Crawford County GaArchives News.....Items of Interest from Crawford - 1896 March 31 1896
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The Butler Herald
The Butler Herald
Tuesday, March 31, 1896
Page Three

Items of Interest from Crawford
Roberta Enterprise

Our businessmen and people generally are beginning to discuss the propriety and 
possibility of a bank in this town and county.

The peach crop in this part of the state, so far as we can ascertain, is safe 
up to date, however the most dangerous period is yet to be gone through with.

On last Saturday night, Mr. John Morgan, who lives near the Flint River agency, 
lost by fire his smoke house, containing meat, lard, syrup, etc., amounting to 
seventy-five or eighty dollars.

It is indeed sad for us to announce the death of our esteemed friend, Jack 
Dickey, of Hickory Grove, Ga.  He was a son of Prof. J.W. Dickey and a brother 
of the enterprising and energetic R.L. Dickey, of Musella.  He was a young man 
of stalwart worth, a good businessman and a devoted Christian.

At 3 o’clock last Tuesday, while Prof. Smith with his students was engaged in 
their customary routine of work, fire was discovered by some gentleman who 
happened to be upstairs, that evidently caught from some supposed defect in the 
terracotta flues and in spite of every effort to extinguish the flames the 
Roberta school and church building was totally consumed.  The building cost 
twelve or fourteen hundred dollars.  The city council held a policy on the 
house for eight hundred dollars.

Francis M. Abbott, charged with the killing of James A. Mathews which took 
place at Brice’s mill in this county nine years ago, was acquitted last week.  
He returns to his Texas home a happy man, we presume, where we are told he is 
doing well.



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