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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1949
Page
5
The Taylor Mill community kicked off its new club year with a chicken stew supper at the auditorium. Supt. Harold Gates chaired brief talks, then a dartball match saw the women beat the men 1 to 0. All local men invited to attend Monday meetings at 7 30 p m.
Mrs. Douglas Purvis accompanied Mrs. E. H. Morrison home and was the dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cleatons Hill Friday. Reports say Sunday afternoon singing drew a large crowd and was among the best yet. Several families and neighbors spent Sunday with relatives including Mr. and Mrs. B. Montgomery and Miss Erma Woodall. Supper guests of Mr. and Mrs S. R. Austin included Mr. and Mrs. Allen Davis and children Carolyn and Stephen. We extend thanks to those who assisted with the cool benefit box supper success.
Oil drillers in Houston county abandoned a second well after reaching 1680 feet and striking stanite granite. The operation, financed by Tricon Mineral Company of Bibb County, halted five tiles south of Perry in Merry. The two wells were the county’s first and second drillings.
Four members of the Finch family were found shot to death at their Oak View home in Fort Worth Texas. Victims include Elizabeth Ann Finch 33 estranged wife of an American Airlines pilot Penelope Finch 8 Richard Finch 7 and Edith Walker about 60 the children's maternal grandmother. Edith Walker was found in an east bedroom with a 22 caliber pistol near her hand the bullet entering her temple. Richard G Finch the father and pilot on leave because of ill health was in Ann Arbor Michigan visiting his parents. The couple had been separated since June 12 with a divorce petition filed Sept 16.
A Middlesex North Carolina bus collision on a bridge left seven youngsters dead and about twenty injured. The 42 passenger bus carrying around 70 pupils sideswiped an ice truck on a narrow bridge. Driver Charles Bryant, 18, died while Calvin Strickland, 17, aided victims and stopped the bus.
Funeral services were held for Lionel W. McKenzie a Montezuma resident and Atlantic Coast Line railroad agent. He died Friday night in a Rocky Mount hospital after an 11 month illness. Survived by wife a son L W Jr of Duke University and a sister Mrs Lem Cox.
Several thousand United Spanish War Veterans gathered in Tampa to conduct convention business as they lingered in the city they last camped in 1898 before sailing to Cuba and Puerto Rico.
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