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Graduating Exercises and Local Church Turmoil Highlight Nan
The town reports the Thomasville City Hospital Training School for Nurses graduation at East Side school auditorium with Miss Leona West and Clyde Hudson Hoover of Pelham as graduates. Separately Rev. Gale Byrd quits his Methodist post amid protests over a planned evolution sermon by Rev. Charles Francis Potter, linked to the Scopes trial, while Potter withdraws from the invitation. Also noted are a hospital christening in honor of John Archbold Golden, a recap of local baseball as Mahassee defeats Macon Right Way three straight, and a revival at Big Creek Baptist Church led by Rev. Harvey Wages beginning August 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gale Byrd
Methodist Episcopal Church
Northern
Charles Francis Potter
New York
Mr. Byrd
Dr. Potter
John T. Scopes
Byrd
Foster W. Taylor
Cocoanut Grove Presbyterian Church
Miami
Florida
William Jennings Bryans
Dr. Taylor
Taylor
Potter
West Side Unitarian Church
Thomasville City Hospital
East Side School
Leona West
Clyde Hudson Hoover
Pelham, Ga
John Archbold Golden
Archbold Memorial Hospital
J. M. Golden
John
Archbold
Harvey Wages
This County
First Baptist Church
Ocilla
Big Creek Baptist Church