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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 5, 1842.
MEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Gov. Talmadge Wednesday pro
claimed Nov. 8-14 as American Ed
ucation Week in Georgia.
Claude Purcell, former superin
tendent of schools of Habersham
‘county, has been appointed super
intendent of school transportation
■ Cor the state department of educa
tion, M D. Collins, state school
head announced Monday.
Smithville Youth Is
Fatally Burned While
Trying To Start Fire
Amerlcus, Oct. 31—Burns received
Laurens County Farmer
Is Held For Slaying
Policeman At Cadwell
Dublin, Ga., Nov. 1—Deputy Shcr-
Saturday at his home in Smithville iff d. B. Wilkes said today that ot clQ xten, Ga., has been elected
proved fatal to Billy Jessup in an Blanton Mullls, 30-ycar-old Laurens traveling agent for the Methodist
Amerlcus hospital Saturday after-' county farmer, was being held 'n! Homo ln Macon, C. B. Jones, chair-
noon. Billy, 11, was attempting to j county Jail hero in connection with man of tho local board announced
build a fire In the kitchen stove, the fatal stabbing late Saturday
using keroMne when the liquid ex- night of Police Chief Joseph E. Fen-
Ploded, the flames burning all the ne n 0 f Cadwell. 17 miles south-
clothes from his body. i west of Dublin.
In grammar school, Billy was a I Wilkes said Mullls was taken into
favorite among children and adults, custody at hls home ln cadwell late
this afternoon on the basis of test!-
parents, Mr-1 mony at a coroner's inquest held
alike.
Survivors are the
and Mrs. J. L. Jessup of Smithville;' FcnneU was* found*dead, “ace
wo sisters, Clifford and Nell and down In a ditch near* Carwell
two brothers, Jack and Tom. shortly after midnight.
Knight
Small Arkansas Town
Hit By Tornado; 27
Killed; 200 Injured
shortly after midnight,
Witnesses, Coroner O. B,
Approximately 18,000 fuel oil
'dealers, Including small store-
Tho peanut crop, one of the largest keepers who sell kerosene, must
in many years, has about been har- register ln the OPA rationing pro-
vested and sold in South Georgia gram in Georgia. Dealers in At-
with prices considered fairly good, lanta and the rest of the state ex-
jeept the Savannah district will
Dr. H. M. Belflower, Syracuse phy- register next Monday and Tues-
Bician Monday was taken to Adams day.
hospital in Cordele, where he Is ,, , , _ _
seriously ill, after having suffered I Kentucky Buzzard, the Georgia
* stroke of paralysis. i c ? a ,D p , io ^ 0 ^ ed J ,y C ' D ‘ Prescot
J of Wrightsville, Ga., was crowned
Nearly two hundred divorce cases national field champion of the Na-
and more than thirty alimony cases tional Fox Hunters Association as
appeared on the docket of the Mus- I he organization ended Its 49th
cogce superior court which con- annual meeting in Kentucky Sat-
vened at Columbus Monday. i urday. The hound finished first in
'a starting group of 181 dogs which
Tho Muscogee county jail at Co- took to the field last Thursday in
lumbus, and not the Eatonton jail,. the all-age chase.
^!!!,v h 3 1 A memorial service for Private
meriy kept in Macon, U. S. Mar- nm CIass Wm L SanderSi flrst
slial F. B. Doyel said Monday. Cordc j e Marine to give hls life in
Rev. R. H. Forrester, who recent- World War II, was held Sunday af-1 ———
ly resigned the pastorate at the ternoon at t he First Methodist I Berryville, Ark., Oct. 30—At least
Newton Baptist church, has with- church, of which he was a mem- 27 persons were killed, and more:
drawn hls resignation and has ber. Private Sanders, 20-year-old than 200 injured, many critically, i
consented to serve for another year son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Sanders by a tornado that levelled more
of that city was officially reported than half of this town of 1,485 pop-
J. Q. Adams, Vienna, was elected missing | n action in the Solomon ulatlon, catching most of the vie-
president of the Middle Georgia i s | ands ln September, and his death j tims in bed. ,
Electric Corporation at a meeting in has now been confirmed by a sur- Approximately 25 were Injured f\t MafrlwiAttlkl I
Vienna and John Turner, Hawkins- V i V j ng feiiow-Marine. At the time when a railway station collapsed, Ul rlaTrlillOniCll LIlC
-ville, was chosen vice president. | he was repor ted missing in action, The town's three doctors and lone.
Desol to the oDDOsltion of State ! the War Department requested that mortuary were swamped. The pow- Macon Nov 1—Declaring she
Schoof Superintendent M. D. Col-'name of his ship be witheld.Since does not wish to become a feed
Jins, the state board of education [hen, official
met yesterday and adopted school ( been roade
Rev John S. Lough
Succeeds Rev. Smith As
Agent For Orphans Home
Macon, Nov. 1—Rev. J. S. Lough
Saturday.
Mr. Lough will succeed Rev. J. A.
Smith, agent for 31 years who Is
beln superannuated this year under
laws of the church.
A. C. Durden was re-elected su
perintendent.
The general board of trustees re
elected tho following officers of the
board at a reent meeting: Rev. C.
W. Curry, Savannah, president; C.
B. Jones, Macon, vice-president;
R. C. Souder, Macon, treasurer.
Rev. T. D. Ellis, Macon and Louis
ville, Ky., a member of the board
said, quoted Mullls as having ad-, Hu 8h Quinn, Macon, secretary and
mitted slashing Fennell as the of- ° n ” * —
fleer was attempting to place him
under arrest.
Fennell, father of twelve children
came to Cadwell about three years
ago from Chester in Dodge county,
where he was formerly an officer.
He also is survived by hls widow.
Child Bride Seeking
Divorce After One Year
Georgia Father Held
For Slaying Of Six
Members, Own Family
Chatsworth, Ga., Nov. 2—The
charred bodies of a mother and five
of her children greeted neighbors
early today as they rushed to the
burning farm home of Mark Pul
liam, about 13 miles south of Chats
worth. .
Those burned to death were the
wife, Mrs. Pulliam, 39, and her
five children, Alva Jean, age 11;
Kathryn 9; Martha 7, and twin
brothers, Wayne and Worth, age 3.
Three other Pulliam children
spent the night at their granparents-
home and were not at home at the
time of the fire.
As the fire lighted up the neigh
borhood about 5 o'clock this morn
ing, neighbors rushed to the Pull-
for more than 40 years resigned as Jam home only to find the blaze
he is being superannuated this,* 0 . 0 fa J advanced to extinguish it.
year. Rev. W. M. Haywood, Thomas- Almost unrecognizable charred
ville, was elected to succeed him, I bodies were found,
subject to confirmation by the na- ' The husband and father, Mark
nual conference at Savannah. # Pulliam, following an inquest was
Mr. Lough is pastor of the Clax-' ordered held and he was arrested at
Ion Methodist church. He entered, a sawmill near Dalton and was
the ministry in 1933 and has placed In the Murray county jail
been a member of the South Geor
gia Conference for nine years. Dur
ing that period he served as pastor
at bocrun five years, Donalsonvllle
three years, and Claxton one year.
The new agent is a native of
Pendelton county, W. Va., the son
textbooks for inclusion on
state's free textbook list.
the 'ship, the
jthe Solomons on Aug. 9, in a night
battle of torpedoes and shells.
Pulaski county's war bond quota .
lor October of $79,000 has been CHECK FOR VINSON STORY
met, which places the county in GIVEN TO NAVY RELIEF
the 100 percent column for every
icial announcement has searched smashed homes and Erandmother at the ”aee of 17» » , of th e late Rev. R. J. Lough of the
ie of the sinking of hls , buildings with kerosene lamps. f lrl ls auln0 her 19 “ a
U. S. Crusier, "Quincy" in j band for a divorce ln Blbb Slmerlor ^nded_Emory ^University, to _1927
Funeral Services Held
month that the bonds and stamps
Jiave been sold.
Milledgevllle, Ga., Nov. 2—Carl
Vinson, chairman of the House
, , . , Naval Affairs Committee, endorsed
A nursery school has been open- t be cbeck f or b j s article in the cur
ed at Ft. Benning to care for pre- rent i ssue 0 f Collier's and donated
school age children to free their t0 jj aV y Relief, he revealed while
mothers for an ‘ all out contribu- visiting his home here during the
Uon to Red Cross and other Allied wee k-end.
war effort activities. j The ch g ck was for $ 50 o, M r. Vin-
The trial of former oGv. Rivers son sald -
charged with embezzlement and ' / ”3 ~ '
conspiracy to defraud the. state, H. GRADY PORTER
scheduled in Fulton superior court DIES AT COLUMBUS
for Monday, was postponed until
Nov. 23.
At Thomasville Tuesday
For Rev. C. C.
nmtrtnfto. 8 divorce in Bibb'Superior b g married Miss Carrie Bernelle
"The ft m«frin« ^fc ma h le ^ fe ; ' Jones of Rock >' Mount, N. C. They
ml i rf hasty CU V, have one child, Wllla Kay, age 7.
minatlon of a childhood romance/* *
the girl says in her divorce petition
and adds that she and the boy are Retire Tired Land
"entirely temperamentally unsuit
ed.”
Thomasville, Ga., Nov. 3—Fu- The young wife says she wants
nerar services were held this social life and a chance to take
morning from a local funeral P art in church activities and attend
home for the Rev. Cornelius C. amusements. By his conduct and
From Cultivation
Says County Agent
Sheriff J W. Morrison making the
arrest.
Witnesses stated that evidence at
the fire showed blood on the mat
tress on which Mrs. Pulliam's body
was lying.
The state fire marshal was sum
moned today to probe the fire.
No. 1
From
Page 1
the. seas and a paper from home
is a real treat and is read from
cover to cover.
We are located in a nice place
and have nice treatment. Like it
fine but would really be glad to
be back in old Butler again shak
ing hands and conversing with
old friends.
Would appreciate if you would
Land that is being cultivated with
Boland, who died Saturday in New attitude, the young husband would, 00 Profit to the owner, should be
Orleans. Services were conducted ma ke her a recluse and a hermit. retired from cultivation and plant- -- .
by Rev. William McTier, of Cairo, of her ln her youth, the girl alleges ed to crops that will protect the print this letter so my parents can
with interment in Laurel Hill she sa ys he will not attend social B °H fr °m washing and increase its see it. They are Mr. and Mrs. H.B.
cemetery. "'or church functions with her, is fertility, according to County Hancock, Butler, Route 1. Will
Rev. Boland, 57, was the son of morose and unhappy himself, and Agent E. G. Blackwell. appreciate this favor from you
Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Boland, and la cks understanding of her.
was born in Ellaville, Ga. He \yas j
the fourth in succession in the li r_ 1 1 *
ministry of the Methodist church NcW rcUCial I8X
in his family, and he had been a
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 29—H. G.
! Porter, 51, manager of the Tom U „ ltu HU „ „
The 121st annual session of the Houston Peanut Co., died at a Co- ! member of the Southern Methodist Sends CiGSrCtfe^ I1d
Georgia Baptist Convention, orig- lumbus hospital Wednesday after Conference from 1909 until 1925. 1 ViyuiCIICa up
inally scheduled for Savannah, will' a short illness. Porter was born in
be held in Macon, Nov. 17-18. Early county and was the son of
Transfer of a meeting place was due j. p. Porter and Tallulah Greene
to war conditions, it was reported. ( Porter in 1926 he was placed in
. . , .. , . . f „. charge of the farm experiment de-
A delegation of eight noted Turk- partment of the Tom Houston Pea-
Ish newspaper editors visited Atlan- * . n , , 1QQ „
ta Tuesday while making a nation n no * p Co - and in 1933 was made man
wide tour of this country's war pro
duction plants. They were asked to 93 . YEflH . 0 , D OC onee
see Stoe Mountain and the Cyclo- j COUNTIAN TAKES HIS
rama - 'ANNUAL TRIP TO MIAMI
Miss Marilu Burch, Eastman!
postmaster for more than 20 years 1 Bishop, Ga., Nov. 3.—J. R. Por-
retired Sunday. Clarence Persons, ter, 93, of Bishop, .left Sunday for
assistant postmaster for 28 years, his annual trip to Miami. For sev-
has been named acting postmaster era l years Mr. Porter has made this
until a civil service examination is j trip by airplane—and he is quite
held. ; enthusiastic about flying—but this
, . _ . „ ... year he went by train because of
Mrs. John R. L. Smith, 70, wife j h0 waf
of a widely known Macon attorney, Mr Porter is actlve for hls age .
died .Saturday after a len 8*hy ill- 0n e day during the summer, at a
ness. Mrs. Smith, the former Miss tam jj y home-coming, he was the
Katherine Carter Furman, was a
member of a prominent Georgia
family.
Palmer , Cheves, clerk in the
Montezuma post office, left several
days ago for Norfolk, Va., where
champion marble player.
850,000 CASES OF PIMENTOS
CANNED IN STATE
. Amerlcus, Nov. 2—A preacher and the consumer was given sellers last
% deacon went fishing in the back week ^ *he OPA in a ruling that
water of Flint River. They caught specified the dealer must absorb all
lots of fish, but when they started I taxes less than a half-cent. On
for lad about nightfall, things be- Jtems taxed at half'cent or more
gan to happeq. However, Dr. Her-1 t}’ e dealer may adjust his price to
man Ihley, pastor of the Central! next , 1 oent -
Baptist church, and Geo. P. Find-' J hus - cigarettes which sold for
ley, religious leader insurance a package are now selling for
salesman, are none the worse for t® 0 ' tv ro for 31c. The large, or king-
their experiences. Isize cigarettes are taxed one and
Hitting a snag, their boat rap- , ooe ' hal * cents and 1° most in-
idly filled with water and both oc- stances the purchaser pays a full
Griffin, Ga., Nov. 2—Pimiento
he’ , wiU°be inducted into the Navy! pepper peaches and snap beans led
Mrs. Isadore Harris has taken his other products canned in Georgia
position at the Montezuma post
office.
Special services were held Sun-
.day at the Edison Methodist
church of which Rev. W. S. Johnson
during 1942 by commercial firms,
Approximately 850,000 cases of
pimientos were packed in the state
with a value of $3,500,000. Peaches
and snap beans constituted the
next highest in value. About 500,000
is pastor, honoring the boys andj cases of peacbes and 800,000 cases
girls who have gone from the 0 j beans ' were packed with each
church to serve in the defense of ; orop baV | n g a value of around $1,-
the country. 1500,000.
Dr. W. R. White, pastor of the 1 ——
First Baptist Church of Albany for ARMY PLANES JOIN
the past 12 years is gravely ill in RICKENBACKER SEARCH
the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Bal-1 '
tlmore, where he recently under-, Washington, Nov. 2—In the hope
went an operation. Mrs. White is’ at that Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker may
his bedside. I yet be found alive, Army planes en
. ! route to the South Pacific battle
Savings amounting to approxi- i aone s have joined the search for the
mately $8,000 a year will go to vvorld War ace and his crew of
consumers of electric current in seven men
East Point as a result of rate, Tbe War Department disclosed
changes made by the East Point Sund that fller8 bound for the
City Council Monday night, ef- Solomons and other fi g hting fronts
lective Jan. 1, 194J. in the Pacific have been directed to
Three dormitories at Georgia 1 fan out over as much area as pos-
State College for Women are being sible south of Honolulu in search-
vacated to provide living quarters ing for Rickenbacker and hls crew,
£or the first group of WAVES |
scheduled to arrive at Milledge- WIDOW QF TIFTON
ville in January. The dormitories GAZETTE EDITOR DIES
which will be occupied by the j
WAVES include Ennis, Mayfield!
jind Mansion and they are being j Herring,
fenovated throughout.
Tifton, Ga., Nov. 1—Mrs. John L.
70, member of a family
member
long identified with the Tifton Ga
, zette, died last night after an ex
A new nut production has been tended illness,
discovered in Crisp county, a pecan-1 she was the w | dow 0 f the late
acorn combination growing on the ed jt or 0 f the Gazette. Four sons and
same twig of a pecan tree. The pe- one daU ghter—Lee Roy, Gerald N.,
can developed inside the hull and t R 0ber t s., and H. E. Herring and
the acorn grew on the outside of j^ rs _ ^ A Coleman—are connected
the hull. The oddity was exhibited 1 vv |th the Gazette. Another daughter
In Cordele by Rev. B. F. Barbee who |^ rs B E Martin of Cordele, and a
gathered it with pecans from a tree ] s | s t e r, Lola Greene, society editor of
Conference from 1909 until 1925,
when ill health compelled his re
tirement from the ministry.
Minister and Deacon
Narrowly Escape Drowning
hen Fishing Craft Upsets
One Cent A Package
“It is especially important in the and will now add, "hello, mother
jresent emergency when labor and and dad. Am sending you my best
materials are scarce to make every wishes. Am getting along, fine;
acre pay its way,” Mr. Blackwell weigh 210-lbs. Am putting all of
it up for the good old U.S.A.”
Sincerely yours,
Pvt. Herman E. Hancock.
Navy Yard. S. C., Oct. 26, 1942.
Dear Charles:
The Herald is very much appre-
tax on cigars, cigarettes, wine, beer
and liquor.
Permission to pass the tax on to
cupants jumped or were thrown in
to the water. Findley grabbed for
the boat and missed his hold,
plunging several feeet under water.
Returning to the surface, he made a
lunge for a nearby log which prov
ed not to be stationery and again
he was ducked, this time becoming
strangled. Finally he managed to
cling to a snag until help arrlved.In
the water he lost a bill-fold con
taining approximately $200 in cur
rency and checks. Returning next
morning to the spot where the
boat capsized he found the wallet
with all the money lodged in a
forked snag on the water's surface.
Dr. Ihley, an expert swimmer,
had no trouble maneuvering about
the water watching that no serious
harm came to his companion.
pointed out this week.
The agent recommended a careful
study of each field to determine!
those fields too poor for reasonable I
yields. Beginning this Fall, then,
these areas should be well-phos-
. , phated and limed if necessary, ciated. We certainlv eniov rPAdintr
sell ing* 1 for a^en^alfackage mo" ploWed . and ? 0Wed - to tt mixtUre of each week for there are many
in Georgia Monday as ertailers be
gan levying the new federal excise Spring • ~ • , me is the column which -notes in
The lespedeza and possibly the detail the various assignments of
winter legume, if vetch or crimson Taylor County men who are in the
clover is used, will reseed and the service. I have noticed that a
land will be well protected. For good many service men from Tay-
most efficient use of lespedeza in i or county have been sent over-
this way, a crop should be grown seas , while others are stationed
on the lespedeza stubble duirng the nea rby and can frequently return
winter. . 'on furlough.
If a longer time of retirement is 1 am llking my work fine here
necessary, another excellent way to at stark General Hospital and can
retire these areas is to prepare the, truthfully say that there is plenty
land well, fertilize properly, and t0 do at all tlmes . Until about Qc f
plant to such crops as kudzu or i st | t was necessary that I be on
lespedeza sericea. These crops w duty seven days p / T week; now lt
soon give hay or grazing and will ls possible to take one day each
Cemetery For Pets
Has Been Established
Near Atlanta
two cents tax on a single pack or
three cents on two.
Beer drinkers were not required
topay the new levy on a single bot
tle, since the tax amounts to only
three-tenths of a cent. However the
dealer may collect the accumulat
ed tax when the customer buys
more than one bottle.
Wine pirces have risen from 10c
to 15c a bottle and 100 proof liquor
is taxed $2 per gallon.
OPA, in announcing the new tax
increase, warned dealers that they
must post prominently the ceiling
price of the item and state speci
fically, either orally or in writing
the amountof tax which has been
added.
LIFE TERM FOR YOUTH
IN BROTHER'S DEATH
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 3—J. H.
Griffith, 19, son of a Methodist
minister, who declared 'that “as a
Christian 1 cannot participate in
this war,” Tuesday was sen-
Thomasville, Ga.—Greer Flinchen
a young man of the Ochlochnee
neighborhood, was convicted in su
perior court at Thomasville-this
week and sentenced to life imprison
ment following an altercation with
his brother in which the later was
slain with an ax allegedly in the
hands of Finchem. The affair took
place several weeks ago at their
home on the Thomasville-Ochloch-
nee highway.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 2—Pet owners
throughout the state will be in
terested to learn of the establish
ment in Atlanta of the Pet Ceme
tery, the only pet cemetery in the
Southeast offering perpetual care.
The grounds are zoned and li
censed by the county.
R. L. S. Bickford of Atlanta,
well-known Atlanta printer, is re
sponsible for the unique cemetery,
since it wsa through his untiring New Orleans, Nov. 3—Rev. S. C.
efforts that the final resting place Spigot, 22-year-old Baptist minis
ter animals was established. ter at Tylertown. Miss., enlisted in
Located in a beautiful 10 acre'the Marine Corps here as a pri-
plot off Hollywood Road, about 15 I vate with the assertion that he
"PASS AMMUNITION"
INSPIRES PREACHER
TO JOIN MARINES
on his farm
jnunity.
in
the Bridges com- tbe Gazette for 40 years, also sur
vive her.
minutes from Five Points, Pet Ha
ven is a dream come true ter ani
mal lovers. The place with its neat
concrete sidewalks, simple • head
stones, shrubbery and flowers, re
sembles a human cemetery in its
permanent appearance. Designed
also as a garden cemetery and bird
sanctuary, special efforts are being
made to attract birds.
was ready to “Praise the Lord and
Pass the Ammunition.”
The young minister, a June
graduate of Mississippi College
and an ordained preacher for four
years, said the currently popular
song expressed his desire to get
into combat duty. He is pastor of
two small churches in Washing
ton Parish, La.
Improve the land rapidly, he de
clared.
BOY OBJECTOR GETS
30 MONTHS IN PRISON
week for recreation purposes.
Guess you can imagine how wel
comed that opportunity was.
Charleston is certainly an over
crowded city and there is no in
dication of complete relief in the
way of family housing units. There
are now approximately 600 houses
under construction in one secition
near our residence.
Please convey my regards and
tenced to 30 months in jail and best wishes to my many friends in
fined $200 for violation of the Se- Butler.
lective Service Act, for failing
register June 30.
Sincerely,
Lt. Sam Borom.
MARKET YOUR
PECANS
WITH US
We pay the highest cash prices
for all varieties including
seedlings.
NEISLER’S WAREHOUSE
Reynolds, Georgia
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