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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1940
Page
3
Friends celebrate Dave Lipsey winning third prize in a national Printzess window contest for Steyerman's Department Store. The award includes a $25 check and honors his shoe department manager’s creative display.
Revival services at Thomasville Primitive Baptist Church run Monday through June 16 with daily sessions at 11 am and 8 30 pm Elder W Chandler of Columbus Ga is guest minister Public invited J H Chapman Pastor
Short complete line for inspection from Brewton Supply Co a plumbing contractor listing contact details and services with phone number 16.
A sequence of pre wedding events surrounds Miss Frances Joseph and Lathrop Craig as guests, families, and friends attend luncheons tea bridge dinners and a kitchen shower across multiple homes in the community. Rehearsal night sees an informal reception hosted by Mrs. Alice Joseph.
An advertisement promotes undiluted orange grapefruit tomato juice blends approved by the American Medical Association. It emphasizes a tasty, different flavor and offers a 24 6 oz carton case for home use. J A Turrentine is listed as the distributor with phone contact 803.
Ruth Norton is named a member of the Civil Identification committee for the state Junior Chamber project to expand fingerprinting as a means of identification. The piece notes thousands of unidentified victims and bodies annually and contrasts U.S. needs with higher fingerprint rates abroad. An unrelated classified note offers old newspapers for sale at the Times Enterprise office.
Executives and more than a score of Steyerman's Department Store personnel attended the company outing at Like View Lodge on Lake Tamonia. The event featured a fish fry, swimming, and baseball games. Attendees included Lula Baker Lois Pait Tom Kerr Stern Tuttle Dan Wilcox Lawrence Mitchell Julia Hicks Zada Tschudy Matrice Yawn Sara Goldstein Harry Moses Dave Lipsey Olin Williams and many Steyerman family members with other store staff. The Evangelistic Club meets tonight at 8 o clock.
News from the city reports the death of Victor Beaufort Jr. with the BEF in France during the war. He is the son of Major Victor Beaufort of the British Army and served since the first contingent to France. Local friends express sincere regret.
Mr J L Phillips departs for Atlanta to attend a dinner honoring Senator and Mrs Taft on Saturday. He serves as the second district Republican National Convention delegate and has ties to Taft's campaign manager David Ingalls of Cleveland.
The first cotton bloom in Thomas County was sent to the County Agent’s office this morning. It came from the field of B. A. Hickey on the Carter and Pilcher place near Meigs. Several blooms are reported in nearby fields, with Camilla reporting the first bloom for the area yesterday.
John C Parker of Moultrie Georgia the pro tem of the Georgia house was near death today in an Atlanta Piedmont hospital. He suffers an undisclosed ailment and his condition was described as most critical by Dr Calvin Sandison a longtime friend and caregiver.
Thomas county farmers benefited as the county AAA office reduced expenses to 7 006.34 through May 1940 from 10 536.86 for the same period in 1939, saving 3 540.62 while accelerating benefit payments and moving toward 1946 cotton parity applications. The county reported 1939 AAA payments totaling 127 953.77 at a cost of 24 762.59, compared with 1938 payments of 88 462.93 at 19 488.63, showing higher receipts with only modest cost rise.
Fair is partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered thunder showers Saturday afternoon. Observation at 8 a m reports temperatures with yesterday’s high and low around 42 as a monthly low. Precipitation total 0.90 inches in past 24 hours. month normal 5.40 inches.
Charles B. McFerrin, a renowned food specialist, will lecture at the Made Theatre in Thomasville next week on three talks about new foods affecting the body and mind. Admission is free and the event is sponsored by the Times-Enterprise with local merchants.
Americus Ga June 7 J D Gardner of Camilla member of the Uni argues the south must accept responsibility for preserving and developing the nation, stressing regional duties in the postwar era.
The University System Board of Regents urged graduates to fill in vacancies as population declines. The speaker called the situation a challenge to educators and addressed Southwestern College's 97 graduates during the commencement.
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