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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
3
Professor Oliver demonstrates remarkable preservation in archaic Lancashire seeds from lower coal measures. Seeds under magnification show a tiny integument with ten projecting ribs. Also included are notes on a four year old's questions about chickens and simple pest control tips for cockroaches using plaster flour mix and hydrocyanic acid fumigation.
An evaluation compares Camels with other cigarettes, assessing flavor, draw, and throat hit in head‑to‑head puffing tests. Testers note Camel’s distinct tobacco blend and aroma, while other brands vary in strength and finish.
Mr Orman Childs spent Sunday with home folks. Miss Sadie Averett visits relatives at Mauk. Mr and Mrs Henry Willis announce the birth of a son. Mr and Mrs Otis Cox spent last week with Mr J T Cox and family at Butler. Miss Cloadie Mae Greathouse of Wesly visits her aunt Mrs J A Buckner. Mr and Mrs W B Adams attend the funeral of Mrs George Adams at Shellman Sunday. The friends of Lorenza Purvis are glad to see him out again after illness. Mr H J Pagler of Butler was in town on business. Mr and Mrs J A Buckner improving from influenza. Mr Clyde Hill of Fort Valley visited home folks last week.
Five Points in Marion County records social visits and school news. Prof Arthur S Boyett Jr and Master Tommy Lee Wadsworth met Thursday night at Mr Brady's. Mrs J T Wadsworth recovers from grip. Miss Tressie McDaniel resumes school at Brookridge Monday after two week suspension.
Mrs Lowe visited her daughter Mrs Pullins in Sunny. Laura Emerson and Pauline Pullins visited their mother for a few days. Mattie Moore visited her parents Mr and Mrs John King and Vera Emerson visited Fannie and Ora King. Eva Freeman was the pete Alma Amerson Sunday. Maude Freeman guest of her mother Mrs Jack Amerson Sunday. Laney Lowe spent Saturday night with sister Ida May Pullins. Fannie and Olie King guests of Mrs John Colter. Prospect school closed Friday with a big dinner and pound party. Rub My Tism advertised as a pain killer for rheumatism neuralgia sprains.
Wanted at Mauk Georgia 20000 bushels of Porto Rico sweet potatoes to grade U 5S No 1 between October 1 and November 15 1920. Cash market from wagon. For details regarding plants crates etc write Planters Products Company Montezuma Georgia.
Barrow Bros. announces in stock the best grade galvanized roofing in all lengths.
A fragment discusses affability mildness tenderness and restoring terms of virtue to their original signification. It reflects a literary note on humane conduct and the broad bread of life. The text appears as an antique or editorial aside with unclear context and attribution.
Mr. B L Jenkins of Edison Ga runs a 25 mule farm and compares cotton and peanut returns for 1919. He bought 2000 dollars of fertilizer for cotton but used none on peanuts. Cotton sold at 38 cents, peanuts earned 3000 dollars more than cotton, peanuts plus fertilizer costs yield peanuts 5000 dollars more than cotton, showing a loss on cotton and profit on peanuts.
Denice Cox Odell Cox and Eldridge Cox family spent Sunday in Columbus with relatives. Vera McElmurray Willie Perry Ree Dillard and others visited Miss Maide McMickle. Stacy Swearingen and parents spent Sunday with the Swearingen family. Mary George Swearinger and siblings visited E D McCorvey family. multiple gatherings occurred at McMickles, McElmurrays and McCoys over the weekend.
Classified notice seeking 10 000 bushels of Porto Rico sweet potatoes at Charing Georgia to grade U S No 1 between October 1 and November 15 1920. Cash market from wagons. For details in the text.
Old Black Joe the goldfish, nineteen years old, admired by exhibitor Q Gneiding at the goldfish show in New York. The event featured lion headed, comet and telescope fish, with long spectator lines around the tanks. It was held by the Aquarium Society of New York to promote goldfish breeding.
At a Cascade county Montana farm bureau picnic a monument was unveiled to Robert Vaughn who plowed the first furrow in 1868. The six foot cobble stone memorial bears a brass plate noting Vaughn’s feat and the 1919 erection by the Farm Bureau.
Old faded clothing can be refreshed with Diamond Dye. It works on wool, silk, linen, and cotton blends and yields rich colors. The product promises quick, even results for any woman dyeing worn apparel.
Berlin reports a counter revolution nearing its end with a possible single government emerging. Chancellor Kapp proposes a cabinet of professional ministers and elections for Reichstag and Prussian assembly within two months, while Ebert may retain power until then amid talks at Stuttgart.
A Soviet dispatch from Moscow says several Japanese units in Siberia revolted by ripping off their shoulder straps and replacing them with red straps. The message also notes growing Communist movement in Korea and many arrests by Japanese authorities.
Amsterdam reports the Dutch government has bolstered security around the former German emperor and his son amid revolutionary rumors in Berlin. Mounted police patrols were added to existing sentries while Freiherr von Zoebelitz arrives at Wieringen and the prince’s aide de camp states he has no links to the revolution.
Relatives of U S soldiers fallen in France may have their sons buried in American or French cemeteries as announced by the graves registration section of the War Department in Washington.
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