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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
5
The verse prayer asks forgiveness for wounded souls and wrong thoughts. It speaks of wandering from divine aims, idle words, envy, and self denial, seeking guidance to live rightly under divine mercy and shelter in Thy Fold. It emphasizes confession, hidden sins, and a plea for instruction to walk a faithful path.
Butler residents share visits and trips with families from Macon Reynolds Ellaville Zebulon and Americus. Notables attend Harold events and sales, with hospitality at homes of Posey Burt Coffey and Cameron. Local scenes include fruit and poultry markets and a cotton crop outlook plus medical moves and a dental convention in Augusta.
CHAMBERS SHAW of interest to an unusually large number of friends is the announcement of the engagement of Miss Arleene Chambers, the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Chambers, of this city, to Mr. William Stewart Shaw, of Atlanta, the marriage to be solemnized June 30th.
Miss Edwina Wood of Columbus is expected to be at Mt Pisgah church for the third Sunday in June to promote Sunday School work. Everyone invited, especially church members, to attend the service on Sunday, June 21.
A community appeal invites churches and groups to seek the services of the Business Men's Evangelistic Club. Contact J. R. Braddy, Secretary, by call or letter to arrange meetings and support. The piece echoes the urging to work while daylight lasts with a biblical proverb.
The piece argues dress expresses inner self and moral view, urging care in appearance. It contrasts old wedding suits and hats with modern styles, noting progress in art and color blending while stressing respect for others' sensibilities. It cites a Milwaukee Journal claim that people do care about attire.
The Blue Hole near Castalia sits at the village edge nine miles southwest of Sandusky. A subterranean stream surfaces through limestone, flows three miles through Erie County into Sandusky Bay. The pool is a circular, crystal clear, very deep spring with lime soda magnesia and iron in the water, never freezes, and once powered the first grist mill in northwestern Ohio in 1810.
A grieving Indian sought a United States tombstone for his wife. The agent failed twice to supply a stone and the man later placed a barber's pole at his wife's grave, as the pole symbolized a memorial of enduring love. The tale, from Youth's Companion, ends with note that the pole and the memory outlast marble monuments.
John Burroughs extols nature as life’s top resource, constant and near at hand. He frames nature as an inexhaustible storehouse feeding heart, mind, body, and imagination, valued across science, art, poetry, and morality for knowledge, inspiration, and joy.
The first practical gas engine, created by French inventor Lenoir in 1860, resembled a single cylinder horizontal steam engine and operated double acting. Gas entered the cylinder, ignited by a spark, and exhaust happened during the return stroke. The engine burned fuel without compression, making it very wasteful.
The sloth is a purely arboreal animal with elongated fore limbs ending in hook-like digits, never more than three, used to cling to branches. Hind limbs lack similar hooks. The tail is rudimentary, head short, color greenish in habitat. Sloths rarely leave trees, move slowly, and have a complex stomach for plant diet. Only one young is produced at birth.
Talbotton Consolidated School finished Tuesday with a debate between Collinsworth and LeVert, LeVert winning and retaining the Bardwell Loving Cup. On Monday June 1 Mrs W H Ellis ton died at her daughter’s home in Talbotton after a year of illness. Born Mary Ann Johnson in 1867, she leaves one daughter, Mrs J Parker, and previously lost daughter Willie Elliston years ago. News arrived Monday of the passing of Mrs Fannie McGehee Rawls, daughter of Dr and Mrs J McGehee, born 1864 in Newnan but raised mainly in Talbot County. Early Monday a fire at J W Watkins’s home damaged the house, burning furniture but sparing most items. Martin McGehee suffered a painful nose wound from a bucket thrown from atop the house. Two weeks earlier Mr A B Couch’s home burned. Mrs Lynda Lee Bryan delivered the Jeff Davis address at Ellaville on June 3, as Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a barbecue for Confederate Veterans with Mrs J A Battle presiding.
Mrs Victor Bartlett offers neat typing services at Butler Drug Company. See her or leave a copy for retrieval.
The seventh grade examination for state certificates and promotion to high school will be conducted in Butler at the courthouse on June 20, 1925, at 8:00 a m. All students who finished seventh grade and expect promotion are required to take it. The examiner notes the test is countywide and mandatory for all eligible students. June 1, 1925. W T Rustin, C B & C.
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