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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
3
The 1925 annual report of the Navy Bureau of Engineering states one battleship needed more than five days to prepare for extended service. It notes steady four year progress, improvements across radio and underwater sound, and the bureau's cooperation with the fleet to advance tests and new equipment.
John Rockefeller Prentice, Yale student and grandson of John D. Rockefeller, is visiting Francis F. Chase in Melrose, Massachusetts. Chase denounces linking Prentice’s name with his niece Miss Frances Perley Howard as unfair and says Prentice is neither ill nor afflicted and seeks privacy.
Washington reports Admiral W A Moffett states naval aviation is now integral to the fleet but expansion is blocked by personnel and funding shortages. He urges higher appropriations to increase aircraft numbers and notes ongoing catapult and metal construction development, plus rising flight hours and aviator casualties.
Four sons of Kappa Alpha will be initiated at the Southern biennial convention in Richmond on December 29. The initiation occurs in the House of Delegates at the state capitol. The four candidates are John Slaughter Candler, John McCulough Hodgson, Ernest Perry Buxton Jr., and Charlton G. Crenchaw. Delegates from 105 chapters attend, with 500 to 600 members expected. Governors Peay Whitfield and McLeod, all Kappa Alphas, are invited. The degree team includes college presidents and fraternity leaders.
Cecilville and upper Salmon river mail and freight flow by mule train. Roscoe and Archie Farnsworth, miners, balked at two year waits for a mountain wagon road and attempted to use a car on a short road between home and Cecilville. They dismantled the car and loaded it on pack mules for the final leg.
Greenville December 24 The Fountain Inn Tribune owned by humorist Robert Quillen was sold to W W Kellett of Fountain Inn for one dollar. Quillen had offered the plant to the first responsible buyer, receiving numerous offers by phone and telegraph as word spread. The purchaser plans to operate the paper with the existing staff except the editor who will focus on paragraphs and features.
Readable words hint at a dated or local event with at least one party involved but key names dates and places are unreadable. The fragment suggests a schedule or attendance but specifics remain unclear.
Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, editor of The Christian Herald and longtime Congregational pastor, argues the United States could save millions by converting war ships into university vessels. He envisions 5,000 students touring continents, exchanging cargo for exports, and spreading world fellowship to prevent future wars.
Cecilville California remains cut off from the outside world with no road access yet. The isolated town has cars but no connecting road, leaving residents reliant on limited local transit and sparse services.
Leave Thomasville at 7 30 p m for New York arriving 9 16 a m next morning gay. Telephone 200 L B Crosby commercial agent northern lines serve.
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