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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1941
Page
4
The Butler Herald is the Taylor County official weekly paper established in 1876 with a 1500 copy circulation. It lists Chas Benns Jr as managing editor and E Cox as publisher and business manager. Opinions touch on Governor Talmadge and fashion notes from Macon Telegraph describing fall millinery.
The question now centers on whether Japan plans to seize French Indochina and also the rich Dutch East Indies to gain vital resources. Such a move would lessen its reliance on the United States and Great Britain.
It will be gratifying to friends of Mrs. Richard B Russell Sr that her condition is much improved after several weeks illness at Emory Hospital in Atlanta and is expected to be moved this week to her home in Winder while her son Senator Russell who had been at her bedside returns to his office in Washington.
Edward B. McLean, once publisher of the Washington Post and longtime associate of Warren G. Harding, died of a heart attack in a Maryland sanitarium where he had been confined since 1933. The obituary notes his prominence and links to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Georgia's first Poet Laureate Frank L. Stanton is honored for poetry and lively prose in editorials for the Atlanta Constitution. He is noted for songs like Mighty Lak a Rose and Jest A-Wearin for You and for a World War era poem about unity and liberty. The piece recalls Stanton’s Cracker dialect verse and a public notice of a newborn in the Locke family of Thomaston.
Ellaville Sun editor Raymond Duncan highlights Schley County women donating aluminum for the defense drive. Irene Livingston, upon a Boy Scout request at her door, offered her remaining kitchen aluminum after hesitating, saying she would give anything to Uncle Sam.
In Lineville Baptist Church parlor a simple ceremony united Miss Margaret Ann Lowery and McKenzie Allen Perry on Thursday afternoon July 18. Rev. W J Weatherhouse officiated before close relatives with an improvised fern altar and white dahlias. The bride wore a navy ensemble with orchid corsage. Family members attended from Oglethorpe and Lineville. Perry, son of the late A H Perry of Oglethorpe, is Mercer University alumnus and editor of multiple papers. he now works with Franklin Printing in Atlanta. The couple will reside in Atlanta.
A Butler lady who received a postcard last week with only her name on it and no city or state address mailed in another state, now spends her spare time marveling at the postoffice department's ingenuity.
The Lavonia Times celebrated its 36th anniversary, commemorating Rush Burton who may have founded the paper or is closely tied to its early years. The article praises his vigor and lifetime of experience guiding the publication forward.
Byron Anglin marks his second year of the Ragged-edge Column in the Stewart-Webster Journal. The weekly feature draws readers from the local community to distant states with topics ranging from religion and politics to poetry and world news, all in Anglin’s engaging style.
Deep sorrow fills the section after the death of Ed Sheridan a longtime Dannenberg Co. representative in Macon and a trusted figure among Butler and Taylor county friends for forty four years. His family honors his Christ like life noting a son studying for priesthood and a daughter with the Catholic sisterhood in Macon.
A Milledgeville editor praises Miller R Bell as honest, capable, and a fine Georgia man. The piece contends Bell acted sincerely on the Regents vote, notes no defense for him is needed, and criticizes educational bureaucrats tied to the controversy, while affirming Bell’s integrity despite removal.
Ellaville July 27 Merchants dealing in cotton goods will accept cotton Stamps issued to farmers who reduce cotton acreage from the 1941 allotment. County Agent J D Davis says stamps totaling 5 000 have been received to be issued to compliant farmers. To date farmers have received 824 in stamps and about one third of Ellavilles 368 cotton planters have applied.
Thornwell Jacobs announced the election of Dr. John L. Jacobs from Tufts Medical College as vice president in charge of scientific work. The Tufts professor, Harvard trained, connects with the Rockefeller Institute and is an Oglethorpe graduate as the college plans a new medical school opening this fall.
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