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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
3
Reynolds residents and guests share Sundays and weekends across Butler Macon Columbus Atlanta and nearby towns. Several trips involve Miss Winnie Griffith Miss Mary Duvall Miss Evelyn Bazemore and Mrs. J M Weaver with friends and relatives in Sylvester Macon Americus and Plains. Local movers include Ruths Beauty Salon relocating in Butler near City Cafe and R H Browns.
Five Points and nearby families named Jarrells and Windhams visit relatives across Panhandle Byron Were and Thomaston figures attend. Recounts show Sunday gatherings with T. D. Jarrell, Henry Jarrell, Grace Jarrell, Ethel Jarrell, and Jean Jarrell with multiple households noted as hosting guests and kin.
Howard Items records a sequence of visits and guests in central Georgia. Names include Emory Jinks in Columbus Frank Pickard of Macon Miss Marie Martin Macon J A Scott O L Scott Rod Brown Sullivan Frances Scott Alton Scott Anna Wilbar Lillian Brown G D Locke Lee Willa Watson Byers Avery Morris Buckner Barron Alsobrooks Greathouse and others.
Daily movements of the foliage of the praying palm of the Orient are driven by changes in temperature. The plant’s leaves tilt and straighten as heat and cool periods alternate, reflecting a responsive mechanism to environmental shifts.
Reynolds Windham service station, Goodyear dealer, received a bronze plaque and a personal letter from Goodyear president P W Litchfield praising long service and loyal relations. The plaque features transportation imagery and the Goodyear plant, symbolizing Goodyear’s role in advancing transportation and the dealer’s ongoing participation.
Sunday visits filled the town as families hosted friends from Butler, Macon, and nearby towns. Wesley school opened with a robust attendance led by principal Herman Elliston and teachers Bessie Childs, Catherine Duvall, and Hazel Hartman, amid optimistic hopes for a successful term.
Weekend visits span Albany and Ovle thorpe with Kelley, Larfield, Hill, Tarrer, Payne, Barfield, and Felker families. Loyice Barfield and Virginia Kelley guests, Myrtle Payne stays with Helen Barfield, and Joe Arnold with Grady Payne host family. Funeral of H A Peacock’s wife noted with sympathy.
Mrs Oscar Burdett and children Katherine and Dorothy of Atlanta visited Mr and Mrs A B Stewart. R G Duke and daughter Imogene were guests of Mr and Mrs Sam Made of Tazewell. R O Rogers Jr of Atlanta was weekend guest of his parents. Rainey Hogg and family hosted guests. Mary L Watson and son from Miami visited Mrs Stone and daughter. Sims Garrett Jr of Americus spent days with parents. John Casin of Savannah visited Mrs H J Garrett. Lewis Watson and son Lewis Jr. enjoyed a barbecue hosted by H G Pye. G O Garrett accepted a position at Thomaston. Bill Jones of Thomaston was weekend guest of Charing friends.
Extension Service Review argues the finest farm houses come from New England farms and Southern Pennsylvania, areas with long family farming continuity. It cites multi generational residence, pride in the ancestral home, soil respect, thrift, and education. It also notes variety farming offers more stability than reliance on single crops.
An obituary for Mrs J L Cato born February 14 1866 in Marion county who died April 10 1989 at age 73 years 1 month and 26 days after brief illness from double pneumonia. Survived by husband J L Cato and seven children plus many relatives and friends. Written by a Friend.
The tale recounts a night of a holdup that ended with a mob scare, the gunman captured, a false lynching threat, and Mrs. McDaniel comforting victims. It mentions Hoke McDaniel as shot, Tommie Mitchell fleeing, and bystanders dispersing as rumors faded. It also notes a distant tale of a granite tomb in Taylor County cracked by an oak root.
Corn and beans fill farms as Ma con stockyards draw farmers every Tuesday to buy animals for fattening. Cattle recently sold from four and a fraction cents to eight cents per pound, higher for well graded stock. Floyd Jarrell of Butler, a dairy operator, notes livestock must join farm programs to restore funds and welfare. Tom Bell and C C Thompson of McIntyre, rival meat market operators, join forces for their customers. Cecil Davis sold seven six month pigs at Hawkinsville for 67.25 dollars, total weight 1 284 pounds, parasite free since birth.
Elder residents recall Clinton Georgia as a thriving early town with 18 to 40 business houses along Baker street and a large git works, contrasting its past prominence with nearby Macon. Frank Stewart and others discuss Oglethorpe’s eighty business houses and a population of twelve to twenty thousand.
Frank Gray, operator of the McCants grist mill near Butler, says tolls sustain the mill by drawing grain from nearby farms. He markets products weekly in Macon and Columbus but faces keen Macon competition, preferring higher prices in Thomaston Talbotton and other towns.
An article recalls Oglethorpe's bustling 1850s boom, where a mill toll matched meals and corn, and population estimates range from 13,000 to 20,000. It notes landmarks, hotels like the Eagle and Phenix, and early railway expansion that fueled commerce and housing along Baker Street.
The Rodgers family thanks friends for comforting expressions of sympathy on the passing of our mother Mrs Martha Catherine Rodgers. Deep gratitude from A M Rodgers and Family A L Rodgers E Q Rodgers Mrs R P Murray.
The article notes that the decimal system in arithmetic originated because humans found it easy to count on ten fingers. It explains the natural linkage between counting methods and a base ten structure. The origin is attributed to practical counting behavior rather than formal mathematical invention.
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