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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1944
Page
6
Olympia Washington area reports a 101 year old mother, Mrs. Nanny Noe, fulfilled her wish to see her son, 82-year-old Sydney Bland, arriving from Wynona Oklahoma. The last meeting was at his wedding 58 years ago at the family home in Sacramento Kentucky.
Rural property notice sells an eighty acre farm known as the old Payne place on paved highway five miles west of Ideal and three miles east of Rupert in Taylor county. Two room dwelling and new barn offered for eight hundred dollars cash. Interested parties may write Roy Curtis in Thomaston Georgia.
Car offered in fair mechanical condition with noted failures. Interested buyers may contact D. H. Gaultney at 914 in Butler, Georgia.
Real pit barbecue offered at one dollar per pound in Butler Georgia. Advertisement lists Gaultney's Place as the location with pricing and contact implication for sale.
Electrical work by Fred A. Peed Jr in Butler Ga guarantees all work. J T Orrell in Butler Ga offers White New Zealand rabbits for sale. George Poss advertises 250 acres in Taylor County with timber and a house on the Hawkins place in Thomson McDuffie County.
In Cleveland Ohio residents share hope for No 1 Papeone prisoner in Ottawa and recall the year without word. Letters flood in, postcards multiply, and families keep faith with nightly broadcasts while youths aid the cause. Dorothy and Lt Hodges, Reynolds graduates, pursue further studies. Doris notes an India friend piloting a P-51 named The Little Rebel.
The article recalls early Taylor county settlers the Gaultney and Mathews families from Crawford county arriving with slave labor and clearing lands along the old stage road from New Orleans to Washington City. It highlights Rev. Monroe Tony Gaultney’s long ministry, social influence, and a 1872 marriage that linked families. A large reunion list names numerous relatives attending the gathering.
Bishop James Cannon Jr aged 79, noted anti liquor leader and Methodist churchman, died in Wesley Memorial hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. He traveled from Blackstone Virginia to Chicago for an Anti Saloon League meeting and had long been a central figure in ecclesiastical political controversies. He described his decades of anti liquor warfare as his life's work.
A partial list includes Mrs. Fred Johnson, Mrs. T. J. Parker, Herman Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Miller, Mary Ann Miller, Mrs. F. C. Jarrell, Mr. Thelmon Jarrell, Mrs. J. H. Gassett, Mr. Fred Wright of New York, Mrs. Annie L. Booth, Messrs T. A. Shoupe, J. W. Edwards and C. E. Benns.
Atlanta September 8 1923 Mrs Frances Walters of Atlanta announced an offer of 100000 toward the construction of a new infirmary for Agnes Scott College Dr J R McCain president of the college disclosed Mrs Walters an active alumnae and longtime trustee.
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