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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
7
Local residents and visitors are listed social notes from Butler and surrounding areas. Names include Mrs W E Sed, Miss Margery Lonn, Tommie Turk of Haz visiting relatives, Rev ne Mrs E H Dunn, Mr E G Blackwell and Ernest, and many others. Mentions of hospital visits, guest stays, and social events highlight community life.
Nice Rhode Island Red fryers offered by Mrs W G Hill of Butler Georgia. Pair with details and price available on inquiry.
R E McCants of Butler Georgia advertises potato plants for sale with prices listed. The fragment mentions location and contact but details are incomplete.
County Agent Blackwell announces a county farm labor center in the courthouse serving as a job hub for city and town residents of all ages to fill part time farm roles. H A Sealy supervises enrollment to chop cotton before June peach harvest and place workers in fields or orchards nationwide wartime mobilization.
County Agent E. G. Blackwell urges total home front mobilization for victory. He cites city volunteer help last year and lists farm tasks for inexperienced volunteers from towns and counties, including garden, orchard, field work, and home support to free farm women for field duties.
About two bushels of Speckled Crowder Peas offered for sale by W. G. Wallace of Butler Georgia. Interested buyers can see them or call 100 for details.
Sunday School lesson summarizes Pauls second letter to the Corinthians as cheerful and less formal, stressing that believers preach Christ not themselves. It emphasizes Christian service, inward renewal, eternal realities, and choosing Christ over worldly aims, with focus on the new creation in Christ and the pilgrim life.
Sgt Robert Parks writes from England May 13 1944 to Butler residents. He notes APO change from 436 to 403 and describes living in a spacious tent in a quiet forest away from city noise. He misses Butler and thanks readers for the Butler Herald keeping him in touch with hometown news.
Dr. Horace G. Joiner and Mrs. Joiner of Augusta announce the birth of an eight and a half pound son on May 20 named Horace Greely Jr but to be called Gree. The father is the son of Mr and Mrs T B Joiner of this city and the mother before marriage was Miss Hazel Johnson of Douglas Georgia.
Trinity Baptist Church invites worshipers to morning and evening services next Sunday led by Rev. W. J. Childree of Taylor Mill. Morning service at 11 a.m. and evening service at 8 p.m. Rev. B. T. Gill, the pastor, extends a cordial invitation to all.
The piece argues that while material goods are rationed in wartime, spiritual qualities remain limitless. It emphasizes living by honesty, loyalty, and obedience, and sees spiritual income as divine ideas that provide daily supplies without hardship or tax. Mary Baker Eddy’s writings are cited to reinforce omnipresent Love guiding abundance.
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