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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1929
Page
1
Butler citizens praise Mr Shearer as head of public schools. Mrs Shearer praised as an excellent teacher and Christian lady. Mr Shearer holds A and M degrees, promoted salary, leads Butler school to new Florida posting, with community wishes for success. Pastor M Wolfe offers blessings.
A Sunday night sermon at the Methodist church in Janction City will explore The Inquest Over Pharaoh. Rev. Here Roberts will deliver the discourse at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
Sheriff McGuffin returns from Birmingham Alabama with Dozier Walton a colored man who had no fugitive since March 24. Walton was arrested in Birmingham Monday and is charged with assault with intent to murder for a shooting at Peterville on March 24 that wounded Dan Trussell.
The item notes a commencement sermon delivered by Reverend C Adams. It records the topic as First Things First and identifies the preacher and the occasion as the commencement exercises. Additional specifics are not provided in the readable text.
A religious speaker urges prioritizing eternal matters from the Sermon on the Mount. He contrasts Christian focus on the unseen with worldly preoccupations, warns against trivial amusements, stresses time as a key value, and says education and purposeful use of 24 hours define character.
Farmers send in the season’s first cotton blooms. J B Goodwin, recently returned to farming in Panhandle district, submits a 22 inch stalk with nine squares. Bazemore and Pope Booth also report early blooms, with Booth pursuing nine acres despite boll weevil pressure.
Dr. Spright Dowell Mercer University president and Dean Me Clean visited Butler on their way to Columbus last Friday morning meeting Rev. Horace M. Wolfe and local business leaders. Dowell had nearly completed a $ fifty thousand endowment for the Law Department and Mercer’s Law School ranked eighth nationally prompting a new building project to maintain standing. Dowell joined Mercer from a prior Alabama university presidency and has earned student support through his forthright leadership.
Telegram reports Captain Thos E Brewer of Louisville died at six this morning from paralysis after a four week illness. A native of Taylor County he belonged to a prominent family. Funeral and interment are planned for tomorrow in Cincinnati.
The statement praises Mr Booth as a top local farmer and a highly active, trusted citizen involved in church, school, and civic affairs. The speaker urges the county to have more residents like him to strengthen the community.
The Butler Baptist church plans revival starting Sunday June 17 with Rev H M Wolfe preaching at 745 pm song service and 8 pm sermon. No morning service. All welcome as the pastor aims to present the Gospel clearly to lead listeners to salvation and asks Taylor county believers to pray for the revival.
Henry Mims, a well known Butler Negro, left Butler seeking a hopeful future in Detroit. He fell ill with pneumonia soon after arrival and died despite family and friends providing financial aid. His body is expected to arrive home today for interment.
A voluntary effort to establish a permanent memorial honors Benjamin N Duke Washington Duke and J B Duke for their educational philanthropy in the US and abroad. An executive committee includes Jas A Thomas W S Lee W W Flowers A H Sands Jr C C Dula Basil Harris and A J Drexel Biddie Jr with regional sponsors and donors noted.
Uriah McTyier dies from injuries in an Oxford North Carolina auto crash while en route to New York with his wife and son and daughter in Plains Georgia. The elder Mr McTyier leaves a widow Mrs Ella Gray Carthers McTyier and seven children with funeral plans in Plains.
Those leaving this week to attend summer school are C. F. Austin Elizabeth Childres Marie Payne Kathnell Cooper and Wyman Harris from Americus Normal College.
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