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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
11
Dispatches from Butler Georgia report Italy’s advances in World War II and urge mailing Christmas packages early. Local items note three Alabama men pardoned after seven years for a bank robbery claim they were robbed, and Commerce seeks an airport. Butler commerce aims for a busy holiday season.
The Ma con County Citizen and Montezuma Georgian report a coordinated effort this week to erect a modern bridge over Flint River linking Montezuma and Oglethorpe. The old span, built about 25 years ago for wagons and early cars, is now deemed inadequate and deadly.
A cake with ninety burning tapers served as a centerpiece at a Tuesday birthday celebration for Hon. E. C. Perkins at his country home nine miles north of Butler. Known as Uncle Gene, he is highly esteemed in his home county for farming, livestock dealing, public service, church work, and friendship. The Herald joins friends in wishing him continued health and happiness.
Miss Sara Lawson society editor of the Macon Evening News married J Roy McGinty Jr editor of the Chatsworth Times in Atlanta. The ceremony at Druid Hills Presbyterian Church followed by a Capitol City Club reception and wedding trip to New Orleans. The couple will reside in Chatsworth.
Butler School Journal notes the St Cecilia Music Club November session in the studio. Members perform and study composers from Padereswski to Nevin, with readings and a duet by Mrs Edwards and Clyde Afay Green. Hosts Belen Bazemore and Marie Parks entertain. club members aim for 100 percent rating and report dues and November totals. The federation meets in Atlanta in April and the American Festival of Music runs December 6 7 in Atlanta with plans for student participation.
The class of first year girls in Home Economics prepared a breakfast with hot chocolate bacon eggs cheese rice Krispies sausage and toast. Betty Fehring notes the session was very interesting to them.
A dated gossip note from Yehudi to readers asks about Martha Jane and Norris and Clyde Ajay. It mentions a study hall after school and Christmas anticipation along with a lively Thanksgiving among a group of girls.
Third Grade will present a play titled First Aid for Santa at the upcoming PTA meeting along with the first and second grades. The class decorates with a Three Wise Men border and works on Santa, sleigh, and toy pictures. They will start decorating the sand table and Christmas tree next week.
A fifth grade class reports fourteen boys and sixteen girls, totaling thirty. They just completed six weeks of tests with mostly good grades and are studying The War of 1812 in Georgia. In English, they are practicing sentence boundaries.
Seventh grade pupils return after illness and join room activities making Christmas decorations and practicing Christmas carols. A record is kept of books read most with Mary Belle Rogers and Helen Perkins noted among participants.
The Sixth Grade greets new student T J Parker from Central. The class plans a Taylor county themed unit and will create a BELL BOOK as the month’s theme work, linking bells to many events in history.
Betty Gay reports several absences and no new pupils this week. She notes finishing the reading book and starting a new Health book that is well liked. She adds anticipation for the upcoming Christmas holidays.
A vintage listing pairs each beauty trait with a named person such as Frances Windham Frances Harris Mildred Sealy Helen Bazemore Clyde Aray Green Ann Gray Lurlene Jordan Marie Parks Dorothy Hinton Eva Hill and Clyde Gray Green The compilation notes hair eyes complexion and other traits alongside talents and temperaments reflecting a social pageant tradition.
Census Bureau data released Monday reshapes House seats. Georgia keeps 12 representatives while California appears to gain two seats, and several states shift, including Arizona Florida New Mexico North Carolina Oregon and Tennessee as losers Illinois Indiana Kansas Massachusetts Nebraska Ohio Oklahoma and Pennsylvania shed seats.
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