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The Butler Herald ■W W. find* School of Jouffialjgn, NG E V ERLASTrNGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OP SUCCESS 9 * 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.