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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1932
Page
8
A reflective piece on life’s fragility and resilience. It contrasts rainy days and loss with enduring small joys, noting how people often say it could be worse. The poem ponders limited treasures, the changing seasons, and the longing for comfort and stability amid hardship.
Butler locals note Miss Doris Lang on this week’s list with many guests visiting from Davisboro Monticello Talbotton and Reynolds. Local servings of social visits from Harris to Vienna accompany plans for family reunions and new arrivals along with ads for turnip seed plants.
Miss Dorothy Lowe of Buena Vista and John Morgan Forrester of Richland announce their forthcoming marriage. The ceremony will be at the Buena Vista Methodist church on August 24 at 4:30 p.m. with Cornelia Lowe as maid of honor and Wallace Forrester as best man amid local relatives. The couple plan residence in Richland after the wedding.
The Butler Methodist Church announces Sunday school at 10 a.m. with P. C. Rowell and Mrs. R A. Scandrett in leading roles. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 7 45 p.m. Epworth League meets at 7 p.m. The public is invited to all services and the superintendent will stay in place as hoped.
Under a deed to secure debt Mamie Adams mortgaged property to B H Watson era. W F Gray as administrator will offer at public sale September 18 1982 at local hours to the highest cash bidder Lots 3 4 5 and 6 Block 6 in Butler Georgia bounded north by Central of Georgia Railway Co right of way west by State Highway No 8 east by Negro Masonic Building and south by S E Brown and West. Deed dated February 1 1929 recorded in clerk of Superior Court Deed Book T pages 53 64 secured note of 2250 due February 1 1980 with interest since July 1 1931 at 8 percent. Sale by W F Gray administrator of Mrs B H Watson August 17 1982.
A funeral notice notes the death of Mrs. J B Amerson on August 3 at age 64, wife of J B Amerson. She was born September 28, 1878, a member of Mt Olive Free Will Baptist Church and Ladies Aid. The writeup, by Annie Windham, laments the loss, offers comfort, and speaks of a heavenly reunion.
A fragment from a Butler Georgia ad page blends a humorous Rastus Johnson anecdote about credit and cash sales with a sales pitch from Jarrell Dept. Store. It contrasts rising prices for cotton meat wheat and lard with a prompt to buy now while stores promise lower prices and better values. The piece closes with a local minister greeting Mr Jones and a brisk sales appeal.
Four hundred five acres on Butler Red Level with three houses of four to five rooms in fine repair and a good new barn. The farm has ample water, a fine highway through it, one mile from No 8 Federal highway, a six horse farm in high cultivation. Valued at 75 dollars per acre but selling at 80 with small cash payment and balance in one two or three years at 6 percent. Contact C. C. Cooper Butler Georgia.
Ask ticket agent for further information about the low fares destinations schedules or write F J Robinson General Passenger Agent Savannah Ga with central of georgia railway guidance.
Kingsport Press handles the largest hymn book order for The Christian Science Publishing Society Boston. Four hundred thousand cloth bound copies and ten thousand deluxe leather editions will be printed by five plants starting June 15 with completion around August 25. About 825 tons paper and extensive cloth ink and gilding materials are used. gold stamping alone costs an estimated 12,500 dollars.
A physician recounts a Georgia case where a man posed as a woman hitchhiker with a tainted past. After aiding a driver who believed she needed help, the doctor escaped as the thief’s true tools and $8,000 were found in a borrowed valise. The thief fled, was recaptured, and confessed a three-year crime spree against travelers.
The Woolford Oil Company announces a move starting in August to have railroads handle long distance hauling in tank cars instead of trucks. The plan aims to support railroad service standards and ongoing payments, with about $750,000 per year paid to Georgia railroads.
W N Smith president of Standard Oil of Kentucky announces Essolube the hydrofining motor oil now sold by all Standard dealers and service stations. The oil is claimed to be a superior refin ing product using a hydroenution process that won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for its developers. Essolube replaces Standard oil at no extra cost and has undergone exhaustive tests in cars trucks and tractors before market release.
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