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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1937
Page
7
Multiple weekend and ongoing visits are noted across Butler and surrounding areas. Families gather in Savannah, Columbus, Macon, Jacksonville, and Daytona Beach while locals travel to Athens, Vicksburg, Yazoo City, and Thomson. Several residents return home from trips and attend family events, with community members visiting relatives in neighboring towns.
Miss Louise Turk hosted a bridge party and lingerie shower Friday for Mrs Farlie Reeves of homaston, aided by Mrs Arthur Shephard of Waynesboro. Top score went to Mrs R L Sutton who won a Chinese vase. Reeves received a silver covering set as a gift. A music program followed, lingerie prizes were presented, and a salad course with fruit punch was served.
Mrs Walter Saings hosted a spend the day party at her fishing camp north of Butler with guests including Mrs W H Wolf of Clearwater Florida Mrs Lowrey Riley of Atlanta and Mrs Billy Wood of Fort Valley plus several local friends joining the gathering for a pleasant social afternoon.
Mrs. Pearl Colquitt announces the engagement of her daughter Willie Pearl Colquitt to Philip Jarrell of Butler and Thomaston. The wedding is planned at the bride’s mother's home in August. Colquitt lineage ties to Georgia pioneer families. Jarrell family roots listed from Butler and Taylor County.
Descendants of the late Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Cox gathered Thursday afternoon for their annual family reunion with a farm barbecue at Mr. C. S. Cox’s place near Butler. Most immediate family members attended, from children to great grandchildren, joined by out-of-town guests Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Snyder and son John of Shreveport Louisiana, and Mr. Charlie Salzer and Miss May Aline Salzer of Jacksonville, Florida.
The Dean Theatre Butler announces a string of musical and comedy features starting Thursday with a 3 PM matinee starring Pat O’Brien in The Great Omalley and child sensation Sybil Jason. Additional showings include Will Bob Steele in The Last of the Warrens on Saturday at 2 4 7 and 9, and Sunday to Monday with Dick Powell and Alice Faye in On the Avenue. The Ritz Bros comedy One in a Million and Eddie Cantor with Ethel Merman in Strike Me Pink are also featured. Matinees on Tuesday at 3 PM with 15¢ prices, Sunday 25¢.
The Brooks family held its annual reunion last Sunday at the home of Hon. and Mrs. L. T. Peed with about one hundred in attendance. The gathering celebrated the birthday of Mrs. M. J. Brooks and included many out of town guests from Ocala Florida West Palm Beach Buena Vista Milford Conn Mt. Berry Edigfield Fort Gaines Atlanta and Macon with special friends Mrs. Hugh Neisler Mrs. Sarah Harris Mrs. H. S. Wall and Col. H. P. Wallace among others.
Howard area social notes list visiting families from Macon Cordele and Atlanta. Several residents, including Miss Frances Sealy Miss Madine Parks and Miss Marie Martin, are mentioned with local hosts such as Rev Jim Wilson and the Parks family. A gathering at Parks pond features Mr and Mrs Lumpkin and children along with several friends.
Mrs T F Mathews longtime resident of Taylor and Crawford counties led a family reunion held July 24 25 at the homes of W F Gray W M Mathews and J T Mathews. Guests enjoyed a Warm Springs picnic boating fishing and swimming at McCants Lake with many Mathews Andrews Hortman Becham Spencer and Fudge relatives from Butler Roberta Macon Perry Montgomery Birmingham Florala and Atlanta in attendance.
The Love lesson sermon for all branch churches and The Mother Church will cite Bible text from I John 4 16 and excerpts from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. It frames Love as divine principle and the Father and Mother of the universe and stresses that infinite Mind or divine Love outweighs concern with the precise form of God.
Revival services at Pine Level church in Nonwich begin Sunday night August 1 with Rev. J. W. Hays of Odum Georgia assisting the pastor. The public is invited to attend.
An old advertisement proclaims a write-in offer to transform an old cotton mattress into a fine inner-spring bed at a price anyone can afford. The copy promises no better mattress at any price and invites readers to write for a call.
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