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w Butler Herald KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS VOLUME 70 BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1945 NUMBER 6 MR. W.J. WILLIS DIES FRIDAY AT HIS HOME HERE Was Stricken 111 While at Work Thursday; Funeral at Wesley Church Sunday. MAN FATALLY BURNED AFTER AUTO WRECK NEAR BUTLER SATURDAY CiAS POLKING FROM WRECKED CAR IGNITED WHEN MATCH WAS STRUCK TO INVESTIGATE DAM AGES DONE BY IMPACT. Mr. Tom Coulter was fatally . burned Saturday night following Mr. Walter Joseph Willis, o ! an automobile accident five miles years of age died of a heait a -; west 0 j Rutk?r on t be Macon-Co- tack at his home in this city Fn- | lumbus highvvay . day evening at eight o clock. e | According to witnesses the car was taken ill while at work Thurs day afternoon. Mr. Willis was born in Taylor MISS GILL DIES AT HOME, AFTER LONG ILLNESS Funeral Services Held for Deceased At Mt. Nebo Church Near Charing Friday. in which Mr. Coulter was riding collided with an automobile driv en by Jewel Ray Mauldin, of arrangements. Farmers Are Interested In Growth, Development Of Towns in This County and Preston county May 7, 1889 the son of , Thomaston and occupied by sev- late Mr. Zan and Mrs. Bett.e era j 0 ^ ber i ad ies. Mr. Coulter was Amos Willis. He spent his entire thrown from the car and knocked life in this county. j unconscious by the impact. In an In early young manhood Mr. e ff 0ld to investigate the damage Willis was married to Miss Clara, caused by the accident someone Belle Wilson also of ^this county, struck a match which instantly who survives him. He was a mem- g a soline pouring from "one ber of Wesley Methodist church, j tbe au tomobiles and which had Funeral services were held for sa t ura ted Mr. Coulter’s clothing Mr. Willis at Wesley church bun- wb ji e be j ay near the wreck. The day mornifig at 11 o clock. Rev. C. jj arnes covered Mr. Coulter and L. Glenn, Rev. J. H. Stanford and burned b j m fatally before mem- Rev. E. H. Dunn took part m e bers tbe p ar t y could extinguish services. Burial was in Wesley l tbe blaze cemetery. Funeral services for Mr. Coulter Pall bearers were Messrs- Luther I were he , d Monday afternoon. Clyde, Grady, and Tom Wilson, B., deceased is survived by a H. Bazemore and A. L. Waters. | w j L j e and severa i children. Besides his wife the deceased is: survived by three daughters, Mrs., ' n n n. i John Parker, Mrs. Oilie Bazemore HOIlOr ftOll 5l 11(16111$ of Butler and Mrs. J. B. Russell of Columbus; also four grand chil- Kilt 0r HlOll ScHOOl dren and a number of other near * relatives nad friends * FOI* SeCOHO 6>WeeXS J. W. Edwards II, of Edwards Funeral Home was in charge of i Those appearing on the Honor Roll of the local school for the second six-weeks period of the current school year are as fol lows: Third Grade Jesse Bone, Lee Corbin, Ernes tine Davis, Ruth Kendrick, Max- lyn Miller, Helen Rustin, Lexie „ , , I Mae Gragg, Elizabeth Hammock, * In iasfwSk^Issu; of the ***% aid i tried to point put the di:6ct ^ Montgomery and tredy Coul- advantages of building a better. ' - , and bigger towm and county, and I .. _ pointed out that every inducement; _ E ™ ily , A1Ia ”- ^ommy Theus, consistent with progressive and, Sandra Colq J| 1 f S. a " d Aubrey Bush ’ proper efforts should be made to! * 121 Grade get some of the manufacturing in- ■ ® ie Burns dustries to come within our bor- ' s ‘ ders while such industries were 1 Sixth Gr<adie looking around for favorable loca-1 B° bbl ° Sue Colquitt, tions from the largest cities. I . Eighth Grade Henceforth town and country peo-1 Minnie Lou Cromer, Mary Jo pie, farmers and merchants, Bar y ey ’ Carolyn Jinks, Hazel must, as never before, see that Wisham, D o r o t h,y Windham they have a financial and mutual Catherine Davis, Catherine Chil- interest in one another. Farmers dr ^ e> Norma Hester and Bobby are looking fo rbigger and better SpMers. markets. Ninth Grade If the county towns are indus- j Bernice Waller, Phyllis Dunn trially built up and expanded, ai and Louise Payne, better and broader market is, Tenth Grade awaiting farm products with a ^ Barbara Allen Marilyn Bussey, home demand with ready custom- ^ ara Fsye Mott and Lorenzo Doyel ers fo rthem at higher prices. In- [ Eleventh Grade stead of having a home market Marjorie Brown, Estelle Chil- with only a few hundred buyers dres » Annie Wisham, J. W. Mott, and consumers, they will have a Nora Dent, Elizabeth Massey, much larger town population for Bobby Locke and Lamar Alm- their food products, the steady 2 ren - all the year around demand will — — t b im£ cr oler? d and multlpUed many Important Notice to The hearty cooperation of every forward looking and progressive farmer in the present time with [I C y.jl Corviro the merchants and business men *^*011 JvlYilC of the townswill be rewarded with 1 a larger, better and more profit-' It is the urgent request of all able market for everything he postoffice employees, and this in produces on his farm. eludes R. F. D. carriers, that mail- I am sure that every man by ers of Christmas cards attach to the use of his common sense, and same the proper amount of post- ihat is the kind of sense 1 am age before mailing. It is further trying to appeal to, will readily requested that in affixing Red see this mutual cooperative ad- Cross stamps to letters and vantage to both farmer and mer- Christmas cards inclosed in en chant. | velopes they be affixed to the Let’s at once strike to do away back of envelope and never on with this largely imaginary line face of the envelope. By following between town and country folks, these instructions you will confer and all hands commence now with a great favor upon these em- our No. one resolution to pull ployees, as well as probable delay together for the building up in of mails during the rush of the every constructive way, our town Christmas season. And, please, and county.Ail of us can within don’t forget to do your Christmas the sphere of our own interests pull mailing early. together, regardless of imaginry , lines and by helping others we y^|| Cfoftfog fo The Herald went to press last week before news of the death of Miss Georgie Gill was made pub lic. Miss Gill died at her home in this city about six o’clock Wed nesday evening, Nov. 28. Her death was attributed to a stroke of paralysis, however she had been in ill health for the past year and a half. “Miss Georgie” as she was known by most of her friends, was born in Marion county March 3, 1877, the daughter of the late Mr. Z. D. Gill and Mrs. Elizabeth Gill. She moved to Butler with her parents approximately 40 years ago, and had made her home here since that time. Funeral services were held for her at Mt. Nebo church Friday morning at 11 o’clock. Rev. C. L. Glenn, pastor of the Butler Methodist church and Rev. B. T. Gill of Thomaston. officiated at the funeral. Burial was in Blood- worth cemetery. Miss Gill is survived by her mother, two brothers, Mr. A. J. Gill of Butler and Dr. Clark D. Gill of Detroit, Mich.; four sis ters, Mrs. Eli Garrett, of Butler; Mrs. Alma Stripling of Cordele; Mrs. Gordon Jinks of East Point and Mrs. Jewel Long of Ameri- cus. Active pall bearers included: 23 MORE MEN RETURN.HOME WITH DISCHARGE Ten Negro Youths Selected to Report to Ft. Bemning for Pre- Induction Examination. •OPEN HOUSE'DISPLAYING MRS. J. J. GREENE AUTO FARM EQUIPMENT CALLED TO HER HELD BY W^A. PAYNE REWARD FRIDAY PAYNE MOTOR COMPANY’S MOD-) ern new I OKI) BUILDING and Beautiful Life Ended with Passing AUTO REPAIR COMPLETION. SHOP HERE NEARS Of Wife of Butler Schools. Superintendent operation. The new Ford was also! loved ones and friends kept care- .11 i i f,,l a l _ j it _ • on display. ful vigilance at her bedside min- These exhibits, displays and i isjering to ber every need and demonstrations afforded insight I w sfl with the hope that the into the future of farming on a ' mean f being applied would check Acuve pan uearers included: , ’ Dr. Paul Gill, Messrs Dudley, negroes Wl11 lcave . for Ft. Benning Leon, Cecil and Earl Gill and Em-l where they wil1 receive Pre-induc- Mr. W. A. Payne’s new Ford | Taylor county lost one of its place, just completed with the most beloved citizens when Mrs. _ „ . largest floor space of any building Sara White Greene, wife of Prof. Twenty-three more Taylor coun- j n this section, was formally j Judson J. Greene, superintendent ty men have returned home and opened to the public Thursday of Butler schools, took her flight received discharges from the night with more than one hun-, to reign with the Heavenly host, armed forces recently. Most of dred Taylor county farmers pres- ; The date and hour of her passing these men have been in service 'ent. | was that of Friday, November 30, service several years and have A n educational program, in- 1 1945, 9 a. m., at the Montgomery spent many months overseas. eluding screen pictures showing. hospital. Each of these men are receiving all modem farm machinery and! For nine long weeks members of a cordial welcome back into ci- implements, Ford tractors, etc. in I ber family, skilled physicians, vilian life. — — - - - !l — J * Those discharged include Philips R. Bryan, Dr. J. Douglas Purvis Geo. D. Youngblood Lewis Coulter Walton T. Neisler Julian H. Mott John Robert Parks J. Leroy Stringfield Cecil M. Cullifer James E. lx>ng Lewi* E. Cosey O. Windell Windham Fred McElmurray Charlie J. Bickley Leo Gray Mclnvale Edmond P. Jenkins Colored Charlie B. Knowlton Cicero Lockhart Clay Hoi lie McCrary Jamie Russell Lucius Turner Sampson Milcher Calvin Russaw On Wednesday, Dec. larger scale and at minimum i the disease but to no avail. Pneu- amount of labor. Out-of-town speakers of the monia developed last week that hastened the end. .. m T t-* .i Mrs. Greene was born in Harris vening were. Mr. T J. King, of June 3j 1898( the sr"vrir r lr o °» “ s M ^r m wM * and E it gu on Co., Dearborn, Mich. ( From that time to the present she Delightful refreshments were moved from city to city where Mr. served during the evening by Greene as head of the schools in Misses Cathryn and Christine these respective communities and Payne and Mrs. H. H. Payne. ,at the same time filling places —— | herself of prominence and useful- Butler Garden Club Ladies J cial, civic, business as well as in Will CnAM#AH Da.aa. fraternal organizations in these If III sponsor DaZcai Of ! communities. She and Prof. Greene A, . ti A i ii ■ u, I | had been residents of Butler for New Hotel Next Week - only ° n ° year and a haif but | which time, so long as her health ». . „ , .permitted, she labored zealously of the R local and faithfully in t he various or- lu will sponsor a Bazaar in the gan izations in which she previous- mett Long. Honorary escort:! ,loa pnysicai examina n°ns. , dining room the the new Dean ly had been engaged in other 1 Those selected to fill this call hotel beginning Tuesday, Dec. 111 communities Genial of disnositiom •e fniinv.i:• and continuing through &tiirrtav.'. T , . . ^ n1 ?' 01 “sposmon, 12, ten .. : tion physical examinations. Messrs W. G. Hill, B. H. Bazemore T. B. Joiner and O. E. Cox. J. W. Edwards II, of Edwards Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Receipts at the Local Post Office Substantially Gain During November ! are as follow: Charlie Dugger, Jr. Jamie Lee Carson Eddie D. Sanders - John M. Gipson G. B. Towns Otis Howell James Riley Hodo Clyde Clifton Towns Gilbert McCrary Otis Jas. Brantley and continuing through Saturday ' and of ick and tender ^ ym £ December 15. The price of each, thy> she was the friend of every- p , f e c \. D ! body. Her advice was sought by all classes, particularly by thoi fundi 1 ? y ^i 1 " trouble, and her wise council Menus for each day Is as follows: “^' y She'wa?TmcmS Menu for Tuesday I of the Baptist church and Sun- Vegetable soup, baked ham,'day school where her light shone cranberry sauce, string beans, the brightest. beets, candid sweet potatoes, green { Mrs. Greene graduated with an salad, dessert, apple pie; sand-1 A. B. degree in the field of edu- wiches and drinks served. [cation from Oglethorpe University, Menu for Wednesday Atlanta, and taught high school Tomato juice, baked chicken English for sixteen years in vari- and dressing, cranberry sauce, °, us communities in the state. For I English peas, mashed potatoes, s * x y ears she was State President ! peach pickle, pear salad, ginger the Woodmen Circle and its I bread and lemon sauce, coffee or nat Ional representative. V/ h i 1 e tea. 'postmaster at Junction City for 11 Menu for Thursday years she organized a chapter of bvubfubiuui, ua. u . e uue 10 a ran- Williams, formerly resident of | Vegetable soup, beef roast, rice, : tbe East «;? Star and of which ing off of overseas mail by the ! Baylor county and Thomaston who butter beans, sweet potato soufla, f % w ^ s Matron. She was returning of members of U. S. * n Orlando, Fla., were held at sliced tomatoes and asparagus a ^ unda y School teacher for 22 armed forces serving in foreign ^ P’ m ' Monday at the home of salad, mince meat pie, coffee or, years and president of the Wcm- 'his sister, Mrs. Hoodman Parks, of tea. an s Missinnarvr tinaia+i, »,— Roswell Williams, Former Suddenly in Florida Funeral services for Roswell It is gratifying to learn receipts of the Butler post office for November show a substantial ' I ftf a | p A€ ; f | An 4' flloc gain over receipts’for November, nCSIUCIII, UlCi 1944 indicating a fine growth in the business affairs of our city. Postal receipts in many Georgia cities and towns, according to published reports, are showing considerable decline due to a fall- soil. In spite of these conditions re- ! F e y n °I ds - Burial was in Hillcrcst ceipts of the Butler post office cemeter y an’s Missionary Society during her Menu for Fririev ^residence at Junction City, Shiloh ^ .. . . f . , . . ^ . . i and Geneva, organizer and direc- Fruit juice, fried chicken, black- ff>r vrnirify . , ’ ’ : tor oi young people s work in ’Pfl npflfi nr hnanc proamorl i . - .. o r ^ u 114 * u UAI*v.t null JUH.L, ixlLU LillCKcIl, DldCK" fnr ryf vniivtfr n/\nr\lo*o i • have shown an increase for the I Members of the family said Wil- eyed peas or beans, creamed po-P^P 1 ^ w 011 * in three past quarters of 1945 and ‘‘ams went to Orlando three tatoes, baked asparagus, con- dea V h thlSfJL c ° mrnunit,es - J er for practically every month of wa t*k.s ago, after spending more gealed fruit salad, cucumber tinct ’ ln „ tn If. dU ' each quarter. than a month with his father at. mv-n* ni„ , tinct loss to not only this com- All Patrons of the Relative of Butler Lady Dies at Orlando, Fla. Relatives learned Saturday, than a month with his father at pickle, pecan pie. Imimitv hut th~ „t * " ♦ r Reynolds, Mr. A. G. Williams, and i Menu L Soturdov \ i J, State 3t larEe ' Mrs Parks. They said they were Y f «» r Saturday | Surviving Mrs. Greene besides notified o? hif^h by y OrlandoL r ^f cISL'’I W eS“ U JS and *!f aV “ y CrUShCd officials, who said his body had £3 Sd slaw banaS 2’ Sthv eh" 6 ., f MrS * been found and identified bv a ^ ' SlaW ’ banana PUd ‘I ? or .°. thy Church, wife of Lieut been found and identified by a d i ng letter from his sister in a pocket. | The family said they txad no in Nov. 17, of the death of Mrs. G.F\ | dications his health was bad, and J. C. Bloodworth Killed McCain at her home in Orlando, j tbat bis death was unexpected. 1 ^ Fla. Mrs. McCain was the former! He is survived by two daugh- gy FdllillQ Tree MOfld^y C. H. Church Jr., Marine Corps Pilot, stationed at San Diego, j Calif.; one son, Lieut. Vincent M. | Greene, stationed at Pearl Harbor, instructor and pilot of naval air transport planes; and one grand son, Michael V. Greene, fourteen | months of age who lives with his i mother at Alameda, Calif. C. Bloodworth, 45-year-old ! ™ e . fl °;' al . tribut f ' vece . man F ,nrkpr nnnWnntnllu 30(1 ^Utlful, but beautiful 3S to*- I Miss Jewel Weldon of Columbus. rers > Misses Geraldine and Frieda 'A graduate of the Columbus, Williams of Thomaston; his father AftPCIUtAIl RpvnrJfSc School of Nureing, she was sta- A - Gus Williams, Reynolds; six ICIIIwOll nCal IICjTIOlUd tioned during the war at' Finley listers, Mrs. R. H. Parks, Reynolds;! General hospital, Thomasville, Mrs - Clara Eden, Atlanta; Mrs. - --— “-“and beautiful but beautiful a Ga., as an Army nurse. (Beulah McGinty, Junction City; umber worker, was accidentally th th ‘y were not so beau | She is survived by her husband Mrs - Nettie Lee Jones, Atlanta; killed near Reynolds Monday, tlfu y as th y . f “•«, that George Franklin McCain, a broth- Mrs - Alma Farrar, Pahokee, Fla.; ; when a tree being cut by a log- Were , id tl> e __ k ' L 'thl er, Dewey Weldon; two aunts, Mrs. I Mis s Lucile Williams, Pahokee, dng crew fell on him and crushed 0 ff iciatincr 'mirier ac Ida Bazemore, Columbus, Mrs. J 1 1 - «'» bis ° rninKlter ’ as ho P a,d F. Posey, Butler; two nieces, Mrs ; Robert Peed and Miss Betty Wei don; two nephews, Dewey Wei j don Jr., who is in the armed serv 'ices overseas, and Chester Weldon Funeral services were held in Orlando, Fla. can ’assuredly help ourselves. The united effectual efforts of many U flA J„ DaakIa » C can accomplish many things.WTiiie Needy IvOpie HI tlirOpe a few men without cooperation! can accomplish but little if any; line of worthy endeavor. Sincerely yours, W. E. STEED The W. S. C. S. of Butler Meth- i odist church will send a box of 'clothing to needy prsons in Europe. All desiring to give clothing to FOB SALE this worthy cause will please Complete grocery and general send packages to Mrs. Sara merchandise stock, electric meat Cross’ Shop not later than Dec. 12. market, cases, cooler and sausage Woolen clothing is preferred, grinder. For details write or see, Mre. W. F. Gray, Mrs. T. J. Johnson, Ideal, Ga. Chairman of Supplies. ^Bloodworth had tried to get out q ; ,aUtie ‘ s in 4 114 her lite and her faithfulness in t e path of the falling tree, ^ serv j ccs D f ber Lord a " f ° 0t 'l Funoral services, attended by g in the swamp mud. 'one of the largest assemblages of Funeral services were held at friends ever witnessed here 8 were 11 a. m. Tuesday in the Turners conducted at the Butler Baptist Ch Ri Pt H cen J atery " . church Sunday afternoon at three Bloodworth wa sa resident of O 'ci ock( the SGrvices bein con . Crawford county, and had moved ductcd by Rev . E . H . Dunn Bap- to Reynolds recently to work in an tist minister, assited by Rev. C. L. Would appreciate it very much | T expanding lumber project He is Glenn, pastor of the local Metho- if the party who borrowed the ! Detroit, Dec., 1—Malcolm Me- survived by his wife, three chil- d j s t church followed by interment block and tackle out of the back Ueod, 18-year-old runaway son of drn . ° n e brother, C. B. Bloodworth i n the City cemetery. Pall bearers of my car would return it home, former Rep. C. J. McLeod, was re- of Roberta, and two sisters, Mrs. active: Mack Turner, H. B. Walker as I need these articles very leased from police custody Satur- Isabel Cochran and Mrs. Beulah E. Ii. Bazemore, Horace Lumpkin rn,,f>h 'day after his father declined to,Wilson, both residents of Roberta. G. D. Locke and Charles Benns; KIfvn o rvinrmlnint />ViQrrrmrr him ■■ ■■■ ■ Vir\nnnn«.> t n «* * PLEASE RETURN ! Fla.; and two brothers, L. E. Wil ! liams, Macon; and James Wil liams, Albany. | : Runaways Arrested at .Columbus with Big Roll [Forgiven by Their Parents T. C. Boswell, Butler, Ga. FOR SALE Home known as the Wallace sign a complaint charging him with theft of $20,000 in cash from their Detroit home. The elder McLeod said the FARM FOR RENT honorary escorts: J. E. Matnis, J. E. Tillman, Mercer Cooke, Gordon Cooke, Howard Mott, Hugh Gee, 44w.nc niiuwji an uie wanace me ciuci iuuueuu saiu me i Two-horse farm, known a3 the W. C. Jordan, Leonard Morgan, Dr. residence. For further information youth will probably be sent north Chap Youngblood Place in Potter- Lewis Beason, R. P. McGuffin, write (125) for a rest. McLeod, with two ville district. Located on school Mack Mathews, P. B. Childs, W.' MRS. G. F. OLIPHANT, young girl companions, was ap- bus route. (126’2tp) A. Moore, J. R. Cooper and C. s! 696 Ingleside Ave, Macon, Ga. prehended in Columbus, Ga. I E .A .Hollis, Reynolds, Ga. Price.