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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 22, 1988,
NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Bank clearings in Atlanta this
week totaled $58,190,000, the Atlanta
Clearing House Association announc
ed Saturday.
Atlanta police were seeking Tues
day to establish the identity of a ne-
gor man fatally injured when hit by
an automobile.
Georgia is 24th in the list of states
in federal tax collections for 1037.
Georgia’s federal tax collections were
61 per cent of one per cent of the
total.
Carroll county has been allotted
$238,120 WiPA funds for the improve
ment of primary and secondary roads j
in this county, it was announced.
Friday. j
Classes at Georgia Southwestern
College at Americus began Tuesday
for freshmen and sophomores, with
the largest enrollment in the history
of the school. o
Life guards at Atlanta’s municipal
■wimming pools this summer saved
the lives of 251 persons out of a to
tal of ore than 400,OOp during the
three-months period.
A negro prowler surprised in an
attempt to loot the Eleanor Shop in
Macon early Tuesday night led city
officers on a fruitless chase over roof
tops of downtown stores.
A magnolia tree on the Lowndes
county courthouse lawn, apparently
on the "ibetter-late-than-never” plan
has borne a number of fragrant
blooms in the middle of September.
Sydney Stapleton, 3-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Stapleton of
Griffin, was fatally injured Monday
when he stepped n front of an auto
mobile on teh Griffin-Atlanta high
way.
A total of 676,319 passengers flew
33,242,299 miles in American trans
port planes during the first six
months of 1988, according to a
statement by the department of com
merce in Washington.
W. H. Stearman, 60, farmer, oi
near Fairbum, was killed Friday
night when the wagon in which he
was riding was struck by an A. and
W. P. train at Wright’s Crossing, be
tween Fairbum and Paimtto.
A conference of prominent Jews
from seven Southwestern states has
been called in Atlanta for Oct. 28 to
discuss the plight of oppressed Jews
overseas, Harold Hirsch, Atlanta
lawyer who is regional chairman an
nounces.
C. A. Anderson who owns a large
tract of land near the new state
prison, announced Tuesday he had
cold G. A. Fisher, superintendent ol
prison industries, an option on 50
acres as a site for a state prison fot
women.
Representatives from the various
civic clubs of Americus and the city
at large Tuesday were canvassing the
city to raise $2,5GO, the sponsors
share of a recreation and study
building for day students at Georgia
Southwestern College.
Another bond election is slated in
Cobb County Sept. 29, when the vot
ers of Austell go to the polls to de
cide on an issue of $22,500. Proceeds
will be used to erect a modem, high
school building. Application for a
PWA loan has been filed.
A good Governor Rivers support
er wrote the governor in part: “I am
70 years old, that makes me the
father of 17 children and I am about
worn out. I sorter believe I need a
pension, don’t you? They are talking
about putting me on right away and
I hope they do for I am in a bad
fix.” Shortly before writing the let
ter the old man (became the father
of twins.
J. B. Whitehead, S3, employe of
the Warren Company, Atlanta, re
mained in a critical condition at
Scott hospital in Milledgeville Mon
day night, suffering from injuries re
ceived in an automobile wreck Sun
day. Mays Scoville and Cecil Johnson
two Oglethorpe boys and former
GMC students who were returning
to Atlanta with Mr. Whitehead were
released from the hospital Monday.
The army’s largest infantry school
at Ft. Benning now has the army’s
“newest, largest and finest theatre”
according to Major 'General E. S.
Adams, adjutant general, who came
from Washington to dedicate the
new $240,000 tmeture. Brigadier Gen
eral Asa L. Singleton, commander of
the infantry school, made the accep
tance speech. The theatre began reg
ular showing for officers and enlist
ed men nd their families Tuesday.
Otha Thomas, peg-legged negro,
was held in the Laurens county jail
at Dublin Tuesday on a charge of
selling liquor, after being arrested in
the basement of the county court j
house where he allegedly was dis-j
pensing the stuff from a fruit jar. |
When Georgia Tech began its 60th
year last week 950 freshmen, largest
first-year class in the school's history j
appeared on the campus. This year s
student body, more than 2,700 strong
some 15 per cent larger than any
year heretofore, is taxing all Tech a
housing facilities. I
L. M. Jones, traveling man, found
himself in a predicament when ho |
parked his automobile near the A. C
L. railroad depot in Sylvester and
left it for a short time to transact
some business. He returned to find
that a swarm of bees had decided to
settle on the car. It required several
hours of peisuasion and tact for him
to regain possession of the machine.
DEAN OF JUDGES TO RETIRE
Greensboro, Ga., Sept. 20—Judge
Jas. B. Park will retire as judge oi
the Ocmulgee Circuit on Jan. 1, af
ter having served 28 years in this ca
pacity. Judge Park was defeated in
the pnnary last week iby J. B. Jack-
son, of Gray, by a margin of 223
votes. (
GEORGIA PEACH TREES
BLOOM SECOND TIME
Macon, Ga., 'Sept. 19.—Peach trees
are blooming in middle Georgia for
the second time this year.
This unusual situation was report
ed from several orchards today.
The Georgia Peach Growers’ Ex
change said there was no reason for
growers to be alarmed over this un
usual condition.
HEAVY WIRE TOLL RESULTS
AS COOK CALLS BOY FRIEND
Mrietta, Ga., Sept. 20.—The Mar
vin Coleman family here was sur
prised to say the least, wben a tele
phone bill including $40 in long dis
tance tolls came in, but no member
of the famly could remember making
any toll calls.
Sleuthing a bit, the family noted
the calls were to Nashville, Tenn
Questioning the cook, they learned
she had been calling her foy friend
there.
"I didn’t know it cost extra,” she j
explained.
YOUTH FOUND HANGING
IN CELL, RESUSCITATED
JUDGE W. E. THOMAS
IS RE-NOMINATED
Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 16.—Judge W.
E. Thomas was renominated as judge
of the Southern Superior Court cir
cuit in Wednesday’s primary.
He defeated W. W. Alexander, oi
Thomasville winning in Lowndes,
Brooks, Colquitt and Echols counties.
Alexander carried his home county of
Thomas.
GEORGIAN FOUND SLAIN
—PISTOL LYING NEAR BY
Champaign, 111., Sept. 18—Edwin
Beers, 34, of Athens, Ga., a con
struction engineer at Qhanute Field,
Rantoul, 111., was found shot to death
in his room at Rantoul Saturday. A
bullet .wound, which Coroner R. C.
Shurlz said he believed was self-in
flicted, was in his head and a 22-
caiiber target pistol lay beneath the
body. He was engaged in construc
tion work at Chanute Field.
WORLD TRADE EXPERTS
GATHERING AT CAPITAL
Washington, Sept. 18.—Experts
and businessmen from more than 30
nations gathered today for the
seventh International Management
congress opening Monday, to explore
the relationship of scientific man
agement to present-day social and
economic problems.
More than 2,000 American and
foreign delegates are expected to at
tend the five-day congress, held ir
the United) States for the first time.
LaGrange, Ga., Sept. 18.—Prompt
first aid measures were credited witli
saving the life of Jerry Mathis 21,
of Lanett, Ala., who was found hang
ing from a water pipe in a cell in the
city jail.
Young Mathis, who had been ar
reted Friday on a charge of drunk
enness, had used a sheet from the
cot in his cell to form a noose.
Resuscitated by city firemen and
first aid men from a local mortuary,
Mathis was released in custody of
members of his family.
GORDON MEMORIAL
TO BE UNVEILED
Thomaston, Ga., Sept. 18.—A me
morial to General John B. Gordon,
Confederate army officer and later
Georgia senator and governor, will be
unveiled on the court house square
at Thomaston Thursday afternoon,
Sept. 29.
Judge John D. Humphries of At
lanta is scheduled as principal speak
er.
The birthplace of General tGordon
is in Upson county, about eight miles
from the site of the memorial.
BROOKE TO BEGIN
HIS LIFE TERM
Columbus, Ga., Sept. 18.—Maj. J.R.
Brooke, Jt., sentenced to life im
prisonment for the murder of his
wife, announced Friday, through his
attorney, T. Hicks Fort, that he
would not appeal the case.
“Hoping that some day the truth
will he revealed, I will begin serving
my sentence as courageously as 1
can,” Brooke was quoted as saying.
After a ftve-day period, Brooke
will be removed to Atlanta Federal
penitentiary in custody of U. S.
Marshal E B. Doyle.
ONLY 4 RETURN TO STATE
SENATE NEXT TWO YEARS
Atlanta, Sept. 17.—Only four mem
bers of the 1937-88 Georgia Senate
will be at their desks in the state-
house when the next legislature con
venes in January, it was revealed
following Wednesday’s primary.
This condition, however, is ac
counted for largely by the practice
of rotating the county from which
the senator is chosen in each district
The four senators who return are
Paul Lindsay, of Decatur; G. Everett
Millican, of Fulton; President John
Spivey of Swainsboro; and Roy
Thrasher, of Oconee.
EDITOR ASSAILS HIS OWN
VOTE WHILE IN ASSEMBLY
TAYLOR REA EXPANDED
INTO MACON COUNTY
Montezuma, Sept. 17—Rural Elec
trification will soon be a reality in
Macon county. An appropriation of
$419,000 has been made for the ex
tension of the Taylor county project
into Macon, Houston, Poach, Craw
ford counties and a portion of Mus
cogee county, the survey has been
completed the actual work has begun
on the cohstruction of the lines. One
hundred and sixty-five miles have
been surveyed in. Macon county and
approximately 600 customers have
signed up.
GREER WILL SEEK
HOUSE CLERKSHIP
Atlanta, Sept. 17.—John W. Greer,
Jr., of Lakeland, today announced he
would offer for the clerkship of the
house of representatives. Joe Boone
of Irwinton was clerk of the last
house.
Greer served as purchasing agent
of the State Highway department for
more than a year, resigning thot
place early the past summer to re
sist Governor Rivers in his campaign
for renominalion.
Prior to his connnection with the
highway department, Greer taught 'n
the public schools of Tift county and
later operated a newspaper at Lake
land and Homerville,
Lavonia, Ga., Sept. 20.—Rush Bur
ton, Lavonia Times editor and
Franklin County 'Legislator, wants to
undo some of his work at the 1931
session of the Legislature.
He thinks the re-organization bill
gives the Governor too much power.
Since the election is over, and
“nobody can accuse this paper of
partisanship, we believe steps should
be taken now to correct this injus
tice to employes of the various de
partments in forcing them to vote for
their jobs instead of on principles
just as other people vote,” says Edi
tor Burton as he criticizes Legisla
tor Burton for supporting the bill.
SHOT NEAR HEART,
WALKS ACROSS HALL
TO ASK FOR HELP
Atlanta, Sept. 17—With a bullet
wound near the heart, Frank Keenum
19, walked from his apartment across
the hall to the apartment of a neigh
bor, andi requested them to call an
ambulance Friday.
Mr. Keenum told Mrs. Shelby
Hunt who resides across the hall
from him, that he accidentally shot
himself while cleaning- his gum He
was rushc-d to Grady hospital, and
examining surgeons, following a pre
liminary examination, pronounced his
co dition as very critical.
The pistol was found by police in
the apartment where young Keenum
said he dropped it immediately after
it was discharged. Police took the
gun ir.to custody.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 20.—Rowland
Spencer, who sold to Father Divine
his estate near Hyde Park, N. Y.,
just acros the Hudson river from
President Roosevelt’s, saw a news
reel telling about it here and imme
diately took exception to the idea
that he did it for spite.
“I did it because the estate was a
white elephant,” he said.
However, Howland said he had
completed a "march through Geor
gia” to check up on the New Deal,
and called the victory of Sen. Walter
George “a source of gratification.
HIGHWAY PATROL TO CRACK
DOWN ON AUTO SPEEDING
Atlanta, Sept. 17—Commissioner
Phil Brewster said Saturday the
Georgia state patrol would start im
mediately stricter enforcement of
driving regulations in an effort to
prevent the seasonal rise in traffic
deaths.'
“Speed must be curbed because iwe
find it to be the primary cause” of
most tragic deaths and injuries, he
declared. “Passing on curves and
hills is the second most frequent.”
WARM SPRINGS WILLED $9,050
Fitzgerald, Ga., Sept. 17—The real
estate portion of the etate of the
late Mrs. Ada Werner, consisting of
several parcels of city property and
a small farm sold here Friday for
$9,050, the proceeds to be given to
the Warm Springs Foundation. The
distribution has been delayed several
months on account of a contest, but
at the July term of the superior
court a verdict in favor of the will
was returned.
11-CENT COTTON LOAN
SOUGHT BY HATCHETT
Greenville, Ga., Sept. 16.—J F.
Hatchett, newly nominated state rep
resentative from Meriwether county
said today he wa preparing a petition
to be sent to Senators Walter George
and Richard' Russell asking them to
seek an 11c federal loan on cotton.
Hatchett planned to circulate the
petition among cotton growers ask
ing them to sign it.
The present federal loan rate is
8.3c and Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace s authorized under the 1938
farm act to set it as high as 12c.
FREEDOM GIVEN DOG
WHO DROWNED BOY, 14
'Rochester, N. Y., .Sept. 20.—For
docile behavior a supreme court or
der has granted immediate freedom
to Idaho, the Brockpart, N. Y., dog
sentenced to two yeans of confine
ment in 1986 for the drowning ol
Maxwell Breeze, 14, in the state
barge canal.
The court was told Idaho had
shown no vicious temper while
tethered in custody of his master,
Victor Fortune, since the dog drag
ged his victim under water in a pup
pyish prank July 4, 1936. His sen
tence would have expired Oct. 1.
BROOKE WILL NOT
REQUEST SECOND TRIAL
Columbus, Sept. 17.—Maj. John R.
Brooke, Jr., former Ft. Benning army
officer, announced Friday through his
attorney T. Hicks Fort, that he
would) not seek a new trial as a re
suit of the life - sentence verdict re
turned Wednesday night by a fed-
earl court jury which found him
guilty of a charge of murdering his
wife, Elizabeth, at their Ft. Benning
home on the afternoon of June 8.
Mr. Fort made the announcement
following a conference with the pris
oner in the Muscogee county jail.
The battered body of Mrs. Brooke, a
former army nurse, was found by
her two small daughters when they
returned home from play.
The defendant, composed and much
more normal than he was Wednesday
night when he heard the verdict read
conferred with Mr. Fort and his sis
ter, Mrs. Alma Sanford, fo San An
tonio, at length Friday before deed
ing to accept sentence without fur
ther contesting the case.
LEGAL SALE
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
Because of default in the payment
of a loan, made by the Land Bank
Commissioner on behalf of the Fed
eral Farm Mortgage Corporation un
der' authority of an Act of Congress
of the United -States known as the
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Act, secured- by a deed to secure debt
executed by Mrs. Eunice F. Peed to
the Land Bank Commissioner, dated
the third day of July, 1984, and- re
corded- in the Clerk’s Office of the
Taylor County Superior -Court in
Book “ti”, Page 476, the -under
signed, Federal Farm Mortgage Cor
poration-, tlie owner and' holder of
said deed mid the note secured there
by, has declared the full amount of
the indebtedness secured- by said
deed- due and payable, and, acting
under the power of sale contained
in said deed, for the purpose of pay
ing said- indebtedness, will on the
fourth day of October, 1988, during
the legal hours of sale at the court
house in said Taylor County, sell at
public outcry to the highest bidder
for cash, the lands described in said
deed-, to-wit:
Two Hundred Two and- Fifty One-
Hundredths (202 and 50-100) acres
of land, more or less in lots Numbers
Eleven (11) and Twenty-two (22) ot
th 15th Land District of Tayloer
County, -Georgia, said land' being now
or formerly hounded’ as follow®: On
the North by land 1 of S. T. Foy and
E. C. Ghoison; East 'by land of E. C.
Peririns; South by land of L. A.
Peedi and the Macon Grocery Com
pany; and West by land of Macon
Grocery Company and land bf I. B.
Vann Estate, and- being the same
land described- in the Security Deed
executed by Mrs. Eunice F. Peed to
the Land Bank Commissioner, dated
July 3, 1934, and recorded in Deed
Book “U”, Page 475, in the office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Taylor County, Georgia, to the rec
ord of which deed' reference is here
by made for a more particular de
scription.
A deed- will be executed- to the
purchaser as authorized by the afore
mentioned loan deed. ,
This 8th day of September, 1938.
FEDERAL FARM MORTGAGE
CORPORATION.
C. B. MARSHALL,
Attorney-At-Law.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
Butler, Taylor County, Georgia-
Be it resolved by the WLj
Council of The City of Bufc
tra session assembled, that iMi*
tion be held on the FIRST <u, e
October, 1938, in the City of tLi
to determine the question whether
not bonds shall -be issued by
Mayor and Council of the Citv
Butler for the purpose of instalL,
system of water works to suuniv -
City of Butler with water. “ y 1
The amount of .bonds to be i«„„
is Twenty-Eight Thousand Doll-r
Li denominations of One Thoiik- ,,
Dollars each. Said bonds to draw i*
terest at FOUR per cent, per amrn
The interest to be paid semi-annt? a
ly, to-wit: on the first day of
uary and July of each year, heiHn
rung on the FIRST day of JaS
1940 The bonds to be numbered n ,
to Twenty-eight inclusive. m
number ONE to mature and 1 be nai
on the first day of January, 194
One bond, according to number 1
mature on the first day of J an ’uai
each year thereafter, until the l a
bond 1 matures and is paid off -in 19c
'This election is called and will
held under the laws in such
made and provided.
The tickets to be used by the lot
ers will have written or printed „
them, “For Water Works"; “Arab
Water Works.”
It is further ordered that thi
resolution be published in the Butl
Herald, the newspaper in which she
iff’s advertisements in Taylor Count
are published. This advertisement t
-begin on the first day of Septembe
1988, and! be published once a we«
until the first day of October, 1938
This August the 30th, 1988.
O. D. GORMAN,
Mayor City of Butler
T. B. JOINER,
M. W. SMITH,
W. E. JARRELL,
R. S. WEST,
J. R. WILSON,
Council of the City of Butler,
FOR LEAVE TO SELL
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
By virtue of an order of the Court
of Ordinary of Taylor County grant
ed upon the application of Thelmon
Jarrell as Administrator of the es
tate of P. C. Watson, deceased 1 , late
of said Taylor County, to sell the
land® of the said P. C. Watson, de
ceased, for the purpose of paying
debts and distribution, there -will be
sold before the court house door, at
public outcry, to the highest bidder
for cash, in the City of Butler be
tween the legal hours of sale, on- the
First Tuesday in October, 1938, same
being the Fourth day of October,
1938, as the property of the said de
ceased, the following described lands,
to-wdt:
Parcel No. 1
All of lot of land No. 250 except
twelve (12) acres in the north-east
corner, said tract containing one
hundred and ninety (190) acres more
or less, and situated in the 11th land
distreit of Taylor County, Ga.
Parcel No. 2
Twelve (12) acres, more or less, of
lot. of land No. 261 in the 11th land
district of Taylor County, Ga., being
on the right-of-way of the A. B. and
Railway Company at the
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
To All Whom It May Concern:
M. T. Gaultney, Sr., Administrate]
of the estate of the late Mrs. J. E
Crook, deceased, having filed his
written petition for Leave to Sell
certain real estate of said deceased
for the purpose of paying debts and
distribution, this is, therefore to cit*
all and singular the creditors ana
next of -kin of said) Mrs. J. E.
Crook to show cause, if any they
can, at the next regular term of the
Court of Ordinary to be held on the
’ first Monday in October, 1938, why
the prayer of said petitioner should
not be granted.
This August 31st, 1938.
M. T. GAULTNEY, Sr.,
Administrator of the Estate of Mrs.
J. E. Crook, deceased.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
mile post of said Railway Company,
Parcel No. Three
All of lot of land No. 251 in. the
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
By virtue of an order of the Ordi
nary of said state and county there
will be sold at public outcry, on the
first Tuesday in October, 1938
the same -being the 4th day of 0c
tober, 1938, at the court house doo
in Taylor county, Georgia, at Butle
between the legal hours of sale, t
the highest and best bidder for casl
the foilwing described property, t<
wit:
Lot of land No. forty (40) in th
15th land District of Taylor Count;
Georgia. Also the north one-half c
lot of land No. thirty-nine (39) i
the 15th Land District of Taylo
County Georgia. Also seven (7) acre
of land in the south-west corner 0
lot of land No. forty-one (41) in th
16th Land District of Taylor County
Georgia. And twenty-five (25) acre
of land off the north-east corner oi
224th | ant j ] ot j^. 0i fifty-seven (57)
15th Land Dstrict of Taylor Cot
ty, Ga.
11 th land district of Tayior County, I, °f ta J. ion . for | eave to sel1 the abc
Ga., containing two hundred two and ™iis having heen run heretofo
one-half (202 1-2) acres of land, the cfore ’ under the former citatl
more or less.
Parcel No. Four
One hundred and -fifteen (115)
acres, more or less, off of lot of land
No. 269 in the 11th land district of
Taylor County, Ga., -being all of the
east half of said lot and fifteen (15)
acres off the iwest side of said lot
adjoining said east side of said lot.
Terms of sale, cash. .
This 7th day of September, 1938.
THELMON JARRELL,
Administrator of the Estate of P. C.
Watson, Deceased.
for leave to sell and order of the 0
dinary the administrator will sell t!
above described property.
This sixth day of September, 19!
J. D. Beeland,
Administrator of the Estate of J.
Beeland, Deceased.
Watches Once Small Clocks
Watches originally were sm
clocks and were worn hung fre
the girdle because they were t
large for the pocket.
FOR YEAR’S SUPPORT
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
To All Whom It May Concern:
AH persons are hereby notified that
Mrs. L. H. Shehee has filed ap-
nication in this office for twelve
months support for hcrsolf arid two
minor children out of the estate of
the late L. H. Shehee, deceased, and
said application will heard before the
aald 0r ; hnar y a t the October term.
1938, of said Court to be he’d on the
first Monday in October, 3 988.
Witness my hand and offi ial nig
1938*^ ^ c ' ay September:
L. T. PEED, Ordinary.
FARMS FOR SALE
At Bargain Prices
The Federal Land Bank is offering for sale the fol
lowing farms on Very Easy Terms of 10, 15 or 20 years,
With only five per cent interest on the -balance remaining
unpaid from time to time, after a small cash payment
has been paid with your offer to purchase.
326 acres, known as the S. T. Carson Place, with
approximately 175 acres cleared 1 , located six miles south
west from Reynolds, adjoining Hioks Mill Pond, one
dwelling, three tenant houses and o-ut-buildings. This
farm has a very good 1 cotton allotment and is also very
desirable for a stock farm.
202 acres, known as the J. A. Franks Place, with
, ai ;F es cleared, located two miles northeast from Rupert,
dwelling, barn- and out-buildings.
60 acr es. known as -the Mrs. Lucy L. Sams Place,
with approximately 25 acres cleared, located 11 miles
northwest from Butler, dwelling and barn.
•11 r '' enaTlt Farmer, why pay rent when the Bank
will sell you one of the above farms on terms so easy that
“ I ? e lust ! jke paying rent? And Mr. Investor, now
is the time to pick up bargains in these farms.
-^ Make a personal inspection of these farms and then
write C. A. Wilson, Salesman for the Bank. Hotel Lanier,
v! a< !£ ri ' ^ a -> or R. P. Stackhouse, Secrcta’-y-Treasurer,
9- L. A., Montezuma, Ga., for price and terms.