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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1923
Page
2
A rural reflective piece urges patience through bad weather. The speaker counsels work and faith over complaint, insisting resignation to rain and hardship with optimism and trust in the Lord. It emphasizes perseverance, hope, and emotional steadiness as the farm weather shifts.
Butler residents note visits from Atlanta Reynolds and Macon, plus relatives in Woodbury, with several weddings and revival services announced. Community figures like Rev. J. H. Stanford and O. T. Montfort feature in church events as crops improve and fall goods arrive.
All members both male and female are asked to meet the pastor and deacons at Turner's Chapel Church on August 25 to discuss church matters.
Recently remodeled and repainted residence for sale. Conveniently located in a fine neighborhood. Will sell reasonable. Apply at Herald office or see A. B. Jones in Butler next Saturday.
Thorough bred Jersey bull registered from Raleigh stock for service 35.00. In answering advertisement, send letter or card to P. O. Box 154 Butler Georgia.
Short note offering taxi service by T. B. Joiner for trips of any length. Promises prompt availability and customer satisfaction with calls for immediate service.
The saying compares the sublime and the ridiculous and traces its attribution. It notes the quote is often linked to Napoleon but appears earlier in Tom Paine’s writings. Paine remarks that the sublime and ridiculous are nearly related and can interchange with slight shifts in perception.
A Washington Star item quotes Jud Tunkin discussing a man who urges that everything happens for the best, framing the idea as a boastful view of personal luck. The remark underscores a belief in fate and positive thinking as a coping mechanism.
A dated reflection notes the saying in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales about listening and forgetting. It highlights a common human experience and connects a medieval line to a modern proverb about ears and memory.
Mrs Lou Virginia Gholson Perkins beloved wife of E C Perkins Sr died at her husband’s home August 9 after months of declining health. She was about 68, lifelong resident, and would have celebrated 50 years of marriage with Mr Perkins in October. Survived by nine children, two brothers, one sister, and a host of friends. Funeral at the family home conducted by Rev Gaultney and Rev Hightower, with interment at Union Cemetery.
The Perkins family thanks friends for kindness during their bereavement. Their appreciation for loving deeds in the sad hour is treasured in grateful hearts. E. C. Perkins and family.
Property listing offering one of the nicest residences in Butler with large yard, garden, barns and track patches plus two vacant building lots and one acre of adjoining land with a three room tenant house and good well water. Sold as a whole or separately. For particulars write B L Rawls Savannah Bank and Trust Co Savannah Ga.
A recent finding shows photographs of stars as faint as the sixth magnitude can be captured in daylight when using a deep red screen. The technique reveals stars distinctly in bright daytime imaging.
In historical Europe both men and women wore earrings not only as ornament but sometimes as concealed poison pockets. The text notes life was dangerous and earrings could be used to hold deadly substances, a grim detail of past fashion and peril.
A writer labels Americans as sugar hogs and sugar drunkards while arguing the real danger is excess in children. Adults can tolerate sugar, but heavy intake harms growth, appetite, and long term health. the solution is to eat less sugar as a permanent, sensible habit.
Herbert J. Spinden argues in World's Work that slow diseases like malaria surpass sudden epidemics in long term damage. Malaria’s reach extends globally and possibly existed in America before European contact, challenging records in Indigenous languages and early explorer notes.
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