Butts County GaArchives News.....Cold Weather in Butts County January 27 1881
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of January 27, 1881
Our city for most of the time during the past week has appeared almost 
depopulated.   The bad weather has kept visitors away; and all who live among 
us have remained indoors.  Hence, it has been impossible to collect items, 
which will render a local column of much interest.

We would write more about the weather – the extraordinary cold spell – mercury 
falling here below zero – the beautiful snow now being converted into hideous 
looking mud and water – but is has always  occurred to us as being a foolish 
waste of time, labor and space to enter into a long desertion upon a subject 
which every man, woman and child in the country has a thorough, complete and 
feeling knowledge of.  

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Thursday night about one o’clock when the thermometer was at zero, the engineer 
on the down freight train rang the doorbell of Mr. George Summers, the foreman 
of the Jeff Davis Fire company, and informed him that the water in his engine 
had given out and that the tanks were all frozen and he could get none.  He had 
three carloads of cattle that would freeze unless he could get to Macon, as 
quick as possible, and he desired Mr. Summers to get his engine out and fill 
his engine from one of the cisterns of the city.   Mr. Summers, W. K. Varner 
and two other members of the company went at that late hour and carried the 
Jeff Davis steamer to the cistern and filled the engine of the Central Road, 
when the engineer and his train went on to Macon rejoicing.  Such noble deeds 
should be remembered in some way by the authorities of the road.

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Things froze up.  Yes, chickens froze, a hog froze, a cow froze, kerosene oil 
froze; we heard of some spirits that froze, and to tell the whole truth, we 
came near on to being froze but we kept near the fire and have come through so 
far all O.K.



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