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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
5
Calendar of visits and guests fills Butler as residents host relatives from Macon Columbus Atlanta and Thomaston. Local families welcome officers students and travelers with weekend stays reunions and hospital visits noted throughout. Military personnel enjoy furloughs and visitors while revivals begin at Mt Pisgah Church.
Thursday before the third Sunday in July set aside for Work Day at the Sand Beinei Methodist Church. Mrs. Z. R. McKenzie received a message from her husband reporting safe landing in North Africa. Mrs. B. J. Byrd spent Sunday in Montezuma with her brother, patient at Riverside hospital. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McGee of Birmingham to visit relatives this week. Pfe. Brown Driskell of Blanding, Fla., and his wife of Homaston spend the week in Butler as guests of O. T. Driskell.
Auburn Alabama July 4 Harry Gilmore of Columbia S C was named president of the Auburn Chapter of Alpha Psi Fraternity at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Other officers include Jimmy Acree Jacksonville Fla vice president Wilbur Neisler Butler Ga treasurer Jesse Derrick Oglethorpe Ga house manager Carl Sellars Mebane N C rush chairman Warren Roberts Adel Ga James Sikes Manassas Ga sergeant at arms and Dr B F Cox Auburn faculty advisor.
The Montgomery Quartet of Thomaston will visit Mt Olive church in Potterville for morning and evening worship Sunday. They will assist in song services and all are invited to attend both services.
Each Wednesday night prayer gathering occurs in a Mt Pisgah area home. All residents are urged to attend these community meetings.
Crowell church grounds and cemetery to be cleaned on Wednesday July 12. All interested urged to attend and bring tools for work.
J. T. Mathews of Butler Georgia announces galvanized steel roofing ready for immediate delivery. He invites anyone needing roofing to visit or contact him at once for purchase.
Plump Rhode Island Red fryers 35 cents a pound and two range shelters with tin tops plus one electric brooder for a 1000 capacity listed by M. A. Liffey Reynolds Georgia Also for sale four sheds 50 by 120 feet in Southland Georgia listed by Mrs S P Smith Hartwell Georgia
W. Smith provides piano tuning, sales and service at 209 East Gordon Street Thomaston. Contact via phone 497 W for appointments and repairs.
Miss Mavis Stevens of Butler married Pvt. Emmett Long of Turner Field Alabama in a Monday afternoon ceremony conducted by Ordinary J. R. Lunsford. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stevens, wore navy with white accessories. The couple planned a short wedding trip before the groom returns to duty and the bride joins the Long family in Americus.
The Hobbs Streetman families gathered at the Jim Hobbs home near Butler July 4 in honor of Lt. Sinclair Streetman on furlough. A bountiful picnic lunch was served under shade trees as relatives from Columbus Macon Thomaston Fitzgerald and Butler joined the reunion.
Cpl Addis L. Pike sends a letter to his sister Mrs Burtis Bickley of Thomaston describing his early entry into Rome on June 4 1944 the reaction of Italians and a sense the war may end soon. He logs scenes of streets lined with flowers and kisses and notes not firing for days while troops advance north of the city. He expects to return home in a few months and asks to keep the family faith.
Caleb, faithful follower of Jehovah, claims Hebron as Moses promised and defeats the Anakim. He chooses the hard, hill country over fertile valleys, proving steadfast devotion leads to divine favor and victory over sin. Joshua and Caleb stood apart as leaders, urging decisive action against Canaanites.
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