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VOLUME 78.
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^ 'TEEP1NG EVER LAST I N 6 L Y • A T ITIS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5, 1953.
NUMBER 6.
Don’t neglect buying a poppy Sat
urday—Poppy Day.
REVIVAL TO BEGIN
AT NAZARENE CHURCH
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15
Donned in Hallowen attire, lov- Revival services at the Butler
able ten-agers—boys and girls—' church of the Nazarene will begin
were high stepping examples of the Sunday, Nov. 15 and^ continue thru
good thnes had when they are Sunday, Nov. 22.
Ghosts and Goblins walked the There will be two services as
streets of our city Saturday night usual Sunday, 11 a. m. and 7.30
presenting those called upon with P- m - There will be only one serv-
delightful small cakes and other ,‘ ce each week day at 7:30 p. m.
refreshments in exchange for cus-! A special musical program will
tomary “Trick or Treat.” i a feature of each service.
Home Coming And
Deacon Ordination
At Antioch Sunday
Preaching Services at 11:30 A.
M.; Deacons to be Ordained
At 2 P. M.
We are planning to have a spec
ial Home-Coming Day at Antioch
Mr. Oatis Scott, 61
Loses Right Leg As
Lumber Falls on Him
Accident Occurred at Ellaville
Where He was Delivering
Truck Load of Lumber.
BUTLER LISTED AMONG
24 GEORGIA TOWNS IN
POWER FIRM'S CONTEST
C. V. Powell Dies
At Fitzgerald Sat.
Funeral at Reynolds
Twenty-four towns in the Colum-
bus division of the Georgia Power ( Deceased Was a
Co. will move into the final judg-1
ing round of the Champion Home
Town contest.
This announcement was made
jlast week after division judges
Native of
Reynolds, Son of Late Mr.
And Mrs. W. I. Powell.
A regrettable misfortune occurred [completed their inspection of scrap! Funeral services were conducted at
Monday to Mr. Oatis Scott, 61 years j books entered by 46 towns in the 3 p. m. Monday at the Powell res-
The pastor, Rev. J. C. Whitener, I go to two Sundays a month. This is
i will do the preaching throughiut | to be our first service under the
Sunday. The church has voted to of age, well known and highly es-;area
Having recently received a U. S. (he ser } es 0 f meetings and a cor-1 new program. We extend to all
Army discharge following a num- dial invi t a tion is extended everyone the churches of this section a
ber of months of most worthy to attend
oversea service, Lt. Ward Edwards i
advised his parents, Mr. and Mrs
idence in Reynolds for Clarence V.
Julian Edwards II by wire last
week that he was happy to be en-
route home expecting to reach I
here within the near future. The
message brought joy to many local
friends.
• • •
Friends were happy to learn that J
Popular Local Young Man
Accepts Position as X-Ray
Technician at Calhoun
teemed Butler citizen. | state champions will be an- Powell, who died Saturday in a
While in the performance of his nounced on Nov. 19. The final judg-[Fitzgerald hospital,
usual daily duties as lumber haul-Jj n g round gets under way Nov. 8. Services were conducted by Rev.
,er by truck Mr. Scott had occasion'Five outstanding judges l\ave been.Robert Gardner, pastor of the Rey*
cordial invitation to join us.Sunday Monday of delivering a heavily I named to select the winners. nolds Baptist church of which the
in these srevices. We especially ex- j oaded truck of lumber to an Ella- j Tbprp thrpp hram^ptc in the 'deceased was a member. The fol-
tpnri a warm invitatinn tn thp..... mere are tnree bracKeis m tne, nv.a=
Please read the 54th chapter
Isaiah.
At the noon hour dinner will be
ilhe 3,000 to 20,00 population range.!* . , .
which service Scrapbooks certified for the final | H< ^ e charg ,f of arrangements.
' ' The deceased who was born in
Mr. Ferrell Driskoll, son of Mr
Mr. LeRoy Gee, son of Dr. and Mrs;and Mrs. Murray Driskoll. of this!served on the church lawn.
H. H. Gee, is this week accom- city, is receiving the congratula-j At 2 p. m. there will be the ordi-
panying Miss Hortense Davant to tions of his many home friends in I nation of two new deacons, Bro..
to her far distant Houston, Texas his early manhood business career. \ James Royal and Bro. Howard. one above related
tend a warm invitation to the V ille customer. While in the act of I pontpst— rn "towns” "under "l 000 ! lowln g acted'as pallbearers: Chas,
churches of other denominations to 1 unloading h is truck the lumberi non to’ 3. Spears, Darnell Norton, Audrey
be with us Sunday. fen up0 n Mr. Scott crushing his 0 00 nooulation and (3)’towns in jBarfield; W. T. Womack, Elbert Hill
Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. r jght leg to the extent of necessitate !,h 0 -fono oo’nn 'and Bernice Hill; Goddard Funeral
H ° W * rc L Kendrick ’ Supt Preaching amputation
at 11:30 a. m. by the pastor. b ‘ ,. j , u i *
of was rendered at the Montgom- : judging round in: Reynold. Oct » MM, wm EJms ««
ery hospital Monday night. | Leesburg ’Morgan MySi? Nkhills I of Mr ' and Mrs - Wm ’ L PoWe11
Other injuries in the same un-' 0mega g ’ nd p^esUon Leary, com-| both n f ow dec . eased - ? Uri "f ^
fortunate accident were suffered by peting for the special sweepstake J i™*!
iMr. Scott but not so serious as the prize as a 1952 winner, automatical
ly moved to the final round.
home that the auto trip by her Following high school graduation! Kendrick. Rev. James Carmichael!
will not be made alone following at the local school in the class of j will give the charge to the deacons Tjkulfir Mill r Am miinitv
her more extended visit to relatives 1952, Ferrell immediately registered j and Rev. E. H. Dunn will bring. ■OJIUI rllll VUIIIIIIUIIIIJ
and friends, she having at the Grady hospital, Atlanta, in, the charge to the church. All dea-'
been accompanied here by her the study fo X-Ray Technician,. cons of sister churches are invited
nephew, Mr. Robert Davant, Jr., which course was recently com-1 to be with us in this ordination,
his business having demanded that pleted with the presentation of a, We extend to all our friends an
he return to his Texas home diploma on October 30th followed; Invitation to worship with us in
.by acceptance of a position in his
chosen profession at Calhoun, Ga.
Ex-Columbus School
Principal Found Dead
Friday Near Savannah
these services.
Come with prayer for the pres-
Celebrates Gates Family's
Return with Barbecue
Advancing in the’ second bracket
were Alma, Ashburn, Buena Vista,
Butler, Meigs, Montezuma and Syl
vester.
succesfully engaged in hte live
stock and meat marketing busi
ness, part of which time was spent
as an esteemed resident of Ellaville
and later at Adel.
For several months prior to his
T _ death Mr. Powell was a patirnt at
In group three, Blakely, Hogans- , tVlo im„»praiH hncnttai wh» o he
ville,'"Manchester,^ hospital whee
lham and Tifton advanced.
The champion in each bracket j
and the sweepstakes winner will I
Citizens of Taylor Mill communi-
and family back at Taylor Mill,
ence and blessing of the Hbly h * Ve
Spirit upon us.
J. H. STANFORD, Pastor.
3 Meriwether County
Officials Critically Hurt
In Collision Saturday
_ 'de*e had not been' set until thel g ‘ a
Greenville, Ga., Nov. 1——Three f n milv finaiK/ mnvwi in last wppk. I
succumbed.
Besides his beloved wife, Mr.
Powell is survived by three
. ™. . .children, Mrs. Irvin McCloud of
P £! Americas, Mrs. Owen Womak of
in each bracket is $750. Third prize |
is $500. Four honorable mention
early in October.
m m
Howard citizens—Methodists in !
particular—are anticipating a three
in one delightful church program
tomorrow night beginning at* 7
o’clock an dcontinuing until all is
well done. These include the dedi
cation of a Sunday School annex
to their house of worship, a basket i
dinner for all in attendance and| Columbus, Oct. 31—The body of
second quarterly conference of the an elderly former principal of Co- — — —J Underway for several weeks but the at f ft .
Butler charge presided over by lumbus High School, James A. Dun- 'dafe had not been' set until the gla Tech; Joe Jennings, superin- |UlairilHlll WHIS RCPOTTS
District Superintendent Roy McTier can, was discovered early Saturday 1 Greenville, Ga., Nov. 1—’Three' family fi na ] ly moved in last week. I tendem of the Cherokee Indian!^. n
of the Columbus district assisted on a mud flat in a small river near prominent Meriwether County of-1 Then the date was definitely set! Ag ’ ency at chero, f ee > N. c -> and C- 1 JiUlC fllyflWOJ i/CPdlilll Cfl I
by Rev. Hoke O. Hatcher pastor of Savannah. He had apparently ficials were injured one critically, 1 f nr q„ nr n v Nnv i<st Walker, executive staff represen- 1 -. R u# i
the church. # j drowned. I in an automobile accident between I Jf nhlirrh I' tative of the C °ca Cola Co. f0 ReleaSC 900 WOTkCrS
• • • I Immediate identification of the Fayetteville and Luthersville Satur- r P , ,
Here are a few choice «**. "'«>e watch in day nigh,. i*“ plal ' mnS «* "*"* 1 annU “‘
and every individual has, no doubt i winners in each bracket will re-1
1 expressed to Mr. and Mrs. Gates I ceive $100 prizes.
• their personal feelings but to let j State judges are Mrs. Agnes Rea-
!them know we were really sincere jsor Olmstead, home economics di‘-
j we all came together for one big rector for Colonial Stores, Inc.; Miss
'day Sunday states our esteemed i Iris Davenport, woman’s editor of
•Taylor Mill correspondent. l lhe Farm and Ranch magazine,
Plans for this occasion had been Nas ^ ille - J en ^’ K -. Menhinick,
Americus and Amon Powell of El
laville; four sisters, Mrs. E. F. Boyd
of Adel, Mrs. W. D. Tye, Americus,
Mrs. A. T. Jarrell of Butler and Miss
Martha Powell of Reynolds, and
three brothers, T. V Powell cf Rey
nolds; A. D. Powell, Ft. Thomas,
Ky., and W. I. Powell of Hailan,
Ky.
the home coming as a welcome
i also for the Gates family.
Not many hours after
these
Dr. and Mrs. Thonger
Atlanta, Oct. 31—With the state
more than doubling its road build
ing contracts, 900 laborers will be
removed from the state highway
department payroll.
State Highway Board Chairman
Jim L. Gillis described the person
nel cut as a “partial economy
fronTmany suc^containecf^fn^^^e- bis P° cket presented him by pupils! Injured were Meriwether County : Mrs^Gates ^nd n< fam”iy mean^soDbMct Superintendent
by n !hcTudenf"bod D y eV of fhe Nonh “graved with Duncan's name and John Head County^or. ^^,i t ° h t e h ®ht 1 rch°pj a ^?«d tohavejlnWteS Publfc TO HeW
Charleston, S. C. high school and a l e S en< ^ stating it was presented dinary, and Albert Herring, clerk of (V> ^ „o m ;nn ac „ ..oinnmn _ _
edited by one of Butler’s very own , b >' the P u P ils on Ma F , 31 - 1S12 - i the Superior Court of Meriwether
in the person of Robert Borom, son ! . Frank Bradford assistant super-County. I
of Mr. Sam and Mrs. Mildred Gar- intendent of tha Muscogee School. The three men were returning to!
rett, Borom, the latter a daughter of Dlst r ict who taught science at Co-1 Greenville in Mr. Twitty's car from a nd gave a barbecue for Methodists of the Columbus dis-jmove.” He said it also is partially
Dr. and Mrs. Eli Garrett: lumbus High some 40 years ago, the Georgia-Alabama football game , ent trict will have the opportunity to (due to approach of winter and the
, ... said Duncan left Columbus in 1912. in Athens. Twitty’s car which was | 'hear Dr. Wm. G. Thonger, superin-!“end of the paving season.”
Did you know that our library The watch was probably given to demolished, was in collision with | Sunday morning dawned a lovely | lendent of the Methodist church in Also, the state will be doing less
has at least 400 new books, the him on his departure. ,another car which reportedly en-jday for the occasion The day; Be]gium at g Djstrjct Missionary | road work with its own crews and
most popular being fiction? I The body of the repired school ( tered the main highway from a opened with the regular Sunday j Instltute Tuesday, announces Dis-jmore through private contractors.
Did you ever wonder what kind ma n was discovered by a negro side road. Identity of the driver of, school period with good attendance. ' trict Superinaendent Roy McTier.
of books the students read most? fisherman and taken to a fishing, the second car was not learned im-1 Immediately following Sunday. Th{? Institute wil] begin at 10 a. A II -„* Atl | lf
School was morning worship. Rev.» at Rose Hm Met hodist church. At-LOnTeTeflCe
Sports stories, horse stories, and camp.
career stories for girls seem to be • ~
m0 Hl a aTyole S ever asked you »hy 3’ACt Play TOflight,
you were glad to be an American,
and you just shrugged your shoul
ders and said, “I don’t know”? D.-ila*-
Well if I were asked, this is the DlITICr UyftindlOrilim
answer I would give. There are cer-!
tain unalienable rights that are of
, mediately.
All Local Talent at
Peach County Farmer
Named Ga. Five-Acre
Cotton Contest Winner
Cooper Locke, pastor, welcomed the te , |unch „ the hos , church at . .. u j Tr.BU.rrAu.
Gates family and all visitors after ■ tentlon will be given to evangelis- "I llOWoFU lOHlOlTOW
which he brought the message of' ticwork in the distric t.
the morning. j Taking jiart on the program with] The second Quarterly Confcjc’ce
At 1 p. m. long tables adorned Dr. Thonger will be Rev. G. N. j for the Butler Charge will h- to-
with barbecue, Brunswick stew, R a iney, Ft Valley, South Georgia morrow—Friday—at Howard Keth-
lemonade and everything good to Conference mission secretary; Rev. odist church. Rev. Roy McTier,
eat was waiting for those in at- R. T. Padgett, Buena Vista, district District Superintendent, will have
tendance. 'secretary of missions; Rev. W. A. charge of the service. The new
Rev. Arthur Lane of Juniper, the Kelly, Valdosta, Conference Evan- Church School rooms at the IIcw-
father of Mr. Gordon Lane, Super- gelist; Rev. D. A. Duck, Dawson, dis- 1 ard Church will be dedicated at
Everycr.c is
local Lions Club and the proceeds' county, placed third. The winners! After a11 had finished dinner and 1 missionary institutes'^ taklria ° Dr
will go to the City Swimming Pool were announced by D_ L. Branyon bad been 1 “{Jl e ^commuStJ and Mrs ' Thon ^ into each of the
fund - ! cotton s P e «alist for the university f" d shut in f °i..„ h 1 e „„_ COr "I n eight Methodist districts in South'
A PROCLAMATION
I Athens, Oct. 31—M. S. Vinson, Ft.
“Flying High” an all-local talent, Valley has been named Southwest
fered to every American citizen, p i ay will be presented at the But- District winner in the 1953 Georgia
Award was obtained by the Blue act play is being sponsored by the,honors and Barney Bone, Sumter, Af ; or ^ flnU1 , AH rtinnpr anH | This will be one of a series of
Devil according to a recent report
received by the editor.
The end of the first six weeks
is a good time for you to appraise
your work and resolve to do better.
Remember that you will get out of
your studies exactly what you put
into them. Your teachers are will
ing to give you extra help. Take
advantage of your opportunities.
A complete program and cast is of Georgia Agricultural Extension
being published on page 3 of this Service.
issue of the Herald.
Mt. Pisgah Church Notice
A souvenir post card, bearing in
colors the photograph of the St.
Francis Hotel, San Francisco, Calif., ! one invited
reputed to be one of the largest
hotels in the world, was received
by the Herald last week bearing
Sunday Schol at Mt. Pisgah
Baptist Church, 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Preaching by Rev. James Baker at
11:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Every-
—The Deacons.
The top producer, who grew 110
bales of cotton on 80 acres, will re
ceive $250.He was runner-up in this
26-county area in the 1951 contest.
He balances cotton with other
crops on his 600 acre farm. He has
150 acres of corn, 100 acres of im
proved pasture, and also keeps 100
dairy animals.
Mauk Methodist Church
There will be regular Sunday
just these brief words: “Having a [San Francisco. He and one of his
nice time at convention. Regards, A. postmaster friends made the trip to j worship at the Mauk Methodist
D. Finley.” Our friend Finley is the | the West Coast by auto, enjoying church Sunday at 10 a. m. The
popular Hazlehurst Postmaster, as
well as efficient Editor of The
Cracker Postmaster published mon
thly by the Herald shop and from
this office distributed among all
postmasters in Georgia with one or
more to offices in a number of | expect to find a most interesting
other states in the nation and also i account of the convention a$ well
to postoffice officials in Washing- j as description of scenes in parts of
ton. Friend Finley, accompanied by the nation through which travel
other Georgia postmasters is at- 'was made to and from the conven
tending the National Convention injtion.
the sites—as well as sights—along , pastor, Rev. Hike Hatcher, wili
the route as those to be found at i bring the message of the hour.
Alberqueque, New Mexico, the Everyone is invited to attend
Grand Canyon and Los Vegas, Ne
vada. In the December issue read
ers of the Cracker Postmaster may
Prosperity Church Notice
there was an abundance of food ei Sht Methodist districts in South! WHEREAS the sponsors of /mer»-
left over Georgia during November. [can Education Week are asking all
.. .. Dr. and Mrs. Thonger have come Americans publicly to pl^rlne al-
After lunch our ose present to Georgia at the invitation of legiance to the flag'of the United
assembled jn the church or an od 3j sbop Arthur Moore, who also has States sometime during the day,
fashioned singing Several special supervision of the Belgian Con-, Nov. 9th.
numbers were rendered. ference. Dr. Thonger is reporting to I WHEREAS in these days of t n-
The committee from the Men’s Georgia Methodists on the special sion and unrest there is peculiar
Club who prepared the barbecue as missions projects they are support- [ need for faith in our count-v. its
well as the ladies who prepared the ;!ng in Belgium and the challenge ideals and its traditions. It is a
other items of food are to be com- [ confronting the church there. jtime for rededication to the caure
mended for the splendid manner Educated in France and the t of liberty and justice. All who nar-
in which they handled the various United States, Dr. Thonger has'ticipate will deepen their resp-vt
activities of the day. been in charge of Methodist work; for the Stars and Stripes and for
We especially wish to recognize in Belgium since- 1934. He is recog-jail they represent.
| the presence of Hon. Garland Byrd nized as one of the outstanding NOW THEREFORE, I proclaim
Protestant leaders in Europe. .November 9th as a day for all to
— publicly pledge allegiance to the
Flag of the United States sometime
Howard Methodist Church ! d “ rin e ^ da -\ A11 citi “ ns a , re . re -
quested to meet sometime during
o*i,„ ~ * Z Z i rr * i ,he da Y at a meeting hall, school,
h pastor, Rev. Hoke Hatcher, cburcbes c j ubs offices, places of
announces there will he services at j business to unite in re-affirming
I Howard Methodist Church Sunday (heir common loyalty.
of Atlanta; Mr. Walter Wainwright
Mr. Thelmon Jarrell of Butler; Col.
J R. Lunsford of Reynolds; Mr.
Allen Dennis and Mr. Fred Kren-
sen of Macon.
This day was meant to show in a
big way that Taylor Mill communi
ty welcomes Supt. Gates and fami
ly back to the community and a t H:30 a. m. and 7:30 The pastor
The members of Prosperity Primi- Sunday, Nov. 1, 1953, will go down, w jij bring the message at each
tive Baptist church, Taylor County,
cordially invites the public to at
tend services there on Saturday
and Sunday, Nov. 28 and 29.
in the history of our community as [service,
a perfect day for everyone who at
tended this delightful occasion.
—Reporter.
Every member of the
church urged to attend and bring a
friend.
SEE YOU IN CHURCH SUNDAY.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto signed my name th;a 4tll
day of November, 1953.
E. L. HARRIS,
Mayor, City of Bu'ler.