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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1911
Page
3
Local column reports residents from Macon Reynolds and Butler visiting, hosting guests, and attending events. Mentioned are Barletts drinks, commencements, church activities, Masonic lodge plans, and a revival with Rev J N Peacock. Also notes improvements like a new Buick livery car and water works at Oak Hill Farm.
The program lists events for the B. M. and F. College commencement week. May 28 includes a sermon by Rev. L. T. Reed. Mon and Tue feature Literary and Music Department exercises. Wed hosts the graduating exercises with Dr Bascom Anthony delivering the literary address. Thu presents a minstrel by the band boys. daily ball games in the afternoons.
Erasmus Bullock a longtime Butler resident and respected Mason died Saturday night at his Crosskeys home in Macon from pneumonia and dysentery at age 78. A Civil War veteran, he was twice married and survived by eight children and his wife. Funeral services were held in Macon and Butler with Masonic honors.
Town urges residents to maintain clean premises around homes and shops. Officials, aided by a dump cart, remind citizens of Butler ordinance against street trash. Merchants adopting garbage barrels praised. more households urged to use containers for waste.
Mr. J. T. Davis of Roberta seeks to buy as many head of cattle in Taylor county as are for sale and is referred as a contact. The Butler Herald reports Butler boys vs Talbotton with disputed scores. Talbotton allegedly won 17 to 5, contrary to a 7 to 5 claim.
The May term of the Superior Court in Macon County ended after a large audience and several prominent lawyers. Local farmer E J Kleckly received two Tamworth hogs from South Carolina, and road officials praised Macon County’s highways as among the best in the state. Visiting dignitaries from Muscogee and Columbus inspected roads and lauded Lane’s work, while Roberta and Crawford County notes report beetle-like oats pest and a new wireless telegraph station being set up in Milledgeville. Road enthusiasm and local civic projects dominate this compact county page.
The city council committee arranged Roberta school bonds for sale in this issue. Five thousand dollars in bonds at one hundred dollars each will fund a two story brick schoolhouse. Bidding is expected to attract strong publicity and premium prices from Atlanta Macon New York firms. The sale aims to begin work promptly.
An advertisement extols Baby Ease Co. product claims to cure constipation diarrhoea convulsions colic sour stomach and chills and to ease teething. It urges mothers to mail a coupon from the bottle for a souvenir gold shell ring and notes the 25 cent price with wide dealer distribution in Atlanta Georgia.
The piece argues that well built highways serve farmers and towns alike, comparing roads to vital veins that unite rural and urban areas. It condemns narrow views that roads only help auto owners and warns against resisting progress like old railroad critics.
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