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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1928
Page
7
A poetic exhortation to spread happiness and love. It urges telling loved ones they are great, sharing joy with others, and greeting all with cheer. It contrasts personal gladness with world sorrow and promotes keeping a "song of gladness" on the tongue to keep the world young.
Local society notes list numerous residents and visitors in Reynolds and Butler. Names include Clyde Brewer Helms Walden Taunton Gox Shearer Gilmore Embry Windham Jordan Foy Brooks Suggs and many others, with travels to Macon Atlanta and Columbus cited along with illnesses and farm work delays. Community events feature school plays, Commencement plans, a Mother's Day program and a city Measles outbreak noted by local churches. The column also mentions a new Dixie Cafe interior, a barber shop move, and an air mail trial brief.
The annual concert by Mrs. Julian Edwards' music class ushers in Butler High's 1928 commencement season. The recital is set for Wednesday evening May 30th and benefits music students and their families. The public is invited to attend.
Thursday evening May 31 Miss Bright invites pupils to Mother Goose Island where Mother Goose and her celebrated family welcome the visitors. Terry the fiddler recounts the Wishing Well tale and the magic of early dawn wishes. Peggy wishes for a bird for a sick girl and Golden Wing leaves a bird. Admission adults 25 cents children 15 cents.
On Friday evening June 1 the Junior Class presents the operetta Made moiselle Louise with romance music and chorus. The piece features a universal love theme and includes a kiddie chorus and models. Cast details and synopsis appear next week in the Herald. Week events close with a baccalaureate sermon on Sunday June 8 led by Rev. B E Donehoo and graduation exercises Monday night June 4 with Dr. K T Alfriend delivering the address.
Antioch Baptist church schedules preaching at 11 a m Saturday and Sunday. Members urged to attend and the public is invited. A workers council will meet after the Saturday service. The pastor will preach Saturday and James H Gar of Macon will preach Sunday morning.
Senior class of Butler High School enjoyed a formal reception hosted Friday by Superintendent and Mrs A B Shearer at Mrs J J McCants home. Pink and white decorations framed an elegant luncheon as guests, invited friends of each senior, gathered including Jeanette Brown Pansy Brewer Louise Parks Paulin Jarrell and more plus Gervis Locke Greysden Allman Louie McGee William Trussell Mercer Montgomery Leon Theus Aurelius Locke Emory Linder and J C G McGants among others at the campus social affair.
The Columbus Association Baptist Young People unions held their quarterly meeting at Antioch Baptist Church on Sunday May 18. Vice-President Thompson of First Church Columbus led an instructive program. An Intermediate B Y P A troupe from Manchester performed a playlet Spirit of Missions. A rising vote thanked Antioch Church and community for hospitality.
The Wallace Edwards Chapter of U D GC will hold its May meeting on Thursday May 24 at 3 PM at Mrs Henry Wallace's home. Officers will be elected and members who have not paid 1928 dues should bring them. Miss Nannie Joiner treasurer will be present early to receive dues. An interesting program is planned.
The Butler Baptist Church will show the first thirty pictures of the life of Christ during the regular prayer meeting Friday night May 18. The prayer meeting begins at 8 p m and the public is invited to attend. Also advertised is a Whitmer Medicines sales opportunity targeting Taylor County with earnings projections and home-based sales jobs suitable for White men, offering a permanent business with no layoffs.
Bethlehem church invites a strong turnout for preaching services on the third Saturday and Sunday with Elder B F Williamson delivering sermons. The congregation is urged to attend to support the occasion and hear him in each service.
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