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The Butler Herald
KEEPING everlastingly at it is the SECRET OP SUCCESS”
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BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1940
NUMBER 3.
Ur County Draft Board Sends
t Questionnaires to Fifty Seven
Ljstrars, Fourteen Are Volunteers
{Volunteers Placed at Top of
|s( and Will, No Doubt, Fill
lounty’s Quota.
H, K. Scaly, Clerk of the Tay-
Draft board announced
that questionnaires have
1 sen t out to the 14 young men
| ntcers and the persons holding
j first 43 order numbers in the
L making a total of 57 ques-
mjires mailed out.
I]1 of these questionnaires must
IfiUed nut with pen and ink and
Kack in the hands of the local
i on or before Saturday of this
|k.
, board has not been advised
r many men Taylor county will be
led upon to furnish in the first
Thus far twelve men have vol-
leered for a year's training in the
IS. Army. Perhaps this number
1 cover the county's first call.
|he order in which the first 57
Ktionnaires were mailed out are
I follows:
Volunteers: Sam Coolik, Reynolds;
Troutman, Charing; Woodrow
|kon, Mauk; Norman J. Peacock,
k; Floyd W. Averett, Mauk; Jim-
Duuster, Reynolds; Phillip Wil-
, Butler; Little Bivins. Butler;
■on Boyd Byrd, Butler; Aleck
ms, Reynolds; Ulmer Stevens,
|tler; Dillard Spillers, Butler; A. A
lodworth, Reynolds; Earnest Dent,
■ynolds.
iForty-three registrants t > whom
kstionnaires were mailed Monday:
Irry Lee Gibson, Butler; Geo'ge W.
lady, Reynolds; Bernaid S. Wain-
Iririit, Reynolds; Jessie Lee Few,
lupert: Wri. Frank Waljt Wright,
lutler; Joe R. Russeli, Butler; Flzie
1 Ogburn, Rupert, Emory F. Seay,
kitler; Ia>ster Coleman, Reynolds;
(aft Smith, Butler; Eugene Dent
leynolds; James A. Carpenter, Ru-
|m; John H Wacter, Roberta; Willie
McDougald, Butler; Edmund
leath, Rupert; James R Rogers, Ru-
prt; Ernest Manghram, Rupert;
■elton Hobbs, Howard; Walter M
paters, Charing; John H Duncan,
lutler; R. Swain Theus, Butler;
Jester Lippett, Reynolds; Clarke
pdson, Butler; Huey L. Heath, Ru-
W’illiam Raley, Butler, James
Dennard Rutler; Albert Heath,
llupert; Curlie Gray, Butler; Stan-
|"td J. Mathis, Reynolds; C Jesse
«reet, Butler; Albert Leonard, But-
k r ; Albert Lee Ranow, Butler; Shel-
p Turner, Reynolds; Charlie Lee
arnton, Rupert; Henry P. Jarrell
putler; Willie C. Hodges, Butler;
Itoi. Paul Smith, R.,tlcr; Cecil J.
(Juore, Butler; Nau.-v E. Garrett,
Butler; Gorden L. Blaxton, Puller;
bforge Carter. Reynolds; Forrest
bailey, Butler; Felton Gaultney, But-
lims Land Title Case
Argued at Columbus
More Judge Palmer
Columbus, Nov. 11—Petition for
injunction accounting, etc., by For-
Mims, John Mims and Dawson
Mims against M. A. Lifsey, E. J.
Mints and Dekle Funeral home of
Cordele, was argued at length before
J «dge Geo. C. Palmer here Saturday
d taken under consideration. The
petition was filed in Taylor superior
r °urt, where most of the plaintiffs re
side.
Petitioners seek to have deeds to
acres of land in Taylor county
known as the Emanuel Aultman
I'luce, formerly owned and occupied
•' -Mrs. Ella Mims, declared void and
cancelled. Petitioners show that Mrs
Klla Mims died June 24, 1908 and
" ils in possession of the lands at that
>'me but held ony a life interest
herein.
hhe petitioners seek cancellation
“ f deeds to E. J. Mims and M. A.
•ifsey of Cordele and by them to the
ekle Funeral home to secure fu-
“eral expenses of $300. Plaintiffs are
^presented by Homer and Dan Bee-
la »d of Reynolds and Gilbert Robin-
s ° n , °f Montezuma, as counsel and
defendants by C. W. Foy of Butler.
Husband of Former
Butler Lady Is Victim
Of Plane Crash in Ala.!
One Killed Here
In Auto-Train
Wreck Last Night
Miss Mary Sams, of Thomaston
Crushed to Death; Mr. J.
Rogers Slightly Injured.
W.
and
Georgia Baptist
Hold Three-Day
Meet In Macon
Ministers and Laymen Gather in
Central City Tuesday; Meeting
Closes at Noon Today.
_ . . „ . Miss Mary Sams, of Bremen ......
Mrs. Beniamin F. Avera, the for- ti . , . ,
... _ ... , ’ Thomaston, about 27 years of age,
.er Miss Geraldine Louise Jones H - as instantly killed and her com .
augi er o . r. an rs. Campbell p 6n j on> Mr. James Willard Rogers, |
iMaeon, Nov. 33—Baptist ministers
and laymen from churches through
out the state arrived in Macon Mon-
Butler And Reynolds Pastors,
Rev. Gilbert And Rev. Smith,
Returned to Respective Churches
Taylor County Chapter
American Red Cross
To Open Roll Call
Jones of Athens and widely known in 23> of ’Thomaston, was only slightly j n 'K ht for the annual sessions of
Lutler, received a War Department in j ured in an automobile-train col- ! the Borgia Baptist convention at
message Monday informing her of |j K j on here at 10:45 o'clock last ! the First Baptist church in that city,
the death of her husband in an air- 1 night. I Dr. Ellis Fuller, pastor of First
plane crash in Alabama. | ^ coup , e were enroute to Butlel Baptist church in Atlanta, retiring
Her husband, Lt. Benjamin F. Av- from Thomaston on highway No. 3. ' convention president, is in charge,
ery, was identified as one of three The automobile was struck in center Election of new officers and adoption
persons who perished when an Army the Central of Georgia passenger ' of a convention program headed the
plane crashed into a hillside and lrain No- 4 traveling east from Co-j business hou1 ' Tuesday,
burned in a rainstorm near Center- i um b U s toward Macon. The car, driv- j Dr. F. S. Porter, pastor of First
viUe, Ala., Sunday night. He was en k y Mr. R 0 g erS) W as a 1934 V-8 j Baptist church in Columbus deliver-
identified from a pilot s license which coupe hearing a Ga. license plate No. ed the convention sermon at noon
listed him as a native of Aurora, N. A-56-876 and wa s dragged down the Tuesday. During the afternoon Dr. J.
V. Identification papers of the other tracks for approximately 150 feet be-
two were burned. fore being tossed into a gully on the
Lt. Avery, however, was one of . north side of the tracks,
three men who left Atlanta earlier I The rainy, hazy weather was
for Montgomery. The others were Lt thought to have been responsible for
R. R. Wilson of Ft. Riley, Kas., and the unfortunate accident.
Private G A. Catlin of Maxwell Field. | Neither of the occupants were
Authorities at Ft. Riley said Wil- thrown from the car by the impact,
son and Avery left there ten days ago Mr. Rogers was able to climb from
on a training trip. the wreckage with the assistance of ble drill and competed with a team
Before the message was received spectators who witnessed the acci- j from Macon.
Mts. Avery's family had been in dent. The body of Miss Sams was , Robert Guy of Atlanta, is the
doubt as to the identification of the pinned under the car, and required convention song leader and Lee Wood
JiUN
The 1940-41 Roll Call of the Tay
lor County Chapter American Red
Cross will be launched here next
week with an even higher goal set
than reached last
year. The drive
will continue thru
Nov. 30.
The local chap
ter is composed
of the following
officers; Miss Me
lissa 0 g burn
County Chairman;
Mr. Hugh Neisler, Roll Call chair
man; Mrs. J. H. Neisler, Secretary;
Mrs. F. A. Ricks, Treasurer; Mrs.
Den S. Persons and Mrs. H. H. Ri
ley, Co-Chairmen; and Mrs. Betty
delegates at- j Whatley, Special Gifts Chairman.
REIHMDSS
wreck victim.
Lt. Avery and Miss Jones were
married in Athens less than a mouth
ago.
several minutes before it could be
(reed from the wreckage. |
Miss Sams has made her home in
Thomaston for the past few years
where she was connected with the
W. Merritt, convention executive sec
retary-treasurer made his annual re
port.
Approximately 800
tended the meetings which continual The chairman states that the
througii Thursday noon. Tuesday business firms and organizations en-
night four Baptist Traning Union j ro Hed almost one hundred per cent
members from Park Avenue church j | ast vea r and it is hoped that they
in Atlanta came to Macon for a Bi- , w jh do even better this year.
The county chapter is one of the
most active Red Cross organizations
i n the state and always receives the
support of local citizens.
of Macon, organist.
Mrs. Avery is a niece of Mrs. W., Upson County Welfare office.
J. Butler of this city.
Georgia Must Furnish
Only 412 Men For First
Draft Officials Announce
| Mr. Rogers is the son of Mr. D.
j Rogers, Chief of Police of Thomas
ton. He was connected with Half-
' Way Service Station in this county
until about a year ago. At present
I he is connected with the Stephens
Neighborhood Service Station in
' Thomaston.
I The young lady's body was
: turned to Thomaston by
• last night.
Dr. Thomas Retires
From Ministerial Service
Locates At Tennille
It will be most gratifying to the
many friends in this section of Dr.
J. A. Thomas, well known Methodist
minister, and Mrs. Thomas, the for-
ambulance mer Miss Nell Morgan of Americus,
to learn that .following Dr. Thomas'
Atlanta.—Fourth corps army head . . .
quarters here announced Tuesday Funeral arrangements have not, retirement lorm active^ ministerial j
that 3,283 men in the eight states in been announced,
the area would be called by Dec. 13 | -■■
for a year of military training under
the selective service law.
Of these 967 will be negroes.
The number of men to be con
scripted from each state, with whites
listed first and negroes second, fol
lows
Alabama, 313 and 134; Florida, 242
and 99; Georgia, 286 and 126; Louisi-
ana, 306 and 156; Mississippi, 228 and E en Persons of Butler was appointed . easions,^ or purely social call. He was
183; North Carolina, 390 and 123; g^ond Lieutenant and assigned * * * r "‘ ,u "" A
service as a member of the South
■ Georgia conference, they are to oc
cupy a splendid home at Tennille the
J gift of a devoted friend of the cou
ple.
While pastor of St. Luke, Colum-
. _ ...... . j I bus, on two separate occasions, or a
At Ga. Military Academy I total of ten years of outstanding ser-
I vice at this church Dr. Thomas was a
i frequent visitor to Butler either as
Cadet Ben Persons, son of Mrs.' speaker or minister on special oc-
Cadet Ben Persons
Appointed 2nd Lieutenant j
to a memiber of the Rotary Club and
South Carolina, 126 and 69; Tennes- Co. D bv recet special orders issued j other civic organizations while sew-
see 896 and 77. bv the office of the Professor of ing the St. Luke pastorate and com
The reception centers to which the Military Science and Tactics, Col. D. ducted the first Armistice memorial
men will be sent for preliminary m. Scott, Georgia Military Academy service in Columbus whicn was plan
training were announced as (all College Park- i ,led and carri?d out by Dt , and Mr , s '
ivhites unless otherwise indicated): ) Cadet Persons is a member of the Thomas in 1919 at Luke church.
Fort Barncas, 122; Fort Blanding West Point-Annapolis Preparatory! Dr. Thomas cone.odes nis many
G2- Fort Bragg, 390 whites and 484 c i ass a nd has' attended G. M. A. since years of mi.-.V.e-ial service with
negroes; F t. McPherson, 477; Fort September, 193S. four years of suceewSal pastorate
Oglethorpe, 395; Fort Shelby 564, Lt. Persons' interests lie not only, at Pelham.
whites and' 483 negroes; and Fort j n m ilitar science but in various oth- i •
Jackson 126. er activities. He has for the past two j
These quotas represent the first years taken an active part in public Damage 01 Tire 10
batch of the Fourth Corps area's speaking and debating and year be-
share of some 800,000 trainees
will foe
June 15.
who fore last won the oratory medal fo- Atlanta Auditorium Is
by an undergraduate during the Estimated At $800,000
regular commencement exercises. I
Cadet Persons is planning to enter i
one of the national academies on I Atlanta, Nov. 12—All available fire
complying with the regulations
Forty-Page Issue
Contains Section
About Ft. Benning
The Columbus Enquirer of yester
day published the following impor
tant frontpage announcement to its
many reader?:
“The Fnqui-er today presents a 43
page edition including a 24-page
22nd anniversary section on Ft. Ben
ning.
“In addittion to the many articles
and pictures in the special section,
there are several columns about Fort
Benning in the regular section.
‘^Subscribers would preserve much
valuable information about the great
military post if the should put aside
today's issue after reading it.’
Evangelistic Services
At Bethel C. M. Church
Next Thursday, Nov. 21
Thanksgiving services will be held
next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at
Bethel P. M. church. The day will be
spent in praise and thqjiksgiving un
to God for the blessings He has be
stowed since last Thanksgiving Day.
Everyone is invited to come. Serv
ices begin at ten o'clock Thursday
morning and continue as the Lord
directs throughout the day.
REV. HUGH DOZIER,,
LOCAL PASTOR, RECUPERATING
FROM APPENDIX OPERATION
SILVERTOWN QUARTET
COMING TO RUPERT SCHOOL
AUDITORIUM NOV. 15
Rev. G. N. Rainey, Re-appointed
District Supt.; Former Presiding
Elder Outler Retires.
Rev. F. J. Gilbert and Rev. J. D.
Smith, pastors of Butler and Rey
nolds Methodist churches, respect
ively, were returned to their churches
for another year by officials of the
.South Georgia Methodist Conference
which was held in Savannah last
week.
Rev. G. N. Rainey, Superintendent
of the Columbus District was also
returned to his post for the ensuing
year.
Rev. and Mrs. Gilbert and their
son, Emory, returned to Butler Mon
day where they were greeted with a
most cordial welcome by their many
friends.
Rev. Gilbert has served the Butler
Howard charge for one year.Everyone
hopes that the coming year will be
pleasant and successful as the past
year.
Rev. Gilbert will conduct services
at the local Methodist church next
Sunday morning and evening.
Rev. Smith has served as pastor of
the Reyholds Crowell charge during
the past two years. He, like Rev.
Gilbert, has won the admiration of
the people of this section.
Rev. Smith's many friends also
wish for him a most successful year
as pastor of the Reynolds-Crowell
charge.
Two years ago Rev. Rainey suc
ceeded Rev. J. M. Outler who re
turned f rom the conference this
year as Presiding Elder of the Co
lumbus district last year the name
of the office was changed to Dis
trict Superintendent. Rev. Rainey was
re-appointed to this position for an
other year.
The Reynolds-Crowell charge is
located in the Macon district and
will have as their District Superin
tendent Rev. Silas Johnson.
Being unable to give the com
plete list of appointments we ars
publishing ibelow the list of ap
pointments in the Columbus, Macon
and Americus Districts, these affect
ing appointees of most interest to
the people of this immediate sec
tion:
Columbus District
G. N. Rainey, district superintend
ent; Buena Vista, A B. Wall; Butler
F. J. Gilbert; Cusseta, W. H. Hill;
Cuthbert, C. R. McKibben; Columbus
Earline Avenue, J. W. MoGehee; East
Highlands, J. N. Shell; Hamp Stev
ens, J E. Barnhill; Pierce, R. J.
Ellerbee; Rose Hill, N. M. Lovein;
St. Luke, J. S. Cook; St. Mark, W.
M. Flanders; St. Paul, K. H Mc
Gregor; Wynnton, J Lytle Jones.
Dawson, W. H. Ketchum; Fort
Gaines, W. B. Cheshire; Lumpkin
W. W. Whaley; Marion circuit, T. E
Pickern; Midland circuit, J. E.
Buchanan; Parrott, N. F. Champion
Pine Mountain Valley, B. M. Ketch-
ersid; Richland, C. W. Jordan; Shell-
man, G. G. Ramsey; Springvale, R.
(Turn to Page 8; No. 1)
Hosts of friends here of Rev. Hugh
set apparatus in Atlanta was called early Dozier, pastor of the Butler Baptist
forth. Cadet Persons has been an ex- Tuesday to combat a blaze in the city
bodv is cordially invited to cellent student during the time he auditorium that apparently started
the "si’lvertown Quartet in con- has attended Georgia Military Aca- in the headquarters of the 179th Field
t ■ t 'the Ruuert school auditorium demy, his name appearing on the j Artillery there,
i ret at f a( . r._ 3( j Aag i e r 0 |[ om numerous occasions, j Col. T. L. Alexander, commanding
triday evening, ^ ^ The Eajf ] e r 0 ]| j s a list fo those 1 officer said between $150,000 and
o:30 o'c oc . c ' arniva i w hich will students who have attained the high- ! 8200,000 in army equipment was on
sure to see after the con- est excellence in scholarship, and is the third floor.
111 ‘ ‘ (Adv.) considered one of the outstanding | Four alarms were sounded.
come mi
cert.
honors offered at G. M. A.
Slightly used Upright Piano near
here will sell at bargain. Cash or
terms. Write Durden Piano Company
Station “C
Georgia.
SEE “THE LIFE OF CHRIST”
AT CENTRAL SCHOOL HOUSE
NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT
The $1,000,000 building was recent
ly remodeled. A section of the roof
had caved in during repairs, necessi
tating that portion of the work being
done a second time.
church, will be gratified to learn that
he is well on the road to recovery
following an appendicitis operation
two weeks ago at the Georgia Bap
tist hospital in Atlanta from which
institution he was able to be trans
ferred several days ago to his
home at Ellaville.
DINNERS’ REPORT
PIANO FOR SALE i -tuc MPE OF CHRIST” I had caved in durinir reDairs. necessi-I There were 6,678 bales of cotton
ginned in Taylor county from the
crop of 1940 prior to Nov. 1, as
The entire front end of the huge ' commpared with 7,677 bales for the
1B4 Atlanta.; “The Life of Christ” the world's | building was burning as the flames j crop of 1939.
1!ox °' ’ n’7’8t) ! greatest Passion Play, a two-houi , shot high into the hazy air and 1
__ j motion picture in semi-sound, to be j lighted the. city with a red glow, j A number ,\f local Baptists and
• 1 o,oc orres of land 1 shown at Central school building
, For rent or sale 326 acres ofU^ , at 8 _„ ;clock ._ |
at Ideal, Ga., known as
u u™. Place. Address: Mrs. | Proceeds w
Hi. Minor, Care Tire MaconJhoe ( distd>urch ;
Macon, Ga. (UMi^j
Proceeds will go to Union Metho-
A. M
Company
Admission: 10c and 20c.
The building seating 5,200 persons friends of that denomination have
was the scene last December of the planned to attend the 119th annual
grand ball held in connection with the Bession of the Georgia Baptist con-
premiere of the motion picture, Gone vention in Macon yesterday and to*
with the Wind. day.
Rev. E. M. Palmer
Conducts Services Sun.
At Local Baptist Church
A special Armistice Day program
was conducted at the morning
preaching hour at the Baptist church
here Sunday.
Rev. E. M. Palmer of Ellaville, con
ducted the services in absence of Re*
Hugh Dozier who recently under
went an operation at the Georgia
Baptist hospital in Atlanta. The lat
est reports from Rev. Dozier are to
the effect that he is improving rap
idly and will soon be able to fill hia
appointments again.
Rev. Palmer, besides being an or
dained minister, is superintendent of
the Ellaville high school.
A special musical program by the
Butler choir under the direction of
Mrs. J. W. Edwards I, added much
to the special service.