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PACE EIGHT
THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 2, 1943.
NEWS SUMMARY OF
THE WEEK IN GEORGIA
No. 1
From
Page One
food and drugs among the sick
The sheriff's office in three
Georgia counties are vacant this
week due to the death of these
officials. A. P. Courson, 48, sheriff and shut-ins. Her name is a
of Bacon county, is reported to household word in this community
have shot and killed himself in an[ j therefore unnecessary to
his office Monday night. Howell men£ j on in this instance x x x
Tuberculosis seal stamp sale is Wiley Speir, 54, sheriff of Bryan j^ lss Mary Wright is the
being pushed throughout the county died Sunday in a Savan- b appiest girl in town being the
state. nah hospitaL W. J. Catledge,^ 60, rec jp| en t last week of a lovely
~ locket from her brother, Sgt.
rheriff of Decatur county, died
The Fourth Quarterly Law En- Tuesday a f te r a short illness
fbrcement Conference will be held ^
in Macon December 7th. ! The following report is given by Mas - s
the Talbotton New Era of the'
John T. Barlow, farmer and jgist birthday celebration of the |
former Colquitt county representa- coun t y ‘ s best known citizen: “Mrs
tive, produced on two acres of land Emma Owen, Talbot county's old- j
« crop of sugar cane valued at pst c j t i ZGn , celebrated her 101st M
*1,359.
Charles Wright, of Camp Edward,
No. 2
From
Page One
Sanders, Robert E. Standridge
M. Sanders,
Taylor, Berry Mack Taunton, Rob- Saturday expressed regret at the Afiny.lJayM Draft Tall
ert L. Tucker, Wm. Robert Turner death of Mr. Glass, saying: M<aT Jr VIall l-dll
For January 1$ Set At
Jhree Hundred Thousand
Jr., H. A. Tanksley, C. B. Tanksley “Dudley had long been a much
Willie B. Tucker, John H. Under- ] 0 ved and familiar figure at the
wood, Albert H. Vann, Robert Wil- meetings of the Georgia Press As-
son, Fred Windham, Woodrow Wil- sociation, both as a writer and as
son, Millard II. Windham, James a reporter, and he and his wife, I _
E. Whatley Jr. (killed) Chester L. ‘Nancy,’ who always accompanied, WashinFton Nnv
Wainwright, Bennie L. Waller, him, V vill b e greatly missed. His , draft cal ’j for j amiarv P 10 ar -
John C. Wainwright, Dewey L. death is mourned by all Georgia t J[ the fi „ ure th w y ‘ s to be
Weldon Jr John E. Weldon Ed- newspaper folks.- ' ef^1001^^%““^
ward C. Whatley, Berms F. Warn- Prcsldent Majors appointed the „ was lcanled Sunday . A J a CI ‘ *
vvnght, Gera J d bilker, Arnold following editors to serve as an ault the com bined army-navy ca n
J. Wainwright, Robert M. Winters honorary escor t at the funeral: (will aDD roximate 300 non al
Willis Windham, Zach A. Weaver, Hugh R q{ the Constitu .
Lewis Jack-
will approximate 300,000 men.
Wim S "james“A: wTlSon, 'ZZ *£“**£» '-nomhly SfJtZ compare^
Reba Windham ta Journal, Otis Brumby, of the prev ious indications that calk
C Whatley Jr., Cobb Count y Times; Roy Emmett would beg i n dropping the first of
* *’— Cedartown Standard; A. tbe year 01
(nurse) Henry
birthday Friday, Nov. 19th, at the Clarence M. Sanders, J. Leroy I Waiter D< Wadsworth, Harold E. ° f , the * _ .. f ,. a —
Sheriffs and solicitor generals home of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Mills Stringfield, Lavell Stevens, Jack , williamson Lewis B. Windham, J. elm<)n t D T en ^ S I The expanding navy never ex
: Georgia's 122 dry counties me, >» the Valley. Mrs Mills enter. Suggs Tommie Singleton Ulmer Wm . c Yarbrough, George Young- <*<*«>. «• "-ach top strength „ ntll
sf Georgia
in Atlanta yesterday to attend a
meeting of state liquor , enforce
ment agents.
tained with a spend-the-day party Stevens, Millard B. Stevens, John j h]ood Marion L , Yarbrough, James tersville News-Tribune,
in honor of her mother on this Turk, Thomas Turk, Tellie W. H Yo ’ unE j oe w. Youngblood, Tim 11
important day. One of the guests Taunton, William Taunton, Fred Youngblood.
Mrs. Harry Brown, has written a Taunton, Eulan Taunton, Grady
‘Gat fever”, a f orm of grippe beautiful account of the celebra- Trussell, Richard Turk, Ross Turk,
reported prevalent in Norfolk and tion which will be published lat- James H. Vann, Calvin Taunton,
vther coastal cities, Tuesday had er."
made its appearance at the At- ■ —
lam Naval Air Station. INJURED WOODLAND SOLDIER
Award of a contract in the sum REPORTED GERMAN PRISONER
of $155,437 for construction of a i
dormitory to accommodate 250 Staff Sgt. M. T. Miller is report
RYLANDER HEADS TRADE
BOARD AT AMERICUS
J. E. Trussell, C. Wendell Wind
ham, Charles Wright, James Wal- often in
lace, Herman F. Wright, Marvin prized.
Youngblood.
Other Sections of County
John H. Aultman, James R. Al-
No. 3
From
Page
rhyme, w<
well along in 1944 and the army
it was reported authoratively
won't be at its expected peak
strength of 7,700,000 men by j an
1 for two main reasons.
1. The WAC enlistment drive has
1 , Americus, Ga., Nov. 27—Arthur _ _
.... highly Rylander Jr., has been elected been disappointing. (The army i s
president of the Chamber of Com- pleased with the performance c f
, . merce succeeding L. P. McLeod, its women soldiers and is willing
At one point in his career he resign ’ ed McLeo d, manager of the to take hundreds of thousands, but
was invited to go to New ^ork, at Americus branch o£ sears, Roebuck only about 60,000 have enlisted to
—- j ~ — - ------ - ---- - , a flattering salary, o wr ^ qj t f or the past three years has date.)
families of war workers at Macon ed wounded and a prisoner of war britton, Floyd W. Averett, Walter j articles and features tor syncuca- transferred to Albany. Ry-1 2. Draft boards are lagging so
was announced Saturday. in Germany after a bombing raid M. Arrington, Guy S. Adams, Wm. tion to American newspapers.After widely known in automo-
over Emden, his wife who resides a. Allman, Joseph Barnes, Byron ! a few months of life in the me- c ’ - - —*
Fifteen State Highway Depart- j n Atlanta, said Saturday. b. Byrd, Harold Barfield, Joseph B | tropolis he chose to return to At- j tip „ n « 0 f« ce
ment officials, headed by Director ggt Miller was a gunner on an Barfield, Darrell B. Burkhalter, Jer- i lanta, where home life and friends
R. G. Clay are attending this week American Fortress and had been ry d. Brown, Durward M. Bryan, ! meant more to him than fame and
the American Association of State j n England since August. He was Arthur S. Blair, Robert L. Bell, greater income.
Highway Officials at Chicago. reported missing in action Sept. 27 Geo. J. Booth, W. Pope Booth,
Gov. Arnall left Atlanta yester- and Frida .y word came that he Joseph E. Bloodworth, Thos.
day for Ne wYork city where he was a P rison ^ r in p e lv r ! Tian ^- H 2f Byrd, Phillip R. Bryan, James D. lowns never had so persistant a
will be the principal speaker at P arents are Mr - and Mrs - Geo - D - Byers, Garland Blair, Felton C. ; booster—especially the mountains
the 5th annual dinner of the New . Miller of Woodland. j Bloodworth Oscar H. Bloodworth in spr ing when the flowers
York Southern Society tomorrow
far behind their quotas that they
bile business/ has already taken J may be unable to catch up eva n
by the end of January.
Georgia’s highways,
F - seashore and smaller
mountains,
cities and
The Navy Department announc
ed Monday night t hat Marine
Sergeant Alfred Grimes, son of
SHOOTS HIS TURKEY
ON CAPITOL LAWN
i (killed) Don Barnes, James R. ; n bloom, and in the fall when na- 1
Booker, Hardy Braddy, Paul Byrd j ture splashed the woods with col-
Ocie O. Brown Jr., Garland T. Byrd
Horton L. Butler, Charles J. Bickley
the Julian T. Beeland, Dan L. Becland
Atlanta, Nov. 28—Most of
Mrs. Beulah McKinley, Thomas- f 0 j Rs back home ate turkey, too, Vollie Coleman Bohler, Troy Bone,
ton, had been wounded in action. on Thanksgiving, but here are two William M. Callahan, Madison L.
Holmes Hawkins was elected unusual stories that cropped up Cox, Harry L. Collins, Clinton S.
sheriil of Jones county at a spe- among the civilians. Culverhouse, Mathel Callier, Al-
cial election last week to fill the 1 L- B - Duke, Capitol elevato; deen L. Crook, Gordon Crook,
racancv caused by the recent operator, bagged his turkey right Karoine Crook, Richmond L. Cox,
nf Hie f^thor T p Hawkins on the Capitol grounds. How the T. Cecil Childree, Hugh M. Chil-
gobbler got there and who he for- dree, Quinton Clark, Sam Coolik,
Through liberal donations made merly belonged to are mysteries. General L. Childree, Herman W.
this week Washington county citi- , l. P. Burton, of Marietta, didn't Clark, Leroy Cooper, James Carscn
sens have shown their apprecia- have a turkey dinner—but probab- Jim Nat Cooper, Alvin Childree, Ed
tion of the services rendered by the j y bad indigestion. A thief stole Carpenter, Woodrow Cofield, Ar-
Rawlings sanitorium at Sanders- f our gobblers and 16 hens on thur H. Campbell, Guy E. Calhoun
ville. j Thanksgiving eve, he told police. Edwin M. Childree, Lavausha A.
Minor C. Shadburn, 65, proprie-1
tor of the Thomaston Mattress and ELLAVILLE DOG BAD,
Upholstery Company, died Satur- MUST WEAR MUZZLES
day night at the home of his;
daughter, Mrs. Bonnie B. Cole in Ellaville, Ga., Nov. 27 Mrs. Lily
*rhomastnn. I Dixon, prominent Ellaville woman ,
| was bitten three times on the leg j Fergerson, Phillip J. Freeman, Bar-
n Adoption of a $765,000 budget when attacked by a dog said to;row Fuller,
for mission work in the South be owned by Ray Murray of Ella
^claimed the major attention of the ville
Southern Baptist home mission
Childree, A. L. Coulter, Eldridge
Coulter, Blanford Daniel, Henry F.
Daniel, Pat Duke, Geo. W. Duncan
Ralph W. Eubanks, Isaac C. Eu
banks, Robetr S. Eubanks, Bernard
F. Fuller, James Fouche, Cecil
Walter E. Freeman
[Jack Darling Fuller, Leon M. Gill
Willie D. Goodwin, Arthur Jordan
Mrs. Dixon was taking a walk! Green, Edward M. Goddard, Cecil
Gaultney, Ernest J. Guined, James
N. Griggs, Madison E. Gassett, Jas.
D. Green, Thomas E. Giles, Sam T.
Garrett, Wm. H. Gassett, Willis
R. Greathouse, John B. Giles, Wm.
board Tuesday at the opening of when the dog unexpectedly sprang
a two-day meeting. j upon her. The same dog attacked
i a colored woman recently, biting
The Rochelle Lions Club will her so bad that she had to visit a
dedicate the new lunchroom re- doctor's office and take treatment,
cently completed at the Rochelle The dog, a Scotch terrier, has heen H. Harris, Eugene W. Hodges Wm
school, with a * barbecue Monday ordered muzzled or kept in con- , W. Hobbs, Roy Hill, Beecham H.
flight, Dec. 13. The project was finement for the safety of the pub- Hodges, James H. Harmon, Ein-
■sponsored by the local club. | lie. es * P- Hobbs, John L. Hanson, J. C.
Hankinson, James C. Hayes, Jas.
R. Halstead, James H. Harris,
Stokey A. Joiner, Phillip E.Jenkir.s
Floyd C. Jarrell, Edwin P. Jones,
Arthur Jarrell, Ira J. Jarrell, Ira
H. Kirksey, Wm. G. Keen, T. D.
King, Horace L. Kirksey, Rufus C.
Kirksey, Joseph H. Kirksey, Jack
Kirksey, Clifton Kromer, Felix J.
Lewis, Hilton Lester Lowe, Chas.
ors. Hardly a community in Geor
gia but numbered one or more of
his personal friends. At press
conventions his room was usually
the most popular spot at the gath
ering.
He returned to Atlanta newspa
per field in the early ’30’s and be
gan his column “Our Town” on
the Georgian. When that paper
ceased publication he became as
sociated with the Constitution,
where his column carried simply
his name.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday, and carrying out his
wish, will be private with the
request that his legion of friends
refrain from floral offerings.
Survivors include his wife; three
daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Southwick
of Atlanta; Mrs. W. M. McGraw
and Mrs. David Wachter, of Mil
waukee; and another son, Richard
Glass, who is connected with the
Atlanta bureau of the United
Press.
President R. E.. T. Majors, of
the Georgia Press Association, and
editor of the Claxton Enterprise,
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
Rev. M. D. Reed has* resigned BACQN COUNTY SHERIFF
the pastorate of the ft. Valley BACON county
Baptist church to accept a call to
the Penning Park church, Colum
bus. He is numbered among Fort
Valley's most outstanding citi-
fties.
Alma, Ga., Nov. 29—Police Chief
L. W. Wildes reported today that
I Bacon County Sheriff A. F. Cour-
* son shot and killed himself in his
Quick action in handling a dan-! office Sunday night,
fjerous fire that threatened lives Wildess said the sheriff left two
and property in Algeria won Staff notes on his desk but the police.
s 8t . Claude J. Cowar, of States- ehiet did no. disclose there fcTS
leaf 1 ’cluster to the^SoldiePs^Me^al! Sheriff Courson, who was about | Lovvorn, Clifton E. Marshall, John
toe War%epartaientAnnounced *8 years old, was serving his third' S. Montgomery, Frank J McDaniel
uie war ut-paiuncm diiuuuiu.eu j • c Mnnrp Frt»r) MrElmurrav.
Tuesday.
term, having been in office nearlv Sam S. Moore, Fred McElmurray,
,12 years. He was a native of Ba-|Lmory M. McChargue, Johnny E.
Methodist bishops, ministers and con county. ' Mullins, Otis G. McCants Jr., Jas.
lay leaders of the Southeastern I Survivors include his wife and
jurisdiction, were meeting Tucs- ( three children.
dayat the Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta i
to map recommendations to the PASSERBY SCORNED
19 4 4 Southeastern Jurisditional BAG HOLDING $3,500
Conference to be held in Atlanta I
A buyer will be at our
store Saturday paying the
highest market prices for all
varieties of pecans.
Bazemore’s Dept. Store
Butler, Georgia
Phone 80
Butler, Ga.
Tune 22.
McChargue, Robert L. Moore, Jas.
H. Melvin, Frank Mclnvale, Gray
Mclnvale, Robert McChargue, Jas.
McDaniel, Ralph B. McCants, Bent
ley McChargue, John W. Moftre,
Dalton Mclnvale, Chester H. Mor
ris, W. Grady Mitchell, James A.
McMillan, Frances Laurette Mc
lnvale (nurse) Ernest M. Mont
gomery, Leo Mclnvale, Ralph
Montgomery, Ben H. Neisler, Wil-
| New York, Nov. 28—A paper bag
1 containing $2,000 in cash and $1,-
O. B. Coplenad for the past two 500 in negotiable government
years editor of the Georgia Agri- bonds was kicked around by pass-
cultural Extension Service, has re- ersby for more than an hour Sat-
ported to Ft. McPherson in Atlan- 1 urda y before being picked up in 1 burn E. Neisler, Walton T. Neisler
ta for active duty in the Army. A t ron t of the Public National Bank I Charles
native of Carroll county he gradu- & Trust Co. in the Bronx,
ated from the University of Geor- | The bag had been dropped by
gia's College of Agriculture in .Mrs. Sarah German, who had been
1938.
taking the money and securities to
the bank for Benjamin Ebelman,
A. V. Dodd, under indictment in of an enamelware plant.
r» rnnntv Riinprinr court Oil i -• . -
Fulton county superior
charges of embezzling $16,200 from
toe Atlanta Firemen’s Benevolent
While police searched for the
bag Benjamin Wolf, a milliner,
Association, was discharged Mon- thc !> ank and re ' ur ? cd ,“'
Aay night by the Atlanta board ct He wl " receive a reward ° f » 100 '
liremasters a a signal operator
following trial on charges of be
ing AWOL.
The first presidential preferen-
I DWOSTRF.ET'S WIDOW
ASKS FOR PLANE JOB
Marietta, Ga.,
H. Neisler, Herman H.
O’Neal, John W. O’Neal Jr. Eugene
Peed, John Joel Peed, William R.
Penny, Cecil W. Parks, John D.
Purvis, Henry Posey, Gordon L.
Parks, Charles J. Peterman, Lovicl:
H. Poole, Harold Posey, Frank
Peterman Jr., Wm. T. Parker, Nor
man J. Peacock, Wm. M. Peter
man, John R. Parks, Wm. L. Peed,
J. G. Parks, Kligah T. Payne, Ed
mond S. Poole, Henry C. Peacock,
Mitchell Parker, Paul J. Peed, Wal
ter Purvis, William Purvis, John
W. Purvis, Thos. V. Powell, Grady |
A. Parker, William Parker, Horace 1
H. Parker. Addis M. Pike, Sidney !
B. Rustin, Billie J. Ranow, Colum- I
bus M. Renfroe, Ralph F. Rogers, [
Cash For Pecans
We ill have a pa buyer at
our Butler stere Sat., Dec. 4
Matches
Table Salt
Salt
3 Boxes lie
10c
3 Boxes
100 Lbs
$1.15
Kelloggs Corn Flakes pk & 5c
Mixed Sausage
Lb
Nov. 26—Mrs.
tial nrimary in the United* states' Jan \ es j LonKS !5 eet > wid °w of the
was held in Seminole county Geor- \ °i’ dec l erat P Ge Jl 1 ie , r , a ’ a PP lied for a
gia. Tuesday of this week with f° b at Bell-operated bomb
Snore than 75 per cent of votes pl^^t there, listing her age as oO Charles R. Rustin, Nathan E. Rus-
^cast being favorable to Mr. Roose- plus—centuries old in experience tin, Paul J. Ranow, Willard Spil-
for the next President over a ud between lr and 18 in mind lers, Edward L. Spillers, Calvin
any other person whose name has and bod y-” Spillers, Paul Spillers, Elbert
been mentioned. ! As to "salary expected,” the-' Spillers, James C. Smith, Charles
gray-haired aircraft school gradu-1 A. Shelley, Willie F. Schofield,
Gov. Arnall has answered ru- ate remarked, “I don't know what 1 Archie B. Scaly, Andrew E.
mors that he planned to resign I’m worth, but I'll be running the Swearingen, Henry L. Scandrett,
and enter the Army by saying plant within a week.” Charles D. Smith, Ervin E. Sud-
Gatly that “I have no plans what- She told Bell officials she want-' deth, Leonard A. Smith, William
•oever of entering the Armed ed to "do anything that wall help C. Sealy, F. H. Sams (Dr.) Hugh
Forces.” In a statement issued the war effort, and I want to build K. Sealy, Shelley S. Swafford, Hugh
over the week end, Arnall said, "I planes because I believe that air D. Slaton, Richard Alton Sheppard
exnect to serve every day of the
term to which the people of Geor
gia elected me.” jin
-i thp
naiuiu j.
She recently completed a course j Theus, Thomas N. Turner, John T.
and assembling.
'Taylor, Robert M. Turner, Wm. L.
Bologna
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