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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1929
Page
7
Rowena Wilson reflects on ordinary days and hidden mysteries as faces reveal beauty amid life’s humdrum. The piece contemplates masks, joy, and the quiet romance in daily encounters along a shared path.
Evelyn Gilmore spends Wednesday in Atlanta while G M Daniel visits with family here. Miss Ophelia Hartman presents Japanese Love Song Friday evening. Master Frank Ly ill with illness. Frances Watkins of Columbus guests of Mildred Brett. Robert Mathews of Regis weekend with Frank Gray. Theo McGee and children visit the Pee family. Viola Foy returns to Krora Illinois to resume duties as pianist at Aurora Hospital. James Searcy returns from Atlanta after Emory University. The Bazemore and Watkins families host gatherings. Christine Bazemore heads to Thomaston for a telephone company job. Clifton McCants leaves for Pensacola to rejoin the U S Navy. The Mikado songs and Blossom perform at Friday Japanese program in the high school auditorium. A variety of social visits and engagements dominate Butler society this week.
Miss Hallie Peavy hosts her Byron parents and Fort Valley relatives for a weekend visit as ministers H C Griffin and M O Williams attend a Wesleyan College Conservatory event in Macon. The piece promotes the High school production "O Joy San" at the Butler auditorium Friday evening featuring Japanese maidens.
Mrs J J McCants announces the engagement of her daughter Evelyn Gertrude Gilmore to James William Watson of Thomaston Georgia with marriage planned for June.
In a quiet ceremony at the Methodist parsonage Rev. H. C. Griffin united Calvin Cox and Eunice Theus last Sunday. Cox, son of J. O. Cox, works for the Montezuma Georgian, a leading state newspaper. Theus is daughter of W. H. Theus, from a prominent Taylor county family.
Sunday at Antioch U S news described a close Reds vs Blues contest with the Blues prevailing by a narrow margin. The piece congratulates the Blues and encourages continued faithfulness to the Master. It invites Sunday School attendees to meet at Henry Adams Sr home at 8 PM on Saturday June 8 to express appreciation.
Dr Thomas Henry Brooks of Ideal dies after several months illness aged 39. He died at his sister's home in Americus. Funeral services were held in Ideal with Rev J J Saunders conducting. Survived by wife Martha Brooks, father T S Brooks, four sisters A J Harris G L Williams May Brooks W H Burgess, and two brothers B B Brooks and WC Brooks.
A fragment from Butler High School Class Day exercises features Vondle Parks reciting reflective lines about nature and human folly. The piece contemplates how nature inspires thought and laments what man has made of man.
The Butler Georgia Senior Class of Taylor County issues a playful last will naming Superintendent A. E. Shearer to distribute to freshmen and returning teachers’ advisory wisdom. They leave memories, A s for monthly reports, and playful bequests of traits and anecdotes to fellow graduates and staff.
The document records seniors of B. H. 8 pledging to pass on personal effects and traits to peers and successors. Names include Lucile Cox Ishmael Cox Wheeler Williamson Isolee Jarrell Mitchell Turner Lealice Bartlett Gerrell Bussey Hugh Fain Tom Harmon and others. The note closes with a May 16 1929 seal and mutual blessings.
Trustees to be elected in Butler Reynolds Crowells Turners Central Wesley Mark Rupert to fill terms expiring. Election set for June 20 in the usual manner at the customary polling places. May 14, 1929. W. T. Austin C. S. S.
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