Butler Georgia News Highlights Post Office Growth and Local News
Dispatches from Butler report postal activity rising as Christmas mail rush approaches. Alabama parolees freed after seven years for bank robbery are noted. Commerce seeks an airport. Northwest Georgia may gain a trade hub. U S Senate approves wartime rail compensation bill totaling 1 191 905 dollars to shortline carriers. Local figures Butt and Rev H S Brooks change assignments with public welcomes in Adel. The North Georgia News notes Rev J Clyde Adams yields historic tenure in Franklin Methodist church.
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North Georgia Methodist Conference
J. Clyde Adams
J. T Adams
Franklin Methodist Church
County urges new Flint River bridge replacement
The Ma con County Citizen and Montezuma Georgian report a concerted drive this week to erect a modern bridge over the Flint River between Montezuma and Oglethorpe. The old span, built about 25 years ago for wagons and small autos, is now deemed inadequate and a death trap, with a new bridge promised soon. The neighbor county is known for completing undertakings.
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Macon County
Birthday of Hon. E. C. Perkins Celebrated at Country Home
A cake with ninety burning tapers served as a centerpiece at a Tuesday birthday gathering for Hon. E. C. Perkins nine miles north of Butler. Known as Uncle Gene, he enjoys high esteem in the county for his farming, livestock dealing, public service, church work, and neighborly deeds. The Herald joins friends in best wishes for his health and happiness.
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E. C. Perkins
Butler
Gene
Herald
Macon Editor Sara Lawson Marries J Roy McGinty Jr
Miss Sara Lawson society editor of the Macon Evening News and J Roy McGinty Jr editor of the Chatsworth Times were married Thursday in Atlanta. The ceremony at Druid Hills involved relatives and close friends, followed by a small reception and a wedding trip to New Orleans. The couple will reside in Chatsworth.
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Macon Evening News
Sara Lawson
Society Department
News and Telegraph
Atlanta
J. Roy McGinty Jr
Chatsworth
McGinty
O. T. Lawson
Macon
Americus
Wesleyan College
Mercer University
John R. McGinty
Calhoun
North Georgia College
Dahlonega
Georgia Tech
Frank McGinty
University of Georgia
Wm. J. Carter
Capitol City Club
Butler St Cecilia Music Club Holds November Meeting
The St Cecilia Music Club met in the studio Tuesday with Thanksgiving readings and a program of November composers and works. Members discussed dues, reports, and club ratings as both clubs prepare for Georgia Federation of Music in April and the American Festival of Music December in Atlanta.
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St. Cecilia Music Club
Clyde Afay Green
Sousa
Helen Bazemore
Washington Post
Oscar Adams
Mrs. Edwards
Martha Jane Elliston
Belen Bazemore
Marie Parks
City Drug Co
State Treasury
First Year Girls Cook Breakfast in Home Economics
The Home Economics class prepared breakfast items including hot chocolate bacon eggs cheese rice krispies sausage and toast. Betty Fehring notes the session was interesting to the students.
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Betty Fehring
Through the Key Hole Gossip Column Snippet
A fragment from a gossip column asks about Martha Jane and an ex, notes after school study hall length, and hints at keeping Norris from others. It mentions Clyde Ajay’s homeward pull, Frances anticipating Christmas, and a lively Thanksgiving among a group of girls. Yehudi signs off with gossip.
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Martha Jane
Acertain
Norris
Clyde Ajay
Frances
Yehudi
Third Grade Prepares Play and Christmas Displays
The Third Grade will present the play First Aid for Santa at the P T A meeting with the first and second grades. Students are making Santa and sleigh pictures, toys, and a sand table and Christmas tree display for their art.
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Santa
Fifth Grade Class Totals Thirty Students
Fourteen boys and sixteen girls fill the room for a total of thirty. After six weeks of tests, most grades are good. The class is studying The War of 1812 in Georgia and practicing where sentences begin and end in English.
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Georgia
Seventh Grade Returns and Christmas Activities
The seventh grade welcomes back ill pupils and plans room activities such as making Christmas decorations and practicing Christmas carols. A record tracks books read most, noting Mary Belle Rogers and Helen Perkins.
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Mary Belle Rogers
Helen Perkins
Sixth Grade Welcomes New Member T. J. Parker
The Sixth Grade adds T. J. Parker from Central as a new member. The class plans a Taylor County themed unit with an exhibit and will create a BELL BOOK as the monthly theme work.
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Welome
T. J. Parker
Central
Taylor County
Fourth Grade Note on Absences and Books
A fourth grade message notes several pupils absent this week and no new arrivals. The class is finishing a reading book and has begun a new Health book they like. They look forward to the Christmas holidays as Betty Gay signs off.
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Betty Gay
Senior Ideal A Girl With Diverse Charms
The passage lists several girls and young women by trait, pairing each name with a specific attribute. It reads like a yearbook style compendium describing hair eyes complexion smile and other qualities assigned to Frances Windham Frances Harris Mildred Sealy Helen Bazemore Clyde Aray Green Ann Gray Lurlene Jordan Marie Parks Dorothy Hinton Eva Hill Clyde Gray Green Florence O Neal and others.
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Frances Windham
Frances Harris
Mildred Sealy
Helen Bazemore
Clyde Aray Green
Ann Gray
Lurlene Jordan
Marie Parks
Dorothy Hinton
Eva Hill
Clyde Gray Green
Florence O'Neal
Census figures show state gains and losses in seats
New Census Bureau data published Monday outlines reapportionment. Georgia keeps 12 representatives while California appears to gain two seats. Other changes: Arizona 1 to 2, Florida 5 to 6, New Mexico 1 to 2, North Carolina 11 to 12, Oregon 8 to 4, Tennessee 9 to 10, with Illinois 27 to 26, Indiana 12 to 11, Kansas 7 to 6, Massachusetts 15 to 14, Nebraska 5 to 4, Ohio 24 to 23, Oklahoma 7 to 8, and Pennsylvania 34 to 33.
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Census Bureau
Georgia
California
Arizona
Florida
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oregon
Tennessee
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
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