Newton County GaArchives News.....A DAY IN BRICK STORE March 10, 1892
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The Georgia Enterprise March 10, 1892
     In company with Messrs. EDWARD HEARD, CHARLES H. WHITE and JOSEPH MORGAN 
we spent Thursday promenading over the fields in Brick Store district. We left 
our horses at the stables of Mr. F. M. WHITEHEAD, the genial merchant, farmer, 
justice and postmaster at Winton. He was in his shirt sleeves between the plow 
handles, when we arrived, but stopped long enough to bid us welcome. On our 
travels we noticed many grain patches, saw considerable land prepared for corn, 
but, more for cotton. In this district the people are industrious and most of 
them in  prosperous circumstances. The land is productive and the spirit of 
progress circumstances. The land is productive and the spirit of progress can 
be seen in the many new residences and the well improved homes along the road. 
Blessed  with schools and churches, the people are intelligent, moral and 
religious. If the new railroad is ever completed from Machen to Newborn and on 
to Social Circle a bright and promising time will surely come to Brick Store 
district in the near future.
     This old district is very dear to the writer, for away back in 1863 he 
attended school and ran a small farm, hauled wood with a steer and plowed in 
wheat one cold Christmas day with a mule, 3 miles beyond Brick Store, where Mr. 
MICHAM now resides, and even now the memory of those happy boyhood days are 
fresh in his mind and will always live in his heart. The people in that section 
were good then and if such a thing could be possible are better now.  30 years 
ago these people had a hard time, at certain seasons of the year, in getting to 
Covington on account of the dangerous condition of the public road leading 
through Alcova swamp. They have a worse time now. This road should be kept in 
passable order, regardless of what it may cost.
     Our party killed 32 partridges, had a fine lunch, spent a pleasant day and 
when postmasters are to be elected by the people, will take pleasure in 
supporting brother WHITEHEAD for postmaster-general of Winton, or even of the 
United States, that day, if he will consent to leave his farm and store long 
enough to attend to its responsible duties and give us some fat appointment 
under him.


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