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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, JUNE 13, 1946.
PAGE SEVEN
Local
Happenings
t
Miss Carter Maxwell
Weds Lt. Koart In Ky.
From the Talbatton New Era
Mr. Jack Walton Maxwell
ted Macon Tuesday.
Mrs Flla Re-hprHson of Camilla
is the guest of ol, and rMs. R. S.
Foy.
Mrs W. E. Steed left last week
for Indian Springs to spend some
time.
Interesting Reminescence
By Geo. B. Culpepper
Residing at Ft. Valley
Columbus Girl Wed By
Proxy to Her Fiance
(By Geo. B. Culpepper).
Columbus, Georgia, June 9—
Everyone has heard of wedding
by proxy, but Friday it happened
to a pretty Columbus brunette,
who, while in Kansas City, Mo.,
Old Peter was a bridle cur. He married an Army captain in far-off
had no pedigree; but he had a Hamberg, Germany,
long tail, a terrific voice, acute The bride, dressed as festively as
ears and, what seemed to me, a if her husband were at her side
never-sleeping eye. He often scared instead of a Kansas City attorney
me nearly to death. is Miss Dorothy Powell, daughter
He was owned by a neighbor of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Powell of Co-
ours, uncle Wyatt Brooks. Uncle lumbus.
nounces the marriaee of t ' • Wyatt was a superannuated Meth- Meanwhile her far-distant groom
Mrs. Russell Thomas of Birming- ter, Miss Susie Carter Maxwell ^to I f reacher - and lived about a Capt. Laurence R. Skelton of
ham is visiting her mothei, Mrs. Lt. Virgil Paul Koart of San Gab-11™ ° trom I T iy boyhood home. I Lagune, Calif., is impatiently
L P Anthony Sr riel California ' Was ^ rec l uen ^y sen t there to bor- awaiting her arrival in Germany
The wedding was solcmninzed ! r ° W P ° lash ’ sugar ’ coftee ' and 80 Where a more tra ditional wedding
Butler, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Swain spent Saturday afternoon Ju
Sunday in The Rock, visitors ’
Mrs. Swain’s parents.
on. Of course I was sent to repay ceremony will be performed. The
. these items. And I had to encount-
0f o’clock at the Post Chapel,Camp Toid^r
Campbell, Ky. Capt. John A. Shep-, Uld F
Mrs. G. L Glenn is spending the herd, Post Chaplain, was the offici- . .,
week in Columbus guest of her minister, the ring ceremony there ^ rew a momosa tree,
parents, Dr. and rMs. Doster. being used. Music was presented w hich began to bend to the south
by Miss Dorcus Corruthers. U P about four feet from the
Miss Myra Byrd is spending this Lt. Richard Deasey of San Fran- 8 round —easy for a 10-year-old boy
week in Athens attending Home cisco, California attended the t0 cl imb. So, when I w’as sent to “walked through the door, saw me
Economics Teachers Conference. groom as best man and Lt. Walter Uncle Wyatt’s I w'ould ease up in- for the fir st time and immediately
Cameron of Louisville. Kv. was to that mimosa tree and then kissed me.”
Miss Frances Rustin left last
week for Washington. D. C. to ac.-
cept a
proxy marriage was necessitated
by the fact that only wives and
Just outside Uncle Wyatt’s yard children of overseas personnel
may join them.
Mrs. Skelton met her husband at
a Ft. Benning party in 1943 when
he, then a second lieutenant
groomsman. Miss Mary Linton sb °ut: “Hello!” Old Peter never The kiss led to a courtship of
Maxwell, the bride’s sister was faile d to charge the gate; but he more than two years until Skel-
government position there ma jfj Q f honor. She wore an aqua cou id not get me. Some one would ton’s transfer to Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton C. Mioncrief ore P e dress with brown accessories, 0011:16 and drive Peter into the The bride, a civilian employe at
and Mr. Crawford Moncrief of and an orchid corsage. Miss Ruth back yard and I would come down Ft - Benning, was accompanied to
Knoxville were Butler vsitors Mon- Bichardson of Lumpkin, ga. was and conclude my errand. Kansas City for the marriage by
day. bride’s maid. She, too .wore an or- Uncle Wyatt often came over ber mother and Mr. and Mrs. G. A.
chid corsage. and sat on our piazza and talked ^°bson, her sister and brother-in
Mrs. Martin Chapman left Tue- The bride and groom entered to- with my father; and I watched him law ’
sda for Macon to be the guest ot gether. The bride wore a suit of closely and listened to him careful- S ^ e ex P ects to leave the states
her sister, Mrs. Jim Owen several royal blue with black accessories, ly; for he had a collapsible rubber during the next shipment of wives
days. Her corsage was of yellow throated tobacco pouch which I wanted, to Europe. (
orchids. and which he had promised
Mr. and Mrs. Laman Graves of
Atlanta were guests of ther par
to
/AiiHiiLii weie idut-sia ui lhim uar- » ^ IrS- Eoart ls a graduate of the give me when all tne tooacco was
ents, Mr. and rMs. J. F. Taunton, ^ ni . ve f ^ ty of G £ org ‘ a and f ° r u he ? Ut ‘ He carried bis tobacco, cut
recently past four years has been a member into chews, and one day while he Ck A .|U D A E mn L..:, A J
of the faculty of St. Elmo School was talking with my father, I »nOUICI wC EllipildSIZCu
Mr. and rs. T. C. Boswell left in Columbus. heard him say: “That's my last
Tuesday for points of interest in Lt - Koart served for two years chew of tobacco.” I was on him
Kentucky where they will spend and a half with the army in the at once, and he laughed and gave
about two weeks. Aleutian Islands and is now sta- me the pouch.
Miss Raye Cox spent the week pendingordereto jd^hearmy'of After Uncle Wyatt gave me the
lend in Milledgville, the guest ot Occupation in Italy, where the pouch * wamod a rubber ball. So The doctrine of the new
Misses Ruth Cox and Nan Bone, couple plan to make their home for my father sald - George you hold, hould be emphasized in
Doctrine of New Birth
Noted Evangelist Says
SUNDAY AND MONDAY, JUNE 16-17
Sunday P. M. Show 3 o’clock. Sunday Night Show 9:00 o’clock
Monday Night Shows 8:30 o’Ciock
Dorothy Lamour - Arturo DeCordova
wsmstt o mu'll
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JUNE 19-20
Night Shows 8:30 o’clock
Carole Landis - William Gargan
In
Behind Green tights
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 21-22
Friday Night Shown 8:30 Saturday Showa Continue From 1:30 to 11
Roy Rogers - Gabby Hayes * Dale Evans
Along The Navajo Trail
Plus Second Feature
Pal Kelly - Anne Gwynne
In
The Glass Alibi
(Bob Jones)
itudents of GSCVV.
Mrs. Farley Reeves and son Jack
f Thomaston were week end
guests of Mrs. Reeves Parents, Mr.
nd rMs. C. E. Berms.
the next two years.
Miss Wells and Mr. Easton
Are Wed in Buena Vista
Miss Lois Bennett, Mrs. Iva Ben-
lett, Mr. Floyd Jinks, Mrs. W. E.
inks, all of Ideal were tm
ay
inks
birth
the
and I will strip the pouch into a modern world. Jesus said, “Except
i long rubber string, wind it on a a man bo born again he cannot
piece of cotton cloth, wrap thread see the kingdom of God.” It is
from a raveled, home-knit sock absolutely impossible for unregen-
l around the rubber string, sew it crated man to apprehend the
i well and you will have a good supernatural. After Elijah was
; rubber ball. translated the world inquired,
We did all of those things, and bore is Elijah?” Elisha was in
Buena Vista, Ga., June 8 A j was p roud The first rubber ball P° s it)° n to tell them. He saw Elijah
;, all ol Ideal were tne. lues- marriage that united two of Mari- ] had ever had , We were fi nishin g go to heaven. Elisha apprehended
guests of Mr. and Mrs. II. S. on- county’s most prominent fami- ceilin „ a new room to our house, the supernatural. No man can be
lies took place Sunday, June 2nd, and ^ om the top of tbe “ c hair- a P r °Phet of God who is unable to
The many friends of Mrs J R V ^ ieri u ^' ss , ;!^ ary Lassie Wells, h oarc jing” to the overhead was not apprehend the supernatural in
mson rejoice to know she return- daagbter ° T f bounty Commissioner finishod { bounced my baU> and God’s universe. No man can even
Id home Wednesday and that she Mr f' P' 8 ’ became the avv f u j t0 re late it dropped over be- see the kingdom of God unless he
I-- * „ bride of J. Austin Easton, at the tween the cbair . boai . d ing and the ls f boni ^ seoond time. The opinion
weather-boarding and I never saw 0 wol ldly-wise men about spiritual,
as been entirely restored to good home Qf her sistei . ( Mrs R ’ c Dil .
icalth.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller, Mr
ind Mrs. Oran Wadlow of Mission,
lard in Buejja Vista.
In the living room where the
marriage lines were' read by the
'oxas are visting Mrs. Leila Willi- Rev. . ,W- W. Taylor, the fireplace,
Jms and other Taylor County re
itives.
Miss Elaine Poole of Macon
it again!
things, has no value. An unconvert-
which was banked on either side
by beautiful ferns, easter lilies,
and pink hydrangea, formed an
is altar before which the bridal
There are only two people living f d banker may know the laws of
who might remember Old Peter- bank ‘ ng ’ A la \ vyer wbo 15 not , a
one of tnem is my boyhood friend Christian, may know the principles j
Boh Turner living in Montgomery ° f la ”: \ G °dless astronomer may
Ala., and the other is Mrs. Emma be , able to t mea8Ur f the , dlsLai ‘°°
Lavonia Brooks Souter, living at b ° "T" ; StaFS ? ut H ° nly
& people can understand things in the
fiepsi-Cola Company, Long Island. City, N. Y.
Pepvl-Cola Bottling Co.. Macao. Go
pending part of the summer with couple took their marriage vows. b daa oi d n p e 1 te d ° Uht ^ remem ' realm of the supernatural.
friends in Butler. Miss Poole grad- Mrs. Alto Hanner was the bride’s
Kited from High School in Macon only attendant and they entered
last week. fb'gdtlhSPand were met at the altar
by the groom and his best man,
Blanchard Herring.
The bride chose for her wedding
Splendid Health Record
Is Established By Georgia
Baptist Children's Home
The new birth is absolutely nec
essary for three reasons. First, no
man can understand God unless he
is born again. Nicodemus reached
certain intelligent conclusions
about Jedus. He said, “We know
you are a teacher come from God.
No man could do miracles that
thou doest except God be with
him.’ Nicodemus was an intelli-
young gent man. He knew that Jesus was
Rev. John M. Cox, Rev. M. J.
ood, Mrs. C. F. Posey, Miss Helen
Neisler and Mr. Ralph Coa aie at- a dress of powder blue crepe, fash-
tendmg Camp Meeting at Carn*. -j^ibng princess lines, with
elle, Florida. which she wore a black, open
General and Mrs. Leonard Sims crowned picture hat and black ac-
of New York, and Dr. and Mrs. cessories. Her corsage was pink Since Pearl Harbor, 204
Fred Saunders of Hawkinsville are carnations. Mrs. Hanner was men and women from the Georgia doing what nobody else could do,
guests of their sister, Mrs. Henry gowned in a yellow eyelet dress Baptist Children’s Home, Hapeville therefore, he concluded there must
McLean and Mrs. Helen Dunwody. and her corsage was gardenias. have been examined for military be some unseen power back of him.
Immediately after the wedding service. Of that number orily two Unconverted men may recognize
Mrs. R. L. Snider has returned the bridal couple left for a week’s have been turned down for any the fact that back of this universe
home after an extended visit in honeymoon at Lake Juniper, fore- reason. One of these, rejected be- there was a God. “Who made
Shreveport, La. visiting her son, ( going a trip to the mountains due cause of an injured shin bone, has those?” asked Napoleon as he
Herd Snider and children. Return- to the critical illness of the father completed work for a B, S. degree pointed to the stars ofie night. Even
ing wit hMrs. Snider were her two of the bride. at Mercer University and is in wicked men come to the conclusion
grandchildren, John and Herd Jr. The bride is a graduate of the perfect health; the other, who was that hack of the universe there is
. .,«■ B„ P t m wfir-har Mr Bu6na vista hi 8 h school. For some rejected because of a punctured ^ creativepower. But no man can
wMrhar and little time before her marriage she was eardruAi, is now a sophomore at understand God except those who
land Mrs. NAillard Wilchar and 1 .employed in Americus as price Hdw ^ T , d College, Birmingham. divine life. “He that hath the
jdugnier oi Manchester, Mi. an clerk tbe OPA. A i a and j s a i so j n excellent Son bath life.” Born-again people
^n‘ ConU a wercfueste Sunday of The groom ' S the S ° n ° f MrS ' health- This‘record of,, mental and h ave a divine life. They can call
C " a ; h r r ,nd ?randmother Smith Eason of Buena Vista ’ He physical health in the Georgia God * a * her / Sccond - no man can
} e * r h wicha^ d g d ’ w as born and reared in Schley B a p tist children’s Homo, perhaps obey God unless he is born again,
irs. Anna wicnar. county, but moved to Buena Vista lhe best in tbe na ti 0 n, has been '-^regenerated man cannot keep
Brunson regret to learn that he a- the lumber business, resuming this ^ an Orphanages in the southeast. hj s ovvo str ongth has ever kept
College Student at
tome For Vacation
niversity of Ga.; Mr. Armon Bazo-
more, of Mercer University; Missex
Man Bone, Betty Fehring, and Ruth
ox of G. S. C. W.;
The many friends of Mr. Willard several years ago to engagpd in a pp ro ached only by other Chris-
. i tUo 1 11 »-v-i Knr kiicinocc rocnminnr tnic .. . ..
man
the Ten Commandments. No man in
ain is confined to the local hos- business upon his discharge from
ital with pneumonia. Mr. Brunson army service a few months ago.
nderwent an appendix operation |
lere a few weeks ago, from which
has not fully regained his
trength.
Brady-Hill
Talbotton, Ga.—The wedding of
Miss Scotta Hill, only daughter ot
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Hill of Talbot-,
ton, to Charles R. Brady Jr., of
Jackson, Miss., was solemnized
June 2 at the talbotton Baptist
Among those college students church. Rev. M. J.,Fussell officiate
ow spending their vacations at ed.
ome are: Mr. Edwin Allen of the
SCREEN MISPLACED
A screen has been removed from
Miss Mildred the Butler Baptist Church annex,
lay, Andrew ollege and Mr. Janrv'S Please return it as it is badly need-
larmon of Mercer. C’d. W.M.S.
COAL COAL
Expecting cbf load of coal this week.
Place order now for immediate delivery
Prepare now for winter shortage.
E. L. DAVIS
Butler, Ga.
Rev. W E. Hightower
To Preach at Methodist
Church Sunday Evening
them. Remember, sin is in the
nature of the heart. You can put
a man in jail and keep him from
killing someone, but you cannot
keep him from being a murderer at
heart .Men are not made by law.
They are restrained by law. Men
are made good by the grace of God
and by the power of the new birth.
I,r Third, no man can please God un-
Rev W. E. Hightower will preach j eS s he is born again. We read
at the local Methodist Church Sun- much in the word of God about the
day, June 16 for Rev. C. L. Glenn, flesh. Flesh in the Bible means
Rev. Glenn is planning to begin man’s natural unrogenerated state,
revival services at Union Church “All o.ur righteousness is as filthy
Sunday evening and will therefore rags.” When we are born again we
be unable to fill his regular ap- have a new nature. We have the
HISTORIC
AND SCENIC SITES
INVITE TOURIST MONEY
When tourists come to your town, can you
“show them the sights?” Do yuu know the
'interactions in your vicinity?
Tourists will want to see your scenic and historic
places if you make them neat and clean, readily
accessible — and can direct them, to these in
teresting spotty
Tourist money'helps the whole town — so help
your town got its share of this new income!
Get behind the Georgia Better Home Towns Pro*
grain—or organize a BEIT Committee if vour town
hasn’t one. Send for FREE booklet that explains
this down-to-earth Program. Write:
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, ATLANTA
pointment here.
MT. OLIVE CEMETERY NOTICE
! nature of God imparted in us. Then
1 we can please God. No unregener
ated man by any good deed can
please God.
We will meet at Mt. Olive ceme- , .
tery, Taylor Mill, for the purpose Qirftl AnflOUnCCITIdlt
of cleaning off the cemetery and
church grounds June 27 last j sheriff and Mrs. J. M. Bone an-
Thursday in this month. AH who nounc(? the birth of a 9 lb. son
have friends and relatives buried a j. ^ be Montgomery Hospital Wed-
at this cemetery are requested to nesday Morning June 12.
come and assist in the work. i
—Tne Committee. I TO my CUSTOMERS
! This is to announce to customers
NOTICE that I am planning to be out of
town for the next 30 days and that
Persons’ Lake is private proper- my Beauty Shop will be under the
ty reserved for the exclusive use management of Mrs. Chas. Benns,
the ov/enr and invited guests Jr. while I am away,
and is not open to the public. i MRS. RUTH PEED
Mary P. Sims. • Butler, Ga.
JUNE 30
JfeV- ...
If you have been discharged
from the Army—if you held a
grade and wish to retain it—if
you have dependents — then act
now. . . . June 30, 1946, is
the last day on which you can
enlist in the Regular Army and
still take advantage of two im
portant benefits . . .• retention
of your old grade and family
allowances. q
) •cHLIST NOW AT YOUft NEAREST I
1 U. S. ARMY RECRUITER STATION
P.0. Building 1
Columbus, Ga.
f >v? "wSE-
A BIG DATE
FOR/ARMY MEN!
Family allowances for your
dependents will be continued
throughout your enlistment
only if you enter the Regular
Army before July 1, 1946.
If you have been discharged
from the Army and wish to re
enlist at your old grade, you
must enlist within 90 days after
your discharge. And before July
l, 1946. Think it over. Act now.
A GOOD JOB FOR YOU
U. S. Army
CHOOSE THIS
FINE PROFESSION NOW!
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