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The Butler Herald KEEPING everlastingly at it is the SECRET OP SUCCESS” pE ® 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.