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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1924
Page
2
Reynolds Georgia Grand Theatre presents the weekly program featuring Skin Deep with Milton Sills Florence Sills and a Thos Ince production. Additional attraction Plumb Crazy and a noted highway administration sequence are advertised with local names and dates, highlighting a busy entertainment lineup.
Four inmates at Paso penitentiary orchestrated a tunnel escape from a tuberculosis ward. George Ander, Hiram Tepper, Ludwig Schmidt, and Frank Haynes were named as key figures. Haynes faced transfer to Tennessee for counterfeiting. Officials believed the pair inside and outside aided the plan, and three weeks were projected to finish the passage.
The text laments a sacred Christmas word enshrined in hearts and memory. It traces the season from ancient stars to the Wise Men, celebrating gifts of love, fellowship, and charity. It envisions a future millennium of peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
The Columbus district stewards gathered at St Luke's Methodist Church in Columbus to review the year’s work. Rev Whitle Langston, new presiding elder, impressed the group with enthusiasm for growth and cooperation as Dr G Brann and Rev D Ge Mann led arrangements. The district’s total pastorial salaries and presiding elder allowance totaled $37,300 with district assessments rising to $15,820, while church-by-church apportionments ranged up to $2,650 for St Luke Bar and $1,450 for Rose Hill.
In Columbus, Willie Jones aged 18 and Garvis Bloodworth aged 20, were moved from Taylor or county jails to Muscogee jail on December 25 by order of Judge Geo P Munro at the Taylor county authorities request. The men were convicted of the murder of Howard underwood in a December robbery case with a verdict of guilty without recommendation. Judge Munro set the date for execution as August 8 in Taylor county jail, and a motion for new trial by Col Homer Bee was filed with a January 15 hearing in Columbus.
Ginners report shows 6,266 bales of cotton pinned in Taylor County for 1923 compared with 7,246 bales pinned to December 13, 1922. This reflects a drop in output year over year as the season progressed.
The county reports the critical illness of Sheriff J. R. Beeland. Doctors in Columbus were consulted after weeks of declining health. Despite grave fears, relatives and friends hope for recovery as prayers rise from Beeland and his household. Also noted is a jail escape by two recently jailed suspects who sawn a hole in the brick wall and fled with a shotgun.
In Columbus on December 26 Eugene Perry three years old, son of Mr and Mrs WS Perry, died after a shotgun discharge on a Wallis farm north of Americus. The blast struck him in the head as the gun exploded during a hunting trip near Buena Vista, with relatives present. The incident prompted an investigation and a funeral is planned from the family home. In Tifton on December 27 Beverly, aged 16, son of Mr and Mrs Tom Beverly of Tift County, died after an operation at a local hospital following injuries from a shooting that occurred earlier.
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