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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA. NOVEMBER 11. 1943.
NEWS SUMMARY Of
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
Georgia Tech suffered a S2.000
fire loss Monday afternoon.
News has come by cable to Mr.
and Mrs. D. L. Beatie of Albany
of the marriage in London, Eng
land of their son, Lt. E. D. Beatie
to Miss Olga Watkins of London.
The ceremony took place Wednes
day, Nov. 3.
The 1943 annual session of the
North Georgia Methodist confer-
A new canning plant for ence is scheduled to be held in
Dougherty county is soon to be Atlanta, beginning at 4 p. m.
opened at Albany. | Tuesday of next week at Wesley
, , . | Memorial church, and continuing
The state, including Butler and| m h Friday .
vicinity, experienced its second
freeze Wednesday morning.
Idle for seven years, the Meritas
Mill at Columbus has resumed
The 122nd annual session of t J) r ■ operation for the manufacture of
Georgia Baptist Convention will be i rayon t jre cords for use on army
held in Atlanta Nov. 16-17. j vehicles. Construction of 160 brick
In many Georgia towns, includ- j buildings to house employes of the
ing Butler, postal receipts climbed i mill started Monday,
to a new high point for October. J The rema i n j n g 37 prisoners at j
According to report faulty pleas the Douglas convict camp have
for birth certificates from the been transferred to the State Pris-
No. 1
Fro*i |Lorens; Blackshear, Oscar Bell;
P«ge One JBroxton, Lloyd Rogers, supply;
! Brunswick, First church, J. S.
Holloway; Sandersville, V*. H■! sharp; McKendree, W. H. Blanks;
Moore: Tennille, I. E. McKellar, , Arco -Taylor, to be supplied; Dari-
Moseley; Wellston, W. V. Dibble, | cn ^ q 3 Freeman; Douglas, Earl
Macon City Missions, T. B. Star,- ) Q ar butt; Folkston, F. J. Gilbert, E
ford, supply; District Missionary, ; p Dean, assistant supply; Hazle-
hurst, I. C. Walker, Hinesville,
Frank Nalls; Homerville, H. G.
secretary, J. B. Smith.
Americus District
L. A. Harrell, superintendent;
Osipoff; Jesup, W. F. Burford;
Abbeville-Rhine, C. L. Nease, 1 Ludowici, McCoy Johnson; Nahun-
Americus, First church, Mack An-^ q j Morgan, supply; Manor,
Willis; Americus circuit, J. E. i
Buchanon; Bronwood-Smithville,
H. C. Marx; Byromville-Lilly, G
thony; Americus, Lee Street, J. ^ |\r ernan Edwards, supply; Odum,
delayed 3,622 war
state have
jobs.
Frank Moore, 53-year-old former
Ary goods merchant, died sudden
ly at Ft. Valley Oct. 31st from a
heart attack.
on in Tattnall county and the
camp abolished. Seven of the 11
convicts escaping Sunday night
were still at large yesterday.
The state of Georgia increased
its payments to old-age pension-
■ ers and other recipients of pub-
Dr. Walter Binns, Mercer alum- ! |j c assistance almost $2,000,000
ims and former Macon pastor, will duidn g the fiscal year ending June
he inaugurated president of Wil- 3^ 1943, State Auditor B. E.
Ham Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. Thrasher Jr., reported Monday,
today.
i Burglars tunneling under a
Henry Middleton Ames, 62, service station in Atlanta Monday
sheriff of Henry county for the n jght were rewarded for their trou-
past seven years, died suddenly b ]e, including the cracking of a
at his home in McDonough last sa f 0i b y $2,500, but in their hur-
Friday.
The Chatham convict camp .
the fourth in the state to experi-, m E to
-ence escape of a number of its 1
prisoners within the past few
weeks.
ry overlooked another pocket of
money in the same safe amount
E. Clary Jr.; Chauncey, L. C. Wim
berly, supply; Cordele, M. E. Pea-
vy; Eastman, W. L. Anderson; El-
laville, Roy J. Bond; Hawkinsvillo
J. E. Barnhill; Helena, C. F. Starns
Jacksonville, R. H. Moreland; Les-
lie-Leesburg, L. C. Harvard; Lum
ber City, L. D. Shippey; McRae, E 'Green I
M. Overby; Montezuma, B. A. Paf- 1
ford; Oglethorpe-Ideal, J. D. Mc
Cord; Pinehurst, J. W. Hays; Pine-
view, J. E. Summer; Plains, C. M
Infinger; Rebecca, W. A. Wilson,
supply; Rochelle, W. R. Rustin;
Unadilla, D. P. Melson; Vienna, L.
S. J. Brown; Okefenokee Mission,
to be supplied; Pearson, C. A. Ab
bott; Screven, to be supplied; St.
Mary's R. B. Yarbrough; St. Sim
ons, J. R. Webb J.r; Waresboro, C.
T. Lawhorne; Waycross, First
church, A. S. Trulock; Trinity, G.
N. Rainey; Hebardville, M. O.
| Williams, supply; Winona Park,
W. A. Sedgwick, supply; West
K. Chambers, supply;
the practice of medicine in Ameri
cus and in Plains, Ga., the next
year.
White Oak, J. G. Ivey; Brunswick! He j s survived by two brothers,
defense area, Lynwood Jordan; 1 p r 3 Thad Wise of Americus,and
District missionary secretary, B.G.; £> r 3. j wise, of Americus nad
Thomaston Young Man,
Decorated With Purple
Heart, Slain By Officer
From Thomaston Times:
James Smith, a decorated Ma
rine hero of Guadalcanal died in
stantly Wednesday morning 3hf ,m
12-30 when he was shot by Sheriff
Luther Middlebrooks of SpaldinV
county on the porch of the countv
jail in Griffin, where Smith had
u , . . . S° ne t0 tr y an <* get a friend of hi*
ther was a practitioner at Ameri- released from the jail where th
cus for many years and two state patrol had placed him on *
brothers are outstanding in the | charge of drunk driving,
medical profession. I Many conflicting stories ano
Dr. Sam Wise was graduated f rumors are afloat as to the cause
from Tulane in 1910 and began of the tragedy.
Smith was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Neal Smith. His father is
owner and operator of Smittv's
Cafe and Blue Room.
Dr. S. P. Wise, Noted
Americus Surgeon,
Claimed By Death
Americus, Nov. 3—Dr. Sam P.
Wise, widely known surgeon,died
at his home at Americus tonight.
Dr. Wise had been ill four
years. An operation three years
ago removed one of his legs. He
was a member of a family of
physicians and surgeons. His fa-
Plains.
C. Fullerton; Warwick, J. K. Hin- j Hicks,’ B. R. W. Knowles’ James R
- 1 Reese, R c Sampleyi w . P . smith
J. W. M. Stipe, D. C. Vincent, J. F.
son; District missionary secretary
B.A. Pafford.
Dublin District
Leland Moore, superintendent;
Allamo,! tivation, general board of missions ! ned 3,252 bales of cotton—729 aston and had many friends who
. Harris; Bartow, E. A. Martin 1 and c hurch extension, W. F. Quil- 1 more bales than were ginned last mourn his death. He attended R
ton, R. O. Edenfield; Davis- jj an; Agent Methodist Home, J. O. i year and on 431 ecres less land, j E. Lee, but his family movet
Adrian, T. H. Tinsley;
R. L
Brewton
boro, J. C. Gilbert; Dexter, J. Ajj Taylor; Executive secretary
Godfrey; Dublin First church, L. \ board of education; Reese Grif-
L. Cowen; Dublin, Centenary, R-! fin; President Andrew college, S.
E. Brown; Dudley, E. W. Seckin- c oiiff; Professor Candler School
A hero by right of the work and
heroism he displayed in the heav
iest of the fighting on Guadalca
nal when the Marines first landed
Smith was released by the Ma
rines after he had suffered severe
war wounds. He was the possessor
of the Purple Heart, and was
Ellaville, Ga., Nov. 7—County wearing it at the time of his death
Agent J. D. Davis announces that i although he was not in uniform.
Secretary of promotion and cul- j up to date Schley county has gin- ’ He was quite popular in Thom-
Osipoff.
Supecial Appointments
Chaplains—W E. Chappie; W. J.
Erwin, Frank Gilmore, R. W.
Wilson, W. R. Woodall.
GINNING IN SCHLEY
SHOW BIG INCREASE
The new $900,000 South Alta-;--—-. . , 17
maha River br ^> Jewel watch recently. Some time
structure of . Ien £S°" ago another of his churches pre
highway in Georgia will be J him with an au tomobile.
Christmas came early this year
for Rev. G. L. Griffin, newly
elected moderator of the Houston
Association. Members of Pinehurst
opened Nov. 20.
Many Methodist ministers will
move simultaneously next Wed
nesday to their new assignments
made by the South Georgia Con
ference last week.
Perry Monroe Pye, Albany man,
has been listed as having been
killed in action, according to a
message received by his wife from
the Navy Department.
Stewards of the Cochran Metho
dist church presented their pastor,
Rev. J. I. Summerford, with a bo
nus check of $600 before he went
to conference at Tifton last week.
Kirk Sutlive after 18 years edi
torship of the Blackshear Times
has resigned to devote his entire
time as personnel director of the
Union Bag & Paper Co., at Savan
nah.
As a Christmas gift to the 700
Wilkes county men in army serv
j H. L. Wingate of Pelham,
president of the Georgia Farm Bu-
1 reau, returned last week from a
I lour weeks visit in England where
I as the guest of the British govern-
I ment, he had two other farm lead-
! ers from the United States studied
British agriculture and farm prob
lems.
Announcement was recently
made of a gift of $20,000 for the
construction as soon as possible
after the war of a modern, at
tractive and spacious building at
Cairo to house a Roddenbery Me
morial Library for the use of all
of the people of Grady county in
memory of the late Walter B.
Roddenbery, Sr. one of the coun
ty’s most prominent citizens, who
died at his home at Cairo last July
22nd in his 82nd year.
Bishop Arthur J. Moure bishop
in charge of the Atlanta area of
the Methodist church, has been in
ger; Garfield, W. H. Wilcox; Gray
mount Summit, W. D. Raburn;
Kite, J. B Hutchinson; Louisville,
of Technology, A. C. Floyd.
Missionaries
Special assignment of foreign
moved
Five factors entered into the pro- j away before his graduation year
duction of the best crop in years, and he completed his schooling in
good weather conditions, better! Alabama. He joined the Marines
seed, more fertilizer, persistent quite some time before war was
poisoning and destroying cotton' declaredand was one of the first
stalks from last year's crop. I to see action.
v.wr.'-o ^ — the Metnouist enuren, nas uteu m
ice will go the Washington, Ga., f ormed tha t the 1944 session of the
News-Reporter, as a contribution - —*
from the Washington
can Legion.
Ameri-
jurisdictional conference of the
Southeastern Jurisdiction will be
held in Atlanta, beginning June
Noon of Saturday, Nov. 20, has 22. The Southeastern Jurisdiction
been set by the City Democratic embraces all territory east of h
Committee as the deadline for Mississippi river south of Wash-
three places on the City Oommis- mgton. In addition to the 600 ac-
sion of Columbus in a primary to credited delegates to the confer-
be held Dec 4. encet here will be in attendance
several hundred visitors.
Albany Lodge No. 24, Ancient j
Free and Accepted Masons will
celebrate its 100th anniversary
#iov. 15 with Grand Master D. H.
Wollstein, of Rome, making the
principal address.
L. W. Walker; Lyons, D. F. Cripps; j groups in America, J. B. Cobb, Bra-
Midville, W. A. Alsobrook; Mitchell' w p Rogers Jr., Bolivia, E. W
to be supplied; Mt. Vernon. J- H., Anderson; Indian, D. C. Stubbs;
Allen; Soperton, J. E. Wilson; Sta- 1 Secretary laymen's movement, W.
pleton, to be supplied; Swainsborc q Huekabce; Conference mission- ,
H. C. Griffin; Toombs county cir- ary secretary, J. R. Webb; Super-
cuit, C. B. Ray; Uvalda, W. B. lay- 1 intendent Candler hospital, C. W.
lor; Vidalia, C. R. McKibben; Wad curry; Conference director of
ley, W. E. Dennis- Wrens-Mount Golden Cross, J. S. Sharp.
Moriah, J. A. Cook; Wfrightsviilc, Deaconesses
J. Frank Snell; Wrightsville cir- Superintendent Vashti school,
cuit, N. F. Champion, supply; dis- 1 Miss Mary Floyd; Instructor Vash-|
trict missionary secretary, C. R. j ti school, Miss Esther Boggs; In- i
McKibbon. structor Vashti school, Miss Leone
Savannah District 'Lmons; Open Door Community
J. H. Wilson, superintendent; j House, Columbus, Miss Gertrude
Bloomingdale, A. C. Prickett; Gizzard; Open Door Community
Brooklyn-New Hope.F. L. Jordan; House, Columbus, Miss Ann Aver-
Claxton, L. K. Pierce; Girard, C. A. 1 ett; Conference rural worker,Miss
Bulloch Circuit J. C. Varnell Jr.; '
Morrison; Glennville, J. L. Scott;
Guyton, G. R. Partin; Hagan, C.C.
Frances Allen.
Students
Drew Theological Seminary, Mar-
Long, supply; Hilltoma, J. W. May vin Gre en; Candler School of The-
Metter, B. L. Brown; Millen, J. L.
ology, P. S. Jones; aCndler School
Hillis; Newington, J. D. Corbitt;,Rheology D. A. Duck and G. K
Pembroke, M.M. Pierce; Port Went
worth, J. S. Lough; Reidsville
Shiloh, T. N„ S. A. Douthit; Sa
Hutchinson.
L ♦ i/rrrTLAURENS MAN SENTENCED
vannah, Alderagate, Vernard Rob-
TO DIE IN CHAIR DEC. 3
ertson; Asbury, H. G. Shearouse;
Epworth, F. M. Gaines; Grace, Rby
Gardner; Memorial, Loy Warwick,
supply; Pierce Memorial Isle ofjzier, Laurens County negro, was
Hope, J. A. Paine, supply; Tattnall j sentenced to death in the electric
Homes, Mercer Ingram; Trinity, I chair by a trial jury at Dublin
Dublin, Ga., Nov..—Herbert Ro-
Dooly County Backs
Drive To Buy Bomber Bonds
In Honor Of Native Son
W. L. Miller, president of Mil
ler-Taylor Shoe Store of Columbus
was elected to the board of direc- I _ .. _ .
tors of the National Shoe Retailers! Vienna, Ga., Nov. 6—Mayor ..
Association at a meeting last J- Mobley, chairman of the ai
week in Chicago | Bond sales for Dooly county, said
R ‘ j today that the bond sale for Octo-
M. E. Thompson, executive sec- ! ber ended Saturday night with
retary to Gov. Arnall, and former Dooly county reaching a figure of
Americus man will address a $238,000 of stamps and bonds for
meeting of the Sumter County the month The report is only
Teacher's Association at Americus from one of the 10 counties in the
on the evening of Nov. 16. j Thirteenth district, the quota for
I the district was $350,000. Thifa
Miss Ira Jarrell, principal of amount will be used for the pur-
W. F. Slaton school, Atlanta, was chase of a bomber to bo called
elected superintendent of Atlanta The Spirit of Dooly County in
city schools Tuesday afternoon to honor of Lt. Marcus Geotge, w o
succeed Dr. Willis A. Sutton, who isr eported missing tn action,
has resigned effective Jan. 1. | Geo. W. West, president of the
I First Federal Savings and Loan
Tire Georgia Supreme Court Association bought $50,000 worth
Tuesday affirmed a life sentence of bonds in Dooly county duiing
imposed upon Marcus T. Pulliam this drive, C. R. Cannon and F. B.
in the Murray Superior Court on a Wilson, Henry Grady Hotel pur-
charge of murdering his wife and chased $10,000, A. L. Belle Isle
attempting to burn her body. president of Atlanta Baggage and
| Cab Company, bought in bonds in
Approximately 15 to 20 per cent Dooly county and the Georgia
•f the November draft quotas Power Company purchased $10,000
throughout the state will be filled , in bonds in Dooly county in this
with pre-Pearl Harbor fathers, Col. drive. Among others purchasnig
J. N. Keelin Jr., state director of i bonds in Dooly county for this
Selective Service said Tuesday. I drive were Edgar Dunlap, Gaines-
| ville, Ga.; Col. J. H. Jenkins,
A total o: $ 35 in cash awards j Milledgeville; S. L. Taylor, Man-
for Ideas lor Victory will go to Chester; Mrs. George Brown, At-
for war workers of the Warner | lanta, and Miss Eugenia Davis,
Robins Air Service Command at I Charlotte, N. C.
Robins Field for their time and | Mayor Mobley received a tele
material-saving suggestions and; gram from Sen. Walter F. George
fences j expressing his appreciation as fol
lows:
Grady hospital in Atlanta has ' “Arthur Cheatham has just tcld
been entrusted with a sunply of me of the wonderful success of the
miracle drug, Penicillin, for dis- Thirteenth District bond drive,
distribution in the southeast. In re Please accept my warm gratitude
leasing the supply, D.. C. S. Kee- for your efforts and the fine co-
fer, head of the National Research operation of every citizen of Poo-
Council, says the drug, which is ly county. It was an outstanding
manufactured in small quantities accomplishment and has touched
Is to be used at the discretion of Mrs. George and me deeply,
hospital authorities. 1 “Walter F. George.”
Ralph Porterfield; Wesleyan Monu
mental, J . E. Fain; Wildwood, J.
R. Blackwell, supply; Springfield,
S. P. Clary; Statesboro, L. E. Wil
liams; Sylvania, A. W. Quillian Jr.
Tatnall County Circuit A. V. John
son; Maynesboro, Roy McTier; Dis
trict Missionary secretary, H. G.
I Shearouse.
| Thcmasville District
Anthony Hearn, superintendent;
Albany, First church, H. T. Free
man; Grace, J. Thornhill, supply;
Trinity-Sasser, I. R. Kelley, supply
Arlington, L. S. Holloway; Atta-
pulgus, Theo Pharr, Bacenton, D.
A. Lastinger; Bainbridge, H. H.
Heisler; Barwick, E. R. Lewis;
Blakely, J. A. Davis; Boston, H.P.
Stubbs; Brinson, Marvin Vincent;
Camilla, H. H. Williams; Cairo, M.
P. Webb; Cairo circuit, J. W. Lilly
supply; Colquitt, J. W. Patterson;
Donaldsonville, M. W. Flanders;
Edison, E. L. Brock; Faceville, J.
A. Wiggins, supply; Leary, W. W.
Taylor; Meigs-Ochlochnee, W. S.
Johnson; Metcalf, J. O. Aiken; Pa-
vo, W. W. Hill; Pelham, E. J.
Grimes; Sales City, F. C. Meyer;
Thomasville, J. C. G. Brooks;
West Bainbridge, J. P. Barrett;
Whigham-Climax, James Agee;
District Missionary secretary, E. J.
Grimes.
Valdosta District
J. P. Dell, superintendent; Adel
H. S. Brooks; Ashburn, W. B.
Cheshire; Berlin, J. C. Tucker, sup
ply; Bridgeboro, T. J. Rauls, sup
ply; Chula, J H. Bridges, supply;
Doerun, W. E. Hightower; Fitz
gerald, W. E. Scott Funston, L. P.
Tyson, supply; Hahira, Hoke
Hatcher; Lakeland, L. O. McCon
nell, supply; Lake Park, T. P.
Watson; Morven, to be supplied;
Moultrie, J. R. Webb; Mystic, C.
B. Studsill, supply; Nashville, W.
M. Hobbs; Norman Park, P. E.
Linder; Ocilla, G. G. Ramsey;
Omega, S. L. Mayo; Poulan, L. R.
Lancaster; Quitman, J. O. Stan-
land; Ray City, J. W. Herndon,
supply; Remerton, W. C. Rahn;
Sparks, B. M. Wilson; Sycamore,
F. A. Ratcliff, supply; Sylvester,
O. C. Cooper; Tifton, W. A. Kel
ley; Valdosta, L. H. Cochran; Val
dosta Mission, B. R. Dixon, sup
ply; Willaeoochee, E. B. Willard;
District missionary secretary, H. S
Brooks.
Waycross District
Jas. W. Hitch, superintendent;
Alma, P. E. Miller; Alma circuit,
H. D. Overman, supply; Baxley, H.
E. Stipe; Baxley circuit, R. E.
Nov. 2 for the murder of W. G.
Davis, whom he ,shot when the
twe met in the road near Dublin
last April.
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PECANS
With Us
We pay the highest cash prices
for all varieties including
seedlings.
NEISLER’S WAREHOUSE
Reynolds, Georgia
Phone 89
Butler, Ga.
Potted Meat Can 6c
Kelloggs Corn Flakes 5c
Sunehine
Krispy Crackers Lb
Salt .... 3 Boxes
Matches . . 3 Boxes
Salad Dressing
Sugar .... 5 Lbs
Sugar ... 10 Lbs
A. J. Grits Pkg
20c
10c
11c
35c
34c
67c
10c
10c
75c
Crystal Wedding Oats
Lard 4 Lbs
Lard 8 Lbs $1.49
Rippled Wheat 10c
Skinless Weiners Lb 29c
Oleomargine Lb 19c
Mixed Sausage Lb 29c
Try Onr AA Grade Beef. Gov
ernment Graded and Inspected