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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
8
Georgia reports wide range events from college letters awarded to thirty students and a fatality sequence from motor accidents and lightning. Notables include Governor Rivers anniversary events, Emory summer enrollment, and public works bids. Also covered are air tour results, convicts, highway projects, and state honors for officials and professionals.
Earl and Tom Marshall of Reynolds Georgia are the grandsons of two mayors T L Bell mayor of Americus and W S Marshall Sr mayor of Reynolds The piece notes their family ties to local leadership as it appears in It Happened in Georgia.
Atlanta June 12 Governor Rivers said he is considering calling two special sessions of the General Assembly one in July and a second in October with no firm dates yet.
Columbus reports Major General George A. Lynch chief of infantry will arrive at Fort Benning this week and attend the graduation on June 15. A total of 191 officers completing the regular and tank courses will graduate, marking the end of training for the 109 regular course students and 82 tank course students.
Whigham Ga June 9 Mrs G B Trulock and her husband saved a penny fund for six years counting every coin they amassed 136000 coppers equal to 1360 dollars. The couple heads to the San Francisco Fair with their savings cheering their long effort.
Greenville Ga June 11 Sheriff C H Collier announced the arrest of F T Gilbert 29 on murder charges connected to the shooting of Robert Brown 40 a filling station operator near the Flint River between Woodbury and Molena Brown was hit by six pistol bullets and Gilbert reportedly surrendered after the shooting linked to an old grudge
Uncle Alex Mayo, 80 and a half, walks from his Wrightsville, Georgia home to town nine miles away in about two and a half hours. Five cars offered lifts, but he refused, saying he can still move under his own power.
Atlanta June 18 A 9 year old boy James Ransom son of Mr and Mrs Ike Ransom of Atlanta died after a pool dive at Grant Park swimming pool He was pulled from the water within two minutes Life Guard Russell Burnett began artificial respiration The fire department and city physicians worked for over two hours before pronouncing him dead at a hospital
Hemphill Texas Mrs Mattie Boyett 69 prayed for relief from glaucoma like blindness for 16 years and woke Tuesday able to see her family again. A doctor admitted he could not explain the sudden recovery noting the film over her remaining eye had disappeared and her night of rest preceded improved vision.
Deputy Sheriff Wm Branan reports a conversation with a Black tenant who has lived nine years in a Macon house. He says the roof leaks and threatens to move out unless the landlord fixes it promptly, asking who owns the house and who is paid rent to.
In Blakely Early County Georgia a 61 year old farmer J W Dunning was shot by neighbor Jim Golden after Dunning slashed Golden and his wife with a knife during a dispute over county ditch digging. The Golden woman was injured and taken to Donalsonville Hospital in not serious condition.
Macon June 18 Jack Rabun Conyers a Mercer University graduate class of 1986 received a $1000 fellowship from the University of Chicago announced by Mercer Dean J B Clarke. The fellowship requires no part time teaching. Rabun graduated summa cum laude and earned an MA at UNC in 1937 before a teaching fellowship there.
Tornadic winds caused at least four deaths and over 1.5 million dollars in damage across Illinois Ohio Indiana Michigan Wisconsin and Kentucky. Gerald Brown 26 of Schneider Indiana died when a brick building was torn apart. Mrs. Harry Metz 41 of Hicksville Ohio crushed by a falling tree. Judith Pike 18 months Janesville Wisconsin and Mrs H Freeman Stockland Illinois died in homes destroyed by the storm. Torrential rains and bright electrical displays accompanied the winds.
Forsyth Georgia June 12 Baptist pastors will study scriptures in original Hebrew and Greek at the fifth annual School of Religious Education June 29 30. Dr R P Caudill and Dr K M Yates will lead courses on Ephesians and Amos with Greek and Hebrew texts. About 150 pastors and 350 teachers and officials expected to attend with several churches contributing.
In Americus on June 11 Dr. E. L. Murray retires after a 50 year career in the drug business. A Georgia Board of Pharmacists member and longtime pharmacist, he sold Murray Pharmacy earlier to H. B. Carlton of Plains and will spend his remaining years fishing and visiting. Murray began in 1884, studied at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and helped run the Murray and Hooks store before opening his own shop.
The Georgia Loan and Trust Company holds a $400 debt on land in Taylor County. By power of sale vested in Ella Foy, the 55 acre farm in the 15th District will be sold at public outcry at the Taylor County courthouse on July 4, 1989, to satisfy principal and interest with costs. Proceeds apply to debt, costs, and any balance to Josiah Mills estate administrator.
Nettie Speer files for divorce from J Willard Speer in Taylor Superior Court April Term 1939. Defendant, not residing in the county or state, must appear by October 1 1989 and answer the complaint per order of publication. Judge C F Mc Laughlin presides. Clerk Thelmon Jarrell records.
Taylor County to hold trustee elections on July 1 1939 in Butler Reynolds Rupert Mauk Cross Roads Central Wesley Crowell and Turner districts. Voters in each district elect trustees to fill vacancies at the usual polling places. Returns filed with the County School Superintendent. Ordered by W T Austin County School Superintendent on June 6 1939.
The Greek village Mesolonghi defended against Ottoman forces with notable bravery aided by European powers. The defense, celebrated in history, highlighted heroism amid shifting regional alliances and a long struggle for independence.
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