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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1946
Page
3
A religious meditation argues the longest way home may be the wiser path. It cites Christ Jesus and Elisha to show that spiritual understanding and compassionate action speed healing, courage, and progress, while divine Truth steadies the mind and accelerates genuine achievement.
A period of social visits fills the Taylor Mill area as residents from Macon Thomaston Columbus Reynolds Jonesboro and Porterdale visit family and friends. Funeral attendance marks community ties while a local canning drive reports 1175 cans prepared by the committee.
The Taylor Mill School auditorium hosted a bridal shower for Miss Edna Underwood who will marry Dr. Jones of Atlanta on Oct 18. Edna thanked guests and invited them to the Vinevill Baptist Church in Macon for the wedding.
The Taylor Mill Men’s Club met at Pittman Park with vice president Thomas Perkins presiding. Members voted to switch to weekly meetings and launched an eight week contest between the Silver and the Gold, with the losing side hosting a fish fry. The mock trial for next Monday drew interest with Judge Gates, Col Smith, Parker, and Col Moore in key roles.
R L Cox 54 prominent attorney and brother of Congressman Eugene Cox died at his Donalsonville home Sunday after a heart attack. He had been ill for months and was active in his profession and in the campaign that re elected his brother. He attended a family reunion in Camilla Friday.
Crowley Louisiana July 30 The International Rice Festival Executive Committee condemns rice throwing at weddings claiming 1 577 000 pounds of rice wasted in the United States over the past year enough to feed thousands of starving Chinese The committee urges a boycott or alternative celebration practice to honor food needs.
Coroner's jury in Newnan ruled the July 29 killings of Mr. and Mrs. Harry McCain as murder and suicide. Sheriff A L Potts said McCain chased his wife from their mill village home with a pistol and shotgun, killing her in the yard, then killed himself upon returning to the house. Witnesses to the Sunday shooting testified there was no stated reason for the argument.
Danville reports a Twiggs county coroner's jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Erwin Luas 21 of Cool Springs died from a 32 caliber rifle shot fired by her husband Erwin Lucas who is held in the county jail Sheriff W E Hamrick said.
Atlanta reports a dog trapped on a ledge 400 feet below near the Confederacy memorial. E. B. Nour, 32, intervened with rifles aimed at harming the animal but chose a humane approach to save it.
The report notes a meeting followed by a watermelon cutting among men. The name Childree appears as the victim in the case and further details are to be provided upon request.
Supt Harold Gates hosted a fish fry Sunday at Whitewater for Taylor Mill Section men. Attendees included J. W. Windham Cliff Moore Joe Arnold Clay Smith Ernest Mullins Vance Mullins Calvin Bartlett Robert Rogers with invited guests U S Underwood McKibben and Joel Colbath.
Weekend visitors fill Crowell area as families host relatives from Macon Fulton Perry and Atlanta. Vacation Bible School enrolls 60 with a church picnic and upcoming services at Crowell Church led by Rev Loy Smith.
Arthur and Frank Mercer, brothers, were fatally injured when their pickup rollover near Moultrie Tuesday. Franklin 12 and Ferrell 7 Mercer, sons of Frank, are in critical condition at a Moultrie hospital. Patrolman M M Murphy and State Police are investigating. the truck was en route to Tifton and the youths were believed to be riding in the back.
Edmund R. Morgan, captain of the 1922 Georgia Tech football team, died unexpectedly at his West Palm Beach home. The Macon native, a Florida banker for 17 years, will be buried in Rose Hill cemetery. He was son of W. T. Morgan and the late Mrs. Morgan and brother of C. C. Morgan of Atlanta.
Dan Smith eighty one prominent local farmer was found dead in bed early Thursday at his Oglethorpe residence where he lived with his daughter Mrs Jim Peters. The death appears natural but details were not released.
A preacher describes the Lord's Day as a holy day for rest and worship on the first day of the week. It stresses holiness, helpfulness, and healing, warning against legalistic overreach while urging mercy, spiritual growth, and communal faithfulness.
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