Macon County GaArchives News.....Macon 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, 7:42 pm The Butler Herald The Butler Herald Tuesday, April 27, 1915 Page Six Clipped From Our Contemporaries Macon County Citizen Oglethorpe and Ideal baseball teams crossed bats on the local diamond Tuesday afternoon which resulted in a tie. A Sunday School Institute will be held here next week. A very interesting and helpful program has been prepared and appears in this issue. Mrs. Matt Law died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kelly on Tuesday night and the remains were buried in the Kelly cemetery Wednesday. Rev. D.A. Lastinger conducted the funeral services. Mr. G.W. Payne passed into the Great Beyond Wednesday afternoon at 12:16 o’clock, after only a few days’ illness being stricken on Sunday night with a fatal malady from which he never regained consciousness. Mr. Payne was about 54 years of age; was born and reared in Macon County, and for the past seven years has been a resident of Oglethorpe. Brooks Coley, of Valdosta, was found dead in his room at the Minor Hotel, Montezuma on last Sunday evening about 7 o’clock. He took a room at the hotel Saturday evening and requested that he not be called next morning. When the hour for the evening meal arrived Sunday and he had not yet come down, the clerk went up to his room, and found that he had been dead for some time. The Butler Herald Tuesday, May 11, 1915 Page Seven Clipped From Our Contemporaries Macon County Citizen Superior Court for Macon County convenes Monday. W.A. Baldwin, of Talbotton, spent a day or two this week the guest of Col. J.J. Bull and family. W. Eugene Wilburn informs us that the wedding bells will soon be ringing. The directors of the Bank of Oglethorpe held their annual meeting Saturday and a dividend of 8 percent was declared. The Butler Herald Tuesday, June 1, 1915 Page Three Clipped From Our Contemporaries Macon County Citizen The Methodists are making considerable plans for their revival meeting which is to begin next Sunday evening at 8 o’clock and continue two weeks. The pastor is this week conducting a series of prayer services each evening at the church preparatory for the work which is coming. Just as we go to press (Thursday noon) we received word that the little baby of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Murray died in Macon at 10 o’clock Thursday morning. The baby was taken to Macon several days ago to be under treatment of a specialist. The commencement exercises of the Oglethorpe High School was one of the most interesting and well received commencements in the history of the school. The entertainment Friday evening furnished by the children consisting of music, songs, drills, “The Wedding of Tom Thumb”, “Bobby Shaftoe” and a play entitled “The Sleeping Beauty” had the unbroken attention of a large audience. The entertainment was very creditable to the children and evidenced the thorough painstaking work of the teachers. The sermon in the Auditorium at 11 a.m. Sunday was preached by Rev. C.S. Durden, of Plains, Ga., to an appreciative audience. Mr. and Mrs. C.T. Harden left Sunday afternoon for Baltimore, Md., where Mr. Harden will be under treatment of a specialist for his eyes, which have been troubling him for some time. His many friends here hope he will find permanent relief. The Butler Herald Tuesday, June 8, 1915 Page Five Clipped From Our Contemporaries Montezuma Georgia Martha Emily, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Murray, of Oglethorpe, died Wednesday of last week at the Macon Sanitarium. Miss Agnes Seay, teacher of the High School in Camilla, was a recent guest of relatives, Mrs. W.T. Christopher. Stopping over enroute to her home at Reynolds. The death of Mr. William Lewis, which occurred at his home Monday morning at an early hour, brings sadness to his relatives and hosts of friends throughout county, where he has resided since the civil war. Mr. Lewis was 74 years of age, went through the Civil War, returned to Macon County immediately after the war, where he resided until his death. The Butler Herald Thursday, September 9, 1915 Page Seven Neighboring County News Macon County From the Macon County Citizen The Oglethorpe Dramatic Co., presented the play, “A Woman’s Honor”, to a fairly good audience in Ellaville on last Thursday evening. The “Old Maids,” who held a successful convention in this city in 1912, and who will return later in the fall, notifies us that on account of the illness of the “Count” they will have to postpone their convention a few weeks, but would sure hold a session in Oglethorpe. On last Wednesday afternoon while jailor, L.H. Souter was locking the negro prisoners in their various cells in the jail he was seized from behind by one of the prisoners while four others liberated themselves from their cells and made a dash for liberty. Five of the negroes made good their escape and are still at large. On Sunday, August 22nd, Col. J.J. Bull, on invitation from the Sunday School at Pleasant Hill, W.M. Edwards, Supt., delivered an address to the Sunday school, giving a history of the organization. He said that the first school was organized in the world in 1560 first in the U.S. 1574. That there was 154,281 schools in the U.S., 1,520,375 teachers and 15,732,841 scholar. His address was splendid and appreciated by the Sunday school. This was Rev. Greer’s regular preaching day and a very large congregation was in attendance. The Butler Herald Thursday, September 9, 1915 Page Seven Neighboring County News From Montezuma Georgia Miss Claudia Peterman, accompanied by her brother, Martin, returned to their home at Reynolds Tuesday, after spending several days here with relatives. – Dooling Correspondent Miss Estelle Christopher has returned home from Reynolds where she has been the guest of relatives for sometime. She was accompanied home by her cousin, Miss Agnes Seay, who will be her attractive guest for some time. The many friends here of Jamie Lavender, of this place, one of the star pitchers of the Chicago National Cubs, will read with much pleasurable interest and pride the following: New York, Aug. 31 – Jimmy Lavender, of Montezuma, Ga., won a place in the baseball hall of fame today when pitching for the Chicago Nationals, he shut out the New York Giants without a hit or run in the first game of a double header. Georgia friends and relatives will be glad to know that Col. A.D. Frederick, now chief of the army in the Chicago region which includes a district of fourteen states, received orders to locate a “military kindergarten” at Fort Sheridan near Chicago. This will open September 18th and be named the “Fort Sheridan College of Military Science” to continue for one month. This will be similar to the one in operation at Plattsburg, N.Y., and will train at least 500 of the “brain and brawn” of Chicago and that section in the rudiments of modern warfare. Col. Frederick was reared in Marshallville, is a “West Pointer”, and is a brother of our townsmen, Messrs. J.V. and F.J. Frederick. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 7.6 Kb