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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
4
The Georgia newspaper notes celebrate Straw Hat Day signaling straw hat season and urges church affiliation and spiritual growth. It highlights social trends from June wedding pages and Mother Sunday crowds, plus a quoted commentary on freedoms from Robert Ripley and community viewpoints on public life.
The narrator reflects on annual county visits in May, noting significant progress in farms, new homes, renovated houses, and civic improvements. Roads, churches, and schools show notable advancements over the past year, marking unprecedented growth and progress for Taylor County.
A May 8 Herald issue tribute honors mothers as the nation’s life and civilization foundation. The message honors living and departed mothers, offering red and white rose blessings and recalling maternal lines as symbols of democracy and guidance.
Dr. M D Collins states 4828 ex-GIs enrolled since launch, with 702 purchasing farms and 1473 owning farms. 255 teachers guide veterans marketing broilers and canning nearly 200k pints. Veterans supply milk and beef cattle, hogs, and farm equipment while building homes and pastures across 10,740 acres. Graduation season brings praise for Butler Reynolds High Schools and Taylor County schools system.
The piece contrasts a blackberry winter with budding May beauty in Georgia. It notes flowering briers and new leaves, soil richness, and the beauty of uncultivated growth, alongside reflections from Mrs. Lynda Lee Bryan about enduring charm in nature and gift-like provisions of the land. It also reports state tax receipts for ten months, ahead of the prior year, driven by a delinquent tax drive initiated by Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson, with penalties for noncompliance.
Anna Mae Lockhart petitions for divorce from Otis Lockhart in Taylor Superior Court. Otis not a resident of the county or state, served by publication, order to appear at the next term on the first Monday in July 1947. Judge T. Hicks Fort presides. Thelmon Jarrell, Clerk. W. E. Steed, attorney for plaintiff.
The appraisers on Mrs. Sara G. Cooper widow of John R. Cooper seek 12 months support for herself and three minor children. Cited to show cause at the next June term of court why the application should not be granted. Dated May 5, 1947. J R Lunsford Ordinary Taylor County Georgia.
Raymond G Parks files for divorce from Dorothy Corley Parks in Taylor Superior Court. Notice served by publication since Dorothy is nonresident. she must appear at the July term starting the first Monday in July 1947 to answer. Judge Fort. May 10, 1947.
John R. Jinks files for divorce from Laura Jones Jinks and serves by publication. Laura Jinks is not a resident of Taylor County or the state, and she must appear at the next court term on the first Monday in July 1947 to answer the complaint.
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