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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
10
A parade of visitors and locals stop in for shopping and services in town. Names include A C Tift of Tifton Ch A Conyers of Macon T H Long of Calhoun J N Donaldson of Merrillville and L H Hardy of Barwick. Businesses advertised include Ingram Drug Co Sampson's Garage and J F Brogdon Company Foundry.
Local items include Chief A. B. Milton thanking voters after the election and promising service, a Union Christmas Service, recaps on gifts and a Victrola ad, a Birmingham death of Dr. Charles Hall Merrill, social events for Junior and Senior B Y P U, and several holiday greetings and arrivals in Thomasville with names, places, and local commerces.
Electric current will be cut off at 9 Sunday for about one and a half hours for necessary work on the main steam line. Light and water department of Thomastille D R Pringle.
Mrs. W. M. Singletary leads Epworth League in distributing Christmas boxes and stockings prepared by the Commercial Association. Fifty boxes valued at ten dollars each, filled with groceries and gifts, will be delivered around town this afternoon. Visitors include James Keyton of Dothan and Eldred Whitley and family en route from St Louis to Boston for the holidays.
Weather forecast for Thomasville and vicinity calls for fair tonight and Saturday with colder conditions and heavy frost. Observations show yesterday’s high 62 and today’s high 83 for this month’s 29 year record, and a low of 40 with rainfall totals about 3.12 inches since January 1. Northwest wind at 1 p.m. and relative humidity 15 percent.
John K Barnes notes in Werla's Work that asphalt like Noah’s pitch and shipar oil deposits near the Tigris and Euphrates have been examined for commercial potential. Bitumen sources once used as mortar in Babylon and Nineveh palaces are believed located, pending drilling proof.
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