Houston County GaArchives News.....Houston County News Items From 1915 April 27 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 June 17, 2004, 7:44 pm The Butler Herald The Butler Herald Tuesday, April 27, 1915 Page Six Clipped From Our Contemporaries Ft. Valley Leader Rev. J.M. Bass and O.W. Stapleton will be here Sunday to assist in the revival meeting at the Methodist church. The great Dublin meeting, which lasted 4 weeks’ closes tonight and the Evangelist begins here Sunday with the morning services. Fort Valley will entertain Group Five of the Georgia Bankers Association next year, Mr. C.E. Martin, cashier of the Citizens Bank of Fort Valley having procured the meeting at one held in Macon on the 21st inst. The Daughters of the Confederacy are arranging their annual dinner for the veterans on next Monday April 26th at noon, in the Miller building. Everybody can can, and a lot of people will can this year, for there is going to be a good crop of peaches and canned peaches are good. Corpulent and jocund as ever, Fort Valley’s summertime citizen, and Baltimore’s regular resident, Mr. Winn W. Roberts – he of canning fame, spent several days in the city this week. Mr. Roberts is the pioneer in the canning of peaches in this section of the state, and his stay of several months each year in our midst has been of benefit to the community and profit to himself. Approaching his fine business sense, we wonder why he chooses Baltimore as his permanent residence in preference to Fort Valley though he is at all times given a most cordial welcome by our people. It is very probable that Fort Valley will shortly have free mail delivery. Postal receipts show a continuing increase and the outlook is that the income of the post office will soon meet the requirements of the postal service in this particular. The several houses in course of erection in this city keeps the hammers of the carpenters still ringing and the hand saws a singing. In fact our people recognize the fact now is the time to build. The Butler Herald Tuesday, May 4, 1915 Page Seven Clipped From Our Contemporaries Home-Journal, Perry The Dixie Highway is coming thru Houston County either by way of Perry or Fort Valley. Fort Valley is making an organized effort to have it come their way. Perry seems to be indifferent. Rev. and Mrs. Z.T. Weaver will arrive in Perry Wednesday night to take up their residence at the Baptist pastorium. The ladies of the church will welcome them to their new home. The merchants of a thriving town fail in their duty to their business when they fail to exercise their influence to establish a telephone connection with the surrounding farms. There is profitable room for a meat packing plant in each congressional district in Georgia, provided the farmers and merchants will cooperate with the management of the plants. The Butler Herald Tuesday, May 4, 1915 Page Seven Clipped From Our Contemporaries Leader-Tribune, Fort Valley Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Souder and little daughter, Gladys Estelle, of Macon, are visiting relatives here this week. The residence occupied by Mr. John Q. Adams on the farm of Mr. W.A. Melvin was completely destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. Miss Gertrude Williams, of Gainesville, the guest of Miss Gena Riley, was the honoree at a beautiful party last Saturday morning at the home of Mrs. E.G. Thomas. Hon. Hiram Warner Hill, one of the presiding justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia, was a distinguished visitor here yesterday as the guest of his daughter, Mrs. C.E. Martin. The Leader-Tribune regret to chronicle the death of Mrs. W.A. Watson, which occurred at her home Saturday. She was 82 years of age and had been a resident here and near here all of her life. She was a member of the Baptist Church and a good Christian woman. Great interest is being manifested in the revival now being held at the Methodist church which is being conducted by Rev. J.M. Bass, conference evangelist of the South Georgia Conference. Mr. Bass is a preacher of force and power and has been very successful in many meetings. He is ably assisted in the services by Mr. Stapleton, who has charge of the music, and a man of many talents in this particular. In all probability the services will be continued throughout the coming week. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb