Butts County GaArchives News.....That New Court House August 16 1895 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 January 27, 2005, 11:33 am Jackson Argus – Week of August 16, 1895 Another court week is at hand and no court house. That rickety rockery on the court house square needs to be condemned and torn away from its present position. If the count will positively refuse to build one we are heartily in favor or moving the present building away from the square and put if of on one edge of the town where strangers cannot see it and remark upon it unsightly appearances. It is nothing short of a disgrace to the county to own, occupy and use such a structure. We do not know of a county in the state where such a building as we have for the halls of justice is in such sad condition or unsightliness and seeming decay. Butts county, with a ten thousand dollar treasury and twenty five dollar court house claims to be one of the banner counties of the state. We should never feel any local pride or attempt to boast of our town or county until we have a court house. No man can consistently boast of Butts county with such a ramshackle structure staring him in the face. It is a travesty upon the boasted wealth and citizenship of the county. So long as its walls stand to remind us of the ancient long ago we will just so long feel handicapped in our efforts to build up the town and the community. The court house should be a grand nucleus around which every other enterprise should grow and flourish. For sake of decency and outward appearances, lets have the courthouse. It will not burden the county with an extra taxation. We could build a ten or twenty thousand dollar structure and never feel the loss of the money from the county treasury. Let the next grand jury recommend its erection and we guarantee that Judge Beck will have it done. The present building is hardly fitted or large enough to conduct a coroner’s inquest in with any degree of decency and order. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/gnw529thatnewc.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb