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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1941
Page
7
The YMCA publishes a weekly calendar of swimming activities and classes. It lists daily sessions for ladies and girls beginners and advanced swimmers, junior and senior groups, prep and intermediate swimming, and evening programs including KiRoy Club and men’s swimming.
Rogers Stores and the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company announced a reduced weekly schedule. The new hours run 8:00 am to 6:30 pm with Thursday 8:00 am to 1:00 pm and Saturday 8:00 am to 10:00 pm, providing a weekly half day and wider regional variations.
A mixed local lifestyle update notes income tax reminders due June fifteenth and regional improvements in Oceanside with a Arthur Murray studio and Sea Dog cruises. It covers school achievements in Thomasville, suburb cooling notions, gasless Sundays, and wartime briefings including Battle of Tennessee maneuvers and local officers Moreland and Harper in action.
Mrs. Claude Rountree returned from Atlanta where she attended the Agnes Scott College graduation of Miss Martha Dunn of Decatur. The Atlanta Journal reported Miss Dunn as Agnes Scott Beauty No 1 in Silhouette yearbook images, leading a list that includes Miss Oliva White of Huntsville and others from Georgia and nearby states.
A fragment notes that approval of the consumer is considered the most important factor. The text mentions meters and emphasizes the priority of acceptance in a regulatory or service context. No further details are provided.
The South Georgia Letter Carriers Association will hold its convention in Thomasville with about 150 delegates and visitors. The event includes a 8:00 p.m. banquet at the American Legion Home followed by a main address by Hon. Wendell Horne of Cordele and welcomes from local officials.
The Fifth Sunday Union meeting of the Thomas County Baptist Association will be at Summer Hill Baptist Church on June 29 with the theme Our Summer Revival. Morning sessions feature sermons by E A Carter, F F Bone, John Hobbs, W R Croft, George Downs, and others. afternoon continues with a schedule including Revival topics on stewardship and ordinances, followed by a closing prayer.
The local Woman's Christian Temperance Union held its regular monthly meeting at the Baptist church. Mrs. B F Herring led the flower mission program with Mrs R A Rutland delivering the ne votional and scripture on God saying it with Flowers. Mrs Black sang He is the Lilly of the Valley and Mrs James Kempton told how the Flowers Mission is part of the W C T U program.
The Kiwanis Club at the Legion Home, short twelve members, postponed plans to take Thomasville's well known colored quartet to the Kiwanis International convention in Atlanta due to funds. Members discussed roses for sending to the convention, while guest Rose Ferguson sang "Homeing" with encore.
The Weather Bureau forecast for Thomasville and vicinity shows no change in temperature tonight and Saturday. Observations note 0.00 inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours and 0.23 inches for the month to date, with normal totals listed as 15.08 and 5.45 inches respectively.
The Order of Eastern Star will hold its regular monthly meeting at eight thirty tonight at the Masonic Hall in the old Library Building. Hattie May Tuck, Worthy Matron, and Claudia May Singletary, Secretary.
A Times Enterprise notice reports complaint about axes and slings used by men eradicating a weevil harming potato crops. Fifteen to twenty five colored workers with two white overseers allegedly invaded private property, cut screening bushes, and damaged a hedge. The Georgia Department of Entomology handles the work.
A disabled woman inspired by a teacher friend began sending small bouquets to the sick and unfortunate in Louisville. The daily baskets, carried by the teacher on her way home, formed the Louisville Flower Mission. In 1938 Francis Willard, visiting Jennie, adopted the mission into the W C T U work, with Mrs. Herring seeking sick or unfortunate recipients and noting many uplifting acts.
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