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The Butler Herald
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VOLUME 77.
BUTLER. TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY AUGUST 13, 1953.
NUMBER 46.
The “Tire Screeching Season’’ is
now at its height, especially after
business hours and for a couple of
hours or more. This performance
is engaged in by the ten age group
PERMISSION GRANTED
CENTRAL TO REMOVE
LAST PASSENGER TRAINS
Taylor County citizens were
grievously disappointed upon learn
Mr. P. S. Awtry
Succumbs to Short
Illness Thursday
Man and Wife Killed
Baby Hurt In Auto
Wreck Near Butler
and while annoyihg at times, the ing that the Central of Georgia |
recollection of the days when we J was given permission Friday by
were “gay and giddy” wouldn’t i the Georgia Public Service Com-
deprive them of this pleasure for i mission to discontinue operation of
anything in the world if
our power to do so.
within! trains Nos. 3 and 4 between Macon
and Columbus, the last of passen
ger trains on this line, effective
Sunday’s Macon Telegraph car-! Se P^ lst \ ...... . .
ried a photograph of Rev. J. W. M.l ™e railroad told the commission
Stipe, highly esteemed former pas- that an avera f ° f only ™ P as '
tor of the Butler Methodist church sengers ride the trains and that
now a beloved Chaplain at Camp | theyar * ^ rated at a losS ° f
Gordon. As pastor and minister, nea ^ f 0 ’ 000 a
Bro. Stipe will ever be remembered Commission authorized the
„.f , t . . , railroad to serve all express points
most pleasantly; also that of his , . , , *
, , - e j’ . i along the route by truck,
lovely wife and children. 1 6 J
Besides Invalid Wife, Deceased Tragedy Occurred at Pickling
Is Survived by Two daughters
And One Son.
MR. JAS. T. KENDRICK
SUCCUMBS AFTER SEVERAL
YEARS' DECLINING HEALTH
Mr .Palmer Sanford Awtry who
had made his home in Butler at
intervals since the latter part of
the nineteenth century passed
peacefully on sleep about six p. m
Funeral services were conducted
at 4 p. m. Monday at Antioch Bap-
Mill Victims Enroute from tist church for Mr. James Thomas
» . . 1 Kendrick who had been in declin-
Augusta to Phenix City, Ala. ing health for about six years
J Rev. J. H. Stanford officiated. Ed-
Edwards Funeral
with its ambulance
dard’s Undertaking
(Wards Funeral Home was in charge
Home, Butler, Q f arrangements,
service; God-i Mr. Kendrick was born in Upson
establishment,! county March 18, 1885 son of the
of Reynolds; Payne’s wrecking i a f e Mr. wiley Kendrick and the
crew, Butlerr Dugger Cosey and late M rs. Fann ie Boyd Kendrick,
Thursday, Aug. 6th, at the Mont- family and nearby neighbors at] and a highly esteemed resident of
gomery hospital to which institu- j Fickling Mill combined their ef-; Taylor county for the past 35
tion he was removed from his i forts to render aid and assistance 1 years. He was a consistant member
boarding house in Butler only a to the living,, removed the body 0 f Antioch church and an indus-
few hours earlier. of the dead and in clearing the't r j ous farmer as long as health
Although in declining health for highway following one of the worst 1 permitted.
Mrs. Nora Waters,
Elderly Butler Lady,
Claimed By Death
Mrs. Waters’ Death Occurred
Early Tuesday .Morning;
Funeral Yesterday P. M.
The federal government is ex- ■ a number of months incident to automobile wrecks ever to occur in:
During the early hours of Tues
day morning Mrs. Nora J. Waters
passed quietly away at the local
hospital where she had been a
lovely patient with every service-
professional and otherwise by phy
sicians, nurse-staff, loved ones and
friends on the outside—following a
confinement of three weeks. She
was the widow of the late Mr. A.
Leonard Waters and daughter of
A most fascinating spirit of, all emergency in the matter
“Boom or Bust” has taken a firm traffic.
hold upon a number of leading*
business men while others are
watching the “carrying on” with
inquiring as to cost and where so
attractive fixtures and , material
may be obtained. Since extensive
improvements manifested by Mr.
Emmett Wilson, Mr. Oatis Rowe
and others along the line of im- _ ,
portant places of business on the NOTE: The two fugitives sur-
west side of the public square Dr. rendered Wednesday morning.
such excellent condition to meetj number of yea rs. With his voice I Uoyed- MrsTuoyed’s head is saidj
r Of enmpu/hat imnairpH hp aavp un » _ v v. i i ji_. i ...uuu
Fugitives Surrender
Near Adairsville Yesterday;
Second Guard Unharmed
impaired he gave up to v have been badly crushed which |
Besides hosts of devoted friends | tbe late Mr. David Parker and
Through a mutual friend we re-I w r *T“‘V * I olu l,ie “w**""* 1 wmi..cu ( mis coumy. mis auuueiu wtu.™ Mr . Kendrick leaves to mourn his Mrs Wnhine Willis Parker
ceived aDersSTal word yesterday h .“ dll S| ° f “S t0 T l to hiS bed f ° r ° n ' y tW ° dayS ’ hlS aboUt 11 P ' m ' Friday night in death one daughter and five sons/w'd and admired bv a largedrcle
from our devoted Wend of many:™e public will doubtless death being attributed to a heart front of the Dugger Cosey resi- to-wit: Mrs. Effie Parker; Messrs af friends a devout ChrSn and
Ss S v J Lvtl Jones one of ; f eV6r dlff f ence . as be 'I attack. dence. on the north side of the Herbert, Howard, Horace, J. B. ^aith uf member of tfe BuUev
thfmoTbelov^Lmberk of the:^ ' madserV1 f noW j Mr. Awtry was born at LaGrange bridge over the creek at Fickling and Rober t Kendrick; also several' L® 1 *!?.'? ch urchShewasifection
the most beloved members ot tne and m the futU re, and as to pas- G a„ in 1869 the son of the late*mill eight miles north of Butler, 'grandchildren | B f, , church - Sbe was aff ection
ference atTp^senf pa° S .S of the t*” fT* * 1 f IcU “ Usra Mr - *>»" y f>nklin a " d th S The occupants of the HMatedl 6 Pallbearers were nephews a J“ %, k m n a °T by ma " y “ end3
wSsvHle Methodist church'^ thing . f °. f t!be pas< here fevery-, late Mrs. Mary Greene Awtry, and ; car were ]isted as M rs. Martha I grandsons of Mr. Kendrick to-wit :; fl ® Bi ™% . . .
SS SSS^^ISiuSielv i'r elth6r owns & n automobile or with his won derful vocal talent Arrena Ll d 25 _ her husband,'Jack, William and Cecil Kendrick I Mrs. Waters was born, reared and
couLTnf ?oan “OlfTimer” \* ere ' s one within the family cir- followed slage sin ging with some Cecll Paul Lloyed , 30> and their 5-'Johnny Shelly, Aubrey Kendrick ? pent hei ; ma " y useful years in Tay
couraging to an Old Timer. | cle. Our highways of today are of | of America’s best troops for a I month . old daug hter, Melonie Ann and Cecil Grimes. , lor county. She is survived by
i two sons, Messrs A. L. Waters of
j Butler and G. L. Waters of Eu-
i {aula, Ala.; three daughters, Mrs.
jC. B. Byrd of Reynolds; Mrs. B. H.
Bazemore of Butler; Mrs. E. A.
! Smith of Thomaston; one sister,
| Mrs. O. E. Roberts of Macon;
| twenty grand children and 27 great
I grandchildren. Mrs. Waters is also
_ , " . 'survived by the following half
R f V j ^ ames Wbitener has ac- bro thers and sisters: Messrs H. M.
cepted the pastorate of the local p arRer of Thomaston; Frank Park-
Church of the Nazarene. > r , of Grantville and John Parker
Rev. Whitener, who has recently 0 f Thomaston; Mrs. Jim Rutherford
resigned the church of the Naza- of Thomaston; Mrs. C. L. Funder-
rene at Meldrim, Ga., is a native burRe 0 f Cuthbert; and a number
of Dalton Ga., and a graduate of of nieces and nep hews.
Bethany College, Bethany, Okla. i impressive funeral services were
His family consistsof his wife and con ducted yesterday, 4 p. m., at
small son Lonnie the Butler Baptist church wlt h in-
1*7^+ are < forward to Bro. t^raent in the family lot, Howard
Whitener s mihistry in our midst. cedm t er y ( the deceased’s pastor,
Hte will begin his pastorial work Rev . James M Carmichael, assisted
here Sunday ! by Rev. J. HI Stanford, conducted
Services will be as usual: Sun- ( be obseques. Edwards Funeral
day School 10 a. m.; morning wor- Home was in charge of arrange .
ship at 11 o’clock. Evangelistic ments with the following gran dsons
somewhat - = - iu nave UCCII uamj u usueu ». I _ . ~
stage and located in Butler and caused her immediate death. Mr.lRpW. lAC T WhifAnAr
began the study of law under tbe;n oyed was promptly removed from I
late Col. Walter E. Steed. Shortly fji e wreckage sufering from in-IArronftv Pactnrata at Hia
ternal as well as external injuries j "LtCpiS rdMOrdie OT HlC
wards Bros, and hurriedly started Butler Nazarene Church
after taking up his residence here
he became engaged to and married
Mrs. Electra Walker Wallace, wid
ow of Col. John Wallace and < c , nro ute to the hospital at Phenix
daughter of Dr. Walker of the| cltyi Ala., but declared to have
Walker and Gann Drug Co. she .died shortly after passing through
being at the time Butler’s postmas.; gutter, his head in the lap of an
ter. Following her death several 1 assistant to Mr. J. W. Edwards II
west siae m xne pumic square ui. ^heV*Tliey^ere^captured about °4 years later Mr - Awtry moved tQ , driver of the ambulance.
Leon W. Theus, proprietor of the lne y lne y were capiuicu aooui. •* . . wb prp hp rpmainpd onlv
Butler Drug Company and Mr. mdes rom where ^ had ab u an : 1 for a short time returning to Butt Little Melonie Ann was said to
Murray Walker, grocerymen are done( T the automobile they had j wbere be resumed his law prac- 1 bave been nursing from a bottle in
leading the fight fn battle in be-, ta ken from the U. S. Marshal. The | J, e Ifl^ed hwjaw pra^ it# mother , s lap and thought to
halfthe*north side of the ‘public 1 guard which they had kept with g^nce Tilsiness StabhShmg “ ^j haVe drank a quantlty of
square. It is no less than amazing was said to be unharmed j su a ce j Elizabeth m °! her ’ s blood aS . W(?U as , th ® mlll J
that remodeling including the 4n, ^ ^ a fraCtltfed
stallation of an air conditioning P asse 01 more than . 9,10 anrt y K ^
Mrs. Phileta
and
are two daughters ™ a . reachod the
Mann, of Knoxville, Tenn; and
200 men and
unit has added to the comfort and bloodhounds and airplanes Sunday
attractiveness of the interior of the l n a relentless hunt for two short
Butler Drug Co. From appearance | l errn prisoners who killed a deputy
the remodeling of the interior of ^ Marshal and headed into
the Walker Grocery, which was' den «e hilly pineland Saturday With
begun yesterday will equal in at- a ®^5. ond gua *j d aS hosta £ e - were conduc t e d at the local Bap-1 iyiL - u
tractiveness that of the. drug store.: Officers said they were virtually j tjst rhnrf , h Satnrf i av aftpmoon at th e late Mr. and Mrs, George
Who next! May we ask?
a foot injury. She
Phenix City hospital
~ . i , . „ shortly after midnight, her wounds
Mrs Mildred Kepner of East Point,, carefull dressed and at last re .
N. J.; and on& son, Mr. John Aw-i port givgn a _ fair chance t0 recover
try.
Funeral
services for Mr. Awtry
i from her injuries.
Mr. Lloyed whose parents were
certain the fugitives are still|« st , church Saturday afternoon at ; ^ a
i . .. . ° . . R n’nlnplr pnnHiipfpri hv thp nastnr i
within a heavily wooded, moun
tainous 25 square mile area
3 o’clock, conducted by the pastor' were former residents and
Rev. James M. Carmichael with in- 'successful Taylor county farmers j
terment in the family lot local. who with his wife and child lived
service at 8 p. m.
Come worship with us.
Church of the Nazarene.
acting as pallbearers: Messrs Mer
cer Byrd, Cecil Waters, Leon
Smith, Harol Bazemore, Carl
Adams and Leonard Adams.
Never, it sems, have we come in ... ~ ni terment in the family lot local vvno Wltn ms w,ie ana cnna nvea i r • /*.**-- |!{ n |J r
contact with more popular-gen- ' of Mlanla The! cemetery. Edwards Funeral Home on Auburn Road in Alabama. but|5lirVey 111 COTtOfl FieiOS
nine finp fnikc—ninnino- hither miles north ' ve st of Atlanta. The j himself an employe of the' H-Bomb I _ . ....
“:^ r .ku* « ^ a L ran *rts*?-
Revival at Wesley
Methodist Church
Will Begin Aug. 23
Pallbearers were: Active: J. R. Wil
son, J. F. Sikes', B. J. Byrd, W. F.
Gray, E. J. Stinson, Hoyt Clark;
Honorary Pallbearers: J. R. Luns
and. yon, visiting and being visit , , , ,
& T . b hounds and Federal, state and lo-
ed, than this season. It now ap- , , officers
pears that August will be the ban-1 c 1 '
ner month for vacationing. Among
all the comings and goings, per
haps, none of whom we have heard
coming are more outstanding than
two of the daughters and one
charming daughter of a former
Superintendent of the local high
school and Baptist minister the ]
late Albert S. Dix and his lovely
wife also deceased. ' These de-' and continuing through the follow-
scendants were most welcome ing Friday, a series of revival serv-
guests of Old Home Town friends ices will be in progress at the
who most pleasantly remembered Wesley Methodist church with Rev.
them since the days of more than Hoke O. Hatcher, the pastor, bring-
50 years ago. These distinguished ing the messages. i fcj || Ju i* ■
visitors were: Mrs. Nell Dix Mont- ! Sunday, Aug. 23, worship is an - ^ |V|CTI10QIST 111111X11
gomery and her husband, Mr. W. inounced for 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. J
C. Montgomery, prominent busi-|and during the following week!
ness man of Tampa, Fla.; Mrs. R. j will be 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Every-
employe
plant at Augusta where his wife
and child had been spending a few
days the past week with him.
The car ini which the Lloyd fam-
Cord, Thelmon Jarrell, C. E. Benns,i lly was traveling from Augusta
W. G. Hill, W. H. Elliston, C. H, j J vas o a hand some hght ^blue, b-
Adams and Fred Taunton.
Those from a distance attending
the funeral included the following:
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Kepner, East
Orange. N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. L.
passenger Pontiac, purchased by
Mr. Lloyd in Augusta just a few
hours before the family left Au
gusta upon their ill-fated journey.
The car at the time of the wreck
Beginning Sunday, August 23rd, Mann, Knoxville, Tenn.; Mrs. C. a. ! re B istered having been driven 172
Floyd, Atlanta. . .. ., ' . .
Cause of the accident is believed
to have been due to Mr. Lloyd, the
driver, going to sleep at the wheel
Revival at Mauk
to attend
Mrs. Thomason, 60, Dies
Sunday Night at her Home
in Crawford County
Reveal Bowl Wmm Damage *,
Is Now « the Increase Isnnlies
— To Cast Ballots Tomorrow
In a recent check over various j
cotton fields the damage caused' .
the older bowls was considerably 1 ^ b e Secretary of Agriculture has
worse than first appeared. The, caded a re f erend um for tomorrow
bowl weevil is not doing as much “Friday to determine if wheat
damage as the bowl worm in most growers prefer acreage allotments
cases and marketing quota s on the 1954
There has been a build up of the cro P with a 90 pecent of parity
insect population when they were su PPort rate, or no allotment with
unable to carry out their dust a percept parity support rate,
usivci kuiiik cu sitcu eii me wiieei schedule due to the rainy weather. [ tbe l aw requires that quotas be
and losing control of the car which 1 Rarmers are urged not to stop Pl aced m effect when the total
'ran „H the road fn a slope anS i"-ing as long as there aro ^ZnTa*', ^
curve of the road, plunging head-! 4 or 5 sma11 worms and bowl more than 20 percent. Quotas will
long into a ditch, the front of the| wor m eggs are found per 100
car striking a culvert and the | t errn I n al» apply insecticides at 4 or
front half crushed as badly asi^ day intervals until control is ob-
, could be imagined. ' jtained. Where heavy infestations
■ ! Combined funeral services for Mr occur use 15-20 lbs. of dust con-
R 7 lval services will begin at the j and Mrs u d were conducted taining D.D.T. at 4-5 day intervals
Mauk Methodist church Sunday; terda £te 4:30 0 . clock at
evening and wnl continue through philade , y hia Baptist church near
the following Friday evening. phpnix Q Li £ Ie Melonie Ann
The hour of worship during the, remains [n < condit5on> it was
revival season will be 8 p. m. each „*„*„j
day and the pastor, Rev. Hoke O.
Hatcher will bring the messages at
each service.
The public is cordially invited to.
To Begin Sunday
unless at least
growers voting
i stated yesterday.
not be in effect
two thirds of the
aprove their use.
Growers with more than 15 acres
are subject to quotas and are
eligible to vote. Due to the small
number of eligible voters the only
voting place will be the PMA of
fice. The Taylor County PMA Com
mittee will supervise the referen
dum and state that polls will be
open from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
At Antioch Baptist
Church Next Sunday
In the presence of loved ones ] —
and friends the remains of Mr.; Sunday School meets promptly at
j Marion Lester Bryant Jr., were 10:30 a. m. Sunday. A brief session
James Benjamin Griffith, 80. a peacefully laid to rest Saturday j will be followed by baptismal serv-
retired merchant and farmer, died afternoon in the family lot at jice at the pool.
Church School 10 A., M. Classes Tuesday in a Macon convalescent Pleasant Grove Baptist church | Preaching at 11:30 a. m. by the
Worship at Methodist
Church Next Sunday
Mr. J. B. Griffith, Aged
And Beloved Taylor County
Citizen, Died Tuesday
or use straight 10% D.D.T.
VERNON REDDISH, Agent,
Taylor County, Georgia.
Funeral Saturday for
M.L. Bryant Jr., Hospital
Patient for Eight Years
F. Whigham, formerly Miss Ruth one cordially invited
Dix, of Rutherford, Ala.; Miss!each service.
Alice Newnan of Norris, Tenn.; Mr. |
and Mrs. Montgomery’s grand
daughter. Now, as for going, Dr.
and Mrs. Eli Garrett, their daugh
ter Mrs. Sam Borom her husband,
and fine grandson, Robert, the
Boroms of Charleston, S. C., and
the latter a student of Northwest
University, Evansville, Ind, have| Mrg LHlioun Thomason, 60, died,
been trying to keep pace in the Sunday night at her home near Ro -, attend every service
matter of travel with Mr. and Mrs. ber ^ a following a long illness.
Bill Hornsby and children, the| Fune r a i Tuesday in the Eliza-
former a Butler High school facul- beth Prim i t i ve Baptist church, Ma
ty member. Also Mrs. Jack Suggs con
and little daughter. The former j Survivors include her husband, J.
persons mentioned (Garretts and^ Thomason; one daughter, Mrs.
Boroms) they returned Monday af- A Meeks of Nichols; brother,
ter spending two weeks covering F ij sba Wright of Maryland; num-
these principal points. Nashville, ber 0 f grand children.
Tenn., Vincennes, Ind., Chicago, I
111., Kalamazoo and Detroit, Mich., j — jsage by the pastor, Rev. Hoke O. jCated a few miles north of Rey- William Childree with Goddard the 8th verse. We urge every
Windsor, Canada, Cincinnati, Ohio a trip as that of Mrs. Suggs, es-j Hatcher. jnolds. I Funeral Home in charge of ar-: member to be present and hear
Mammoth, Cave National Park, Ky. pecially after having heard of the, Methodist Youth Fellowship at! Funeral services were conducted rangements. j this message.
and Chattanooga, Tenn. The last beautiful points of interest visited (7:15 p. m. Sunday. !at 4 p. m. yesterday at the] Marion, who was born Oct. 1, j Preaching and praise service at
I for every age group
home. He was a lifelong resident of cemetery.
pastor. Please read the 23rd chap-
Morning worship, 11 a. m. Mes- Taylor County his home being lo-j Fuenral was conducted by Rev. ter of Matthew. Our text will be
heard from Mr. and Mrs. Hornsby
was by card mailed from Hender
sonville, N. C., which reads as fol
lows: “We are really having a most
wonderful vacation visiting points
during several weeks. These in-] As the pastor will be in a series Crowell Methodist church with the
eluded a visit to her parents at]of revival services at Mauk, we Rev. G. N. Rainey and Rev. Flan-
Valenciennes, France; her brother [will have no evening worship Sun-
at Marseilles and friends in Paris.! day evening.
The entire trip from Atlanta to
of interest in the state, especially I Paris and return made by Mrs.
the mountainous section.” Wish it ] Suggs and daughter was by air via
possible we might have had such,New York.
Prayer meeting Wednesday 8:30
p. m.
Everyone invited and urged
attend each of these services.
ders officiating. Burial was in the
cemetery nearby.
He is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. Brown Rogers of Ft. Valley,
to and one sister, Mrs. E. E. Elliott,
| of Oakland, Calif.
1923, son of the late M. L. and 8 p. m. Sunday.
Katie Lizzie Saunders Bryant, had] The church extends a cordial in-
been a hospital patient at Mill-, vitation to all the people of the
edgeville for the past eight years, community to worship with us in
Besides a number of near rela- all our services,
tives the deceased is survived by Come praying for the pastor and
one brotherMr. B. F. Bryant, of for the services.
Taylor Mill community. I J. H. Stanford, Pastor.