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The Butler Her ai d
“KEEPING EVER LASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
GLUME 73.
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAY 19, 1949.
NUMBER 31.
Sidewalk
Gleanings
By OLD TIMER
COMMENCEMENT SEASON
REYNOLDS HIGH SCHOOL
MAY 26 THROUGH MAY 31
SO HIGHLY PLEASING and the
esence of an unusually large
umber of persons at the free
-uisical entertainment given Fri-
night at the Butler high
chool auditorium by>pupils of the
eorgia Academy for the Blind at
lacon, the passing of the hat for
oluntary contributions was al-
lost irresistible. Nevertheless the
iccasion produced the purpose in-
nded that of reaching deep into
he pocket books and bringing forth
he scads to be applied on the
ompletion of the community
juitning being erected by the
.Vomen’s Garden Club. Mrs. H. H.
was successful winner of the
lectric lawn mower. There were
nany winners to lovely cakes sold,
ach bringing fabulous amounts.
Mrs. L. R. Dean, president of the
larden Club, promoted the enter
tainment and to her thanks in
abundance were extended. The ‘
group of joyful singers and mu- j
sicians was chaperoned by Super-
ntendent John S. .Herndon, Mrs. I
Herndon and their valuable aids in ;
the most splendid management of
the institution in the persons of
Mrs. Jeanette Oiiphant and Mrs.
Hamp Riley. From the manner by
which they entertained the public
it is no wonder this group is to ap
pear at an early date in Madison
Square Garden, New York, as
guests of Lions International . . .
The group of singers and their
home addresses were as follows:
James Harvey Alverson Jr., 671
Francis Piace, N-W, Atlanta; Jas.
E. Clark, 105 North College Street,
Statesboro; S. T. Graham, Route 2,
Watkinsviile; Everett Grizzard,
Dublin; Herman Gruber, Jakin; Ed
win D. Hinton, 305 Hightower Rd.,
Macon; Hugh Dorsey Howell, Rte.
2, Adel; Billy Lamar Lewis, 915
Maypas Ave., Savannah; 'Simon
Overstreet, Rt. 1, Brunswick; Hugn
B. Pharis, 2309 16th Ave., Colum
bus; Charles Bristoe Presiey, Talla
poosa; Everett Proctor, John’s Road
Ext., Augusta; James Luther
Rhodes, Route 1, Pineview; Johnny
L. Wilson, 726 West High St.,
Gainesville; Mary Lucille Carter,
304 East Hill Ave., Valdosta; Vi-
nelle Douglas, 218 West Gordon
Street, Douglas; Eloise Hall, Ac-
worth; Elise Jacobs, 4o5 West 64th
I St., Savannah; Mary Alice Long,
Danville; Beteglyn Meeks, Douglas;
Audrey Moye, Rt. 2, Hamilton;
Mollie Nipper, Douglas; Jessie
Marion Payne, Covington; Patricia
J. Perkins, 113 West Liberty St.,
Savannah; Lois Seay, Rising Fawn;
Christine Sellers, Climax; Effie
Nadine Shellnutt, 122 McGee St.,
LaGrange; Rebecca Smith, Rt. 1,
Gibson; Laverne Thomas, Mil-
stead; Hugh B. Pharis, 2309 16th
Ave., Columbus.
OF ALL MEN we know, Dr.
Lewis Beason, who is in the prime
of life, enjoying the best of medi
cal profession as w-ell as that
of health, of high rating in
the ranks of Masonry and as May
or of his home city, a friend to
and of every living soul of his ac-
j quaintance, would be the very last
man to even consider the placing,
as charged to him yesterday, of an
| order for “the little narrow house”
in which to place his priceless
i frame after a call from his Mas
ter whom he serves devotedly
while passing along the journey of
life. The cedar from which this
“narrow house” is to be built
comes not from Lebanon, but as a
part of the doctor’s own property.
WE KNOW ALL county officials
are supposed to be courteous and
accommodating and do good deeds
any way. In each of these respects
Taylor county is most fortunate as
relates to all of its offices not dur
ing or even approaching election
years, these virtues are in their
whole make-up all the while, and
most people think they don’t de
serve any special thanks. But
while we are handing out boquets,
we just can’t let the opportunity
pass to hand a large one to Hon.
Thelmon Jarrell, our efficient
kClerk of Court. He does so much
* f °r people that is far beyond the
call of duty, as well as his activi
ties in religious matters and civic
interests for the betterment of his
community and progress in things
worth while, that we just don’t
see how’ he gets around to it all
and-then see to the records of his
office being so well kept and the
office itself so neat and inviting
even to strangers, but Thelmon
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Thursday, May 26, Piano Recital
Operetta, 8:30 p. m.
Sunday, May 29, Baccalaureate
Sermon, 11 a. m.
Monday, May 30, Play, 8:30 p. m.
Tuesday, May 31, Graduation Ex
ercises, 8:30 p. m.
Commencement activities of Rey
nolds High school will begin
Thursday evening, May 26, when
Mrs. J. A. Pendergrast presents her
music class in recital at 8:30 at
the school auditorium. This pro
gram will conclude with a short
operetta entitled "Mother Goose’s
Garden”.
On Sunday, May 29, at 11 a.m.,
the Baccalaureate Sermon will be
preached at Reynolds Methodist
church by Rev. David Lastinger.
A very interesting play, ’.The
Charm School,” will be the feature
of Monday evening, May 30.
Graduating exercises on Tuesday
evening, May 31, at R.H.S. audi
torium will conclude the com
mencement activities.
Horse Back Races at
Taylor Co. Raceway
Next Sunday P. M.
Horse-back races will be featured
next Sunday afternoon at the new
Taylor County Raceway located on
the Lockett Farm six miles north
of Reynolds.
Races will begin at 2:30 p.m.
All persons having good blooded
fast, well trained horses and would
like to enter their stock in these
races may obtain full information
from Mr. G. N. Young, owner and
operator of the Raceway, Reynolds,
Ga.
ABOUT TOWN
The court house grounds under
supervision of Sherifff Charlie
Wright gives a striking appear
ance of being well kept*
Rapidly approaching the title of
talented music, evidenced by the
touch of their fingers at the pianc
a large group of students of Mrs.
J. W. Edwards music department,
Butler high school, was presented
to a large and appreciative audi
ence Tuesday night, representing
members of the senior class from
the St. Cecilian Music Club.
Commencement Sunday
School Auditorium May 22
Eleven o'Clock fl. M.
P*iQ4yu*m
Processional—“Triumphal March from Aida”—Verdi
The Gloria Patri (Audience standing)
Invocational Prayer Rev. J. w. M. Stipe
Chorus “Bless This House” Brahe
Class of 1949
Hymn “This Is My Father’s World” Babcock
Piano Duet “Romance” Rubinstein
Shirley Dunn—Mary Jo Harvey
Choir Anthem “God of Our Fathers” Hemy
Announcements E. H. Dunn, Principal
Solo “The Lord Is My Shepherd” Malotte
Mr. Oscar Adams
Sermon Rev. Leon Edwards
Hymn “Lead On, O King Eternal” Smart
(Audience standing)
Benediction Rev. W T . E. Hightower
“Recessional”—Kipling — Arranged by J. L. Frank
(The audience will please remain standing until
the recessional is completed.)
CLASS ROLL
Marie Adams
Susan Almgren
Nelson Brady
Mary Luna Cheek
Catherine Childree
June Cooke
Daisy Pearl Cooper
Willard Cotney
Shirley Dunn
Jimmy Edwards
Benjamin Guined
Mary Jo Harvey
Rita Hogg
Christine Ingram
Carolln Jinks
Ruby Jean Johnson
Maidana Knott
Evans Locke
Russell Montgomery
Mary Nann Mott
Naomi Moulton
Betty Peterman
Peggy Peterman
Johnnie B. Rustin
Loyce Sanders
Bobby Spillers
Kathryne Spivey
Mary Nell Stewart
Billy Sullins
Dora Summerour
Bobby Gean Swain
Clarice Taunton
Wylie Williams
Dorothy Windham
Erma Woodall
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP
AWARDED TO GRANDSON
OF LATE HON. STEWART
Revival at Reynolds
Baptist Church To
Begin June Thirteen
The pulpit at the Baptist church
will be filled next Sunday evening
by Arman Bazemore, ministerial
student, in the absence of Rev. Eu
gene Dailey, the pastor, who is at
tending the Southern Baptist Con
vention at Oklahoma City, Okla.
The morning service has been
called off due to the preaching
hour being devoted to the Bacca
laureate sermon at the local high
school auditorium.
The four-town baseball league,
composed of Taylor Mill, Ideal, El-
laville and Buena Vista, played its
first game of the season Sunday
at Potterville with Taylor Mill team
crossing bats with Ideal in which
Taylor Mill was victor by a
score of 19 to 9. The next game
will be played Sunday at Ideal
with Ideal paying Taylor Mill. In
the future every other Sunday
games will be played at Taylor
Mill.
Special Service Sunday
At Mt. Pisgah Church
A special service is planned for
| Sunday morning at Mt. Pisgah
Baptist church. We have purchased
I a new bus to be used in trans-
I porting people to Sunday School
j and church. We will dedicate this
i bus at the morning hour Sunday,
i Our message will be taken from
I Luke’s Gospel the 10th chapter,
i Please read the entire chapter. We
I invite all our friends to attend this
- dedicatory service.
! Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. We
| have good classes for all ages.
I Preaching at 7:30 p. m. with a
■ special prayer and song service be-
I fore the preaching hour,
j We cordially invite all the peo-
I pie of this community to attend
services Sunday and extend to ail
1 the churches of our field a special
j invitation to be with us in our
j de'dication service.
Pray for the pastor.
J. H. STANFORD, Pastor.
Made our first visit yesterday to
Butler’s newest industrial plant—
the sock factory. Found working
conditions far beyond expectations,
very clean, neat and attractive,
machinery’ and employes working
quietly and in high gear. “Uncle
Joe” Blake and his good wife,
“Miss Louise,” manager and
time-keeper, respectively, most
courteous and accommodating to
both employes and visitors. With
orders already booked for six
moths ahead, “Uncle Joe” told us
that beginning today the plant
would operate on double shift of
eight hours each and with the in
stallation in about six weeks of
other machines as now in opera
tion, three loopers, a complete
dyeing plant and finishing equip
ment the number of employes
would be increased from 18 as at
present to 150 with an increased
out-put to one hundred dozen pairs
of finished and dyed pairs of hose
per day.
Taylor County Defeats
Ideal in Score of 19-9
l
Taylor County won the opening
game of the Little Four League
Sunday afternoon defeating Ideal
by a score of 19 to 9.
Tood Roberson started on the
mound for Taylor County but had
to give way to Ernest Parker in
the second inning.
Ideal got only six hits, errors
! and wild throws being responsible
, for most of the Ideal runs.
| Hubert Arnold with 3 for 4 and
j one a home run, Handel, Hobbs
and Roberson with 3 for 5 led the
j 18 hit attack on the Ideal pitchers.
| Hobbs with two doubles and Rob-
| erson’s home run got extra base
.^hits for the Taylor nine.
I Taylor County plays Ideal on the
j Ideal diamond next Sunday. Ev
ery one is invited to come and see
the game.
More Fish For
Taylor County Ponds
Five thousand large mouth bass
were delivered to farmers of Taylor
county by Soil Conservation Tech
nicians for stocking then" farm
fish ponds. These fisn were furn
ished by the U. S. Wildlife and
Fish Service to farmers cooperating
with the Soil Conservation District.
Farmers receiving fish were: E.
A. Hollis, G. D. Locke, C. E. What
ley, J. A. Payne, R. L. Swearingen,
Geo. Trussell, A. J. Payne, W. A.
Payne, J. R. Wilson, Mrs. J. H.
Whatley, B. F. Moore, W. E. Street-
man.* These farmers’ ponds have
been previously stocked with Blue
Gill Bream last fall and this addi
tion of Bass will complete the
stocking of their ponds.
Fish pond experiments show' that
a properly stocked and fertilized
fish pond will support 400 to 600
pounds of fish per acre. If the
above ponds are properly managed
they should produce as well as
countless hours of enjoyment,
hundreds of pounds of fish for
food.
Irrigation Demonstration
Planned for 2 P. M. Today
On Farm of W. A. Jarrell
Edgar Stewart Wood, son 6f Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Wood of Ft. Valley
and grandson and namesake of the
late Edgar Stewart of Taylor
county, has been awarded a
$500.00 Mitchell Scholarship at
Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
Tenn.
Stewart will graduate from Fort
Valley High School June 3rd with ]
first honors. He has been on the j
High school debating team for four i
years and has earned ten school j
letters and six medals for various I
first places in competition in Dis- I
trict high school meets. During his ]
senior year he was a member of
the Fort Valley high state cham
pion football squad, manager of
the basketball team and Captain
of the track team. He is President
of the Senior class. Also President of
the Key Club, The Dramatic Club
and Hi-Y Club. He was editor in
chief of the 1949 school annual.
Stewart is the third child of Mr
and Mrs. Wood to graduate from
Ft. Valley High with first honors:
Betty, their only daughter, who
will graduate from Agnes Scott Col
lege in June and Billy Jr. who is
a pre-medical student at Vander
bilt University.
BuHer Needs New
High School Building
To the Citizens of Taylor County:
Don’t you think we should have
a new High School building? I
will give you a few reasons why I
think we should have one.
1. The basement is full of water
is raising insects. It doesn’t do
any good to pump it out because
when it rains it fills right back up.
2. The 'outside brick are full of
holes and sparrows build nests in
them, causing fire dangers.
3., We need new window sashes
all the way around. Every time a
breeze comes they rattle like seeds.
4. It would not hurt to have a
new top on the building.
5. If the plastering is touched it
will fall. It may fall on someone
sometime. What if it was YOUR
child it fell upon?
6. The black boards are cracked
and worn out.
7. The floor is falling in, in some
of the rooms and it is weak in
others.
8. We need new desks. When you
sit down in them they squeak and
annoy other students.*
Don’t you think that after all
these things are repaired that we
would come out cheaper just to
erect a new building?
You have a special invitation to
come down and see the school
building any time you wish to.
—A High School Boy.
Dr. F. S. Porter of Columbus^.
Will Assist with Preaching
During Revival.
Announcement was made yester
day by the pastor, Rev. W. R
Hoats. of opproaching series of
services at the Reynolds Baptist,
church in which interest is already
being manifested.
The city of Reynolds in particu
lar and the county as a whoie
have been highly favored by the
acceptance of an appeal to Dr.
Frederick S. Porter, former pastor
of the First Baptist church, Colum
bus, to do the preaching during
the revival; also in the securing oL
Dr. Rich, professor of music, Mer
cer University, in charge of musi
cal programs.
Monday, June 13th, has been,
set as the" beginning date, of the
meeting and to continue through
the following Sunday.
A cordial invitation to all citi
zens of the county has been ex
tended to attend the services as
often as possible.
Hours of worship will be 11 a.
m. and 8 p. m.
The Ocmulgee River Soil Con
servation District will sponsor an
irrigation demonstration at 2 p. m.
today—Thursday—on the farm of
W. A. Jarrel, 8 miles north of town
on Highway 19.
| M. P. Dean, SCS technician* for
this county and Tom Hawkins will
aid in the demonstration.
I H. L. Duke of Russell Daniel Co.
j and W. J. Liddell of Sunset En-
i gineering Co. will put on the show.
Dean and Hawkins pointed out
I the fact that irrigation has proved
successful on truck farms and
| dairy pastures. The two agricul-
j tural men urged that near-by far
mers witness the demonstration.
Worship at Union-Wesley
Churches Next Sunday
Wesley: Worship 10:15 a. m. and
8 p. m. Sunday School following
morning worship with Mr. Addis
Scott, superintendent.
Union: Sunday School 1:45 a. m.
Mr. H. G. McCants, Superintendent.
Worship, 11:45 a. m.
Sunday is Rural Life Sunday.
The most of the business, educa
tional, executive, political and
spiritual leaders are reared in our
rural and small town localities:
Does not this behoove us to give
of our best, our all, that the best
possible preparation might be
given them for building great and
honest characters for such im
portant places they are to fill? No
character is well rounded and ful
ly developed, that neglects the
spiritual growth and learning along
with the physical and mental. Let
us give due emphasis to the
Lord’s cause on this His holy day.
J. W. M. STIPE, Pastor.
District Scouts to Meet
In Butler Monday Night
Mrs. Nancy Dwight,
Nafive of Taylor County-
Dies in Crisp County
Mrs. Nancy Rebecca Dwight, 76,
died May 8th at her home near
Cordele. She had been ill some
time.
Mrs. Dwight was a native of
Taylor County and moved to Cor
dele from Oglethorpe 10 months
ago. She was a member of the
Methodist church and tne wife o£
thel ate Frank Dwight.
Survivors include a son, L. F.
Dwight, and two daughters, Mrs. L,
E. Childres and Miss Carrie Dwight
of Cordele; a brother, R. L. Green
of Oglethorpe, and one sister, Mrs.
W. G. Johnston, of Winston, Ga,
Seven grandchildren and three
great-grand children also survive.
Funeral was at Pine Level Meth
odist church near Oglethorpe, with
Rev. A. B. Ilosea in charge, follow
ed by interment in Pine Level
cemetery.
Missionary Zone Rally
At Nazarene Church
Here Tomorrow-Friday
Come and hear Rev. Letanif
Rogers, missionary from British
Guinea, at the local Church of Lbe
Nazarene, formerly the Evange
listic Chapel.
Bro. Rogers will speak at 4 p. iu_
and again at 7:30 p. m. Friday*
—tomorrow.
The four o’clock service is es
pecially for the young people.
Your classes at school^ will be over
by four o’clock, and you will ear-
joy hearing Rev. Rogers tell cf
some ot the things that are takiȣ
place on the mission field.
This will be a Zone Rally with
Thomaston. Crest, Meansville, Jack-
son and Barnesville churches
meeting with us. Our District Mis
sionary President, Mrs. Irvin Kea>-
iedy will also be with us.
Every one is cordially invited ta
each of these services. Come and
worship with us.
—Church of the Nazarene.
All Postmasters in
Taylor County Engage
in Sale of U. S. Bonds
Scout leaders of the Taylor-Tal-
bot district are to meet Monday
night, at 8"o’clock.
Any Scout making advance or
earning merit badges, may receive
them at that time.
—Scout-Masters.
Lending their assistance in She
drive being made throughout ahe
state in the sale Gf U. S. Bonds.
Series E, postmasters at each of
the postoffices in Taylor county
are making a personal drive that
the county’s proportionate share-
shall not come up lacking.
The fine co-operation of these
postmasters is sincerely appreciat
ed. The public is urged to ier«£
them all assistance possible in the
purchase of these bonds in de
nominations from $25,00, up.
. The drive is now on and wil
continue through July 16.