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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1915
Page
2
Reynolds Georgia July 26 1915 many residents host and visit relatives with trips to Columbus Dothan and Philadelphia. Miss Fannie Mae Crawford and Miss Eunice Rodgers guests at local homes. Capt E McAuley back from illness. Wedding guest Miss Louise Griffin attends Montfort Clements wedding. Numerous visits among Anthony Brown Marshall and Kilpatrick families.
Miss Helen Marguerite Montfort and Mr. Robert Linwood Clements wed at Reynolds Baptist church with a pink and white decor theme. The ceremony featured a 25 voice chorus, bridesmaids from Reynolds Butler and Buena Vista, a lace gown bride, and a pink gladiolus reception. Guests from Buena Vista Reynolds Butler Americus and Macon attended.
One of the week’s pretty social events was a party given by Mrs. H. K. Sealy on Friday afternoon in honor of her sister Miss Johnella Camp of Newnan. The hall and veranda were decorated with ferns and sunflowers, green and yellow, Progressive Rook was played, then a salad course with lemon ice. Guests included Misses Bonnie Newsom Winnie Newsom Minnie McAuley Jennie McAuley Virginia Hinton Sarah Pool Leila Whatley Hazel Barrow Nettie Fountain Marie Barrow Nella Matthews Kathrine Joiner Eva Priffith Lucile Lucas Eva McDaniel and Misses Ellis and Rogers.
A fragment recalls a Buford reader W. C. Jones describing a severe diarrheal attack lasting over a week and his inability to endure it, but the text is garbled and incomplete.
Miss Marguerite Montfort was hosted by several friends before her marriage. Bonny Newsom and Winnie Newsom organized a bridge party, Virginia Hinton and Mrs Thurman Whatley hosted two card gatherings, Sara Pool hosted a rehearsal party at her home with punch and pink heart brick cream and pink and white cakes, and Virginia Hinton gave a lawn party for guest Miss Marion Thorpe of Macon.
The bride elect Miss Marguerite Montfort attended a porch party last Tuesday evening July 20 hosted by Miss Sara Pool as the final pre nuptial event in the sequence.
The broad airy porch of the Pool residence featured Massive Gothic columns and white decor with palms and ferns. Guests in elegant attire enjoyed porch rockers and swings as music filled the air and punch and angel-food cake with black cream and pink bells were served to about forty attendees.
Georgia peach Elbertas appear in the local market as a consignment arrives from Coleman and Audessey. The fruit is described as the most delicious of its kind grown in the United States.
In the Fort Valley region Mr. F. F. Paris offers Elberta peaches at Reynolds with brisk demand and crate prices of 1.50 to 2.00. Georgia Belle peaches show improvement yet cannot match the new Elberta's size color and flavor as described in the Savannah Daily Press clipping.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey cough syrup as a soothing remedy made from pine balsam tar and honey. It claims thousands have benefited and urges readers to ask dealers for the 25 cent bottle to start using it to end coughs and colds.
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