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Issue 32 Thursday, August 6, 2020
The Voice of Crawford County Since 1921
also serving Byron and Peach County
1 Section 8 Pages One Dollar
Grass fire nearly
claims woman’s life
Crawford County Fire and
Rescue and Chief answered
a call to a fire ending up to
be wood and grass fire on
Causey Road.
Owners of the 2496, 2616
and 2542 Causey residents
were all involved in the ap
proaching grass and woods
fire. The homes, threated by
flames approaching prompt
ed action from one resident.
Sheila Dragraedt, on her
own, attempted to slow down
or prevent the wind fueled
flames fueled by wind to
reach her home. Dagraedt,
armed with garden hose
fighting it back the flames in
the too degree weather and
passed out resulting in 3rd
degree bums on her hands,
arms and her legs.
Crawford County Fire De
partment was on the scene
to call for an ambulance but
nearly called Life Flight to
assist with her care. Para
medics addressed immediate
needs of the woman. Assis
tant Chief Jerry Gibb and fire
fighter Jake Watson, noted,
EMT’s worked quickly with
the woman doing all possible
to alleviate pain and prevent
ing further damage caused
by fire injury to her limbs.
She was taken to Medical
Center of Central Georgia.
A firefighter at scene said
Dagraedt could possibly be
sent to Atlanta Burn hospi
tal.
Pate and Gibbs both agreed,
though it may be hard to
watch a fire approach house
and buildings, to keep a dis
tance from a fire especially
when it is fueled aggressively
by the winds. Jake Watson,
firefighter also at the scene,
agreed. Without volunteer
firefighters this could have
been much worse.
Food drive at senior center
Crawford County’s Senior Center was the site for a food dis
tribution last week. It’s important we make sure our senior
citizens are taken care of all the time and have food, which
includes fresh fruit and vegetables.
Lewis Walker named Sheriff of the Year
GEORGIA
CIATION
Lewis Walker has served as Crawford County Sheriff since
2009 and was unopposed in this year’s election. He was first
hired in 1987 by then Sheriff Kerry Dunaway as a Deputy Sher
iff for CCSO. He worked the Patrol Division and was later pro
moted to a squad supervisor and in 2006 promoted to captain
of the patrol division. He served 21 years in the Crawford Sher
iff’s Office before being elected Sheriff in the 2008 election. He
graduated from the Sheriff Elect Academy in December 2008.
He is a lifetime resident of Crawford County, graduated from
CCHS and he and his wife, Nettie, have two sons, Jarkith and
Lewis Jr. During his years as sheriff he has worked on upgrad
ing computer and radio systems and providing more training
accesibility for his employees. Walker says his philosophy in
the office is to run it with integrity and professionalism. Last
week he was named Sheriff of the Year through the Georgia
Sheriffs’ Association after being nominated by family and
friends. Of the award Sheriff Walker says he was humbled
and blessed. Picture from left above: Captain Patrick Tisdale,
Captain Trina Johnson, Sheriff Walker, Peach County Sheriff
Terry Deese and Sherrie McColumn, CCSO office administrator.
At right pictured with his son daughter in law.
Historic Georgia Post building available to be toured
The Georgia Post Building
Constructed 1928
Listed on the
State Register of Historic Places
And
National Register of Historic Places
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Old press. Sheets of paper had to be put in one piece at a
time to create newspaper page. Today, they are sent elec
tronically to the pressroom and goes straight from computer
to plate and onto press saving much time.
Next year, your hometown
newspaper, The Georgia
Post will celebrate its tooth
birthday. These days with
community newspapers
struggling, that is quite an
accomplishment and is an
accolade for the community
and its citizens.
On the Knoxville Square,
nestled between the Court
house and the Sheriffs office
is the Georgia Post building.
The building was construct
ed in 1928, making it 92
years old. Inside the building
there are monuments of the
printed history as well as
historic records of the His
torical Society. The Crawford
County Historical Society
has worked and paid for all
of the preservation of the
building and notably recog
nized, the smallest building
on the Georgia Historic
Preservation listings.
Records show it has had
many an owner, but The
Georgia Post was started by
Crawford Moncrief in Feb
ruary 1921, working days to
put out a single issue. Use of
a type set press, each letter
placed on a plate and at first
each page singly produced
by hand for each full sheet
of two pages after fold, read.
So if the subscribers or sales
of a single issue were in the
100’s, as once Knoxville was
a very bustling rural city,
news in hand was love of the
person behind the newspa
per.
Visitors to the building
these days will be shown that
press once used by hand and
later with help of electricity
added to the press requiring
type setting of each word.
The typewriter was very
important and a new tool to
produce a newspaper.
A light table, used to set
the page is also on display.
The “light table” would allow
newspapers to be produced a
little more quickly.
After the hand tvoeset with
changes to the production
process, a light table al
lowed the light coming from
below a paper used to cut
and paste the story within
the columns of the paper.
Type written stories were
cut to fit a column and two
pages at a time. Then cut
and pasted to the column
and positioned on the page
it was given. Front (1) and
last page(8), then (page 2
and 3), and on till you had
a newspaper of eight pages.
The news items, marriages,
advertisement and human
interest and one place left for
the editors commentary and
maybe a cartoon, gave you
the best newsDaDer around.
It was the read of the day;
each day and each morning
by many, sitting in a chair
and perhaps drinking a cup
of coffee.
Larger newspapers began
to be the sole newspapers
able to produce a dai
ly paper. Soon the small
news reads became weekly.
Now, The Georgia Post is a
weekly and is the legal organ
allowing legal notices to be
published. Advertising local
is also to read local, because
a newspaper operates on a
smaller staff now and print
ing costs are continually
going up. Local newspapers
have to also compete with
other ways to produce news
such as the television or
social media and computers.
With the invention of the
computer layout, the news
is build page by page on the
computer instead of the pain
staking type set of each letter
of a word.
As the delivery of the
present time newspaper has
changed from story to print
so has grown the way people
find the presentation of the
news.
To view how once it was
produced the building The
Georgia Post on the Knox
ville Square is open by
appointment to view the very
beginning of “The Press.”
Call and make an appoint
ment to view what your
Crawford County Historical
Society has made possible
for all to visit. Call 478-836-
3825 to schedule an ap
pointment.
For more on the Georgia
Post’s history watch for
celebrations next year and
a special section. Keep up
with your community’s local
history by subscribing today,
if you haven’t already.
