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Butler H
Mr. G. J. Hortman
Dies Suddenly
Wednesday Noon
Prominent Butler Citizen Found
Dead in Automobile Near
Hortman Bros. Lake.
Mr. G. J. Hortman, prominent
Butler citizen and churchman died
suddenly shortly after noon Wed
nesday of a heart attack.
Surviving Mr Hortman are his
widow, Mrs. Mattie Lizzie Davis
Hortman, two sons, Messrs Wanza
and Carlton Hortman of Butler;
and five daughtrs, Mrs H. C. Irby
and Mrs. Tom Brazzel of Macon;
Mrs. R. E. Cole of Hazlehurst; Mrs.
M. E. Burdshaw and Mrs. W. H.
Elliston of Butler.
Funeral services are announced
for 5 p. m. Thursday at the Butler
Methodist church.
Mrs. Stinson Dies
In Talbot Hospital
Taylor County 4-H Revival at Crowell
Members Attend Church Will Begin
Americus Meeting Sunday Morning
Congratulations of local friends
are extended Master Herbert
Tante, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Tante, as successful contestant in
one of the various projects con
sidered at the annual Southwest
District 4-H Project Achievement
Meeting at Americus during last
week. Other Taylor county suc
cessful contestants were:
Rolin Stephens of Crowell won
honors in Farm and Home Elec
trics. .
Billy Jean Gee of Butler won hon
ors in Food Preparation contest.
All boys and girls who won top
score places at the Americus meet
are eligible to participate in the
State 4-H Congress slated for this
Fall in Atlanta.
The group met for a final as
sembly Friday night in the Geor
gia Southwestern College audito
rium where the three-day meet
ing was conducted. A special can
dle light installation service was
conducted for the new district of
ficers earlier in the day.
New officers include Loreda
Lynn, Decatur County, president;
Janice Lindsey, Clay, girls’ vice
president; Charles Hatcher, Baker,
boys 1 vice president; Joan Reeves
Sumter, secretary; L. Z. Dozier,
Calhoun, treasurer; and Gray Wil
son, Randolph, reporter.
Mrs. Millie Stinson, 81, of Tal
botton died at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday
in the Stinson hospital, Talbotton.
Funeral was conducted at the
White Hall Church near Fort
Payne, Ala., Rev. J. M. Carmichael
conducting the service.
Survivors include five sons, Dr. S. 1
C. Stinson, Waverly Hall, E. H.
Stinson, Butler; Grady Stinson, Tal
botton; C. P. Stinson, Grandview
Mo.; and Dr. R. A. Stinson, San
Mateo. Calif.; a sister, Mrs. B. B. I c . . .
Browder, Harlengen, Tex.; four|ipent III BlindnCSS
brothers, Rev. J. L. Thornberry, Ft.
Payne; Rev. J. T. Thornberry, Har-
veysburg, O.; B. O. Thornberry,
Valley Head, Ala and Thurman
Thornberry, Santa Rosa, N. M.;
and six grandchildren and erne
great grand child.
Sight Restored to
Girl After 24 Years
Zebulon and Forsyth
Contest Winners in
Soil Contest for Nation
Akron, Ohio — Georgia winners
in a national soil conservation
awards competition were an
nounced recently by the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co., sponsors of the
program.
Georgia’s first-place winners are
C. R. Gwyne Jr., Zebulon, selected
by the Towalika soil conservation
district as its representative and
Tom G. Scott Jr., Forsyth, selected
as the outstanding farmer-cooper
ator in the grand award winning
district.
Second place honors for the state It r , ~i r .
were won by Upper Ocmulgee I8X TOS 3f L3Sl ieSSIQH
River soil conservation district, H. •>. . r • i ■■ . „
D Thames, Forest Park, chairman, I DlCO PnOaV UneXOCCteClIV
which named D. H. Kistner, Li- 1 J r J
Atlanta, Ga.—-The slim brown
haired young woman took a quick
glance across Fourth Avenue, and
you could tell by the gleam in
her pretty blue eyes that she was
proud of them.
Miss Deolores Schlichting was en
joying her 13th month of sight
after spending more than 22 of
her 24 years in darkness.
Miss Schlishting of La Moure
N. Dak., was born blind in 1931,
due to an injury received by her
mother during pregnancy. She re
cently toSd this graphic story of
how she gained her vision.
Almost at the moment of her
birth, 24 years ago, her father
began a tireless and determined
search for a way to give his
daughter the ability to see.
The usefulness of her eyes had
been destroyed permanently, doc
tors told him. The only answer
was to get her new pair.
Ben Hill Legislator,
Rev. G. N. Rainey, Ft. Valley,
Will be Guest Minister
During Revival.
Americus Couple
Injured in Auto
Wreck Near Butler
thonia, as outstanding farmer-co-
operator.
The two Georgia representatives
of the first place district along
with 98 winners from the other 47
states will be guests of the spon
sor on a vacation outing to Wig
wam guest report and Goodyear
Farms, Litchfield Park., Ariz., in
November and December.
First and second place district
each will receive a bronze plaque
as permanent,, symbol of their
achievements at a state meeting
of the National Association of Soil
Conservation Districts later this
year.
Chest X-Ray Clinic
At Health Center
Thursday July 21
Chest X-Ray Clinic is announced
for Thursday, July 21, at the local I I u
County Health Center. The Clinic! I WO LOCfll MCA
will begin at 9 a. m. and continue
Fitzgerald, July 8—Rep. A. A.
Boggus Sr. who accused legislators
of “skinning” taxpayers recently
died at Fitzgerald of a heart at
tack.
The 58 year old legislator suf
fered an attack in a store which
he operated with his son and was
dead on arrival at a hospital.
Boggus was elected to the legis
lature from Ben Hill county in 1951
served two terms and his present
term would have expired in 1956.
One of the last and most color
ful speeches made by the well—
likedlegislator came a few weeks
ago during the special tax-raising
session of the General Assembly.
Boggus rose, gained the floor of
the House and held up a pair of
wool-clipping shares and a skin
ning knife. “I want to teach you
something” he said. “If you clip a
sheep this year, you can clip him
again next year.”
Revival services will begin at
Crowell Methodist church Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock and continue
throuugh the following Friday
night. Rev. G. N. Rainey, pastor of
the Ft. Valley Methodist Church
will do the preaching. Bro. Rainey
will preach his first sermon for us
at the evening worship Sunday at
8 mm.
There will be two services each
day: 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. The
public is cordially invited to at
tend all services possible. Let us
work and pray for a great revival.
Bro. Rainey is one of our outstand
ing preachers. His messages will
do everyone good. Invite your
neighbors and friends to these
services.
M. W. FLANDERS, Pastor.
A. T. Fort, Prominent
Lumpkin Citizen Claimed
By Death Friday Morning
Lumpkin, Ga., July 8—A. T.
Fort, 60, Mayor pro-tem of Lump
kin and President of the Farmers
State Bank there, died of a heart
attack at 1 a. m. Friday at Pat
terson hospital, Cuthbert.
Mr. Fort, who had been presi
dent of the Lumpkin Bank since
1939 and formerly served as may
or, was also a former vice presi
dent of the American Bankers As
sociation.
At the time of his death he was
president of Tucker and Fort Inc.,
Fort Brothers Chevrolet Co. and
Forter Insurance Agency. He also
was engaged in widespread farm
ing and cattle raising activities.
Mr. Fort, a trustee of Andrew
College, Cuthbert, was a charter
member of the Shrine. He was
chairman of the Board of Stewards
of Lumpkin Methodist church.
NOTE: The Columbus Enquirer
spoke editorially of Mr. Fort thus:
“The death of A. T. Fort of
Lumpkin marked the passing of
cne of the most prominent citizens
of West Georgia.
“Mr. Fort was interested in a
number of business enterprises,
having been president of the
Farmers State Bank at Lumpkin
since 1939. He was president of
Fort Brothers Chevrolet Co., Lump
kin and of Tucker and Fort, Inc.
“Mr. Fort was engaged in ex
tensive farming and cattle raising.
He contributed much to the de
velopment of agriculture and the
livestock industry in this section.
“Mr. Fort was widely known for
his civic activities and for his in
terest in religious and welfare
matters. He was chairman of the
board of stewards of the Lumpkin
Methodist church and a trustee of
Andrew College in Cuthbert.
“Mr. Fort has had many friends
throughout the Chattahoochee
Valley who deplore his death. ”
Couple Enroute Home from
Butler Saturday Night When
Accident Occurred.
Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Downs of
Americus, brother and sister-in-
law, of Mrs. R. E. Willis of Butler
were injured in an auto accident
near here Saturday night.
The accident occured on White-
water hill 5 miles south of Butler
when the Downs car, headed south
sideswiped another automobile
headed north, and ran into a ditch
on the right hand side of the
paved highway. The Downs car
was badly damaged. The other car
involved in th' accident was only
slightly damaged. It was occupied
by a couple from Connecticut.
Neither of the occupants were in
jured.
Mrs. Downs was the most seri
ously injured of the two in the
Downs car. Her injuries consisted
of a broken left arm, broken left
leg, fractured pelvis, and a severe
head injury.
Mr. Downs sustained a number
of bruises and cuts about the head
and body. Both were taken to the
Sumter County hospital, Americus
for treatment.
Revival Will Begin
Sunday Morning
At Antioch Church
Talbotton on Road to
Prosperity as Described
By Mrs. Lynda Bryan
In her interesting “Auld Ac
quaintance Column” of the Talbot
ton New Era last week Mrs. Bry
an spoke thus:
“The sound of hammer and saw
are abroad in the town; churches
homes and farm houses are receiv
ing consideration scarce felt in
years. The Baptist church not
long since, renovated and beauti
fied; the Zion Episcopal, now a
thing of beauty; the Methodist,
going forward in the hands of
Mr. Westo-n Culpepper and his
competent assistans. Mrs. A. S.
Calloway and Miss Imogene
Smith, busy for weeks in town
and country, aided alternately by
Mr. Linton Calloway, as to ways
and means for prolonging their
varied property. The John M.
Shipps progressive in ideas; Miss
Mary Mathews painting and reviv
ing her hospitable home on Col
lege St. while in Woodland, a
home in anticipation is in process
of erection — ’tis Rose Kendricks
—planning for Danny, when he
comes marching home from Korea.
All in all, a note of progress is in
progress is in the air, and hope is
singing in the heart.”
Cuthbert Church Is
Revived After 10 Years
Our revival begins Sunday
morning. The pastor will bring a
special message at the morning
hour for the church. We urge
every member to be present and
suggest you find someone and
bring them with you.
Worship Sunday evening at 8
o’clock. Special song program for
the children will feature this serv
ice.
We will have worship daily dur
ing the week at 11:30 a. m. and
8 p. m.
Sunday School at 10:30 a. m.
Good classes for all ages.
We extend a most cordial in
vitation to everyone to attend our
revival during next week. Plain
gospel preaching and good con-
gregational singing will feature
each service.
J. H. Stanford, Pastor
4-H Club Campers
Will Take a Break
From Project Work
After working hard on their 4-H
projects all year, thirty-three Tay
lor county club members will
take a vacation from their farm
and home chores. The group left
for camp Rock Eagle Monday at
8:30 a. m. and will return July 15.
They will attend county 4-H
Camp at the state 4-H Club center
near Eatonton.
Those attending the camp are:
Jerry Mclnvale, Mardge Ballanee,
Diane Powell, Betty Gee, Stanley
Gee, John Locke, Bobby Clark, Rog
er Clark, Sue Moore, Shadrick Bar
nett, Emory Parr Jr. Kay Dunn,
Betty Willis, Patricia Montgomery
Jimmy Cosey, Bob Cochran, Mar
garet Tante, Elaine Posey, Shelby
Jean Childres, Mary Carolyn
Joiner, Dale Posey, Douglas Booth
Marshall Dean, Charlotte Cosey
Sue O’Neal, Hugh O’Neal, Jean
O’Neal Vandy Gates, Steve Brown
Freddie Brown, James Hinton, Ro
lin Stevens and Sandy Harris.
Miss Ann Smith, Home Dem
onstration Agent aAd County
Agent Vernon Reddish accompa
nied the group. Mr. W. R. Cosey,
bus driver will be with the party
during the entire week.
Two Men Arrested
Saturday Admit
Robberies in Taylor
Men Arrested Near Buena
Vista Saturday When They
Meet with Auto Accident.
Two white men arrested near
Buena Vista early Saturday after
an automobile accident confessed
to several burglaries in Taylor
county the night before their ar
rest.
The men were listed as Thomas
Painter, 24, and J. W. Craft, 27,
both of Marietta. Craft is reported
to be an escaped convict from
Tattnell County prison at Mc
Rae.
The two men reportedly broke
into the post office at Howard
an dthe L. H. Vanlandingham
store there. A few canned goods,
cigarettes and other items were
missing from the Vanlandingham
store. Nothing was reported
missing from the post office. The
men confessed to breaking into
the L. R. Pike store in Mauk where
they took a pistol and other small
items.
Later the same night they at
tempted to break into a store at
Tazewell, Marion County, and were
frightened away. In their attempt
to escape they lost control of their
car and overturned near Buena
Vista according to officers.
Marion county officers arrested
the pair otn charges of attempted
burglary and possession burglary
tools.
Craft was injured in the accident
and received medical treatment
before being placed in the Marion
county jail. Painter was not in
jured and is also being detained
by Marion officers.
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Columbus District
Youth Fellowship Group
Chooses Its Officers
Columbus, Ga. — Margaret Shep
pard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Sheppard, Cuthbert, was
elected president of the Methodist
Youth Fellowship, Columbus Dis
trict, at the recent business ses
sion.
Dot Heath, member of Rose
Hill Methodist church, was elect
ed vice president.
Others elected were Gary Brant-
Iy, Dawson, secretary; John Rog
ers, Buena' Vista, treasurer; Mar
gie Youngblood, Talbotton, Pub
licity chairman.
Chairmen chosen were: Mary Jim
| Clark of St. Paul Methodist, Chris
tian Witness; Patsy Alford, Sher
wood Methodist, Faith; Sally Cur
tiss, Waverly Hall, Citizenship;
Kay Culpepper, East Highlands
McKinney, Fort Gaines, Fellow
ship.
Cuthbert, Ga. — A little church
at Cuthbert died 10 years ago in
its 40th year.
'Lost Tribe' Discovered;
Indian Burial Groud Is
Found Near Abbeville
until noon.
All persons desiring a chest X-
Ray will please be present during
these hours. The Clinic is under
the direction of Mrs. Eppie Mae
Arnold, Public Health Nurse.
CLINTON, S. C., WOMAN
NAMED TO FACULTY AT
MERCER UNIVERSITY
Macon, July 8—Miss Margaret Har
ris has been appointed to the fac- , ... „
ulty of Mercer University as an j Church School
Join U.S. Air Force
Mr. Harold Sullins, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Sullins, and Mr.
Benny Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs
Luke Adams left last week for
San Antonio, Tex., after their en
listment in the U.S. Air Force.
Butler Methodist Church
H. C. Marx, Pastor
instructor of English. She attended
Presbyterian College and received
the master’s degree at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. Her
home is in Clinton, S. C.
10:00 a.m.
(James Bazemore, Supt.)
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
M. Y. F. 7:15 p.m.
Evening Worship 8:00 p.m.
Mid-week Serv., Wed. 8:00 p.m.
Abbeville, Ga.—Extensive work
is converting to a park a mysteri
ous Indian Mound believed to be
a lost Ocmulgee River tribe's buri
al ground.
The mound, which already has
yielded 12 graves and skeletons
of about 60 bodies, is reportedly
well over 400 years old and was
found in a thick swamp on the
river bank about a mile from Ab
beville. It is believed to be that of
a long-sought "lost tribe” known
to have made its home somewhere
below Hawkinsville. Two snake
and ’gator hunting brothers who
have spent their lifetimes along
the muddy river banks and
swamplands it feeds made the
discovery! They said they dug
“every mound from Hawkinsville
clear down to Lumber City in Tel
fair County.”
The brothers are Lovett and
Zan Rogers, who made a specialty
of trapping “rattlesnakes (and
milking them), ’gators and most
anything else we could find in the
swamps.
But the story doesn’t end there.
A new chapter began recently.
The doors of the Mission Church
of the Epiphany were opened
again, as the Rt. Rev. A. R. Stuart
Episcopal bishop of Georgia, re
dedicated the chapel.
About 100 persons filled the tiny
chapel, then overflowed onto the
church grounds to hear the bishop
preach his sermon commemorat
ing the event.
The church was established 50
years ago under the leadership of
a young couple who moved to
Cuthbert from Atlanta, Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Hansell. The Hansells
set out to make a church home for
themselves and other Episcopal-
iians in the area.
! Th e ground was donated by G.
A. McDonald, who lived on the
adjoining property. The small con
gregation bought a concrete block
mold which turned out masonry
blocks in Mr. Hansell’s garage.
Hansell himself drew plans for
the building. He did most of the
actual construction himself, even
built some of the church furniture
in a short time it was complete,
ready to worship in.
In one of his last official acts as
bishop of the Diocese of Georgia
the Rt. Rev. C. K Nelson dedicated
the mission in 1905. In that year,
the diocese as divided in half and
Bishop Nelson became the bishop
of Atlanta.
New Sinclair
Service Station
Completed Here
Wild Hog Killed
On Beachwood Farm
Weighing 500 Pounds
A wild hog weighing 500 pounds
or more and standing 3 feet and 6
inches high and 6 feet, four inches
long was killed by Mr. E. H. Baze
more and Mr. Willard Brunson Fri
day -night. The animal was killed
on Mr. Bazemore’s Beachwood
farm on Flint river. •
Mrs. Bazemore stated that the
hog, a “domestic type” is known
to have gone wild about nine
years ago. He has tried to catch
this animal for the past six years
during which time it has caused
considerable damage to corn and
other field crops along the edge of
the swamp.
The head of this hog is a sight
to behold, weighing 50 pounds and
measuring 25 inches from tip to
tip of ear. One tusk measured
more than three inches long, the
remainder of his tusks had been
broken off. The hoofs of this
animal were as large as those of
a half grown bull yearling.
Increase in Deposits
Shown by Local Bank
Compared with 1954
Bank deposits in Taylor County’s | _
at Butler amf at^e vnofd s—a s ptTb* j t A ™ encU! J- Jul Y ll—Contributions
lished elsewhere in^his^Issue^of electric ^rgar^
the Herald in enmplianoe with | ^Ud^ng at ClaSS '
A new modern Sinclair Service
Station has been completed in
Butler located just south of the
City square on Highway 19.
The station was built by Mr. W.
F. Gray, Mrs. W. H. Trussell and
Mrs. T. L. Fountain with Mr. Jor
dan Giles as building contractor
'and has been leased to the Sin
clair Oil Co.
This service station is one of the
most modern and up-to-date to
be found in this section of the
state.
This new enterprise will be open
for business within the near fu
ture we are advised.
Funds Solicited for Organ
For Americus College
State Banking Laws, show grati
fying increases of deposits over
that of a year ago.
The Butler bank on June 30, 1954
showed total deposits of $1,317,493.
For the same period in 1955, $1,-
472,615 or an increase of $155-
121.
The Reynolds banking institu
tion as of the same date last year
showed deposits of $1,008,459 at
the close of business June 30 this
year deposits were $973,676
Georgia South
western College are being received
daily from the college alumni. The
first contribution to the alumni
organ fund was made by Cathe
rine Gamble of Dawson and
Macon. The alumni organ project
was initiated by J. F. Myers,
Americus Attorney, who is presi
dent of the Georgia Southwestern
College Alumni Association. Alum
ni may send donation to Alumni
Organ Fund, Georgia Southwes
tern College, Americus.