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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1949
Page
7
The Butler Garden Club sponsors a free musical entertainment on May 12 at 8 p.m. featuring students from the Academy for the Blind in Macon. After the program, ice cream, homemade candy, cake walks, and lawn mower raffle chances will be sold to raise funds for completing the community house.
The Boy Scouts hold their regular weekly meeting in the annex of the local Methodist church Monday at 7 p.m. All boys are invited. Scoutmasters.
The family expresses gratitude for kindness and sympathy shown after the death of husband and father B. H. Bazemore. May God bless each of you.
Mr and Mrs J H Vann of Warner Robins announce the birth of a son at a Macon hospital. The baby will be named James David. Mrs Vann formerly Miss Kathryn Parks of Howard.
Bethel C. M. Church invites the public to an all day Home Coming on the Saturday before the second Sunday in May. Pastor O. H. Sheets asks prayers for God’s glory and good of His cause. Guest speaker Bro A A Williamson of Wedoee Ala will preach in the morning. attendees who heard him at the Thanksgiving service last November are urged to come again.
Announcement notes the marriage on April 24 of Mr C E Davis of Butler and Mrs Nettie Gilispie Swink of Thomaston. The couple will reside in Butler and are well known in the region.
Mr and Mrs Walter W Poole of Ideal announce the engagement of their daughter Norma Poole of Macon to John P Elder of Macon. The wedding is set for Mother's Day at First Christian Church Macon. Norma attended Ga Ala business college and works at Hatcher Milling Co. John is the son of Mrs R L Elder Sr and attended Lanier High School, now employed by the Southern Railway.
A sermon on John 18 28 to 19 ? asserts truth is God revealed in Jesus Christ. It argues Jesus embodies truth, the way and life, with His birth, death, resurrection, and intercession, and notes attackers from Pharisees to modern skeptics fail to deny His deity. The Holy Spirit confirms truth in the believer’s heart.
The Junior Music Club plans for its Annual Recital Tuesday evening May Lich and the Music Department concert on Tuesday May 24. An all ensemble program to be announced later features Hymology studies, a hymn quiz and performances by club members including Mary Luna Cheek Daisy Cooper and others. President Truman’s National Music Week letter opens with praise for democratic sharing of music.
A short meditation on music as a link to the divine and a vital aid in church worship. It contrasts hymns past and present and urges weaving enduring hymns into the soul to uplift individuals and the nation.
Macon Georgia Dr Wm A Mueller of Louisville Kentucky and Dr J R Jester of Columbia South Carolina will be principal speakers at Mercer University's 1949 commencement Dr Spright Dowell says plans are complete The baccalaureate sermon Sunday June 5 at First Baptist Church 1130 am The baccalaureate address Monday June 6 8 pm in Wil Chapel Alumni Association meeting Monday 11 am Willingham Chapel Trustees meet 1 pm Alumni luncheon 1 pm Mary Erin Porter Hall Senior reception 5 pm at the Dowells home Final graduation exercises Monday 8 pm Willingham Chapel Dr Mueller heads the theology department at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary He was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1923
Cancer awareness message urges donations for research while listing local canvassers for the annual drive in Taylor County. Several residents are named as volunteers including Miss Carol Jane Waller Miss Doris Callahan Mrs Lewis Watson and others, with emphasis on mailed contributions reaching the county goal.
Ellaville Ga April 23 J C Tate announces the engagement of his daughter Elavne Tate to L Roy Clack of Eatonton Ga. The marriage will be solemnized in June at the Eatonton Methodist church with Rev J I Black officiating.
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