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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
4
The Monroe Advertisers praise farm progress toward better cotton prices and safer roads. Georgia livestock leads the nation with $80 million in annual output while farmers push cheaper, higher quality products using favorable climate and soil conditions to outcompete eastern and northern dairying.
The blind Public Service Commission chair Walter McDonald is listed among potential 1950 gubernatorial contenders. The piece notes Georgia politics amid controversy surrounding Dr. Samuel Green, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, whose death shocks supporters and critics alike and who cited constitutional duty and a Roosevelt letter praising service on the Selective Service Board.
Mr and Mrs Lynn Russell will join the Times Recorder as local advertising manager next Monday. He succeeds J P Luther who resigned after 18 years to head the Americas and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce. Russell brings newspaper experience from The Sampa Morning Tribune and radio work on WFLA.
Central Labor Union officials announce Gov Herman Talmadge will address Columbus on Labor Day with a Reynolds appearance noted by the Butler Herald. Lions Club and American Legion plan a big Labor Day program with a 6 pm barbecue while Columbus speech starts at 2 pm and Reynolds at 3 pm, suggesting a tight schedule.
Waverly Hall observes the 93rd birthday of John T. Whitehead known as Uncle Johnny. A descendant of a pioneer family he spent his life in the area with two living children Miss Kate Whitehead and George Whitehead.
Walter McDonald, blind chairman of the Public Service Commission, was named as a possible gubernatorial candidate in Atlanta. In a speech at Augusta, he warned that big business could seize control of state government unless Georgians mobilize to protect their interests.
Mrs. Dorothy Pappestort of Columbia, Missouri, a 29 year old mother, won 26000 in prizes on Stop the Music by identifying the mystery melody After the Ball and then Butter Peas. She said the winnings come as her youngest child, Robert, aged 2, needs a brain operation soon.
Atlanta, Aug. 19 William Delinski, serving a long term for kidnapping the late Johnvilley, an Atlanta banker, was released on a court order Friday.
A brief letter from Elizabeth McCants appears in the Butler Herald expressing pleasure at writing again for the newspaper and noting that many may disagree with a held principle she has long believed in.
Farm equipment and animals for sale including 7 good mules 2 two-horse wagons 3 two-horse walking cultivators 4 No 10 Oliver plows 2 one-horse Oliver plows 1 corn dropper 1 cotton dropper 3 Gantt guano distributors and 1 stalk cutter all in good condition For details contact SIMPSON WAINWRIGHT Butler Georgia Route 2 or J T MATHEWS Butler Ga for feeder pigs mature bred sow farrowing soon and seven months old girts ready to breed
Wanted responsible party who can make reasonable down payment and assume several minimum monthly payments to buy spinet like new with matching bench. For particulars, write Finance Department. Lost one lady style watch yellow gold Croton Swiss with cream dial. Please return to Herald Office for reward. Annie Johnson.
The Thomaston Production Credit Association held its annual stockholders meeting on August 18 in Thomaston with 118 attendees, including 17 visitors. In 16 years the association has made 4456 loans totaling 4,793,356 dollars and accumulated earnings of 60,014 dollars serving farmers in Lamar Monroe Pike Taylor and Upson counties. Directors include W J McDaniel of Zebulon president J E Ballard Sr vice president Barnesville L E Hancock Thomaston W R Bennett Culloden and E A Hollis Reynolds.
James D. Beggs, 58, longtime Orlando postmaster, died after a two week illness. An amateur inventor, he conceived a postal education plan for schools to improve mail handling and addressing, saving the government millions. A Tallahassee native, he grew up in Orlando and served as postmaster since March 1935, later proposing aerodynamic mail drops and a solar heating system.
The playful phrase signals the start of a new allergy season in Georgia. Experts warn about pollen spikes and crowded pharmacies as residents brace for sneezing fits and medicated routines. Local clinics report rising demand for antihistamines and nasal sprays.
A lighthearted line notes hay fever sufferers endure sneezing fits with a comic aside calling the ailment terrible yet humorous. The remark frames seasonal allergies as an universally relatable nuisance.
Fort McPherson Georgia reports Beach Wood Lumber Co of Ellaville has won a contract from the Army Navy Lumber Agency Corps of Engineers Atlanta for 2 650 000 board feet of lumber valued at 634 128 dollars.
A lumber carrier struck an open-bed truck carrying revivalists near Fulton Mississippi. The collision left six dead and twenty injured along a 100 foot stretch of road last night as funeral crowds gathered in the area.
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