Butler Hometown Notes Include Weddings and Local Items
Local columns recount a wedding between Miss Maude Windham and Mr Grady eat at Reynolds with Rev H O Fowler officiating and a forthcoming nuptial for Miss Maude Windham. Other notes mention Mr J E Davant and Mrs J E Davant guests, and several visits by residents to nearby towns including Reynolds Howard and Macon. The piece highlights sales, store promotions, and community notices across Butler and surrounding areas.
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Butler
Testform and Mrs. P Riley Victim of Asthma
Friends of Mr and Mrs Pick ens Riley extend deepest sympathy in the death of their youngest child Sanders Durham age thirteen months. He died about ten o clock Tuesday night after a few hours illness, cause asthenia. Funeral and interment were held yesterday afternoon with services by Rev L A Harrell and Rev J T Adams.
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L A Harrell
J. T. Adams
Representative sought for local oil firm sales demo
Manufacturer seeks a young man in this section for a proposition that requires a clean demonstration rather than sales ability. Must be able to put $400 in the business and can double investment every thirty days. Representative here soon. Answer "Representative," care this paper.
Fine Musician at Eight
Sir Arthur Sullivan, famed for The Mikado and H M S Pinafore, showed prodigious talent by age eight, able to play all wind instruments in the orchestra, the son of a bandmaster.
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Sir Arthur Sullivan
H. M. S. Pinafore
Arthur
Columbus First Discovered the Hammock in Americas
The account notes Columbus arriving in San Salvador and observing natives asleep in hammacs, linking the term hamac to hammock usage in the Americas as the explorer’s early discovery.
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Columbus
America
San Salvador
A Girl at Bay and a Courtly Murder Trap
Mary Blake plays a suspect in a murder case and evades police while a criminologist uses expressive personality to reveal the truth. The film starring Corinne Griffith premieres at Rivoli Theatre with a tale of fate, love, and deception. The note ends with a health aside urging Chamberlain's Tablets for indigestion.
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Corinne Griffith
Rivoli Theatre
Mary Blake
Miss Griffith
Mary
Commencement Talbotton High School Exercises Held
Commencement exercises at Botton High School in Talbotton Georgia were held at the opera house. Robert McArnold of Columbus delivered the literary address after an introduction by A P Persons. Graduates included Rhodes Mahone John McGehee Jr Virginia McGehee Josie Starling Maud Thomas and Marguerite Couch. Maude Thomas set a remarkable attendance record never missing a day. Miss Susan Leonard led the year as supervisor but will leave for Athens Alabama for a new position.
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Talbotton High School
Talbotton
4Botton High School
Opera House
Robert McArnold
Columbus
A. P. Persons
Rhodes Mahone
John McGehee, Jr
Virginia McGehee
Josie Starling
Maud Thomas
Marguerite Couch
Tragedies at the Crossing and Other Test of Courage
The Sovereign Visitor recounts a man testing perils at a crossing by throttle wheel lighter flame dog touch gun barrel and live wire. He refuses to bond his honest clerk and declines insurance while three U S soldiers listed as missing in action from the recent war remain official entries.
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United States
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Charing
Z. D. Gill
Jay Shealy
H. J. Porter
Ansleys
I. F. Peebles & Co
Eli Garrett
State Dental Association
Atlanta
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Barnes Kirksey
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John
Edith Jinks
Ira Chambers
Messrs
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Clifford Barfield
Hamilton
A .J. Gill
Herbert Coachman
Clearwater, Fla
Mr. B. Brawls
Mrs. J. T. Hogg
Georgette Druises
Hall Price
Americus
Etta Belle Braswell
Alma Medlock
Buena Vista
Mobil Oil
Green Flag
Supreme Oil
Palm Beach
IRA
Lucy Cox
State Normal
C. B. Spillers
Albany
Mrs
Theo McGee
Little Son
A. J. McGee
J. E. Davant
Corsicana, Tex
J. E. Vavantt
Leila Booth
Nelts Peterman
Mit. Gaultney, Jr
J. H. Giles
Junction City
I. F. Peebles
Ashton B. Jones
Butler, Ga
Americus, Ga
A. W. Harris
W. S_ .Hightower
Tallassee
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Annie Cameron
Emory University
Atanta
J. M. Boland
C. E. Benns
Eufaula
J .F. Pomeroy
E.co. Garrett
Lara and
Lennell
Fitzgerald
Cordele
W. E. Myers
Tampa, Fla
Americus Ga
W. M. Pettis
Cummings, Ga
M. R. Cameron
Dawson
Young People’s Missionary Society
A. H. Riley
Anita Marshall
Antoinette Fountain
Thelma Jennings
Hawkinsville
Katherine Moore
Thomaston
Galloway Boland
Chas Salter
Jacksonville Fla
C. S Cox
C. W. Bazemore
W. E. A. Smith
Madison, Ga
J. C. Sealy
Elizabeth McCrary
Madison
Fleming & Fouche
Birmingham
Bae States
Warm Springs
Hugh Neisler
Windham—Smith
Rogram
Corine Griffith
Douglas Fairbanks
Testform
P. Riley
Asthema
Heath—Neisler
Mobiloil
Butler and
Montezuma
C. M. Montgomery
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E. L. Harris
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