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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1915
Page
6
Local publication details weekly circulation 1500 entered at Butler post office. Advertising rates listed for display and local ads with per inch and per word pricing. Legal ads priced by law. obituaries and cards of thanks free up to 200 words, then per word. Alcohol and patent medicine ads not accepted. foreign ads discouraged by contract terms.
A reflective column critiques neutrality and war ethics, noting the burdens of peace and the urge to act. It jokes about munitions versus volunteers, envisions Europe in turmoil, and laments shrinking veteran presence at the Richmond Reunion as old soldiers fade from public life.
The passage quotes an editorial from a Jeffersonian magazine asking whether Wilson and Bryan think Germany meant to harm civilians in the ongoing war. It continues with remarks on an unanswered American note and references a journalist’s commentary.
The Tifton Gazette notes the Georgia Legislature, facing strife, should be sent to Germany to settle differences, with Joe Young of Tift unexpectedly indispensable to the effort.
Fort Valley Leader Tribune asks Macon Telegraph readers how they prefer peaches processed as ripened fruit is readied for canning drying and preserving in jam jelly and marmalade forms. The note touts the fruit’s qualities and taste appeal.
A Fitzgerald Press note lists Georgia editors ready to join a war effort after the Lusitania sinking. It mocks several reporters from Greensboro Butler Douglas Monroe Cuthbert and others for preparing militias and editorial campaigns, praising Jones of Douglas as a fiery ally while lampooning others.
The piece cites Butler Herald on arithmetic and the Walton Tribune on silk socks for Eastman, with a quip about Dodge girls knitting. It also wittily notes a time limit for camp and references spring skirts and proportion between feet and eyes.
A burglar broke into an editor's house by mistake but found nothing. The editor, awake, asked for a dollar during the escape and the thief, amused, tossed a dollar before leaving. This odd incident was reported by the Greensboro Herald Journal.
Dr Emory R Park urges spring typhoid vaccination with three injections under State Board of Health guidance. Georgia furnishes free vaccine. officials urge early action. Government notes prophy lactic vaccine effectiveness in the army. Atlanta May 27. Railroad executives from major lines debate pay reforms and ICC jurisdiction over mail traffic, urging annual weight and pay adjustments and pro rata compensation for rail mail cars. Represented lines include Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western among others.
Sheriff Jarman of Ben Hill county killed J. M. Pate a white man at Mitchell near Ashburn while making an arrest Pate allegedly threatened the sheriff. Col Geo W Busbee a prominent Georgia lawyer died at his Vienna home after months of illness.
Warren Grice state attorney general will appear in Superior Court Savannah June 12 to defend the state automobile tax law challenged as unconstitutional by automobile and motorcycle owners in injunction suits filed recently.
Columbus will host a new packing plant costing $60 000 with local stock of $30 000 raised by James L. Glass for Public Utilities Company of Trenton New Jersey. The company plans to place officers and cold storage in Columbus and the slaughter plant in Phenix City with construction to begin at once.
Sheriff Beard reports Banks county warden notified that David Warner, sentenced for murder in Muscogee county last year, has escaped. A $25 reward is offered for his capture. Warner and Lon Jenkins were convicted for killing B. Frank Allen in Springer woods east of Columbus last summer, part of a string of four suburban murders that unsettled the area.
The Central of Georgia offers round trip tickets to Athens on June 26 27 28 and July 3 5 11 12 13 19 with final limit the fifteenth day after sale not counting sale day. An extension to September 30 may be secured by depositing the ticket with Jos Richardson Special Agent at 184 College Avenue Athens within fifteen days and paying a small fee. For full information ask any Ticket Agent.
Fitzgerald Ga May 22 Judge Robert T Daniel Griffin Ga Sovereign Grand Sire of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows died early this evening from a stroke suffered earlier in the day He collapsed at the close of his address before about 1200 delegates to the state convention recounting his work with the order and his visits to lodges in Canada and across the United States He reeled and fell into a chair with paralysis on his right side
Mrs Linda Harrod of Fort Wayne Indiana describes long time stomach trouble and failed relief until she used Chamberlain's Tablets from a local drug store. She reports immediate relief from heaviness after eating and stomach pain after taking the medicine.
A Johns Hopkins professor notes orange blossoms can be used as an anesthetic when enough are used. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports the invention as a humorous remark about wedding ceremonies.
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