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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
2
Local notices list numerous Reynolds area residents and visitors across Georgia. Names include Miriam Carter Aultman Marie Camp Poe Carthers Tra wick Hill Saunders and Lunsford among others with trips to Jeffersonville Columbus Macon Atlanta Arlington Decatur and Hawkinsville.
The Renolds Methodist and Baptist churches ran a Vacation Bible School from June 22 to 27 with 60 to 65 attendees daily. Four classes created projects including a Church and Its Work picture show, hymn book repairs, posters, and alcohol demonstrations. A final parent demonstration and golf course picnic closed the week, led by F. M. Carson and a team of teachers and helpers.
Five Points residents the Windhams stayed with J. H. Jarrells in Panhandle. Dozens of relatives and friends including the Jarrell, Burnam, Gaultney, Pitts, Jarrell, Starling, Kendrick, and McChargue households visited each other across Panhandle, Thomaston, and Butler with multiple midweek and weekend calls. Several left for Florida for a short stay.
A historical sketch of Macon County centered on the Wilburville plantation and the Hicks District. It notes families, local leaders, churches, schools, and wartime histories including Civil War figures, postwar activities, and the district’s Democratic voting record in 1928. Strong local figures and places anchor the narrative.
The Class book lists early Turner's Chapel members from before 1860, detailing male and female congregants. It recounts preachers Watt Brooks and others, notes a farm owned by George Brooks that crossed Muscogee, Marion, and Macon counties with no mortgage, and mentions the cornerstone for a new Fort Valley Baptist church building placed during Sunday services.
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