A Trip to Albany by Butler Home Economics Girls
The Butler Georgia High School Home Economics group toured the Cudahy Packing Plant in Albany viewing lard canning meat processing and hog and beef storage. They visited Radium Springs and an aviation school before shopping at 10 cent stores on the return trip with chaperones Mrs Stinson and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Economics Department
Cudahy Packing Plant
Albany
Radium Springs
Aviation School
Butler
Ruth Locke
Dorothy Hinton
Elizabeth Davis
Leetimae Folds
Marie Parks
Elsie Peed
Ruby Parks
Mildred Sealy
Arah Locke
Effie Edmonson
Martha Jane Elliston
Willa Barfield
Fannie Luck
Sare Tingle
Betty Fehring
Mildred Gay
Lucy Mae Aultman
Mary Stalnaker
Mary L. Blakely
Doris Culverhouse
John Burgess
F. J. Gilbert
Albert Peed
Stinson
Typing Students Strive for Speed Records at School
The article notes many typing students persevere at their keyboards while a few fortunate pupils reach speed records. Butler High is proud of top typists as the home room teacher manages both seniors and younger students, with a reporter recounting the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler Hi
Carrie Gassett
Clyde Afay Green Wins State Meet and Guild Honor
Editorial recounts Clyde Afay Green’s achievements from District to State Meet and her admission as an honorary member of the National Pianist Guild after a late audition in Atlanta. The piece lauds her triumphs and expresses school pride in her brilliancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Afay Green
Clyde Afay
Athens
Georgia
Atlanta
National Pianist Guild
Folds
Clyde Ajay
Sooner the Better Spinster Banter
Two women discuss desirable husband traits. One favors brains, wealth, or appearance, and the other insists appearance is best and should come quickly. The exchange ends with the witty retort that appearance should arrive soonest.
Romeo and Juliet style love tragedy in verse
A fragmented poem by Fred Scott retells a doomed romance with Romeo and Juliet as narrators. The speaker laments a fatal end and describes love, sorrow, and a tomb scene with self-inflicted harm as the lovers’ fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romeo
Romeo Tam
Juliet
Fred Scott
The Prisoner of Zenda in a Creaky Reader Review
Elizabeth McCants extols Anthony Hope's tale as a fast moving adventurous story of Rudolf Rassendyl who imitates the king of Ruritania. The review notes humor danger and sacrifice with a dramatic rescue at Black Michael's Castle and a bittersweet ending.
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Anthony Hope
Zenda
Rudolf Rassendyl
Rassendyl
Eophberg
Rudolf
Flavia
Ruritania
Kassendy
Black Michael's Castle
Elizabeth McCants
Field trip to study flowers fungi and tree diseases
In biology class Miss Roseberry led a field trip to collect wild flowers and study plant parts. Students examined fungal diseases of trees including bracket fungus white pine blister rust and chestnut blight.
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Roseberry
Daffynitions Wordplay Pairs From A Capable Speaker
A humorous list assigns playful definitions to terms like handicap clad bedlam ligament milliner passtime adenoid. Read as light wordplay showing misdefined terms and punny phrases for comic effect across seven entries.
Will Jeff Ever Grow as Tall as Mutt
A May 15 1941 letter from Butler Georgia asks a romantic confidant if Jeff will ever reach the height of Mutt. The writer fears disturbing the recipient and seeks an immediate, decisive answer despite acknowledging possible harm from the question.
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Jeff
Through the Key Hole and High School Gossip
A stream of campus chatter covers chapel rules rivalries and dating within the sisterhood. The note touches on visitors at Marshall, a masquerade ball rumor, a musician editor ring, and questions about the girl called Sue and Alma amid other schoolyard exchanges.
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Yehudi
Sisterhood
Marshall
Wynell
George
Sue
Alma
J. H
Junior B
Red
Martha Jane
Mariana
Factoids About Geography And Resources From An Old Almanac
The text asserts Alaska and West Virginia share nearly identical annual averages, claims vast iron above ground in the US versus underground in Russia, Maine’s irregular coastline exceeds the Pacific coast, Africa is three times Europe in area yet Europe has a longer coast, most of Russia lies north of the US, a gallon of gasoline could yield about 200 miles, 95 percent of anthracite coal comes from eastern Pennsylvania, the US corn crop exceeds national gold and silver mine output, and over 80 percent of corn reaches market as meat.
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Alaska
West Virginia
United States
Russia
Maine
Pacific Coast
Africa
Europe
Pennsylvania
Ten Rules to Help Save Life in Georgia
A historical public safety list urges drivers in Georgia to obey speed limits and school zone rules, avoid drinking while driving, and use courtesy. It emphasizes stopping for stopped school buses, keeping lights on, and pedestrians facing traffic. It also warns against passing on hills or curves and advises slower speeds at night and on wet pavement.
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Georgia
Dr. J W Oden Named Gracewood Superintendent
Former Milledgeville state hospital superintendent Dr J W Oden accepted the post as superintendent of the Gracewood Training School for Mental Defectives. Gov Talmadge and the state welfare board announced the shift with Dr L P Longino becoming clinical director and Edward W Seewall moving to the Gracewood post.
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Atlanta
J. W. Oden
Milledgeville State Hospital
Gracewood — Training School
Albert Hill
State Department of Public Welfare
Oden
Talmadge
State Welfare Board
L. P. Longino
State Hospital
Edward W.seewall
Gracewood
More Pitiful Than A Train Of Thought Without Freight
This quip ponders the failure of a mind to carry meaningful load ideas, drawing a sharp contrast between active mental motion and unladen reasoning. It evokes a wry, aphoristic mood about intellectual purpose and usefulness.
Tax sale notices for Taylor County Georgia 1941
In Taylor County Georgia the first Tuesday in June 1941 is set for tax sales at the courthouse door to the highest cash bidder. One warehouse in Mauk bounded by J W Lancaster and Lewis Watson is listed for 1934–1939 taxes. Also 20.25 acres, lot 288 in the 11th district is listed for 1934–1940 taxes. Levy by J M Downs. Sheriff J M Bone.
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Ceorgia
Taylor County
Court House
Mauk
J. W. Lancaster
Lewis Watson
Roy Waller
Joe Wilder
J. M. Downs
L. C
Said County
G. C. Robinson
Levy
J. M. Bone
Plains teacher Miss Coleman chosen for six week Furman workshop
Plains Georgia May 16 Miss Julia Coleman Plains schools superintendent is named by the General Education Board as one of fifty teachers in eleven states to attend a six week school community life workshop at Furman University with expenses paid by the Rockefeller Foundation Miss Coleman cannot go and has designated Miss Thelma McArthur of Americus seventh grade to attend The course includes tours of southern colleges and honors Plains school trustees for supporting the program.
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Plains
Julia Coleman
Plains Schools
General Education Board of the
United States
Furman University
Rockefeller Foundation
Coleman
Georgia
Miss Coleman
Y. T. Sheffield
Thelma McArthur
Americus
Miss McArthur
Greenville
S. C
Plains School
Public Notice of Property Foreclosure in Taylor County
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation will sell on the first Tuesday in June 1941 the tract known as lot 20 in the 12th district Taylor County Georgia containing about 202.5 acres. The sale is to satisfy the indebtedness secured by a deed dated January 29 1934 recorded in Book U Page 215. Bounded by Bell Brothers Sid Trice D L Averett and Wilder Bros. A deed will be executed to the purchaser.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Claude E. Averett
Land Bank
Taylor County Superior Court
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Bell Brothers
Sid Trice
D. L Averett
Wilder Bros
Federal Land Bank of Columbia
Columbia
S. C
Chas. C. Stone
Also Mentioned on This Page
Butler School Journal
Editorial
Science
Daffynitions
Dr. Oden
Milledgeville Hospital
Sheriff’s Sales
Hotel Lanier
Macon, Georgia
Bill Bazemore
Butler, Ga
General Electric
Tai
General Electric Thrift
G. H. Goddard
Reynolds, Ga
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