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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1925
Page
3
Valdosta residents and visitors including L. A. Prell R. H. Smith C. C. Guest C. A. Harris Mildred Cheek and others were in town or traveling for business. Meetings and sales news include a July clearance sale by Smith-Harkey Shoes and the Fair’s Sixteenth Anniversary sale drawing crowds.
The International Christian Endeavor general assembly urged Congress to back arms limitation and a world court of international justice. Delegates called for studying the issue and adopting law over war, aiming to eliminate armed conflict entirely.
Washington reports fifty post offices average gains in June 1925 with total postal revenues at 26,986,518 dollars up 3,462,770 from June 1924. Jacksonville led with a 29.11 percent rise, followed by Jersey City and Cincinnati, while New York Chicago Philadelphia and Boston also posted strong gains. No office showed a decline.
Booster committee plans to travel to Macon Atlanta Savannah Augusta and Bainbridge to secure Grand Lodge in 1926. The drive expects four thousand visitors who will cover most expenses except the uniform rank. Local merchants and city benefit from the bid and donations are requested with promises of refunds if unsuccessful. Committee members Rountree Sharpe Walton Ross Gray thank supporters.
El Dorado July 8 Cross Roads oil boom town nine miles northwest of fires reports a flam ing tornado from Imperial Oil and Gag Products Plant sweeping four wells and six storage pits with losses over 30000. Flames under control late yesterday though still burning and nearby leases may have suffered. The Natural Gas and Petroleum Company gas well 200 yards away ran 90000000 cubic feet per day but wind kept it from ignition.
Thomasville forecast calls for local thundershowers tonight and Thursday. Observations show a mean temperature today of 78 and normal 82 with high 90 yesterday. Reported humidity at 8 am 93 percent and 1 pm 18 percent. A. D. Daniel of Atlanta notes rising business. local dentists attend Cairo session of the Second District Dental Society.
Dr Clarence Poe editor of the Progressive Farmer spoke to the American Association of Agricultural College Editors at North Carolina State College in Raleigh. More than twenty five delegates from seventeen states and the U S Department of Agriculture attended the thirteenth annual session with afternoon addresses by P O Davis H B Stevens J E B McClintocks Mrs Jane McKimmon and J L Merritt. Invitations were extended for next year to Colorado State University Ames Iowa and Montana State.
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