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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1923
Page
5
A dense roundup of social visits, travels, and small-town happenings from Butler, Reynolds, Macon, and nearby areas. Mentions include neighbors visiting relatives in Augusta, Savannah, Atlanta, and Talbotton. shirt sales and gasoline price cut. church events, baptist revival, and a large community barbecue at Neisler and Gaultney’s mill.
Thorough-bred Jersey bull registered from Raleigh stock, service 35.00. Advertise by letter or card to P. O. Box 154, Butler, Georgia.
A terse local notice advertises a taxi service. It invites customers to call for short or long trips and promises service at any time. The wording is rough and older in style, with a focus on reliable transportation options.
The engagement of Bazemore Avie to William Bryan Greenhaw of Montgomery Alabama is announced with a September 12 1923 wedding planned. Bazemore a Lorena Hall graduate and longtime shorthand teacher at Messey Business College in Columbus is described as gracious and popular, while Greenhaw is a bookkeeper for the Alabama Chemical Company in Montgomery and has many friends awaiting the ceremony.
Grace Steed Van Devender of Manchester announces her engagement to Julius Edwin Busbee of Birmingham Alabama. The weddings set for September 9. Miss Van Devender’s family includes Allie Steed and Capt J A Steed among Taylor County notables, with ties to Hon W E Steed Butler and J G Steed Mauk and Capt J N Steed Macon.
A Tuesday evening July 24 Silver Wedding celebration for Mr and Mrs P E Adams at 3708 Mt Vernon Ave Milwaukee featured ferns pink and white decor a lace covered dining table with sunburst pink frosting cake and silver gift display. Guests included their sons Bernard J and Perry T Adams Mrs Owen Baird Kathnel Adams of Butler and others. Vocal solos plus a late day end scene closed the affair with sixty five guests.
The note warns that thought is powerful yet often wasted on gossip and slander about people heard only by rumor. It reflects on how a man who makes many friends may later lose them after election.
A missing Holstein cow described as mild and butt headed has had its left ear clipped. The cow disappeared three weeks ago near Gary Route 1 in Butler Harris. A reward is offered for information. GW.
A quip explains Monday as the most miserable day and washing as the worst task. By merging these two miseries, the rest of the week stays free for other troubles, attributed to a Bostonian source.
According to his biographer Russell Cardinal Mezzofanti learned to speak 72 languages and was regarded as the greatest linguist. Other notable figures include Sir John Sovring, an Englishman, and Elthu Currit, an American.
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