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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
7
A wave of visits fills Butler with relatives and friends from Atlanta Reynolds Vienna Thomaston and Macon. Local residents host travelers from Conyers Decatur Birmingham and Jacksonville as Kindergartners grow and Ruths Beauty Salon moves nearby.
Mrs Charles Benns, a bride of the season, was the guest of honor at a garden shower hosted by Miss Christine Payne Miss Kathryn Payne and Miss Josephine McCorvey on Wednesday afternoon at Miss West's garden. Guests enjoyed punch and mints served by two young attendants, played games with winners receiving china ware, and opened gift packages to find attractive contents. Hostesses provided brick ice cream and pink rose bud cakes.
Miss Edwina Wood of Columbus leads a Baptist Training Union for Butler's youth at the local Baptist church. In charge of an instructive course drawn from What We Believe, the class began Sunday night and will run nightly through tonight with about 20 local young people attending regularly.
Five year old Jimmie Bone son of Mr and Mrs A K Bone of Columbus is improving in a Columbus hospital after an operation on Friday pneumonia followed but latest reports show marked improvement. He is grandson of Mr and Mrs F H Bone of Butler.
Butler friends of Prof and Mrs Francis Oxford formerly on Butler High School faculty now of Culloden congratulate them on the birth of a fine daughter Monday at the Middle Georgia Sanitarium in Macon
Buena Vista Ga Sept 5 Mrs James G Lowe announces the engagement of Martha Clements to Robert F Colyer of Jacksonville Fla with a October 21 wedding at Buena Vista Baptist Church The bride elect comes from a South Georgia family and is sister to Mrs R K Tauz and J G Lowe She graduated from the University of Georgia where she joined Phi Mu and has taught school in Monroe for two years Colyer is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Colyer of Jacksonville He attended the University of North Carolina and works with Relaco Rosin Products in Jacksonville
In Butler Georgia a Sunday school lesson surveys Hezekiah succeeding Ahaz, opening the temple, cleansing it, and restoring Passover observances. He seeks reconsecration of Israel, invites remnants from Israel, and abolishes Ahaz’s altars, symbolizing reform and obedience as prerequisites for divine blessing.
About seventy five guests gathered Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs H G Pye for a birthday barbecue in Mrs Pye's honor. A pink and white birthday cake was shared, and attendees included numerous local families from Butler Junction City Reynolds Griffin Mauk Trutler Rupert and others.
The 108th session of the Apatole Primitive Baptist Association meets at Bethlehem church near Garden Valley in Taylor county from Tuesday to Thursday. Elder S H McCorkle presides as moderator, with eleven churches in Muscogee Chattahoochee Talbot Taylor Marion and Taylor counties represented. Elders McCorkle Morgan Williams J E Cox W H Hancock and Hardy Phillips are noted among officiants and long-serving pastors. The 1938 session drew 23 elders from Tennessee Alabama Florida and Georgia.
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