County Fair Opens Amid Cotton Glut and News
Butler crowds prepare for the county fair as crops and weather mix with local events. Col C W Foy and others travel for business. elections loom next Tuesday and school openings promise activity around town.
Notice to County Fair Directors Meet at Butler Court House
Notice to County Fair Directors urgent meeting at the court house in Butler at 10 o clock Thursday morning. Important business demands your attention and presence. H. J. Peagler president IRA Chambers secretary.
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Court House
Butler
H. J. Peagler
Ira Chambers
Farmers to Cut Cotton Acreage and Seek Special Session
A large crowd gathered at the Butler courthouse following Governor Slaton's proclamation calling county meetings on acreage reduction and food production. Weighed by speakers, the group adopted the Harvie Jordan acreage reduction plan for six acres to the plow in cotton for 1915 and urged the governor to convene an extra legislative session to enact supportive laws.
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Slaton
Butler
A. H. Riley
J. T. Childs
H. J. Peagler
Death of Infant Mary Amanda Hesters at Macon
The six months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hesters died Sunday morning at their Macon home after a several week illness believed to be heart trouble. Her remains were brought to Butler and interred Monday at Mt Pisgah church cemetery with funeral services led by Rev. F. A. Bone of Macon.
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Mary Amanda
R. A. Hesters
Macon
Butler
Mt Pisga Church
F. A. Bone
Georgia State Fair Booth Demonstrates Sunburst Flower
Mrs. G. L. Sealy invites friends in Taylor County to attend a Georgia State Fair booth in Macon Georgia. The display showcases the Sunburst flower and invites participation in the demonstration on October 26, 1914.
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Butler
Taylor County
G. L. Sealy
Macon
Powell opens restaurant beside meat market in town
Mr C V Powell will run a restaurant in connection with his meat market and grocery business at a new location two doors east of the post office. He promises a neat attractive and well kept place and warns that misconduct will be punished to the full extent of the law.
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C. V. Powell
Butler merchant to dissolve business this week sale
Mr. I. O. Cox, long time Butler merchant, is selling out this week at greatly reduced prices to go out of the mercantile business. All unsold goods will be sold at auction Saturday afternoon, beginning at 1 o'clock.
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Thea Shealy
I. O. Cox
Butler
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Columbus
E. B. Adams
Mrs. Pickens ‘Riley
Sunday
Riley
J. T. Carson
Mr. Baker Baldwin
Baldwinville
Ashton Jones
Olivia Montfort
Cordele
Prof
W. F. Grace
Howard
Messrs
G L Sealy
Paul Grubbs
Sealy House
J. G. Stokes
Buena Vista
Carter and
Fort Valley
Susie Fowler
Nellie Turner
Wesley
Miss Garnett Smith
Albany
W. W. Edwards
W. A. Williams
Tangent
Our City
R. A. Hinton
A. G. Hicks
Reynolds
Mellie Shumate
Herald Office
D. L. Averett
Nor
Ladies Black
Tra Chambers
Lillie Flynn Layfield
Katie Nell Adams
W. J. Griffith
Hallowe’en
Martha Powell
Mary Ingram
Emmie Clyde
Ethel Chapman
Joe Horne
Rupert
W. W. Douglass
O. S. Cox Old Stand
Walter Riley
L. F. Montfort
Sallie Wilson
Charing School
Atlanta Line College
Worth Cox
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church
T. N. Bazemore
Agateville
Wesley School
J.C. McCants
Farmers Warehouse
Secon
Fred
F. A. Peed
John W. Wacer
J. B. Ellington
J T Stephens
State Board of Education
A. S. Wallace
Legion of County Friends
H. H. Waters
The
Central Railroad
Dawson
G. W. Fountain
W. A. Payne
John A. Smith
Talbotton
Butler Ginnery
Butler Banking Co
Mr. Smith
B. W. Hinton
Reynolds, Ga
C. F. Fickling
J. E. Bartlett
Col. H. P. Wallace
Atlanta
Henry Peed
Americus
W. L. Foy
Ruth Champion
Wiley Lyons
Wormack
Tifton
J. R. Williams
Pickens Riley
Carsonville
Crowell
Cora Singleton
J T Adams
Garden Valley
G. C. Smith
H. P. Wallace
State Federation of the Civic Improvement Club
Col
H P. Wallace
Elise Wallace
Attapulgus
J. T. Pullins
Panhandle
Mr. Pullins
J. S. Frink
C. H. Frink
Sanford Bullock
Wyatt Bullock
J. G. Bullock
Lucile Bullock
Amos Rodgers
City
T. J. Fountain
Potterville
Grand Lodge of Masons of Georgia
J. T. Adams
Fickling Lodge
Gilbert
Chambers
J. T. Hart
L. L. Brown
Junction
Plantiff
Col. W. F. Weaver
Charles G. Lee
Ashville
N.C
Washington
McAdoo
General Fund of the Treasury
Epworth
O. T. Montfort
Helen Montfort
J. W. Edwards
Methodist
Baptist Church
M. T. Chapman
County Fair
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Cashier
P. Robertson
T. Cashier
Georgia
Field Peas
Mr. Farmer
E. E. Jarrell
Butler, GA
Rexall
H. J. Porter
ST. Joseph’s
Palace Cash Grocery, Fountain