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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1924
Page
6
A dainty brief poem contemplates Heaven as a garden walled with stone and sunlit, where days pass calmly. It asks where Heaven begins and notes seeing God in flowers, showers, the sunlit apple tree, and the loveliness around.
Mr. O. C. Keen of Perry and W. H. Wright of Macon visit Butler. Mrs. Ben Persons and Mrs. Henry McLean tour Macon. Elizabeth Barnes from Macon guests of Mrs. Cross. Local social notices list births visits and announcements.
Local notices cover a wide range of community happenings from visits by Mrs. Eli Garrett and Martha to Butler to actions by Sheriff McGuffin purchasing land for a new home. Travelers Jeanette Wallace sails to Boston, the P T A asks book returns by June 20, and the Democratic Executive Committee schedules the September primary. Also listed are church social plans, a Home Missionary Society event, and Cameron’s ad plea alongside land for sale near Butler.
Mrs. J Clyde Mott wife of J Clyde Mott died Tuesday at her home five miles south of Butler after a brief illness. She was thirty one, daughter of Henry Bartlett, member of Bethel Primitive church. Surviving: husband three children father five brothers three sisters. Funeral at Mt Pisgah cemetery at 10 am conducted by Rev J T Adams with interment following.
Daily shopper items listed with plain sale prices including a human plow beam item at 39 cents each and washing powders six or seven packs at 25 cents, a 10 quart galvanized bucket for 25 cents, and a lot of homes offered per pair at 39 cents.
Fire of undetermined origin at an early hour Tuesday morning destroyed a large barn and its contents belonging to Mr. J. T. Cochran at Rupert. The blaze was discovered in time to save several head of stock and cattle from death, though some were badly injured.
J. E. Brewer offers a leather saddle in good condition for a bargain. Notices warn lands posted as required by law with strict trespassing bans. W. A. Payne lists numerous parcels by lot and district in a 12th District land posting.
The Elbertas require a final spray this week using four pounds of arsenate of lead and 32-32-200 lime-sulphur or 80-5-15 dust to target curculio and brown rot. Thoroughly cover every peach, leave residue until harvest, and use extension disks beneath tree canopies to destroy pupae. Issued June 16, 1924, Fort Valley, Ga. Gov and State Laboratory.
Two-house farm on one lot with hog-wire fencing and good water. One six room and one three room house, multiple out buildings, priced at 1500 dollars with favorable terms to suitable party. Write C Royal East Thomaston Ga 128 3 Street for details.
Liberal reward offered for return of gold-frame glasses lost during Butler commencement exercises. Return to F.C. Jarrell or Herald office.
The Paradise butterfly, first found in Papua, was valued highly with a single specimen once selling for up to 150 dollars. Recent specimens have sold for 10 to 20 dollars. The hunter who collected the latest specimens died after being killed and eaten by cannibals.
The text notes cows are capable of milk production from age two and after freshening, with typical dairy herd tenure ranging from four to six years, and mentions cows have historically been valued for milk yield through these life stages.
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