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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1923
Page
1
Friday listing notes Mary Pickford to star in Tess of the Storm Country as the featured film for the day. Local screen schedule highlights the matinée and evening showings at the downtown cinema.
Milledgeville July 6 reports two fires in Baldwin County farms and a nearby boys school storage barn burned. No deaths, but machinery grain hogs lost. two convicts escaped as county barn and several tractors burned. Insurance unlikely to cover losses.
Reading list for teachers and supervisors includes manuals and pedagogy guides. Items cover Georgia teachers manuals, Everyday Pedagogy by Lincoln, Requiring Skill in Teaching, Teachers Problems, Methods of Teaching in High Schools, with prices and postpaid details. Provided by W. T. Rustin, C. S. S.
A new fruit named peachmond blends peach sweetness with almond tang, developed by Mexican plant breeder Dr Juan Bale. The novelty aims to offer a distinctive flavor profile for markets and culinary use.
The census forecast projects 11.42 million bales this year but actual output may top 10 million. Market drops follow the forecast, yet farmers with stored crops or cooperative marketing can ride out fluctuations. Speculators may gain or lose. farmers should join marketing associations and hold until picking time.
Cemetery notice calling all who have loved ones buried at New Prospect Church to assist with cleaning and fence repairs. The event occurs before the second Sunday in August and asks attendees to bring fence posts and wire staples. A. B. Posey Reynolds Ga R 4.
Advertiser seeks commercial grade land on the line of A B & A or Central of Georgia Railroad. Price should be low. Send particulars to Box No 872 Atlanta Ga.
Journalists from Georgia and beyond convened in Butler for the Third District Press Association session at a local high school. Miss Emily Woodward led the group with speeches, a luncheon, tours of a peach-packing plant, musical numbers, and a pledge to strengthen press public ties.
John Spencer in The Macon Telegraph laments the famine in Butler Georgia describing scant food amid a village scene. He contrasts the hunger with a feast of ham fried chicken pickles peaches cream and cake and asks residents to reach out if they need support.
A Talbotton tragedy on the main square left J C McGuirt dead after a knife wound. Dr G M Black a 45 year old dentist is held for murder. The fight followed a denunciation over a tag incident and McGuirt’s denouncement near Maxwell’s store. McGuirt from Pike county was about 30 and unmarried. The body to Pike county for funeral services and interment.
In the Georgia Senate and House, Senator G. Smith of Butler and C. W. Foy of Taylor County received notable committee placements. Smith sits on Appropriations, Academy for Blind, Agriculture Banks and Banking, Constitutional Amendments, County and County Matters, Education and Public Schools, Forestry, Game and Fish, Highways, Military Affairs, Penitentiary, Railroads, and Training Schools where he is chairman of the latter. Foy serves as vice chair of the General Judiciary Committee and is also on Education, Excuses of Members Absent without Leave, Labor and Labor Statistics.
The bill by Mr Perking of Muscogee proposes replacing hanging with electrocution. Executions would be at Milledgeville State penitentiary with a specified pre execution notice, transport duties by the county, and a formal certification by the warden after the execution.
A thunder shower at Means saw mill in Culloden caused a steam pipe to rupture. Three Black workers S T Harris Andrew Cherry Albert Jackson died from scalds. White man Theodore Daniels badly scalded but recovering. Eight Black workers were taken to Macon hospital. Names include Ervine Dannelly Alvin Jordan Jr Henry Carson Jr Thomas Pierson John Smith S Jackson John Jones Rufus Rutherford.
The Herald will not publish next week as the editor attends the annual Georgia Press Association meeting where he serves as recording secretary. The note thanks the public in advance for indulgence and signs off sincerely.
An old advertisement touts a remedy called Texas Wonder for kidney and bladder troubles including gravel rheumatism and irregularities. It claims cure by mail for $1.25 with testimonials available, and lists Dr E W Hall of St Louis Missouri and druggists as sellers.
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