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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1939
Page
8
Georgia week in review notes the post office department plans a new air route linking Augusta and Savannah. Other items include deaths, fires, crashes, weather impacts and local political events across the state with multiple fatalities and ongoing legal notices.
B M Williams former Walton bounty legislator and once titled Georgia’s safest driver died Saturday night after a prolonged illness and recent appendectomy. He was 58. Governor Rivers approved four Atlanta related acts, including boosting the mayoral salary from 6000 to 8000 dollars and extending terms for city officials, which became state law.
Atlanta Feb 27 Governor and Mrs E B Rivers have postponed until Thursday their dinner in honor of Georgia legislature members. An earlier senate entertainment on Tuesday night prompted the change.
Miami reports R. S. Martin aged 33 from Hinesville Ga identified by friends as the former Liberty Herald editor. He had left Orlando where he worked for a printing concern last Friday. A pistol was found in his hand when discovered on a street.
Atlanta February 27 Governor Rivers announced the appointment of T. F. G. Lumpkin Sr a Columbus businessman to fill the State Planning Board seat left by the resigning James Woodruff. Lumpkin will serve the remaining three years of Woodruff’s term after taking the oath late Friday.
Hawkinsville, Ga. February report says Bie Olin Coleman a 28 year old coach and principal at Pitts school underwent a leg amputation Monday after an automobile accident south of Hawkinsville. His car skidded on wet pavement, overturned, pinning him beneath wreckage. He is the son of Dr. R. T. Coleman of Young Harris College.
In Macon on February 27 Elder G Mediary used a Bible said by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not to have been nine days underwater without damage during a Louisville flood. The Bible, shown at the Seventh Day Adventist church, inspired the sermon A Shoreless Sea.
In Macon on February 27 W C Rewley general manager of the Georgia Peach Growers Exchange cited widespread damage to the Georgia peach bud crop. He said growers across the state confirm bud injury but do not claim a reduced normal crop yet noting less damage to Hileys and that a large crop remains possible even if many buds die.
Percy Stone Jr a Thunderbolt youth funded his Dorchester Academy education by running a 75-hen flock. He rented a poultry house and bought 150 pounds of mash weekly, paying tuition board and room with proceeds and leaving $65 surplus. His brother follows the same plan aided by a state poultry prize won by Percy.
Folkston Georgia February 27 An argument over state lines and business licenses delayed ambulance driver O F Adkins from reaching a woman seriously injured in a crash just across the Florida line A Florida justice of the peace demanded Florida licensed ambulances operate there A doctor arrived and assumed responsibility allowing the ambulance to proceed to Jacksonville with the patient.
Baxley Ga Feb 28 Affiliation of the Southern Industrial Orphans Home Inc of Baxley with the Georgia Baptist convention is suggested in resolutions adopted by trustees. The home under Rev ZC Farrell has demonstrated usefulness and need, and the board desires to convey all properties rights and interests to the convention.
Zebulon Georgia February 28 Pike county grand jury returned presentments opposing the Ellis health law and a proposed gross income or sales tax. They supported the Edwards bill for county consolidation into 60 units and a pro rata pay plan for state employees when funds are insufficient. They also urged changes in the vital statistics law.
Albany Georgia February 26 Dougherty county officers blamed a quarrel over a five cent piece for a slaying in the eastern county today The dead man is George Davis and officers seek Herbert Royal in connection with the case Deputy Sheriff R L Troy said Davis tried to collect five cents from Royal and an argument followed A shotgun was used striking Davis in the head and killing him instantly
A brown fox jumped from a front box to the rear of a car, startling the driver and causing a crash that overturned the vehicle. Four adults were injured. the fox and a baby remained unhurt. Injured: Roy McGehee, principal of Georgia Southwestern College Practice School. Mrs. McGehee. A. J. Opperman, college employee. Miss Francis Sanford of Lake City, Florida.
The Lesson-Sermon to be read Sunday in Christian Science Churches worldwide includes Bible citation Know ye that the Lord he is God and He made us from Psalms 100 8 and a correlative from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy stating God the divine Principle of man and man in God's likeness are inseparable harmonious eternal and that God is parent Mind while man is God's spiritual offspring.
Ernest Conley, barber at Rhodes Building Barber Shop, said he felt fine after eating 41 eggs in an hour on Friday afternoon. He later had a full dinner, appetite unchanged, amid astonished colleagues and customers. He previously claimed he could eat 26 dozen eggs, though he did not reach that total and the egg supply was stopped.
Athens Ga Feb 26 three more University of Georgia coeds were named to represent campus fraternities and dormitories in the Pandora beauty review. They join twenty already named as candidates to vie for eight spots in the beauty section. Annabel Corley of Augusta with Camp Wilkins Mac Glares Plant City Fla Kappa Sigma and Robbie Stephens of Athens Joe Brown Dormitory were selected.
A Georgia resolution urges action to save Wesleyan College from closure describing it as the world’s first chartered college for women. A Sunday rally at the local Methodist church invites all Georgians to learn about Wesleyan and support reclaiming the college. A poem by Grace Noell Crowell honors Wesleyan and pleads for support before it declines.
Two Methodist bishops and Georgian educational leaders will headline an educational rally at Lumpkin Memorial church in Columbus to back Wesleyan College. The event opens at 10 a.m. and runs into the afternoon with speakers including Dr. Wardlaw and Rev. Rainey, as part of a statewide drive for 600000 to repurchase the college property after last year’s foreclosure.
All creditors of the estate of J. N. Bryan late of Taylor County are notified to render their demands to the undersigned and all persons indebted to the estate must pay immediately. This February 6 1989 S H Bryan Executor of the Last Will and Testament of J N Bryan Deceased P O Address Reynolds Ga
Citizens & Southern Bank of Thomaston Ga sues Mary D Amos et al for note on complaint. Defendant T G Amos must appear at April Term on first Monday in April 1989 to answer. Witness Judge F McLaughlin and Clerk Thelmon Jarrell in Taylor County Georgia.
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