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BUTLER, Taylor County, QEORQIA, Thursday June 13, 1929
Number 29
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APPRECIATION
g PL KNDlU SERVICES
: MIL
\N1) MRS. SHEARER
,, and vicinity will deeply re-
“ 1,r ' and Mrs. A. E,
j lose
Mr.
mude
Shearer has
intendent of Public
s . Shearer has made
client teacher. Mr.
d school man, and a
of the
9 rcr is a
Christian gentleman
" tv pe, and a well educated
‘ Butler has been very fortunate
.' h ,,,l 6 uch an able man to head
chooK Mr. Shearer holds the A.
,nd M. A. degrees.
has been promoted
FIRST THINQS
FIRST.
Topic of
Commencement Sermon
Delivered by
REV. J. C. ADAMS
Farmers Bring to This Office
Their First Cotton Blooms.
Mr. Shearer nus been
‘ jn sa iary and in size of school,
leaves butler to become the head
a school in Florida and carries
it h him the good wishes and kind
fcuvh of the people of this county,
(lod greatly bless his efforts in
new locality •
H. M. WOLFE, Pastor
Butler Baptist Church.
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‘But seek ye first the Kingdom oi
God, anil His righteousness; and
all other things shall be added
unto you:”—Matt. 6:33.
Mercer University President
Here For Short Visit Friday.
inquest over PHAROAH
The death and burial of Pharoah
be portrayed in a sermon Sunday
„ ht at the Methodist church at
junction City, T:30 to be delivered
Rev. H. L. Roberts, pastor of the
uk charge. The subject for his dis
burse will be The Inquest Over
haroah, which will be instructive
nd interesting- Tnt pub, -: is eor-
udly invited.
jHERIFF R. P. McGUFFIN
RETURNS FROM BIRMINGHAM,
ALABAMA WITH PRISONER
Dozier Walton, colored, who has
n a fugitive from justice since
March 24th last, was arrested in
Birmingham Monday. Being advised
of the arrest Sheriff McGuflin went to
Birmingham for his prisoner Monday
afternoon returning witli him Tues
day.
Walton is charged with assault
with intent to murder as the result of
shooting which took place at Pot-
terville on the 24th of March at
which time Dan Trussell, another
negro, was wounded.
Grand Theatre
REYNOLDS, GEORGIA
PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK
THURSDAY, JUNE 13
“THE WIND”
Starring Lillian Gish. A great
star, a great director combine to
®ake a thrilling romance of the
attained West that will rank as
lout of the great pictures of any
Star.
Added Attractions:
thrill HUNTER
Western Feature
HOT PUPPIES—Comed v
FRIDAY JUNE 14
“THE WIND”
Lillian Gish. Here is the
picture the world’s been waiting
or —UllianGish’s first screen ap-
Mrai.ce in more than a year. A
mneer enie you’ll acclaim as her
gretest triurjph!
Added Attractions:
HOT PUPPIF.S—Comedy
RECKONING
Serial No. 4
'EYPcnl L ’ RDAY - JUNE 16
"Oh the UNDERWOl
J*! eta the Racketeers
2 ' an bounding
"Nov. with
warageou
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tale of
daring youth and
h Js girl victorious over
War °F the underworld.
F;v. ' dded Ateractions:
THp ,;., KKCK ONING, Serial 4.
- ^jOKED WEST. Comedy
Monday & Tuesday
JUNE 17 & 18
n, ‘ E SHEPHERD of
PrimV IXGD<)M COME ”
mount *° Ves —Primitive hates
all j n .J" madness —blooil feuds
the Knm 'i’ sou Fstirring drama of
t to b y hills ' A bo y’ s « reat
Prising '. a 1Tlan > and his sur-
m°untain °' C ® between a barefoot,
b lue“l maiden and a proud,
Fox, j r ' au ty. Story by John
HIGH s'!'',' 1 A H r »etions:
ULU ES—Comedy
These are the words of Jesus taken
from what is commonly known as the
Sermon on the Mount. More properly
it is the Gospel of the Kingdom. Li
the 5th, 6th and 7th chapters of
Matthew we have the Constitution of
the Kingdom of God.
Jesus never made a mistake. He
lived in what is known as the Dark
Age, but he taught as never man
taught before, nor since. When Jesus
made a statement you could then,
and now, accept ahat statement as ab
solutely true. His statements always
ranked as one hundred per cent true.
Not only was this true, but Jesus
always placed first things, first. He
emphasized the important things of
life. He had little time with the triv
ial, unimportant things of life. Most
of us are unlike Jesus in this respect.
We emphasize the trivial and unim
portant things of life. Let there come
a financial depression and we begin
to economize upon the important
things of life and cling to the unim
portant things. Since 1920 many peo
ple have refused to educate their
children on account of financial re
verses, but have been able to buy new
automoiles. The consumption of gas
has increased steadily year by year.
Automobiles and gasoline have their
place but that place is not the first
place.
And this is the issue in the pas
sage from wnich the text is taken:
Place firist things first. Place first in
your life the essentials; let the non-
essentials have second place. This is
the essential difference between a
Christian and a sinner. The Christian
places emphasis upon the eternal
matters; the sinner thinks for today.
Paul speaks of the seen and the un
seen. The eternal or important things
of life are the unseen; the temporal,
fleeting, unimportant things are the
ones that you can see with your eyes.
This can be further illustrated
from every walk of life. Most of uii
spend our time upon the unimportant
things of life and leave out of our
lives the important things of life. B’or
instance the average mother is more
interested in her daughter’s appear
ance, than die is as to her genuine
ness of character. Show has a very
important place with all of us. You
young people who are receive your
diplomas now soon will be confronted
with this very issue. The temptation
will come to you to live as a butter
fly. On the other hand the opportuni
ty of making your life a blessing to
humanity will be presented to you.
If there were no other objections,
and I assure you that there are very
serious objections, to such forms oi
amusement as card playing and danc
ing, the waste of valuable time and
energy upon these amusements would
be sufficient to condemn them. Next
to your character your most valuable
possession is your time. In fact the
way you use your time will determine
your character. I know of a man who
is spending all of his time studying
rat psychology. And for what pur
pose? For the benefit of man? No.
Just a fleeting fancy of his. He has
no idea of turning any information
that he may gain, to the good of hu
manity. He is not accomplishing any
thing. His talents are wasted. And
when he comes to the end of his day
a bam yard cat will know more rat
psychology in a minute than he will
know in a life time.
Men waste enough time to become
educated. It was Mr. Elliott that
Emeritus President of Harvard, who
said thata person could be thoroughly
educated by spending 15 minutes a
day in seriously reading the proper
kind of literature. All of us have the
same amount of time at our disposal,
twenty-four hours each day, and the
difference in people is the difference
that they make in the use of this
time. If we will place first things
Specimens of fine cotton crops and
the first cotton blossoms of the sea
son found their way to the Herald
office Monday in rapid succession.
The first to remember the Heruld
in this manner was Mr. J. B Goodwin
who a few months gave up his resi
dence in Butler to resume farming
which he had .found by previous ex
perience a much more satisfactory
and happier life than business wor
ries even in a good town. He is en
gaged this year in farming in a prac
tical way in Panhandle district. He
is cultivating such crops as will sup
ply his pantry, smoke house and barn
for another year with a small acre
age in cotton as a surplus crop. From
this latter crop he sends us a stalk
which measured 22 inches in height
and bearing nine squares.
Postmaster C. W Bazemore was
reared on a farm and has been unable
to shake the moss off of his back. He
has one of the best farms in the
north-western part of the county.
He mixes brains with the soil and the
combination has kept him in po
sition to read with a smile the figures
which he has been able to place on
the right hand side of his ledger
each year since leaving the farm
many years ago. Some of the credit
it may be said in fairness to the
perseverance and energy of {he
superintendent of this farm, Mr J. C
Wade. Mr. Wade gives his crops rhe
best of attention at all times He
knows when and how to plant ami
cultivate his crops systematically
throughout the growing season.
From this farm the Herald receives
the first cotton bloom of the season.
The hands of the clock moved
’round only a few times between the
arrival of the cotton bloom from the
Bazemore farm and a bloom from Mr
Pope Booth’s farm. Mr. Booth is one
of those farmers who finds plenty of
work on the farm and is at it the
year ’round, and while he doesn’t
bank much on cotton expects to make
a good showing this year on a nine
acre patch in spite of the boll weevil,
since he has been making an aggres
sive war on that dreaded pest ever
since their appearance in his crop the
Dr. Spriglit Dowell, President oi
Mercer University, and Dean Mc-
Clean, dean of the law school of the
University, passed through Butler on
their way to Columbus last Friday
morning. While in Butler they called
on Rev. Horace M. Wolfe, pastor of
the local Baptist church and also u
former student of Mercer, and a
number of the leading business men
of thd town. Dr. Dowell has shown
marked ability in being able to raise
all of the $50,000 needed to endow the
Law Department, except a few hun
dred dollars and our understanding is
that he completed raising the money
while in Columbus. Mercer’s Law
School stands eighth in the list of
outstanding law schools of America,
it was necessary that Mercer erect a
new building to house its law school
or she would lose her standing.
Dr. Dowell came to Mercer Univer
sity from the presidency of a great
Alabama university and has made
wonderful progress at Mercer since
his coming. He is loved by the stu
dent body and has won their faith
and confidence by his straight-for
ward manner in which he deals with
the problems of the school.
CAPT. T. E. BREWER DIES.
As the Herald goes to press news
of the death of Captain Thos. E.
Brewer, of Louisville, Ky., is received
in a telegram to his brother, Mr. J.
E Brewer, and in which it is stated
Cajit. Brewer died this morning at
six o’clock the result of paralysis. He
had been in serious condition about
four weeks. He was a native of Tay
lor county, the family being one of
the most prominent in this section.
Funeral and interment will take
place tomorrow at Cincinnati.
Revival Services to Begin
at Baptist Church Sunday.
The revival at the Butler Baptist
church will begin Sunday, June 17th.
The pastor, Rev. H. M. Wolfe, will
do the preaching. The hours for ser
vices will be 7-45 song services will
begin and preaching at 8 o'clock.
There will be no morning service at
the church. The town and
country people are cordial
ly invited to attend these services.
The pastor says that he is going co
do his best to preach the Gospel of
Christ in such a way that any man
can find the way to salvation, and
that he is going to tuke the top off of
sin, anil let the people look at it; and
that ha. is going to preach in such a
way that when the revival is over he
will be unashamed to stand before
God and tell him that he did his best
to reach the lost people of Taylor
county.
Rev. Mr. Wolfe requests that every
praying person in Taylor county and
elsewhere who reads these lines to
pray that God will greatly bless the
revival and save the lost people of
Taylor county. Every one is invited
to attend regardless as to what pur
pose one may have in attending be
cause once a missionary in South
America had a man to come to he ..r
him preach who was hired to kill him
but after hearing the Gospel he ac
cepted Christ and is now one of the
best preachers in South America.
WESLEYAN
Honors Duke
Philanthropist Who Gave
$100,000 to College
Will Be Memoralized.
first of the season. Mr. Booth is not
only a good farmer hut one of the
county’s best citizens, always active
in church, school and civic affairs
ir. his community. The county needs
more citizens like him.
ANOTHER BUTLF.R NEGRO
DIES “UP NORTH"
Just three weeks ago Henry Mims,
well known Butler negro, and one of
outstanding character among his race
left Butler in search of the “pot of
old at the end of the rainbow,”
which led him to Detroit. He had
scarcely landed on Michigan soil
when pneumonia seized him with a
mighty grip. Kindred and friends
“back home” w«; . .t ailed upon for
financial aid which was promptly
furnished. However the disease could
not be checked and death soon claim
ed him. His body is expected to ar
rive here today for interment.
Macon, June 10.—A bmefucctor of
Wesleyan college. Benjamin N. Duke
with his father, Washington Duke,
and brother, J. B. Duke, will be hon- ,
ored in a voluntary movement to es
tablish a permanent memorial by way
of appreciation for the contributions
they have made towards educational
institutions In this country, China,
England, France and South America.
Named from Georgia to assist in
making the memorial permanent are
Dr. W. F. Quillian, president of Wes
leyan college; H. M. Willett, presi
dent of the board of trustees of Mer
cer university; Clark Howell, editor
of the Atlanta Constitution; Dr. P. T.
Durham and Morris Brandon.
Mr. Duke gave $100,000 to Wes
leyan on a pledge of the citizens of
Macon and Georgia to raise a similar
amount. This was done and the col
lege received the amount in stocks
from the Duke estate, which have
since expanded in value considerably.
A voluntary movement “to estab
lish a permanent memorial by way
of appreciation” of the lives of the
late Washington Duke and his sons
B. N. Duke and J. B. Duke, has taken
definite form in the announcement
this week of the official executive
committee who have been named by
the original group of sponsors of the
Memorial, acting for friends of the
men who made American tobacco
merchandising history and whose
benefactions to their f- ’ men will
total well over one ... 1 million
dollars
Jas. A. Thomas, who was associat
ed with the Dukes for over 3U years,
and who represented them in many of
their operations in Europe and Asia
when the Dukes were creating world
wide marks for \trtB*ican tobacco, .
has been named chairman. Other
members of the executive committee
are W. S. Lee, vice chairman; W. W
Flowers, treasurer; A. H Sands, Jr.,
secretary and C. C. Dula Basil Har
ris and A. J. Drexel Biddie, jr.
1929 B. H. S. CLASS PASSES INTO HISTORY
AS SIXTEEN DIPLOMAS ARE AWARDED
Local School Student Holds State Record For Attendance. Magnificent Address and
Inspiring Sermon Delivered by Prof. J. O. Martin and '
Rev. J. C. Adams Respectively
With pomp and pageantry, rite and
ceremony, the Butler High school
graduated 16 promising young peo-
pie, eight boys and eight girls,
Monilay evening, last. A more
beautiful evening r o u 1 d not
have been found for the ceremonies.
The exercises were scheduled for 8
o'clock but long before the appointed
hour the auditorium was crowded
with proud parents, exultant brothers
sisters and friends. By the time the
program began there was scarcely
standing room either in the audi
torium or the corridor adjoining
it.
The program was begun by the
audience singing “America,” after
which the invocation was dcliveied
by Rev. H. M. Wolfe, pastor of the
Butler Baptist church.
Miss Elizabeth Childres was the
salutatorian and she made a very in
teresting address of welcome. Next
was an oration by Wyman Harris on
the “Constitution”. Net only does
Wyman hold a record in scholarship
but in attendance as well. It was an
nounced from the stage that during
his entire school career of eleven
years that he had not been absent a
day, a record perhaps unequaled in
the state.
Miss Rita Peacock v/as the valedic
torian and her talk was very in
spiring. She reviewed the tender as
sociation of school life, gave expres
sion of gratitude for the board,
superintendent, the teachers, and oth
tin who was reared in the adjoining
county, Crawford, expressed his hap
piness at being invited back home.
He praised the work of the local and
county superintendents, and con
gratulated the people upon their
beautiful school building. He told the
class that they should be happy to
live in such an age as this, saying
that he had rather be the youngest
member of the graduating class, than
to be the richest old man in the
United States. His remarks were
timely and witty in contrasing
this age with the past age. His
illustrations were amusing and the
vast audience was held spell-bound by
a mixture of the humorous with the
informational. He pointed in a
striking manner to the wonderful
progress of our country in the past
30 years, electricity, the automobile
the radio, the telephone, and the air
plane have made their contributions
to the age. ,
Prof. Martin showed clearly that
we no longer lived in the past but in
a remarkable present age, and in or
der to cope with other people we
must discard the old methods and ac
cept the new way of doing things. In
a very impressive manner he admon
ished the graduates not to be satisfied
with their present education, but to
seek further educational accomplish
ments.
Prof. Martin lamented the fact that
so many pupils were not continuing
in school through the fourth grade.
(Continued to Page 5)
ers who have made the school what He in a mighty climax said, “Ignor-
it is.
The literary' address was delivered
by Prof. J. O. Martin of the State
Department of Education. Prof. Mar-
ance was the greatest curse to the
human race,” and he stated further
that something should be done to
raise the mass of pupils out of the
grades into high school.
He told the class that they were
indeed fortunate to have survived
through high schoil graduation, and
advised them to select some course
to pursue in life, and then put their
heart and soul into this course. He
said the course selected should be a
laudable and worthy’ one, and then
they shoud never let up in their
pursuance of it. He told the grad
uates that heretofore their trend of
thought was divorced from the wor
ries and car es of the world but in
the future they, and they alone would
be architects of their fate.
In conclusion he plead to the grad
uates to make a contribution to life,
to do something worthwhile, to make
the world better by having lived. He
told them to make opportunities if
they found none, and to use these
opportunities.
His address was one of the best
ever delivered in the local audi
torium.
Prof. A. E. Shearer delivered the
diplomas to the following: Woodrow
Amos, Marie Garrett, Tom Harmon
Anna Heath, Naomi Foy, Wyman
Harris, Jack Jarrell, Blanford Jar
rell, Sim Montgomery, Frances
Downs, Rita Peacock, Elizabeth
Childres, Voncile Parks, Edna Smith
Malcolm Gaultney and Wallace
Riley.
Using as the theme of his dis
course “First Things First,” Rev. J.
C. Adams, of Atlanta, delivered to
the graduating class Sunday at the
school auditorium one of the ablest
commencement sermons ever heard
here, and which is published in full
elsewhere in this issue.
McTYIERS EN ROUTE TO NEW
YORK ARE VICTIMS TO SAD
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
Friends of Mr. J Floyd McTyier
and Mrs. McTyier, the latter a native
of this city who will be remembered
as Miss Ella Gray Carithers, sympa
thize with them deeply in their re
cent great sorrow occasioned by the
death of their father, Mr Uriah Mc
Tyier, the result of injuries received
in an automobile accident near Ox
ford, N. C., about two weeks ago. In
the same accident the wife of the de
ceased was also badly injured and has
since been under the care of phy
sicians at the Oxford hospital.
According to information received
here Mr. and Mrs. McTyier, whose
home was at Plains, Ga. were en-
route to New York with Mr and Mrs
Floyd McTyier when a car collided
with the McTyier car. The elder Mc-
Tyiers were contemplating a most
delightful visit to their son in New
York when the accident occurred, and
the son and his wife equally &s happy
over the prospect of having their
a "-.d parents visit them in their New
York home for the first time.
Mr. McTyier is doing successful
secretarial work with the Y. M. C. A
in New York and is president of the
Georgia society in that city #
The remains of Mr. McTyier were
expected to arrive at Plains yester
day for funeral services and inter
ment. Besides his wife, who is just
out of the hospital, Mr. McTyier is
survived by two daughters, Mrs. F. F
Barnett, of Plains; and Mrs. J. W.
Salter of Dawson; and three sons, J.
F., of New York; W. L., of Macon;
and U. K. McTyier, Jr., of Tampa,
Fla.
ATTENDING SUMMER SCHOOL
Those to leave this,, week to attend
summer school at the Americus
Normal College were Mr. C. F.
Rustin, Misses Elizabeth Childres,
Marie Payne, Katinell Cooper and Mr
Wyman Harris.