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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1924
Page
2
Reynolds society notes list numerous visitors and residents at Reynolds Georgia. Names include Miss Marion Hodges in Atlanta Miss Sara Parks in Dublin and Macon visitors Miss Eleanor McCoy in Sylvania and Miss Catherine Walker in Macon. The piece records travels to Atlanta Macon Sylvester Adrian Talbotton and Gainesville with hosts Mrs J C Bryan Mrs A Hinton and Rev Dumas among others and mentions social gatherings and engagements.
The Griffith School of Music from Atlanta gave a gratis concert at Reynolds High School auditorium to benefit the Builder's Circle of the Methodist church. Mir and Mrs W B Griffith Mas W Bedard and Walter Bedard Jr performed quartets duets trios and solos for over an hour, drawing enthusiastic applause from a large crowd despite an approaching storm.
Reynolds and Butler played a baseball game on Reynolds diamond Monday ending 12 to 1 in Reynolds favor. Reynolds and Byromville defeated bats on Reynolds field Tuesday afternoon 10 to 5 for Reynolds. Wednesday saw Liza and Reynolds on Reynolds field with Byromville and Reynolds scheduled at Byromville Thursday.
A civic society hosted a bridal shower with Mrs Gray Hicks and Mrs Troy Whatley Bunorees as guests of honor. Miss Marie Barrow led a charm contest while Neva Barrow won a prize, and each bride received a miniature husband and a salad fork memento. Guests enjoyed fish pond fortune drawing and refreshments.
The Taylor Mill Club held a meeting with invitations issued for a shower, a baby trousseau assembled by Miss Bessie McGuffin and others, and a talk on giving led by Mrs. ALP Rodgers and Mrs. Pearl Taylor. Mrs. Thompson and Miss Annie Rodgers coordinated decor and serving, with Mrs. Rodgers of Barnesville as honor guest.
Friends report the marriage of Miss Jewel Jones to Mr. Uhland Carter took place at Butler in August. The couple’s interested circle notes the wedding details and timing.
The August gathering of the Y P M L S was held at the Methodist church with ten members attending. Mrs. A J Barrow led the devotional Isaiah's Vision. Miss Mazie Barrow spoke on A neighbor to new Americans and Miss Blanche Marshall joined the list at this meeting.
A brief exchange captured as a quaint London note shows Johnny refusing to tear up a letter of apology. The mother accepts the gesture as a lesson, noting the value of the written regret for future behavior.
A classroom exchange explains lukewarm as something that looks warm but isn’t. The teacher asks the pupil in an Americanization class to define the word and the boy answers with a literal, humorous interpretation.
Reynolds group W L Club announces regular meeting on the first Wednesday in September at 3 30 p m at Mrs Willis Stoners home with Mrs Louis Saunders as joint hostess This marks the first gathering since May and includes a business session followed by a program featuring Mrs Ralph Resting and Mrs Griffith among others
A teacher asks William which three words are most used in English. William answers I don’t know. The teacher correcting him emphasizes the exercise as a language usage lesson.
A farmer selling 1 470 bushels of wheat at 3 17 dollars per bushel would receive 4 659 dollars. The reference also notes a boy jokingly calling a vehicle an automobile.
The text notes Moses’ biblical discovery beside Cairenes on Roda Island near the Nile. It mentions the Nilometer at the island’s southern end, used to measure Nile rises for 7969 years, and describes a square well with a central octagonal pillar. Historical housing temperatures are referenced, from 50–55 degrees a century ago to 70 degrees today as stoves and furnaces spread.
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