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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1931
Page
7
A reflective verse about facing scarcity and hardship. The speaker notes days of ease are over, money worries press, and material trinkets fade in importance. He urges acceptance, labor, and steadfast friendship while beauty and joy persist beyond wealth.
Butler locals report Cecil Butt returning from Ne ft City and Dan ielville residents visiting kin in Butler. Many in the area, including Myer Caplan Eastman and Louis Canter, travel to Macon Atlanta and Reynolds. Numerous relatives attend events, graduations, and summer plans with L. T. Peed and H. P. Wallace hosting, as local schools prepare summer programs and church groups elect officers.
Miss Frances Williamson of Butler visits sister Miss Doris Williamson in Rome. Mrs J W Jennings hosts at North Broad Street with sweet pea and larkspur decor. Prizes: Doris high girls two handkerchiefs, Eva Braden low girls perfume, Byron Rainwater high boys smoking set, Leslie Taylor low boys bridge set. Refreshments three salads sandwiches iced tea. Participants include Misses Williamson Braden Bailey Glenn Clifton Bailey Prime and others with Elrod Sessler and friends from Cartersville Shannon and surrounding areas.
Sunday school at 10 am led by H P Wallace Supt A well organized school with good teachers for each class Come to Sunday School The pastor preaches at morning and evening services 11 am and 8 pm Morning subject Paceing Up Evening subject The Secret of Power The young people meet at 7 pm Come with us and we will do thee good
The Wallace-Ed Wards Chapter U D C met at McCants Mill last Thursday p m June 11. The gathering included a short business session and program under the pavilion. Jeff Davis birth month talk honored his life and Mrs John Brown Gordon tribute by Mrs Lucille Bateman. Daughters hosted husbands and children with a bounteous lunch.
Miss Nettylee Hogg of Buena Vista Georgia married Chas D McIntyre of Laurinburg North Carolina in a home ceremony on Saturday May 30. The bride, daughter of Clyde Hogg Sr, taught in Laurinburg and is well known in state social circles. The groom, a Laurinburg grocery businessman, will reside there after a motor trip through the Carolinas.
Jackie Cooper known as Skippy visits Atlanta Capitol Theatre for the film Young Donovan's Kid to be shown starting Saturday June 20. The seven year old star, greeted by director Fred Niblo and Richard Dix, asks questions about stardom while his grandmother, Mrs. Marie Leonard, reports on his appetite for food and fame.
The Capitol Theatre in Macon GA announces Janet Conyer to star as Judy Abbott in Daddylong Legs with Warner Dexter and a child cast. Additional films include Quick Millions with Spencer Tracy, Women Love Once with Paul Lukas and Jean Boardman, Take This Woman with Gary Cooper and Garbo Lombard, all showing July 26 through July 8 in sequence.
Willie Moore a Black man accused of stealing an Atlanta automobile was captured near Fort Valley Crawford County after Deputy Sheriff Cummings shot him in the right leg. He was jailed at Fort Valley with serious injury. Moore had just finished a three year term for automobile larceny. The stolen sedan belonged to S F Lincoln and was found wrecked near Fort Valley as bloodhounds trailed Moore.
A philosophical piece argues that a person’s position is determined by the character forged from inner thoughts. It asserts no element of chance governs life, but a universal law that cannot err shapes both harmony and discord with surroundings.
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