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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1920
Page
6
Here is an offer for an unlimited scholarship at Moultrie Business College or monthly payment admission. The school promises good systems skillful teachers thorough courses a new building and free books with the scholarship. Positions offered to all graduates. Address Moultrie Business College Moultrie Ga.
Describes a well improved farm on a good road three miles from town offered by J. S. Montgomery. Also notes a shoe shop service and a lost Michelin tire between Glen Arven Country Club and Moultrie with reward from Georgia Crate and Basket Co.
The County Commissioners vowed full cooperation with state and federal authorities to wipe out cattle ticks in Thomas County this year. Dr Bahnsen announced strict enforcement starting January first and warned prosecutions if regulations are ignored. Cattle owners at a hundred-strong meeting urged adherence to the law to end the dip neglect.
Sealed proposals are invited by the Thomas County Georgia Board of Commissioners for labor material and equipment to build Route 38 from Thomasville eastern city limits to station 369 460 seven miles with sand clay surface and multiple concrete and metal structures. Bids due July 9 1920 plans at Thomasville offices. Payment terms advance monthly with final within 30 days. Bid bond five percent. Volume includes concrete quantities earthwork piping piling and surfacing. Also memorial notice for Henry Floyd funeral details and condolences.
The conference debated the League of Nations plank with Crane and Mills confirming a Crain text, Borah pressing for deletions, and Johnson hinting at nonattendance. A Negroes’ demand for enforcement of the fourteenth amendment and anti lynching laws led by William H. Lewis and Edward H. Wright stirred the session as subcommittees moved to a private hotel room to draft the platform.
Chicago delegates enter a tense third day with no candidate or platform draft agreed. Pro and anti League forces clash as disputes over the League dominate talks and rumors of walkouts spread amid stalled platform negotiations.
Chicago June 10 Opposition to the treaty without reservations is weighed as the resolutions subcommittee revisits the League of Nations plank amid a potential party split. A tentative foreign relations plank favors ratification with safeguards for American rights.
Daily reports will not be given again until the opening of next season. We know you will be waiting on that beautiful golden shore. We will not say Boddeye in Heaven but with the redeemed to stand around the feet of Jesus in that happy golden land.
The Thomanville High School graduation is Friday at Eight thirty in the East Side auditorium. Programs include Invocation, Chorus, Salutatory by Warren Jackson, Class History by Hugh Breen, Class Poem by Annie McRee, Class Song Good-bye Happy Days, Will by Helen Burch, Prophecy by Rose Chastain, Orchestra selection, Gifts by Lake Davis and Edith Egnal, Valedictory by Foda McNeill, Diploma presentations, and Benediction. Class officers are President Warren Jackson, Vice President Foda McNeill, Secretary Annie McRee. members include Edith Hynal Ethel Rehberg Ethel Norwood Mary Balfour Rose Chastain Lake Davis Kate Duren Stella Moreland Celia Swicord Ruby Watson Mary Lou Philips Newell Hamilton Hugh Breen and others. Class colors White and Yellow. Class flower Daisy. Motto Labor Omnia Vincit.
The death of Raymond Penelopy, only son of Mr. and Mrs. W L Billingsley of Cherokee Street, occurred May 27. He was the second grandson of Mr. M B Courtney of Tallahassee and a great grandson of Mr. Jonas Courtney of Cairota. Funeral services were held at the residence conducted by Bro Geals, with many sorrowing friends in attendance.
An old public health notice warns mosquitoes carry malaria and yellow fever, citing Dr. Carroll on transmission. It urges protection via proper screening and using Torment a gaseous insecticide sold by druggists and dealers, manufactured by G. B. Williams Co Quitman Ga.
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