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Volume 58
BUTLER, Taylor County, GEORGIA, Thursday February 1, 1934
Number 13
SHELLMAN DOCTOR
SLAIN ON GOLF
COURSE THURSDAY
K u MELTON, POSTOFF1CE EM.
I’LOYE, PLACED IN RANDOLPH
COUNTY JAIL, WITH MURDER
CHARGE LODGED AGAINST
HIM.
Dawson, Ga., Jan. 26.—Dr. A. L.
Crittenden., 63, widely known and
higidy esteemed physician and citizen
0 f Shellman ten miles west ol
Dawson, was shot and instantly killed
late Thursday by to L. Melton, young
BETTER BUSINESS
SEEN BY GORMLEY
STATE BANKING HEAD PREDICTS
RETURN TO ALMOST NORMAL
CONDITIONS THIS YEAR.
Atlanta, Jan. 25.—The return of
“almost liiormal banking and business
conditions” during 1934 was predicted
Thursday by R. E. Gormley, state
superintendent of banks, on the basis
of reports showing an increase of
nearly 20 per cent in deposits of state
banks in the last half of 1933.
Reports of the condition of state
banks on the last business day of the
year, the department said, showed
Cntienden and four others were play-
jjig golf on the links of the Magnolia
Golt club near Shellmun.
According to reports Dr. Critten-
den was in the act of teeing oft from
the eighth tee when. Melton drove up
in an automobile, stepped out with a
shotgun in hand ordered all but Dr.
Crittenden to step aside, firing as
soon as he had spoken
Melton
and the
14? Cknllmnii oe It- I > WIIC UC{JUlklllUlb OOlUj DllUVVeil
v.n.te inan. also^of Shellman,j that deposits increased from about
$66,760,000 on June 30, shortly alter
the national banking holiday, to $77,.
844,000 at the end of the year.
For the year as a whole, the in.
crease was nearly $6,000,000, deposits
at the end of 1932 having totalled
$72,045,000.
E. B. Douglas, assistant superin
tendent said that the condition reports
. j - , indicated the state banking structure
fired at close r a g e was far more |£ quid cun dition than
.... charge entered Dr. at the end of 1932 , or for some time
Crittenden’s body about the vhes». | before that Cash reBerves appeare d
Melton, it is reported, entered his car ^ considerably higher and the
and drove to his home in Shellman j tem 0 f money 0 wed by the banks
where he was arrested by Sheriff j a j ong drop during the year. The
Walter Taylor of Randolph^ c °^nty ac j ua | fijr ure8 those factors had
yet to be .compiled, and the observa
tions were based on preliminary stu
dies of the individual reports.
The increase in deposits were made
despite a drop from 232 barks and 11
branches at the end of 1932, to 226
banks and nine branches at the end
of last year.
The banking officials said the im
provement was particularly ' notice
able in the cotton growing sections
of the state, which have been af
fected by higher prices for this
year’s crop.
and placed in jail at Cuthbert, where
he is being held. County officials
there reported that Melton had made
no statement and has not asked for
a preliminary trial that he may make
bond- , '
Albert L. Crittenden, son of the
late J. F. Critunuen and iimmie A.
Edwards Crittenden, was bom in
Sheliman, Randolph county, April 1,
1880, and with the exception of the
time spent in college had resided in
Shellman all his life.
He was married in 1901 to Miss
Pearl Reid of Eatonton.
Dr. Crittenden received his early
schooling in Shellman amd later at
tended Cordon at Barnesfille, and
graduated from the Atlanta Medical
college, which is now Emory universi
ty. toe was a useful and highly re
spected citizen of ins town and gave
liberally of his means, time and
strengtn for the welfare of the less
fortunate of his community.
He had been a member of the
Shellman Methodist church since
childhood and lor a number .otars
COLDEST WAVE
OF YEAR FELT
OVER STATE
MERCURY HITS 14 DEGREES IN
BUTLER, 7 IN ATLANTA, ZERO
AT ASHEVILLE; MUCH SUF.
KERING AMONG THE POOR.
Slow relief was promised the South
land today from a gripping cold wa e
that has held all except the tropical
tips of Dixie in a hard freeze since
Monday morning.
By far, the coldest temperature of
the winter and the coldest since F»b.
9, of last year, was registered in the
south’s principal cities at 7 a. m.
Tuesday. Asheville, N. C., situatd in
the Applachian mountains, was low
est with even zero.
The temperature was expected to
stay within the freezing point last
night but rising today. Metrologist
George W. Minding, of the U. S.
weather bureau is Atlanta, said yes
terday he expected the .thermometers
to be under 32 tomorrow.
The freezing extended into Florida
but failed to reach the southern parti
Jacksonville had a reading of 28, Pen-
sur’ola 26, Tampa 34, and Miami es
caped with only 62 degrees.
The thermometers in Butler showed
14 above at 7 a. m. Tuesday.
Other readings were as follows:
Raleigh, N. C. 8; New Orleans, 30;
Birmingham 10; Knoxville, Tenn., 6;
Memphis, Tenn., 12; Thomasville, Ga.
22; Macon, Ga., 14; Augusta, Ga. 14.
G. T. Argo Takes Own
Life at Talbotton Gas Station
CENTRAL SCHOOL
BUILDING RAZED
MONDAY AFTERNOON
FIRE OCCURED DURING SCHOOL
SESSION; CHILDREN LED FROM
BURNING HOUSE IN ORDERLY
MANNER, NONE BEING IN.
JUKLD;PART OF EQUIPMENT
SAVED.
A defective stove ilu in one of tna
class rooms caused the burning to the
giiound Monday afternoon, about 2:31)
o’clock, of Central school building, lo.
BUTLER VISITED
BY DISASTROUS
SUNDAY FIRE
FLAMES FANNED BY HIGH WIND
MAKE QUICK DESTRUCTION OF
HOME OF SUPT. C. R. BROWN,
WHICH ONLY RECENTLY HAD
BEEN REMODELED.
L1ZELLA RESIDENT
PASSES SUDDENLY
MRS. BESSIE VAN VALKENBURG
SUCCUMBS AT HOME FOLLOW
ING SHORT ILLNESS.
Again the Herald is called upon to
chronicle the passing of one of Tay
lor county’s former most beloved
women in the recent death of Mrs. A.
B. Van Valkenburg, nee Miss Bessie
Fickling, as related in the following
news item clipped from The Maoon
Telegraph of Friday last and was the
source of sincerest regret to her nu
merous Butler and Taylor county
friends:
While many were enjoying their
Sunday dinner, having only u few
minutes before returned from church
the fire gong sounded response to
which developed the fact that the
cated on route three about nine mile:: j home of Prof. Charles R. Brown, su-
north of Butler, and of whidi school perintendent of the Butler high scho,..'-.
Prof. Mack Turner is principal. j located in the southern division of the ’
Although the blaze covered a small, city proper, was a mass of flame and
area when discovered, the school beyond all human control,
building being unequipped with fire ! Starting in the second story of tne
protection and water inaccessable, the ] unoccupied portion of the building, been in poor health for a number of
faculty and student body were placed i i r causes entirely unknown, years.
in a helpless position to extinguish the flame soon burned its way thru I Mrs. Van Valkenburg had Hved In
Mrs. Bessie Fickling Van Valken
burg. 67, died at her residence in Li-
zella Friday after having bean seri
ously ill for several days. She had
C. G. G. Notes
(Sgt. R. E. French)
Nothing startling occurred last
week in the CC^ basketball ieam.
win over Columbus Hign 37-22 was
touoweU up by a victory over Gordon
Military Institute of carnesville 60-34
_ * i notaer over ideal A. C. 5o-3 m
had been a member of its board of | The Woodpeckers defeated the strong
Talbotton, Ga., Jan. 24.—G. T. Argo
26, service station operator at Talbot
ton, was found dead in his station
Tuesday with a pistol by his side.
Customers who sought gas saw Argo
lying on the floor and called the sher
iff and a doctor.
The door was forced open and Argo
was found to be dead. A hastily em
parneled coroner's jury decided that
Argo had committed suicide.
He was a native of Paulding ooun-
the flames, but turned their attention the roof of the building, which, aided
primarily to seeing that no harm be- by high winds blowing at the time
fall any child and next to which the | made quick work of destruction of
saving of all school equipment possi- the building and most of its well
ble. In these two instances Prof, u- ished contents.
Turner and his teaching fore are re- j Discovery of the fire was first
ceiving the congratulations of the pa-, made by passing tourists over route
trons and friends of the school. three, along side of which the Brown
As has often been referred to in home was located. The parties whose
these columns, Central school was one -o*« not lenor.ed. were not
of, if not the best consolidated schools only first to notify Mr. Brown of the
in the county, one in which the entire fire, but rendered most valuable as- _
community manifested unusual in- \ sistance in saving much of the house- zella farmer; four daughters, Mrs. J.
terest and pride, ar.d, too, located in , hold effects. j H- Wilcox, Lizella; Mrs. G. T. Holt,
one of the most thickly settled and \ A radio nenling out Sunday music | P-doit. Wis.. a-d Misses Elizabeth and
best communities in the county. 1 to which Mr. Brown and members of Willa Van Valkenburg of Lizella; one
Arrangements were being made his family were listening at the time,! son, Arthur Van Valbenburg, Lizella;
yesterday to use the two churclr Beated ir. the living room, with doors, two sisters, Mrs. Tommie Russ, Thorn-
building on the old camp ground lot, j closed, prevented earlier discovery of aston and Mrs. Maude Wright. Knox-
two miles west of Central school site, j tne .blaze, Mr. Brown states although ville, Ga.; two -brothers, Dr. W. G.
for school purposes while plans arc the popping of the fire attracted his j Fickling, Reynolds a-4 W. H. Fiok-
being perfected and erection of a 1 attention and was in the act of in- ling, St. Petersburg, Fla., and several
Lizella for 82 years, coming there
from- her birthplace in Taylor coun
ty. She was a daughter of the late
Mn^r Wm. Fickling and Elizabeth
Walker Ficklifig of that county.
Since coming to Lizella she had
been an active member of the Lizella
Methodist Sunday school and church
and of the Woman’s Missionary so
ciety of the church.
She is nor :ved by her husband, A.
B. Van Valkenburg, prominent Li-
trustees. He had served as a mem
ber of the school board for a long
period and -fraternally was a Mason.
Surviving are his widow, three
daughters, Mrs. Walter Adams of
Vv - on. wa.; Misses Emily and Anna
Crittenden of Shellman; son, A. L.
Cr ttenden, Jr., of Darien, Ga.; three
sisters, Mrs. F. C. Sears and Miss
Martha Crittenden, of Shellman, and
Mrs. F. S. DaviB, of Cuthbert; three
brothers, W. R. and B. M. Ciitten..en
of Shellman, and J C. Crittenden of
Birmingham; also several grand chil
dren.
Phenix City High school team 'lues-
day nignt in rnenix City by the
score of 46-22. Tins maue a total ol
16 straight wins for the CCC Wood,
peckers.
• • •
Sunday afternoon the CGC’s ans
wered a call to a fire on tiie Americus
loo., at tae home of Prof. Charles R.
Brown; Monday afternoon they were
called to fight a fire that destroyed
Central school building on Highway
No. 3. Unfortunately in both cases
the fire had gained such headway
that little assistance could be given.
However, we want our Taylor county
friends to know that we are always
ready in any emergency.
After 28 extra long days the quar.
antine has been lifted, much to the
relief of everyone, especially local en-
roiltes McMillon ar.d Ivey.
- * *
Our new recreation hall will be
completed as soon as the lighting
facilities are installed. This room is
to be the center of all social activi
ties. In addition the Camp Exchang
it will contain an up to date barbe;
shop and an exchangeable library or
160 volumes. Current magazines and
newspapers will also be provided.
Table tennis sets have been installed
and it is expected that many of the
boys will spend much of their leisure
time at this fascinating indoor game.
We are wondering why Ralph Rat
liff always insists on keeping his
name out of the paper. Can it be be
cause Perrin Guyton two-timed him
with the beauteous maiden from Rey
nolds at the ball game Monday night?
* * »
We are wondering why our Berry
E. Hill does not get a hair cut like
the picture man had.
new school building is in progress.
It was being discussed yesterday,
with seemingly favorable consent on
all sides, that combining the insur
ance on the old building with proffer
ed aid from the CWA, a much larger
and more suitable building could be
erected than the former. • It is also
being considered that the new 'build
ing be erected on a lot that would
divide the distance between- Central
and Wesley school districts and the
consolidation of these two
which would add materially
strength of both schools: assuring
longer school term and higher educa-
ty where the body was carried for
hyria-1
, P i. by u. as;ss^s:x2r«rxs
Ss.'SK“IfixS'Kifi h ™ *■» •*. i-*
the citv limits of Talbotton for aboun
14 months. •V
New Chevrolet Now On
lay at Taylor Co.
Motor Co., Reynolds
The new 1934 Chevrolet is now on
display in the show rooms of the
Taylor County Motor Co., and the
public is cordially invited to see this
wonderful -new ,car.
There has been a great deal of in
terest in this new car due to the fact
that it was the first low priced car to
announce knee-action wheels, which
means the cars will have no front
a.\l<^ Mr. Swearingen informs us that
he has driven this new car and that
there is unusual comfort due to the
fact that the stiff front axle has been
eliminated.
This car also has a new 80 horse
Power Blue Streak engine and is cap
able of doing 80 miles per hour with
a great deal faster acceleration-. The
ear j s longer and has increased room
inside, giving the .comforts of a large
automobile.
Increased smoothness and 12 per
rent greater gas economy are among
e many advantages of the car. New
»4r t AUoSer ng tC er 193 i ?|2£^^F^uson^ti
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Recorded in Taylor For ’33
Comparing births with deaths in
Taylor county for the year 1933, as
recorded by Judge L. T. Peed, Ordi
nary, we are happy to find a con
siderable increase in births over
deaths for the year and that mar
riages have increased over the pre
vious year as will be shown by the
following:
Number of births, 1933: Whites,
112, colored 169.
Number of marriages, 1933: Whites
63; colored, 108.
Number of deaths, 1933: Whites,
61; colored, 100.
TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE
OF TAYLOR COUNTY
The Young People’s League Union
will meet Friday night Feb. 2nd at
the Butler Methodist church. All
members and those who attend
League services are cordially invited
If you are not already attending
some League, c,ome and join. We do
lots of good work and have some
good times along with it. Let us help
y,ou to find joy in Christian work.
—Pub. Chm.
TALBOT COUNTY SHERIFF
RESIGNS TO ACCEPT
STATE OFFICE APPOINTMENT
Mr. J. H. Ferguson Tuesday ten
dered his resignation as Sheriff of
Sgt. Robt. E. French and Everett Talbot county to Governor Talmadge
’ ' . . i l — nn Mia roaio-naHnn is to ITO illto effect
weeks perhaps to settle definitely. In
the meantime every effort is being
manifested towards continuing the
Fchiool throughout the remainder of
the term with as little inconvenience
or further interruption as possible.
vestigating the noise just as me
travelers approached his door to ad.
vise him of the fire.
While one of the pld land marks ot
Butler, ar.d known to many of our
citizens as the Culpepper or N. to.
Hammock place, the building had only
recently been completely remodeled
and modernized with all the conven
iences and attractiveness of the
present day architecture, with just a
few unfinished touches, here and
schools there, to be added during the coming
to the week.
Mr. Brown’s loss is estimated at
around $5,0110 with only- $1,000 insur
ance. He and his interesting family
have the sincere sympathy of the en
tire town in their misfortune.
“Here Comes Charlie”
To Be Presented at
Cross Roads Feb. 2nd.
Gold Medal Awarded
Misses Hill and Wilchar
General Excellence 4-H Work
The Cross Roads School Improve
ment Club is sponsoring a three-act
comedy “Here Comes Charlie,” to be
staged at that school building Friday
night, Feb. 2nd, at 7:30 o’clock. Ad
mission will be 10c and 20c.
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Nora Madone, Mrs. Benjamin Kirksey ' Miss Hill was scored on all canning
Officer Tim McGrill, Talmadge Kirk- done in 1933, and on- her 4-H Club
sey records for the years, 1931, ’32 ana
Mrs. Fanny Farrham, Evelyn Taun- ’33, since she has become a 4-H Club
Misses Carolyn Hill and Wilba
Deen Wilchar.,-two of Taylor county s
outstanding 4-H Club girls,—were
distinctly honored this week in being
presented with a gold medal each on
general excellence in hood Preserva
tion and Clothing respectively.
The gold medal in Food Preserva
tion was given by the Kerr Glass
Manufacturing Co., of Sand Spr.ngs,
Okla., cooperating with the Extension
Department of Agriculture in Georgia.
nieces and nephews.
Former Prominent Taylor
County Citizen Succumbs
To Illness In Texas Home
The recent death of Capt. J. F-
Beall, at Rusk, Texas, calls to mind
one of this suction’s most prominent
families in Taylor county’s organiza
tion and start on the road to its pres
ent most splendid development. Fol
lowing the close of the civil war, in
which he rendered outstanding service
Capt. Beall moved to Texas and soon
established himself as one of that
state’s most valued citizens.
The Press-Journal published at
Rusk, Texas, in its announcement of
Capt. Beall’s death, pays him the
following tribute:
Capt. J. F. Beall died January 11.
He was born in Taylor, now Crawford
county, Ga., Nov. 24, 1847. At the
time of his death he was eighty-
years of age— He was the oldest of
ten children of Dr. J. D. bead and
Mary Fickling Beall. - Of the ten
brothers and sisters only or.e survives
him, Mrs. Gussie Beall Rogers, of
Macon, who was with him during his
last illness.
Capt. Beall attended the Georgia
Militray Institute at Marietta, Ga.
While a Cadeth of this institute 1 he
joined the Confederate Army in 1863,
being too young to join the army at:
the beginning of the war. He served
as a soldier during the remainder of
the war and rose to the rank of Cap
tain. He served under the command*
of Generals Joseph E. Johnston and?
Hood and was paroled at Augusta^
Ga., in April, 1865.
After the war, he came to Texas in
1871, and located at Carthage, Texas
where he studied law under Judge A.
J. Booty and Captain Deberry. He
’32 and ’33, and on styling a sports j was admitted to the bar in 1872, and
costume in the state style show in! two years later, he was - appointed
Athens last summer. ; Secretary of the State Senate whicli
Miss Hill is the attractive daughter place he filled for two years. He then
of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Hill and one | moved to Ft. Worth where he prac-
of the most popular members of the j ticed law until about 1888, when he
social set of Butler, graduating with . moved to New Birmingham, Texas, lie
j honors in the local school. < soon made himself known in this new
M Ann I i * Ci Miss Wilchar, a student of the But- i flourishing city and was elected City
Mr. 1). D. Bankston S More; ' er school, is a general favorite, Attorney which place he held until
not only with members of her class, the city died out. Since that time he
but the entire student body. She is I has been a valuable ,citizen of Rusk.
It will interest you to make a visit the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. In 1874 he married Miss Cordelia
to Mr. O. B. Bankston’s grocery stora Wilchar. ! Peacock of Rusk, Texas. This union
and inspect the many improvements To each of these charming young j lasted until his death, a period ol
ton
Larry Elliott, Mangham Childree
Ted Hartley, Troy Bone
Vivian Smyth-Kersey, Daisy Bone
Uncle Aleck Twiggs, John Cox
Charlie Hopp, Louise Parks
Mrs. Caroline Smyth-Kersey, Erma scored on her special work in Cloth-
Taunton ir.g, 4-H Club records for years 1931,
Martimer Smyth-Kersey, Ennis Chil
dree.
girl.
The gold medal in clothing was
given by Montgomery Ward & Co.,
cooperating with the Extension De
partment of Agriculture in Georgia.
Miss Wilchar, like Miss Hill, was
When Planning An Appe
tizing Meal First Visit
..augciuai tnere are uio , -t —-<—- 7'T~T" ' , , hut 1 FaH lat Mr Feriruson has been sher- recently made by Mr. Bankston, es- 1 ladies the Herald joins their many , more than- 60 years. To them were
changes in this new 1934 Chevrolet : 25th. Carmichael jid go but Feb. 1st. fc n ’ a ® s . riur-i pecially in his fresh meat department friends in extending congratulations born six boys, the oldest and youngest
' ( * . . 1 . ^ . In AA-hir-h hp hsia aildpd entirely new I,nnn t.ho Hnnora that, have hppn so Je- ‘
n -i , ‘ ‘o-w e-uevruiei - ,, . ,, .
an| i the management and sales force hls mule can t swlm that f '
”1 Hi T Kvln, * * '
, , lavlor County Motor Co., are
hav'°.u t * la ^ public come in and
defat" 686 n6W f eatures explained in
... .. „ rpinitn • i to which he has added entirely new upon the honors that have been so Je
! ing this time he has made a reputa , consisting particularly of, se P rve dly conferred upon them.
Advice to the love-lorn will bedi- twnof be.ngoneof the most capable , ^ ^ fr - (]air cabinet in whic h he j
spensed by “Show Cases" Draughon, officers in tne state - d | has on display the most appetizing
J.,.., Truck drtar VJJgMW JgiSHSl £« “E ® 1- *- »““• *•*■> I
i rices on the new line of cars are: 1T r. Draughon is fully qualities in m friends in
, i h w,nd ™ coupe, $565; sport coupe this respect. Anyone who hasi any rcgr ^ t hjs resi(jr
sed-,n IU «fii b r e seat ’ $ 605 ’ coach > $586; problems of this nature are f : lad that he has secured a more lu-
trunic’ toff’ town sodau with built in consult this man of dreams. crative position.—Talbotton New Era
nx, $615; sport roadster with rum- * * *
r,,n.u? at ' $545: an d
rumble seat, $665.
cabriolet with
NOTICE to YOUNG BOYS
°F TAYLOR COUNTY
'will buy all kinds of furs
•won. such as coon, mink,
skunk, muskrat, and beaver
fur
furs
in Butler.
E. L. BROOKS, Butler, Ga. 1
cute man w A t ') car bo cover county;
Vp rtiainn U '»ii trtas L I1 .£’ no ^'linc. Ad-
bus Oh? Goodale, CoJum-
' (l’8,8k.)
Since Harry Jones has been First
Aid man, hundreds of gallons of
medicine has been saved for the gov
ernment.
CHURCH NOTICE
Any one from Mt. Pisgah church or
community who will trive meat, lard,
canned goods, produce or any other
food stuff to be sent to the Georgia
Baptist Orphanage at Hapeville, Gn..
are^ requested to please take or send
sam to E. E. Jarrell’s ntore In Butler
»bt later than Saturday^™*-
AT BUTLER METHODIST
„ inenas ,» Cl "SI CHURCH_NEXT SUNDAY
t° “T" C'P! "!S»n “ makes markelin* a ideasuce rather j ^ T>>tor Coon , y y 0UnR p „ ple .,
bhan a thing to be dreaded. Union will meet at the Methodist
The next time you have occasion to F evening; February 2,
■be in that section ; at 7:30 o’clock. Sunday school Sun
time to include a visit to the Bank- ()av morT1 j n(r at jo. League meeting
ston store in your rounds, don t fail 6;1B n m Prpachin ,
Mr. A. C. Irvin, who lived in tr.e to drop in and tal^e a look, the visit
upper part of Marion county fell dead will doubtless be profitable to you',, '
in his yard late Sunday. Mr. Irvin had I and highly appreciated by Mr. Bank- j
been suffering for some time with | ston, who is sparing neither money I at the ccc Camp near
heart trouble. Saturday afternoon he nor^efforts m L supplying: the demands ; toym Sure)a * mornin( , at 8 . 30 .
DIES SUDDENLY
Preaching Sunday at 11 a.
. A cordial invitation
the public to worship
went out to get some wood and
dropped dead in the yard.—Talbotton
New Era.
Car of Mayflower Coal expected tc
arrive Saturday or Monday. See me
at once for prices delivered at your
home* 6 E. E. Jarrell, Butler, Ga
of the most exacting patron In table
delicacies.
FOR RENT
Will rent one, two or three horse
farm on north part of Gray place for
standing rent only. For terms, see,
W. E. STEED, Butler, Ga.
W. E. Hightower, Pastor.
PLANT WIGHT GROWN nursery
stock for best results. Highest quality
mit and fruit trees, noses, camellias,
ornamentals. Prices • right. Wight
Nurseries, Cairo, Ga.
died in infancy. The four boys sur
viving him are: Prof. Frank A. Beall,
of Nacadoches, Texas; Dr. J. E.
Beall, Pearsoll, Texas; J. L. Beall,
Rusk, Texas; and Elbert F. Beall of
Pearsoll, Texas. There are 14 grano
children and one great grand child.
One nephew, Attorney O. D. Rogers
of Atlanta, Ga, faithfully ministered
to him during the last days of his Bi
nes.
Capt. Beall was made a Mason In
1869 and remained a Master Mason
in good standing until his death, a
period of more than 66 years. For
many years he was one of the most
active and useful members of Euclid
Lodge at Rusk. He was a true type
of the old Southern gentleman. He
was a quiet and unassuming citi
zen. yet he was a man of. strong con
victions and did not hesitate to let
his views on public questions be
known.
He was laid to rest in Salem ceme
tery with full Masonic ceremonies.