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mere.• •Today T want to take a look overtho county and city officials who were 1i in office thirty years ago. and note jhow many are in the flesh today.Many of these officials were youngmen then, some were in middle life.but there were very few who were ;known as old men. And yet the thirtyyears that has elapsed leave but a few 'to be reminded by this of the old days.and only one holding the same officehe held then. May he be spared to ,hold it many years more.* * *I Of the county officials, six are living today. Judge Barnard Hill was judge j ! of the Superior Court. He was the ! father of the late Walter B. Hill, chancellor of the State University, and who very much resembled his father. : Judge Hill died many years ago.Congressman Charles L. Bartlett jwas the Solicitor-General, and was 1 quite a young man then.Albert B. Ross was clerk of the Superior Court, and was one of the . most accommodating officials of the J j county.Goo. W. Sims was the deputy clerk, j : He is now living, but an old man. All his life he wrote a good hand, and being a printer, correct in spelling and punctuation. The county records in his handwriting are models.Judge Thaddeus G. Holt was judge of the County Court. He was a courtly gentleman, and in his prime J | thirty years ago.John A. McManus was ordinary. lie was the father of L. McManus. For ] many years he was city clerk, and in his day no mnn had more friends.Henry J. Peter was tax collector. He is farming in Florida now, and no , one would suspect how old he Is. | :Capt. R. J. Anderson was tax receiver. as he is today. It was always j 1 a mystery, even to his closest friends, how such a quiet man as he is could hold office so long.J. P. Chapman was coroner. For years and years this old-legged vet-eran was station sergeant. Pie has j * been dead a number of years.George F. Cherry was the sheriff. ; He was in his prime then, one of the handsomest men in Macon, and one of the most popular. ,William Foster was deputy sheriff i and jailor. Pie was one of the gamest, j -though a small man. He died many j I years ago.The county commissioners were: William Hazlehurst, A. R. Tinsley. \ James Holmes. John B. Giles and Christopher Burke. Walter G. Smith1i tftwas clerk. * ** * * ! u
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Macon Twice A Week Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Tue, Mar 19, 1907
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