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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1929
Page
8
Midway Baptist Church in the northern county plans a Home-Coming Day on the first Sunday in August. The program includes an eleven o clock service, a community singing and a basket dinner. Rev. M I Gaultney says revival services with outside preaching will follow the celebration for a week.
Statesboro Ga July 26 L C Scarboro former police chief now Miami detective bureau head went fishing for trout on the Ogeechee river with a negro boat boy. He carried more than 1000 in his pockets in various bills. A river current swept the money away and only one dollar bill was recovered from a tree branch. The rest went to the fish.
Cordele Georgia July 29 Cherrie Owens a night clerk at the Cordele Aunologiy company in the heart of the Business Ward was knocked unconscious early Monday by a robber who took $32 in cash and fled Owens, struck while investigating a strange noise, fired once in a dazed condition and could not tell if the attacker was white or black no clue found to aid officers in locating the robber.
Train travel advertised by Central of Georgia Railway promotes low rate excursions with fares ranging from five dollars and forty cents for one way to higher round trips. Tickets are limited by duration, two days for one and a half fare, six days for a round trip, with August 1 as the starting date. Consult a ticket agent for exact limits and fares and travel as the safest economical option on The Right Way.
Public outcry sale authorized by the Taylor County Court of Ordinary for August on the Culpepper place 100 acres in Lot 239 and 6 more acres on the west side of Highway 3. Bounded by D F Chapman W Md Mathews A J Fountains estate and Mrs G C Smith J T Cochran M R Cameron and Mrs G C Smith. Sold as the property of Mrs N B Hammock administrator estate dated July 2 1929.
Atlanta July 30 Governor Hardman sent to the senate the nomination of Judge Harry Reed of Waycross for the State Highway Board seat held by Judge Stanley Bennett. The senate referred the nomination to privileges and elections for report Tuesday morning. The governor also named Malcolm McKinnon for the State Game and Fish Board to succeed C Arnow with Arnow’s term expiring January 1 1931. The senate had earlier refused to confirm D A Finley of Valdosta for the Game and Fish Board. Reed had previously withdrawn his name but reintroduced it after changes in appointments. The senate adopted rules allowing daily 9 oclock sessions and gave the rules committee calendar control. President Neill condemned any throttling of legislation noting a $4 000 000 deficit and urging speed in revenue measures. An amendment reducing the rules calendar requirement failed. the measure passed 38 to 6. No opposition to 9 oclock sessions.
The tax sale will be held at the court-house door in Butler on the first Tuesday in August 1929. It lists fifty acres in the northwest corner of lot 3 in the 14th district and 14 1/4 acres of lot 6 in the 15th district as the estate property for 1928 taxes. The sheriff R P McGuffin announces the sale.
A lesson on Belshazzar’s impious feast from Daniel 5 1 1 9 outlines the king s revelry sacrilege and worship of idols. It details the handwriting on the wall Daniel s interpretation and the king s downfall concluding with warnings about luxury licentiousness and sacrilege in today s context.
A compact quotation from I Corinthians 13:2 emphasizes that spiritual gifts and faith mean nothing without charity. The line highlights the primacy of love over knowledge prophecy and feats, framing charity as essential to true virtue.
An odd line of text presents two phrases about gratitude and a final remark about the least resistance. The fragmentary content lacks clear newsworthy events, names, dates, or organizations to anchor a specific card. It reads like a miscellany item rather than a reportable incident.
An editorial urges strict birth and death registration highlighting citizenship proof, school and employment rights, insurance, estates, and public health. It stresses that parents and attendants must file birth certificates and successors should ensure death certificates are recorded to support wills, pensions, and epidemic prevention.
The twelve Congressional District health instructors met at the Henry Grady Hotel from June 6 to 7 for a four day institute. Noted health and education experts including Willis Sutton T F Abercrombie M E Winchester J O Martin Lillian Parker J P Faulkner B B Bagby Susan Matthew and Mildred S Manson addressed participants. The program aimed to show health teaching potential for rural Georgia and to develop practical teaching methods for children. The State Board of Health supported the event and arranged physical examinations for Health Course teachers and Summer Normal attendees.
Dr. Sam A. Anderson, Baldwin County Health Officer since 1924, resigns effective June 1, 1929 to pursue internal medicine in a major eastern hospital. Dr. John D. Wiley succeeds him, taking charge June 1, bringing Georgia training from the University of Georgia and Rockefeller Foundation facilities to Baldwin County public health efforts.
The speaker argues Georgia holds unmatched natural advantages but must first guarantee comprehensive health protections for its people to capitalize on those strengths, urging policy measures to assure public health safeguards.
Georgia farmers show renewed debt reduction and bank retirements as prosperity returns after a harsh start. Martin cites improved conditions across farms and business, with cotton nearing harvest after two weeks of favorable weather and a stronger outlook for the year ahead.
Reynolds Banking Company will expose for sale the described property in Taylor County at Butler on the first Tuesday in August 1929. The sale to settle a note of 447.95 with unpaid balance 410.00 after costs, proceeds first cover expenses, then debt, remainder to Fannie and Henry McDowell.
In Taylor County Georgia the property of Block Twenty One in Reynolds is advertised for sale to satisfy a note of 214 66 due January 1. G L Ham failed to pay, prompting a security deed and a court-advertised sale set for the first Tuesday in August 1929. Proceeds will first cover the note and court costs with excess to Windham.
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