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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1925
Page
2
The text recalls a July 9 proposal for no suspension and urges the joint conference to agree that mines should continue to work. It emphasizes continuing operations as an early act of the meeting and repeats the committee’s proposition. The fragment shows a bargaining moment in a labor dispute.
The Georgia House and Senate saw sharp clashes over the appropriations bill with amendments requiring the state hospital superintendent to assess patient ability to pay and to remit monthly collections to the treasury. A monument to Governor Brown was proposed. a sanitarium wage increase failed. New local bills and tax act amendments expanded the calendar as revenue critics pressed departments.
The committee mends funds to TF for 48 000 paid to the department and requires all collections to be turned into the state treasury monthly. Appropriations approved without opposition include 465 000 for the Confederate Soldiers Home plus 5 000 for inmate upkeep, 50 000 debt payments, 215 590 interest on land scrip, 6 314.14 debt interest to the University of Georgia, 8 000 for an insurance fund, 5 000 for audits, and 38 000 for a state department of audits.
A U S coal talks transcript shows insistence that no suspension occur and a plan to send unresolved matters to an impartial board by Sept. 1. A critic cautions that press and public dislike the strike habit and questions the demand to dictate representatives.
A daily roundup lists numerous visitors and locals in Thomasville. Names include George E B Smith Decatur Roderick Porter Cairo J H Edge Bainbridge Guy Overstreet Bainbridge Dr Rose A Merde Memphis H Billtt Atlanta and many more from Florida Georgia and nearby cities. The notes mention business meetings, hosting guests, travel to New York for purchasing trips, and upcoming services and ads for plumbing and taxi.
Miss M. BE. Hall returned from a business trip to Atlanta and a visit to Morristown Tennessee. Miss Caroline Franklin of Macon and Miss Sarah Roberts of Deeran visit Mrs. J. O. Stewart on East Jackson street. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McGavock and children left by car for Nashville Tennessee to visit relatives. Mr. McGavock will return in two weeks while others stay through the month.
Georgia shows rising foreign sales with resin exports bolstering its position. A national commerce list places Georgia twelfth among states, aided by cotton and other industries, with three months of resin sales totaling 1 155 564 dollars. Georgia moved up from fifteenth to twelfth versus 1924’s same quarter.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Griffin express heartfelt thanks for the many acts of kindness and sympathy shown during their loved one’s illness and after his passing. They especially thank the American Legion for their numerous favors over the years.
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