Marion County GaArchives News.....Buena Vista's Society, Business Activities and The Marion County Bar - 1907 June 7, 1907 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 March 17, 2005, 7:25 pm The Marion County Patriot June 7, 1907 The Marion County Patriot, No. 21 Friday, June 7, 1907 Page One History of Buena Vista, Beautiful View Society Buena Vista with its educational advantages, moral influences and its beautiful homes stands far toward the front in its social attainments. Its women are refined, vivacious and know just how to entertain. Its men are typical southern gentlemen. Socially there people have no peers anywhere. All that culture, vivaciousness, good form, neat dressing and beauty can give, society has the full benefit of here and these people are trained from childhood in social ethics. Buena Vista has more handsome, lovely women than can be found in any other town of its size in the United States. The Marion County Bar From the organization of Marion County in 1827 there have been strong members of the Marion County bar. But the county bar has been very strong at Buena Vista ever since Buena Vista has been the county site in 1845. Among its members have been eminent lawyers who have made the Marion county bar famous at home and abroad. Among the prominent lawyers in the past who have practiced at this bar were Judge Mark Blandford, Col. Sam Crawford and Col. Thad Oliver. In recent years we have Major E.W. Miller, Judge W.B. Butt, Hon. Morgan McMichael and Judge Edgar M. Butt. The Marion county bar of today will compare favorably with any bar in the state for erudition of the law, legal knowledge and niceties of its practice. The local members of the bar who reside in Buena Vista are Judge W.D. Crawford, Hon. Geo. P. Munro, Judge Joe J. Dunham, Col. W.B. Short, Col. T.B. Rainey and Judge John C. Butt. These attorneys are all prominent men, every one having held high positions of trust and honor. The Marion county bar has supplied one Justice of the Supreme Court of the State – Judge Mark Blandford; one Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee Circuit – Col. Thad Oliver, and two Judges of the Superior Court of the Chattahoochee Circuit – Judges Edgar M. Butt and W.B. Butt. Buena Vista’s Business Activities Buena Vista is one of the best business points in south-west Georgia. It is the storage point and market for the immense crops of cotton grown in Marion County and in parts of the surrounding counties, and its four warehouses and hosts of cotton buyers do an immense business every year. It is a great mule market point, and carload after carload of fine mules are shipped from Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, and other points and sold here every season. Buena Vista’s retail mercantile business is immense. More goods are shipped here from New York, Chicago, Baltimore and other great wholesale market centers and sold by our merchants, than is shipped to any other place of its size in the state of Georgia. Nearly every store in town is a brick building, modern, up-to-date and commodious. Everything that necessity calls for or refined tastes desires may be found in Buena Vista. Farm supplies, buggies, wagons, household goods, furniture, hardware, groceries, novelties, books, men’s furnishing goods, ladies’ furnishing goods, general merchandise – in fact everything from a shoe string to the finest fabric. Farmers come here to trade because their wants can always be supplied and the prices are as low as can be quoted in larger cities. Its merchants are trained, thorough businessmen, pleasant, accommodating and refined. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- We will now turn the search light of this historic review of our beautiful Buena Vista on direct business and personal matters. Those businesses which have come to the front – banks, warehouses, factories, mercantile houses which are centers of trade, etc., successful and leading men, such as officials, professional men, mechanics, merchants and farmers, together with the sublime scenery, beautiful homes and lovely women will each be noticed separately and each “write up” will be illustrated with fine half-tone engravings. P.S. We have been delayed in getting photographs of persons and places for this work that we hope to overcome in a few days. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb