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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
8
Local scouting notes urge Scouts and Brownies to register for Camp Frances with extended deadline. A Girl Scout headquarters event on Saturday from 3 to 6 aids camp operations. Camp Frances runs June 8 and 9 with a regular two week Girl Scout camp June 12–26. Also mentions local barber ad and funeral notices plus Feinberg’s 75th anniversary sale and store details.
Glen Arven club owner Crews offers to sell at invoice cost any used golf set to members who lost clubs. Banks will finance purchases over one year with monthly payments, aiding replacements under favorable terms. Also notes a Legion Home recruitment and a Chamber of Commerce meeting postponement to June 10.
Meigs Ga June 2 attendees include Mr T J Christie and Miss Hazel Christie hosting Mr and Mrs Do W Ayers of Miami. Local visits include Miss Martha Rhoden and Lougenia Davis to Pelham and J B Rhodes in Daytona Beach. School election elects Dr J A Hartsfield and I E Carter as new trustees.
Meigs Georgia June 2 plans have been made for the annual pro tracted meeting and revival services to begin at the Meigs Baptist Church Sunday evening June 12. The guest preacher will be Rev Searcy S Garrison of Norman Park son of the pastor Rev J Gorham Garrison. He has preached at Meigs before and supplied for Dr T F Callaway Thomasville last summer. The congregation believes a great revival is timely after the new church edifice was built and now they seek reconstructed lives devoted to kingdom service.
The piano and accordion pupils of Mrs. J. J. Gainey will appear in recital Friday June 3 at the junior high school and auditorium. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. No admission.
Miss Bernice Andrews of Thomasville will graduate from Georgia State Woman's College in June. She led art activity in the Fine Art Club and served on the college newspaper staff. Also listed are Bille Collings Cairo Tracy Long Quitman Katherine Moore Moultrie Camille Rycroft and Carolyn Whippe Quitman. The excerpt mentions a season finale at the Legion Home in Thomasville on June 3 with fifty cent admission.
This afternoon at five thirty o'clock the Thomasville Public Schools present students of Miss Maryland Wilson in two plays In Old Japan and The King's Berand Boy. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend at the Junior High School auditorium.
Watermelon shipments from Thomas county are due to begin tomorrow or Saturday with a firm arrival by early next week, according to growers. First loads will come from Metcalfe, a regular early loading area, as local shippers prepare for the crop. Shipments are not expected to be as heavy as last year, though many cars will be loaned in the county.
In Southboro Massachusetts on June 2 1 Henry Field assistant curator of the Field Museum Chicago married Mrs Placida White Knowlton of Boston and Thomasville Georgia at the bride’s aunt Mrs Thomas Lindsay residence The Rev David Neilson officiated with only immediate family present Mrs Field is mother of two and daughter of the Rev and Mrs Robb White of Thomasville
The final Stag Party of the season at the Leyvion Home Friday night features fish hush puppies pickles and iced tea prepared by Walter Dixon. Admission fifty cents includes dinner and proceeds fund Legion building repairs.
Meigs Georgia plans a memorial service at the Baptist Church on Sunday June 5 at 8 30 pm. Hon George B Hamilton of Atlanta head advisor of the Woodmen of the World in Georgia and state treasurer will deliver the memorial address. The program includes vocal selections and is led by Rev J Gorham Garrison. Public and Woodmen members are invited to attend.
Charlie Vaness sells his Plaza Cafe stake to partner Chris Blaine who takes full control. Blaine, back in Thomasville after restaurant work in Roanoke, Va and Charlottesville, Va, will run dining room or kitchen with Bill Fekas assisting. They invite continued patronage of the Plaza.
The article lists candidates and incumbents across districts in Georgia. Notable entries include reelection bids in Colquitt and Emanuel, versus opponents in Richmond Glascock Jefferson groupings, and unopposed or pending runs in Albany Dougherty Dublin Laurens and Brunswick districts. Endorsements or independents are noted for several seats.
Senator in a wheelchair Ben W. Fortson Jr., 32, runs unopposed for the Democratic nomination for state senate from the 5th district comprising Gwinnett and Forsyth counties. He was crippled in an auto accident nine years ago. Quill Sammon of Lawrenceville held the seat in 1937 sessions. under rotation he did not run. Nomination equals election.
A woman traversed a military protection area on the way to Karlovy Vary with companions including William Fortuift of Chicago, Sudeten German deputy Willner, and an unnamed British journalist.
Atlanta June 2 Rivers proclaims tomorrow a State holiday in observance of the birthday anniversary of Jefferson Davis.
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