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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1940
Page
2
Civic Improvement Club of Reynolds records outings across Atlanta Macon and Ft Valley with residents such as D Coolik Albert Garter Hugh Neisler and Daniel Payne. It notes flu shutdowns at school and lists visitors and local travels while reporting on illnesses and a death in the community.
The Reynolds Woman's Improvement Club met at the Club House for its January session with Mrs. W. E. Marshall presiding. Kate Hicks spoke on the South as the nation’s economic problem, praising Roosevelt era policies, urging continued reforms, and stressing character education and the Golden Rule.
Good plug mule for sale cheap. See me at once. E A Hollies Reynolds Ga.
The Gordon Carson Chapter of the U D C will be entertained at the Club House at 2 50 p m on January 25 by Mrs B W Hinton and Mrs W FE Marshall. A program includes Lee and Jackson talk by Miss Elizabeth Parker a song by Mrs B P Hodges primary music class and reminiscences of the Confederacy by Mrs F M Carson historian.
The O Neals thank friends for tender service during illness and death of their son and nephew James O Nea l. Gratitude for floral offerings from J. W. O Nea & Family and Miss Tommy O Neal.
Mrs Archie Hill of Oglethorpe visited her parents the Tarrers on Monday. Charlie Barfield spent last week with the Paynes. Henry Jordan visits relatives in Ideal. Thelma Williams of Americus stayed with her parents and relatives in Ideal. Albany visitors included the Leon Barfields and daughters. Freda Chapman spent the weekend with her parents the Chapmans. Phillips visited Virginia Kelley on Monday. Ada Naburn is ill and receiving friends’ well wishes. Howard Payne was Sunday night guest of Elton Chapman. Mrs J D Tarrer and Mrs Grady Payne visited Mrs Albert Hill who is a Riverside Hospital patient in Montezuma. Mrs Hubert Kelley and daughters Virginia and Lagetus and Myrtle Payne visited in Butler Sunday. Doris Fowler visited Ellen Raburn over the weekend. Catherine Barfield was Wednesday night guest of Mae Barfield. Mavis Chapman and daughter were guests of Clyde Chapman Friday. Harry Tarrer and Robert Payne were in Ft Valley Sunday.
Wesley News notes Mr and Mrs Mercer Parker of Milledgeville and Mr and Mrs Lige Parker visiting J A Heath and Terrell Robbins. The Bazemores of Butler stay with the Willis family while Spinks of Columbus and Jarrell visit Spinks. Adams and Wilson travel to Griffin. Wilson hosts Tom and Luther. Adams of Howard hosts last week. Robbins visits Jarrell. Lem McDaniel of Thomaston visits Wilsons.
The Mosley and O Neal families express gratitude for acts of kindness during the illness and death of their mother Mrs Susan O Neal. Special thanks to Dr Montgomery for his faithful care. May God bless you all.
In Macon on Friday night a bridegroom of two days watched his bride leave with her father in a car after hours of waiting. Detectives from a South Georgia sheriff’s office intervened at the bus station and took the couple to police headquarters. The father reappeared with a deputy and the bride finally rode away with him. no charges were filed. The groom, a 28 year old North Georgian, stood in the drizzle watching the scene unfold.
Washington reports Rep. A. S. Camp of Georgia plans to introduce a bill creating a specially designed Warm Springs post office. The building would feature a special entrance and conveniences to serve infantile paralysis victims at the Warm Springs foundation.
County commissioners secure right of way for a new post road between Dawson and Leesburg as J A Powell of the state highway department visits. The Terrell county portion is finished and the WPA project will enter via the Inglis farm, passing Vaughan’s Waughland Hollis and Gardiner properties before reaching Leesburg via the E A Brotwell home.
A 12 by 8 foot cross built of timbers burlap and kerosene burned atop Woolfolk hill in East Macon last night. Fire trucks and the chief's car responded to two alarms at 9 45 p m. as a blaze echoed a prior Jan 8 scene on Coleman hill.
The lesson sermon titled Life will be read Sunday in Churches of Christ Scientist worldwide. It cites Psalms 66 8 9 and Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures stating God is divine life and life is not limited to mortal form, life is mind the creator reflected in creation.
Americus reports a Sadie Hawkins Day event at Georgia Southwestern College where the coeds of Kappa Gamma Sigma transformed Callum Hall into Dogpatch with cornstalks hay and corn shucks. Boys wore hillbilly outfits and guests enjoyed hillbilly songs as Daisy Maes rushed the Lil Abners during the dance.
Blakely January 14 Mrs Lila Hattaway Rambo former postmistress at Blakely and widow of Judge L M Rambo was found dead in bed at her Bluffton area home. She was active in the Blakely Baptist church and had spent Saturday in her garden. The death was attributed to a heart illness by a physician after sister Leone Hattaway discovered her.
Atlanta date line reports a northern soldier took cuff links from a fallen Confederate and returned them to the South via Margaret Mitchell. The links were handed to the Atlanta Historical Society by a Michigan resident who said his grandfather removed them on the battlefield. Mitchell said the donor sought a gracious return after reading Gone with the Wind.
Rawleigh's seeks a driver for a profitable route in Randolph and Terrell Counties near Ft. Valley. Start with good living conditions and steady work. Write Rawleigh's Dep GAL-42-101F Memphis Tenn or sea J. C. Fuller Reynolds Ga 12144tp.
Schley County plans multiple events to raise funds for the Infantile Paralysis drive. A 25 cent admission benefit card party at Community House. a January 26 ball with Harry Hearn's Dixieland band. January 30 bowling proceeds donated by C. T. Johnson. and a countywide school drive January 22 to 27 led by C. C. Wall. Hog production guidance noted as key to swine success.
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