¬
al 359, against removal 801.
Again, under order from said
court'of Ordinary, passed the 10
duy of February 1005, another
eltction was held for the removal
of tho county site to Gray', on the
27tlrof June, 1SXJ5, with the fol¬
lowing results: For removal 1289,
against removal 51. The legisla¬
ture, ut its last session, passed a
bill authorizing the removal of
the county site from Clinton to
Gray and th« same was duly
signeu by the Governor on the 9th
day of August, 1905.
On the 29th duy of August, the
contract for builuing a new court
und jail was awarded to the At¬
lanta Fire-proofing Company for
the sum of $85,000. Juo T Glov¬
er, .1 II C Ethridge and J II
Meeks, Board of County Cunimis-
eioners, J C Barron, Clerk
County Commissioners, J W Go-
lucke, Architect, and L J Is-
bt l, General Manager of said com
puny. I he bond election, having
been ordered by the County Com¬
missioners and hav'iig failed
through Jack of 2-3 of tho mini ¬
fied vot is, the eominissloiieis
were foreed to build by direct tax¬
ation, levying $9.50 [:<t thousand
each, for the y f, urs J905 and
in addition to thestate and conn-
ly tax. i, for one, thi nk th e
■' — ■»ixuiiji.iirs have.done ibe '
they con fit lot i/ie i ax pay.-is
deserve thanks from I fie entire
countv, l
Clinton’s day of wealth. nr 9
Uicraev and ‘ good old times”
leached its western horizon, but
she rejoices in the dawn ou her
sister town—of a future. She
sinks gracefully, with glowing
hopes thftt the zenith of Gray’s,
Now Clinton, if yoa please, rising
glory will nut he shadow! d by a
luck of what crowned lmr own,
hospitality ami noble women.
County Officers
I herewith hand you a list of
c Jiinty officers w hich I have pre¬
pared for storing away into the
corner stone of the new
Ii use at Gray on the 19th of Oc¬
tober, 1905.
I am sorry that I could not fur¬
nish the 'mines of all tho County
o/llcers, but the time all. tted me
and the incompleteness of tho
early records made tho task im¬
possible.
I urn indebted to Messrs J B
Jackson for the representatives,
RH Kingman for the clerk*,
G.,ode Price, of Atlanta, for the
Treasurers and the Hon J \V
Adams, Clerk ot Superior Court
of Putnam county, for valuable
assistance in securing the names
of Judges and Solicitors.
If errors uru found in this list
of i dicers 1 can assure you that it
was an honest failure for 1 lune
striven hard to make it complete.
RAURE-ENTATIVKS
Zaohanah Booth, Wilkins Jack-
son, ’I iiouias Blount, John Bayne,
I’eb-r l\olb, William Harris, John
|n.»r.....es. William 1,Abn.r
I Slaughtor, Abner Wimberly,
Thomm White, Hardy Herbert.
James , c b * u, n rsoti. William At- ii Mitch- ».
ell, Charles Philips, Rice Purrett,
! Wm G Osborn, John R Moore,
Hendrick, rr i • ! Joseph t i Day, .'v
.
Henry G Lamar, Robert Hutch-
iiigs, John L Blackburn, Sterling
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ren J iirdan, Abner Ficwdleu,
Peter Northern, Will B Stepheds,
J..,.., I! Jo,,,:. I W.I ri„i„...
Bartley M Cox, Daniel P Pepper,
Sterling Lanier, John L Lewis,
James Gray, Stephen Ren free.
i McCloud. x i m j V\ \i> Jey i h »-< ranks, , I
Robert V Hardeman, Thomas
Lowe, David E Blount, Beuuott
n 011 n 1 n t 1 p,o. Eliiert irn, ... Hutchins, m . i
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N ^ Glover, J L Holland, \\ il-
S Moughon, J F Barron, B F
Finney. B Barron, R II Hutch-
ins> yv T McCti l-tigluJ P Hutch-
tfoUl' 8 iu under Military ruin i
and them is no civil record of it.
Sumtiel Ba-ron, C A Hamilton, H
R Ridley, David W Letter, G W
F McKay, G VV Comer, Richard
Johnson, James D Godard, .J F
Anderson, . . ... I ... W Dnftv, r, tx J T r- L Bar- O
ron, L C Morton, J B Jackson,
From 1810 till 1845 Jones had
three to four Representatives,
while now .he has only one.
judoks of oomi i.okk circuit.
peter Earley, Stephens \V Har-
ris, C B Strong, Augustus R Long-
s t met, 0 H Kenan, Eli Shorter,
Th„ ' m8 , \y Cobb ’ Adam G j /
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fori1 ’ 1 ' UC1119 i G Lamar, 1 “
Ld ward \ (,Uh K
Francis H Cono, Wm C Dawson,
j un)es R Merriwether, II V Jclui-
' n,,i,,, r t V limb-man ’., Iver
M ’ 11 1,11 - a- 11 u ” *" o ,s<
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Poster, Philip B Robinson,
Geo T Bartlett, Thomas G Law-
son, W F Jenking, Jno C Hurt, F
C Foster, H G Lewis.
6CLICITOKB
CB Strong, Adam SafTord,
M A Cooper, TP SafTord, N
Foster, Fred II Sanford, Augustus
liens:*, John M Ashurst. G T Bart;
lett, Win A Lofton. Fleming Jor¬
dan, J W Preston, Robert Whit¬
field. H G Lewis, W C Davis,
Joseph E Pottle.
CLERKS SUPERIOR COURT.
J M RGregory, Harrison Smith,
Edwin Bow in, Frederick - Sims, A
F Gibson, Clias Hutchings, Wil¬
liam Brewer, Elbert Hutchings,
Chas McCarthy, It T Ross, F J
Walker. Thomas J Gifison, H S
Greaves, Pro Tern, 17 W Barron,
R H Kingman, Jr.
SHERIFFS.
James Riley, Samuel Fengon,
Robert Beasley, Robert Hutch¬
ings, Thomas Livingston, Charles
Baynes, Hope II Slntter. B Trap,
Wm Barron, T S Humphries, E
Sanders, D N Smith, N S Ulov.-r,
Richard Blow, L?.*oy Singleton, J
S Walker, John Bradley, James G
Barnes, James T Renfros, Bryant
Balkcom, H nry Christian, M II
Morton, Leonidas Smith, Frank
J-iikins, L T Whidby, Robert P
Cook, W J Gresham, 8 J
W W Barron, It N Ethridge.
ORDINARIES.
Chas McCarthy, R T
Thomas G Gibson, R II Bonner.
OiU.VfY ( OUUT judcies. /
.Richard Johiylson, lu CnuUo, J C HarF.m,
' 1 t» t , r is
oountIsuiiool uo.mmissk^frs.
Hutiil aV Lester, AS li
E A’ Summons,
'IRKxSUREUS,
Wiley B Pope. R II Barron, II
S Greaves, W II Holsenbeek, S
Cnilifti, Sr , F M Stewart.
OOMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND
KNUE8.
E T Morton, J T Speights, W
White, II G Moore, J T
Sam Barron, J A Pilts, I,
j J H C Ethridge, J H Meeks.
R It Bonner.
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A ll MINI STit AT(>R '8 8 A BE.
GEORGIA, Jones County.
•Bv virtue of an order of the
of Ordinary for said county, granted
at tlie Or tober term of 190,i, the
del-signed, as administrator of the es-
tale of Mrs Mattie Lou KeHar, deeeas-
ed, will sell at the court house in
Clinton, Jones County, Ga, on the
f'mt Tuesday in November, lfK)5, be-
tween the usual hours of sale, at pub-
lic outcry, to the highest ladder for
cash, the following described real es-
late situated in the town of Haddock,
Jones comity, Ga, One house and
lot containing one-eighth, (1-8), of an
acre, more or less, and being part of
lot No II ip the origiral part of said
town of Haddock, and hounded as
follows: Ou the nmth-west by l*aik
street, north-east bv Mrs Irene Cole¬
man, £r: lie south east by church lot
and on the south-west by II J & J T
Finney. This 2nd day of October
1905. (J H Kki.i.ah, Adm’r
GUARDIAN S SALE.
GEORGIA, Jones County.
By virtue of an order ol the
of Ordinary, will be sold at public
erv on the first Tuesday’ in
ber, 1905, at i he .court house in
,,
j Jones county, towit; One sixth
1 lairds amounting inh’iest in the about Sallie
to (wo
(iri Hl nml forty seres, more or
and la ingabout two miles west
, ' tinto " ltlui bounded as follows: On
oast and uorth-oast l>v Robert Chile#’
ph.ee, north and north-west I.v J. K.
Chile, on south hv W H I.owe and
Ben Green and on west by W
Lowe. The sale will continue from
day to day. between the same hours,
until all si id property is sold. Terms
Ibis 2nd day of October H)05.
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CITATION.
LTr-OhVi I A, , clones , Count V.
Gorge Lt J White having made a,
plication in due form to be appoint' <
a ''‘“'listrator'qion the estate of W I
VVUtte, deceasral, notice ishovehv gi*
on t„ al’p..'Me. med that so
will he heard at the rt‘>*
,vri " ?hc court of Ordinary oi
M.'.n.Va'v'in Nd'/vembm lltOj" ' K '
0 t.3,1905. K Ii Bn: NEIL
Ordinary.
ExcurMionlt at<*s Via On-1
tral of Georgia Railway. ’
To the Macon Fair.
. Kates for individuals, one fare
75c for th « wuud trip, which ;
mc | u< j e8 ndmissirn to the fair
grounds, from ail points within
j the state of Georgia, also from
Gpelika, Florida Montgomery, Andalusia.
Ozark, and unnmdiut.
pjlhts in Alabama, Mall
r(l i eg f or children of five and on-
der twelve years of age. Mini
mum rate. HI whole ticket. 50:
for children. For military com-
! ,ull ' , s and brags hands in uniform
cr mot’e on one ticket, one
cent per mfle pe^capita in each
From points in Gnor-
gia tickets on sale October 23rd,
to November 2nd. Except that
1,0 ticket* will lie gold on Sunday
October 20th. From points in
Alabama tickets will lie sold Oc-
tuber 22nd to Nov 2nd. Final of
all these tickets Nov 0 Apply
agent.
Dental
Are the largest and beet
i quipped Dental Offices in
Georgia.
If you won’t your teeth
Filled, Crowned or Bridged
by Exoert dentists, who are
Specialists, call at
DR. LANIER’S
American Dental Parlors
PRICES LOW.
WORK GUARANTEED
—TERMS SPOT CASH—
(»18 Cherry Street, Macon.
branch of kick :
ATLANTA G A.
o-
Take Somnoforme and have
, your teetn extracted without
the slightest pain ut
DR. LANIER’S
LONG
in;
-AT--.1
Lowest CsrMfBii
Twenty yours experience in the
business.
HOWARD M. SMITH,
814 Second St., Macon, Gi»
COMMIhSIONEItS SA LE.
Under and by virtue of authority
and order granted by Honorable H (I
Lewis, Judge Superior eourt of Jones
county, and appearing of file in
Clerk’s office, will be sold, on the
first Tuesday in November, next, !;e-
the court house door in said
conntv, within the legal hours oi
sate, for cash, all that tractor parcel
,,f | llm l eontainingone hundred acres,
,„ 0 re or less, situate and being in
Burdens district, of Jones conntv
hounded bv the lands of Claud F
Gil,son, C R Moore, Estate of Mrim
Ethridge and others, and known ori-
inallv as the Kinslow lands. Said
order and petition upon which same
issued, duly tiled in Junes Superior
Court eighteenth Sentemher. 1905.
R Hakdemax, R N Ethriikie,
Att’y Commissioner.
Macon, Ga.
Mr. R N Hardeman,
Clinton, Ga.
Dear Sir:
We have $25,000
English money available for
good Jones county farm loans,
interest at 7 1-2 per cent.
No commission.
Loan & Trust Co.
Gr r\ /\ a p L-O.eman, i ^ Mgr. . .
Uen.
LUMBER
FOR
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~ THE WORLDS 25 cts.- 50 BEST ALL BABY DRUGGISTS EASE MEDICINE - ^ST
cts.
h WM i
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Bowel (^mpl^^-TESmNCTFOaBZSE-^rftefor
HaddocK
High i'Dli School GIKli
BOYS &
FALL TERM OPENED SEPTEMBER 5^-
We propose to prepare the Boys and Girls with
a practical and business education and. at the
same time preparing them for College so they
can fiill ary vocation in life. Give us regular
attendance and co -operation andlook to -teach¬
ers and pupils for results.
j J, j. KILGORE, Principal, Haddock, Ga
We Sell The
WALTER A. WOOD MOWING
MACHINE,
As well as a full line of
Implements.
We are distributing agents for-
PITTSBURG STEEL EENC
The B-est and Cheapest for Field or Garden. Cheaper and b
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tor than rail or lumber.
Get cur prices. Sea our fene
H H
hardware ^nd house furnishing goods, >
817 and 3K) Third Street, MACON, GA
Removal
\ / Sale.
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G*. account of having to novel ! October 1st
to 509 and 5 i 1 Cherry Si ret, Ike v/i!l offer
special inducements to our trade. If
WILL GIVE YOU A BIG J DISCOUNT
FOR CASH ONLY.
Onr Stock is New; (15-to Date
Have you seen the New Weales m CLO¬
THING? Come at once, you wll be pleased.
JONES de TODD 3,
400, Third Street Macon, tfa.
H r 1
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FOR
m IN I
JONES COUNTY
Waiting Your Inspection in the
Great Stock
NOW BEING SHOWN BY .
R D Cheek &, Co.
410 Tllil’tl St. MllCOIi, Gil.