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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
2
Christmas greetings frame a local note with farmers and town residents sharing well wishes. The column lists social visits and small-town comings and goings including visits to Thomasville Cairo and Macon and news of sick lists and a new baby in the Wade family.
Sugar boilings are nearly complete and households anticipate surplus syrup and meat. Local social notes report visits from Autreyville families, college students returning for holidays, shopping trips to Thomasville, cane grinding at A Crocker’s, court activity in Thomasville, and regional travel between Boston, Pine Park, and Thomasville.
Bernard Kelley spent Saturday night with Floyd and James Holley. A new school house is hoped to start a school here. Harmony resident Lester Reece visited Sunday School along with Lloyd Kelley and Miss Marie Hale. Mae Sizemore and E J Spence relatives joined weekend visits. Mrs J N Bass is ill but expected to recover. Mr E J Carter and daughter Ocie visited Morrells midweek.
Mr and Mrs C C Willis and children spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs D Suber. Mr H H Howell and son Edgar and Mr C Walters visited the Willises last Wednesday. Most farmers in this section are nearly through grinding cane. We are glad.
Friends report J A Taylor is confined to his room with smallpox and hopes for a speedy recovery. The column lists numerous visits and travels among local residents including Porter, Glover, Dixon, Wilson, Robison, Tomberlin, and others, with multiple relatives visiting Ozell, Pavo, and nearby towns. A wedding of Howard McGalliard and Ellie Lee Whiddon is noted, and preaching at Unity is announced for next Sunday afternoon.
The town mourns Mr. Lott who died by suicide after a drunken period. Eye witnesses confirm the instant death. he leaves two sons and four daughters. Other notes report cane grinding, rising syrup prices, a Florida move, hog butchering, and local medical updates.
Rev J Little of Adel filled services Saturday and Sunday. Lon McDaniel visited E C Thompson. Evans Singletary of Cairo spent the weekend with his parents. Alton Norman Noel Law and sister Minnie Law from Law community visited E C Thompson. Paul Roberts of Tiger Bay Florida and Frank Graham of Meigs were in the community Sunday afternoon. Fannie Thompson and Mabel Thompson visited Will McDaniel Monday afternoon. Leon Chason and Hubert McMath with spouses spent Tuesday in Thomasville. A social at S E Heisler’s Friday night drew a large crowd with attendees including Fletcher and Curtis Singletary Fondren Thompson Frank Graham Wiley Roberts William Law Frank Heisler Gaston Simmons John Henry Warren Ruby and Annie B Heisler.
Numerous Pavo residents return for holidays from college and other towns. Meigs high school beat Pavo 30 to 6 in basketball after a trip to Meigs. Local families and visitors are listed, with moves to Waycross and travels to Valdosta, Autreyville, Quitman, and Jacksonville. A death in the Roberts family follows paralysis. A child from the Johnsons dies in an Atlanta hospital and is buried in Lebanon cemetery.
Mr Dan Cannon has improved at home after illness. Miller Fullwood and Hard Wood travel to Florida seeking a location. School closed Friday for Christmas holidays with recitations. Julian Walton visited with his aunt Mrs W Green. Misses Johnnie and Ethel Green visited friends. Mrs H Walker visited her father Mr W W Green. Cane grinding underway at Ione. Harry Dean and wife welcomed a baby boy. Elizabeth Fullwood and Charles Fullwood stayed with Mrs R Berrett. Farmers plow oats and scout new homes in Florida. John Fullwood returned to Camp Benning after five days furlough.
The Albany Herald notes the marriage of Flora Lee Black to Hoke S Williams on Sunday December 19 1920 at 10 45 am in the parsonage of Rev C A Jackson with Richard Taylor as witness. The couple will live at 230 Flint Street after December 25.
A collection of handwritten Santa letters from Thomasville and Pavo, Georgia, dated December 1920. Messages from several Newton siblings and friends request dolls, caps, toys, candy, fruit, a bicycle, a tea set, a piano, and other gifts for themselves and siblings, with warm holiday salutations.
Warmer Christmas wishes from rural Georgia children date December 1920, listing many requests for dolls, bicycles, trains, toy guns, wagons, firecrackers, fruit, and nuts. Messages come from Boston, Coolidge, Thomasville, Homeland, Ochlocknee, Ochlockee, Monticello, and more, with names and addresses of young readers and their ages.
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