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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1925
Page
5
A motivational verse praising perseverance and grit. It honors the worker at every level who keeps striving despite setbacks and knocks, aiming to rise to success through steady effort. The piece emphasizes resilience, patience, and never quitting as key to eventual triumph.
Local notes show visitors and residents in Butler sharing weekend time with families and friends. Mentions include J H Braddy at Cash Brown Co and Oscar Dreizin in Atlanta on business. Also lists names of residents traveling, social events, and upcoming PTA social at the school auditorium.
The Senior class held a chapel with a glee club song while Bessle K Shealy read. Juniors conducted the next chapel, and Harry Peagler is ill. Rev J D McCord plans weekly visits. Miss Edwards was absent sick, a play is planned, and a Reynolds game ended 24-17 in Butler’s favor. Gym daily before lunch and teachers assigned to grades noted. Georgia Day mentioned, Manchester game canceled, Glee Club at a PTA meeting.
Interest centers on a lecture by Mark Twain II of Georgia at the Howard school building Friday night. The entertainer and lecturer, Emory University graduate with twenty years teaching experience, is endorsed by ministers and educators. A small admission fee will be charged. Pictorial Review patterns at Hill's store.
At a Butler city meeting Marshall Anglin was told to enforce the Sunday hours law for drug stores and gasoline stations. The ordinance allows opening from 7 to 9:30 a. m. and 2:30 to 3:30 p. m. The marshal said he has no authority to grant permits and will file cases against violators if needed, though he hopes enforcement will not be required.
Fare bred Sheppard Strain Ancona eggs offered for 15 egg setting at $1.50. Contact C. L. Wall in Howard, Georgia. Post dated February 12, 1881.
Teachers plan county wide meet on March 14 featuring Literary and Grammar contests, American Date and Spelling events, Ready Writers, Music Memory, and an athletics program named the Pin Contest. Senior and junior tests include rope climb, jumps, sprints, throws, and ball games for boys and girls with pins awarded for four events.
The Musician Study Club met at Mrs Edwards home with president Mabel Searcy presiding. After roll call and minutes, the program on music myths featured Bonnie Cox Ruth Dunwoody Mildred and Marie Garrett Martha Benns Evelyn Gilmore and others performing poems readings and duets. Current events in music Adna Amos Bertha Cox and a social hour followed with valentines themed refreshments. The meeting adjourned to meet on the last Saturday each month.
Pictorial fashion sheets and latest style patterns are feature offerings at Hill's store, highlighting current trends for shoppers. The display emphasizes ready to wear silhouettes, accessories, and design ideas for seasonal wardrobes.
Peach Valley Egg Farm of Butler Georgia offers delivery of baby chicks at four dollars per one hundred and incubator capacity holds five thousand eight hundred eggs.
G A Roberts T C issues a tax notice stating the Special Tax Books close March 1 1925. After that date a 20 percent penalty is added. Receipts will be mailed on receipt of a check.
The Albert Cooper place offers a good dwelling, barn, and an eight horse farm ready for cultivation on a public road from Rupert to Charing near state highway No. 3. The Sanders Old Place near Carsonville has a dwelling and two horse farm open for rent. The W. H. Willis place near Daviston provides a good house and one horse farm ready for cultivation. Dated February 4, 1925 by W. & STEED. Office upstairs in Telephone Exchange.
Anna Duke Kilby aged about 72 died January 16 at her home in Panhandle after rheumatism and pneumonia. She left a husband and ten children plus a brother Jim Duke of Alabama. Born in Taylor County she joined Crowells Methodist Church. funeral at Cowell's Cemetery January 17 conducted by Rev. C L Wall. Written by Alfred Childres.
Local market offers fresh groceries with a focus on fruits and vegetables and promises prompt delivery to customers. The service emphasizes quality produce and quick fulfillment for online or phone orders.
We thank friends and neighbors and Dr Bry an for kindness shown during the illness and death of our wife and mother. May God's richest blessings rest upon each and every one. W. S. Kilby and children.
White Wyandott setting eggs Fisher strain heavy layers setting of 15 eggs $1.00 Mail me your orders early J J Shealy
200 bushels of Jones-Cook cotton seed ginned before September rains offered at one dollar per bushel. Seller G. W. Harris, Butler, Ga. Postmark date 2:5-25-21.
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