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The Butler Herald
"KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS*'
VOLUME 70
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTtMKkR 5, 1946
NUMBER 35
Revival Services Begin
Reynolds Baptist Church
Dr. Charles H. Hopp of Monte' Thomaston Negro
zuma to Assist Rev. W. B. Hoats pfggjj Q|j TllCSCfciy
Killed Wednesday
During This Revival.
Revival services begin at Rey
nolds Baptist Church Monday, Sept.
9 and will continue through Sun
day, Sept. 15. Two services will be
held each day at eleven o’clock a.
m. and eight o’clock p. m.
Rev. W. B. Hoats, pastor of the
Church, will be in charge of this
revival. He will be assisted by Dr.
Charles H. Hopp, pastor of the
Montezuma Baptist Church.
There will be a special musical
program at each service by local
Mrs. Elam Jinks
Dies at Her Home
Thursday Morning
Funeral Services For Mrs. Jinks
Were Held at Mauk Methodist
Churclh Friday.
Mrs. O’Riska Hobbs Jinks, wife
of Mr- Elam W. Jinks of Mauk,
died at her home Thursday,
August 29th at 9:45 a. m. Mrs.
Jinks’ death, was attributed to a
heart ailment from which she had
Thomaston, Aug- 29 — Horace
Avant, Upson Negro farmhand,
was in court Tuesday on an as
sault and battery charge, drew a
choice of paying $100 fine or serv
ing 12 months—paid the fine and suffered forji number of years.
in less than 24 hours after gaining ~
his freedom was dead as the re
sult of a highway accident.
Avant, a hand on Joe Lee Bar-
She was born in Schley county
August 20, 1879, the daughter of
the late Mr. Willis and Mrs.
Drucilla Peacock Hobbs. Soon
ker’s farm was found guilty in after her marriage to Mr. Jinks,
Upson superior court Tuesday on which was more than 54 years
piugiam tu taui ‘ , an assault and batterv charee and Jeago ago, she moved with her
orchestra, under the drrection ofj ™ J J hU ind g 'to Taylor county and
Mrs. Lewis Ruffin.
The nubile is extended a cordial I fine of 3100. The fine was paid by the couple established their home
P - his employer, Joe Lee Barker and in MauK mmmnmtv Mrs. Jinks
invitation
services.
to attend each of the
Two Drivers Killed When
Six Racers are Piled Up
At Atlanta Race Track
Atlanta, Sept. 2—Daring George
Robson, whose roaring racing car
carried him to the very peak
of fame in his sport, and
George Barringer of |lndianapolis
crashed to their deaths on the one
mile dirt track at Lakeland park
today.
The two speed drivers lost their
lives in a smash up and dust-hid
den pile up of six racers on the
northwest turn of the strip- They
were seeking new honors in a 11)0-
mile Labor Day grind, the first of
its length sanctioned in the
South by the AAA.
At least two others of 11 starters
were hurt in the tragic mishap,
neither appearing seriously
The death of Robson, Glendale,
Calif., winner of the Indianapolis
Memorial Day classic—Supreme
honor of automobile racing—was
the most frightful.
As a holiday crowd of more than
20,000 looked on in awe, at
least two, perhaps three of the
racing machines, rolled over the
body of the 36-year-old veteran of
15 years of racing.
While dust still swirled up from
the tangled wreckage of racing
cars ambulances rushed from the
track infield and took Robson and
Barringer to Grady hospital. They
were dead upon arrival.
Robson was married and the fa
ther of a 12-year-old boy and a
six-year-old girl. Barringer, 42,
who twice finished in the money
at Indianapolis, is survived by his
widow.
community. Mrs. Jinks
he returned to his farm job. ■ was one of the oldest members of
Late Wednesday afternoon the Mauk Methodist church.
Avant stepped from behind a Funeral was held for the de-
parked truck on the Barnesville ceased at the Mauk Methodist
highway and into the path of an church last Friday afternoon Rev.
oncoming truck driven by B. C. • L. Glenn, pastor of the Church
Watson. Sheriff Grady Meeks was in charge of the funeral,
quoted witnesses as saying the Interment was in Bloodworth
truck driver swerved to miss the cemetery.
negro and simultaneously the ne-' Pall bearers included: Messrs
gro changed his course and again Oscar Averett, Almond Averett,
ran into the path of the truck. He William H. Streetman, Moses
was struck and killed instantly. ' Streetman, J. L. Streetman and
Investigating the accident, Sher- 1 James Guined.
iff Meeks and State Trooper Posey | She is survived by her husband
of the Griffin station, term the ac- and four daughters: Mrs. J. W.
cident “unavoidable” and no Hay of Pinehurst, Mrs- H. S.
charge was made against the driv- Christopher, Junction City, Mrs.
er of the truck. Watson was driv- C. T. Williams, Fitzgerald, Mrs.
ing a truck belonging to G. B. McCants, West Palm Beach,
the J. B. Watson Produce Fla.,, and Mrs. Elba Sloan, Lake-
Company and was headed in the land, Fla.; also 22 grand children
direction of Barnesville. The acci- and two great grandchildren,
dent happened a short distance I
from the home of the negro’s em- j FnrmC Fnr Terminal
ployer, Mr. Barker, about five 1011115 lOr IClIlmidl
miles out on the Barnesville
Road.
Miss. Inez Jarrell Reynolds High Opens
Dies at Her Home p or j\j e<w School Term
After Long Illness 1
p , » ' „ „ „ 4-H Club Poultry Show
Funeral Services Held Monday *
Afternoon At Antioch Baptist To Be Held in This City
Thursday, Sept. 12th
Church.
Miss Inez Jarrell died Sunday
afternoon at her home near But- 1 County Agent R. L. Coleman an-
ler where she was born, reared, noun< -' e s that on Sept. 12, 120 pure
and spent her entire life of more bred New Hampshire Red pullets
than fifty years- will be displayed and sold on the
The passing of Miss Jarrell c °uuty court-house lawn. This
followed an illness of several P ro 3 ec t is being sponsored by Sears
months. For sometime she had Roebuck Co.
been confined to her room, and Last March 20th the county
knew the end was approaching; agent received from Sears Roebuck
but she viewed it with Christian 1-000 pure New Hampshire Red
resignation and as one who was c h>cks and distributed them over
fully prepared to go. the county to teen 4-II Club boys
Miss Jarrell was born Septem- and girls, These projects were un-
ber 3, 1893, was the daughter of der supervsion of the agent
Mr. George W. and Mrs. Annie during the year. On the morning
Walker Jarrell. °f Sept 12th ea ch contestant will
While very young Miss Jarrell bring 12 pullets to be entered in
united with the Antioch Baptist the contest.
church and lived an exemplary first prize will be a purebred
Christian life until the Father dairy calf; second prize a purebred
called her to the higher realms. Silt I third prize, $7.50; 4th prize,
Although her influence for good $5; 5th prize, $2-50; 6th prize $1;
was most keenly felt in her ^th prize, $1; 8th prize, $1; 9th
church, her light shined brightest prize, $1; and 10th prize, $1.
in her home. It may well be said Mr - W. H. Bennett, extension
of her that she had as many poultryman, will do the judging,
friends both white and colored as a ft er the judging, the 120 pullets
any person in this section, due to w iR be auctioned off and the
her most lovable and gracious dis- proceeds will go into a 4-H poul
try fund to enlarge and continue
Special Opening Exercises Will
Be Held at School Auditorium
At 9 o’Clock Monday.
position.
Funeral services which were at- 1
tended by a large number of local
the project in 1947, buying
baby chicks for other 4-H
The Reynolds High School will
open its doors for a new school
year next Monday at 9 a. m. The
prospects are pleasing for a suc
cessful school term. The rooms and
halls have been repainted and
other repairs made that should
make the building more attract
ive; a new library room with
many new books should be
helpful; a faculty cf u:.usual abil
ity has been selected that shuid
add much to making the year a
success.
A special program has been
planned for the opening exercises
on Monday morning. The local or
ganization of the Woodmen of the
World will present |on this occa
sion a large flag of the United
States for the school to use on its
.flagpole. A prominent official of
this organization will deliver the
address of the day- Patrons and
friends of the Reynolds school are
invited to be present at these op
ening exercises.
The faculty of the Reynolds
High School consists of the follow
ing:
E. H. Joiner, Principal and Head
more 0 f Mahematics Department.
Club
Booth Family Reunion
Held at McCants Mill
Sunday, September First
Leave Pay For Veterans
Obtainable at P. 0.
New Afternoon Daily
Newspaper Planned at
Columbus by J. E. Page
for terminal
available at
Finds $3,050 Cache
In Dead Man’s Truck,
Given $700 Reward
Social Circle, Aug. 30.—Honesty
and the strange story of an iti
nerant popcorn salesman who
drove a truck containing a secret
panel combined to make Raburn
Lee, a farmer, $700 wealthier.
Several months ago, said Lee, a
stranger was killed in an accident.
Investigation identified him as a
member of an Indiana family, who
followed small fairs and carnivals.
When members of the family
came to Social Circle to claim the
body, said Lee, he bought the
dead man’s truck for $300. Later,
he said, he decided to make some' Wifh Mrc P F WhfltlfcV
changes in the truck and discover-! Flla. V. L. J
ed a secret panel containing $530501
in bil j Si i The Hodges-Kirksey
Application forms
leave pay are now
the local post office.
All ex-servicemen will be glad
to learn that all that furlough
time they had earned but did not
The decendants of the late Geo. take> will now pay G ff i n the
S. and Anna Booth gathered at Mc-| form ’ of bonds and cas h as .Con-
Cants Mill Sunday, September l,| gress passe d the legislation au-
for a family reunion. It was agreed, thrizing the payment and the
that this date be made an annual forms are rea dy to be prepared.
occasion.
A picnic lunch was served at 10
The bill applies to men and
women who served as enlisted per-
o’clock, and afterwards many of’ sonnel during the war and had
those present enjoyed boat riding • not taken furlough leaves to the
as well as out-of-town friends, boys and girls of Taylor county,
were held for Miss Jarrell Monday
aet 4 p. m. at the Antioch Bap
tist church. The service was in
charge of her pastor, Rev- J. H.
Stanford assisted by Rev. E. H.
Dunn.
Active pall bearers were her
nephews: Messrs Calvin, Blanford, 1
A. T., Walter and Philip Jarrell Columbus, Aug. 30—The Colum-
and Eddie Pennington; honorary bus Mirror has suspended publica-
pall bearers were Messrs Thelmon, tion as a weekly newspaper with
Murray, Fred, Gorman and Polk the August 30 issue, looking to
Jarrell, Luke Adams, Mercer the time it will resume as an af-
Smit* B. H.'Bazemore, E. M- and ternoon daily, i* was announced
Edgar Gaultney. _ , by J. E. Page, publisher, in a full
She is survived by one sister, page statement in the Friday is-
Mrs. C. F. Bennett; four brothers, sue.
Messrs. H. F., G. B. and W- A. Mr. Page, in the statement, ex-
Jarrell of Butler and Ralph Jarrell plained that plans are "well under
of Thomaston. ,way to form a $250,000 corporation
Julian W. Edwards II of Ed- to publish The Columbus Mirror as
wards Brothers Funeral Home was a daily newspaper.”
in charge
merits.
of funeral arrange-
on the lake in the crisp fall air.
Others engaged in conversation, re
calling other days, and renewing
acquaintances with relatives.
Those attending were:
Mrs. Willie Booth, Mr. Martin Par
ker, Lillian, Annette, Joyce and
Johnzalene Parker, Mr. and Mrs.
; fullest extent authorized them of
1 two and a half each month serv
ice.
In addition to the securing of
I these forms at the post office the
postmaster has been advised, we
are informed, that the veterans ad
ministration will establish an of-
Mack McKinley, Mrs. Bessie Downs at the court house in Butler
and Sammy Hammock, of Thomas- week tQ assist veterans in fill-
ton; Mr. and Mrs Horace Harper QUt these forms .
Joe Harper, and Dale Newton, of b
Winer Park, Florida, Mr. and Mrs.'
Terrell Booth, Roy, Sylvia and Jan-|
ice Booth, of Columbus, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Booth, Angelyn and El-
ayne Booth ofMoultrie; Mr. anu |
Mrs. Harvey Booth, Miss Carolyn (
Booth, Edwin Booth, of Reynolds;
Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Harmon, Doro-j
thy and Riley Harmon, Mrs. Lucille
Downs, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Me-1
Cants, Mr. and Mrs. Moody Peed' . , „ .. ....
and Dondra Peed, of Butler and ton»,_Doth cogeratott ot_Uw Mid;
Veteran Service Officer
To Be at Court House Here
Each Monday, Friday
Negotiations are in progress, the
statement said, to secure a loca-
! tion on Broadway as a permanent
' home for the Mirror.
I Since much of his time in the
immediate future will be devoted
to preparing for daily publication,
I Mr. Page said it was necessary to
suspend the (weekly, which now
requires much of his time-
No date for the starting of daily
Mrs. Harry Powell, Assistant
Principal and English.
Miss Dorothy Hinton, Commerce
and Social Science.
Mrs. Ricks Carson, Science and
Library.
Mrs. Roy Jones, Home Economics
Mrs. Ralph Dunn, Junior High
School Department.
Mrs Roy Clay, Fifth Grade.
Miss Lucille Booth, 4th Grade.
Miss Margaret Phillips, 3rd
Grade.
Mrs. W. M. Hollis, 2nd Grade.
Mrs. Otis Ogburn, 1st Grade.
Mrs. J. A. Pendergrast, Music.
Miss Louise Taunton, Secretary
and Assistant Librarian-
Chatham Group
Fire On Police
Assault Suspect
Savannah, Sept. 1—Angry resi
dents, armed women among them
shot'up a county police car early
Sunday as it left a nearby com
munity with a white man sought
for the assault slaying of a 36-
year-old woman.
County Police Chief W. F.
Chapman, said more than 100 shot
Mr. Leonard Parker of the State
Department of eVterans Service ad- publication was fixed. The Mirrori pe ] ted the automobile but that
vises the Herald that he will be at be | an Publication last Jenuary. | neither the prisoner nor county of
the Court hose in Butler on Mon-j . Tb£? final issue Friday also car-
days and Thursdays of each week r > ed ed * ° rial ln whlcb + . w ; f
. J . . , „ . Woodall, editor, announced that he
to assist veterans in filing claims , . . ..
was terminating his association
with the Mirror, because of the
press of personal business.
for Terminal leave pay and filling
out other important papers-
Perkins Sisters Enjoy
Fishing In Their Pond
Miss Berta and Miss Irene Per-
Miss Elizabeth McCants, of Macon. dle West f ern Okmulgee River Soil
Conservation District, are en
thusiastic about their soil con-
Hodges-Kirksey Auxiliary
Meet September 10
(Photos on Page 8)
servation practices that have been
established on their farm and they
are well pleased with their fish
1 pond.
Both being lovers of fishing,
Auxiliary they have it on their city and
ficers were wounded.
Scores of residents, many of
them armed, were searching for
the man, the chief said, when he
telephoned from a house in the
community and asked police |to
rescue him. Chapman said many
women participated in the man
hunt, armed with shotguns and
pistols, and that when they spot
ted the man in the automobile the
group opened fire.
One tire was shot off the car.
The prisoner was lodged in the
Chatham county jail.
The body of the woman was
surveying site for dam and secur- Democratic Executive Committee found early Sunday about 50
Wife To Fill
Husbands Job
j Mrs. Berha Odom, Jr., of Newton,
I has been nominated to fill the job
! to which her husband originally
sisting with technical service in was nominated. The Baker County
ing fish for them. selected Mrs. Odom whtn her hus-
The site for the pond was well band, chosen in the recent Demo-
chosen. It put to use land which cratic primary, said he could not
was too swampy and boggy for serve because of “personal reasons”,
pasture or cultivation. Easily ac- Odom, himself, served in the Sen-
cessible to the home and can be a te in 1941 and in the House in 1943
used for farm stock-pond in the a nd 1945.
recent drouth as the pasture joins While Odom did not explain his
the field where the pond is locat- “personal reasons”, political lead- 1
become
yards off a road ntar the Pin Point
Community where she lived. First
reports said she was lured from
her home by the man on the pre
tense that a friend |had been in
jured in an automobile accident
All-Day Singing at
Pine Mountain Valley
Next Sunday, Sept. 8
CARD OF THANKS
-Pub. Chm.
There will be an all-day singing
at Pine Mountain Valley next
Sunday. Pine Mountain Valley is
located three miles east of Hamil
ton, Ga.
Featured at Sunday’s
Butler P. T. A. To Hold
First Meeting of Year
At School Bldg. Sept. 11
bass or bream almost in
I back yard.
i This pond was made possible by
The P. T. A. will meet at the their determination and with the
exercises ! Butler School House Wednesday af- help of Triple-A and Soil Con
ed. ers say he is slated to
The pond is also well planned Executive Secretary to
as it has a protective strip of Nominate Talmadge.
kudzu around it which acts as a
filter for any surface water that
may run into the pond, thus, pre
venting it from filling up with
We wish to extend our sincere
I ivy, sunburn and all that go with ponds. The banks are kept clear appreciation to Dr. R. C. Mont-
fishing- They only have to wait of trees, brush, cat tail, bulrush-; g0 mery and to the many kind
j until the cool of the evening orjes and other shallow water vege- friends in the community for
get up early in the morning, walk tation. All bushes and floating their many acts of kindness and
across the road in front of their | materials are removed from pond expressions of sympathy shown
! lovely country home and they can j as frequently as they appear. | our beloved sister and aunt whose
enjoy the thrill of the day at aj It is ponds of this type that the P assing we deeply mourn. We wish
Lee notified the family of his find Post No. 187 will hold their regu- town friends when they care to try
and they rewarded him with $700. lar business meeting Sept. 10th at their luck for bream or bass, they
| the home of Mrs. C. E. Whatley do not have to spend their days
beginning at 3:30 p. m. planning for some far-away trip
Every member urged to attend or worry about insect bites, poison I sand as is the case of many mill
! this meeting.
Electric Current to be Off
Governor- From One P.M. to Fair P.M.
Sunday, September 8
will be the Kinney Trio and the ternoon, Sept. 11, at 3.15 P. M. This Conservation. The Triple-A as-
Stamp Baxter Quartet. , is the first regular meeting of the sisting them in paying for the
Every one is extended a cordial | new schol term and everyone is construction of pond dam and Soil
invitation to attend- j urged to attend.
Conservation Service in the as-
their Supervisors of the Midddie Wes- a lso to express our appreciation
tern Ocmulgee River Soil Con- for the large and beautiful floral
servation District recommend and offering. We deeply appreciate
urge farm owners to build; ponds their expressions of sincere sym-
that in addition to furnishing pathy in this our sad bereave-
food and wholesome enjoyment, ment. May God’s richest blessings
utilize proper land use and con- abide with each of you is our
serve the water supply for farm sincere wish-
use. | The family of Miss Inez Jarrell
This is to notify Georgia Power
Customers in Taylor County that
the current will be off from one
o’clock to four o’clock Sunday af
ternoon September 8.
During these hours the Power Co.
will make improvements at the
Sub Station in Reynolds.
Thanks in advince for your co
operation.
The Georgia Power Company.
FOR SALE
One Aermotor wind mill in perfect
condition. One 12 hundred gallon
cypress tank, v/ell pump and fix
tures.
R. L- McBryde, Geneva, Ga.
Geneva, Ga.