Butts County GaArchives News.....Hodges Mill Community News - 1 1889
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Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 December 24, 2003, 5:51 pm

Middle Ga Argus
HODGES MILL-1

Since Plowboy left this community it seems that our corner of the county is 
unrepresentatived through your columns.  Therefore I thought I would give you a 
few dots from this part of the county.  As I am a schoolboy, I will tell you 
something about our school.  We have a fine school at what we call Barnesville, 
as it is near Mr. Barnes’, taught by Mr. James C. Maddux.  He always has a good 
school wherever he goes, because he understands his business.  When you get the 
old professor behind the teacher’s desk he is in his proper element.  May he 
long have to teach the young and rising generation.  If our school continues to 
increase we will have to get someone to assist the professor.  During last week 
he attended court two days and left Miss Janie Roberts in charge of the 
school.  She graced the schoolroom very nicely, and we hope the professor will 
secure her as an assistant teacher.

We organized a Sabbath School at our schoolhouse (Barnesville) last Sunday 
evening with about 60 scholars on the roll.

Oak Hill School is divided this year as you see.  Prof. Maddox is in command of 
the north wing at Barnesville and Miss Lillie Heard in command of the south 
wing at Smith’s Seminary, near Capt. McCord’s.

Our farmers are moving on very well, most of them through planting corn and are 
now waiting for lovely spring to put in her appearance to commence planting 
cotton seed.

Mr. H. H. Stewart has charge of the Barnes homestead and he is turning things 
up in good style and seems to understand how to till the soil, in fact, all of 
our neighbors do.

Near our school house stands Harpers shops where you will find Capt. McCord and 
Mr. Harper busy building guano distributors.  The captain is the inventor of 
the machine.

Our farmers most all belong to the Farmers’ alliance and say they intend to 
make a success of the institution by raising what they need at home


Well, Mr. Editor, we school boys have heard so much about Harrison’s 
inauguration that we expected there would be great change of things, but we see 
none as yet.  The sun still rises in the east and sets in the west and our 
professor comes the same road to school and used the same cane to crack our 
heads


Additional Comments:
Forgot the month but was in 1889

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