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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
4
Butler Georgia Post Office entry shows this issue as second class mail. Chas Benns Jr is managing editor and O E Cox publisher and business manager. Published every Thursday as the official county organ.
A collection of witty observations on society politics and local life in glossy aphorisms. It notes rising patriots shifting roles and the looming question of civic pride while praising teachers and publishers and pondering community progress.
Editor McKenzie Perry of Macon County, from Citizen Montezuma, visits the weekly Franklin News and Banner praising local boosterism. The paper also notes James Reynolds, known as Uncle Jim, found a wallet with $60 near Englewood Tennessee and kept it safe without spending a cent.
The Dawson News editor notes that outward neatness of a home reflects inner conditions. A well kept house and surroundings imply a disciplined, orderly household and living standards.
A speaker reflects on a late mother in a poem about longing and memory. The narrator, now gray and aged, recalls a small-town girlhood and asks if his life has honored his mother's love and example amid battles and loss.
The Herald praises Superintendent Folds and organizers for selecting Rev. E A Caldwell and Hon Hugh Howell as commencement speakers. Caldwell urged graduates to guard health and use their gifts, while Howell urged female and male graduates to build a strong future in a progressive county.
A collage of moral maxims from Austin Colton Confucius and Eddy on prosperity virtue and reform. Highlights urge shared prosperity through righteousness and love while warning that wealth without ethics undermines security and national growth. The collection links personal virtue to national harmony.
Long colonial era reflection on taste, purpose, and existence urges readers to question life’s use and align behavior with moral law. It contrasts consumer vanity with duties to public uplift, citing Rockefeller and Wesleyan College while urging self honesty and reform.
Georgia history trivia compiled for 2 000 applicants at the New York World’s Fair. Questions cover settlement year, governors, capitals, landmarks, notable Georgians, battles around Atlanta, education, and notable Georgia institutions and figures.
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