Butts County GaArchives News.....The New Court House March 8 1895
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Jackson Argus – Week of March 8, 1895
It is the advocation of the Jackson Argus that we build a new court house.  Its 
plea is for this step, that the old one needs repairs and besides is inadequate 
as a court house for Butts county.

If what the Argus says about the matter is true, we perhaps need a new 
building, but this is our emphatic statement: “Build no court house.”  The old 
one is as good as we can afford at present.  We can not have things as we want 
them these days, and for us to talk of building a courthouse when hundreds of 
people in the county are without a cent of money, is something that should not 
for a moment be considered.

The building of good dwelling should receive the attention of a people before 
the erection of houses for the holding of courts.  Today one is painfully 
struck by the dilapidated appearance of farmers’ homes.  Very seldom do we see 
any appearance of progress in the country, and a gloom seems to hang over the 
entire land.  Several years ago we could see new buildings being erected in 
great numbers and we were then constrained to say, “The New South.”  But now 
all this is stopped – the building of dwelling is stopped, we say – and 
therefore let the building of court house stop also.  If our old one needs 
repairs, let it be repaired, but no more.  And we wish to utter the wailing cry 
of this broad land, stoop so much taxation.   Flovilla Headlight





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