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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1925
Page
7
A fragmentary poem envisions a box holding smiles to cheer the weary and spread joy across lands and seas. It contrasts gathering frowns from nursery, school, and street with packing them away to depths of the sea.
Butler community members and visitors are listed with relatives and trips. Notables include Mr Gordon Hart visiting friends, Mrs Halstead from Panhandle visiting family, Mr J W Hall in Butler, and Mrs Herman Amos with Mintie Pope. Also noted are farm mule stocks and seed corn sales by E T Black Reynolds and C E Whatley Reynolds.
Able bodied men for road work with good wages. Report to R. T. Smith, Supt. Construction work on Highway No. 8, Butler, Ga. Addison selected cotton seed for planting for sale. A big boll Early and heavy fruiter, T. L. Fountain, Butler, Ga.
The Reynolds baseball team defeated Reynolds on the Reynolds diamond Friday by a wide margin. J T Adams gave an interesting chapel talk last Friday. A PTA program Friday night will feature the play How the Story Grew and other numbers. First and second grades held chapel programs, Rev J D McCord spoke Tuesday, and the school auditorium program Friday invites donations for a new curtain.
Mrs Helen Dunwoody hosted a bridge party Monday afternoon in compliment to Mrs Andrew Jones. Three tables played with Mrs Jones winning top score and receiving an embroidered handkerchief and a puff box. A salad course and hot chocolate were served.
The P.T.A. held its regular meeting at the school Tuesday afternoon with a program on Pre-School Education by Mrs. Golding and talks including If He Were My Son by Mrs Julian Edwards If She Were My Daughter by Mrs. Dunwoody Selfishness in Children by Mrs. Eli Garrett. Mrs. Posey led the program which was praised as one of the best this year and urged broader attendance.
Friends of Mr. M. M. Bussey and Miss Gertrude Jordan announce their marriage which occurred April 2 with R. M. Jinks J.P. officiating.
A pupil reflects on a recent Turner's Chapel school picnic held April 8. The note praises the teachers and notes the joy of the gathering despite parting from school mates and teachers. The writer, Thelma Dunlop, looks forward to another similar event.
State wide enrollment week runs April 6 to 11. Georgia's girls club began in 1911 with two counties and by 1924 had reached 84 684 members. The program reports high school college and banked girls, plus home wealth from club activities totaling 362 827 65 dollars. Lizzie May Hancock urges clubs to boost enrollment with slogans and highlights 4 H training through head heart hand and health, emphasizing home making, nutrition, canning, dairying and recreation.
Sale notice offers Mexican June selected and rubbed seed corn at 85c per peck 1.60 per half bushel and 3.00 per bushel. Prices apply to buyers in the listing area and subject to availability.
Pickens Riley offers six thorough-bred French-Scotch collie pups, now one week old, available in five weeks. Price ten dollars each. Contact J. W. Chitwood, Rupert, Georgia. (4-9-31)
A columnist mocks the idea of minding one’s own business while noting that lawyers profit from conflict. The piece contrasts the saying It doesn’t pay to get fixed up in other people’s quarrels with the lawyer’s livelihood built on disputes and interference.
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