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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1935
Page
9
The Georgia Senate on Thursday confirmed Jones K. Myers to serve as postmaster at Athens. The report outlines other regional news including deaths, accidents, fires, and local political moves across Georgia.
Atlanta January 28 administration leaders moved a wedge into the House to push final passage of the regents highway diversion and $3 auto tag measures. The chamber approved a flat $8 tag and sent the package to the Senate, with votes showing broad backing for diverting highway funds to compensate Confederate pensioners and fund common schools.
In Gloversville New York on January 29 a number of people including three women died from drinking poison liquor. The toll in Central New York reached 24 from this source since Thursday as authorities probe the incident and advise residents to avoid tainted alcohol.
Floyd county officers hunted robbers who pried off the Brittain Brothers store lock in Shannon and forced open the safe. They took $250 from the drawer while a much larger amount in another compartment was overlooked in the early Saturday burglary reported from Rome, Georgia, on January 28.
A Montezuma woman, Marek Caraner, was injured with a broken arm and bruises in a highway crash Sunday afternoon near Montezuma. Her passenger, Mr. Gardner, was unhurt. She was taken to Montezuma hospital for treatment.
Ball Ground Georgia January 25 double funeral services were held for Dr J H Hendrix a Hawkinsville physician and his father who died Thursday. Dr Hendrix died at a Macon hospital and his father collapsed at the family home in Ball Ground.
In Macon on January 25 Judge W A Mc Clellan sentenced Mike D Thompson and Frank Kelling to 20 years each in the state penitentiary after pleas of guilty to robbing Luther Williams and Son Bant. The crime occurred 16 days earlier and police recovered nearly all of the 1380 dollars taken.
Cochran Ga Jan 26 Mrs Lella Dillard former state president of the W C T U and honorary president died at age 72 at the home of her daughter Mrs L A Whipple in Cochran She was widow of the late M H Dillard a Methodist preacher who died in 1898 and was stricken with paralysis at 6 30 pm Friday after being in good health as far as was known
Jesup Ga Jan 27 Clarence Crosby 27 and his brother in law J P Bowen 25 both of Jesup were instantly killed when their car crashed into Morgan's Lake Bridge on the Oglethorpe highway late Sunday afternoon Crosby suffered a broken neck and Bowen a fractured skull several feet of the bridge rail were torn out as the car plunged down the embankment and the bridge was demolished
The Talmadge administration backs a bill to place the liquor question before Georgia voters on May 15. The measure would allow whisky and wine sales if approved, with dry counties remaining dry and beer sold by bottle or drink. A 20 percent tax would fund schools, and counties voting wet could face a second election the following year.
Savannah dispatch reports Senator Walter F. George ill with a severe attack of letrippe in Washington on his birthday. He plans to return to Vienna, Georgia to recuperate as soon as possible amid messages of congratulations from across the state.
Valdosta Ga Jan 20 An order for 1400 farm mules for a government rehabilitation project in the Valdosta area has stirred the local live stock markets. The mules will be used on the project, a major item of rehabilitation work, to cultivate idle land and provide modern homes. Those selected for farms will be chosen with care, favoring applicants with practical farm experience.
James Fort of Americus Georgia has been elected to Phi Delta Phi the honorary legal fraternity at the University of Georgia where he studies in the law school as a freshman in a high achieving class only four freshmen earned election this year. Fort attended Georgia Southwestern College in Americus for two years and is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Judge Claude C. Pittman Friday sentenced Sammy Armstrong F. Miles and Terrell Loughridge to die in the electric chair at Milledgeville on March 1 for murders in Dalton. Armstrong was convicted in Herman O'Donnell’s killing, Miles in Harrison Henson’s murder, and Loughridge for killing his father.
Savannah Georgia January 30 The Savannah Division of the Central of Georgia Railway won the annual efficiency contest among three divisions at a Macon meeting. Henry Baldwin Savannah division superintendent received the large silver loving cup from E H Daniel transportation chief and chair. The division scored 8838 of 10000 points, led in personal injury prevention and placed second in fuel saving and freight handling efficiency. Daniel praised Baldwins division for its injury record zero deaths and only ten injuries all year, a ratio of 4.79 injuries per million man hours. Also honored were Horace Riley Atlanta agent for top efficiency and safety in freight handling and Hiram Bardall Americus agent for leadership of Class 2 agencies.
Georgia lawmakers consider a dual alimony bill allowing husbands to claim alimony and child support from wives in certain cases. Representative H B Edwards of Valdosta pushes the measure, gaining early backing from Mrs Helen W Coxon of Long County who shifts to support fair play. The bill would grant husbands alimony and may also allow maintenance for minors from a wife’s assets when the husband sues for divorce or when custody is decided. Currently Georgia law favors women’s alimony and child support rights only.
Plains Ga Jan 28 C Emmett Majors 44 of Buena Vista died at 4 45 Saturday afternoon at Wise sanitarium after a brief illness He was a farmer and merchant at Buena Vista Survived by widow Bert Gordon Majors one brother A R Majors of Shreveport La and three sisters Mrs Adam Royal Richland Mrs C E Smith Lumpkin and Mrs H G Benner Greensboro N C
A rush for 3 automobile tags is ending tomorrow night as the deadline nears. Chairman Paul Doyal of the State Revenue Commission says no extension is planned. Governor Talmadge and law set an 80 day period, with the same ruling this year. The motor vehicle department has bolstered mail applications to handle the demand.
Dublin Ga Jan 24 Evidently stirred by a United Press report that John McDaniel deeded all his property to Jehovah the Most High God Tusneeda Hansen of Chicago has filed a claim. In a Laurens Superior Court letter she says Jehovah asked her to claim the property and convert it to money for her. McDaniel of Folkston had recently recorded a deed naming Jehovah as heir and directing his home be used as a church for the Church of God.
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