Crawford County News
March 1896
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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