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Community Progress
Is Ever on the Alert In
TAYLOR COUNTY
Fvceptional Opportunity Offered
SetOT in Taylor County Sods.
The
BUTLER HERALD
Keeping Everlastingly At It Brings Success
TAYLOR COUNTY
IS THE BANNER
AGRICULTURAL
SECTION OF
MIDDLE GEORGIA
olume 54
BUTLER, Taylor County, GEORGIA, Thursday August, 14 1930.
Number 41.
FIRST BALE OF
1930 COTTON
ARRIVES HERE
Letter Carrier Retires
Causing & General Re
arrangement of Routes
iq veB rs’ efficient service as
After 19 i’ e ® r l r , w hich term of
ra ! l6 w been rendered in connee-
-rvice has be ^ p0S t o ffice, Mr. G.
on with the “ tire on Sept. 1st.
V. Btvina wu' iei Bivins will
The . ret f n 3er <>f changes in the
S mall service from the local of-
c *l „unnees will include the con-
Wf ttes one and three
Mathews as carrier.
* f peed will be transferred
now being served by Mr.
V^nsl but who retires as above
nber four will be re-num-
> made number three with
"£ Austin as carrier.
ffnrmon Kirksey, 4-year-old adopt-
K of Mr. and Mrs. Lew A. Har-
Foil, received painful injuries, tho
ot thought serious by being gored
y a cow Sunday afternoon. Tne most
were wound was a deep cut across
e throat made by the horns of the
infurated animal,
Forty Thousand Dollars Brought
to the County From Melon Crop
With. Season Just Half Over
The first bale of 1930 cotton to be
picked in the Butler territory was
brought in Friday Of last week and
ginned at the Cochran new gin plant.
It was grown by Mr. Mosley Childrcs,
who has one of the best cotton crops
he has ever grown, and one of the
best on the Level the bale was sold to
Mr. J. T. Cochran at 12 l-2c a pound.
Death of Mr. Jason Shirah
It will be a source of regret to his
many Taylor county friends to learn
of the death of Mr. Jason Shirah. Mr.
Shirah died Sunday morning at 9
o'clock at his home at Byromville, the
culmination of an illness of several
months. He was 42 years of age, and
was born and reared in Taylor county ibed here
the son of Mr. and Mrs Arzanda 1
Shirah. Besides his widow, Mr. Shi
rah is survived by his mother, one
daughter and son, 13 and 10 years of
age respectively.
The Shenandoah of Middle Georgia,
MAN BEGINS WHERE NATURE LEAVES OFF,
Appeals to Lovers of Nature and Industry
New Variety Melons
Judge J. L Rustin, of this county,
Business has been greatly stimu-
,„.ed during the past two weeks thru
the activities of the watermelon,mar
ket, which has brought to the grow
ers from $100 to $150 per car for
more than 300 cars already shipped
out of the county, totaling more than J I
$40,000 distributed among the farmers j iflg p r0 p a g a ted a watermelon, that is
and at a time when money is most a tt rac y n g wide-spread interest among
needed. - 'growers of commercial melons and
Shipments to date represent half or j, U y ers temporarily located here from
less, of the total shipments anticipate distant points. The melon grows to
ed for the season, which lasts until. immense side and is of a most de-
ahout Sept. 10th. Acreage in the coun- jj c j oug fi aV or. Its meat is of a bright
tj is estimated at from 2,000 *0 red coloj and fipe texture. TheiWJiie! ,
W acres. . ons weigh under normal conditions
The market last week was weaken- , from 4Q to , 70 p 0un( j s . p ro f. W. f.
id slightly for a few days but 1m- • Bust ; nj son 0 f judge Rustin. has a
proved considerably the first of tne (arge field of t jj ese me lons from which
present week and has been steadily j ie hag j ust begun shipping. They win
advancing in price with good demand proc j uce a carload per acre and are
from f.o.b. buyers and all points to j, r j ng j ng fancy prices. A large num-
rhich consignment of cars has been ber of these me i on s, weighing from
®sde. 60 to 66 pounds have been marketed
—• locally this season and are quick sell-
T.E CHAPMAN WINS IN ers.
ELECTION IN MARION CO.
Buena Vista, Ga., Aug. 6.—In a
E ial election held for .the office of
r of the Superior court _ T. E.
Chapman was elected. He received 346
rates to 137 for his opponnent, W. H.
Uj,
The election was called to fill the
ramcy caused by the resignation of
Oade H Lowe.
Ripped bandit hurls bomb
SILLS OFFICIAL AND SELF
Ft. Worth, Texas, Aug. 9.—Thwart
'd in his attempt to obtain $10,000 by
'he unexpected arrival of . police an
unidentified bandit exploded a bomb
w the lobby of the Stockyards Nat
ional bank killing himself and F. P.
relton, vice president of the bank.
SUPERIOR COURT CONVENES
AT TALBOTTON SEPT. 1st.
There, is an irresistible tendency on
the part of motorists traveling along
the Reynolds - Moritezuma highway,
upon reaching a scope of country 4 to
5 miles south of Reynolds, to reduce
their speed to the minimum, or stop
their motors completely, especially at
this time of the year, and look with
wonder and amazement at what na
ture, combined with the brain and
hand of man, have done in producing
a living picture not surpassed nor
scarcely equalled in any other section
of the country.
This picture, had we a vocabulary
of words to describe it, would embrace
a beautiful valley to the east of the
highway referred to, whose area is
more than a score of square miles of
fertile soil of a grey, loam type, dot
ted here and there with beautiful
homes, painted barns and tenant
houses, churches and school houses,
both for whites and colored, that are
the pride of /the community, while all
other space save that reserved for
dairy purposes and other lines of live
stock industries, is devoted to the cul
tivation of all sub-tropical crops,
fruits and nuts, including corn and
other small grain in their respective
season, cotton, peanuts, peas and
beans of various kind to he harvested
for. hay, tobacco, asparagus, water
melons, sugar cane, peaches, apples
pears, potatoes, etc., all grown com'
merciaily as well as for home con
sumption. Land lines are easily
discernible with the naked eye for
miles with the enterchange of crops
and all reaching their heads high into
the air to greet the sun and whose
color have the richness of nature’s
very greenest. Where poultry and
live-stock are included in the pro
gram of activities of these plantations
—and there is scarcely one without
the other, or perhaps both, throughout
this section, where there are in the
range of fiftv or more magnificent
farms—only improved stock are per
mitted.
Looking to the west from the same
point is a high bluff beyond which
are many square miles of table land
known also • for its productive
ness, cultivated and idolized by
master farmers who vie with
their valley neighbors for the
highest yield per acre in corres
ponding crops. Their soil being of a
different type to that of the valley re
gion—pebble mixed with red clay—
gives a variety of soils for that sec
tion seldom found elsewhere in _ the
state esDecially of such high agricul
tural value.
Permit this diversion of/the story
LARGE QUANTITY SUGAR
TAKEN BY THIEVES FROM
STORE OF I. F. PEEBLES
to pay tribute to the commissioners of
both counties—Macon and Taylor—
for constructing one of the best sand-
clay roads through this section and
connecting two thriving cities—Rey
nolds and Montezuma—to be found
anywhere in the state. This impor
tant ‘connecting highway link follows
for miles a ridge that is the geological
dividing line in this part of the stato.
As above stated, on the one side is an
entirely different type of soil from
that on the other, both, however,
most valuable for agricultural pur
poses. For scenic purposes alone the
selection of the site for this road
could not have been improved upon.
But commissioners of the two coun
ties, acting jointly, have added to
beauty, safety and pleasure of travel
by giving to the public a wide,, well
graded and heavily top-soiled road
that is a credit to their efforts.
To fully appreciate what the farm
ers in this territory, where eyes and
mind are allowed to feast from a
point of.vantage as we have but feeb
ly described, are doing, one has to
leave the main highway and follow
the well laid system of connecting
roads that brings them past these
fields and pastures of the valley sec
tion and over the plateau.
Coming into close view one is more
favorably impressed than ever with
the magnificent crops, especially cot
ton and corn on the plantations, of
Messrs Ruffin, Newsom, Taunton,
Payne, Poole, Marshall, Hobbs, Car
ter, Barrow, Jones, Ricks, Harp, Hicks
Parker, Oghurn, R. A. and B. W. Hin
ton, Bryan, F. M. and Ricks Carson,
and many others of the Valley or Del
ta section; Edgar, W.' T., Thurman
and J .H. Whatley, T. J. Fountain, E.
E. Heath, Leonard Peterman and oth
ers, of the plateau section.
Seasons have been particularly fa
vorable to cotton this year in this sec
tion and nature has provided means of
control of the boll weevil, which if
The grocery store of I, F Peebles
was visited by burglars Sunday night
Great Spiritual Revival,
at Wesley Church 26
Added to Membership
The revival which lias
Wesley church
just
■Juoaf
great
and a stock of 500 to COO pounds of spiritual success. Interest was mani-
sugar and other groceries, was car- ( tested throughout the whole surround-
ried off in an automobile. Entrance ing section.
was gained to the store by breaking
the lock on the back door. It is evi
dent that the car was parked in a side
alley and loaded from that point, as
Indicated by fresh automobile tracks
after a rain in the early part of the
night. No clue as to the guilty parties
has been obtained.
Boys Go to Camp
—
Fifteen 4-H club boys from various
sections of Taylor county farms left
Monday, by motor, in charge of Coun
ty Farm Agent W. A. Lundy, for a
wonderful trip to Camp Wilkins at
Athens, for a week of study and
recreation in company with club boys
from ail parts of the slate.
We cunnot praise Brother Griffit
too much for the brilliant and spirite
filled-sermons he delivered. His mat-
sages were simple but direct.
Through the course of the servicac
eighteen were baptized, twenty-law-
were admitted on profession of faith
and four persons were admitted to
transfer. The older members say that
this was the most successful meeting
they have seen in this section m.
years.
JAS. F. JACKSON, Pastor..
A large house cat, supposed
have been afflicted with hydropn
caused considerable excitement xmt
the Baptist church Sunday morning aw
the congregation was leaving the
church after Sunday school hour. Tfcf.
cat was killed by a volley of ptoB
shots fired by several parties.
Funeral at Reynolds For One of
Four Death Victims In Automobile
Accident At Savannah Friday
Warrants in 45 criipinal cases
awaiting investigation by the Talbot
county grand jury at the regular Sep
tember term of superior court at Tal
botton, to be convened there the first
Monday in next month by Judge C. *
McLaughlin have been received at the
office of Solicitor General A.J. Perry
man at Columbus and bills for pre
sentation before the grand jury are
being prepared.
There are no murder cases awaiting
investigation. There are a few in
which assault with intent to murder
is charged, three burglary cases, some
for driving cars while drunk and
drunkenness on the highway r larceny,
pistol toting, etc. 1
Dean of University of Georgia,
DESCENDANT OF REV. WYATT BROOKS, LATE OF BUTLER,
Awarded World Traveling Fellowship
Georgia, and the entire south feels
K*, ln the announcement made
'tJS*®? of the award to Dr. Pres-
»wooks, dean of the school of com-
ffi* at the University of Georgia,
■“world traveling fellowship of
SL^ert Kahn Foundation, of New
5.Dr. Brooks will sail from San
cisco August 30, on a trip around
in!? 0 ?. und ®f the provisions of the
^ip. The award includes $6,-
Dcan Brooks is a descendant of
Watt Brooks, deceased, who for
Z7 ea » was prominently connect-
a the South Georgia Methodist
-fence, and in his latter years
his residence in Butler. He is
lt» relalei1 to the Brooks and
|F an families of this section.
irnw 18 , years ago an eminent
eii nT a ?J te . r , Albert Kahn, estab-
th Kahn traveling fellowships,
inwiu a '$3r fostering the growth
't -i glfifd-will, by the mak
s?hni lb e / or a number of Euro
pe. fo travel around the
c l'anffim, tlng - Dkeminded people and
at thpi- Vlew s and information
i fellnJlk- espec ^ ve countries. Only
(United St P ates. year iS awarded to
ur »verriL h !!? £ een connected with
uously <5i„„ u. Georgia almost con-
l9 °l. and „ he entered it as a boy
consequently has many
friends throughout the state. On re
ceiving his A. B. degree he was given
the first Rhodes scholarship from
Georgia, and spent three years at
Brasenose College, Oxford, receiving
his A. B. degree in modern history.
Returning to the university in 1907 as
a member of the history department,
Dr. Brooks has remained since then,
except for the year 1911-12, when he
went on leave to the University ot
Wisconsin, winning his ,Ph. D. de
gree in one year. ,
Some 10 years ago Dr. Brooks eb-
came head of the school of commerce
and more recently has been director
of the Institue of Public Affairs held
each summer at the university, wJucn
has attracted national attention. «
was largely because of his work in
the Institute of Public Affairs that Dr
Brooks received the fellowship.
Dr. Brooks will'sail from San Fran
cisco on the Japanese liner Chichibu
Maru going directly to Japan.
three weeks, he will go to China for a
three months’ stay to study condition •
From China he goes, via the Philip,
pines and the East Indian Archpelag
to India. There he will spend th
months after which he wilj K° , .
Egypt. His efforts will be directed to
ward and understanding of the ca ,
of the civic commotions in China,
tlia and Egypt. About July 9
Brooks will join his family in 1‘iante.
People of Reynolds and vicinity and was interred in Hill Crest
were shocked beyond expression upon tery Monday afternoon, funeral scijk
receipt of the news from Savannah ices being conducted at the grave to
that Mr. James Hobbs had ueen killqd Revs. Ivey and Williams,
instantly in an automobile accident | Mr. Hobbs enlisted in the U. SL
Friday night and in which three oth- army service three years ago and me
ers lost tneir lives and two seriously . regarded as one of the finest in£a»-
injured. I irymen stationed at the Fort Sene he*
Those killed in Friday’s tragedy" post.
were . i He was 25 years of age, the eldal.
Jas. H. Hobbs, of Reynolds, a sol-|s°n of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Hobbs, wto
dier at Ft. Screven garrison and an survive him as does also two brothes
enlisted man in the Eighth U. S. ill-land five sisters. Mr. Hobbs was M
fantry. Mr. Hobbs died from concus- j member of the Reynolds MethodiA
continued favorable, most fields will sion of the brain. i church.
produce a bale of cotton per acre,
while some will rate as high as a bale
and a half per acre. The drought a
few weeks ago retarded com consid
erably, but there are many fields
where 40 bushels per acre seems a
certainty.
If you are seeking an opportunity
to give your system a thorough re
charging of optimism we would re
commend first of all a trip over the
section that might be well termed the
Shennandoah of middle Georgia and
which is,.within only a few hours
reach of you.
Edward Dyer, of Savannah, former “
high school athlete, whose neck was OSCAR DREIZIN LEAVES FOR.
broken and a deep cut in his throat
almost severing, the juglar vein.
Sergeant John Holland, of Newark,
N. J. an enlisted man in the Eighth
U. S. infantry, stationed at Ft. Scre
ven.
Lieutenant Thomas C. Dolan, of
OUTLOOK PROMISING
FOR SCHOOLS
COMING YEAR
Preparations are being made for the
opening of school in Butler on Mon
day, Sept. 1st. Watch the Herald for
further details regarding the prepa
rations. .
Just at this time it is sufficient to
say that the Board of Education will
leave no stone unturned that our
schools may function well in the in
terest of our children.
A thorough school system with
adequate equipment in the matter of
teachers, laboratories, libraries, etc.,
is always one of the greatest assets
of any town or community. \ .
The Butler Grammar school is in
thorough keeping with the require-
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(Column Six)
Lowell, Mass., athletic and recreation | night for New York where he will
offeer at Fort Screven. spend about ten days selecting hii
The first two named died at tne stock of fall and winter goods.
scene of the accident, the third, two ! With a bright outlook for the fall
hours later and the fourth lingering from fine returns of a bumper wato-
until Sunday morning. | melon crop and the largest cotta*
The courage of the latter at the crop produced in the county since the
time of the accident was the subject advent of the boil weevil, Mr. Dreisiai
of high commendation from military i said before leaving that his stock that
and civilian sources. | fall would be the largest he had evwe
Those injured in the same accident I purchased since the people were m.
were A. C. Martin, of New Smyrna, | need of the goods after denying thea-
Fla., and P. J. Heller, of Wisconsin, selves of many necessities during Use
Pleasant Callers
The Herald enjoyed a most delight
ful visit Saturday morning from Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Taylor, of Talbotton.
Besides being editor and publisher of
one of the oldest established and
best country weeklies in this section
of the State—The Talbotton New Era
Mr. Taylor is Superintendent of
Schools of Talbot county, and one of
the very best in the state. Their visit
to Butler was for a oonference with
Superintendent/ Rustin with reference
to schools located near the line of
Talbot and Taylor counties .
Judge M. J. Yeomans, of Dawson,
Judge of the Superior Court of the
Pataula circuit stopped by Monday
for a short visit' as he was returning
home after several weeks’ confine
ment at an Atlanta hospital where he
had been under the care of physicians
since July. 9th, when hife right arm
was broken in eight places and bad
ly crushed as the result of an auto-
NEW YOKA TO PURCHAMT
HIS FALL STOCK OF G(X)JK
"
Mr. Oscar Dreizin, who operates imb
of the largest dry goods stores in thm
section of the state, left Satunto
Pertinent Questions
Asked Commissioners
By Hon. J. T. Childs
To the Board of Roads and Revenues
of Taylor County:
I have just read the act of August
5th or your body adding five mins to
tne aneauy too mgn tax rate to build
a new court house in Butler.
Why not publish the last audit of
the county’s financial affairs so that
tne public may see wnere n stands'.'
I believe the people are going to
resist, by force of law. I know there
is an idea prevalent that there is no
limit to the authority of the Commis
sioners in raising taxes, but there is.
The Supreme Court holds that tne
people may resist an unreasonable
tax.
Nearly everybody is bankrupt, and
the county is bankrupt, and is getting
worse. We never will pay out with tne
management we have had for the past
several years.
Instead of retrenching, we are con
tinually adding expenses. I have no.-—-, —,
criticism to offer as to the ability ofjhy mends in Taylor county ot J. 6.
our county agent and vocational, Henderson, who for a number of year
teacher. These we could do without operated an extensive peach business
both infantrymen at the Fort Screven
post.
The party of six men, traveling in
the same automobile, were returning
to Fort Screven from Brunswick,
where they had been attending a base
ball contest in which the Fort
Screven team was a contestant.
Holland was driver of the car in
which the men were riding, a wheel
of which ran off the pavement caus
ing the driver to lose control of the
car.
The body of Mr. Hobbs was shipped
to Reynolds, arriving there Sunday,
past two year of depression.
Rev. E. H. Dunn, pastor of the Boi
ler Baptist church, is engaged thac
week in a series of revival services at.
Horeb Baptist church in the western
part of the county.
Friends of Prof. J. P. Nelson, af
Oglethorpe, superintendent of sclinote
of Macon county, will regret to tears
of his serious illness. Bu.ler relatives
were summoned to his bedside Bus-
day.
Valuable Property of J. S. Henderson,
WHO MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED TWO YEARS AGO,
May Revert to State of Georgia
The following dispatch from Green- .etc., for the orchard for the year 192R
ville, Ga., will be read with interest I He did not come, and in ihe course at
time the superintendent began writiag;
for we can’t pay the teachers we a!
ready have.
Surely the authorities do not hear
the groanings of the people.lf they do
it seems to fall on deaf ears. See the
at three points in the county—Butler
Reynolds and Mauk. The mysterious
disappearance of Mr. Henderson has
caused considerable concern among his
many friends here during the past
Hen-
mobile accident. It will be gratifying roada with free labor cheaper than
to his friends throughout the state to , t Bey can w ith convict labor, why may
know that he is well on the roa<l to county expect -to build roads
recovery now and will soon be able to i
resume his duties on the superioM (Continued to l est Page)
:ourt bench. (Column Six)
tax collector’s books; a greater per tw ° year ?, : ,„ a to
cent of 11 fas are Issued: mtoy year. de £on S’ S Meriwethl^county in
it looks to me like it is time to ao,7^*® UJI u,,.,.,. hfc hpino-
some pruning, instead of grafting Vork state He made many
to this tree of politics of both county. }. u] hnno-ht a irreat manv
and slate. Nearly every state depart- ^A mde heJe fn 1926 in the
ment is so highly systematized that it ■ pche ?' ? he purchased an or-
flrini & jzsu mzxmm*
its convicts according to law, on a
paying basis. Counties wherein are
located large cities may use them to
an advantage. The convicts belong to
the state, and they should build roads
with them, if it is cheaper than free
labor, If the slate can construct
two seasons, spending the time
Greenville during the peach season,
looking after his own orchard and
buying peaches from others. He spent
his winters in Florida, there buying
citrus fruits for the firms he repre-
sented.
On Dec. 28, 1928, Mr. Henderson
wrote his sueprintendent in Meri
wether county that he was leaving
Florida in a Tew days, coming to
Greenville to arrange for the pur
chase of fertilizers, spray materials,
letters to see if he could locate hie
employer. Letters were written to the
concerns he had represented and to
the towns in New York state where;
he had lived. It developed that he haC
no relatives, and nothing whatever
could be ascertained about him siaoe
he left the town in Florida, supposed
ly.
The fruit farm had incurred sonae
debis, and the superior court to-
pointed a receiver. The crop of peac
es in 1929 paid the farm entire); tot.
fdebt. This year under the courtftn
order it was rented to another
chardist. There are between seven arid
eight thousand trees on this faxm, and
this year it is understood thgy yielded
15 cars of peaches. The orchard i*
said to be in splendid condition. If
Henderson does not show up it wlK
be operated by the receiver for five;
more years, making seven . in alL
when it will revert to the state.
Henderson was about 45—a bache
lor, well educated, and of pleasivg
personality. It is believed at Green
ville that while en route from Florida
in December, 1928, he was murderek!
by some one for the purpose of rob
bery, and his body done away with-