Local Notes and Reminiscences Highlight Community Ties
Several items reflect Georgia locals. Miss Athelene Gill and Mrs. T Whatley fly to San Juan Puerto Rico for a two week vacation. Mr. Francis Oxford visits Butler and runs a Culloden dairy. GSCW summer students from Taylor county include Mrs. Marion Allman and others. Readers note campaign publicity and eye injury of Allen Payne. J J Greene visits with Lt Denus Vincent M Greene bound for London with family. James Jackson remembered for early pastorate at Howard and dramatic first sermon story.
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GSCW
Milledgeville
Taylor County
Marion Allman
Jewel
Lancaster
Butler
Mabel Byrd
Reynolds
Imogene Garrett
Charing
J. J. Greene
Hiamilton
Denus Vincent M. Greene
Navy Air Corps
London
Butler Lions Club to Host Fish Fry at McCants Lake
The Butler Lions Club sponsors a fish fry Friday evening at McCants Lake with plates at 1.00 each. Proceeds fund civic projects including sight conservation disaster relief youth work and the Butler swimming pool authority.
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Butler Lions Club
McCants Lake
Lions Club
Swimming
Taylor County
Lions
Ga. Light House For
Red Cross
Butler
Gov Talmadge backs Griffin in Georgia race feud
Gov Herman Talmadge endorsed Marvin Griffin for successor and accused Fred Hand of lying. He insisted he is not tied to Hand or Griffin, stepping into a feud triggered by Hand's claim that Griffin's 1941 pardon was erased from executive records.
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Atlanta
Herman Talmadge
Marvin Griffin
Fred Hand
Hand
Talmadge
Griffin
Canning Plant to Open One Day Each Week
The local canning plant will operate only on Tuesdays due to limited canning volume. The pea and butter bean cutter and corn cutter will be available for freezing preparation any day by appointment. F. G. McCants, Vocational Ag teacher.
Revival to Begin August 18 at Sand Bethel Church
Revival services start Wednesday August 18 at 8 p m at Sand Bethel Methodist Church near Rupert with Rev John McGowen as pastor. Cleanup day at Sand Bethel cemetery Tuesday August 17 at 9 a m. volunteers urged to help. Led by Lillian McGinty.
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Sand Bethel Church
Sand Bethel Methodist Church
Rupert
John McGowen
Sand Bethel Cemetery
Lillian McGinty
Japanese Newspaper Buys Olin Miller's Paragrams of Wit
The Thomassonian weekly by Olin Miller has been purchased by a Japanese newspaper. The Chicago Sun syndicate informed Miller that his feature will appear in the English Mainichi in Tokyo for the first time.
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Olin Miller
Thomasson, Ga
Hidden Wisdom by the Pulpit’s Back Door
A preacher recalls a sobering moment beside the pulpit back door that shaped his life. He says that painful experience educated him and won his congregation, with every woman in Howard wanting to be his mother and every man his father, as God and the community formed his calling.
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Howard
Revival Services Begin at Butler Church of Nazarene
Revival services start August 19 at the Butler Church of the Nazarene and run through August 29 with two daily sessions at 10 30 a m and 8 p m. Preacher Rev O C Mingledorff of Douglas brings a background as missionary and administrator in Korea with recent pastorates in Ohio Pennsylvania and Georgia. He studied at Asbury College earning an AB in philosophy and has supported prohibition and lectured to college and civic groups. Everyone is invited by Pastor J C Whitener.
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Butler Church of the Nazarene
O. C. Mingledorff
Douglas
Korea
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Asbury College
Wilmore
Migledorff
J. C. Whitener
Revival at Antioch Will Begin Sunday With Dedication
Revival services begin Sunday at Antioch Baptist Church with dedication ceremonies. The weeklong event features two daily sermons at 11 30 a m and 8 p m led by Pastor H Stanford. Congregational singing and plain gospel preaching are highlighted as the church invites all to attend.
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Antioch
Antioch Baptist Church
H. Stanford
Taylor County ASC Announces 1954 Cotton Loan Rates
The Taylor County ASC Committee announces official loan rates for 1954 cotton. The Taylor County basis middling 15-16 inch loan rate is 34.02 cents. Marketing cards have been mailed to eligible farmers and sales not subject to penalty must be identified by a card.
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Taylor County
ASC
Payne's Gin Receives First Two Bales of 1954 Crop
Payne's gin received and ginned its first two bales of cotton for the present season. The bales came from Mr. M. Fulford's farm in Schley County. The first bale weighed 559 pounds and graded good middling. neither bale was sold.
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Payne’s
Butler Tornado Strikes Butler Friday Afternoon
A mild tornado struck Butler on Friday afternoon with strong lightning booms and damage to television sets and roofs, especially in the new subdivision where Postmaster Carl Hobbs and family suffered heavy losses. A fatal lightning strike killed 73 year old Andrew Jackson Davidson in his kitchen, leaving behind a grieving family and community leaders mourning the incident.
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Carl Hobbs
Andrew Jackson Davidson
Butler E
Davidson
M. A. Davidson
Butler
Mamie Rodney
Birmingham
Willie Mae Miller
Atlanta
McDougald Funeral
Salem Baptist Church
Upson County
E. E. Riley
Macon
Death of Dr M E Peavy Pastor at St Luke Church Columbus
Columbus August 10 Dr M E Peavy 49 or 48 minister and pastor of St Luke Methodist Church died suddenly Tuesday. A former circuit rider he came to Columbus this year after leading Americus District as superintendent and served as secretary for the Bishop's Cabinet. He held pastorates in Talbotton Ocilla Vidalia Cordele and Macon.
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Columbus
Georgia
M. E. Peavy
St. Luke Methodist Church
In the Name of our Master Methodist Church Welcome
The Methodist Church invites all to attend services with Church School at 10 a.m. Morning worship at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Evening service features a pastor's message. Circle meetings Tuesday at 3 30 p.m. and Wesleyan Service Guild at 6 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 p.m. Board of Stewards Friday 8 p.m. See you in church Sunday.
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Methodist Youth Fellowship
Wesleyan Service Guild
Board of Stewards
Sunday Afternoon Singing at Taylor Mill School
An afternoon singing event is planned at Taylor Mill School on Sunday at 2 30 PM. Participants gather for informal communal songs in a churchinfluenced community setting at the school building.
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Taylor Mill School
Antioch Baptist Church Plans Dual 125th Celebration
Antioch Baptist Church will dedicate new Sunday School rooms and mark 125 years of service with a 10:30 a.m. Sunday Bible study, 11:30 a.m. sermon by the pastor, and a noon dinner followed by an afternoon service of prayer and praise attended by former members and guests from various denominations.
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Antioch Baptist Church
Georgia
Mitchells
Neisserts
Gordons
Bivins
Jarrells
Foys
Gaultneys
Gilsons
Heaths
Antioch Church
Campaign Addresses Scheduled by Candidates For Remainder of Week
A schedule lists campaign events for Thursday Friday and Saturday across Georgia. Candidates perform radio speeches, TV appearances, and local forums in towns including Toccoa Carnesville La V onia Danielsville Griffin Ashburn Quitman Waycross Duluth Buford Covington Jackson and Gainesville.
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Hand
Toccoa
Carnesville
Lavonia
Danielsville
WLET
Garland
Blairsville
Atlanta TV
Thomas
Blue Ridge Centennial
Lawrenceville
Buford
Wimo Winder
WFOR
Marietta
Griffin
Nahunta
Folkston
Blackshear
Gowen
Duluth
Jefferson
Conyers
Covlington
Atlanta
Weston Prominent Talbotton Man Dies at 69
Hamilton P. Weston Sr., 69, Talbotton businessman and civic leader, died after a heart attack at Montgomery hospital in Butler. Funeral held at his residence with Rev. H C Beaty and Dr A M Smith officiating. Survived by wife Edna, son H P Weston Jr of Talbotton, daughter Mrs Douglas Duncan of Fitzgerald, and three grandsons. Weston had worked 30 years with F S Royster Co and was retired.
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Hamilton P. Weston
Talbotton
Montgomery Hospital
Butler
H. C. Beaty
Talbotton Methodist
A. M. Smith
Baptist ‘Church
Weston
F. S. Royster Co
Edna R. Weston
H. P. Weston Jr
Douglas Duncan
Fitzgerald
Big Liquor Theft Probe Nets Arrests Across Counties
Sheriff Charlie Wright led officers to recover 50 to 55 cases of bonded whiskey valued around 3000 dollars hidden on a country road two miles west of the Half Way House on Highway 80 between Macon and Columbus. Raymond Walden of Atlanta, about 40, was arrested amid a larger whisky and cigarette theft ring tied to a King Candy and Cigarette Co. warehouse burglary in Macon. Six others were jailed later at a secured shack in Thomaston for $2400 worth of cigarettes stolen from the same Macon warehouse. Authorities speculate the two jobs may be linked and say more suspects are sought.
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Macon
Charlie Wright
Wright
Peste
Upson County
Raymond Walden
Atlanta
Altho ‘Walden
Walden
Columbus
King Candy and Cigarette Co
Thomaston
L. B. McCallum
Macon Police Department
GBI
McCallum
LeRoy Short
Millswood Gordy
L. G. Pippin
Clara Langford
W. T. Hall
Marshall Black
King Candy and Clarette Co
Macon Wholesale Liquor Co
Taylor County
Butler
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Athelene Gill
T. Whatley
San Juan
P. R
Francis Oxford
Oxford
Culloden
The
Herald
de Scribe
Allen Payne
Mr. Payne
McCant’s Lake
South Georgia Methodist Conference
C. A. Jackson Sr
C. A. Sr
James Jackson
C. A. Jr
James
Texas Conference
Clary
F. G. McCants
Voc. Ag
Butler Church of Nazarene
C. C. Mingledorff
St. Luke Church
the Methodist Church
Hoke Hatcher
Hiand
Canton
Statesboro
Auburn
Tucker
Jackson
Thompson
Gainesville
H. P. Weston
Taylor ‘County
Upson
McCullum
E. T. Bray
R. D. Harrison
G. P. Hill
Bobby Gleaton
Denver Gadsden
Griffin District
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