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EXCERPTS FROM "HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH AND NEWS," APRIL, 1888

   It was not until a few months ago that a passenger schedule was inaugurated
by the steamers of the Hawkinsville Boat Line. During the past several months
the steamer J. C. Stewart, under the courteous and careful management of Captain
Z. W. Lasseter, has been running a regular passenger schedule between
Hawkinsville and Abbeville, making three trips a week between the two points.

   On Monday morning of last week, at 6 o'clock, the Stewart left her wharf at
this place, bound for Abbeville, with the following list of passengers: Judge C.
C. Kibbee, Solicitor-General Tom Eason, Judge L. C. Ryan, Judge W. L. Grice,
Judge Jacob Watson, Capt. John H. Martin, Col. M. T. Hodge, Capt. F. H. Bozeman,
Mr. Perry C. Clegg, J. R. Beverly, and R. V. Bowen. Captain Lasseter, assisted
by George Bennefield (col.), pilot, and Jim Folsom (col.), engineer, handled the
steamer in an admirable manner, and nothing was left undone by the captain and
his excellent crew to make the trip pleas 

p. 100

ant and interesting to all aboard, and the steamer reached her landing at
Abbeville at 11 o'clock, having made the run of seventy-five miles in less than
five hours. Charlie Walker (col.), the excellent cook, prepared a splendid
breakfast, which was greatly enjoyed. The steamer left Abbeville at 6 o'clock on
Thursday morning and arrived at Hawkinsville at 3 P. M., with a delightful list
of passengers who are loud in their praises of the excellent manner in which
they were treated by Captain Lasseter and his entire crew. Dinner was served by
Charlie (col.) the cook at the proper hour in a fine way and was much enjoyed.


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"HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY GEORGIA"

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COMPILED BY THE HAWKINSVILLE CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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