Butts-Pike-Richmond County GaArchives News.....Campbell – Ordered to Leave October 13, 1899
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Jackson Argus October 13, 1899
Mr. W. H. Campbell, machinist for the Georgia & Carolina Planters Co., of 
Augusta, Ga. who was sent to Williamson last Sunday to get the machinery in 
working order, acted in a manner not at all pleasing to the hotel man, Mr. D. 
Reeves.  Mr. Campbell was accompanied by a very alighted from the train and was 
under the impression that the white man had the negro along to wait on him.  
When Mr. Reeves went to supper he found the Negro in his parlor leaning back in 
one of the best chairs.  Mr. Reeves, according to accounts, picked up a common 
chair and broke it over the negro’s head.  The white man and Negro concluded 
that they didn’t need any supper and went over to a Negro house and spent the 
night.  The next morning they were given five minutes in which to leave town.

They left.

Mr. W. A. Brooks cotton buyer for Inman & Co., of Augusta wired the Georgia & 
Carolina Planters Company about Mr. Campbell’s conduct and he has received a 
letter form that accompany apologizing to the people of this section for 
sending Mr. Campbell here.  They state that Mr. Campbell was a northern man and 
was not familiar with the ways of the people of the south.       Pike County 
Journal

Jackson Argus – Butts County
Week of October 13, 1899


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