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NUMBER 25.
The Butler Herald
“keeping evbrlastingly AT IT IS the SECRET OF SUCCESS"
VOLUME 64
Mrs. Julia Boland
Claimed by Death
In Atlanta Home
Deceased Was Native of Butler
And Widow of Prominent
Methodist Minister.
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940
Large Crowd Attends
State Singing Convention
Held Here Last Sunday
Hon. Emory Lancaster of Athens,
State President, Presides Over!
Convent ion
Reynolds Bonds
And Interest Paid
Up Through 1939
Hundreds of persons from all sec
tions of Georgia were here Sunday
Funeral services conducted by her I attending the State Singing Conven-
vastor, Rev. N. C. McPherson,j tion which was held at the local ;
■ver held Saturday at 11 a. m. | high school auditorium,
from the Peachtree Road Methodist ^ Hon. Emory Lancaster, of Athens, I
church, Atlanta, of which she was p res ident of the state convention '
one of its most active members, for , was among a large number of out- j
Mrs. Julia Cameron Boland, follow- standing singers present.
bv interment in the family lot, T . , „
eU . „ ... , , ‘ , Mr. Lancaster was in charge of
■h,t[pr cemetery, 2-30 o clock Satur- ,, .. , . ,
,uuti cciu _ _ the convention, which was conducted
Citizens Get Low Fire Insurance
Rate by Having Modern Water
System.
day afternoon, Rev. F. J. Gilbert, - n an
pastor of the Butler Methodist manner
church, assisting in the commitment f A nu ' mber ()f
service here. Pallbearers, chosen
from among local friends of the
family, were Messrs Walter E.
Steed, C. W. Foy, C. E. Benns, R. S
and J. H. West, J. T. and W. M
Mathews.
As a tribute of love and respect
the floral offering was one of the
largest and most beautiful ever seen
here.
The remains were accompanied by
tached to a public address system
a number of Atlanta relatives and
friends od the deceased, namely: gave splendid reception to those un-
])r. N. C. McPherson, Mr. and Mrs , able to get into the packed audi .
H. K. Chapman, Mrs. J. L. Wray, j torium.
The Sinking Fund Commission of
Reynolds, composed of Dr. S. H.
Bryan, chairman, and E. H. Joiner
and R. L. Bell, associate members,
are making public announcement
this week to the fact that the bonds
and interest coupons have been paid
up to and including 1939.
This will be good news to the tax
extraordinarily ""interesting i l ja ' ers ° f the of Reynolds, for
it places this ilittle city in a most
excellent position from a financial
viewpoint. It will be of further in
terest to the tax payers of Reynolds
an dlo those interested in making
this their future home to know that
within five years the original bond
issue of forty thousand dollars will
have been paid off, together with all
interest coupons. At that particular
lime the city will assume control of
the electric power distribution and
the sale of water, which will gross
about ten thousand dollars annually.
: Citizens o.f Reynolds have 'been
; blessed with a fine supply of water
which is analyzed once each month
choir leaders and
composers representing the major
music composers all over the South
ern states, took part on the program
as well as did many famous quartets
duets and soloists.
Before adjourning Sunday after- j
noon the convention accepted an in
vitation from Mr. E. J. Everett of j
Americus to hold their next meeting j
in Americus.
A number of loud speakers at-
.Mrs. G. H. Doyle, Mrs. B. H. Greer, Everyone who availed themselves a " d “ C °*\ S fl the C “
Mrs. li. E. Kelley, Miss Frankie May of the opportu nity „f attending the i ^ dollar and seventy-five cents for
hoi and, Miss Flossie Boland, Miss convention were more than pleased j al ’J, ™ ler they C , an U f?' ,
Dollio Luten, Mr., and Mrs. Fay C. %v jt b the extraordinarily good music | . c *^ zens Refolds also en
Boland, Dr. and Mrs. Galloway Bo- nmvidpd bv tbp slWpro nf W a very low fire insurance rate
land, Miss Annie Cameron, Mr. and j
Mrs. Herbert Boland, Mr. and Mrs. I
Marvin Boland, also Mrs. M. R.
Cameron of Griffin and Miss Ella ,
Cameron, of Americus; grand chil- |
dren attending from Atlanta includ- |
ed Juliette, Charles G., and Patricia i
Boland.
The cause of Mrs. Boland's ieath 1
was the result of complications fol
lowing pneumonia with which she i
was stricken several weeks ago con
tracted while on a visit to relatives
and friends in this section.
“Another truly good woman has
Butler Boy Is Paid
$1,000 By Ins. Company
On Living Claim
ranging from $3.50 to $8.50 per
thousand, as a result of having
plenty of water. The tank and reser
voir combined capacity is one hun
dred and twenty thousand gallons.
Insurance savings as a result of
modern water works and fire fight
ing equipment have really paid off
the bonded indebtedness almost
J without cost to the tax payers.
I More than foureen thousand feet of
egiht inch and six inch water mains
j have been laid, and several miles of
8th from the Acme Life As- j smal , ler pipe bave been lu=od in fur .
nishing water from mains to homes.
water
con-
than
] Mr. Austin E. Guinn, Sr., as le
gal guardian of Austin E, Guinn, Jr.
i received a check for $1,000.00 on
AprO
! surance Society, of Atlanta. !
Mr. Guinn was pleasantly surpris-
,, , / " ' Mr. Guinn was pleasantly surpris- , .
, JCen ea to her Heavellly Home '’ ?d when Messrs R. C. Fulghum and works and electric light plant is
^Th ^h ' h E ' Gankin, district representatives j st . rvatively estimated at more
. . cry person with whom this , from Thomaston delivered him a j one hundred thousand dollars.
reporter came in contact immedi-, :beck for one thousand dollar
. j "— —- — - — with-1 j n d 04Q, when this bond issue has
uti.l\ followinff and for many days . nolv thirtv-six davs from the time ■ , . . .
thorpnffov 1 , e, n on,y tmrxy ,1X Ud>s Ilom ine ume j Uen retired, the revenue from the
i Hereafter receipt here of the news . ao r)lication as a livimr ! i ,. . , .,, ,
nf hor HflotL tj„ u i re i le maGe a Pl lllcauon » a nvinfe light plant ana water works will be
death. Her whole life was : j a j m on an insurance contract pro- ni i v su ffi c ient to onerate 1h«* ritv
consecrated to the service of the | fVlp nf « I Mnp,y .. 8umel . en ‘ * ° pe,ate thu . Clty
service ot the j viding for the grouping of 25 mem
Master and in the rearing of her bers of p(jua | age together and fur-
•unil> consisting of four sons all of. d i er provides that when any rnem-
wh°m have proved a great joy and bel . of t he group dies the deceased
comfort to her Tnher latter years and liember ’ s beneficiary is paid the full
a 'Jessing to the world largely j face va i ue 0 f the contract and the
■ rough her services, her toil and her | a ] d est living member in seniority is
also paid full face of contract as a
i living claim.
! This plan of protection has been
popular and profitable to business
and professional men as well as
women in the southern states since
I the turn of the century.
! Mr. Guinn is well known through
out the entire country as the own-
! ?r and operator of the famous
Beach Valley Egg Farm.
i
TYPHOID CLINIC BEGINS
HERE FRIDAY, APRIL 26
prayers, she having been deprived
"• the assistance of a devoted hus-
and who died while the children
'“'•e quite small. Rev. J. M. Boland,
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Mr. William H. Fickling
Native of Taylor County
Wes In St. Petersburg
Funeral services for Mr. William
Hampton Fickling, 74 years of age,
, |10 died in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
Monday, April 8, where he was vis-
li "F his son, Mr. Joe G. Fickling,
Wl '"‘ conducted at Rome, Ga., Wed-
' •‘'Jay morning. The Rev. George M
V ree, pastor of the Rome Methodist
tuirch, officiated. Interment was in
•BrUe Hill cemetery.
Mr. Fickling was born in Taylor
™ unt - v on March 5, 1866, the son of
' lr - Willi am H. Fickling and Mrs,
izabeth Walker Fickling. He was
'oairied to Miss Mary Lucy Hynds,
1,1111 h ( ‘ r of a prominent Tennessee
I ' ni| H>. who preceded him in death
" at teM years ago. In 1912 Mr.
! ’^'"g moved to Rome, Ga., where
"as engagd in the paint business
'V' ' le cotired a few years ago.
■''in \ ivors include one brother, Dr.
‘ l ' 1 *'• Fickling of Reynolds. A
^ 1 D Mrs. Maude Wright, of
^' a -> two sons, Messrs Joe
lMckiing, of st Petersburg> pig.,
18111 L. Fickling of Atlanta; and
" ’ au ffhters, Mrs. Henry B. Har-
"I Home; and Mrs. James W.
Jackson Jr., 0 f Augusta.
We will hold a typhoid clinic for
the purpose of immunizing every
person possible against typhoid fe- .
ver.
The first clinic will be held in But
ter at the courthouse beginning on
Friday April 26th, 8 till 12 o'clock
a. m; and for the two following!
Fridays, viz: May 3rd and 10th, at:
same place and hours,
i We will hold our second clinic in
Reynolds on Friday, April 26th, at 1
1 one to three o'clock p. m. This clinic I
will be held in the Reynolds school j
building. j
I The price for this vaccine will be
the same as heretofore, seventy-five
cents for three treatments. This,
i fee goes to our local physicians for
1 their services.
There will positively be no full
treatment started for any applicant j
after the date of the first clinic, |
j We hope that everyone will take
1 advantage of this opportunity of
1 receiving the typhoid vaccine.
SARA WINDHAM, R. N.,
Taylor County Nurse.
as well as install an up-to-date,
modern sewage system.
'The Sinking Fund Commission
wishes to express its appreciation of
the cooperation given it in paying
the past indebtedness and wishes to
assure the public that it will give
its best attention to clearing up the
few more bonds that are to be met
before we are completely out of
debt.
Miss Sarah M. Bledsoe
Dies at Reynolds Mon.
Following Long Illness
Miss Sarah Mae Bledsoe, 78 years
of age, died at the home of her
niece, Mrs. E. T. Shealy, in Reynolds
Monday evening at 9-30 o'clock, af
ter an illness of several months.
Miss Bledsoe, sister of Miss Mat-
tie Bledsoe of Reynolds, was a
daughter of the late Mr. Madison
and Mrs. Delia Dixon Bledsoe of
Macon county. She was born at Mon
tezuma in 1862 and lived there until
a few months ago at which time she
moved to Reynolds. She was a mem
her of the Montezuma Methodist
church.
Funeral services were held at Mrs.
Shealy's residence at three o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. Rev. J. D. Smith
pastor of the Reynolds Methodist
church officiated. He was assisted
by Rev. B. A. Pafford of Montezu
ma. Interment was in Pleasant
Grove cemetery near Reynolds.
Pallbearers were: Messrs O. E.
Ogbum, Leonard Cooper, J. H
Brewer, H. K. Sealy, E. T. Shealy
and Lewis Saunders.
Surviving her is one sister, Miss
Mattie Bledsoe of Reynolds. Goddard
Funeral Home of Reynolds Was in
charge of funeral arrangements.
Cold Damage Is
Heavy To Peach
Crop In Taylor
County Agent Says Other Crops
Suffered Little Damage Result
Of Recent Freeze.
County Agent W. F. Bembry told
a representative of the Herald yes
terday that from all reports the
peach crop in Taylor county had suf
fered a 90 per cent damage from the
recent freeze. The peach crop which
j is normally valued at $50,000 has
I probably suffered damage to the ex-
j tent of $40,000.
; According to the County Agent,
several local farmers tried to save
| their peach crops by keeping fires
i burning in the orchards during the
1 recent freezing weather. This, he
said, proved to be of little value.
Mr. Benny further stated that the
: damage to cotton and other row
I crops was negligible inasmuch as a
; very small percent of the farmers
, had planted these crops. Field crops
! suffering most were beans and peas
planted in early corn and truck crops
such as Irish potatoes, and other
j vegetables.
| The state report is as follows:
Atlanta, April 15.—The U. S. De-
! partment of agriculture said today
the weekend freeze virtually wiped
out Alabama's green bean and cu-
I cumber crops, killed 50 per cent of
all uncovered tomato plants, and
! practically all beans in Mississippi,
and inflicted heavy loss on Tennes-
1 see strawberry growers,
j Beach losses in Georgia, Alabama,
1 Oklahoma and South Carolina were
described as variable. The market-
: ing service predicted Tennessee
would suffer near failure of moat
..commercial orchards, as result of
March and April cold snaps.
1 Green bean losses were set at 40
per cent in Louisiana, with probable
delay of two weeks in shipments,
j In Georgia, the report said, con-
1 siderable damage was suffered by
Hileys at Ft. Valley, but a fair to
good peach crop still was expected
there. Heavier damage was reported
at Thomaston, especially to Hileys
I and Elbertas, and heavy losses were
| sustained at Cornelia,
i North Carolina's peach loss was
listed as considerable, but South
Carolina was said to have prospect
of a good crop despite some loss
near Spartanburg. Alabama pros
pects were listed as reduced to some
extent, while Oklahoma's peach out
look was predicted at about aver
age.
Mrs. Hoke Windham
Awarded $7,000 Verdict
In Death of Her Son
Soldiers Capture
Butler Sunday,
No Damage Done
Frank Windham Is Awarded $1,500
Verdict For* Personal Injuries Troops Fighting Biggest Battle-
Sustained in Unfortunate Affair, j Without-Bullets in History of
Army.
The Macon City Court jury Mon
day awarded Mrs. Hoke Windham a
verdict of $7,000 against W. M. Al
len and Melvin Handley and C. C.
Ray, Paul and P. G. llavenor of the j
Puritan Candy Company for the
death of her son, Jack Windham,
which resulted from a highway ac- i
cident on the streets of Butler July !
3, 1938.
Mrs. Windham sought $25,000 from j
the defendants' charging that her son
was killed when a car owned by the I
Buritan Company, in Allen's custody i
and driven by Handley, struck the
lad while passing through this city.;
Butler as well as a number of
other cities in this section, was cap
tured Sunday and held through
Wednesday by several thousands of
troops of the United States Army,
now encamped at Ft. Benning.
The soldiers moved in Sunday
morning and camped in swamps and
woodland sections a short distance
north of town. Early Monday morn
ing they were joined by several
thousand new troops from other
sections and started, maneuvers
which took them on practically every
highway and side road within a 100
Frank Windham, a younger broth- j mile radius of Butler.
sr of Jack Windham, deceased, who ' Yesterday the soldiers moved on
was injured in the same accident to Southeast Georgia where similar
was awarded a verdict by the Macon maneuvers will continue.
court of $1,500 against the same de
fendants. The youth sought $5,000
charging that he was injured in the
accident in which his brother lost
his life.
Uncle Sam's motorized, fighting
warriors, composed of the stream
line 1st, 5th and 6th Division plus
many additional units of artillery,
aviators, cavalry, tanks and infan-
The Windhams were represented try brought to Benning from far
by Turpin A Lowe while the de- ,
fendants were represented by Mar
tin, Martin & Snow.
Handley, the driver of the automo
bile which struck the two Windham
youths a block west of the court
flung sections of the nation are rid
ing day and night through the wood-
landed sections allotted for their
maneuvers during this week and
next week. Trespass rights have
been secured from many thousand
house square on Highway Three was acres of private land giving these
tried by the Taylor County Superior 1 15,060 soldiers 600 square miles of
Court and charged with involuntary land on which to hold the biggest
manslaughter. He was found guilty ! battle-without-bullets in the history
by the jury Oct. 12, 1938 and sen- ! of the army.
tenced by Judge C. F. McLaughlin | In each of the several battles, last-
to serve two years in the peniten- ■ ing two or three days each respec-
atiry. j tively, a Blue force under Major
Handley was pardoned by Gov. E. 1 General Walter C. Short, is oppos-
D. Rivers after serving only a few • ing a Red “army" under Brigadier
I General Robert O. Van Horn. Each
I problem is different, according to
I high military officials, with some
units being a part of the Blue force
1 in one exercise, later changing to
I the Red side as the problem calls
for. Tin's will involve diversification
j in the separate problems and will
give each side advantage and disad
vantages which they might normally
; expect in war tune,
i These maneuvers are more or less
of a warpi-up training period for
| the large scale army exercises to be
I held in the Sabine Valley area of
Louisiana and Texas during May.
At that time the troops now at Ben-
ningg will be enlarged by more than
25,000 men.
months of his sentence.
Dr. Lester Lightner,
Macon Co. Physician
Dies Friday Morning
Four Butler Persons
Attend World Premier
Of “The Biscuit Eater”
(By Mrs. H. E. Childres)
Through the courtesy of Dr. and
Mrs. L. R. Dean of the Dean The
atre and the Paramount Production
Company, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Payne
Mr. Childres and I had the extreme
pleasure of attending the world
premier of the “Biscuit Eater” which
was held in Albany Thursday of last
week.
The program began Thursday af
ternoon with a magnificent parade
consisting of many beautiful floats
and high school bands. Prizes were
given for the prettiest float and the
best band.
Next we attended the baseball
game between Albany and Amer
icus. Billy Lee, star biscuit eater,
pitched the first ball.
Joe E. Brown, famous movie actor
arrived by plane, first circling over
the diamond and in a few minutes
appearing at the game. He was giv
en such a welcome that the game
was almost stopped.
Immediately following the hall
game were directed out to Radium
Springs where a delicious barbecue
dinner was served to only the mo
tion picture stars, members of the
press, a faw theatre operators and
us, the lucky guests.
Here we saw and heard the movie
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Dr. Lester' iLightner, prominent
Macon county physician died of j
pneumonia at his home in Ideal Fri
day morning. He had been in ill ]
health several weeks.
Dr. Lightner was born in Schley '
:ounty the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eli
Lightner. |
He had practiced medicine in Ideal
and Macon county for the past 30
years, having won a wide and splen- j
did reputation in the medical pro- j
fession. I
Funeral services for him were held
at Iris residence at 10-30 o'clock
Saturday morning. Rev. W. W
Whatley of Oglethorpe, officiated j
Interment was in the Ellaville ceme- |
lerv j Mr. Tommie Carson, 18-year-old
Surviving are: Three brothers, Dr. fl)n of Mr. Wallace Carson and Mrs.
H. G. Lightner of Lexington, Ivy.; Hhea Lyde Carson, died at his home
Dr. J. T. Lightner of Columbus; and j n Decatur, Ala., Tuesday after be-
J. E. Lightner of Ideal; three sis- ,n ff on ' y a ^ ew da y s -
Mr. Tommie Carson
Dies at Decatur, Ala.
Following Short Illness
ters, Mrs. J. W. Nelson Sr., of Ideal;
Miss Mary Lightner of Ideal, and
\Irs. L. B. Brooks of Atlanta.
House Raising to be Held
At New Camp Ground
Thurs. & Fri. April 25-26
Mr. Carson was boro Mlarch 12,
1922, in Decatur, Ala. He was a
grandson of the late Mr. J. T. and
Mrs. Bell Wallace Carson of Butler.
Mr. Carson's unexpected death
which was a sad shock to his many
relatives and friends here occurred
at his grandmother's home in De
catur, Ala.
Funeral services for him were
held at Decatur today-—'Thursday.
He is survived by his parents and
a number of other close relative*
Card of Thanks
The board of trustees for the New
Camp Ground announce that due to and friends,
thebad weather making it impossible j
to get all the logs hauled and cut it!
is necessary to postpone for one
week the house raising which was
previously scheduled for Thursday j Not knowing the donors of the
and Friday, April 18-19. | lovely flowers sent by the citizens of
It is hoped that planting season Butler, the family of Dr. Gordon
will be nearly enough over to allow 1 Alizell wish to express their deep ap-
a goodly number to take part in the predation to each one through the
building of the tabernacle which it is columns of The Butler Herald.
hoped can be erected in the two days ,
set apart. \ LIVESTOCK FOR SALE
The ladies will serve an old-fash-.
ioned dinner on the ground on both I Several good farm mules for sale
days and all who will are invited to at reasonable prices. Also several
come and bring hammer and saw.
Remember the date is Thursday
and Friday, April 25 and 26.
milk cow^ now fresh-in for sale or
exchange for dry cattle. (4112p)
M. A. LIFSEY,, Reynolds, Ga.