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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1936
Page
8
A week of heavy rains and flood impacts across Meriwether and surrounding counties prompts warnings and repairs while state officials report economic shifts. Georgia Kiwanians meet in Albany with 500 expected. legal notices include election qualification refusals and jail terms. leaders retire, die, or are appointed across Atlanta Macon and Brunswick.
Americus Ga Oct 1 Stephen Pace of Americus formally nominated for the U S Congress from the Third District at a 400 delegate convention in Rylander theater. Pace pledged support to President Roosevelt as Robert Ramspeck praised reform efforts and lauded Pace and Charles Crisp.
Mrs N B Stewart fell in her Americas home Saturday night and dislocated her right shoulder. X rays showed no fracture. the shoulder was reset and she is resting as well as could be expected. Mr Stewart likely confined to bed for three weeks or more and a planned Washington trip is delayed.
Mr. F Clegg Clements a long time Buena Vista resident and bank employee died suddenly from heart trouble. He was owner of Clements Gulf Service station and a fertilizer dealer. Survived by wife Martha Rauch Clements a daughter his parents and a brother Robert E Clements of Annapolis.
Ten men were arrested over the weekend in Columbus Ga in connection with the bug racket. They were ordered held under 300 bond for City Court in Recorder's Court Tuesday. Books used by the alleged operators were seized during the arrests.
Representative B. T. Castellow of the Third District arrives in Cuthbert after spending the summer in Budapest Hungary. He represented the United States government at an international conference.
Moultrie Ga Oct 5 John C Parker a Moultrie attorney renominated for a fourth term as state representative says he will seek the speaker pro tem post in the 1937 House Parker plans headquarters at the Lanier Hotel in Macon during the state Democratic convention this week
In Whitfield superior court six national guardsmen were fined 150 dollars each and given suspended sentences for taking part in a free for all fight during Governor Eugene Talmadge's Sept. 8 speech in Dalton Ga. The incident echoed the active political campaign atmosphere.
Atlanta October 5 with Mayor Jas L Key and Anmass city council guests of honor the 22nd annual Southeastern Fair in educational exposition was to be formally opened on Monday. An informal opening was held yesterday with automobile races the spotlight of the day. The fair will continue through next Sunday.
Montezuma Ga Oct 5 Officers of the Flint River Lumber Co exporters of hardwoods said the company ships two to three carloads weekly from the Oglethorpe plant. Wood is cut in furniture squares and sent mainly to North Carolina furniture factories with a world wide export market expanding to foreign markets.
Athens October 5. The Henry W. Grady School of Journalism reports larger fall enrollment than 1935. The history of journalism class shows 88 students this quarter, up from 63 last fall. The reporting and news writing course has 74 students, vs 65 in 1935.
Barnesville Georgia October five plans are complete for Gordon College homecoming on Friday with more than 3000 visitors expected from across the country. Senator Richard B Russell Jr will dedicate the new football stadium while Governor Designate I D Rivers and Congressman Emmett Owen attend. Robert Russell Jr and many former coaches will be introduced during intermission of the night football game. Over 2500 former students have accepted invitations.
William Candler 46, son of Asa G. Candler, was killed when his car struck a cow on highway 38 near Naylor, 12 miles east of Valdosta. Companion George Spence injured. Candler neck broken and internal injuries. He headed the Atlanta-Biltmore hotel and was educated in Atlanta. Spence taken to Little Griffin hospital. Candler's remains to funeral home. no inquest planned. Survived by widow Bennie Teabeaut and children Wm Candler Jr and Mrs. W H Chambers, plus three brothers and a sister. Born January 24, 1890 in Atlanta.
W S Boatwright, WPA office director at Forsyth, was killed when a car stalled on a railroad crossing. Roland Anderson, 55, suffered critical injuries, and J H Clarke, editor of the Monroe Advertiser, escaped by leaping to safety as a train approached. Anderson received a badly crushed leg and a severe arm fracture. amputation of the left knee was delayed pending recovery.
Macon Ga Oct 5 Mrs Jas R Hicks Jr wife of Bibb county sheriff died Sunday soon after admission to a hospital. Family said she had been in a nervous condition for days and had planned to seek treatment in Hendersonville N C but grew worse and was rushed to the hospital where she died within minutes.
Americus Ga October 3 L Bell a longtime jewelry dealer and former city alderman announced he would oppose Mayor Jas A Fort for re election in the October 21 primary. Bell frames his campaign around progress and notes Fort has served as mayor eight years.
Griffin Ga Oct 5 Two men described as Charlotte North Carolina residents are held by city police on counterfeit cotton check charges totaling 437.78. Seven checks were passed at Griffin merchants five for 63.70 and two for 59.64. Names given are Joe Wright and W C Orr of Charlotte.
J Calvin Cox a Montezuma Citizen and Georgian employee bought an interest in the Manchester Mercury Meriwether county. He resigned his Citizen and Georgian posts after seven years and will run the paper with his brother in law Joe H Cox who already took charge of Manchester. The Cox family moved to Manchester this week while L A Wooten remains in Pavo as linotype operator.
Jesse Isidor Straus 64 retired as United States ambassador to France died in his New York apartment after a long illness. He had fainted during Bastille Day in Paris, was recalled in 1938, and succeeded by W C Bullitt. Survivors include his widow Irma Nathan and two sons Jack and Robert.
Macon reports the Georgia State Fair running October 10 to 24 will showcase the largest exhibit array in its history. E Rosas Jordan notes 4H and vocational agriculture students contribute special educational displays while the Future Farmers of America convention draws about 2000 attendees. An extensive midway, New York revue Revelations of 1986, Johnny J. Jones Shows, fireworks and a 91st annual fall flower show highlight the program.
Plans are drawn for a $175,000 five story hotel to replace the Dixy Hunt hotel at Gainesville virtually destroyed by the April tornado. The reinforced concrete building will have 60 rooms with baths, brick and tile walls, trimmed in limestone.
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