TALBOT COUNTY, GA - NEWSPAPERS   1903 Box Springs

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The Talbotton New Era
1903


Box Springs


It was my pleasure to spend Friday in Talbot county’s hustling
little town in the pines and it was indeed a pleasure to see
how much business is being done there.  There are a lot of saw
mills near that employ a large number of hands who do their
trading at Box Springs, and the coffin factory puts in full
time now to enable it to fill the orders that pile in there
from nearly all over Georgia and the surrounding states.


Box Springs has several substantial merchants who are doing a
prosperous business.


Mr. A.R. Parker has a full line of dry goods, shoes, hats and
plantation supplies and sells the last thing a man wants on
this earth  - coffins. McLendon and Blythe is a firm doing a
large general mercantile business while Mr. J. Wood Browning
always has on hand a fine line of fresh groceries.  Dr. A.B.
Gordy has a lucrative practice and a splendid reputation as a
physician and he and Mr. J.W. King have a neat drug store under
the firm name of King & Gordy.  Capt. W. Fort and Mr. Thos.
Fielder have a full line of goods.  Large piles of lumber lying
by the railroad show that Box Springs is a splendid lumber
center.  Convenient schools and churches with good teachers and
preachers contribute their part in making Box Springs a very
desirable place for residents.  The splendid farming lands
around the place put their guarantee that Box Springs will
never be a dead town.  While the abundant game on the Upatoi
and Juniper creeks make it the headquarters for many people in
Columbus who love hunting.  Mr. J.W. King has large comfortable
rooms in his hotel and feeds his guests on the best that the
land and the stores afford.  The New Era is proud of Box
Springs as well as everything else prosperous and business like
in the county.

H.J.L.