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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1929
Page
1
Investments pay dividends and never depreciate in value. Buy home raised products and support merchants at home. Money spent is a loan that returns with praise to your county town and community. Stand by churches schools and the tireless sentinel pupils your interest.
Dreizin's Dry Goods Store launches a mammoth harvest sale starting Friday inviting the trading public to Butler. The event aims to draw hundreds from nearby areas as customers seek fall and winter supplies at cut prices, promising crowded streets and strong shopping interest.
Enthusiasm rises for the Sandard Training School sponsored by Rev H C Griffin of Butler Methodist and Rev M O Williams of Reynolds Methodist. At Butler M E Church from September 29 to October 3, three courses cover worker Bible teaching and elementary work with only book costs.
Rev H M Wolfe leaving Butler early Saturday morning had car tire puncture near Mrs J D Jarrell. While repairing, he removed luggage including a box with valuable apparel for him and Mrs Wolfe left in car. Box labeled W G Hill. finder urged to return to W G Hill at his Butler store for a liberal reward.
At about 3 am a fire burned the Fowler house once owned by Mrs. N T Fowler and occupied by D F Chapman in the eastern town. Chapman saved some belongings though the 6 room frame structure burned with no insurance. The building, erected 35 years ago by J T Taylor, hosted the Smith Wiggins tragedy two decades ago. Nearby, a collision between a Cox car and a wagon of cotton pickers injured several negro laborers. Also, Macon elected G Glen Toole mayor, and William B Harrison became Comptroller General to fill the late Wright’s term.
Masons from Talbotton Junction City Mauk Reynolds and Butler join Grand Lodge of Georgia officials for a three session convention in the Masonic hall open to the public. Notable officers include Raymond Daniel and Guy G Lunsford attending as honored guests. A plate supper and regalia display planned.
Sheriff McGuffin and deputies exposed a massive illegal still at Poplar Head near Patsiliga Creek, northwest of Butler. The operation included a 150-gallon boiler and eight vats with over 8,000 gallons of mash, valued high, plus equipment and a mule wagon. The plant appeared financed by bootleggers from larger cities, not a local enterprise. The destruction was witnessed by many during the community centennial events at New Hope Primitive Baptist Church nearby.
Hon. William J. Wallace moves his family to Butler to practice law. He will office in the Masonic building and stay temporarily with Mrs. Sara Fickling until a residence is secured. Wallace, a Crawford County native, was admitted to the bar in 1898 and has served as City Court judge of Soperton, Georgia, and ran a Tampa law practice before returning to Georgia to settle in Butler.
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