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Butler Herald
KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1946
NUMBER 34
Taylor County Schools Open
’46-47 Term Monday Sept. 9;
Teachers Meet September 2
Local Man Visits
Interesting Points
In Western States
Prof. J. J. Greene and Prof. E.
H. Joiner Will Serve As Heads
Butler and Reynolds Schools,
Respectively, This Term.
All nine months schools in Tay
lor county will open Monday, Sep
tember 9. Teachers are required to
report for duty one week in ad
vance of the formal opening date
of school for pre-school planning
work.
We regret to anounce that the
teacher problem is more serious
than at any time in the past. At
this time we are five teachers
short in the county. It is hoped
that some provision for these va
cancies can be made before school
opens.
There are other regrets that we
are forced to express to the pa
trons of our schools. We had plan
ned to buy four or five new buses.
To date we have been disappoint
ed in that we have been able to
purchase only one bus. Our plans
for the summer called for indoor
flush toilets for all schools not
already having them. Labor and
material shortages have blocked
this plan. We will continue our
efforts until this need is met.
At the time of this announce
ment, the Economy Gas Company
is installing Butane gas in the
county schools- This project will
very likely be completed before
the schools open. The Wesley
school was not in operation at the
time the County Board contracted
for this work. At present we do
not know just when we can get a
contract for this school.
In our efforts to carry on with
man worn out trucks, money
shortage and other inconveniences
we covet your constructive criti
cism and cooperation.
E. H. DUNN, C. S. S.
LIST OF TEACHERS
Butler Grammar School
Mr. Herman Elliston, Principal
Miss Verna Jarrell, 1st. Grade
Mrs. Hazel Elliston, 2nd. Grade
Miss Louise Parks, 3rd- Grade
Mrs. Julian Locke, 4th Grade
Miss Bessie Childs, 5th Grade
Mrs. Irma Barfield, 6th. Grade
Mr. Herman Elliston, 7th Grade
Butler High School
(Incomplete)
Mr. J. J. Greene, Principal
Mrs. Hazel Dial
Mrs. Edith Guy
Mrs. Margery Mitchell
Miss Victoria Whatley
Miss Mabel Sanders
Miss Josephene Dupree
Mrs. J. W. Edwards, Music
Reynolds School
(Incomplete)
Mr- E. H. Joiner, Principal
Mrs. Wilma Hollis
Mrs. Margaret Phillips
Mrs. Sara Clay
Miss Lucibelle Booth
Mrs. Annie Laura Powell
Mrs. Camilla Carson
Mrs. Martha M. Dunn
Mrs. Otis Ogburn
Mrs. Roy Jones
Taylor Mill
(Incomplete)
Mis. L. D. King, Principal
Miss Dorothy Crooke
Crowell School
(Incomplete)
Mr. L B. Strickland, Principal
Mrs. Mary Lee Pennington
Mrs. Ida Fuller
Cross Roads
Mrs. Irene Gregory, Principal
Mrs. Edgar DeVane
Mrs. Ruth Kirksey
Rupert School
Mr. Wyman Harris, Principal
Mrs. Wyman Harris
Mrs. Lucille Callahan
Wesley School
Miss Lula Stanford, Principal
Mrs. Luelle Taunton
Preaching Hours Changed
At New Hope Primitive
Baptist Church
Services at New Hope Primitive
Baptist church will be htld each
First Saturday in the month at
4:30 p. m. instead of 11 a. m. as
heretofore. Eld. O- E. Cromer of
Gay is pastor of the church.
T. L Rogers, Prominent
Buena Vista Citizen
Is Fatally Injured
Buena Vista, Ga., Aug. 23—Fun
eral services for T. L. Rogers Jr.,
Marion County citizen who fell sev
en stories from an Opelika, Ala.,
hotel Thursday, were held here at
5 p. m- Friday.
Details of the fall were not dis
closed.
Mr. Rogers sustained injuries
to the back and head and broken
bones, members of his family re
ported. He was taken to an Ope
lika hospital where he died at' 5
p. m. Thursday.
The funeral was held in Buena
Vista Methodist Church with the
Rev. W. W. Taylor, pastor, offici
ating.
Survivors include his wife, who
was with him at the time of his
death; daughter, Beth; a son, Tom
my; a brother, J. M- Rogers, ordi
nary of Marion County, and his
mother, Mrs. Lizzie Rogers, all of
Buena Vista.
Pallbearers were A. D. Day, Tom
Hollis, H. D. Daniels, W. H- Cozton,
O. P. Harris, Ellis Burdin, Horace
Holley and E. C. Stevens.
(J. S. Court Upholds
County Unit Vote
Plan In Georgia
Mr. Btn Giles Returns Home After Three Judges Decline Suit Against
Extended Visit with Capt. and Talmadge, As Well As Declining
Mrs. Hammock in Santa Fe, Interference in Fourth District
New Mexico. Congressional Race.
Improvements Underway
In Taylor Co., New Homes,
New Businesses, Road Work
Last Conference for Year
To Be Held at Midway
Church Next Sunday
Church Conference Saturday
morning at 11:30. This is our last
conference before the Association'
meets and we are especially an-j
xious to have all of our nrembers
present to help in preparation of
our letter and electing delegates. I
Baptismal services will be heldj
Sunday morning at 10:30 at the|
Brantley Mosley Homestead. Any-1
one desiring to unite with the;
church can come prepared and we!
will be glad to receive you- I
Preaching Sunday morning at
11:30 by the pastor. The subject
wil be taken from the book of
Hosea. Read the entire book. Sub-i
will be “A Preachers Heart and 1
home broken; what causes it?” A 1
timely message for all the people.
Be sure to hear this discussion.
Bring some friend with you.
Preaching at Horeb Baptist
Church Sunday afternoon at 3:30.
All members and friends are urged
to attend. Important matters to be:
attended to at this service. j
Pray for the pastor and come ex-'
pecting a blessing.
J. H. Stanford
Mr. Ben Giles has returned home
from a quite extended visit to
points of interest in the West. He!
visited his brother-in-law and
sister, Capt- and Mrs. William J. 1
Hammock in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
for six weeks. During his visit 1
there he visited five Indian pueblos!
where he saw their cehemoni
al dances, These pueblos were San-;
ta Clara, Texas, Cochiti, Santa Do
mingo, and San Felipe. These;
dances are one of the West's big- j
gest attractions for tourists. The In-'
dians dress in their native cos-|
tumes and dance as have their forej
fathers for thousands of years. Hel
attended the Fiesta celebration at
Pueblo de Santa Clara. ;
His hosts took him on a scenic i
trip throughout the West, He visit-1
ed the White Sands National Mon-'
ument where the first atomic-bomb
was tested. They made the trip
trough Carlsbad Caverns, which
are the w’orld’s largest explored
caverns. There he saw the famous
bat flight at which time 3 million
bats fly from the caves to feed on
the praries. From there they trav-,
eled to El Paso and to Juarez, in
Old Mexico. They visited the
Grand Canyon, the Great Painted
Desert of Arizona and the Petri- •
fied Forest.
He enjoyed fishing in many!
mountains was also a favorite pas
time. On his trip he visited 18
national parks and 15 states. He
visited the famous palace of Gov- 1
ernors where can be seen such
sights as Kit Carson’s saddle- He 1
visited Carson’s home at Rancho
de Tavs. He made the picturesque,
trip through Cimarron CJanyon and 1
to Eagle Nest Lake. He went on i
drives through beautiful Hyde Park!
and the Jemez Mountains.
Santa Fe is the oldest capital,
city in the United States and is thej
end of the old Santa Fe trail. He
visited San Miquel, the oldest
church in the country, and the
Cathedrals and the famous Art
Gallery. He was entertained at a
dinner at the La Fanda Hotel, a
Fred Harvey house, which was im- ;
mortalized in the movie, “The Har
vey Girls”. Santa Fe is truly cal-1
led “the city different” in "the
land of enchantment”.
Ben was accompanied home by
his brother, Rdm 2-c J. A. Giles,
who is home for 15 days after wit
nessing the atomic bomb tests at
Bikini.
Atlanta, Aug. 26—A three-judge 1
court upheld today Georgia's
County Unit system of deciding
Democratic Primary elections and I
refused to invalidate nomination
of Eugene Talmadge to a fourth
term as Governor. ;
The petition for injunction was
filed recently by Dr. C. B. Gosnell,'
Emory University professor, and
Mrs. Robert Lee Truman, former
president of the Atlanta League of
Women Voters.
The suit sought to stop the
election of Talmadge by court or
der on grounds that the County
Unit System under which he was
nominated in the July Democratic
Primary violates the equal rights
provision of the U. S. Constitution.
Dr. Gosnell and Mrs. Truman
contended that as a resident of
populous DeKalb and Fulton coun
ties, each of which has six unit
votes, their ballots had much less
weight in nomination of a gover
nor than those of citizens in the
smaller counties with only two
unit votes.
The special court which heard
the case on Aug. 16 included Cir
cuit Judge Samuel H. Sibley and
District Judges F. M. Scarlett and
L. W. Strum.
The court also declined to in-i
terfere in a suit challenging the
constitutionality of the congres-1
sional race in the Filth Georgia;
district.
Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin, the
incumbent, won the popular vote
in this race, but Judge James G.
Davis won the unit vote. i
In the Talmadge decision, the
“The Constitution of the United
States has nothing to do with State
elections, save specially provided
in certain of the amendments.”
“Our system of government, state
and federal, has never sought nor
demanded that each voter should
have equal voting influence,
though that might seem an ideal
of Democracy. In our federal gov
ernment under its Constitution
each state has the Senate two
‘unit votes’ wholly regardless of
population, in the making of all
laws, and in confirming treaties
and appointments to federal office.
“These unit votes also appear in;
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Forms For Terminal
Leave Pay For Veterans
Obtainable at P. 0.
City of Butler Now Planning to
Purchase and Improve Water
Works Plant and Install Sewage
System.
Govemer-Nominee
Talmadge Goes to Mexico
On Vacation Trip
Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 23—Eu
gene Talmadge, Democratic nomi
nee for governor of Georgia,arrived
here by airplane today from At
lanta.
Talmadge told reporters he had
come to the Texas Rio Grande val
ley to buy Hereford cattle for his
thousand-acre Georgia ranch, then
slipped across the Mexican border
en route to Mexico City for a plan
ned sevret vacation.
Herefords are not raised in the
Rio Grande valley.
Talmadge said he would be
here for three or four days and
denied plans to go to Mexico City,
but afterwards left at 10 a. m,
aboard a Pan-American airways
plane bound for the Mexican capi
tal. With him was a party of four
Fred Derrick, Lee Oburt, Percy Mc-
Watt and Ed Goble.
Talbotton Calls
Revenue Issue For
Water System
Talbotton, Ga., Aug. 26—Resolu
tions calling for the issuance of
revenue anticipation certificates to
finance a new waterworks system
in Talbotton have been passed by
City Council and notice of the ac
tion served upon Sol. Gen. Ed wohl-
wender, Jr., Wohlwender will file
a petition before Superior Court
Judge T. Hicks Fort seeking vali
dation.
Meanwhile the privately owned
system will be taken over Tues
day by the town nder a tempo
rary lease arrangement with Mrs
W- C. Thomas and Mrs. Y. A
Olive, present owners, pending vili
dation and sale of the certificates
Plans as announced by Mayor
Henry Persons call for using the
present system as a base and en
larging and extending the system.
Engineers now are engaged in ma
king specifications and plans for
the new project.
Local Merchants to Close
Places of Business on
Labor Day, Monday
We, the undersigned, agree to
close our places of business on
Labor Day, Monday, September 2:
Suwannee Store,
E. L. Wilson
B. J. Byrd •
L- M. Doyel
(By Dan Fountain)
City Beauty Shop
(Mrs. Hortman)
Mrs. Bertha Bazemore,
Doyel Furniture Store
(A. M. Childres)
Western Auto Store,
J. W. McKenzie
The Cross Shop
W. H. Trussell
C. L. Snider Jr.
Ruth’s Beauty Shop
Maxwell’s Store
H. B. Walker
Baptismal Services
Reynolds Baptist Church
Next Sunday Evening
Rev. W. B. Hoats, pastor of the
Reynolds Baptist church, will
have charge of a baptismal service
at his church next Sunday eve
ning.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
Methodist Women to
Send Clothes to Needy
The W. S. C. S. will pack a box
of clothing on September 3rd to be
sent to needdy people over seas.
Anyone wishing to contribute
please contact Mrs. C. L. Glenn
or Mrs. Frank Gray or bring cloth
ing to business meetingon Septem
ber second at the church.
Sect, of Supplies
Mrs- W. F'rank Gray
Wesley School Rally
All the patrons and friends of
Wesley School are invited to at
tend an all day rally with dinner
on the grounds on Thursday, Sept,
fifth. Please bring mops, brooms
and other things to help clean up
the building and grounds. The
trustees are counting on the loyal
support and cooperation of all the
people to help make our school
one of the best in the county.
Speaking at the noon hour. You
will enjoy the day. Come and meet
your friends there for a day of
work and fellowship.
Board of Trustees
Wesley School
J H. Stanford
Clyde Wilson
Terrell Robins
Application forms for terminal
leave pay are now available at
the local post office.
All ex-servicemen will be glad
to learn that all that furlough
time they had earned but did not
take, will now pay off in the
form of bonds and cash as Con
gress passed the legislation au-
thrizing the payment and the
forms are ready to be prepared.
The bill applies to men and
women who served as enlisted per
sonnel during the war and had
not taken furlough leaves to the
fullest extent authorized them of
two and a half each month serv
ice.
In addition to the securing of
these forms at the post office the
postmaster has been advised, we
^re informed, that the veterans ad
ministration will establish an of-
tice at the court house In Butler
this week to assist veterans in fill
ing out these forms.
Game Warden Advises
Open Season for Doves
Begins September 16
Mr. Lee Posey, game warden for
this section, announces that open
season for doves begins September
16th and runs through September
30th, including Muscogee, Talbot
Taylor, Crawford, Bibb, Jones,
Baldwin, Hancock, Warren, McDuf
fie, and Columbia counties and all
counties north thereof.
The dove season opens through
out the state on December 18 and
continues through January 31.
Shooting is permitted from one-
half hour before sunrise to sunset
during open season.
Daily bag limit on doves are ten
(10) and possession (10). Ducks
(except the American red-breast
mergansers! seven, including in
such limit not more than one wood
duck, and any person may pos
sess not more than fourteen (14j
ducks including not more than
one wood duck.
American and red-breasted mar-
gansers—twenty-five singly or in
the aggregate. No possession lim
it. Daily bag limit on ducks arc
seven (7).
Open season on ducks begins
November 23 and continues thru
January 6.
Mr Posey solicits the coopera
tion of every one in carrying out
the rules and regulations govern
ing the protection of wild life in
this section.
Hunting licenses may be obtain
ed from Judge J. R. Lunsford at
(he local court house.
Boy Scouts Urge
Local Lads Not to
Kill Birds in City
Did you boys, who we see
walking around on the streets
with air ri fles know that it was
against thb Federal law to kill a
nesting bird (that takes care of
alomst all the birds) ?
We, the Boy Scouts, worked hard
trying to establish a bird sanctu
ary in Butler, and no one helped
us to keep them except the Butler
Garden Club. We want to thank
them for " their cooperation. I
would like to go a little further
and ask the Mayor and Council to
pass laws forbidding air rifles to
be shot in the City limits. If the
Council would like for a group of
Scouts to come before them, please
let us know, and we will be glad
to do so.
Remember killing a bird kills
part of beauty and song; so why
kill them?
—A Boy Scout.
WALTER DAVIS CRITICALLY ILL
Civic and highway improve
ments for Butler and Taylor
county, in addition to a normal
building boom, both in business
houses and residences, is no long
er an idle dream, but an actuali
ty-
A group of progressive citizens
having banded themselves to
gether for the purpose of develop
ing our many resources and en
couraging new enterprises are now
beginning to reap the fruit of lab
ors in a substantial way.
Reference has been made from
time to time in these columns of
the great demand for desirable
building lots to meet requirements
in the building boom the city is
now as well as for several months
been enjoying.
In keeping with this spirit of
progress better roads become more
and more essential ‘for the mar
keting of farm products and an
open door for city trading. In this
respect we are being aided both
by the state and federal govern
ment as shown by recent an
nouncement of a contract soon to
be let connecting Butler with
Buena Vista with a splendid high
way by way of Charing. Only last
week contract was let to the C. M-
Lyle Construction Co., of Gaines
ville, for widening and resurfac
ing Number Three Highway from
Butler to Flint river, also contract
for a two miles extension of But
ler-Fort Valley highway by way of
Reynolds.
Since these important announce*
rrrente comes ‘ another only yester
day of particular interest to resi
dents of Butler. This carries the
announcement of a government
loan to Butler of $4,738 in an
adequate sewerage system at an
estimated cost of $105,479, this in
connection with an election set
for September 25th in which all
qualified voters in the city of But
ter are asked to cast their ballots
either for or against tht issuance
of bonds for the purchase and im-
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Bibb County Court
Clerk, V.,H. Roberts,
Dies of Heart Attack
The family of Mr. Walter Davis
has the sympathy of t heir many
friends in the critical illness of
Mr. Davis.
Macon, Ga., Aug. 26—Vivian H.
Roberts of Macon, and clerk of
the Superior court, died in a Ma
con hospital Saturday night of a
heart attack, He had suffered an
attack at 10 p. m. and died short
ly after he was taken hospital. Mr.
Roberts was a veteran of World
War I. He had been clerk of the
Superior court for Bibb county 22
years.
Mr. Roberts was born in Jackson
Ga., Sept 29, 1888, the son of Lu-
ella McGaugh Roberts, and had
made his home in Macon since
youth. He attended the public
schools of Macon, graduating from
the Gresham High school, before
Lanier High school was built.
Leaving school he obtained a
job as bundle wrapper for the
Burden-Smith & Co. and later was
collector for the Joseph Neel Co.
Still later he became bookkeeper
for the Benson Hunnicutt Co. and
was working in that capacity when
the First World War began.
On joining the armed forces he
became a second lieutenant in
Co. A, 151st Machine Gun Bat. He
was wounded at Chateau-Theirry
Aug. 28, 1918, and was taken a
prisoner. As a prisoner he was in
a German hospital in Langen Sal-
za, Germany, until Dec. 22, 1918.
He was in thirteen hospitals in
Germany and thirteen in America
finally getting his discharge from
Walter Reed hospital in Washing
ton, D- C.
After his discharge he returned
to Macon and formed a partner
ship with W. C. Benson in the
the clothing business, remaining
this connection until he wa?
electer clerk of the courts in 1924
He had served as clerk of the Su
perior court of Bibb county for 22
years.