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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
5
Local notes report Prof. Chas R. Brown visiting Macon, Sheriff Beeland improving, and Miss Ella Foy convalescing from pneumonia. Mentions Butter Banking Company meeting, Oldsmobile dealer interest, and 1917 cotton output. Also notes a large Sycamore cotton deal, Jan 17 club meeting, and Lenna Cameron's death.
Mrs J B King and others visited grandmother A J Fountain at the Fountain place seven miles east of Butler where Mr and Mrs Childs plan to move. W A Childs leases J J Windham to begin a fifteen mile railroad grading contract from Powersville to Rutland with J E Fountain and Horace Watson joining Windham for about six months. The local board mailed Taylor county registrants questionnaires and will classify them over several weeks, notifying each registrant by card.
A past week informal party at the Bartlett home honored Miss Lillian Thompson of Byromville. Mrs Bartlett and Miss Vera Bartlett hosted with Progressive Up-Jinks and hot course refreshments. Attendees included Lillian Thompson Vera Bartlett Mattie Wilson Katie Payne Sara Windham Jewel Bartlett Louis Adams Jack Brooks Theo McGee Edd A. Childers G B McCants and Robert Wilson.
Corbett to meet Saturday 11 a m and Sunday 3 p m. Butler to meet Sunday 11 a m and 7 p m. L A Harrell is the pastor.
The Herald, through U. S. Senator Hoke Smith, offers about one hundred packages of selected garden seed at no cost. Farmers and others may call at the office to receive a package, with a limit of one package per family.
Friends and relatives in Taylor county and beyond were shocked by the death of Mr. F. W. Ewing at his son Frank Ewing's home in Albany on December 31. The pistol wound was self inflicted amid a personal crisis caused by financial reverses. Remains were taken to Bolingbroke, Ga for funeral and interment.
Poultry prices listed include hens per pound and fryers per pound plus prices per duck and per goose. The OCR text also shows stray characters and mistranscriptions around prices.
Lenna Cameron dies Tuesday morning after a religiously devoted life. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church with Rev. L A Carrill officiating and interment in Butler cemetery. She leaves three brothers J J Cameron M R Cameron and three sisters Mrs Ha Boland Mrs Bud arter and Miss Annie Cameron all of Butler. The Herald offers sympathy to the family.
L DB Gill notes the passing of Z D Gill a longtime Taylor County and Butler resident after illness. Born October 16 1856 in Marion County he married Francis Elizabeth Watson December 30 1874 and left five sons and five daughters. He held county offices and was praised for integrity reliability and neighborly help. The funeral was led by Rev M W Fienders at Bloodworth cemetery. Sympathy extended to the bereaved.
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