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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1930
Page
1
Local page features short opinions and quips on taxes roads farming and city life. Items reference Georgia fertilizer spending taxes, campaign dullness, and weather as well as a remark on Princess Tieana marrying a former Polish noble. The column also notes new automobile tags and civic concerns.
The Thomasville and Thomas County business leaders rally to defend independent shops against large chain stores. They urge unified cooperation, community loyalty, and merit in pricing and service to keep buying local. The piece also notes school calendar changes extending semi annual promotions into high school to allow continuous study and avoid gaps.
The Times Enterprise argues against perpetual debt and urges spending only what revenue allows. It advocates funding improvements through bonds or adequate tax assessments, warning that annual deficits risk halted future funds and reliance on bank loans. The piece stresses sound financing over growth by borrowing.
The article notes a shift in local schools to allow midyear entry for children in grammar school. It explains how previous practice followed the September start and outlines the planned changes beginning next year.
The article notes varied attitudes toward civic meetings and guest participation. It mentions Thomasville merchants asserting independence from customers, plans to expand a hotel and a new commercial project, and the resignation of state highway engineer W R Neel. It also criticizes sensationalism in reporting and mocks bootlegging depictions.
The article traces goiter from ancient remedies to modern science, noting iodine’s importance for thyroid function and how iodine deficiency or excess affects health. It highlights regional prevalence near the Great Lakes and western regions, and discusses public health measures like iodized salt and iodine-rich foods while warning against indiscriminate iodine use.
Pastor Rev Charles M Meeks leads a full day at the Methodist Church with multiple Sunday school classes including Susanna Wesley and Wesley Bible, Young Women and Young Men groups, plus 11:00 Communion, 11:30 Junior Church, and 7:15 evening services. Earl Taylor to perform violin at morning service.
Miss Evelyn Lewis Educational Secretary lists 10 am to 12 noon unified service with no intermission and a Sunday school class for every age. Nursery for babies and younger children during preaching. Pastor T F Callaway theme Paying the Price. 6 45 pm B Y P U for all grades and director WD C Allgood. 8 pm evangelistic service with theme The Christian and His Amusements. Wednesday 8 pm mid week prayer meeting.
Morning organ preludes and offertories feature pieces by Koch Handel and Roma with solo by F Y Speight. Evening service includes Petrali march offertory in G Handel anthem Something for Thee and Baraca Chorus selections with organ postlude.
Presbyterian Church led by Pastor Rev. Marshall Woodson offers a morning unified service Bible Hour 10 to 11 a m and worship at 4 to 12 a m with Dr Darby Fulton 7 15 p m Intermediate Christian Endeavor 7 30 p m Training Class Senior Department and 8 p m Mid Week Service Music includes Elizabeth Gilbert Cyrus S Mallard organist with Anthem Fear Not O Israel Berceuse from Jocelyn The Heavens Declare the Glory of God and a solo by Lehrer David Mallard Evening service features special music Also Sun day afternoon at 3 30 at the church Dr Darby Fulton speaks Junior Christian Endeavor St Thomas Episcopal Rector Robb White Jr presides 10 a m Church School 11 a m Holy Communion and 8 p m Instruction for confirmation or inquiry into the Episcopal church
St Augustine Catholic Church posts Mass times with Rev. Leo M. Keenan as pastor. Mass held on the first, third and fifth Sundays at 9 a.m. in the church.
Elders invite attendance at the Primitive Baptist Church with a Bible Class every Sunday at 10 a.m. and prayer services each Wednesday, led by Pastor Dilbon O. Lewis.
Tabulated report shows average attendance at public schools in Thomas County. Data compiled from reports by J Gorham Garrison for 1927 28 1928 25 and first three months of 1929 30. Figures include pupils living outside Thomasville and Boston territory not total school averages.
Funeral services were held today for the Most Rev Charles P. Anderson late primate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. Dignitaries attended as St James Cathedral hosted the Chicago diocese service with notable church leaders from across the country.
Pasadena reports a daughter born Monday to Mrs. Margaret Veronica Walker, wife of champion middleweight boxer Mickey Walker. She and Walker are separated after a divorce suit was filed.
All persons selling milk in the city of Thomasville are required by the City Ordinance to secure a permit from the City Clerk each year before selling milk. Permits are issued only on order from the City Inspector. All permits expired Dec. 31, 1929, so please contact the Inspector immediately to obtain your 1930 permit. Health Department. City of Thomasville.
At 8 00 p m preaching service every fourth Sunday Friday night and Saturday before Services Friday 8 00 p m Saturday 11 a m Sunday 11 a m and 8 00 p m The public cordially invited to all services.
Christian Science church at Dawson and Washington invites the public to Sunday services at 11 30 a m with the topic Love and a Sunday School at 10 30 a m Reading room at the same address offers Bible and literature week days 10 to 12 and Wednesday 8 30 p m testimony meeting Public invitation to attend and visit the reading room.
The Church of the Nazarene lists Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. with J. S. Carter as superintendent. Morning worship at 11:00 a.m. with a sermon on The Meaning of Stewardship. Evening evangelistic service at 8:00 p.m. with The Christ of Calvary. 7:00 p.m. Young People's Society and 8:00 p.m. Wednesday prayer service. Public invited.
The listing details activities at 817 West Jackson Street led by Mrs. Maude Anderson. Sunday School at 2 30 p m Jail Services at 3 45 p m Evening Service at 8 p m. Tuesday night at 8 p m the Men s Evangelistic Club will conduct the service.
Edward Stark 90 a long time supervisor for New York Life Insurance Company and native of St Louis died in Atlanta He had lived in New Orleans and St Louis his body to rest in a vault at Rosehill Memorial Seminary in Evanston while services await completion of the Anderson Chapel of the Western Theological Seminary
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