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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1939
Page
2
List of residents and guests spanning Butler, Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Atlanta, Waycross, and Kentucky. Mutiple families and individuals, including Jimmie Joiner, Frances Neisler, Billy Neisler, Nora Coolik, William Powell, and others, spend weekends at home or visiting relatives and friends. Social calls include church circles meeting and visitors from G S C W, Cuba, Adel, and Ft. Valley.
The Gordon Carson Chapter U D C will hold its last meeting before Fall on June 1 at 3 p.m. at the hosts home Mrs IF M Carson and Mrs James. The third marks Jefferson Davis birthday and Mrs Desmond Harp will present life facts. Savannah studied as seaport. Mrs R L Swearingen presents a paper on the Confederate story.
Miss Blanche Marshall hosted a Tuesday bridge gathering at her home assisted by Mrs. Earl Wright and Mrs. Robert Bell. The group included Mrs. R. E. B. Aultman, Mrs. Irene Whatley, Mrs. Des Hays, Mrs. Lawrence Cook, Mrs. J. H. Neisler, and others from Butler and surrounding area.
A collection of quotable lines on virtue, power, and faith. Ben Johnson notes good men overlook faults while Napoleon, Demosthenes, Emerson, and Eddy discuss justice, spiritual strength, and the supremacy of God.
The Reynolds Woman's Missionary Society held its May 8 meeting with Mrs F M Carson presiding. Officers and members arranged honor gifts and fundraising actions including sending $2 to a Zone Leader for Paine College training and adding $5 to the Memorial Fund.
Howard Items mentions Willa Watson visiting Atlanta and East Point with relatives. Several families from Butler and nearby towns are recorded as weekend or Sunday visitors to relatives, including the Buckners, Parks, Hill, Harris, Guined, Sealy, and Brown households. Various residents traveled to Columbus, Macon, and Atlanta for visits and business.
The Sunday Lesson-Sermon theme Soul and Body includes Bible verses from Romans about members in one body and a correlative passage from Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health affirming Life as God and man as spiritual idea. The text stresses that Life is independent of matter and not subject to decay.
Norwich area residents and relatives visited kin in Thomaston Columbus Woodbury and Marion County over the weekend. Notables include Rev Lumpkin and family in Columbus and Thomaston, Billie Watson returning from Montgomery hospital, and several gatherings at the Lumpkin household with Smith Watson and Williamson kin.
For sale two fertile farms near Griffin and Milner priced reasonably. Interested buyers may see or write J. B. Wood Milner Georgia.
In the days of Queen Anne there were 19 000 licensed watermen on the tidal reaches of the Thames above London Bridge.
Ideal News reports Mrs J C Harlson and children of Macon spent Saturday with Mr and Mrs Grady Payne. Oglethorpe native Mrs Archie Hill visited her mother Mrs J D Tarrer on Monday. Marvis Chapman and Clyde Chapman hosted Sunday guests including Grady Payne and family and W G James and daughter. Eva Hill of Rupert joined Oneda Rayburn for Sunday night. Robert and Mrs Wade Tarrer hosted Reynolds visitors, as did Joe Arnold and children with relatives in Taylor county. Paul Cromer stayed with Mrs Herbert Kelley Thursday. Joel Woods Junior Taylor and E C Rayburn Jr joined Robert Payne Saturday as guests.
Athens Georgia May 13 Cotton sold from this year's crop in excess of the producer's marketing quota will bear a 3 cent per pound penalty payable by the buyer at sale. Excess marketings over the quota will incur a 2 cent per pound penalty. Last year's excess penalties were 2 cents. The change is included in the act governing the farm program.
A school named for defeat stands as a symbol where truth asserts itself and resilience defines learning. The motto suggests enduring growth through challenging lessons and persistent effort.
A concise reflection contrasts two forms of discontent. One aligns with action and yields results, while the other clings to worry and loses what it previously held. The piece argues only action can cure the first, while the second remains incurable.
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