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The Butler Herald
. ‘’KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS T HE SECRET
VOLUME 84. BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY, GEORGIA THURSDAY.
OBSERVATIONS
Business of Friendship
Ball Tournament
Begins Thursday
Night at Butler
The
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The happiest business in all the
world
Is that of making friends,
And no “investment on tb" 0 t N rC
Pays larger dividend . \D e ^,' e ta'
\ G Sn^ ets V " r -
For life is more than s, ...a and
bonds
And love than rate per cent,
He who gives in friendship’s name
Shall reap what he has spent.
Life is the great investment,
And no man lives in vain
Who guards a hundred friendships
A misers guard their gain.
Then give the World a welcome
Each day what’er it sends,
And may no mortgage e’er fore
close
The partnership of Friends.
—Selected.
Many so-clled mental marvels
are match ros ome of our young
fry who are sure they know all
about everything.
The average politician thinks he
has fooled all of his constituents
and the world as well in his abili
ty to live like the rich.
A good speaker can have his say
in a much shorter time than one
who has little to say and beats
around in the brush trying to say
it.
The Russians seem to keep a
chip on their shoulder and some
day a courageous nation is going
to slap it off them and stop their
bossing.
4-C Southern Girl’s
11 be staged at But-
and 23. Teams com-
the Girl’s Tournament
Unadilla, Reynolds,
Byron,
will include
Ellaville, Macon County
Roberta and Butler.
Three games are scheduled for
Thursday night. Feb. 18, beginning
at 6 o’clock. This game will be
between Reynolds and Ellaville. At
7:45 Macon County will play By
ron and at 9 o’clock Butler will
play Roberta.
Two games are scheduled for
Monday night, Feb. 22nd, 7:30 and
at 9 o’clock, with finals in this
series will be played off Tuesday
night, Feb. 23rd.
Butler Girls Team is composed of
Kay Dunn, Elaine Bryant, . Ann
Benns, Fredia Mclnvale, Doris
Peed, Dondra Peed, Maralyn Spil-
lers, Miriam Tucker, Sue Peed, Bet
ty Jo Hammack and Linda Taylor.
Region 4-C Girls Final Tourna
ment wil be at Roberta Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27, 7:30 and
9:00 p. m.
The Crawford County Eagles won
the Region 4-CSouth boys cham
pionship at Roberta Tuesday night
by topping Macon County 82-61.
In the consolation game Butler
Bears defeated Unadilla 53-48.
Funeral Services
Saturday A. M. For
Mrs. Ida Childs, 89
An ole-timer is a fellow who can
remember when each of Uncle
Sam’s dollars was worth 100 cents
and would buy that much mer
chandise.
Those employes who jump at the
opportunity to take every possible
vacation may wind up with a per
manent one and be in search of
another job.
In the old days grandma cooked
on a wood stove and wasn’t wor
ried about the high cost of gas or
other fuel as are the women of this
day and time.
There are many really brave men
who can’t cope with the little
woman when she gets on a ram
page and reads him off about some
fo his conduct.
The cost of night life was in
creased, along with everything else
and some of the young folks have
lost their shirts trying to keep up
with such a life
In Las Vega they not only pick
the gamblers clean but the chorus
girls in the floor-shows are a sight
to see with little left to the imagi
nation of the public.
'Although against the law, there
are still firms in this country who
are waxing rich by the sale of
lewd pictures to youngsters and
oldsters, who haven’t grown up.
Mrs. Ida Alsobrook Childs, 89
years of age, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Shellman Mar
tin in Macon at ten o’clock Friray
morning. She had been in declining
health for about six years but had
been critically ill for only about
five weeks.
Mrs. Childs was born in Talbot
county April 2, 1870, the daughter
of the late Mr. Jordan and Mrs.
Elizabeth Freeman Alsobrook. She
was married to Mr. Wm. Carter
Childs who preceded her in death
a number of years ago. She lived
in Taylor county, Howard Com
munity for many years but for the
past 22 years had made her home
in Macon.
She was a member of Shiloh
Primitive Baptist church.
Funeral services for Mrs. Childs
were conducted at Edwards Fu
neral Chapel in Butler at 11 a. m.
Saturday. Eld. Bentley Adams, pas
tor of Shiloh Primitive Baptist
church, officiated. Interment was
in the family lot, Carter cemetery,
Prattsburg.
Pall bearers were Messrs Dale
Hortman, E. W. Fowler, J. O. Pres
ton Jr., Grady Fowler, Carter C.
Fowler Jr. and A1 Queen.
Survivors include three daugh
ters, Mrs. J. S. Martin, Mrs. J. B.
Kendall and Mrs. Virginia Edwards
all of Macon; one sister, Mrs. J. B.
McCline of LaFayette, Ala.; 13
grand children, 21 great grand
children and four great great grand
children.
Edwards Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
When you see a woman’s hair
nowadays you can’t tell what color
it was originally since they can
change brunettes to blondes and
then back again without difficul
ty-
The treacherous long-eared mule
is now almost extinct, in most
places, and there is little danger
of getting kicked by one, but now
we have the power lawn mower
which is worse.
Healing Revival
Now in Progress at
Revival Center
At back to the Cross Revival
Center, Inc., on Highway 19, North
of town between Butler and Thom-
aston, with your evangelist, Bob.
Wyrosdick, of Franklin, Ga., Evan
gelist Emma White and Syble
Coker, Atlanta. Rev. Richard Bar
nett is pastor.
Come, bring the sick and the
lame, each night at 7:30. Look for
the big sign on the church.
We welcome every citizen of
Butler and surrounding communi
ties.
Revival Center, Inc.
Back to the Cross
REV. BOB WYROSDICK
Peanut Specialist
'Will Meet with Peanut
Growers Friday Nite
Peanut growers are urged to at
tend a peanut meeting Friday
night at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Frank
McGill will present the latest re
search and information from Ex
periment Stations and from lead
ing growers from over the state.
We would like to increase our
peanut yields in the county even
above the state average. For the
past several years our county av
erage has been below the state
average. As a rule high yields per
acre tend to decrease cost of pro
duction per ton and increase profit
to the growers. These questions
and many others will be dis
cussed and explained at the meet
ing.
VERNON REDDISH,
County Agent.
LATE NEWS ITEM
The Herald has been advised by
friends of Mrs. Bussey Childs that
she will seek to fill the unexpired
term of her late husband, Bussey
Childs, as Ordinary of Taylor
County, in special election to be
called later.
Taylor County Democratic Primary
Next Tuesday; 3 Incumbents Have No
Opposition; 21 Names Appear on Ballot
Polls to Open at 7 a. m. and
Close at 7 p. m. Next
Tuesday.
The Taylor County Democratic
Primary date is next Tuesday.
Polls will open at 7 a. m. and
close at 7 p. m.
According to the Board of
Registrars there are 3434 registered
voters qualified to vote in the
forthcoming Primary.
Due to the death Monday of Hon.
P. B. Childs, Judge of the Court
of Ordinary, who was the only
qualified candidate for this Office,
it will be impossible to fill the
Office of County Ordinary in Tues
day’s Primary.
Three incumbents do not have op
position, namely: Thelmon Jarrell,
Clerk of Superior Court; W. H. El-
liston, County School Superinten
dent; and C. H. Adams, Tax Com
missioner.
For Clerk Superior Court
Thelmon Jarrell, Incumbent
For Sheriff
Charlie J. Wright, Incumbent
Woodrow Melton
C. E. (Sink) Marshall
For Tax Commissioner
C. H. Adams, Incumbent
County School Superintendent
W. H. Elliston, Incumbent
For County Commissioners
Butler District
E. H. Bazemore, Incumbent
Homer Chapman
Murray Jarrell.
Reynolds District
Walter Wainwright, Incumbent
Julian M. Whatley
Howard District
Lewis Watson, Incumbent
W. R. Turner
For Coroner
J. H. Peacock, Incumbent
Lewis Beason, M. D.
Keith Trapp
For Surveyor
(No announced Candidate)
For County School Board
Butler District
Emory Harris, Incumbent.
Reynolds District
C. E. Whatley, Incumbent
Rustin District
Dave T. Harbuck, Incumbent.
Cedar Creek District
Roscoe Albritton, Incumbent
Daviston District
W. S. (Bill- Maxwell.
Carsonville District
Moody Peed
Mr. C. F. Varnadow
Died February 5th
At Home in Lenox
The many local frienrs of Mr.
Charles Franklin Varnadow were
saddened to learn of his death
which occurred at his home in
Lenox Friday, Feb. 5th.
Mr. Varnadow made his home in
Butler for a number of years, leav
ing here in 1939. He had made his
home in Lenox for the past several
years. He was born in Dooly
County in 1874.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Lenox Baptist church of
which he was a deacon. Interment
was in Tifton cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Sallie B. Varnadow; one daughter
Mrs. J. S. Green Sr., both of Lenox;
and a son, Mr. Leon Varnadow of
Athens, Tenn.
Third Quarterly
Conference at Mauk
Church Sunday Nite
The Howard Charge will conduct
Third Quarterly Conference Sunday
evening at the Mauk Methodist
church. Rev. James R. Webb, Jr.
will preach and have charge of the
conference session during the 7:30
worship hour.
The Conference will hear oral re
ports from the pastor, the church
treasurers, the Church School Su
perintendents and church lay-
leaders. These reports will outline
the work done in the churches
during the past three months.Each
member of the conference is urged
to attend the conference Sunday.
The people of the Mauk church
cordially invite any who will to
come to this conference. Supper
will be omitted at this session. The
Fourth Quarterly Conference date
will be late in April at the Wesley
Methodist church.
Mr. Thelmon Jarrell
Assumes Duties as
Ordinary of County
In accordance with the Georgia
law governing filling vacancy in
the Ordinary’s Office. Mr. Thelmon
Jarrell, Clerk of Superior Court of
Taylor County automatically as
sumed the duties of Ordinary upon
the death of Hon. P. B. Childs at
noon on Feb. 15th.
The law provides that the Clerk
of Superior Court shall call a spe
cial election to fill the unexpired
term of Ordinary which in this
case wduld end Dec. 31, 1960.
Nomination of an Ordinary for a
full four year term beginning Jan.
1, 1961, will be under the jurisdic
tions of the County Democratic Ex-
excutive Committee.
Copy of the Ga. Code governing
filling the unexpired term of Or
dinary reads as follows:
“2411707 ( 4782) Vacancy, how
filled: When a vacancvy occurs in
the ofifce of Ordinary in any
County it shall be the duty of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of said
County, on the fact of said vacancy
being made known to him, within
10 days thereof to order an election
to take place within 20 days from
the date of said order, and one
notice thereof shall be given by
publication in the newspaper in
whioh the Ordinary of said County
publishes his Citations; Provided,
that if such election cannot be held
as provided herein it shall be the
duty of the Clerk to call and hold
such election as soon as possible.
Until the vacancy is filled, the
Judge of the City Court or County
Court, as the case may be, shall
serve as the Ordinary and shall be
vested with all the powers of the
Ordinary. If there be no such Judge
or if for some reason such Judge
cannot serve as Ordinary, the
Clerk of the Superior Court of such
County shall serve as Ordinary and
be vested with all the powers of
the Ordinary. In the event that the
Clerk of the Superior Court for
some reason cannot serve as Ordi
nary, the Judge of the Superior
Court of such county shall appoint
a person to serve as Ordinary, and
such person shall be vested with
all the powers of the Ordinary. The
Board of County Commissioners, or
in those counties which have no
Commissioners, the Judge of the
Superior Court, shall fix the com
pensation of the person who serves
as Ordinary until the vacancy is
filled and such compensation shall
be paid from the General Funds of
the County. The fees collected dur
ing such period shall be paid into
the general funds of the County.
(Acts 1851-2, pp. 50, 95; 1871-2, p.
29; 1951, pp. 129, 130).”
Funeral Services
For Mr. L. L. O’Kelley
Last Saturday p. m.
Mr. L. L. O’Kelley, 89 years of
age, died suddenly of a heart at
tack at his home here at 4:45 Fri
day morning.
Mr. O’Kelley was born near
Monticello August 5, 1873, a son of
the late Mr. F. M. and Mrs. Mary
Ann O'Kelley. He moved to Butler
with his wife on July 27, 1959, so
that they could be near their
daughter, Mrs. W. S. Payne. He was
a member of the local Baptist
church and was admired by all
who knew him. Mr. O’Kelley was a
retired lumberman.
Funeral for Mr. O’Kelley was
conducted at the local Baptist
church Saturday, 3 o’clock p. m.
Rev. Walter Doggerell, pastor of
the local Baptist church officiated
and was assisted by Rev. Welburn
Smith of Dothan Ala., and Rev.
George Cummins of Cairo. Inter
ment was in the family lot Bethel
Primitive Baptist cemetery near
town.
Pall bearers were Messrs Hubert
Payne, Tom Giles, R. F. Maddox,
Bobby Gene Swain, H. D. Taun
ton and Harold Ragan..
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Taylor Watson O’Kelley; one
daughter, Mrs. W. S. Payne; one
grand son, Willie Payne; two sis
ters, Mrs. Mattie Goodman and
and Mrs. Carl Hurst both of Sa
vannah; also a number of nieces
and nephews.
Edwards Funeral Home of Butler
in charge of arrangements.
OF SUCCESS”
FEBRUARY 18, 1960. NUMBER 20.
World Gospel
Mission Convention
Begins Here Friday
There will be a Missionary Con
vention in Butler Friday, Saturday
and Sunday of this week at the
Butler Church of the Nazarene,
sponsored by the World Gospel
Missionary Society and the W.G.M.
Prayer Bands of this area.
The program will include:
Friday, 7:30 p. m., Rev. Burnis
Bushong.
Saturday, 10:30 a. m., Rev. Burnis
Bushong.
Saturday, 7:30 p. m., Rev. Loyd
Garrett.
Sunday, 2:45 p. m. Rev. Bushong
and Rev. Garrett.
Rev. Burnis Bushong is a recent
ly returned Missionary from Hon
duras who is Superintendent of the
W. G. M in Honduras and also
has served on the Mexican field.
Rev. Lloyd Garrett is Deputation
Director of W. G. M. with head
quarters in Marion, Ind.
Also present in the Convention
will be Rev. Ken Lister who is un
der appointment to Kenya Colony,
Africa. He will be the song direc
tor and in charge of the special
music.
Rev. J. O. Fuller, Southeast Re
gional Director of W. G. M„ who is
scheduling these Missionary Con
ventions in this area of the U. S.
is expected to be with us also.
We invite and urge all the pas
tors and people of this area to the
convention and especially all the
friends of W. G M.
Rev. Charles Hartsfield,
Promoter.
Mrs. Lula Windham
Died at Reynolds
After Long Illness
Mrs. Lula Newsom Windham, 89
years of age, died at her home in
Reynolds at six o’clock Friday
morning. She had been in declin
ing health for some time.
Mrs. Windham was born in Tay
lor county June 15, 1870, a daugh
ter of the late Mr. Napoleon B. and
Mrs. Emma L. Newsom. She was
a life-long citizen of Reynolds.
She was the widow of Mr. Charles
D. Windham and a member of the
Reynolds Methodist church.
Funeral services for Mrs. Wind
ham occurred at the Reynolds
Methodist church at 11 o’clock
Saturday morning. Rev. Charles
Hlllis, pastor of the church offi
ciated and he was assisted by Eld.
John Mangham. Grandsons of the
deceased acted as pall bearers.
Survivors include four daughters
Mrs. Hennie Saunders and Mrs. J.
H. Brewer of Reynolds; Mrs. Hazel
McDaniel, Ft. Valley; Mrs. Maude
Smith, Macon; three sons: Messrs
G. L. and Guy Windham, Rey
nolds and C. D. Windham of Ma
con; One brother, Mr. J. C. New-
some, Reynolds; one sister, Mrs.
Blanche Hicks of Macon. Also a
number of grand children and
great grand children.
Goddard Funeral Home of Rey
nolds, was in charge of ararnge-
ments.
Heart Fund Drive
In Progress Now
The Heart Fund drive, conducted
in February each year, is the Heart
Association’s single appeal for
funds to support the Heat Program
of research, education and com
munity service.
We are proud to have such able
leadership for this year’s Heart
Fund drive, said Mr. Bronax and Mr
Redd.
“We feel certain that our drive
in this area against heart disease
will be an outstandng success,”
they said.
Since the organization of the
Heart Association as a volnntary
health agency 12 years ago, great
strides have been made in the de
velopment of new and more effec
tive methods of diagnosis, treat
ment, care and prevention of heart
and circulatory system disease.
Georgia has become recognized
as a national leader in the fight
against heart disease thru its out
standing heart research program,
its state-wide system of 16 heart
clinics, and its year-round program
of public and professional educa
tion.
In Georgia, more than 17,000
deaths resulted from heart and cir
culatory system disease in 1958, the
latest year for which statistics are
available.
Hon. P. B. Childs
Taylor Co. Ordinary
Died Monday
Funeral Tuesday Afternoon at
Local Baptist Church;
Interment at Bethel.
Hon Preston Bussey Childs, Sr.,
Judge of the Court of Ordinary of
Taylor County, died at the Pied
mont hospital, Atlanta at noon
Monday.
Mr. Child’s death was attributed
to leukemia and pneumonia from
which he had been ill for about
three weeks.
Judge Childs was born in this
county May 5, 1905, a son of the
late Mr. John T. and Mrs. Leona
Daniel Childs. He was a life long
citizens of the county and a mem
ber of the local Baptist church.
Mr. Childs was one of the most
popular citizens and officials in
the county. He was elected to the
office of Ordinary in 1956 and was
unopposed for re-election in the
county primary of Feb. 23rd.
Funeral services for Mr, Childs
occurred at the Butler Baptist
church at 4 p. m. Tuesday. Rev. E.
H. Dunn officiated and was'dli-
sisted by Rev. Walter Dog-
grell and Rev. Ted Griner. Inter
ment was in Bethel Primitive Bap
tist cemetery near town.
Active pall bearers were Messrs
James B. Childs Sr., Charles Childs
Jimmy Childs, Jr., Gray Fountain,
Ralph Beinecke, Billy Childs and
Reid Brown.
An unusually large numuer of
local citizens and county officials
acted as honorary pall bearers.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Essie Lou Jones Childs; one daugh
ter, Miss Nancy Childs, Mercer
University, Macon; two sons, Mr.
Preston B. Childs, Jr., Orlando,
Fla.; and John Childs, Butler; two
brothers, Dr. J. R. Childs and Mr.
James D. Childs, and two sisters
Mrs. Atholine Saylor and Mrs. C.
R. Brown, all of Atlanta.
The funeral was attended by an
unusually large number of friends
and relatives. The floral offering
was large and beautiful.
Edwards Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Thomas Gaultney, Sr.
Native of This County,
Died at Macon
Funeral services for Edmond
Thomas Gaultney Sr., 73, of Ma
con, who died at his residence Feb.
11th after a short illness, were
conducted in Memorial Chapel,
Macon Friday, 3 p. m.
Rev. C. A. Forrester and Rev. A
H. Brackett officiated and burial
jin Riverside cemetery, Macon.
| Pallbearers: K E. Carswell O
1 E. Dixon, A. F. Gibbs, W. H. Sea-
gler, C. E. Holbrook, R. G. Brown
Dr. E. W. Rackley and Lt. Gov!
Garland T. Byrd.
Mr. Gaultney wtas born in Tay
lor County, the son of the late Rev.
M. T. Gaultned and Lula M. Gault
ney. He had been a resident of
Macon for the past 30 years, mov
ing to Macon from Taylor county.
Mr. Gaultney was president and
chairman of the board of directors
of the Dependable Lumber Co. He
mas a member of the Antioch Bap
tist church.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Effie G. Adams; two
sons, E. T. Gaultney, Jr. and J.M
Gaultney, both of Macon; five
daughters, Mrs. J. C. Green of Ma
con, Mrs. J. W. Thompson, Char
lotte, N. C.; Mrs. M. D. Walker
Quincy, Fla.; Mrs. Wesley Norris,
Milie-dgeville, and Mrs. M. C. Mose-’
'ley Jr., Byron; four brother, E. M.,
|Edgar and Mercer Gaultney, all of
Butler and M. T. Gaultney, Cedar
Keys, Fla.; four sisters, Mrs. D. E.
| Byrd, Reynolds; Mrs. J. D. Jarrell!
i Perry; Mrs. Eva Peterman, Butler!
! and Mrs. Dolph Burnham, Rhine;
also 11 grand children.
Revival in Progress at
Assembly of God Ch.
Rev. R. F. Johnson is guest
preacher at a series of revival
services now in progress at the
Assembly of God Church near
Butler.
Everyone is cordially invited to
attend each of these services.
J. D. WELDON, Pastor.