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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1938
Page
4
Rites for Dr Otis B Moye longtime Soperton physician will be conducted at his residence Tuesday afternoon. The story lists other Georgia events including military air unit movements and state political notes.
The article urges farmers to fix plans with tenants and sharecroppers and arrange finances. It notes action on seed and feed loan funding, with the House passing a related bill and sending it to the Senate. Pace hopes the conference committee reports a new farm bill soon to meet agricultural needs.
Snow blankets Butler as community reports several deaths including Miss Ida Monroe and Mrs W A Taunton. Fireworks injure a band in Alton Heath incident. W T Hinton and Mrs B M Moulton pass away. Schools close Friday for Christmas. Local offices elect officers at Butler Water Works annual meeting. Farmers and veterans updates amid holiday observances. Whiskey truck overturn reported near Butler with liquor seized by locals.
A group of eight convicts fled in a prison truck after overpowering guard H E Laramore at Tattnall prison. Seven escaped. one stayed with the vehicle. Officers, highway patrols, and prison guards pursued toward Florida, with a possible crossing near the Ohoopee and Lane bridges. The escape prompted checks to identify the fugitives and confirm no violence occurred.
At a preliminary hearing before Justices Douglass Hill and Gholson bond was set at 500 dollars to answer to the grand jury. The case concerns involuntary manslaughter tied to a Sunday tragedy. public sympathy grows with many offering bond. A separate fire destroyed Otis Mathews home as he testified. Funeral services are announced for Woodrow Wilson York, 25, killed in an auto truck collision near Thomaston. He leaves parents, siblings, and multiple relatives.
Lionel Stukes has been elected president of the Americus Bar Association in Americus Georgia. Other officers include W Tom Lane Jr as vice president and James Fort as secretary treasurer with The Bar James 2 and Lawrenceig named as chaplain.
Taylor County sheriff announces sale of 105 acres described as Henry Seay place north of McCants Mill and across the Butler Thomaston highway. Property will be sold to satisfy an execution from the Taylor Superior Court in favor of Edd Youngblood against R S Vann. Levy completed January 3 1938 by Sheriff John M Bone.
Notice of sale under power in a security deed by James H. Gray to secure debt dated March 10 1987 recorded in Taylor County Georgia. On February 1 1988 the property known as Malinda Frazier place lot 261 First District Taylor County will be sold at public auction for cash at the courthouse.
Public outcry sale set for February 1 1938 to dispose of a one half undivided interest in whole lot No 123 in Taylor County Georgia 12th land district levied to satisfy an execution from Bolet district Justice Court Upson County Georgia in favor of Mrs Bellgarrett transferree J M Bone Sheriff of Taylor County announced on January 5 1938 with property pointed out by plaintiff.
A sale will occur at the courthouse door in Taylor County on the first Tuesday in February 1938 beginning February 1. The property includes Lot 250 of 202.5 acres and the east half of Lot 259 of 115 acres in the 11th Land District. Levied as P C Watson’s property per International Shoe Company v J H Turner and P C Watson in the Superior Court. Notice given in official form on January 4 1938. Beykor County Georgia.
In the Middle District of Georgia Columbus Division, the debtor R C Gray of Butler faces a composition or extension under section 75. The first creditors meeting is set for January 11, 1988, at 10:00 A M in Butler. Creditors may prove claims, examine the debtor, and review the inventory and schedules of secured and unsecured claims.
Interest in forty five acres of land in Reynolds area and six acres in the Sam Carter fraction in Taylor County Georgia will be sold at public auction to satisfy a deed to secure debt executed by Ruby Windham on November 8 1937. The sale is set for the first Tuesday in February 1938 at the courthouse door in Taylor County within legal hours to the highest bidder for one half interest in the described parcels and rights in the Warren Byrd place and surrounding lands.
North and East by lot No 5 in the Agency Reserve South by lot No 200 West by lot No 199 the property conveyed by the deed to secure debt default in principal and interest sale to be made under the deed The undersigned will convey to the purchaser at sale Beatrice Kilby as attorney in fact for Ruby and Windham by C B Marshall attorney at law January 4 1998
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