Butts-Jasper County GaArchives News.....Old Relic Fouind After Third of a Centurn September 1909 ************************************************ 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 July 17, 2011, 8:13 pm Butts County Progress September 1909 Old Relic found after third of a century While attending a fish fry at Mallet’s Springs last week as the guest of Bailey and Jones, Mr. S. M. Pope found an old relic discarded more than a third of a century. It was an old knife in a wonderfully well preserved state. Mr. Pope has the knife in his possession and is keeping it for the association that cling around it and for the memories it calls up. The knife was found at the same spot at Mallet’s Springs where it was lost at the barbecue years ago. It was in 1877 while Mr. Pope was over from Jasper county that the curtain went up on the events in the first scene. He was prospecting here at the time and fell a willing victim to Jackson’s charms and promise. The knife which belonged to Col. Y. A. Wright was broken while being used to open a bottle of peach brandy, there was no near beer in the 0’s, the good old days, and being of no further use was thrown away to become a prey of rust. Present at that delightful occasion were Dr. R. G. Bryans, Messrs. W. M. Mallett, Coon McMichael, Y. A. Wright; B. P. Bailey, Joe Carmichael, Reet McMichael, John Eason, Meade Hendrick, Jack Sawyer, Dave McMichael, S. M. Pope, B. E. Goolsby, B. F. Watkins, Sr. Several of those to whom the old knife has been shown recognized it and remembered the occasion 32 years ago. Butts County Progress Week of September 10, 1909 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/oldrelic3114nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb