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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1936
Page
8
Georgia voters numbers rise in Columbus. centennial at Vienna Baptist. Baptist Mission Day observed statewide. Georgia agriculture shows cotton output near 964 million pounds. prices slip amid hedge selling. Prominent figures Julius Morgan dies at 56. Shelby, Crisp, and Macon counties report accidents and awards.
Columbus Georgia hosts the Georgia League of Nursing Education the State Organization for Public Health Nursing and the state committee of the American Red Cross Nursing Service as four groups organize a joint convention starting November 1 with Columbus as headquarters.
Waycross Ga Oct 27 Mrs Caroline Pafford Miller author of Lamb in His Bosom asks divorce from husband W D Miller former Baxley schools chief citing mental cruelty Custody sought for three children W D Jr Harvey R and George A Miller Cross bill and injunction filed custody asked for Wm D Jr with hearing set November 7 in Waycross
A collision 11 miles northeast of Americus on the Americus Andersonville highway killed Cliff Snider 41 and seriously injured five others. Mrs Anna Katherne Snider sustained a broken back, M Jordan a broken hip. both are in Americus hospital. Andersonville CDC camp members Josie Holder James Cook and Grady Snider were brought to Prather clinic with painful injuries.
At Atlanta a five year old girl Elizabeth Anne Gossett died after a motorcycle she rode on caught fire. Her uncle James Faulkner, 21, suffered burns to face and hands.
In Americus Georgia on October 24 at 5 30 pm Miss Beatrice Bahnsen daughter of Dr and Mrs P F Bahnsen wed Wim H Taylor at the First Baptist church. The ceremony was performed by Dr L M Polhill in a large gathering of friends and relatives.
An 11 year old Balls Ferry student in Wrightsville Georgia is held in the county jail as police investigate his father Richard Smith 44 a farmer shot and killed by his son who says he acted in defense of himself and his mother per the Wrightsville Headlight account.
Glennville Georgia October 24 Mrs L Bertie Rushing president of the Georgia Postmasters League was elected second vice president of the National Postmasters League at the national convention in St Paul Minnesota this week She has served as a delegate to the national convention for 10 consecutive years and is Glennville postmaster and chairman of District 10fl
High church dignitaries will attend in Augusta Georgia on November 8 as Notre Dame University presents the Laetare medal to Richard Reid editor of the Catholic Laymen's Bulletin during the Catholic laymen's association of Georgia convention. Expected attendees include five bishops two abbots Notre Dame president and Holy Cross representative.
Dr. J Tom Davis president of the southern states association of colleges toured Georgia Southwestern in Americus and praised the campus after an inspection saying the college has room to grow. He met with Dr Peyton Jacob and spoke to the faculty during a weekend visit.
Ellaville Ga Oct 22 drivers of the seven Ellaville Consolidated buses formed the Schley County Bus Drivers Association. No dues or office. meetings discuss educational matters and school life followed by luncheon or fish dinner. Members named include Frank Tondee Charlie Hill Greene Willie Stewart Leo Williams M C Murray Lester McMickle Edward.
Macon Ga Oct 26 Georgia Masonic leaders open the Grand Lodge session with a plan to make the citizenship program and the public school week program permanent features of Masonic activity. Grand Master Abu Nix will seek approval and visitors from the Grand Chapter of Georgia Order of Eastern Star will attend Tuesday night’s program and deliver brief addresses.
Savannah reports about 20 carloads of Georgia sweet potatoes will be shipped to Atchison Kansas for experimental fuel alcohol plant tests. J M Mallory central of Georgia industrial agent and J F Jackson agricultural agent attended Farm Chemical Council meetings in Pensacola and visited Laurel Mississippi plant where potato starch is produced. Residue from Laurel starch is used as cattle and hog feed with cottonseed meal mix.
Americus Ga Oct 26 stop lights are to be installed immediately at three intersections where traffic from Americus feeds into Route Three beyond the viaduct over the Central of Georgia tracks. One light will control north south entry and two others cover Route Three ingress from the viaduct road. City council member elect Rank Stapleton bought the rights at his own expense and the town will assume operating costs. The intersection is described as highly dangerous.
Thousands gathered along Hutchinsons Mill pond near Valdosta as the 400 acre water body was drained for the first time in two decades. Tickets sold for fishing amid receding waters while bass near 14 pounds were reported. Newsreel crews filmed the event, capturing rapid footage of the day’s sport.
Lovelace Eve editor of the Tri-County News forecasts major changes in Sumter County government. The 1987 board will abolish the county engineer position held by Charles Wheatley and return prisoners to the state, creating a County Warden and Superintendent of Roads with a lower salary. George Mathews, J. M. Dupree, W T Anderson, L G Council, and T C Marshall will form the new board, with Marshall likely to succeed himself.
J W Woodruff of Columbus urges Third Congressional district Democrats to donate to Roosevelt campaign funds on the eve of the national election. He stresses campaigns are expensive and asks loyal Democrats to contribute, arguing the Solid South will remain 100 percent Democratic and thanking supporters for the president's administration. He urges setting a pace for friends and organizations and underwriting employees.
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus arrives in Macon on Friday November 6 with 100 double-length railroad cars bearing 1600 people 1009 menagerie animals and 700 horses. The show features African pygmy elephants miniature pongurs a 16 000 seat Big Top and Col Tim Mc Coy in the Indian Village with Sioux and Blackfeet warriors.
Milledgeville Georgia officials invite Selznick International Pictures to scout the historic Old State House and nearby Old Star House for potential background scenes for Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind. City celebrates antebellum heritage as Georgia Military College cadets and GSCW students express enthusiasm.
The Macon Telegraph and News published a Golden Harvest edition honoring Southern farmers. It highlights Macon as a trading center for a rich farming region and features Georgia peach industry pages. Four million bushels of peaches brought five million dollars to Georgia growers this season, with Mercer University, the city, and the Macon chamber of commerce sharing messages.
Cary Williams became editor and publisher of Greensboro Herald Journal and Columbia News of Harlem succeeding his father the late Uncle Jim Williams. Williams’ first venture in newspapers came at age ten when he printed a two column four page weekly. President Woodrow Wilson was 5% to have been a paid subscriber.
Chairman W Wilburn announced the state highway board plans a mid November road county setting with no exact date decided. Officials denied a letting was fixed for Friday November 18. The November letting will include federal aid and purely state projects. The board has been scheduling two lettings monthly, awarding about $ amounts of projects at each letting.
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