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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, FEBRUARY IB, 1984.
PAGE THREE
Of Interest to Colored
Readers ofThe Herald.
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Tuesday, Feb. 6th, the family, rel-
■ . , B and friends of Richard M,e-
:lU ^ v me t at his home in celebration
birthday anniversary.
° The dining room was beautifully
decorated with flowers. A very beau-
,j u l eake embossed in white with
t andles decorated the table. A
ffl0st sumptuous dinner was served
"n.-isting of the following menu:
, chicken, creamed po-
biscuit, cabbage, ham,
coffee, ice cream and
eon
English peas
tatoes, sauce,
salad, gravy,
' ■Those attending including the fam-
jlv were: Dea. Geo. Durham an.] wife.
p ea |'ieas McCiary and wife, Robert
, im ] Jack Turner and their wives, E.
Everett, Lizzie Mason, Irene Gray,
EoZ ena Carson, Geo. D. McCrary and
2 c. Solomon.
The occasion proved a pleasant one
to those attending.
glee club program
There will be held at the Butler
public school for the colored on Fob.
18, a Ringing program by the W. W.
Glee Club of Butler assisted by the
\o 1 singing club from Columbus.
Admission 5c and 10c. Everybody,
both white and colored are invited to
attend and everyone is assured of a
good program.
W. W. Glee Club of Butler.
House Built
By Weddings.
How She Saved the Marriage Fees.
Usually Presented to a Minister’s
Wife As Pin Money, Until They
Materialized As « Vacation Home
in the North Georgia Mountains, Is
Told by Mrs. John M. Outler;
"Trail’s End” Is to Be Their Re
treat When Mr. Outler Retirea
From the Ministry,
(By Sara Singleton King, in Atlanta
Journal)
A house in the mountains, at
Young Harris, Ga., buiit entiiely from
wedding fees, is owned by the Rev.
in- the town—this Scotch doctor look
ed at me, and said, “Take him some
place where he can’t get back even if
every member of his church dies.”
“That is how we happened to go to
an isolated spot in the mountains of
North, Georgia, near the North Caro
lina line, and 22 miles from a sail-
road. In those days it took us 11 hours
to travel those 22 miles. Today over
a hard surfaced road, and in an au
tomobile, it can be done in 40 minutes.
“On that first trip, constant urging
of a fourhorse team was necessary,
and the team reminded one of jack
rabbits more than anything else. The
road was nothing more than a trail,
which passed over rocks so big that
it took all the strength of the four
and Mrs. John M. Outler, of the under fed horses to pull us across.
South Georgia Methodist conference. 1 and was so steep that I wondered if
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Mr. Outler has been stationed ut
Waycross for the past three con
ference years, and marriage fees
from Waycross couples have put in
the iron gates and stone walls that
mark the entrance.
In telling the story of the house
that Hymen built, Mrs. Outler says:
“This house, as well as the story,
is like Topsy, ‘it just grew;’ but be
hind it, like all other things worth
while, it had to have a goal, aim or
totem pole to work for.
“Our particular aim, or totem pole
was five children, and as every sign
and symbol of a totem pole means
something to the tribe erecting, so
every dollar spent on this house that
Hymen built meant something to us.
But the scars of sacrifice have been
healed by the years, and today, after
27 years of stinting, saving a dollar
here and a dollar there, we not only
have the house that Hymen built but
a place for rest and recreation ana a
refuge for sick and sore hearts and
weary bodies.
“All this requires an explanation,”
Mrs. Outler continued. “Mv husband
is a minister. He began at the bottom
our first year’s salary being $245,
without the missionary appropriation
which such salaries demand these
days.
“In spite of our scarcity of funds,
after that ’ first year we managed
somehow to get a few day’s vacation
with either his people or my own.
But, as the children grew older, trans
portation as well as room became a
problem.
Fate at this time took a band, at
least that is what I like to think now.
At the time it really seemed a calami
ty
My husband had advanced, and his
No man is truly wise who has not
bumped up against at least one bunco
game.
it would be possible to stick long
enough to get to the top.
“The driver was very busy with his.
hand brake and the four lines over his
horses, but he had time to answer me
in the vernacular of the mountains,
when 1 asked him how far it was to
Young Harris. He said, ‘Wal, out thnr
they say hits 22 miles, but you’ll think
its 40, agin you git thar,’ and I was
perfectly willing to agree, after 11
hours of riding, that it was all of
40.
We had been able to get board and
lodging for our family for the huge
sum, to us, of $60 for the entire
month. Only those who have tried to
take $60 out of a month’s salary,
which is needed to the last cent for
food, clothes, music lessons, books,
etc, will know h,ow we accomplished
this.
“Our visit to the mountains was
pleasant and wholesome, with plain
but abundant food, cool nights,
sweaters to snuggle in after supper,
and blankets to brag about to tne
folks back home. We wrote friends
that we wefie sleeping under blankets
and they were so callous as to reply
that they didn’t care what we slept
under, just so we didn’t mention
blankets to them.
“The time was drawing nhear for
us to return home, and none of
wanted to go. I’d had a wild idea in
my head a long time, but I hesitated
to speak of it, for I knew how my
huband felt about the insurance he
carried for our protection.
“However, the children's develop
ment and welfare were the paramount
ideas in both our minds. The two old
est ones, then 10 and 12, were just
like other children in their wants,
and it seemed to me that if they
work was very exacting, with a large cou]d be satisfied with suph whole .
membership and all the work pertain-1. diversions as moun . t ain climb
ing to one. We rarely went on any 1.^ fishing> waching the RUn rise and
kind of a trip but what some member , iving c)ose tQ nature> why not tfy tQ
got sick and wanted his pastor. My ; gjve them thege why ^ ^
hurtband would have gone back even
to the poorest one, but somehow the
poorer ones didn't get sick like the
others, or, if they did they were like
us, accustomed to looking out for
themselves. The year 1 speak of my
husband had a serious breakdown, and
the little Scotch doctor, a member o'
no church at all, but a man whose
sympathy and understanding made
him one of the most beloved figures
these things take the place of others
which cost so much more? For in
stance, the oldest son spent hours in
were resting on the very hill which
afterwards became ours. My husband
said with a wistful look on his face,
‘If we coul d have a shack in these
hills to bring the children to during
vacation, we’d save ourselves a lot of
doctor bills, tnouhle and heartaches,
and have something to show for it in
Bane, sensible children.’
“Neither of us has had any pa
tience with the old shying that
'preachers’ children are the worst. 1
They are human beings and have all
the ambitions, aspirations, weakness
es and human frailties that other
people’s children have. I once very
cheerfully said as much to an old
lady who was present when I had to
reprove one of the children. She quot
ed the ol d saying about preachers'
children, and I replied by telling her
that if this was true it was probably
because the preacher and his wife
were so busy looking after visitors
and other peoples’ children that they
had little time left in which to try to
train their own.
“The idea of a shack in the moun
tains ha d come to me even ‘before my
husband gave voice to his own feel
ings in the matter. I felt that the
time had come for me to speak my
piece.
“ ‘Would you be willing,’ I asked
him, ‘to borrow the money on your
life insurance to pay for an acre of
ground?” He thought a while and
said, ‘Yes, I could do that, but where
would we get the money to put up a
shack and to furnish it?’
“My ideas were working overtime
at the moment,, so I had an answer
ready. ‘Marriage fees,’ I told him.
Most preachers give these fees to
their wives, which is appropriate and
romantic. Some wives do one thing
with them, some another. My idea
was to save them as a building fund
and although it took a long time
these fees finally did blossom into our
first shack. Some years were so lean
that it looked as tho no one loved
another, for the fees were few and far
between.
“Anyway, the seed was sown and
the fun d grew until my husband fin
ally did borrow the money on his in
surance to pay for the land and the
lumber to start the house.
“I’m no architect, but I knew what
I wanted in the way of room, so I
drew up a plan for three bedrooms, a
living room which could be a dining
room, too, a kitchen, and a pantry.
The house was built on the side of a
hill, so steed that there is plenty of
space for rooms underneath the
front, but the back side of the house
has since that time had to be set in
concrete to keep the sills from rotting
on the ground. Nothing ‘but a shack,
but ours, to fight over, work for, and
love.
“To pay for this shack, improve it
and keep it up was our next objective.
facts usually accepted in the same
light as death and taxes. Most of us.
like Mr. McCawber, are so sure that
'something will turn up’ that verjj
seldom do we make any provision
against that saddest of all times. I,
for one, did not intend that my hust
band and I should be wholly unpre
pared,
"The house was buiit of good oak
lumber roughly and cheaply cut, ano
up until now had served its purpose;
hut for old age some comforts were
needed, and what I did with the few
hundred dollars that would have car
ried us to that Western city and
back, 1‘11 he proud of all my life. Even
with the themometer down to 6, as It
was one winter when we decided to
run up for a visit, the house is as
cozy as ,our living room 375 miles
farther south.
The children have grown up, taken
their places in the business and pro
fessional world with honor and credit.
They make their armial pilgrimage to
the place, each contributing something
t.o its comfort and beauty, an outdoor
fireplace, lawn or house furniture:
books, for which in tho rearrange
ment of the house plenty of room
was provided. I had a rock fireplace
built in the living room, with Bobby
Bums’ notable blessing inserted:
“ ‘Some hae meat, and eannu eat
Some woul d eat that want it,
But we hae meat, and we can eat
And sae the Lord 'be thankit.’
“One year I had a yen for a sun
dial and lily pool, 'but it had been a
lean season so far as weddings were
concerned, an d it was necessary to
devise other ways and means. Being
GEORGIA EDITORS TO HONOR
FAMOUS AUTHORS OF STATE
AT ATHENS DINNER FKR. zJ
Athelfs, Ga., Feb. 11.—In a gesture
believed to be unique in the annals of
both journalism and literature, Geor
gia editors will do honor to Georgia
authors in Athens Friday evening,
Feb. 23, at a dinner and reception
which will he the Bocial highlight of
the Georgia Press Institute.
Called “An Evening* With GeoFgia
Authors,” the accasion will signalize
the pride which membeis iof the fourth
cstathe take in the Georgians who
have attained to high estates in the
realm of literature, and will mark a
grateful recognition for the writers
{ of novels, biography, poetry, history,
and belles letters which won national
| and international acclaim' and
i brought credit to the Btate.
Muny of those who have journeyed
up the steep Parnassian slopes began
I their climb in newspaper offices, ard
i the foregathering of authors and ed-
: itors will, it is hoped, emphasize tnis
link and create a closer relationship.
! Writers whose personalities have
been represented mainly through the
I printed word will be present to lend
corporeality to their fame, and pos
sibly to absorb material for other
• ritings from the men and women
who brush daily against actual Geor
gia life.
MILLION DOLLARS FOR
LOST LOVE IS SOUGHT
BY FORMER MAUONITE
Macon, Ga. Feb. 10.—“It seems
that Simon is in a mess and he should
have known better than to go to
France and marry. The French and
those who come irom France seem to
always try to keep from paying.”
This is the terse expression of Wal
ter Dannenberg, brother of Simon
Danner,berg, wno has entered suit tor
... $1,000,000 against Jean A. Seiigmun
in the mountains it was not hard o
find what we called pay dirt, that 1. ^ mos t * n w j l j jC J 1 we exC el. There is
a solid rock bottom for a pool. ithing so pleasing to the great Pa-
“By maeuvering and building up irtwsiri as to be seated for hours at
the sides we soon- had a pool fed by a e 1 ^f ano *_^ 1 f55 W 9 U ^ nothing
spring, which furnishes all the oxy*
gen for the fish, even when the pool
freezes over. Planted with lilies, cat*
tails, water pioppies, and further em-
and aroun d the pools, it is a thing
i this earth more irksome to me. He
icels in that line. I do not. So that
possibly the reason why we have so
iny today indulging in business
rely as a sport, so to speak. We
developing a spring that has since My husband had not stayed at the hot
furnished three families with water. | tom by any means, and has received
Back in those early days he delighted ' as goo d appointments as can be had
in fashioning cups from grape leaves
in which to bring us all clear, cool
water to drink.
“One day, after a long climb, we
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at the hands of his church; but, as
every one ought to know, no minister
receives a dollar that he doesn’t have
two places to put it.
“For ten years we kept the place
as it was, adding furniture as was
needed and as the marriage fees ac
cumulated. We also bought two more
acres of ground and set them out in
apple trees. We then built another
bedroom and sleeping porch.
“Sometimes we had to wait a whole
year for enough money to buy this
an d that. For instance, we were living
in a coast town during the World
War, when the weddings were nume
rous but net very remunerative. Most
of them were Saturday night wed
dings that seemed to have been
thought of after the weekly pay en
velope was drawn. Anyway, it re
quired the whole of four years to
pay for a fence, but that fence still
endures.
“We have flet that the place was a
trust and a means in ,our hands to
help those less fortunate. We have
carried people there, broken up from
sorrow and bereavement, people suf
fering from various causes. Twice,
when doctors have said, ‘We’ve done
all that we can do; nature and quiet
must do the rest,’ we’ve gathered up
the broken bodies and gone to the
hills to the veritable fountain of
youth.
“The only time we departed from
our ‘cut and dried’ rule of wedding
fees or nothing was in- 1930. My hus
band was a delegate to me general
cnoference in Dallas. Tex., and invited
me to go; but I’m never happy in a
crowd, so I begged off and asked in
stead to be given the amount that it
would take to cover my expenses.
This included the railroad fare going
and coming, sleeping and dining cars,
to say nothing of hotel bills and
clothes suitable for the occasion.
“By this time another bee was
buzzing in my head, for we had l g expensive an automobile as would
reached the stage where men have to j dd to their pleasure.” “Yes; I under
take into account the infirmities of land,” he said “and I would not.
, If vou thought they would spend it
approaching age. Before many more j d you be wilHn( , to make it?”
yearB we would face superannuttion, i j^ 0 n y,' e replied, “I would not.”
which in our church is one of those Very well,” I continued, _ “if Mr.
' calv catches a fox is he going to eat
im ?” “No of course not.” “Would he
of beauty and a joy forever.’ In the
boggy overflow we have dozens of
Japanese iris that are worth traveling
miles to see.
“The problem of the sun dial was
not so simple, since more scientific
calculations were necessary if it were
to serve the real purpose of a sun
dial, and ‘tell time.’ But, as in most
cases where we want something badly
enough to give up something else in
its place, the sun dial was achieved.
My husban d had only two weddings
that year, and both fees put together
would not have paid for the pedestal.
One of the fees I did not even keep
for when I looked at that bride, mar
rying a man on faith and no job (hot
a run away match either, but just s
‘walk over to the preacher’ affair’) I
«li d the ? 5 out of the license envelope
and pressed it into her hand. Preach
ers and their wives cannot, for ob
vious reasons, indulge in wedding
presents, but there have been a few
times when I have felt that a man’s
estimate of the worth oof his bride
was more than he could afford. This
was one of those times.
“But anyway, the ■ sun dial wao
evolved from this and that, set per
fectly by an Army compass, and
found to record the passing of thf
hours as accurately as a jeweled
timepiece. On its face is the motto'
'Time takes all but memories.' We all
feel that the hardships an d sacrifices
made to acquire a home so full ol
lovely memories are as nothing com
pared to its possession.”
“We have in the course of time
built ourselves a road and planted
the grounds with shrubbery, much of
this having been sent to us by people
who at various times have been our
guests. The latest addition to the
house is in the form of double iron
gates, which are set into rock pillars
and make a very lovely entrance. Tt
took the accumulation .of two years’
wedding fees to pay for these gates,
but they are up at last, and. all in all,
we feel that old Hymen has done
pretty well by a family that is mak
ing plans to spend the last days of a
full and happy life at ‘Trail’s End,’
which is the new name of our home.
“We are planning a new and love-
VuFd “you say that he was attending I N
• business or frolicking?” With em- j h
lasis, he rejoined: “Of course, held
oul d be frolicking. ’ “Thank you,” I
•plied, “I wanted to know your men-
il reactions to these two propositions
nd then, too, I have a few more
uestions to ask.”
“If you make $500 today out of this
lockman, as I hope you will, are you
oing to spend it in addition to what
ou would spend if you do not make
; ?” “Oh, no; not at all,” he replied.
Will you permit your family to spend
;, in addition to what they will spend
’ you do not make it? You know
»hat I mean. You provide for your
amity most generously. You live in
s splendid a home as you would feel
lomfortable in occupying; they ride in
ey? Would it not be more accurate
simply say they are business
irtsmen? Does anyone think that
■. Fora today is reallv .engaged in
Joe Dannenberg, bought an interest
'ft\ the old W. A. Doody company,
which became after a time Dannen
berg & Doody and finally the Dan
nenberg company.
MRS. WYNN GETS
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Dublin, Ga., Feb. 8.—-A verdict of
guilty of murder with recommenda
tions for mercy was brought in late
Friday afternoon by the superioi
court jury trying Mrs. Sam Wynn for
the fatal shooting of Mrs. J. E. Burns
at Dexter, Ga., last October. The ver
dict automatically carries a sentence
of life imprisonment.
Mrs. Wynn completely collapsed
when the verdict was returned, ard
was removed from the court house to
the jail, where she has been incarce
rated waiting trial.
An immediate motion for a new
trial was filed by her attorneys and
Judge J. L. Kent fixed March 30 as
the date for argument.
Mrs. Wynn shot Mrs. Burns after
a series of difficulties which involved
the husband of Mrs. Burns.
BREMER SOBS AS
HE TELLS STORY
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 9. Edward
G. Bremer, wealthy banker, broke
down an d sobbed when he dictated to
newspapermen the story of his brutal
$200,000 kidnaping Friday.
The .banker was attended three
times by his personal physician, Dr.
H. T. Nippert, during the long ordeal
of telling the horrowing experience.
He sobbed once at the beginning of
his narration, again near the milcie
and was completely exhausted at the
finish.
Newspapermen and photographers
were ordered to leave the home when
Bremer sobbed convulsively after
telling how he returned to his father’i
home after being released by his cap-
tors.
WEALTHY MACON CITIZEN
EXPIRED FRIDAY MORNING
Macon, Ga., Feb. 10.—W. R. Cox,
91, who had resighed only Friday
from vice presidency of the South
western Railway company, died early
Saturday morning at his home in
Macon.
Mr. Cox, who had been in ill health
for some time, resigned from the raiL
way company for that reason. He had
served as director and as vice presi
dent continuously for 43 years.
In earlier life Mr. Cox waB in the
wholesale grocrey business, and for
many years was partner in the old
firm of Cox and Chappell, retiring
from active business about 25 years
ago.
7 TELFAIR COUNTY
COURTHOUSE BURNS
t( McRae, Ga., Feb. 10.—Fire totally
eldestroyed the Telfair county court
alhouse at McRae Friday. All county
officers and others housed in the
sicourthuose have been moved ir l o
pjtemnorary quarters down town until
glthe building can be rebuilt,
hi The courthouse was built in 1905
mof red brick with tile roof, and was
b considered Dractically fire proof. The
o’flames started from sparks in the
w tielfrv where there were several wood
g »n columns, it is believed, and went
it town into the unner story.
s< AH of the records were saved and
oi ;he building and furnishings were
“Completely covered by insurance.
M