Rural schools may serve hot meals across Taylor County
Taylor County farmers are called to a Friday mass meeting at the courthouse to organize a Taylor County Farm Bureau. H L Wingate of the Georgia Farm Bureau will speak as about twenty county farmers discuss forming a charter rural coalition affiliated with state and national Farm Bureau networks.
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Flint Electric Membership Corp
Bureau
Taylor County
Court House
Taylor County Farm Bureau
State
National Farm Bureau
H. L. Wingate
Georgia’ Farm Bureau
Mesris A. B. Shehee
J. N. Turner
H. K. Sealy
Co-Op Poultry Sale In Butler Tomorrow
The Tennessee Egg Company will conduct a poultry sale in Butler tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon. Prices paid include 18 cents per pound for colored hens 4 1 2 pounds and up and 20 cents for turkeys. The notice is by local agent E Blackwell. Showers this morning were welcomed by residents.
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Co-Op
Butler
Tennessee Egg Company
Boies Codereirlor Arteraa
Blackwell, “Co. Agt
Defense Tax Forces Theatre Ticket Price Hike
Government imposes ten percent defense tax on theatre tickets starting October 1 with child tickets lowered to 11 cents and 12 through 15 year olds at 20 cents adults at 25 cents balcony and matinee prices similarly adjusted passes incur a 3 cent tax per admission Dean Theatre Butler Georgia notes the tax funds defense and hopes for a sooner repeal.
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Lewis R. Dean
Dean Theatre
Butler
Windham Caldwell Kills Five-Foot Rattler on Road
Windham Caldwell earns local fame after killing a five foot rattle snake with ten rattles while driving with his family near Rupert Sunday. The animal blocked the highway and the car’s weight slowed the vehicle enough for Caldwell to strike the reptile, asserting his status as a leading rattlesnake killer.
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Mr. Windham Caldwell
Herald
Mr. Caldwell
Rupert
Local Pastor Announces Sermon Subjects for Sunday
Rev. Hugh Dozier, pastor of the local Baptist church, announces the morning sermon will be The Church of Jerusalem and the evening theme The Man Who Went to Sleep in Church. All are invited to attend both services.
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Hugh Dozier
Baptist Church
Church of Jerusalem
Tractor John Deere Model H with cultivator planter and disk tiller
A John Deere Model H tractor equipped with a cultivator a planter and a disk tiller with three disks was purchased new in March this year by Mitchell Turner of Rupert Georgia.
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Mitchell Turner
Rupert, Ga
Taylor County youths depart to multiple colleges
A large number of Taylor county young men and women have left and more will depart this week to enroll in colleges. Names include Frances Harris Betty Maddox Doris Saunders Jack Fuller Lorraine Clyatt Virginia Jones and many others headed to institutions such as Georgia Southwestern Americus Emory University Atlanta Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia.
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Taylor County
Frances Harris
Betty Maddox
Doris Saunders
Jack Fuller
Lorraine Clyatt
Virginia Jones
Harold and Jewel Posey
Georgia Southwestern
Americus
Janie Neisler
Mariana Brewer
Howard McCrary
Horace McCants
Chicago Evangelistic Institute
Chicago
Ill
Gray Fountain James Joiner
Edwards Whatley
John Smith
Emory University Atlanta
Ben Persons
Guy Windham
Georgia Tech
Douglas Saunders
Indiana Tech
Mary Louise Neisler
Stephens
Betty Neisler
Perdue
Anne Gray
Doris Callahan
Dorothy Hinton
Louise Ogburn
G. 5S
W. C
Valdosta
Margery Walker
Dorothy Brunson
Milledgeville
Frank Riley
Billy Neisler
Link Marshall
Mollie Coolik
University of Georgia
Alver Bazemore
Garland Byrd
University of North Carolina
Chapelhill
N. C
Lucy Bryan
Mary Baldwin
Frances Neisler
Clyde Afay Green
Shorter College
Rome
Eugenia Joiner
Wesleyan
Macon
Clifford Montgomery
Horace
Atlanta
Dan Callahan
Emory Junior College
Miss Mabel Sanders Attends Athens Foods For Defense Meeting
Miss Mabel Sanders, Butler High School home economics teacher and newly elected chairman of the Taylor County Steering Committee, attended a state and county nutrition meeting in Athens. The gathering addressed nutrition promotion, army dietary problems, malnutrition in childhood, school lunch programs, budgeting and food supply trends. Officials warned 12 percent of men tested showed malnutrition or related defects, and organizers expect lasting health benefits for Georgians.
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Mabel Sanders
Butler High School
Taylor County
Athens
Army
Butler School Lunch Room Opens Under PTA Sponsorship
The Butler school lunch room opened Monday with PTA oversight. PTA members will plan menus and buy food for the year. One day per week coordinators include Mrs. Doyel, Mrs. Heath, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Humber, Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Waters, and Mrs. Adams. meals cost 10 cents and include meat two vegetables bread a drink and dessert.
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Butler School
L. M. Doyel
G. W. Heath
H. BE. Allen
R. ©. Humber
C. C. Stone
A. L. Waters
L. R. Adams
Local Taylor County farmers urged to grow own fertilizer
Low income farmers in Taylor County are advised to plant nitrogen rich cover crops such as vetch Austrian peas blue lupin and crimson clover to cut fertilizer costs. Farm Security Administration official R L Burns notes Region Five spends about 2.5 million dollars on nitrogen fertilizer annually and that cover crops can boost yields while improving living standards. Navy enlistment information follows with opportunities in technical trades and officer paths under Secretary Knox promoting the Two Ocean Navy and free schooling, pay increases, and benefits for new recruits.
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Taylor County
R. L. Burns
Farm Security Administration
Burns
FSA
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Navy
Knox
The
Herald
Washington
Naval Reserve
United States
U. S. Navy
the Herald
Sam Free
Baptist W M U Set Meeting in Columbus Oct 3
West Central Division of the Baptist Women's Missionary Union will hold a session at First Baptist Church in Columbus on October 3 starting at 10 a.m. Speakers include Mary Crawford returning missionary from China W H Frost F W Burney Janie Singleton Frances Turner with invites extended to members and interested friends.
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West Central
Baptist Woman's Misionary Union
First Baptist Church of Columbus
Mary Crawford
China
W. H. Frost
State Department of Evangelism
F. W. Burney
The
Woman's Missionary Union
Janie
Prominent Talbot Co Farmer N R H Collier Dies
Talbotton Georgia September 18 Nathaniel Richard Harrison Collier 51 a leading Talbot county farmer died Thursday afternoon at 2 30 on the Collier estate two miles from Talbotton of a heart attack He was WWI veteran who served in France and was cited for bravery in the Argonne He is survived by brother Henry and three sisters Ella Lillie and Lucy Collier Funeral at Sardis Methodist Church Friday at 2 with Rev Crenshaw officiating.
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Talbotton
Nathaniel Richard Harrison Collier
Talbot County
Collier Estate
Collier
France
Henry Collier
Ella
Lillie
Lucy Collier
Sardis Methodist Church
Crenshaw
4-H Club Members Ready for Southeastern Fair Parade
About 25 4-H Club members and several adults will travel from Butler to Atlanta on a school bus to attend the Southeastern World's Fair parade next Saturday September 27. County Agent E. G. Blackwell arranged the trip as part of a regional 4-H event with thousands of members from multiple states participating. The group will depart the court house at 7 o'clock in the morning.
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Dean Theatre
Butler Herald
Leon Smith
Thomaston Times
Leon
Lil
Sue
Sal
Butler
Atlanta
E. G. Blackwell
Court House
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Charlie Stone
Garden Club
J. S. Green
County
Charlie
Florence
Butler Drug Company
Chambers
John Pennington
John
Joiner Bros
Joe
L. C. Woolard
F. H. Tabor
Flint Electric Membership Corporation
REA
Flint Electric
Woolard
J. W. Studebaker
U. S. Office of Education
Windham Caldwell
Taylor CO
Butler and
Reynolds High
Foods For Defense
Miss Sanders
Baptist W. M. U
Columbus
Talbot Co
N. R. H. Collier
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