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POINTS and
VIEWPOINTS
by
HERMAN F. WRIQHT
The Butler Herald
"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OP SUCCESS"
With the hunting season in full
swing, tail tales of the swamp and
*oods are ra P idl y coming into
vogue. The following story comes, to
us f ro m Toombs county and is
vouched for as the gospel truth by
jeveral citizens of Vidalia.
It seems that two hunters from the
North had come to the South Geor
gia county t6 do some hunting. Early
one morning they set forth in, their
car, and after traveling some miles
overtook a man armed with a shot
gun and accompanied by two hounds,
whom they surmised to be a fellow
Nimrod. They offered him a lift, and
(he three rode off.
Now it happened that the sup
posed hunter had been commissioned
;,y a farmer to kill an old and de
crepit mule which he would find
grazing in a pasture along the high
way.
As they approached the pasture,
Ite Toombs countian thought he
would have some fun with the Nor-
tleriicrs and remarked:
“You know, I’ve killed about every
of bird and animal that lives
around these parts, hut one—I’ve
never killed a mule. Say 1 There’s one
now in that field! Stop the car.”
The astonished driver halted the
car, the man got out, took aim and
fired. The old mule crumpled to the
ground under a load of huckshot.The
astonished Yankees gazed at one an
other in consternation. What kind of
country was this they had gotten
themselves into, where folks went
around shooting farm' stock without,
compunction? » %
Consternation quickly gave way to
horror as the Southerner, with
wild stare, slowly swung the gun
around on them and said in a hollow
voice:
•■And—I’ve never shot a man before
either!”
The story ends that the two North
erners were last seen streaking over
a banbed-wire fence with little
no respect for its “bite” and across
the field to the comparative safety
of the woods. Two brand-new shiny
guns marked the spot where they
last stood before their hasty exodus.
Volume 63
BUTLER, Taylor County, GEORGIA, Thursday, November 24,1938
Number 4
A friend of ours sometime ago
caught a young coon while hunting
and brought it home with the ex
pectation of having a unique pet.
Now, a coon ,s notorious for his
ornery habits. The .beast crawied into
the fresh-water bucket to keep cool,
stole silverware and various small
objects around the house and hid
them, and finally added insult to in
jury by tearing up a new and bright
ly-colored quilt to make himself a
bed such as no coon ever had before.
Our friend's expectations were fully
realized—and then some.
but the moral of our story is that
one's bad habits will eventually cause
untold suffering and humiliation. One
day the pet, while prowling around
the house, discovered a bottle of lit
tle pink liver pills. He removed the
cork and out rolled the pretty little
halls—a new toy sufficient to gratify
the heart of any coon. Next, we sur
mise, he got up the courage to taste
one of the enticing baubles. IMmm!
Wot so bad, thought the coon. Ergo—
missing: one full bottle of. little pink
Pills.
And then commenced a period of
unutterable suffering and uncon
ditional humiliation for the poor
toon. For days he was turned out of
duors and avoided with displeasure
by his human friends.
But after his trials and tribula
tions the lesson was learned and
taken to heart, Never again will
Pretty little balls attract his in
quisitive nature. All our friend has to
do now is drop a few shot on the
floor near his pet. As they gently
roll hither and yon, Mr. iCoon utters
a agonized cry; of protest and makes
for the nearest exit.
FM. WELCOMED
BY RIVERS AS
HE REACHES GA.
Chief Executive Lauds Work at
Chickamauga Dam in Informal
Talk Monday
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 22.—President
Roosevelt headed to Warm Springs
last night for a two-week stay at the
Little White House after a brief
stopover in Atlanta and an impromp
tu speech at Chut* uifiga, in "Lie!:
lw reaffirmed nis faith in “construc
tive social betlermei!t.3 ’ of the ! VA.
The President did not show him
self to a throng of about 100 who
stered about his special train dur
ing its 15-r)i ; nvte stop at the termi
nal station. Ho remained in seclusion
in his private car workig with Ids
secretary, Marvin McIntyre.
Mrs. Roosevelt left the special
train heTe and went to Birmingham
where she will attend a woman's
conference today. She will go to
Warm Springs in time for the an
nual Thanksgiving dinner Thursday
night.
The Presiden’s special train came
into Atlanta from Chatanooga. After
a change of engines and other rail
road operations it left for Warm
Springs.
Governor iRivers, who went to
Chattanooga to greet the chief
executive, extended the state’s of
ficial welcome when the President’s
party entered Georgia soil while
touring the battlefields around Chat
tanooga. The Governor returned to
the executive mansion last night. He
has been ill for more than a week
and plans to remain this week, al-
tho he expects to carry on a series
of legislative conferences scheduled
to start today.
■ The brief informal talk at Chatta
nooga addressed to the 2,200 workers
on Chickamauga dam, one of seven
such projects built or building in the
Tennessee river watershed, was made
at the first stop on a 50-mile auto
mobile tour of the Chattanooga area
that covered scenes of Civil War
thanksgiving 'poem
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what th’ Lord hath done
—Shakespeare.
It certainly is strange what pets
can do to upset the morale of a well-
ordered household. ;9ome weeks ago
we acquired, three ducks to be used
for eating purposes, But they so en
deared themselves to us by their de
lightful mannerisms and friendliness
that we have been forced to grant
them an indefinite stay of execution.
We just couldn't 'bear to see one of
them decorating the center of the
table as the piece de resistance. It
Would seem too much like eating a
choice morsel of our best friend.
FBiUlT CAKE TIME: We now
have all ingredients for Fruit Cakes.
Jarrell’s Dept. Store, Butler, Ga.
For all that God in mercy sends;
For health and children, home and friends,
For comfort in the time of need,
For every kindly word and deed,
For happy thoughts and holy talk,
For guidance in our daily walk,
For everything give thunks!
For beauty in this world of ours,
For verdant grass and lovely flowers,
For song of birds, for hum of bees,
For the refreshing summer breeze,
For hill and plain, for streams and wood,
For the great ocean’s mighty flood,
For everything give thanks!
For the sweet sleep that comes with night,
For the returning momin’s light,
For the bright sun that shines on high,
For the stars glittering in the sky,
For these and everything we see,
0 Lord! Our hearts we lift to thee.
For everything give thanks!
—Ellen Isabella Tupper.
Taylor County Persons
Receive $3,827.42 Per
Mo. From Welfare Dept.
Benefits in excess of $3,827.42 per
month are being paid to more than
1,016 persons in Taylor county thru
, i the local welfare office, according to
days along with modem day social . \ ,
" . . L n a report by Lamar iMurdacgh, State
economic projects.
The President stood on a high con
crete parapet on the north-eastern
embankment of the $36,500,000 dam
as he expressed the thanks of the
nation to the scores of workers stand
ing below him on a huge navigation
lock. It was his third visit to TVA
territory.
SHOWS FOR WEEK
AT DEAN THEATRE
Director of Public Welfare, it was
announced this week by Mr. J. R.
Lunsford, local welfare chairman.
While pensions to the blind and
dependent children and old people are
paid through the welfare office, its
activities also include receipt and
distribution of surplus commodities,
selection of hoys for the CCO, spe
cial child welfare services and nu
merous other activities designed to
bring relief to persons in needy cir
cumstances.
For the first time in the history
of this state, pensions are being paid
to blind persons, helping them to
.Sunday and Monday: Joan Bennett, ^ ^ Qf their ^ eeds . In Tay i 0 r
Randolph Scott and May Robson in » fiye blind j. flrsons are being
While not quite up to | ^ &nd others w , u be added t0
„ „ . an ,, | the list of beneficiaries as rapidly as
Wells Fargo, “The Texan is still funds are made availa bie, it is point-
qualified as a top brackets of films. ( ^
It leans-more toward the time-hon-1 ‘
ored action elements of old fashion 1 Sixty-four ch.idren w tho.it par
outdoor drama. It is expensively ^ relatives *>.e to' take care of
produced, direction is masterful and them, are being paid benefits m Tay-
nod. 'or •county. Blind persons jependert
children and old-age pensioners ."i
Taylor county were paid a tctal oi
$1,463.50 in October, ilia maximum
monthly rate until more funds ar.i
made avababio to the St te Depart
ment of Public Welfare 1or distribu
tion to the counties.
The Texan’
the standard of The Plainsman
the photography rates a special nod.
Randolph Scott and Joan .Bennett
lead a sterling cast. The story deals
with reconstruction period in Texas.
Thursday and Friday: “Mother
Carey's Chickens,” starring Anne
Shirley, Ruby Keeler and James El
lison. This homespun melodrama with
just enough interesting comedy is
sure to please.
Saturday: Double Feature: George
O'Brien in “Gun Law”, and Chester
Morris and Anne Shirley in “Law of
the Underworld.”
MISS LOUISE TURK MAKES
HONOR ROLL AT G. A. B.
Miss Louise Turk, student at G. A.
B. School of Commerce in Macon,
RICHARDS BROS. CONSTRUCTION CO.
AWARDED CONTRACT TO BUILD|500
MILES OF REA LINES FOR $254,000
AMERICUS STUDENT
COUNCIL IS FORMED
- FOLLOWING STRIKE
Alva Rnzcmore Is on Committee
Which Drafted the New
Constitution
Miss Callie Stringfield
Suffers Stroke Early
Wednesday Morning
Americus, Nov. 1£).—Following in
the wake of a recent hunger strike
staged by students of Georgia South-
wetern College, President Peyton
Jacob has co-operated with students
in organization of a student council
with the hope it will “establish u
more thorough understanding be
tween the faculty and studentB.”
A constitution drawn by student
leaders and presented to the presi
dent by a committee headed by Stu
dent Body President James Andrews
of Leesburg has been approved by a
faculty committee appointed by
President Jacob.
Tho constitution is expected to
“allow the students more leniency,”
it was said today, and will be “a
liigh court for troubles that may
arise between faculty or staff and
students.”
The faculty committee iwhich will
work with a student council to .be
elected. ;by popular ballot by the stu
dents includes: Dean T. E. Smith, R.
T. DeWitt, physical education direc
tor; Mrs. Paul Ellison, dean of wo
men; Mrs. Mary Jordan, English in
structor; Warren Williams, dean of
men; and Paul Murray, social science
instructor.
The student council will be com-,
posed of the president of the student;
Miss Callie Stringfield, well known
Butler lady, suffered, a stroke of pa
ralysis early Wednesday morning.
“Miss Callie” as she is known to
her many friends here, was found,
lying on the floor of her home where
she lives alone, in an unconscious
condition, by iMrs. W. E. Bazcmore, a
near neighbor, when the latter went
to Miss Stringfield's home to see if
she could be’ of any assistance to
her.
Miss Stringfield, who is 73 years of
age, has been in ill health for a
number of years but only for the
past few months has her condition
become serious.
©he is a daughter of the late Mr.
Pierce Stringfield and Mrs. Sophronia
Clarke Stringfield, and has been a
member of the .Butler Methodist
church practically all of her life.
County Agent Urges
Care In Disposal Of
Cholera-Stricken Fowls
of the Taylor county welfare office,
as announced by State L’i-cctor Mur-
(Tum to Page 8; N». 1)
Funeral Services Held
For Mr. Jessie Rirksey
Funeral services for Mr. Jessie
tvas^mnong the^twenty-eight students Kirksey, about 40 years of age, and a
. -"...j aJKL„ w,„t!life-long citizen of Taylor county
were held at Mt. Olive cemetery at
r °Mr M j! d r'Knott, president of the J Taylor Mill several days ago,
there were 162 Rev. W. J. Ch.ldres officiating.
school stated that
students attending the school and
that only twenty-eight were placed
on the honor roll for month, which
ended Nov. 11.
County Agent W. F. Bemibry today
called poultry owners’ attention to
the danger of not burning the car
casses of birds found dead on the
premises. Suppose a bird found dead
under the roost should happen to be
A detai ed report on the activities infected with fowl cholera and the
owner threw it in a branch that ran
through a neighbor’s place the neigh
bor would stand a good chance of
losing his whole flock from this
dreaded poultry disease. Or suppose
this same bird .was thrown by the
side of the road-and a buzzard came
along as, he most likely would he
could also cause an outbreak of
cholera or any number of transmiss
ible diseseases. Taylor County has a
fine record for healthy healthy flocks
and we have never had any experi
ence with fowl cholera. 'Let's bum
our dead birds and not throw them
in the nearest branch and thereby
postpone as long as possible any
connection with this pestilence as it
could cost thousands of dollars in
loss to poultrymen.
Mr. Kirksey was sick only about
two weeks prior to his death.
He is survived by his widow and
several children.
Taylor County Coperation Is Now
Second Largest of Its Kind
In State
The Taylor County Electric Mem
bership Corporation of iRieynolds,
opened bids Nov. 14, on their new
project which trill cover some 500
miles and serve approximately two
thousand customers. Mr. G. L.
Cooper, superintendent, announced
that the board of directors had
awarded the contract to Richards
Brothers Construction Company of
Carrollton, Ga., on a bid of $264,000
for the continued use of copper wire
construction.
The superintendent gave a fish fry;
for the board of directors, contrac
tors, and other visiting parties. Fish
caught from nearby Flint river were
fried and served on the picnic
grounds of the Reynolds Golf Club
at the noon hour; however the apple
pies (25 in number) baked by Mrs.
Cooper, attracted the attention and
won the praise of the more than one
hundred present.
The bids were opened and read out:
by Engineer Snowden of the J. B.
McCrary Engineering Corporation.
There were eleven bidders, of which
three were local or within the boun
daries of the proposed project. These
local bidders caused the outside bid
ders to put in low bids thus, reducing
the cost of construction to $680 per
mile. 1
Three years ago a small group of
local citizens started out with REA
for a small loan to build twenty
miles of line,to serve some one hun
dred customers in the Panhandle sec
tion of the county. Six months later
body, James Andrews; president of ... _ _
the sophomore class. Hugh Carter of: ^ citiz f*’ *“£4 by Messrs E. F,
Plains; president of the freShnian
class who is yet to be elected; and,
one member each from the freshman
and sophomore classes to be elected
by the students.
One reservation is, made on power
of the faculty. The president of the
college must approve all decisions
made by the committees on student
problems.
Problems of such import as the re
cent hunger strike will be settled by
the council which will meet every
Thursday it was said.
Hugh Carter, sophomore president
and one of the co-authors of the
constitution, declared “we believe a
more thorough understanding will be
accomplished between the faculty
and student body and such unfortun
ate occurrances a the recent food
strike prevented.”
Members of the committee which
drafted the constitution were: Mary
Ellen Flatt and Elizabeth Duff, of
Americus; Robert Turner of Colum
bus; James Andrews, Leesburg;
Frances Mitchell. Round Oak; Alva
Bazemore, Butler; and Hugh Carter,
Plains.
Miss Carolyn Childers
Wins Amateur Contest
In Tampa, Florida
Miss Carolyn Ohildres, formerly of
Butler and daughter of Mr. and Mrs
J. T. Childres won first prize Wed
nesday night, Nov. 16, in an amateur
contest sponsored by the Federal
Clothing Company of Tampa, Fla.
The program was given over radio
station WDAE in Tampa.
Miss Ohildres has been making her
home in Tampa for the past several
months. She is now connected with
a well known drug firm of that city.
MT. PISGAH W. M. S. WILL
OBSERVE DAY OF PRAYER
The Woman’s Missionary Society
of Mt. Pisgah church will observe a
day of prayer and take a special of
fering for Foreign Missions. The
program will begin at ten o'clock
Friday morning, Dec. second, with
lunch at the noon hour. Everyone
cordially invited to be present at
this meeting.
®»rr a,id G. L, Cooper formed a co
operative to build fifty miles.
Through the efforts of Mr. OoopeT,
the project iyas extended on to 9fl
miies, serving Rupert, Charing, and
Mauk in Taylor county and by add
ing another 18 miles in Marion
county, served Tazewell and Brant
ley. These projects were built at an
average cost of $720 per mile.
When Mr. John M. Carmody, , ad
ministrator of REA, announced the
approval and allotment for the new
project, he asked that the Board of
Directors be increased. The co
operative now has a membership of
eleven, composed of Messrs E. F.
Parr, president, G. Z. Young, vice-
president, J. H. Neisler, secretary, all
of Reynolds; F. C. Jarrell, Butler, 'S.
Garrett, Sr., Charing; B. L. McDan
iel, Tazewell; Jas. T. VanHom,
Cusseta; M. S. Vinson, Fort Valley;
F. H. Tabor, Perry; 'Mrs. H. E. Tay
lor, Roberta; and Mrs. Charles Mc
Kenzie, Montezuma.
This cooperative will be next larg
est in the state of Georgia. The al
lotment of $419,000 is believed to be
the largest single allotment ever
made in the United States by the ad
ministrator.
It is possible-that the project will
be extended later on into Dooly, Pu
laski and Muscogee counties.
Mr. Cooper says, “we expect to
develop this corporation into a mil
lion dollar concern with a member
ship of five thousand along twelve
hundred miles of line.”
Montrose High School
Is Destroyed By Fire
The Montrose High school' in which
Miss Mary Gill, of Butler is a mem
ber of the faculty, was destroyed by
flames early Wednesday morning,
Nov. 16.
Preparations for rebuilding the
school house have already begun it
was reported here this week.
Students are not losing any time
from school on account of the de
structive fire, according to Miss Gill,
as they are holding classes in other
available buildings in the city while
the new building is being erected.
FRUIT CAKE TIME: We now
have all ingredients for Fruit flakes.
Jarrell’s Dept. Store, Butler, Ga.