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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1934
Page
3
Reynolds civic club and local residents are listed with counts of visits, family gatherings, and travel. Many names appear visiting Atlanta Macon Americus Palmetto Thomaston and Clayton, including Bryan Hollis Barrow Hicks Whatley and Ogburn. The item mentions a burial in Reynolds and a school return at Emory University.
Mr and Mrs Osgood Young and Mrs Jeff Young spent Saturday in Macon. Walter O Neal and Bernard Fuller attend week at home. Jim Turner Morris Turner and Mary Turner and A D Windham and family were Sunday guests of the Paris. Miss Mabel Parr returns to Atlanta with the Turners. Mr W M Goodwin and Mrs B M Montgomery on sick list. Sid James and children Sunday guests of J S Fuller. Bartletts and children and Grace Trapp of Macon visited M J Trapp family.
Englishville residents report Union Meeting attendance in Parrott and family visits across towns including Montezuma Americas Greensmill and Greensmill. Numerous pairs and families such as Mr and Mrs English, Mr and Mrs Key, and Mrs McLendon are noted visiting relatives and shopping, with several Sundays spent at homes and show events.
Taylor Mill reports Sunday school attendance of 128 with banner classes listed as First and Second Year, Beginners and Cradle Roll, and Intermediate Girls. Miss Ruby Roberson elected General Secretary as revival continues through next week with nightly prayers at 7 and preaching at 7 20, Rev J E Pate assisting Rev H H Mosley. The Woman's Club moves its monthly meeting to Saturday at 4 30 to avoid revivals.
Turners Chapel reports visitors including Miss Nettie Stringfield and Miss Florence Wainwright. Mr and Mrs B F Moore Jr visited relatives while Mr and Mrs Tom Spillers hosted. Local residents welcome Mr and Mrs Watts as new community citizens. Prayer meeting planned at Mrs Nannie Moore’s home and Sunday school at 2 30 p m welcomed attendees.
In the Athens Club Institute a policy for state federation chairmen is presented. It outlines needed reorganizations, requisite chairmanship qualities, duties, and procedures to unify and strengthen club work across departments, divisions, districts, and federations, with emphasis on timely action before the Oct 24 board meeting. It calls for immediate coordination with department heads and General Federation HQ to gather plans and implement them nationwide.
Mr and Mrs W A Jarrell visited Thomaston on Wednesday and many neighbors hosted guests this week. Pauline Jarrell will teach in Mark. Numerous weekend and Sunday visits crowned the social calendar with families like Kendrick Gaultney Jarrell Moore and Jarrell hosting gatherings and a Friday night Sabbath class picnic.
Rev W R Lawhorn held services Saturday and Sunday in town. Mrs R A Spillers returned home after visiting her son L J Wainwright. Miss Mozelle Rogers and Marie Harris visited Miss Sarah and Cathrine Wainwright. Mrs Ernest Cochran and children returned home from Reynolds after visiting her sister Mrs Gray Windham. Mr and Mrs A L McCrary and children spent the weekend with their parents in Ft Valley. School opened Monday with three teachers Messrs B P Moore Jr Pope Booth and Miss Polly Spillers. Enrollment reached 55 students with G C Spillers and Esteller Spillers visiting Southwestern College Americus for weekend, Lorena Spillers attends Thomaston High. Claude Rogers family and Leila Harris visited J C Wade family Sunday. Reginal McCrary and son L J visited Mrs Sarah Moore Tuesday. Estelle Rogers left Saturday for Jesup to accept a position. Sarah Cochran and children were weekend guests of Lokie Rogers.
Mrs J F Taunton Mrs Rae Pitts and Miss Edith Taunton were visitors of Mrs Neal Hinton Friday. Mr and Mrs H D Harmon visited their parents Mr and Mrs Leonard Locke one day last week. Miss Marie Harris spent a Thursday night with Mr and Mrs Allen Rogers.
Wesley community notes show Mr. Lewis Garrett returning to Atlanta for a position while many families hosted visitors from Butler Prattshore and Atlanta. Sunday guests included the Bazemore and Walker families, with extensive mentions of local residents visiting relatives. The Wesley school term opens with a large crowd, a solid faculty lineup led by R C Pinkard, Maude Owens, Alice McCants, and Miriam Mitchell, and optimism for a successful year.
An unsigned creed extols simple, eloquent ideals urging daily improvement and self restraint. It calls for doing good, bearing ills without complaint, striving for honorable aims, aiding others, and avoiding unearned praise while maintaining steady standards. The poem ends with a wish to shape actions more consistently.
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