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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
12
A devotional prayer seeks forgiveness for wounded souls and idle words. It questions sins of wandering worldly desire and selfish strain, asking for mercy and guidance to live righteously under divine fold. The speaker asks forgiveness for confessed and hidden sins and for spiritual teaching.
Butler locals share visits and greetings from Columbus Macon and Atlanta. Many relatives dine, travel, or attend events, including engagements with Misses Verna Mills and Lillian Dent, J. Posey and J. Burt trips to Miami, and Mr A T Jarrell’s hospital stay. Community updates cover illness, fashion and business reopenings, and local farm notes with prices for poultry and eggs.
An engagement is announced between Miss Arleene Chambers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Chambers, and Mr. William Stewart Shaw of Atlanta. The marriage is to be celebrated June 30.
Miss Edwina Wood of Columbus plans a June 21 Sunday service at Mt Pisgah church to promote Sunday School work. Everyone, especially church members, is invited to attend the third Sunday event.
A column argues dress matters beyond fashion, reflecting inner self and moral stance. It notes that people reject extreme styles yet acknowledge progress in taste, color harmony, and appropriateness, shaping how others perceive and judge us in everyday life.
The Blue Hole near Castalia lies at the westerly village edge nine miles southwest of Sandusky. A subterranean stream surfaces through limestone, flowing three miles to Sandusky Bay. The pool is crystal clear, about thirty feet across, rich in lime soda magnesia and iron, never freezes, and powered Northwestern Ohio’s first grist mill near its spring in 1810.
An old Indian, grieving for his wife, asked an Indian agent for a United States tombstone. After failed attempts, he planted a barber's pole at his wife's grave, a quirky tribute that endured long after both he and the pole were gone, as Youth's Companion notes.
John Burroughs extols nature as the constant, inexhaustible resource that moves the heart, inspires the intellect, and nourishes health and joy. He frames nature as a storehouse of facts for scientists, pictures for painters, images for poets, and precepts for moralists, a universal source of knowledge and delight.
The first practical gas engine was built in 1860 by French inventor Lenoir. The single cylinder machine resembled a horizontal steam engine and operated double acting, drawing gas in during the forward stroke and igniting it by an electric spark to drive the piston, with exhaust during the return stroke. It was inefficient due to lack of compression.
A brief zoological sketch describes the sloth as a purely arboreal animal with elongated fore limbs ending in hook like digits, limited to three, a rudimentary tail, short rounded head, small ears, long coarse hair, and greenish natural coloration. Sloths rarely leave trees, move slowly, have no leaping ability, a complex stomach for plant diet, and typically bear one young.
Commencement at Talbotton Consolidated School ends with LeVert winning the Bardwell Loving Cup for another year. Obituaries note Mrs Mary Ann Johnson Ellis ton dies aged, Mrs Fannie McGehee Rawls dies recently, and Mrs Lynda Lee Bryan delivers the Jeff Davis address at Ellaville. A house fire on J W Watkins home injures Martin McGehee. A & Couch home fire occurred two weeks earlier. Confederate Veterans dine after barbecue hosted by Daughters of the Confederacy and Mrs J A Battle presiding.
Neatly done at treasonable rates. See me or leave copy at Butler Drug Company for Mrs Victor Bartlett.
The Seventh Grade examination for State Certificates and promotion to high school will be held in Butler at the court house on June 20 1925 at 8 00 a m. All students who finished seventh grade and expect promotion to the eighth grade must take this examination. June 1 1925. W T Rustin C B S
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