Butts-Jasper-Newton County GaArchives News.....A Trip Through Jasper and Newton County December 3, 1897
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Jackson Argus – Butts County December 3, 1897
Fincherville, December 1, 1897

A.B. Strawn and the writer have just returned from a trip through the country, 
and I want to write you and insist that every poor white land renter renew his 
efforts to own his own home.

Hitching up a pair of long legged mules, we started out in an easterly 
direction, crossing South river at the Walthall bridge, thence to cross Yellow 
river in Newton county, then to Newton Factory on the Alcova, and on to Shady 
Dale in Jasper county.  Oh, that God forsaken country!

But we went on, crossing Little river and landing in the county of Morgan.  
This is a fine farming country, and Bermuda grass, free negroes  and stray dogs 
abound in the greatest abundance.

On we went to Madison, the county site , and here spent the night with Peter 
Walton, a relative.

The next day we drove down the Georgia railroad twenty miles, to Greensboro, 
landing at the home of Rev. L. S. Askew, where we spent a pleasant night.  At 
this place we were impressed with the importance of Bermuda grass as a crop, 
and also as a marketable product.  This hay was being hailed for the market, 
and our observations were pleasant, indeed.

I have traveled through the country from Florida to Tennessee, but I have yet 
to see the section that I like better than Butts county.  In some places 
through the water and the land are good, and it is possible for a poor man to 
get a home, and if he carries his society with him, can live happily.

My fellow traveler having become homesick, I turned my face homeward, stopping 
on the way to hear another one of Bro. Askew’s good sermons.  Spending another 
night with another kinsman, E. W. Butler, we made the journey home, having had 
a pleasant and refreshing trip.
J.T.C.


Week of December 3, 1897


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