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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
8
A long list of visits and guests marks a Butler week with Mrs. F A Peed hosting and accompanying friends. Local residents travel to Macon Hawkinsville Birmingham and Cairo while students and relatives visit from Valdosta Griffin Rome Americus Thomaston and other nearby towns. A central celebration honors Mrs Z D Gill with family gathering and a large 82 cake as grandchildren and kin praise her life and faith.
Americus October 18 The engagement of Miss Lochlynn Eve to Dr J H Hagan of Columbia South Carolina formerly of Cedartown is announced by the bride elects parents Lovelace Eve The marriage will take place in Americus in November The bride to be is younger daughter of her parents Her father edits the Tri County News and serves as Chamber of Commerce president Her mother is the former Miss Isobel McDonald, daughter of Mrs W L McDonald of Fayetteville North Carolina and the late Wm McDonald of Charlotte North Carolina
Miss Patricia Ward Brewer of Reynolds and Harold Shipp Hill of Atlanta wed Oct 11 at the groom’s sister’s home in Pineview. The ceremony, conducted by Rev. John Tippett Jr., featured a music program by Myra Byrd and Ouida Brewer, with guests from Reynolds Butler Vienna Perry and beyond. The couple plans a Jacksonville, Florida home after a wedding trip.
Mrs Eli Garrett and Mrs C F Fickling hosted the Fanny Wallace Circle Tuesday afternoon at Mrs Garretts home. The program featured a devotional by Mrs William Childres and a meditation by Mrs Mosley Childres on Seek ye first the Kingdom of God. Mrs Garrett led prayers and discussed the Week of Prayer. Visitors included Mrs Tom Lowe of Florida and Mrs Strickling. Refreshments of punch and sandwiches were served.
A birthday dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Shirah drew a large gathering from nearby towns. Attendees included Rev and Mrs. B. T. Gill and Peggie Joyce of Thomaston, the Brewer family of Americus, the Guy families of Butler and Midway, Pearl Guy and her children of Pleasant Hill, the Parks family of Montezuma with two sons, M. T. Shirah and son of Macon, Henry Bloodworth of Ft. Valley, E. Shirah of Perry, Mathews and Parks families of Montezuma, Clemon Odom of Montezuma, Shirah and Cromer families from multiple communities, and many others including Odoms, Cromers, James, Adams, and Cromer siblings from Cordele, Buena Vista, Ideal, Pitts, Seville, and Oglethorpe.
A Sunday School lesson argues government must regulate beverage alcohol after repeal of the 18th Amendment. It cites Moses, Daniel, and Isaiah to show nations prosper with righteousness while sin brings ruin, condemns drunkenness as a national decline, and urges the church to denounce both users and sellers of alcohol. It frames America’s duty to uphold moral character, strengthen families, and prepare for the Messiah’s coming.
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