Community Notes Highlight Local Social Visitors and Visits
A long list of short travel and visit items shows residents visiting relatives in Macon Columbus Colquitt and other towns. Names include Powell Hicks Clyatt Bell Griffith Jinks Harp Barrow Whatley and others with trips to Atlanta Temple Covington Americus Fort Valley and Ft Belvoir. The piece also notes a Mercer University school meet with winners in piano voice and vocal quartet led by Supt. E H Joiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer University
Macon
Anne Halley
Martha Jo Byrd
Elizabeth Hinton
Marian Newsom
Messrs
Theodore Barrow
Billy Whatley
Supt
E. H. Joiner
Woman's Club Holds Its Last Meeting For Current Year
The Woman's Club of Taylor County held its final meeting for the 1942-43 year at the Club House on Wednesday afternoon May 5. The room featured spring flowers. The program included music numbers and reports on tuberculosis cancer and school lunches. Officers for 1943-44 were nominated: President Mrs John Mims, 1st Vice Mrs Clinton Woods, 2nd Vice Mrs Troy Whatley, 3rd Vice Mrs E H Joiner, Secretary Mrs D W Harp, Treasurer Mrs R L Bell, Parliamentarian Mrs C L Pyron, with Mrs N L Halley as reporter. Visitors attended. hostesses served coca cola and sandwiches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Club
Clu
God Bless
America
Taylor County Tuberculosis Association
H. K. Sealy
Cancer Drive Fund
Joiner
Club Treasury
John Mims
Clinton Woods
Troy Whatley
V-Prss
E. H. Joiner
D. W. Harp
R. L. Bell
C. L.pyron
Butler Herald
N.L. Halley
Trey Whatley
Martha Jo Byrd
J. H. Neisler
C. H. Neisler
Mrs. English Attends National PTA Board Meeting in Chicago
Mrs. Q. C. English of Reynolds travels to Chicago for the National Congress of P T A executive board session May 10 to 13 at the Sherman hotel. She serves as national parliamentarian and has coordinated mail balloting for national officer elections due to transport limitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Q. C. English
Reynolds
Chicago
National Congress of P.T.A
Sherman Hotel
English
Parent-Teacher Congress
Reynolds High 1943 Seniors Autobiographies Preview
The Butler Herald begins publishing autobiographies of Reynolds High School 1943 seniors. This week features autobiographies from the following seniors and continues in upcoming issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler Herald
Reynolds High School
Autobiography of a Reynolds Area Teenager
Frances Marion Newsom writes about her 16 years in Reynolds area life born November 19 1926 two miles southeast of Reynolds. She recalls school days from kindergarten through senior year personal mishaps friendships and plans to graduate May 27 1948 with fond memories of classmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds
Frances Marion Newsom
E. A. Newsom
Thomas Pool
Vicky
Sonny Shealy
Autobiography of a Southern Student Through School Years
A dated personal reminiscence from Davis Montfort Jr tracing early life in Fort Valley and Reynolds Georgia from birth in 1926. The piece covers family, childhood spankings, first shotgun gift in fifth grade, early sports love, and school progression through high school toward senior year in 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ft. Valley
David Montfort
Ruth Taylor
Reynolds
Otis Ogburn
Starlings
Butler
Mims
Ricks
Joiner
Kaderly
Reynolds High School
Lanier High School
Lost Childhood in Georgia and North Carolina Memories
Narrator recounts a windy March 14 1926 birth in a house later occupied by the Woolards. A night lost in woods leads to a late Saturday rescue and a lesson to tell someone before leaving home. She recalls school, a mother’s death, trips through North Carolina Virginia and Florida, and a senior year toward May 27 graduation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woolards
Edith Coolik
Edith
Sammie
Coolik
Walter Kirksey
Otis Ogburn
Winifred
North Carolina
Georgia
Ashevill
Charlotte
Rocky Mount
Raleigh
Virginia
Norfolk
Ocean View
Atlantic Beach
Daddy
Roanoke
Fredericksburg
Staunton
Luray
Salem
I came to Reynolds on Tuesday Aug 4 1925
A personal reminiscence reveals a childhood in Reynolds with reflections on early health, family, school, and hobbies. The narrator recalls being deemed both the best and ugliest baby, childhood injuries, school progress with teachers like Mrs Mims, and goals for the future, including nursing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds
Dr Stork
Donald
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Reynolds Department
Civic Improvement Club OF
Harry Powell
Atlanta
Albert Hicks
F. M. Carson
Loraine Clyatt
Jack Payne
George Goddard Jr
E. E. Powell
W. I. Powell
Frank Powell
Marion Wells
Cordele
Pvt
Mrs
James Crawford
Mrs. Weaver Crawford
Billy Neisler
Jake Weaver
Ruby Jinks of
Winnie Griffith
Columbus
Eva B. Griffith
Winifred Kirksey
Preston Souther
Clay Bryan
Frank James
Bobby, Lovett
Gloria Whatley
W. S. Powell
Americus
Ellaville
Elam Griffith
Waycross
Eugenia Joiner
Wesleyan College
M. J. Wood
Paul Trawick
Lawrence Cook
Carol Godadard
Clyde Meredith
Grace Steel
Julia Parker
Jeffersonville
W. M. Parker
E. H. Griffith
Charlie Morris
Betty Morris
Douglas Powell
Charlotte, Mich
Clyde Jinks
Colquitt
R. M. Jinks
Mauk
Billy Harp
The
University of Georgia
W. D. Harp
Clinton-Wood
D. W. Payne
Monticello
Elbert Pride
Covington
Walter Horton
Robert Casey
Bobby
Thomaston
Charlie Horton
Thelma Barrow
Ted Montgomery
L. T. Barrow
D. E. Byrd
Thomas
Ft. Belvoir, Va
Garland Byrd
U. S. Army
Pop Go Goon
N. L. Halley
W. K. Holt
Oscar Thompson
Little
Frances
Moultrie
Jack Thompson
M. A. Liffey
W. D. Mee- Gauley
Statesboro
Bill, McElderry
Flint, Mich
W. S. McElderry
Flint
Mr. Hunter Bryan
Panama City
Panama
Woman’s Club
Chicago, Il
Reynolds High School News
Marion Newsom
Aultman's
M. H
David Montfort Jr
Neva Sue Kirksey
Dorothy Saunders
Reynolds, Ga
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