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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1935
Page
4
A Griff a Register writer disputes foreign competition claims for cotton and tobacco while Georgia farmers gain from rising prices. Dawson plans a large Peanut Festival and Pike County Journal shows improvement after new ownership. September and school days approach as AAA shifts toward higher production.
The Griffin Register notes improved national conditions with fewer personal crises and reports crops across the state as the best in years. It comments on Georgia politics and a forward path for Alabama’s legislature toward state supreme court review, calling the provision sensible.
A Pennsylvania paper announces a professional mystic will drive blindfolded through local streets. The notice comments that judging by town behavior many drivers look blindfolded, adding a satirical note to the unusual event.
Another week and a number of our Taylor county boys and girls will be off to the college of their choice for another year's work. We are proud of these splendid young people, and, at the beginning of the school year, wish to express our very best wishes to each and everyone that this may be a happy, successful year to all.
The Supreme Court of Canada holds that a motorist cannot recover under an insurance policy if intoxication contributed to the accident. The ruling clarifies that intoxication bars indemnity even when the driver seeks compensation for damages.
Senator McNary of Oregon, Senate minority leader, says the GOP must find a substitute to offer Western and Middle Western farmers as an alternative to the AAA and processing taxes.
Washington signals if Republican Voters back Senator Borah as standard bearer in eight months he will mount a strong nomination drive and deliver speeches before Ohio's May primary. The News asserts AAA won farmer cooperation deemed unlikely and warns Georgia and other farming states must maintain it for prosperity. Bishop W. N. Ainsworth spent a week in Chicago with the Joint Commission on International Relations and Church Union and will tour the Hobson Conference for two weeks before returning to Georgia in September.
A veterans voice laments modern boys misreading hardship. He decries youth living on Easy Street with polished leather shoes, urging them to recognize and appreciate genuine adversity and its lessons.
Rev J M Yarbrough leads the Box Springs Midland Circuit in erecting a new church after the old one was wrecked by a storm earlier this year. This marks the second church built during his quadrennium on the Midland charge. Chen is dispatched to Spalding County Georgia Experiment Station by the Chinese government to study farming. The Cornell student will visit Griffin farms and counties.
Exujitor Brown Tyler of The Fulton County Review has long watched the newsroom grind through bitter and sweet times. He notes editors and reporters get kicks, praise or denial, but he continues straight ahead, paying little attention to either.
The piece urges restraint and warns that election years are not as desirable as they seem. It calls for keeping heads cool and hearts warm and discourages excessive campaigning while urging sensible civic engagement.
The Herald calls attention to the Taylor county grand jury’s continuing role as the county’s highest public authority. It urges officials to heed presentments and recommendations, noting past measures and hoping for greater regard and action in the next session.
The Dawson News notes gins run from dawn to night as workers separate staple from seed. It praises the music and the steady flow of dollars through the channels of trade in South Georgia.
The Oglethorpe Echo laments public attention shifting to entertainment moments. It notes a nationwide focus on sports and humor over major political violence and the assassination of a president, critiquing changing minds.
The Tifton Gazette asserts Georgia cannot be rid of politics, framing political life as essential to the state. The piece emphasizes politics as a defining Georgian trait across rural and civic life.
The Elberton Star commends Senator George for leading the Georgia highway dispute settlement with the administration. It credits his suggestion as the basis for the adjustment the president has proposed to the state, and states it is unthinkable that Governor Talmadge will press opposition further.
The Elberton Star honors Bishop Candler, calling him one of Georgia's greatest men. It notes he is 78 years old and lauds his world impact, saying Georgia and the Christian world extend heartfelt congratulations. The tribute credits him with leaving an unparalleled imprint on the world.
The Albany Herald commends the President for aiding farmers who were down and out when he took office. It notes an estimated 3 to 3.5 billion dollars surplus for farmers in 1986 after covering crop costs, highlighting a shift from a period of widespread bankruptcy three years earlier.
Monroe Ad vertiser editor Clarke recalls fellow fishers and defends the mix of sanity and insanity in craft. He notes two men travel two nights to fish, mostly in rain, catching a pound and a half, calling life dull without a touch of madness.
The Chahliton County Herald reports Judge Cone of Records Court in Atlanta sentenced three boys on disorderly conduct charges to a year of probation. The sentence is written as a contract requiring orderly conduct, parental obedience, employment, avoidance of bad company, curfew by 10 pm, and Sunday church or Sunday school attendance.
The Georgia senator Walter F. George delivered a forceful denunciation of the Gulfey Coal Bill arguing it threatens constitutional limits and risks letting groups legislate for themselves. He warned of a dangerous majority over minority and urged fidelity to the Constitution and individual liberty.
At a convention in Denver Colorado the National Education Association urged legislative action to safeguard a reasonable share of US radio broadcasting for education. State and national school officials were urged to develop techniques for using radio effectively in education.
The Atlanta Journal hails the adjournment of the Forty-fourth Congress as a landmark era in American life. It credits the session with advancing the New Deal programs including Social Security, tax revision, and banking reform, while praising President Roosevelt’s leadership and noting improved employment, industry recovery, and national prosperity. The piece celebrates diminished strikes, stricter holding company controls, and U.S. economic stabilization shaping safer, freer lives.
It will be a source of sincere regret to the many friends in Taylor county and throughout the state that Col. Howard Coats of Hawkinsville former candidate for congress from this district is reported to be seriously ill suffering intensely from stomach trouble and hemorrhage
Taylor County Sheriff to sell multiple parcels at the courthouse on the first Tuesday in September 1985 in cash to satisfy tax fi fas. Parcels include all of lot 88 in the 18th district and other tracts totaling hundreds of acres throughout Taylor County, bearing on G A Roberts tax liens and transfers to Interstate Bond Company.
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