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GEORGIA, JUNE 13, 1940.
ocal Happenings
Ouida Turk and Mr. Richard
L [sited Macon Monday.
,, |,; Jarrell and Mrs. Sara
[spent 1 Friday in Macon,
j, [ Harris and Miss Frances
spent Monday in Albany.
T. Jarrard is spending
Mrs. J. W. Edwards has returned
from Atlanta after spending several
clays with her brother, Mr. Jim
I’erkins who is a patient at an At
lanta hospital.
Mrs. F. C. Jarrell, Mrs. Ab Jarrell
and Mrs. W. F. Bembry will be hos
tesses to their Garden Club Wed-
3:30 o'clock,
held at the
flower garden of Mis s Marion
West.
Mrs. Bertha Bazemore left Mon
day for Savannah to attend the fu
neral of her cousin, Mrs. Annie
Waldron. Mrs. Waldron will be re
membered as Miss Annie Werner
who visited Butler quite often before
her marriage.
Among young ladies leaving for
summer school Wednesday were
Miss Elsie Heath, Miss Alice Nell
Amos and Miss Nettie B. Hill for
f'lilledgeville; Mrs. Atholine Saylor
Shelley, Tholmon Jarrell; t£iod Miss Helen Pone for the Univer-
a^ricultural workers, R. L. Jsitty of Georgia.
Chauncey with Mr. and afternoon at
, . The meeting will be
Jarrard.
Walter Suggs will spend Fri-
jlucon the guest of her sister
T. Whitehead.
: an d Mrs. John Lewis spent
I,^ e nd on a delightful trip to
Bulge Mountains.
nd Mrs. C. E. West and Mr.
Vest of Atlanta, were Sunday
of Miss Marion West.
ack Peed, of Otter Creek,
spending several days in
'j5 a. Hollis, Wi'A. Bayne,
j’ | England, W. G Wind
W. F. Bembry, have during
f ew months studied the ag
situation in Taylor county
mit for the public's appn
findings of their studies an
nernlations for improvemen
1. General Agricultural
in this county:
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Riley and
[little daughter, Carolyn, were guests
[of Mr. Riley's mother, Mrs. Alice
Riley, several days last week. They
are now visiting Mrs. Riley's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Slade who
reside near Savannah.
Miss Avinelle Mott spent the
Income is derived in Tayl week end in Butler the guest of her
ty from the following sou if father, Mr. J. C. Mott. She recently
ton, peanuts, poultry anl returned from a trip to Jacksonville
products, naval stores, timb« Beach, Fla., where she was the
es and pecans. j»' guest of Mr. F. H. Haynes and Miss
Our marketing system foij| Eloise Haynes of Columbus,
ther than poultry is typi _
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. H.
B. Walker included: Mr. and Mrs.
John Sorrell and little daughter, Pa
tricia of Montezuma: Mr. and Mrs.
Alton Lipsey and children, Barbara
and Kay of Albany; Mr. and Mrs.
Murry Walker, Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Walker.
compared to the state as!
tut we believe the cooperati
i.d of shipping fresh eggs §
and cooperative buying off
■ something unique. A lo
handles the co-op business;
it at a very reasonable
members tell him what the!
ior his services instead ofa Mrs . T H Cox and dauffhters
the story as is usually the Misses Louise, Erma and Florene of
Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. W. A. Gam-
mage and Miss Miriam Shivers of
Americas were Tuesday guests of
Mrs. J. B. Pennington who is im
proving after an illness of several
weeks.
Weds Mr. Wesley Foy
Credit at the present is
being extended by the
agencies: Banks, productio
association,feed and feed U
security administration, v
men, and merchants. Such
and other advantages liste
might appear ideal to a pei
familiar with our conditiojyijgg p|orie Bailey
Birdie M. Hanson of Wash-,
D. C., after spending several
th her sister, Mrs. F. A.
ft Monday for Columbus The marriage of Miss Florrie Bai-
he will he the guest of her ley, of Americus and Wm. Wesley
Mr. Theo J. McGee, and Foy, of Butler and Morgan took
I place at Bethel Baptist church in
Americus Tuesday at 3 p. m.
The bride-elect was given in
marriage by her father, Chas. N.
Bailee. Mr Fov had as his best
uation exercises at G. S. C. | „, an his bl . other , Dr . G . L . Foy of St
lledgeville, Monday. Miss j Jogeph> Mo .
Miss Bailey selected as her
matron of honor and only attendant,
her cousin, Mrs. James Etheridge, of
Americus.
Ushers were James Etheridge of
Americus and W. R. Latham Jr., of
Dublin.
Nuptial music was furnished
by Mrs. W. T. Maynard, pianist,Mrs.
0, A. Kitchengs of LaGrange and
Mrs. Earl Ellis of Chattanooga, vo
calists. 0. C. Welch Jr., Savannah
and John Beck lighted the candles.
The ceremony was performed
Kev. A. L. McNair, of Alexander
City, Ala
'ara Windham and Miss Wil-
ilsnn of Butler, and Miss
indham of Eliaville attended
rd Windham of Tifton,
hose to graduate from
: t that time.
was
the
guests of Mrs. Bertha
included: Mr. Grover Sal-
5 Mayalene Salzer, Mrs.
and Mr. Charlie Salzer of
Tie, Fla. Mr. Charlie Sal-
ained nv er to spend several
Th relatives and friends in
ail of whom are delighted to
again and to know that he
eond health.
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NATIVE OF BUTLER
IS AGAIN HONORED
DR, H. J. PORTER
Butler, Ga.
HAGGAI URGES THE BUILDING
OF GOD’S HOUSE
Lesson Text: Haggai 1: 2-12
Golden Texth: Let us consider one
another to provoke unto love and
to good works; not forsaking
the assembling of ourselves to
gether, as the manner of some
is. Heb. 10:24-26.
The leading character in our les
son today, Haggai, was the 12th of
twelve minor prophets. Of the man
himself nothing is known. His book
has always been regarded as
conomical. The several dates in it
are all in the second of Darius: i. e.
of Darius Hystaspes B. C. 520. The
prophet aims at inducing the people
without delay to resume the re
building of the temple which had
been begun in the year 535 B. C.,
tlie second year of Cyrus, but had
been discontinued, owing to the Sa
maritans and other opposition.
The Message
The story that we have .for our
consideration comes to us from the
old days but has a vital message for
ua today.
About the vear 536 fifty thousand
Jews returned from Babylon to Je
rusalem. The distance from Babylon
to Jerusalem was about 600 miles
and took several weeks of travel to
make the trip. When they got back
to Jerusalem they found that the
city of Jerusalem was in complete
ruins. Not one thing had been done
in the way of rebuilding it since it
was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzer
fifty years before. When they ar
rived they set about rebuilding their
homes that had been destroyed.
They worked at this for several
months. Then the rebuilt the altar
and rekindle the sacrificial fires.
They then made an offering toward
rebuilding the temple which amount
ed to $400,000. This will give us
some idea how magnificent a build
ing the temple must have been.
The foundation for the new tem
ple was laid with great ceremony in
May 535 B. C. The Samaritans at
this time proposed to help rebuild
the temple if they would he permit
ted to worship in it. This request
was refused and as a result the Sa
maritans then did everything in
t Heir power to hinder and delay the
construction. In this manner the
work was hindered for fourteen
years.
Haggai
I n the year 520 B. C. Haggai and
Zechariali stirred up the people in
the holy cause. In four years then
the building was completed. Truly
they were now a happy people in
the tabernacles of God.
The Second Temple
In cost and magnificence the sec
ond temple was surpassed by the
temple that Solomon built. It was
also surpassed by the temple that
Herod built. But we can say for the
captives they did their best, and the
job they did shines down through
the ages until the present day.
Neglecting Worship
Judging from what Haggai had to
say to the people they were interest
ed in their own material gain be
fore they were sufficiently aroused
to start the work on the temple.
They had become indifferent about
the house of God. They built fine
houses for themselves while the
temple lay in waste. At this time it
was very important that a temple
of worship be built if an adequate
natioanl religious life was to be
From Columbus Enquirer: I maintained. As there was no een-
ln view of the splendid service that] tralized political government it was
Then J McGee has rendered in ca- j doubly important that a central re-
pacitv of chairman of the Columbus i ligious establishment hold in bonds
Authority, it was not ; of unity all the people. It would
Housing
| surprising that members of the board
reelected him to that post.
In this city there are two of the
finest slumclearance projects in the
entire nation, construction work hav-
mean much to the people to have a
central place of worship that they
could turn to. If they could not have
such a center it would mean for
them gradual religious destruction
One thing that shines
ing been inaugurated during the past : an ddetay
12 months on both the white and ne- I forth is the fact that life in general
lias not been satisfactory with the
gro apartments.
Families already are
the negro buildings in
part of the city, while marked prog
ress is being made on the white
units in the northern section.
The local achievements in the con-
residing in
the southern
Jews and Haggai emphasizes the
fact that their lives will not be sat
isfactory so long as they do not re
spect religion and respond to its dic
tates.
Most of the lesson today deals with
struction of low cost housing units the punishment which God deals out
reflects much credit upon the board ( to the Jews for their neglect. He
of which Mr. McGee is chairman. He i shows the people that they have not
vvor |{ e d untiringlv in his efforts 1 prospered. There had been dry spells
ir’behalf 0 f slum clearance here and and crop failure. When we wilfully
i,; s re election to the chairmanship neglect public worship it is a serious
of the authority is highly merited. matter. The longer one neglects his
Each I)er3 on connected with the' worship the ess he is inclined to
puthoritv and its work has done a worshiu. In regard to public worship
good job and deserves the thanks of there is ajiutythat falls upon the
the community.
minister. It is up to them to make
PAGE BEVinr
public worship vital and worthwhile.
Then there is a responsibility that
(alls upon the layman. He can co
operate with the minister with their
prayers, presence, and financial sup
port. To say the least of it, it was a
stupenduous undertaking to rebuild
the temple in Haggai's time. It may
have been thru laziness that they
did not push the temple work any
more than ihey did. We know that
Haggai insisted on their going to
work. Timbers .’or the building had
to he brought from the mountains of
Lebanon. When the logs were trans
ported to Jeruss em they then had
to be hewn into building lumber by
hand. They had no such modern ma
chines in that day as vve have today.
But we note that in spite of the
slow way of preparing the timbers
it was done, l'nis preparation went
on for about our or four and a half
years.
Then in .12u B. C. they started the
rebuilding of the temple and com
pleted it in r 15 B. The event was
celebrated with great joy and elabo
rate sacrifices.
In this day if a church is to be
at its best it must have a suitable
church edifice, rhere is nothing that
can bind a community closer to
gether than wo'king together in a
common place of worship. When the
members of a church get behind a
project in a spirit of co-operation
there is joy in completing a project.
When any one has a part in erecting
a church he feels a special interest
in that church.
Blessings of Public Worship
As a usual thing the building of a
new church is attended with a new
interest in things spiritual. A re
vival is very likely to start at the
dedication of a new church. Haggai
tells us, “from this day will I bless
you.” In any line of endeavor there
is a reward that awaits its comple
tion. This applies to things spirit
ual as well as things temporal. We
would not work if we had no hope
of a reward. A merchant would not
sell goods if he had no hopes of a
dividend. A farmer would not sow if
he had no hope of a harvest. We
would not tell others about the com
forts of religion if we did not gain
a peace of mind of a job performed.
Public worship will always he a
source of inspiration for those who
participate. It will help us to grow
in grace and a knowledge of the
Lord.
Wishing for Public Worship
In Psalms 84:1-5 we find these
words, “how sacred are thy taber-
racles oh Lord of hosts; my soul
longeth, yea even fainteth for the
courts of the Lord; my heart and my
flesh crieth out for the living God.
Yea the sparrow hath found an
house and the swallow a nest for
herself, where she may lay her
young, even thine altars, oh Lord of
hosts, my King and my God. Bless
ed are they that shall dwell in thy
house in whose hearts are the ways
of thine.”* In these words we find
that it is not merely a duty to attend
upon the ordinances and worship of
th e house of God, but it is a bless
ed privilege. It is a privilege that
carries with it a reward for its con-
sumation.
Tlie man who wrote these words
evidently attended the public worship
in the house of God which was the
church. Attendance and heeding of
the teaching of the church is not
only a comfort for us here, but also
has a reward in the future existence.
Man's greatest pleasure in this life
is an assurance that he will have
eternal life beyond this existance.
The hope of the eternal reward is
th greatest healing balm ever ap
plied to the worries and anxieties of
htis world. It is always a safe an
chor in the time of storms. It mat
ters not how rough the seas of life
become or how bad our frail harks
are buffeted about on it, there is al- -
ways a safe harbor in our hope of
eternal life that we may lay hold of.
Go to Church
Why should we go to church?
Listen to these words from the
Psalmist, “I was glad when they
said unto me let us go unto the
house of the Lord, our feet shall
stand within thy gates, O Jerusa
lem,” assuring us that it will he a
pleasure to go to church. We would
not think of not having a physical
home here; a place where we could
gt for rest and protection from
worldly cares. If we have this home
why not also be assured of an eter-
nat home in the sky.
A man's mind may be likened to a
garden which may be cultivated or
allowed to run wild. Whether culti
vated or neglected, it must and will
bring the harvest. If no useful seeds
are put into it, then an abundance
of useless weed-seeds will fall into
the mind and continue to produce
thejr kind. This is a mental law no
human can dare ignore.
Miss. Lowe Weds
Mr. Jas. W. Jordan
In Buena Vista Thurs.
Dignity and simplicity marked the
wedding of Miss Sarah Kathryn Lowe
and James Weaver Jordan, which
was solemnized at a beautiful cere
mony Thursday p. m. at 5 o'clock at
tlie home o'" the bride's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. R. Lowe in Buena
Vista.
Rev. C. W. Jordan, of Louisville,
Ky., reud the impressive marriage
service before a gathering of rela
tives and intimate friends.
An altar was improvised in the
living room before the mantle and
it was here the wedding vows were
made. Against a background of
green were pedestal baskets holding
white Easter lilies and flanking the
altar were candelabra in which burn
ed cathedral candles.
A program of nuptual music was
presented by Miss Jeanette Blanton
of Columbus, who sang All For You,
I Love You Truly. John Lowe of
Buena Vista, played The (Sweetest
Story Ever Told on the violin. Mrs.
B. T, Rainey, of Buena Vista, played
the wedding march and during the
ceremony played To the Evening
Star.
Tlie attractive bride, entering with
her father G. R. Lowe, wore a model
of navy blue sheer crepe with a pic
ture hat and other accessories in
white. Her corsage was of gardenias
and valley lilies. She was met at the
altar by the groom and his best man
Frank Jordan ot Talbotton.
Little Arlene Jacobs, of Talbotton
was the bride's only attendant. She
was the flower girl and wore a white
mousselin dress and carried a nose
gay of garden flowers.
Following the ceremony the bride's
parents entertained woth an informal
reception, after which the bridal par
ty attended a buffet supper at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Jordan in
Talbotton. Mr. Jordan and his bride
left for a short trip after which they
will be at home in Talbotton.
Among the out of town guests
were Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jordan and
daughter, Louisville, Ky.; Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Jordan Jr., and son of
Vicksburg, Miss.; John Jordan ot
SHOWS FOR WEEK
AT DEAN THEATRE
Sunday and Monday: ‘'Broadway
Melody of 1940." Streamlined and
stur studded, gay and glittering,this
is probably the best musical yet
turned out by M-G-M under the
Broadway Melody title. Three such
talented principals as Fred Astaire
Eleanor Powell and George Murphy
have never before united in one re-
hide, and Leo, digging deep into hia
coffers to showcase their talents, is
sure to please. It is big, spectacular
and Astaire, faring tougher Terpsi-
chorean competition than ever befora
in films, comes off the winner with
some brilliantly skillful footwork
but relinquishes the acting honors
to Murphy who is also a splendid
dancer.
Wednesday and Thursday: “Wuth-
ering Heights," is a stark grim dra
ma of destroying love and unrelents
ing hatred. Those who have appre
ciation for the finer shading of dra
matic interpretation will acclaim it
as a triumph for Samuel Goldwyn
and his aides. Merle Oberon rises to
new heights as a dramatic actres3
while the difficult part played by
Oliver, is of comparable calibre.
David Niven, Donald Crisp and oth
ers in supporting cast.
Friday and Saturday; Preston
Foster and Ann Dvorik in, “Cafe
Hostess." Also Jack Randall in
"Overland Mail”
Natchcez, Miss; Mrs. T.R. Persons,
Henry Persons,, Mr. an d Mrs W.K.
Couch Sr., Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Jacob
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Jordan, Miss Mary Slade, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Mahone, Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Hobbs, Dr. and Mrs. Jack
Bardwell, Miss Mary Mathews, H.
Malone and Miss Fannie Mahone,
all of Talbotton; Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Nolan, Montgomery, Ala; Mrs. Al
bert Jackson, Columbus; Mr. and
Mrs. G. R. Lowe Jr., Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Smith, Marcus Lowe, Miss
Hannah Whatley, of Columbus; Mrs
J. F. Stevens, of Newnan; Mrs. R.
B. McDaniel, Griffin; Mrs. Dalton
Gandy, of Pelham; Mrs. E. J. Hart
Mr. and Mrs. James Hart and daugh
ter of Eliaville.
DEAN
THEATRE
BUTLER, GA
Sunday and Monday, June 16-17
Sunday Shows 2-4-8:45 o'clock.
ELEANOR POWELL - FRED ASTAIRE
Broadway Melody of 1940
Mrs. Mattie Parker
j Wednesday and Thursday, June 19-20 f
( Mat. Thurs. 3 o'clock Night Shows 7:30-9 1
LAWRENCE OLIVIER I
I Wuthering Heights I
j
Mrs. Elmer Gav
Friday and Saturday, June 21-22
Fri. Night Shows 7:30 & 9:30 Sat. Shows Continues From 1:30 to 11:00
PRESTON FOSTER - ANN DVORIK In
CAFE HOSTESS
i JACK RANDALL In |
! OVERLAND MAIL j
| J. F. Helms 2
Wm. A. LEONARD
Candidate For
Judge Superior Courts
Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARY SEPTEMBER 11, 1940
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