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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1949
Page
2
Mrs Clinton Woods spends days in Monticello while Mrs J T Chapman of Atlanta visits Reynolds. Local residents travel to Atlanta Orlando Chattahoochee Macon Daytona Beach and Chattanooga with many family guests and new births mentioned including a girl named Lynda Lee.
New Hope Primitive Baptist Church near Reynolds will suspend services for August due to illness among members. Regular worship resumes in September.
Home Coming Day will be observed at New Prospect Free Will church Sunday August 7. Everyone is invited and asked to bring lunch for a noon meal. Revival at the church will continue the following week.
Local residents report visits and gatherings around Taylor Mill and nearby areas. Families including the Peacocks Gallmans Windhams and Underwoods shared meals and hosted guests from Butler Warner Robins Thomaston Macon and Reynolds. Several outings to Porterdale and Warm Springs provided social ties for numerous households.
Jacques Farges an 18 year old French Scout visited Thomaston for a dinner at Hotel Upson. He interpreter for Troop 9 at the World Jamboree in France two years ago. Expenses for his trip were paid by local Scouting men and boys within 100 miles of Atlanta. He now attends Bert Adams Camp near Atlanta to learn American scouting practices to take back to France. He sailed from Le Havre June 10 and landed in New York June 17.
Georgia ranks ninth in the nation for the number of people drawing old age pensions with 554 of every 1000 seniors on pension rolls. Louisiana and Oklahoma exceed Georgia, while the average payout is about 20.54 dollars per month per recipient.
Mrs Terrell Robbins and Bever y visited her sister in Atlanta while Mr Royce Whatley spent the weekend in Columbus. Mr and Mrs J M Downs, Eugene Downs and children traveled to Warm Springs. Jimmy Downs visits Palatka Florida with uncles Earl and Eugene. Suggs family from Thomaston visited R M Suggs. Others hosted or toured in Thomaston, Macon, West Point and allied towns.
A group of 32 blind singers from the Macon Georgia Academy for the Blind won a great ovation in two appearances at the Lions International convention in New York. The ensemble was accompanied by John Herndon, formerly superintendent of the academy.
Hendrix Crutchfield former editor of Eastman Advertiser is named State Supervisor of Institutional Training in the rehabilitation division of the state department of veterans service announced by Rector Wm K Barrett Crutchfield replaces John Troutt who moves to senior coordinator Crutchfield had been assistant supervisor.
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