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The Butler Herald
Volume XXXXII.
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 2 1918.
Number 25
THE HERALD GOES “OVER THE TOP,”
MAKES IMPROVEMENT IN ITS MECHANICAL DEPART
MENT AT ENORMOUS EXPENSE.—A WONDERFUL
MACHINE INSTALLED.
THIS IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT THE HERALD EXPECTED TO
MAKE TWO WEEKS AGO, BUT WAS UNAVOIDABLY DELAYED
IN GETTING THE MACHINE IX OPERATION.
Up to the Present Time We Have Been Unable to Get an Experienced
Operator. But Catching on to Setting Type by Machinery Fairly
_ And Hope to Gain in Knowledge and Speed withTime
and Experience
ger of what the printers call “pi”-that
spilled type.
The new typesetting machine will
enable the Hrald to largly increase
the amount of local and eoun, v news
in its columns and will also make ji
j possible to publish more late news
[and fuller details local happenings,
i So easily and quickly is the type set
| in this \vay that many editors and
■ publishers find it more convenient to
i operate the machine themselves, and
! then-set their news notes on the ma-
j chine direct, than to write out the
j “copy” for someone else to put into
type.
The He raid wishes to extend an
invitation to all of it? readers to call
and see this remarkable machine .n
operation. It will be a pleasure to
demonstrate how such an expensive
addittion to our mechanical equipment
will enable us to continue our policy
of giving subscribers, advertisers, and
job work customers, the greatest pos
sible value for their money.
The above is one of the editor’s first
lessons in typesetting, all of which
matter was set with the new machine
with the exception of the lrst line of
the heading, nad goes in the paper,
errors and all, without proof-reading
and correcting.
Taylor County’s Quota
Goes to Camp Gordon
Glass Found In
Bread For Drafted
Men’s Lunch
Meals Are Waiting For 400 When
Discovery is Made.
P OSSIBLE Serious results to
selectmen moving from South
and Southeast Georgia to < 'amp
Gordon, -were averted in Macon Sun
day when glass in bread of lunches
that had been prepared for the select
men at the Parker restaurant, of the
Macon Terminal station, was discover
ed in time to prevent the lunches be
ing delivered to the men.
None of these lunches were allowed
to be delivered and many of the select
men had to go on to Atlanta without
getting lunch. The restaurant, how
ever, was able to furnish lunch to later
arrivals, the lunches being prepared
from food inspected in the restaurant.
None of the rolls which had been or
dered for the first lunches were , used
according to the statement of Mr.
Man*.
Dr. Williams, who conducted an in
vestigation, is emphatic in his belief
that the glass was placed in the bread
and was not originally in the flour
from theroll was made. The glass
could not possibly have passed
through a flour sieve, he said.
The Herald’s New Typesetting Machine—The Intertype Model B.
The Herald has installed a type
setting machine, one of the most won
derful inventions of modern times.
This important addition to our epuip
ir.ent has been made because it will en
able us to publish a better and news
ier paper, and at the same time great
ly increase our job composition facil
ities. The machine which the Herald
has purchased, manufactured by the
Intertype Corporation, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., is the last word in modern
composing room equimpemt. Money
cannot buy a better machine of its
class; it represents the pinnacle of
inventive genius in its field. One
man on the machine can set as much
type as four or five men of equal ab
ility can set by hand.
Only a few years ago many print
ers firmly believed that a machine for
setting type was a dream which, like
perpetual motion, would never be
realized. Inventors had been spending
at a time. The matrices from
which the lines are cast are carried
in a flat receptacle, called the mag
azine, near the top of the machine.
As the operator at the keyboard
touches the keybuttons the matrices
are released and fall down to an as
sembler. When the line of matrices
is completely assembled the operator
presses a level- and the line is carried
to the casting mechanism. Here
molten type metal under heavy
pressure is forced into the mold, the
slot of the mold being backed by the
assembled line of matrices. In this
way a solid bar of “slugs” is cast,
with the type letters projecting in re
lief along one edge. These bars or
slugs are automatically gathered into
columns ready for printing.
The whole process as outlined above
appear to be very simple, and, in
theory, it is simple. But in actual
practice a number of difficulties arise
time and money unsuccessfully, that which have been very cleverly provid-
it was often stated that, until a mac
hine could be made to think, type
would continue to be set in exactly
the same way that Benjamin Frank
lin set it in his day. Many and large
were the fortunes which were lost
in unsuccessful inventions of this kind
One typical failure was an extremely
complicated machine which was back
ed for several years by Mark Twain
The great humorist spent a huge for
tune in attempting to establish this
machine, but it was never a commer
cial successand he lost everything
that he put into it.
At last a man appeared, Ottmar
Mergenthaler, a watchmaker, who
conceived the idea of setting a line
of type at a time instead of single
letters. After much study and exper
imentation he developed a machine,
the Linotype, which almost immedi
ately qroved successful in operation
in some of the larger newspaper
composing rooms. The Linotype was
further developed and gradually spre
ad all over the world, and for many
years no other manufacturer at
tempted to build a similar- machine.
A few years ago, however, a new
conern appeared in the field with a
machine designed along the lines of
the Linotype but equipped with a
large number of detail improvements
and simplifications. The new ma
chine was called the “Intertype.” It
is manufoctured by the Intereype
Corporation, and the new machine
just installed by the Herald is the
model “B” which is sold by that
Company.
The Intertype sets one line of type
ed for in the design of the machine.
For instance, there is the matter of
automatically spacing the lines so
that they will be of even length. This
is accomplished by means of wedge
shaped “space-bands,” Which spread
the words in each line far enough
apart to make the end of the last
word line up with the ends of all the
other lines. Then there is the nec
essity of distributing the matrices
from which the line is cast. This is
accomplished by means of an ingen
ious set of combination teeth in the
matrices, whereby the latter are car
ried to the top of the machine and al
lowed to fall into their proper chan
nels in the magazine. After thd pri
nting fl-om the slug is finished the
slugs are returned to the melting pot
of the machine, to be used again.
Among other advantages of set
ting type on a machine is the fact
that by this process every issue of
the paper and every machine set job
is printed from what is in effect a
brand new face of type. The print
ing in the paper is always clear and
legible and job work set on the ma
chine has the same attractiveness
that would result from setting it with
new hand type. Prom a mechanical
standpoint the slugs or lines of type,
offer many other advantages. Fori
instance, it is very easy to handle^
slug composition; whereas a few lines
of hand-set matter must be lifted and
carried with the greatest care in ord
er to avoid di-opping some of the
small individual letters, the same
amount of matter set on slugs can be
picked up with one hand without dan-
The following ten stalwart repre-
i tative young white men of Taylor
county left Friday in fine spirit for
j Camp Gordon:
:| Allen Kiser Morgan
if Henry Grady Fuller
Clarence P. Seay
Theadore Shealy
Hilyard Anderson
Riley W. Montgomery
Floyd Martin
James D. Williams
George J. Nelson
Mercer W. Smith
In addition to the above Mr. John
D. Beeland, son of Sheriff Beeland
will leave tomorrow-- for army camp.
A very large crowd of county cit
izens gathered at the train Friday to
se the boys off and to wish them
well during the period of their ab
sence and hoping for them an early
and safe return.
A number of patriotic speeches
were made at the depot while wait
ing the arrival of the train. Rev. H.
O. Fowler, Hon. W. E. Steed, were
among the number who spoke.
The following eleven colored se
lectmen were sent to Camp Gordon,
departing Monday afternoon:
These too were shown special in
terest and favors on the eve of then-
departure:
Early Johnson
Willie Edwards
Thom a,s Riley
Halley Roquemore
Oscar Hopkins
Geter Cotton
Willie Johnson
Milton Craig
Felix Snipes
Jack Brown
Son Bryant.
STATE S. S. ASSOCIATION
MEETS IN AUGUSTA NEXT WEEK
VALDOSTA MAN’S WEAPON
ADOPTED BY GOVERNMENT
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a Fav-
oritef or Colds.
J. L. Easley, Macon, 111., in speak
ing of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
says, “During the past fifteen years
it has been my sister’s favorite medi-
c-inefo r colds on the lungs. I myself
have taken it a number of times w-hen
suffering with a cold and it always
relieved me promptly.”
BOYS IN THE SERVICE
In publishing a list last week of
the young white men of Taylor
county we failed to record the
names of a few whose patriotism
is never to be questioned, and are
among those rendering their coun
try most valued service. While w’e
regret the omission, the Herald
was not responsible foi* same, the
ist being published as furnished
us. It is possible others are left
out yet, if so we would appreciate
the names of these. Those report-
to us as having been omitted last
week are as follows: v
Willis D. Sandrs.
Ralph Heath J
Terrell Waters.
Despondency Due to Constipation.
Women often become nervous and
despondent. When this is due to
constipation it is easily corrected by
taking an occasional dose of Cham
berlain’s Tablets. These tablets are
easy to ttake and pleasant in effect
T HE Annual Convention of the
Georgia Sunday School Associa
tion, one of the largest annual
religious gatherings in the State, will
met in Augusta neks wek, May 7th,
8th, and 9th. From the office of the
State Sunday School Association
comes the information that the Aug
usta. Committee is putting the final
tom‘f :' an the arrangements, and
that all things are are ready for one
of the greatest Conventions in the
history of the Association.
This Convention was to have been
held in Augusta two years ago, and
the arrangements were
completed when blocks of
were swept away by fire, making it
necessary for the Convention to be
held elsewhere. The Augusta Sunday
School workers then put in their in
vitation for the Convention in 1918
and the reports from headquarters
indicate that even fire cannot burn
the enthusiasm out of Sunday School
work.
The officers of hte Association have
worked up a program which they be
lieve will.be of unusual interest and
help to the Sunday School workers
over the state. The speakers secur
ed are of national reputation, and are
among the best Sunday School talent
to be found. j
Mr W. C. Pearce, Chicago Feild
Superintendent of the International
Sunday School Association,will give-
special attention to the Adult Bible
Clas work in the Convention; Dr.
W. E. chalmers, Philadelphia, Edu
cational Superintendent of the Nor
thern Baptist Church, will give spec
ial to the work of the Executive offi
cers in the Sunday School; Mr. Pres
ton G. Orwig, Philadelphia Secondary
Division Superintendent of the Pen-
sylvania Sunday School Association,
is a specialist in Sunday School work
with the teen-age boys and girls; Mrs
M. J. Baldwin, Chicago Elementary
Superintendent of the International
Sunday School Association, will be
the syecialist i t charge of the confer
ences dealing with the work with the
children up to twelve years of age.
Besides these some of the best Sun
day School workers of the State will
also take part on the program. Among
them are Prof. H. H. McH. Hull, At
lanta, Superintendent North Avenue
Presbyterian Sunday School; Dr.
Joseph Broughton. Atlanta Superin
tendent Tabernacle Baptist Sunday
School; Dr. O. F. Cook, Savannah Pre
siding" Elder Savannah District South
Georgia Methodist Conference; Rt.
Rev. F. F. Rese, Savvannah, Bishop
Georgia Diocese Episcopal Church;
and a number of others just as prom
inent in religious affairs in the State.
Sunday Schools of all denominations
are requested to send delegates to the
Convention. The convention will open
with an afternoon session next Tues
day, May 7th, and will close Thursday
night, May 9th. The Augusta Com-
mitte will met all trains and the dele
gates will be assigned to homes where
they will be entertained and breakfast
while attending the Convention.
Valdosta, April 27.—A new army
weapon which is now being used with
great effectiveness by the American
Expeditionary Forces in France, was
suggested by W. G. Eager, of Valdos
ta, who submitted the idea to the war
department last October. Mr. Eager
design and its investigation by the
war department were kept secret for
for som time„dut now that the guns
are being turned out and forwarded
to the men on* the firing line in large
quantities, the New York papers are
devoting considerable space to de
scriptions of the weapon and the ex
cellent work it is capable of doing.
The new weapon is termed a
“trench shot gun,” of the automatic
pump variety, capable of sending
54 steel No. 00 buckshot through a
distance of 150 yards, nad is pro
nounced the greatest weapon for
trench or short range fibhting yet
designed.
Mr. Eager last fall prepared a
matbrochure entitled, “Use of Auto
matic Shot Gun in Shock Action,”
embodying the principles and use of
theweapon, which he submitted tothe
department. Theidea seems to have
met with immediate favor, for un
der date of Nov. 5, 1917, Mr. Eager
had acommunication from Adjutant
General Wilson, in which after re
ferring- again to the brouhure pre
pared by Mr. Eager, the Adjutant
General said: “I have to inform
you, as per your request, that shot
guns will shortly become an article
of issue for use in trench warfare.
This information should be consid
ered confidential.
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Butler Boy
Sees Life In
The Trenches
The following letter from Mr.
Joe Rawls, son of Mr. and Mrs.
lB._ B. Rawls, of this city, will be
readwithlnterest by many friends
practically/ throughout this section. Joe has
that clt >\i j 3een w ith the American forces
“Somewhere in France” for sev
eral months, and we hope that
he will continue to be able to
come out of the trenches safely as
he did on this occasion. \
W, W. CoxwelS Killed
in Wilkinson County
Shot from Ambush.—Coro
ner’s Jury Returned Verdict
Against Ira Pierce.—Re
mains Brought Here.
Tb.<?
March 2Srh.
Dear Papa:
Just a few lines to let
you know that I atp still lwing.
I have been in the ? trench js for
the past few weeks, and foun.d
things altogether different from
what I expected. I was not on a
very dangerous post, bfit it was
dangerous enough for me. Some
days the shells would fall real
dose to us. The last day we were
there one fell in a few feet of our
gun, I thought sure that the next
one would fall in the trench where
we were, but they fell on the edge.
They sure did throw lots of big
shells over our head, some going
over nearly all they time. They
sound like a train or wagon going
over a rough road, and made big
holes where they landed. On our
way out we could see where they !
hit in the road and along side of j
it, making large holes five or six !
feet deep and four or five feet’
wide.
While we were up there wej
would not even talk loud at night.
When the French came to re
lieve us they come in singing and
smoking cigarettes. We told one
of them that the shells had been
falling all around us and he
jumped out of the trench and be
gan to look at the shell holes.
Just before they came in we could
hardly raise our heads above the
trench without being shot at.
The cold weather is nearly
over, although it is a little chilly
yet.
I must close for this time, will
write again when I get a chance.
Your son,
JOE.
News of the untimely death of
Mr. William W. Coxwell, which
occurred near Irwinton, in Wilk
inson county, Sunday night be
tween 11 and 12 o’clock, was re
ceived at Reynolds, his former
home Monday morning about 10
o’clock and was the occasion of
much sadness and sorrow to his
relatives and many friends
throughout the county.
From the best information ob
tainable it seems that the shooting
of Mr. Coxwell was the result of a
quarrel he bad during the earlier
hours of Sunday night with one
of his neighbors and closest
friends, a man by the name of
Ira Pierce, and with whom Mr.
Coxwell had been associating
throughout Sunday. At the time
the dispute arose between the
two men they were at the home
of a Mr Jesters who succeeded
in preventing a difficulty between
the men at the time. However
Pierce is reported to have left
Coxwell at the Jesters home and
went immediately to his own
home where he secured a shot
gun and secluded himself along
the roadside where Coxwell was
expected to pass in route home,
and as he approached fired the
fatal shot which disemboweled
Mr. Coxwell. Money and other
valuables were missing from Mr.
Coxwell’s pockets when the body
was discovered.
Following coroner’s jury inves
tigation a warrant was issued
against Mr Pierce charging him
with the murder of Mr. Coxwell.
Officers are in search of Pierce
but no arrest had been made yes
terday.
Mr Coxwell was about 45 years
old. He had no family, his wife
and only son having recently died,
the death of the latter oecuring
at Camp Gordon a few months
ago.
His remains were brought to
(Butler arriving here Tuesday af
ternoon ana carried to Bethel
cemetery where interment was
made by the side of his wife and
son following an impressive fun
eral service conducted by Rev. J.
T Adams.
Taylor Has Exceeded
Her Liberty Loan Quota
The biggest and best news of
the week is to be found in the an
nouncement made by County
Chairman F. A. Ricks, that Taylor
county’s quota of Liberty Bonds
has been oversubscribed by sev
eral thousand dollars, and the
goal is now set at double the
amount assessed upon our people,
said Mr. Ricks, and with just a
little extra effort during the next-
day or two this will easily he done.
Ail together, now if you please,
and let’s double our assessment.
Never has man worked harder
in the interest of his country than
has Chairman Ricks, and to him
is due, to a large extent, the lib
eral response to the purchase of
bonds which has been made.
The woman’s committee, under
the able chairmanship of Mrs. C.
B. Marshall, has been very active
and remarkably successful in
securing subscriptions, and their
efforts are genuinely appreciated.
At no time has any committee
man in the county allowed interest
in the sale of bonds to lag, but
have kept interest at fever heat
during the campaign.