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The News of the Day Told Brief—Personals, Etc. Thomasville is on the upgrade, Let's keep here. Our job department is still rat ming. Low prices and good work will tell, Mr. R. W. Glading went up to At lanta yesterday on business for the Monon. Thomasville is certain of two cigar factories. Others will follow. Mark the prediction. George Wilson will get a big house next Monday night. George is the funniest man on the stage. ‘The lithograph matter for George Wilson’s Minstrels is now displayed in the windows and on the billboards. ‘The Columbian exercises’ at both the colleges on Friday will be well attended. They will prove interest ing. Let every manufacturing enterprise be encouraged in Thomasville. They are the things that build up a town, and every citizen should give them his support, Mr. W. Hf. Bibb, who went to Texas several days ago to buy stock, has re turned. He brought back two care loads of Texas ponies. The darkies will have plenty of amusement until the wiry little animals have been bro ken. Thomasville is one of the best horee markets in the state. Mc E. Mr. Mallette is determined to make real estate more if persistent work will accomplish this end. He is now pushing country property while the farmers are fixing themselves for the coming year. Mr. Mallette sold a portion of Squire Rigan’s farm in the sevent month yesterday to C. Ws Rogan. Policeman Bland! Shoots at a Wife Beater, Yeserday about noon Policeman ! Bland was notified by a little negro girl that her father was beating her mother, only a short distance from Jackson sreet, out towards the com press. Mr. Bland accompanied the girl back to the house, but the map, whose name is Jim Marin, saw the officer coming and took to the bushes. Mr. Bland flushed him a few minutes later and Jun gave leg bail. He was quite fleet of foot, and the officer see ing he could not catch him, pulled out his revolver and fired three shots.At the last fire the negro fell, but jumped to his feet again and continued his fight. Parties whom the negro passed while running say that he was bleeding. Mr. Bland does nt know whether he hit him or knot. He was not hurt badly, however, for he succeeded in making good his escape. ~ ‘How Thomasville,Got Its Name, The Thomasville correspondent of the Savannah News tells how Thom asville got its name, as follows: The writer learned yesterday from Isaiah Dekle, an old citizen, the way in which Thomasville came to be named. Tom Dekle, the father of Isaiah, was the first white man who seattled in what is now Thomas, then Irwin, county. His oldest son was the first white child born in the county... He located four miles from the present site of Thomasville, south east, on what is now the Monticello road. Then came Tom Johnson, who settled four miles southwest on the Tullahiaseee road. Then came Tom Mitchell, who settled four miles out east on the Madisonville road. Tom Adams came next and settled four miles out north on Alvany road. About this time they decided that they wanted a town So the site known as Thomasville being central was selected and named Thomasville from the four Torna surrounding it. A new county was cut off about that time from [rwin county and of course it naturally became Thomas county. Lom Jones, another sturdy Tom, came in afterward and pitched his tents, literally, about two, miles west.
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Thomasville Daily Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Wed, Oct 19, 1892
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