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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
2
A reflective piece urging focus on the future not the past. It calls for planning for 1930, recognizing past shortcomings while trusting in steady progress, and suggests that better days lie ahead as life begins anew each morning. It emphasizes faith in gradual improvement and avoiding nostalgia.
The Thomaston Times reports Route 3 from Griffin to Florida via Zebulon Thomaston Butler Americus and Albany will be paved during 1980 per Highway Commission Chairman Tate. Legislator Hightower says Senator Platt confirmed the promise, noting only unpaved sections remain between Spalding county line and Thomaston toward Ellaville and between Thomasville and the Florida line.
Georgia Press Association President Louie L Morris will lead a multi state trip in May winner of a long sought after excursion. The group will ride a special train from Atlanta May 11 with lunch in Greenville North Carolina and dinner in Charlotte. The itinerary includes Charlottesville Monticello Annapolis Yorktown Williamsburg Richmond and concludes back in Atlanta after a week of sightseeing and historic stops.
Warner Brothers Vitaphone musical extravaganza Show of Shows heads to Rialto Macon for the week starting December 30. The film features a Floradora Sextette act led by Marian Nixon and includes many stars such as John Barrymore Dolores Costello Myrna Loy Betty Compson and Beatrice Lillie with Ben Turpin and George Cukor as part of the production team.
Poem of farewell and hope as an aging author passes guidance to a future successor. The speaker imagines tea cherishing wishes, handclasps, and shared dreams, hoping the next bearer learns from past battles and achieves a dawn of new purpose in space and time. The unknown author frames legacy, mentorship, and faith in future success.
A drunken man received a light sentence and was paroled after beating a second man who had seated his mother aged 62. In prison that night seven inmates beat the first man in retaliation. The judge’s clemency spared the first, while the second remained jailed. The tale highlights widespread contempt for mistreating mothers.
A wide range of Georgia items is summarized including a 16 year old Decatur boy badly burned while trying to start a fire in a school room, a 1929 state tax shift with Fulton County bearing most of the increase, a Baldwin county election where Bertie Stembridge defeated C. L Moore for Ordinary, a fire destroying stock of 8. F. Lincoln and the United 5 and 10c store in McRae, and state politicians planning primary runs. Also noted are federal agents arresting 33 in three counties, clerical changes in churches, two local deaths by violence, bank consolidations, and other Georgia news.
Reported December 17 describes thieves loading merchandise from the Howard store then targeting Posey store. A car tripping by J. F. Po city relief of funds noted, with a hundred dollars and cartridges found. A cigarette package stamped Vanlandingham ties both robberies to the same group and suggests arrests soon.
Junction City hosts the Talbot-Taylor Masonic Association third quarterly session with 2 pm opening by Worshipful Master J T Adame. Addresses by A G Miller and others. An Entered Apprentice degree work, a turkey dinner for masons and guests, a Fort Benning degree team, and a formal resolution praising Junction City women and local hosts. Next session planned for Burns Lodge in mid March.
On Saturday December 21 around 10 a m the Neisler gin plant at Reynolds was consumed by fire. The blaze is thought to have started in a bale of cotton in the press during packing. Loss runs to several thousands with no insurance. The adjacent large cotton warehouse was saved by the Reynolds fire department after heroic effort. Mr Neisler plans to rebuild and install a larger outfit before the next season.
A major blaze destroyed Dreizin’s dry goods and apparel stock in Butler on Christmas Eve, with several hundred dollars burned from the day’s safe. The fire started in the rear of the building about 2:30 AM amid sleet and extreme cold, but neighboring walls withstood the blaze, sparing adjoining properties. Firefighters and residents aided in saving adjacent property as theories about the cause ranged from theft and arson to faulty wiring. Dreizin’s stock valued around 50 thousand dollars was a total loss.
Canada records show 500 wild geese were banded in Ontario in 1922 and released. A bird with an aluminum leg band was shot near Harris place on the Flint river in Taylor County. Canadian authorities say the birds spread across the United States within seven years, from Atlantic to Pacific. Local hunters B. M. Shockley and Cadwell killed the bird.
The region endured a historic freeze blanketing the area with ice and causing widespread outages. Butler’s telephone system, power lines, and water service suffered major disruption for days. Shade trees and shrubs were felled, with the telephone company alone losing thousands of dollars in poles and wires. City lights were out for two days despite a large restoration crew.
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