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T A V L 0 R COUNTY
"The (iolden Gate”
iictween the Mountains
and the Sea
Traversed by the ,
y s. HIGHWAY, NO. 19
The Butler Herald.
KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS'
County’s Chief Cities
BUTLER AND REYNOLDS
No section of the state offers
better opportunities for small
industries and delightful citi
zenship than either of these
Cities
Volume 59
BUTLER, Taylor County, GEORGIA, Thursday July 18, 1935
Number 36
SCHLEY IS SCENE
OF FIRST REUNION
OF COTTLE EAM1LY
hFVRY A. HART SERVES BAR-
HKCTK IO descendants of
PIONEER citizen.
Ellnville, Ga., July 10.—A reunion
f ,he Ebenezer J.and Nancy (Horn)
r.itle family was held July 4;h at
old Cottle home place in Schley
f jjenr'y A. Hart, son of Judge Hart,
rve ,l barbecue and basket dinner
to approximately 300 frier.ds and
relatives. He owns part of the old
Cottle home place.
Ebenezer J. Cottle moved from
Jefferson county here in 1830, built a
■ e house, and eventually accumu
lated thousands of acres of land,
cumbers of negro slaves and other
assets. He was father of ten children,
three daughters, Carrie, Sophie and
Mart K. and seven sons, Tom, Wil
liam Ebbin, Cullen, John, Sol M., and
01k; J all now dead. Several of his
sons were killed in the War Between
the States.
There were between 75 and 100
descendants of the family present at
the reunion, many of whom had
never seen the others or the old
home place.
Among those attending were Mrs
Leila Cottle, widow of S. M. Cottle,
<r his second wife; the grand-ohil-
dre’n and their families being Mrs
Mary Anna (Cottle) Clark, Ty Ty,
Ga, and her children and grandchil
dren and great-grandchildren; Ebe
nezer J. Cottle, Ty Ty, an his family,
S M. Cottle, Jr., Ty Ty, ar.d his
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren; Thos. B. Cottle, Ty
Ty, Ga., his family, children and
grandchildren; Mrs. Mattie (Cottle)
Hale, Fitzgerald, and Mrs. Leila
(Cottle) Woodward, Sylvester, her
family, children and grandchildren.
These’ are the children of S. M. Cot
tle, Sr., deceased.
Wm. E. Cottle, Raleigh, N. C., and
his familv; O. J. Cottle, Adel, Ga.,
his family, .children and grandchil
dren; T. P. Cottle, Jr., Sylvester, Ga.
ami his family, and Mrs. Emma (Cot
tle) Law, Aniericus, and her children
grandchildren and great-grandehil-
drer.. These are the children of 0.|J.
Cottle, deceased.
Mrs. Mary L. (Hart) McNeal,
Americus; Judge E. J. Hart, Ella-
ville, his family, children and grand
children; Cy Ross, Midland City,
Ala., and his children. These are the
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren of Mary E. (Cottle)
Hart, deceased.
Also some 250 or 300 of the old
neighbors and friends of the Cottle
family, including Pat Smith, an
original neighbor, were present at
the meeting, and all of them ex
pressed their pleasure at having at
tended.
The Cottles decided to make the
wasion an annual event.
All Electric Kitchen
Coach Will Exhibit
Here At Early Date
SEVENTEEN FREIGHT
CARS DERAILED
RESULT OF RAINS
PASSENGER AND MAIL SERVICE
TRAINS NOS. 1 AND 2 AN
NULLED FRIDAY CAUSED BA
WRECK OF CENTRAL TRAIN.
The derailment of a freight train
about eight miles east of Columbus
at an early hour Friday morning up
set schedu' 's of all trains, both
passenger id freight, for more than
twelve hours, derailment being the
result of a cloud burst followed by a
washout of the tracks at that point
which the west-bound freight train
No. 29 ran into.
Due to the passenger trains Nos. 1
and 2 being routed by way of Ameri
cus there was r.o mail service during
the afternoon which greatly incon
venienced the patrons of the local
post office.
The derailment occurred a short
distance from where the Con T. Ken
nedy carnival train was wrecked
some years ago and in which a num
ber of show people lost their lives.
Poverty Need Not Be a Handicap
Under American Institutions
(By Eugene Anderson in The Macon Telegraph)
RIVER BRIDGE
NEAR REYNOLDS
STRONGLY ADVOCATED
New Mart For
Georgia’s Fruit Seen
In Macon Co. Plant
Women of Butler, Reynolds ar.d
vicinity will have an opportunity
soon tu see the beautiful new all-
electric kitchen coach of the Georgia I
Lower Company, according to sched
ules for this winter announced by
Miss Fern Snider, head of the power
companys home service work.
in this traveling modern' kitchen,
Mrs. Mary Lynes, noted home econo-
Hds'-, giving free demonstrations of
electric cookery in many of the
'“"'i s served by the Power Company.
The coach visited more than 30 towns
the Augusta section earlier this
Sear and now is in the Athens sec-
hon. Deomnstrations are planned in
"tore than 60 towns in the Columbus
“■vision, 40 in the Rome division and
[ w in the Macon' territory.
The electric kitchen coach is divid-
into two parts. A kitchen, com-
Wetely and compactly equipped with
JMern electric upplicances, is at the
front end, while in the rear is a
®® a N “auditorium” seating 20 per-
Now backed by an RFC loan, the
Montezuma Frozen Food Products
Company willgo into manufacture of
frozen peach pulp on a large scale,
it was learned in Macon Saturday,
says the Macon Telegraph.
When the company was organized
several months ago Macon men be
came interested in it and subscribed
$20,000 stock. W. R. Tucker of Mon
tezuma, is president.
The company is paying 50c a bush
el to growers for surplus peaches,
and converting them into frozen
pulp which is sold' to various manu
facturers in other states at six cents
a pound, for conversion into pre
serves, brandy and wine.
It is understood that 12 bushels of
peaches are required to produce a
500-pound barrel of the frozen pui r .
Thos e familiar with the enter
prise say that within a year or two
it ma v provide a good cash market
for all Georgia’s surplus peaches,
which in former years have gone to
waste.
The company already has manu
factured 2,400 barrels of the pulp
out of this season’s crop. It is under
stood the RFC loan totals $75,000.
“Black Eyed Susan” To Be
Staged Here On July 26
“Black Eyed Susan" a three-act
musical comedy will be presented at
the Butler High school auditorium
Friday evening, July 26;h. This in
teresting play is being sponsored by
the young people of the local Metho
dist church.
This is a sparkling new comedy
being put on bv home talent. It. is
very entertaining ar.d will furnish
plenty of laughs when you see how
Black Eyed Susan helps five old
maids to win the hearts of five old
bachelors.
Others who will keep you well en
tertained will be Mandy ar.d Uncle
Ed, two negroes, who see “Haints
Eighteen chorus girls with beautiful
costumes will ad<l greatly to the en-
tertaining features of the play.
Come out and bring you! family.
Laugh ar.d be merry with the crowd.
A small admission will be charged.
Local Projects Given
Federal Approval
A list of 529 non-federal projects
in Georgia finally approved by. 1 res
ident Roosevelt anti released by .the
Works Progress Administration
Monday include several projects in
Taylor county. ,
These projects are a part of tne
History is full of records to prove thut poverty need not be a
hanuicap to American youth. Aubrey Willis Williams is an example.
At six he had to go to work to keep his father’s family of tour
from starving. At seven he was making the munificent sum of $3.50
a week, and this was the only money the family had to buy food.
Recently Aubrey Wiltliams has been put in charge of fifty mil
lion dollars of government money to give youth a chance. He is an
Alabama product. He is second relief administrator for the United
States.
Unfortunately Aubrey is not allowed to find the army of your.g
sufferers who have been set adrift at and near the age at wnich he
had to go to work for himself and others. He is allowed to help only
young people who have reached 15 years of age, ar.d those on up to
25.
Uncle Sam has not yet recognized the army of little orphans
under 15—those made orphans through desertion and others orphan
ed by death. Those orphaned by desertion have suffered greater
tragedy, and have to live down some nightmares that are more ter
rible and more frightful than those caused by death.
But it is not Aubrew Williams’ fault that he cannot take on all
of Uncle Sam’s “chillun”. He is to help the older children get a
training for some useful occupation, and he is to help others to get
through school. Much is left to his discretion. His job is to help
youth. It is President Roosevelt’s idea. He thinks the fifty million
dollars spent to save American youth, boys and girls, will pay a big
dividend. ,
Who is Aubrey Williams? His father is said to have been a big
planter before the war, anti he had many slaves. History says he ,
freed a thousand of them under his system. Then came the War
Be.ween the States, and the father found himself later without any
property. He was like many other Southern planters. He did not
know what to do for a living. He tried blucksmithing, but he did not
make a success of it. He came home often without any money. Au
brey was a babe of six. He had the spunk of the old South, so he
found a job in a torpedo factory. What he did to earn as much as
his salt at such an age and in such a work is not recorded, but he
made good so that a year later he could get a job as cashier in a
Birmingham department store. Here he began to long for some edu
cation . He could not afford to quit w'ork, because and he made was
needed to buy food for the family. He found a way to attend school
at night. In many communities there are no night schools, so Aubrey
was fortunate to find a school within reach. He nodded and studied
after finishing each day’s work.
It would have added human interest to the story if he could
have said that he had to get somebody to teach him privately at
night. Many others have had to say %s much. A boy without oppor
tunities seizes what he has. Boys with too many opportunities don’t
do anything. It makes no difference what kind of mind a lad has,
the question is how will he use what he has? No matter how much
schooling he gets, it does him no good unless he seeks to make it
do him good.
Aubrey Williams was determined that what he had should do
him good. He learned how to paint signs, and he earned his way
through college at Maryville, Tenn., by his work as a sign painter.
Then he was ambitious to go through the University of Cincinnati,
and from which he made enough to cover the cost.
When he was in France, he decided that he would like to have
a doctor’s degree, so he remained after the war, and studied at the
University of Bordeaux until he secured the degree.
Was this luck, pluck, or what? It was character. Personal re
liability and dependability are said to be his characteristics. You
know what he tells you is the truth. If he had all the brains in the
world, and had not developed honesty and industry, [he could not
have made the grade. A man may have all of the education, wealth
social standing, and what not, but if he has to make his own way in
the world he will find as Aubrey Williams did, a good reputation is
worth more than wealth and outside influence. It is the best part of
any man’s capital.
That’s how Aubrey Williams, through his own efforts, was able
to quit school at six years old, and after obtaining a doctor’s degree
at college, receive appointment to one of the highest and most re
sponsible positions in the United States Government.
It indicates what a boy or girl can do in this country. In many
other countries poverty is a lifelong handicap. America is most as
suredly the land of opportunity, for the people who. get the right
attitude toward life and can stand success. Some rise fairly well
until they begin to succeed, then they crumble. Aubrey could stand
success. It did not spoil him. Result: He kept climbing.
MASS MEETING OF CITIZENS OK
TAYLOR AND PEACH COUN
TIES SET FOR JULY 23 AT
BUTLER.
A commitee has been named com
posed of prominent I’euch county
citizens to confen with Taylor county
officials and citizens in the interest
of perfecting plans for the comple
tion of grading and paving highway
96 through Butler and Reynolds and
connects east of Reynolds with u new
bridge across Flint river, the high
way parreiiing the Central railroad
as nearly as possible between Rey
nolds and Fort Valley.
The construction of a bridge across
Flint river connecting I’each and
Taylor counties has been' rightly agi
tated for a number of years without
taking definite shape.
It is believed by all concerned that
the time has come when it is possible
to reulize on the proposition with
out material cost to either county.
Tuesday, July 23rd, is the date set
for a mass-meeting at Butler and it
is expected that a large number of
our citizens will attend the meeting
and extend to the committee from
Peach county a mort cordial welcome
as well as lending their aid to this
important project.
Wiffi a paved highway north and
South already through Taylor coun
ty and with the prospect of east and
west paved road this section will be
in a most advantageous position to
secure investments of eastern capi
talists who are anxious to come to
Georgia.
Those composing the committee
from Peach county and will be our
honored guests next Tuesday are:
Messrs. W. M. Mathews, W. L.
Nance, W. R. Edwards, H. J. Alvera,
S. Halprin, Judge M. C. Mosley, D.
C. Strother, J. E. Davidson; W. G.
Brisindine, A. C. Riley, Judge Louis
L. Brown, J. D. Kendrick, H. Huck-
abee, W. E. Green, W. M. Wright,
Herbert Vining, W. H. Harris, A. J.
Evans and John H. Jones.
A cordial welcome awaiti the
coming of these gentlemen
TRUCK AND TRAIN
COLLIDE HERE AT
MIDNIGHT HOUR
Heavy Damage Reported
Id Mill Fire At Macon
Tne coach has a portable water , 1V , TO TO „ u.„ e ...... — ,
f u Pplj and is equipped with the fol- ,, r0 ved by the president t* a > s a 8°
owing appliances: electric range, re- q u t which were being^ * e 1 m P° rar !1 ,?
ngerator, water heater, water pump
{■-nwasher an d sink, mixing machine
citric cooker, fans and other small
a Ppliar .-es.
l‘ ,e ” r Kia women, especially
^ those
1 ? lr °n and near farms, make use
«f ho
j ""roe-grown and home-made pro-
fur! ' ^ r8, Lynes points out .“There
„ I ’ 111 all my demonstrations, I am
Georgia food products exclu-
L, , ’ s ,° f° r as this is possible. Many
i Iw don’t realize the infinite num-
t- f ’!' ways in which the simplost
ed .. | 1 ^ or instance, may be cook-
thf-m',y s frved. I’m trying to give
► ut . these new time and money-
Mn R ideas."
held up by failure of funds to
rive from Washington.
The 529 projects approved Mon-
da. represent $2,747,389 worth of
work this fund is available for im
mediate use. included
Projects in Taylor county included
in the list approved Monday a■ ■
malarial drainage, $14,b88,
four projects,
For .
this being divided into f jn
Gum pond on t e , ands alon g
north* Little PaUilig^ " e a e *’ ps the
b “ 1 “ ln ‘
Sutler Tb 8 * f ram P assed through i construction• ® ra l school district,
riiy. • u ‘-‘"terday afternoon' transfer- pleted for ementl $13,586, di-
th?T CCcT f aDy °f 175 mem bers of Road ^ . R oa d leading from
bus ^ from Augusta to Colum-j tided as I tain residence, on Red
Macon, Ga., July 16.—Fire starting
in the dust room of the Crown mil!
No. 1 here tonight resulted in damage
unofficially estimated at thousands
of dollars and injury to one employe.
City fire equipment was called out
by a general alarm at 8 p. m. and
seemed to have extinguished the
blaze an hour later, but a recurrence
of the flames kept them bus%- unt, ‘
almost midnight with approximately
200 volunteers from the mill force
at work tonight aiding.
Roy Motes, a mill worker who was
patrolling the ruins after the fire in
search of smoldering lint was pain
fully injured when flooring collapsed
and’ threw him 16 feet to the ground
floor. ,, ,
Mill officials tonight could give no
accurate estimate of the loss until
a daylight survey is made. Water and
fire is known to have been damaging
to some machinery as well as destruc
tive to materials.
Level, to Mt. Pisgah chtirch; the
road leading from Butler to Garden
Valley; road leading from Byrd's
store in Panhandle district to Fick-
ling’s mill; and the Butler to Kick-
ling's mill road.
Crops Saved By Needed
Rain And Outlook
Bright To Farmers
Rainfall in most sections of the
state durir.g the past week has
eliminated the permanent damage to
crops which the recent semi-drought
threatened, according to this week’s
summary of weather and crop con
ditions issued by the federal weather
bureau in Atlanta.
Cotton promises to be the best in
years and conditions as a whole iro
this section could hardly be better
the farmers of Taylor county say.
Not only cotton, but corn sweet po
tatoes, sugar cane and truck crops
are flourishing after the beneficial
rains of last week.
MISS MARTHA MAXWELL ON
BUTLER SCHOOL FACULTY
Just as the Butler Herald was in
the last act of going to press last
Thursday morning the list of teach
ers was prepared and handed in for
publication, and' in the rush the name
of Miss Martha Maxwell was left
off the list. Miss Maxwell has been
w-ith the local school for a number of
years and is one of the best teach
ers on the faculty of our school and
the oversight is regretted very much.
V. P. FOLDS, Supt.
Plans Being Perfected
By H.D. A. Members For
Their Annual Outing
'Have you gotten yourself ready
for camp? If not do so within the
next few days for we leave for
camp next Monday, July 22.
Girls are requested to meet me at
my office Monday morning at 9 with
the following articles:
List of supplies for girls: A good
spirit, $1.25 to pay for cottage and
transportation, picnic lunch for Mon
day, 6 eggs, 6 half-ripe tomatoes, 1-2
pound butter, 1 cup grits or rice, 1-2
gal. peas or butterbeans, 1 small
head cabbage, 1-2 gal. string beans
or other vegetables, 8 medium size
Irish potatoes, green sweet peppers
(if you have it), any fresh fruits, 1
blanket or quilt, 1 double sheet, pil
low and case if need one, bathing
suit, 1 plate, 1 glass or cup, 1 spoon,
1 knife and fork, 1 cup lard, 2 cups
sugar, 1 cup meal, 1-2 pound bacon
or ham, 6 ears of garden corn, 1
onion, 1 frying size chicken, 1 glass
of jelly, 1 cake, 1 jar pickles, wash
dresses, knickers, pajamas, etc., (if
desired), pencil and paper, knitting-
needles, crochet needles.
List of supplies' for women: $1.25
(Turn to Page 8; No. 1)
MR. C. It. GATES, AGED TENNES
SEEAN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
WHILE OTHER OCCUPANTS OK
TRUCK RECEIVED MINOR IN
JURIES.
The third of a series of similar ac
cidents within the pust few months
und at the same point occurred Sat
urday night about 11:30 o’clock at a
point where the Central ti ircads
tracks and Highwuy No. 3 cross
each other about two blocks north
west of the public square in Butler.
Those involved in Saturday night’s
accident were Mr. C. R. Gates, age
70, and his daughter, Miss Puuline
Gates, of New Port, Tenn.; Mr.
Hurrold Clubb, of Spartenburg, S. C.;
and Redmun Shelley, negro driver of
Waynesville, N. C.
The crash was heard by many and
upon hurried investigation found tha
truck with its occupants heaped in a
mass of wreckage beneath a box car
of the freight train which had been
standing several minutes, blocking
the highway, while the engine of the
train was transferring a car of
watermelons from a siding near the
depot to the line of cars on the main
line.
It was soon discovered that Mr.
Gates was the more seriously hurt of
the party and was given first, aid.
Physicians were summoned and Mr.
Gates transferred to the local hos
pital where it developed he hud sus
tained a broken' rib, a serious crush
of the chest and a number of ugly
flesh wounds. His condition at the
time was reported critical, but it ia
now the opinion of attending phy
sicians that he may recover. Com
fortable quarters were provided lor
him at the West Hotel where he ia
rceiving every attention possible.
Injuries to other members of the
party corsis’.ed of a number of flesh
wounds and since the accident have
been able to assist in attention being
given Mr. Gates in' the hope of hia
recovery.
The truck, a 1934 model Chevrolet
bearing a South Carolina license tag,
was being operated as a fruit trans
fer and was enroute to South Geor
gia for a lord of watermelons, it is
said, when the accident occurred.
More than an hour was con
sumed in clearing the wreckage dur
ing which time traffic, both highway
and railroad was tied up.
The driver of the truck, who
claims to have been driving at a low
rate of speed, says he failed to ob
serve the road being blocked by the
train until too late to apply hio
breaks, and being in an unfamiliar
section of the state failed to observe
either the railroad or highway mark
ers warning traffic of danger ahead.
Mr. A. F. Davis Critically
111 From Pneumonia
NOTE—Since going to press an
nouncement is made of the
passing of Mr. Davis about 10
o’clock this morning.
Mr. Alec F. Davis, well known citi
zen of Butler and operator of a fleet
of trucks in the fruit and vegetable
business, is in a serious condition at
his home here having recently con
tracted pneumonia in both lungs.
The critical illness of Mr. Davis is
the occasion of serious regret to his
many friends.
Former Butler Lady
Passes In N. Carolina
Just as the Herald was going to
press this morning a telegram was
received by relatives here announc
ing the death of Mrs. W. T. Sut-
phen at her home at Winston-Salem,
N. C., yesterday. Funeral arrange
ments are announced for 4:30 o’clock
this afternoon at Charlotte, Va.
Mrs. Sutphen, who before her mar
riage was Miss Minnie Bateman,
was the only daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bateman find
was reared in this city. She is sur
vived by her husband and one son,
Mr. Donald Sutphen, and three
brothers, Messrs W. T. Bateman, Lee
Bateman and Cliff Bateman.
Petition Circulated Calling
On City Officials To Have
Water System Survey Made
A petition ’is in> circulation ^nd is
being liberally signed, it is under
stood, requesting the city council of
Butler to have a survey made of the
city in anticipation of the calling of
an election for the purpose of voting
for and against bonds for purchas
ing the present water system and ex
pansion of same to include larger
and more adequate fire protection
for the city.
Under the proposed plan, whatever
the cost may be as shown by the
survey yet to be made, application ia
to be made for federal loan and
grant.
The present water system haa
served its patrons for more than
twenty years and has been enlarged
at considerable cost year by year to
meet the demand, but with' the city’s
bright outlook for the future it is
the contention of manyof our citizens
that with the town owning the sys
tem improvement, unable to be met
as at present, are possible under tha
r.ew plan.
At Butler Methodist
Church Next Sunday
Sunday school at 10 a. m. League
services for young people at 7:15
p. m.
Preaching 11 a. m. and 8 p. in.
The public is cordially invited to
worship with us.
Revival services will start at
Union church next Monday evening
at 8 o’clock. Rev. J. N. Shell, of Rey
nolds will do the preaching.
The third quarterly conference of
te Butler and Howard charge will be
held at Howard Thursday, July 25th.
Revival services will start at How
ard church Monday evening, August
5th. Rev. Theo Parr, of Talbotton
will do the preaching.
Revival services will start at But
ler Wednesday evening, August 14j>
Rev. Herbert Ethridge of Columbus,
will do the preaching.
W. E. Hightower, Pastor.