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r TAYl OR COUNTY
"The Golden Gate”
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The Butler Herald.
“KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OP SUCCESS”
County’* Chief Cities
BUTLER AND REYNOLDS
No section of the state offer*
better opportunities for small
industries and delightful citi
zenship than either of these
Cities.
Volume 59
BUTLER, Taylor County, GEORGIA, Thursday January 3, 1935
Number 8
guard beaten
BY PRISONERS
ON ROAD SIDE
^JSS«SS^
W,!’S AND CHILDREN *Ub
FORCED out.
Macon, Ga
convicts who eng:
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vitineered a daring es-
convu.L= ® „ a guard and
cape by ^‘^veterinarian on
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camp w her e th u red prisoner was
tered, said the captured P ^ in
John Spears, neSff > gerving 40
Chatham > of .burglary,
years on two charg been
Meanwhile, no U rg w ho
heard of the otter ^ Cochran ,
abdneted Dr. 1. « uutorno t>ile th%
veterinarian, forcing Mrs.
Whhe a an?h« two children from the
TO B hi A e 'Bishop, the guard, reported
ik
and took ms g him from a steep
embankment? The escaped prisoners
included two white men. and four ne
gr The break occurred on the M»;
County-Wide Poulty
Meeting Scheduled
For Ja:i 15 at Butler
Cochran highway, known as
Cochran short route.
Officials of the state camp
lards, where 90 prisoners are quar
tered, reported to the sheriff s office
at Macon that the convicts all were
wearing chains and stripes at the
time of the escape. -Voriff’s
Reports received by the sheriffs
office said after the guards gun was
Du’ing certain periods of the past
two years tne poultry business has
had it’s set-backs but through the tie-
presion years it was one of the
farmer’s best enterprises. In spite of
low prices for other farm commodi
ties poultry prices held up well in
comparison. One of the hardest per
iods was experienced last Spring
when the price of feeds advanced am.
eggs took a dive. Several farmers in
the county sold out completely ami
had it not been for exceptionally higl.
egg production during the period
more poultrymen would have followed
the urge. Those who stuck to their
guns have seen prices advance ar.d
now the egg price is in line with
feed prices and poultrymen are see
ing better days.
Last Spring it would have been
foolish to encourage new poultrymen
to enter this business especially in
the face of such an unhealthy outlook
for profits, however it is noiw thought
that the situation, is such that a few
additional good poultrymen can be
added to take advantage of the farm
income of the county.
On January 15th a county-wide
poultry meeting will be held in But
ler. The exact time and place of
holding the meeting will be announc
ed by letter and through the Butler
Herald. We will have two poultry ex
perts with us for the day. These gen
tlemen come from the Poultry De-
it Bui- parbmemt and have had many years
DEATH VERDICTFOR
NEGRO WHO KILLED
ELLAVILLE OFFICER
COURT ROOM AND TOWN QUIET
DURING TRIAL; DEFENDANT
HEARS SENTENCE WITH NO
DISPLAY OF EMOTION.
EUaville, Ha., Dec. 31.—Charlie
Dodson, 17-year-old negro, was sen
tenced Monday to die m the electric
chair lor the murder of W.B. Souter,
42, Ellaville chief of police, on
Christmas Eve. January 21 was set
as the date for Dotson’s execution.
A special session of the Schley
county superior court was called for
Monday by Judge W. M. Harper, of
Americus, to dispose of the case. The
grand jury convened and returned an
indictment against the negro youth
and trial of the defendant was begun
immediately. The trial was completed
shortly after noon and the jury re
turned a verdict of guilty about
12:15 o’clock, after deliberating only
a few minutes. Dotson took the sen
tence without any display of out
ward emotion.
The state called several witnesses
to the stand and the defense none.
Only the negro’s statement was
heard. Dotson said he was walking
to the jail with Chief Souter when
the chief told him to walk faster. He
said he then ordered him not to walk
so fast ar.d jerked him, both falling
to the ground as the negro’s body
__ , . collided with the chief’s. He said his
of pra-tical experience in the poultry ' hand fell or the handle of Chief
field throughout the state. Lectures
will be given on some of the follow
ing subjects which are timely and of
seasonal significance: Incubation and
Brooding of Chicks, Effects of Inheri
tance on Egg Production, Feeding
Practices, Grading and Marketing
oiuce oa.u Practices, craning anu
taken the three P™ 0 "”® ’* ] }° “ ' ta | Fresh Eggs, etc. A round table dis
join in'the break, attempted to go to
Bishop’s aid, but that they .
warded off by the prisoner who took
the guard’s gun. Bishop was scratch
ed and pummelled, but not seriously
hurt. , . . .
A moment after the convicts at
tacked the guard, Dr. White and his
family drove up in their car ar.d Mrs
White and her two children were
forced from the machine. 4
The convicts forced Dr. White -o
accompany them as they drove off in
the direction of Macon. They were
last reported sighted at the Brno
courty home, seven miles from Ma
con. , ,,
Mrs. White and the children ran to
a gparbv farm house but the tele
phone was out of order and several
minutes elapsed before a call could
be out through to the sheriff’s offee
at Macon.
Cross Road W. H. D. Club
Elect Officers For 1935
The Cross Roads Woman’s Home
Demonstration Club met at Cross
Roads school building for their busi
ness session Friday p. m., Dec. 21.
After singing, scripture reading and
reading and adopting minutes the
election of officers f or 1935 was
taken up. Officers elected were as
follows:
President, Mrs. J. E. Locke.
V-Pres., Mrs. E. A Hollis.
Secty. Treas., Mrs. Howard' Mott.
Assistant Secty. Treas., Mrs. B. F.
Kirksey.
Press Reporter, Mrs. G T. Theus.
Miss Leonora Anderson gave a
demonstration on making Christma
candies after which we were dis
missed with prayer.
The club was invited by Miss Lou
ise Parks, a member of the Cross
Roads school faculty, into her room
for the pound party which had pre
viously been arranged by the club in
honor of Miss Anderson.
Each member was met at the door
by Miss Parks and were asked to
have seats. Songs followed by an in
teresting Christmas story by Mrs.
Hollis were enjoyed. After another
song a talk was given by Mrs. J. E.
Locke on “Why we give the pound
party." Miss Parks then gave each
°ne an emblem representing Christ
mas, and each matched their emblem
°n plates at the table. There was a
special plate prepared for Miss An
derson, with a little Christmas pres-
ent given to her by the club mem
cussion will be held at which every
farmer who has a question on his
mind will have the opportunity to
get it answered.
This meeting is sponsored by the
poultrymen, of Taylor county, Miss
Leonora Anderson and County Agent
Daniel. All farmers, farm women,
and others interested are cordially
and urgently invited to attend the
meeting. This type of meeting will
do much to help experienced poultry-
men with their problems and is sure
to be a boon to those we hope will
soon make plans to grow out baby
chicks this spring for fall eggs and
profits.
25,000 Census Workers
Begin Enumeration
Of Nation’s Farm
Important Farm Meet
For This District Set
For 18th At Thomaston
Washington, D. C., Jar,. 2.—Ap
proximately 25,000 federal census em
ployes Tuesday began the huge task
of enumerating the more than six
million farms and ranches of the
United States in what is probably
the most important agricultural cen
sus in the nation’s history, according
to a statement released by Director
W’m. L. Austin, Bureau of the Cen
sus, Department of Commerce. Plans
call or the completion of the canvass
before the end of January.
The Fifteenth Decennial Census
Act, approved June 18, 1929, directed
that a mid-decennial Census of Agri
culture be taken Jan. 1, 1935, for the
calendar year 1934," Director Austin
said. “Because of the tremendous up
heaval in the great basic industry of
agriculture, due to the depression,
drought ar.d other factors new farm
statistics are urgently needed in con-
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Souter’s pistol and he jerked it out,
fired either three or four shots, and
ran.
Dotson was apprehended Christ
mas night and spirited away to Co
lumbus for safe keeping.
Included in the witnesses called to
the stand by the state was A. A.
Arrington, Mrs. Lucy Dyess, Dr. J.
R Jordan, Millard Arrington, Sherifl
eJ\C. Rigsby, Dr. Clark D. Gill and
a negro.
The state was represented at tne
trial by Superior Court Solicitor Hot-
lis Fort, of Americus, and Judge J.
C. Rainey ar.d Judge E. J. Hart, of
Cordele were counsel for the de
fendant. t
>While there were no eye witnesses
to the slaying Mrs. Dyess was pos
sibly the closest person, being just
across the street. Mrs. Dyess said on
the stand that she heard the two
scuffling and called to the chief ask
ing if he needed help and he said he
did. Mrs. Dyess ran to a nearby fill
ing station for help and just as she
arrived at the station she heard three
snots fired she said. When help ar
rived at te scene of the scuffling
they found chief Souter in a dying
condition and the negro had fled. The
slaying took place 160 feet from the
city jail and in the shadow of the
court house.
It was first feared that Schley
county citizens might try to take the
negro from officers and lynch him,
but this fear was dispelled as soon as
The annual meeting of the Thom
aston Production Credit Association
serving the counties of Lamar, Pike,
Taylor and Upson will be held on
January 18, 1936 at the court house
at ten. o clock a. m. Thomaston, Ga.
Not only are all of the farmer-
borrowers from the Association, the
holders of Class 1! stock expected to
be bresent, but Mr. Riley Summers
said recently that a most cordial in
vitation was also extended to all
other farmers in the territory served
by the Association and that it was
hoped that large numbers would ac
cept the invitation.
“Every member of the association”
said Mr. Summers, “is urged to
bring one or more non-members with
him as it is our desire that every
farmer in this section shall acquaint
himself with the credit service which
our organization has to offer.”
“Directors of the Association for
the ensuing year will be elected 1 at
this meeting. Every member of the
association is entitled to cast one
vote, regardless of the number of
shares he owns, and it is to his inter
est to vote for men of the highest
integrity and business acumen.
“At the meeting a complete re
port of the year’s operations of the
association will be submitted. The
Production Credit Corporation of Co
lumbia will be represented at the
meeting by Mr. Hiram L. Gardner,
who will outline the set-up of the
Farm Credit Administration of the
third district, the method of control
and operation of the production
credit associations and will give an
explanation of the association’s ope
rating statement from organization
through Dec. 31, 1934.
Death Of Mrs. Whittle
Occasion Of Sorrow Here
Mail Pouches Rifled
And Depot Entered By
Theives December 23
The first robbery of its kind to
have occurred here in many years,
and one that is being thoroughly in
vestigated by postal und railroad au
thorities, was discovered here early
Sunday morning, December 23ru,
when it was found that just before
dawn the same morning some one had
broken into the depot, rifled the tick
et-window cash drawer of its small
contents, robbed the express office,
making their exit through a door in
the freight warehouse and later brok
en the large metal-covered mail b x
at the outer cast end of the depot
taking therefrom one first-class ma : l
pouch ar.d at least one parcel-post
mail sack taken from train No. 4
from Columbus which arrived in But
ler shortly after midnight Saturday
night.
Postal as well as railroad and local
authorities were promptly advised 1 of
the robberies followed by a search
being instituted for the missing mail
sacks, they being found later in the
day a short distance from the depot.
They had been cut open and rem
nants of their contents badly scat
tered over the ground ini the vicinity
where they had been opened.
A close check is being made of the
missing portion of mailable matter
with the hope of recovery and arrest
of the guilty party.
Two-Day Session
Columbus-Macon M.E.
Conference at Ft. Valley
Local Auxiliary Units
Expresses Sincere Thanks
For Contribution of Toys
Butler Auxiliary Unit 124 wishes
to thank each one who so unselfish
ly gave toys, and brought them to
us to help Santa at Christmas. The
supply was greater than we antici
pated. When they were all ready for
delivery it looked like a toy shop had
sprung up in Butler. We know many
little hearts were made glad by this
kind deed on the part of our local
citizens.
We also thank all who helped 1 in
arranging and lighting the Christmas
tree on the public lawn.
« * .
The Legion is still ahead in the
membership contest which closes in a
few days. Let’s muster new courage
and whip them yet, It can easily be
done if we’ll each bring in a new
member or two. Let’s try it.
The regular meeting of the Unit
will be held at 2:30 Friday afternoon,
Jan. 4th, at the home of Mrs. Howard
A full attendance is anticipat-
DREIZIN’S STORE
BURGLARIZED; HEAVY
LOSS SUSTAINED
the negro arrived in court.
Sheriff E. C. Rigsyy and two depu- :
ties went to Columbus after | We will report in next week’s issue
Monday morning and arrived ; t j )e herald jj 0W man y schools have
court house a few minutes after court | the flagg flyjng We hope to report
100 per cent
opened. He was escorted into the
court room by the three men without
a sign of a demonstration. The court
room was filled to capacity with a
fev women and several negroes in
the crowd.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lena
Heath Whittle, well known resident
of Tayior county, were neld Monday
morning at 11 o’clock at Spring Hill,
Rev. Louie D. Newton, ot the Druid
Hills Baptist chunch officiating. In
terment was held in West View
cemetery.
Mrs. Whittle had wrapped Christ-
11 o’clock
of
attendance* enjoyed , identified with the affairs
loon Riverside B.'U-.-ao — hurch of Miami
I in which city she
I home with her da
- v„ uy tne C1UD mem- mas P reser ' ls Until about
bers. The plates were well filled with | Friday morning after which she lay
fruits, salads, candies cakes whiDDed > down for a sh »rt res 1 but from whlch
cream and jello. Mi^ And4rwn 1 rest she never arose as aealn over '
pressed her thanks to the club took her as she 'ay resting,
members both for the party and the I The leased was prominently
presents. AH ir,. attendance enj
the entire afternoon immensely.
—Press Reporter.
M ^L N S, CORPS ENLISTMENTS j m Mrs. Whittle _
rvlR THE MONTH OF JANUARY i daughters and one
. Bearman, of Miam:
Macon. Ga., Dec. 29. The U S. j Drennon, of Atla
Marine Corps District Recruiting Of- Bamberg, of Atlai,
™ ated ln the municipal audito-1 West,-of Piedmont,
num, Macon, Ga., will accept 20 high H. Whittle, former
* 0 , graduates in January from now assistant athl*
Alabama, Tennessee and Davidson College,
Kentucky. Interested parties should Three brothers, Mr.
rite to Lieut. Col. H W. Stone, the ! Reynolds; Mr. W. T
°„,* cer ln charge for full information i nett, Ala.; and Mr.
and necessary application blanks. of Talbotton .
Many Spectators See
New 1935 V-8 Ford
At Payne Motor Co.
Payne Motor Company’s display
rooms were the mecca for a number
of local spectators Saturday when
the new ford V-8 models for 1935
were shown. All over the nation
similar showings are being held at
every Ford establishment.
The new V-8 was the cause of
much praise throughout the local
sales territory. It is the biggest and
roomiest Ford car ever constructed,
and is a strikingly handsome car
with modem lines and new, luxuri
ous appointments.
The most important feature of the
1935 V-8 is that it is designed to
give smooch, easy riding over all
kinds of roads, and is termed a
front-seat ride for back-seat drivers.
npw models show much im-
; was making her
fhter, Mrs. Bear-
urvived by four
on, Mrs. S. H.
Fla.; Mrs. R. E.
i; Mrs. F. M
| Mrs. W. Y.
la.; and Mr. A.
-ack star and
ic director ot
orth Carolina,
k E. Heath, of
Heath, of La-
L. Funderburk
—Publicity Officer.
Record of Marriages, Births
And Deaths In Taylor
County During Past Year
That the year 1934 was eventful in
Taylor county is shown by the rec
ords 1 of marriages, births and deaths
in the office of Ordinary L. T. Peed,
of which the following is a report as
furnished the Herald by tliat efficient
and obliging official:
Number of marriages 1934: Whites
79; colored, 116; total, 196.
Number of births 1934: Whites,
83; colored, 180; total, 263.
Number of deaths 1934: Whites,
49; colored, 60; total, 109.
According to announcement re
ceived here and in Reynolds yester
day a joint meeting of the Columbus
and Macon Methodist districts will be
held at Ft. Valley today and tomor
row. The “spiritual life" and mis
sionary work will be the leading sub
jects of discussion.
The meetings will be the first of a
series of conferences to be held
throughout the state. Bishop W. N.
Ainsworth, president of the North
and South Georgia conferences, wi'i
direct the meetings. Eight other
similar conferences are scheduled fur
widely separated church districts in
the state.
Ail ministers, traveling and local,
in the several areas will be expected
to attend along with laymen and
ministers of other denominations, who
are invited to be present. Local
church officials will attend the me°t-
ings.
Both Old And Young
Enjoy Christmas Season
As Rarely Ever In Butler
Laughing children, lighted Christ
mas trees and bursting fire crackers
brought to our minds last week the
passing of another Christmas season
and one of the most delightful re
corded here in many years.
In the city the holiday was passed
quietly other than for tr.e above
mentioned, and everyone seemed to
feel less thankful, for at least an
hour after the dinner on Christmas
Day than those who didn’t have
good things to eat, for severe pain
was with the majority of us from
the many things that the good wives
placed before us at least once in
three hundred and sixty-five days
out of the year.
Many of the residents spent the
day out of towni and in other coun
ties. But without doubt everyone had
real feast throughout the day.
According to the daily press from
the various parts of the state, there
were fewer accidents in which lives
were lost than heretofore. We all
look forward with closed eyes, more
or less, on what the new year holds
in store, but as for one, we cam say
that our hat’s off to baby 1935 if it
trouts nn half as hearty as Dec. 25,
1934, did, for once, at least.
At the Butler Methodist
Church Next Sunday
Sunday school at 10 a. m. League
service at 6:15 >p. m. Preaching at 11
a. m. and 7 p. m.
This is the time to make your
lesolutions for the new year. A good
resolution! for you to make for the
new year is that you will attend re
ligious worship at some church every
Sunday. Then start by worshiping
with us at the Methodist church next
Sunday. You are always welcome;
and your presence is am inspiration
to the pastor and to others.
Let us set out this year to make
our town a better town and to do this
we have an individual responsibility.
Speak a kind word or do a good turn
for some one every day; and you
will be happier and others will be
encouraged to do better.
W. E. Hightower, Pastor.
THREE SUSPECT'S PLACED IN
COUNTY JAIL. MISSING GOODS
NOT YET LOCATED; CLOSE
WATCH BEING KEPT BY AR
RESTING OFFICERS.
Three men thought by officers to
be members of an orgui.izcd band of
robbers who have been active in va
rious sections of the state for the
past several months were captured
here ut an early hour Monday morn
ing by Sheriff R. P. McGuffim and
Butler’s City Marshal, Mr. H. C.
Walker, and are being held in the
Taylor county jail for further ques
tioning in connection with the burg
lary of the O. Dreizin Store at an
undetermined hour Sunday might
when also the grocery department of
Messrs Edwards Bros.’ establishment
was entered.
The raids on these establishments
were not discovered until the hour of
opening the doors for business Mon
day morning.
The stock of merchandise of Mr.
Dreizin had more the appearance of
having been struck by a cyclone
than otherwise upon discovery of the
robbery. Racks and shelves had been
relieved of their heavily iaiden
stocks of costly coats and dresses,
men’s suits, hats, shoes, and bolts of
uress goods and various other mer
chandise from throughput the stock,
all of which had been carefully
picked over to secure the best and
most costly. A 750-dollar cash regis
ter was battered and splintered with
the aid of a crow-bar as if regarded
by the burglars as of no more value
than a 5-cent match box, and’ which
yielded them about $25.00 .cash con
sisting mostly of small change and a
number of personal checks which
they concluded worthless so far as
their ability to use them' was con
cerned. Mr. Dreizin has been unable
to state definitely the amount of hi*
loss but estimates the same at be
tween $l,CO0 and $1,200.
It is the concensus of opinion that
in the job attempt to cart away a
liberal portion of the Edwards Bros.’
stock of groceries the burglars were
frightened away by the approach of
Mr. Walker, the night officer, on hi*
usual rounds of the business district,
after they had broken the lock on
the front door-of the store and were
in the act of entering the building
since nothing on the inside seemed
to have been molested.
Entrance to the Dreizim store wa*
gained 1 by the use of a crow-bar, first
attempted at a back window of the
store and later on a rear door which
proved more successful to the
determined men., although after ap
parently considerable effort. The
crow-bar used on the job was found
near the cash register and waa
identified by the sheriff as the one he
had previously seen in the truck of
the men later arrested and admitted
by them as their property, but claim
ed that they could not account for it
being found in the Dreizin store fol
lowing the robbery.
The names of ihe men arrested
were given as Charles I. Elliott, Z.
W. Eyers and T. H. Latham, the first
two being ebout 60 years of age and
the latter a lad about 20. They claim
ownership to a 1931 model Chevrolet
light truck of delivery body type,
body painted light brown with red
wheels and bearing a Florida license
tag. The same vehicle had been seen
in this vicinity for several dayp prior
to the robbery and was found the
morning after the robbery bogged to
its axels in mud behind the packing
house of Mr. T. L. Fountain south of
town, the men arrested offering no
explanation for its presence there.
By many it is believer this truck
was used to cart away the loot from
the stores entered here and at the
point found transferred to another
truck which sped' safely to an uit-
known destination.
New Year Outlook
Good Says Outler
At a first conference session of the
board of stewards of the Columbus
Methodist district held in Columbus
Thursday, at St. Luke church, with
Presiding Elder Rev. John M. Outler,
the salary of the presiding elder was
fixed the same a* for last year and
several other matters of business
were given attention. The Butler
church was represented by Mr. C. E.
Benns.
Benevolences for the various pre
siding elder were deputized to give
them the information regarding the
board’s action.
Rev. Mr, Outler stated that the
outlook for the new year is gratify
ing and that the response of church
leaders has been most helpful. The
meeting Thursday was characterized
by a spirit of optimism, he said.
Masons Elect
At their regular communication,
held Dec. 27, members of Fielding
Masonic Ledge, elected officers for
1936 as fellows:
Dr. Lewis Beson, Worshipful Master
Mr. E. H. Bazemore, Sr. Warden
Mr. A. E. Guinn, Jr. Warden.
Mr. B. F. Moore, Secretary
Mr. F. A. Peed, Treasurer
Mr. J. H. Amos, Tyler
L. R. Adams, Sr. Deacon
Mr. O. Dreizin, Jr. Deacon
Mr. T. B. Joiner, Sr. Steward'
Mr. Henry T. Blakely, Jr. Steward
Mr. C. E. Benns, Chaplain.
GINNERS REPORT
There were 7,568 bales of cottoa
ginned in Taylor County from the
crop of 1934 prior to Dec. 13, as
compared with 6,618 bales ginned ts
Dec. 13 crop of 1933.
LOST: A white dining table cloth
at Cross Roads school house Friday
afternoon, Dec. 21. Finder please re
turn to Mrs. Ed Locke, one and one-
half miles north of Cross Road*
Bchool. -