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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
4
The page lists Vol. 2 editorial leadership and staff names including editor in chief assistant editor junior correspondent society editor and sports editors. Names featured include Gloria Whatley Hugh Sealy Margaret Woods Anne Halley David Montfort Billy Whatley Patricia Fuller and others.
The R H S seniors ask for support by buying engraved Christmas cards and candy sold at recess and lunch. Cards are priced at 15 for a dollar or 50 for a dollar with samples delivered by twelve seniors. They plan a three act comedy, coached by Miss Cauthen and Miss Cook, to be announced in the Newscaster.
A disjointed memory list travels through Georgia town names such as Americus Young Harris Gay Helen Lilly Florence Edith Wrens Martin Flowery Branch and Brunswick as companions stop at Forrest Park to register Shady Dale to eat and Round Oak to rest amid mixed impressions of places and people including references to Daisy Alto and a mystic enigma in a closing climax.
David Montfort recalls a half holiday to the fair on Friday October 12. Students rushed through tests and received assignments before buses departed for Butler at one o clock. At the fair ground they enjoyed games of chance skill tests and rides before returning home around 3 thirty.
The document outlines American Education Week November 6 to 15 with daily topics from seeking world order to enriching family life. It lists sponsors including the National Education Association, The American Legion, US Office of Education, and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and proclaims education as the hope of youth democracy and the nation.
The school gossip column known as the Chatter Box has been discontinued amid student sensitivities and writer safety concerns. Anne Hblley signs off noting the column's intent was light school gossip for students, not outsiders, and warns readers not to take it seriously.
Credits for R H S highlight notable graduates and student achievements. Hunter Bryan trains in Rural Electrification in Reynolds and eyeing a Georgia office head position, while Winifred Kirksey earns praise for an excellent Arithmetic paper in Roanoke. Harold Posey, a Georgia Southwestern sophomore, is nominated for class president, a proud honor for the school.
A reader argues that World War II strengthens American patriotism and urges immediate aid to the Allies using mechanized forces and manpower. The writer praises President Franklin D Roosevelt and asserts England as the first line of defense, urging the nation not to abandon its battles or courage.
Teachers at Americus for a Georgia Educational Association event on Monday October 13 heard Knox Walker GEA president and Dr Willis A Sutton superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools urge unity for federal aid. Taylor County representatives attended as study groups discussed Audio Visual Education and math topics.
The chapel program featured Rev Culpepper and Trooper White of the Georgia State Patrol. Culpepper discussed essentials for success in life such as ambition ability and grit while White noted safety gains since the school patrol began in 1937 reducing deaths from 103 to three in the 1940 41 school year.
Mr Joiner received a Henderson Times copy showing Miss Susan Anthony daughter of a 1913 alumna named sponsor for the Henderson football team. The piece notes graduates of R H S attain scholastic and social distinction, praising the alumnae lineage and the sponsor honor.
About 1,100 graduates of the 11th Training Battalion completed 13 weeks of basic infantry training at Camp Wheeler and will leave for Ft. Benning Camp Dix and Camp Polk. An additional 659 moved to posts nationwide, boosting Wheeler output to over 1,700 in recent days with assignments to multiple infantry divisions and reception centers.
Five Points residents and relatives from Thomaston gathered visiting families across Panhandle and Thomaston. The Jarrell and Colquitt families hosted, with several Windham Starling and Jarrell relatives noted. Mrs Clarence Davis died Friday with many friends offering sympathy. Antioch Baptist Church schedule announced with services next Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school at 10:30.
Pleasant Hill and Thomaston residents spent Sunday with relatives and friends across several households. The list includes Mr and Mrs. B C Brewer hosting C J Peacock and family, Bill Guy with John Guy, and multiple couples visiting or hosting in Americus Ideal and neighboring towns.
From Dawson in peanut country comes Carolyn Stevens a University of Georgia coed daughter of Ed Stevens a director of the national council appointed to represent Georgia at the National Peanut Exposition in Suffolk Virginia October 30 31.
Brunswick brothers H J and W H Cofer, resort operators on St Simons Island, are jailed on murder indictments tied to the 1938 shooting of Dr C H Lee the Christchurch rector. Solicitor General W G Thomas said the case stems from a confession by George Clayton, later repudiated by Clayton, who is serving life for the cleric’s death. The indictments were returned in January 1939 and the men face trial likely in January.
Albany October eighteen and a half page note reports the first edition of Glory Road by Albany grandmother Mrs. Alice K. Cripps. Published by Eerdmans Publishing Co. the novel uses Albany as backdrop and centers on Easter Ann and Jons showing homely wisdom and humor from a cook and washerwoman.
Crowell society item lists Sunday visits by Mr and Mrs P E McDaniel and families to Macon Roberta and Butler. Notes include Florence O Neal attends singing, illnesses of Mrs Sam Bailey and Mrs Mattie Lucas, and several local visits among McCrarys Coseys and Jarrells with wishes for recovery.
Family and Mr and Mrs Blan Wall and son spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs B C Brewer. Mr and Mrs J E Wall and daughter Elizabeth and Mrs Susan Wisham and son spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs V Smith. Mr J C Tate and family spent the weekend with relatives in Alabama. Miss Dorothy and Geraldine Brewer, Mr and Mrs Blan Wall and Shen spent Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs J W Tarrer of Ideal. Mr and Mrs Flem Brewer and son spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs A L Short. Mr and Mrs Bill Guy and Mr and Mrs Thelma Guy spent Sunday with Mrs John Guy.
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