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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1956
Page
1
The Butler Herald offers a New Year message to advertisers and readers, urging resolution and good will for 1956. It recalls Christmas, postal service praise, Leap Year notes, and a call to live by love of God and neighbor, aiming for personal growth and community betterment.
The Columbus District of the Methodist church holds its ninety first annual conference at First Methodist Church in Daw son. Nearly one hundred churches in the Chatta hoochee Valley participate with more than three hundred delegates attending the business meeting. Local preachers report for license and renewal while eight applicants seek license to preach as speakers and music is directed by Rev. Harold Beatty.
Worship at Trinity Freewill Baptist Church Sunday at 11 a m and 7 p m with Rev. W J Childree preaching both services Visitors are welcome throughout the New Year.
Automobile tags went on sale Monday morning at the office of Tax Commissioner C. H. Adams in the local court house. Tom Giles was the first to purchase a tag in Taylor County. Tags range from 3.00 to 25.00 based on car weight with numbers 7451 through 23352 in the county.
Flint Electric Membership Corporation announces a free wiring installation for 220 volt appliances for members who purchase and request service between January 1 and March 31, 1956. Qualified jobs will be inspected by cooperative staff and may include up to 100 kilowatt hours credit. ongoing power support for ranges and water heaters continues for three months after a service call by a Flint Home Economist.
A man detained in Upson county jail is identified as J T Brown an escapee from San Quentin honor farm California. He used the alias R E Barron and had been serving time for bad checks until 1989. FBI agents said he passed fraudulent checks up to 650 dollars daily while living in Forsyth county.
The Taylor County Superior Court, in January term, held a single day session. Judge T Hicks Fort and officials returned home Monday. Seven divorces were granted. criminal dockets included non tax paid liquor and simple larceny cases with six to twelve month terms and fines up to 500 dollars.
A notice announces Richard Taylor becomes editor and manager of the Marion County Patriot and the Talbotton New Era starting January 1. The Sweat family expresses regret at E R Sweat’s retirement due to health and welcomes Taylor, praising his ties to Marion and Talbot counties.
Patricia Ann Strickland of Atlanta, then 12, saved her injured mother after a May 1954 plane crash that killed her father. Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. announced she won the Young American Medal for Bravery, the year’s sole award.
General Presentments from the Taylor County Georgia Grand Jury for January Term 1956. Acknowledgments to Judge Fort and Solicitor General Land for guidance. Reports praise to county officials, notes on building repairs, and a call for a new jail. Debt reduction cited from 1953 to 1956. Recommends publication in the Butler Herald and $15 for fees. Dated January 2, 1956.
The Bargain Store in the Dean Theater building, operated by Mr. Clay C. Braswell, sold his interest to Thomas Mathews, a prominent local businessman. Mathews assumed full charge of the store on Monday of this week.
Mr G J Jinks of a Howard area farm was found dead Sunday night in a wooded area near his home. He had been in declining health and likely died of a heart attack while gathering wood. Born December 1884 in the same community he lived there his whole life. Survived by daughter Mrs Homer Bickley of Butler. funeral at Howard cemetery led by Rev E H Dunn with pallbearers C J Bickley Clarence Bickley Roy Jinks James L Spillers Fred Culverhouse James T Smith.
Woodmen of the World executive vice president Max B Hurt will guest and speaker for Reynolds and Butler Camps. He will present a citation and plaque to Prof E H Joiner at Reynolds High School at 11 am. Later the Butler WOW Camp will donate a drinking fountain to Butler School at 2:30 pm and Mr Hurt will speak again. Community House program features citation for C E Benns Sr at 8:30 pm. public invited.
Three people died in Georgia on the first 24 hours of the New Year weekend, lifting the 1955 highway death toll to 1,029. W. W. White, 68, of Moorhead Mass, died in a head on collision near Gainesville. Frances E Williamson, 19, Chattanooga, died when her car hit a power pole near Rossville. J R Swed, 21, of Moultrie, was killed when his car ran off a dead end road near Albany and struck a tree.
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