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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1913
Page
4
The ad invites shoppers to buy now with rising costs and offers many new goods at discounted prices. It lists ready made bed spreads, linen doilies, rugs and art squares, window shades, curtain materials, and fixtures. Also priced are groceries like coffee, sugar, Cottolene, flour, oats, and fresh oysters, plus roofing, lime, cement, woven wire fence, and seed oats.
Reynolds Georgia October 20 1913 local page lists Cotton Market corrected by Farmers Warehouse and Fertilizer Co and includes numerous social notes. Mentions births visits to Macon Columbus Talbot county and Five Points school, church society meetings and upcoming events with names such as Miss Wilson Mrs J A Wilson Mrs Charles Foren Mrs J A Mathews and Rev Z T Weaver. Also notes Mercer Tech football trip and Shriners ceremony attendance along with obituaries for Mrs Lou Ingram Whittle and remarks on the Woman's Improvement Club activities.
For sale a 500 acre farm near Midway church and school seven miles north of Butler. Includes a large family residence with improvements and four or five tenant houses. Known as the Uncle Brantly Mosely place. Inquiries to Lt Mosely Butler Route 2 or Lee Mosely.
The Woman's Improvement Club schedules monthly meetings featuring roll calls, business items, and diverse programs. Topics include American Literature Washington Irving and Joel Chandler Harris sketches, plus musical performances by students and members.
The Reynolds Methodist church held its last quarterly meeting Monday at 10:30 AM with Dr. A. M. Williams presiding. Reports were encouraging. 44 new members joined that year, 27 on profession of faith. Ten stewards were elected for the coming year: J. A. Matthews, G. T. Ruffin, F. A. Ricks, E. E. Barrow, FE. A. Hollis, J. H. Neisler, T. J. Fountain, H. H. Riley, C. B. Hicks, W. R. Whatley. F. A. Ricks reelected Sunday school superintendent.
The Taylor County Boys Corn Club contest was held in Reynolds on Oct 17. Prize winners and awards include J. C. Fuller for 66.42 bu with a Berkshire pig or 25 dollar scholarship to the State College of Agriculture Athens GA, and many shipments of fertilizer, cash, or merchandise from local suppliers. Prof A S Wallace and Prof C M Jones assisted. youths urged to join next year’s four crop club with prizes from Central of Georgia Railway Co.
Potterville items report school opening with good attendance led by Miss Jewel McDaniel and Mrs Evie Lou Kimble. P O S of A rally day featured talks and growing local interest. A baby death and interment at Potterville cemetery are noted. Several residents visit relatives nearby and a Methodist quarterly meeting is planned for the first Sunday in November.
Mr and Mrs D A Parker and several neighbors hosted visiting friends from Ro bert a Rupert and other nearby towns this Sunday. The list of guests includes Mr Frank Funderburk and others visiting Ham mock Beeland Heath Whittle and Hammock households through the day with multiple exchanges of visits and varying Sunday gatherings.
AMERICUS Oct 19 Great interest surrounds the annual session of the Friendship Baptist association at Hebron church. The two day gathering opens Tuesday morning with devotional services at 10 o’clock followed by the introductory sermon by Rev Lansing Burrows of First church Americus. The association includes about fifty churches and four thousand members spanning Dawson to Oglethorpe Preston to DeSoto Buena Vista to Butler across Terrell Lee Webster Marion Taylor Macon Schley Sumter counties. Hebron church in Sumter county prepares to host delegates and visitors in a well attended meeting.
A letter from E G English of Dadeville Alabama urges readers to create memory books of pleasant moments and kind thoughts while away from home. It argues to prune bitterness, cherish friendship, and recall bright days and mild scents to sustain happiness and a peaceful outlook through life.
Notice to sell land for distribution of Mrs Mary E Awtreys estate. Public sale scheduled at Butler courthouse November 3 1913 with Pearl Wallace administrator. Property described as the Feed Jet house in Butler bounded by Tom Taylor M Bartlett street and Mrs J R Harmon. Sheriff notification dated October 4 1918.
Mrs W L Windham and Miss Ida Wiggins executrixes report full administration of the estate of Mrs C B Wiggins. They seek discharge and letters of dismission, with notice to all concerned to show cause by the first Monday in November 1973. Ordered by A T E Riley, Ordinary, dated October 6 1978.
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