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Butler Herald

Location

Butler, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1939

Page

6

Atlanta Woman Kills Son and Shoots Self in New York

Mrs. Celia Cohen of Atlanta is hospitalized in critical condition after a New York room break in where her 14 year old son William was shot through the heart and died. Police charge homicide against Cohen who is divorced from Berry. The pair had recently gone to the New York World’s Fair.

Atlanta Son Self New York Celia Cohen William Georgia Military Academy Cohen East Ninety-first Street Berry Murray Gordon

New Warm Springs Medical Building Is Now Completed

Warm Springs Georgia July 18 the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation completes a new two story fireproof medical building costing about 200000 with equipment valued at 20200 The facility includes offices a physical therapy department an operating suite X ray rooms and nurses quarters It features an automatic elevator tube slide fire escapes and a mirror wall ward to aid polio patient rehabilitation Located between pines overlooking pools beside the Norman Wilson Memorial Infirmary the hospital aims to reduce ambulance trips to Atlanta hospitals.

Warm Springs Georgia Warm Springs Foundation This News Foundation Norman Wilson Memorial Infirmary Atlanta

Monastery of St George Overlooks Balaklava Scene

Monastery of St George, where Florence Nightingale lived during the Crimean War, overlooks the fishing village Balaklava by the waterside valley through which the Six Hundred of the Light Brigade rode.

St. George Florence Nightingale Balaklava Light Brigade

Woman Disappears From Macon Home After Assault

Mrs. O. A. Nikula, a 26 year old businesswoman, vanished from her Nevaro apartments in Macon on July 19 after a July 2 assault by a burglar. Police pursued leads in Macon and to relatives in Richmond and Montgomery with no result.

Macon Nikula Nevaro Viola Davis Paul Street Davis Wesleyan Drive H. C. Moody Washington Avenue Montgomery Ala

Georgia tobacco markets open July 25 in South Georgia

Atlanta July 17 The tobacco auction season gears up in South Georgia with markets in 15 cities and over 60 warehouses. About 30 000 growers are expected to sell bright leaf tobacco in the 22nd consecutive year of sales. The industry dates to 1917 and reached a peak in 1980 with 104 609 000 pounds produced.

Atlanta South Georgia Georgia A. B. and C Adel Baxley Blackshear Douglas Hahira Hazlehurst Moultrie Nashville Pelham Statesboro Tifton Valdosta Vidalia Waycross

Two Ane Killed and Three Hunt In Crash At Chatsworth

Chatsworth Ga July 15 two women were killed and three persons injured when their automobile left the Atlanta Knoxville highway six miles south of Chatsworth and struck a tree after plunging down a 10 foot embankment. An identification card bore the name Joseph Balser of Buffalo New York and hospital staff tentatively identified the injured as Mr Balser and his two daughters. The deceased were believed to be Mrs Balser and a second daughter. The driver apparently lost control on the curve and the car rolled into the woods before hitting a tree. Nearby residents heard the crash and aided at the scene. The elderly woman was thought to be between 60 and 70 years old and the other between 30 and 40.

Chatsworth Hamilton Memorial Hospital Dalton Buffalo, N. Yi Joseph Balser Buffalo Balser Brown

The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus

The Seven Sleepers were seven noble youths who fled the Decian persecution in A D 250 to a cave on Mount Celion. After 290 or 309 years they awoke and died, their bodies carried to Marseilles in a stone coffin now shown in Victor's church. Names: Constantine Dionysius John Martinian Malchus Martinian Serapion.

Ephesus Mount Celion Marseilles France Victor's Church Constantine Dionysius John Martinian Malchus Serapion

Arm Department Reports First Debt Free Year In History

Atlanta notes the state department of agriculture is debt free for the first time in years with funds on hand. Two and a half years ago debts reached 825,509 incurred during establishing the Farm Market system. Commissioner Columbus Roberts paid off 52,509 from internal savings and 31,000 from a stabilization fund refund.

Atlanta State Department of Agriculture Columbus Roberts Roberts Roberts Department of Agri

Georgia Farm Editor Gets New Post in Washington

Whitney Tharin, editor of the Georgia Agricultural Extension Service for two years, will be transferred to Washington D C August 1 as senior administrative officer of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration's Southern division. Extension Director Walter Le Brown said Athens successors have been chosen and will be announced once Tharin can leave his current post.

Athens Whitney Tharin Georgia Agricultural Extension Service Washington, D. C Agricultural Adjustment Administration Southern Division Walter le Brown Thurin

Public culture program runs on fees not general fund

A culture initiative resumes after years without general funding and operates solely on service fees, illustrating a practical application of business methods to public affairs.

General Fund

Wrightsville Finishes Big Paving Project

Mayor Brinson reports 8 120 feet of double surface paving 36 200 feet of concrete sidewalks 27 400 feet of curb and gutter 8 160 feet of storm sewers 5 900 feet of water mains added 4 300 feet lowered under 18 months. WPA assistance helped. Now nine miles of paved streets as state paving proceeds.

Wrightsville W . C. Brinson WPA State Highway Department

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