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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1919
Page
1
Walter E. Steed of Butler Georgia reports ongoing negotiations to secure loans for improved farms with amounts starting at five hundred dollars.
Atlanta Aug 15 Governor Dorsey moves fast to fill posts created by the recent legislature The new Alapaha judicial circuit appoints R G Dickerson as judge and J D Lovett as solicitor general The highway board appointments C M Strahan S Y Austin and Stantley M Bennett position the board for early action Pending is selection of a highway superintendent Judge H J Quincey named attorney for the board and Claude A Methvin named state superintendent of public printing Methvin accepted bringing long experience in state press work
Cordele announces the Cordele Sentinel will start as a daily about September 1. It will be owned by a stock company after a charter petition filed in superior court. J L Herring of the Tifton Gazette will edit, dividing his time between Cordele and Tifton.
Atlanta August 15 Hon John N Holder speaker of the House formally announced his candidacy for the governorship saying a public statement of his platform will be issued next week or ten days His formal declaration came after a farewell address and unanimous resolutions in the House paying tribute to his career and ambitions.
Hodges Chapter No 60 RAM convenes at 6 pm with Rev J F Adams High Priest presiding. Grand Lecturer E A McHan to assist in conferring degrees. A nine o'clock recess will host a large basket dinner for visiting companions and new candidates.
Engineers advance on the Thomaston to Atlanta highway a major state project including the Flint River steel bridge at Holmes ferry on the Upson and Taylor county sides Hon P F Brown and E T Nottingham of Upson county visited Butler to confer with local commissioners and citizens praising the project as vital to regional development and agriculture.
Butler School resumes with Prof G F Pettit as newly elected superintendent arriving with family. Faculty arrivals from distance expected this week. Fall term begins Monday September 1. Boarding pupils and country families are moving to town for better school advantages. Rev J S Lewis visits and notes improvements in Butler since his former residence.
The Butler Methodist church forms an eight teen thousand dollar brick church project. Officers elected include W J Butler as chairman H L Riley as secretary and Eli Garrett as treasurer. The committee will hire an architect and refine plans with work expected to start before year’s end.
In Cordele on August 18 a mass meeting of white residents urged the Crisp County board of commissioners to set a minimum reward of $1,000 for those responsible for burning four negro churches and a negro lodge building. Governor Dorsey may also offer a reward. The arson occurred after the Wilcox county lynching of Jim Grant.
Former Cordele mayor J Gordon Jones and State Democratic Executive Committee member is urged by friends to enter the Third district congressional race. Support from across the district floods his consideration, with a decision expected in due course.
All veterans disqualified for pensions due to property and widows married before 1881 are urged to apply now for pensions they will be entitled to in 1920. A. H. Riley, Ordinary.
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