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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1938
Page
7
The John B. Gordon Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy will meet Tuesday afternoon June 14 at 4 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Rudolph Keyton and Miss Janie Bet Thorpe on East Monroe Street. Visiting Daughters are invited.
The public is urged to attend a campaign meeting at St Thomas A M E Church corner N Broad and Webster streets on Sunday June 12 at 4 30 p m. Local medical professionals will speak on fighting cancer with knowledge. St Thomas choir and quartet will provide music. Admission is free.
Eastern time schedule lists arrivals and departures to Montgomery Jacksonville Savannah Neainiana Perry and more with daily and mixed service notes. Through sleepers available to Montgomery Savannah Atlanta Tampa St Petersburg Detroit Chicago and others. ticket agent contact provided.
Local society notes document Miss Mary Adams of Boston honored with multiple showers and parties in Thomasville and Boston ahead of her wedding to Earl Mayo. Bridal party members from several cities attend luncheons, bridge parties, theatre outings, breakfasts, chicken dinners, and a Tallahassee rehearsal dinner.
Summer school begins Monday June 13 at 9 00 am for six weeks with five daily meetings. Junior and Senior High pupils meet at the Junior High building while elementary pupils go to East Side School. Attendance discipline and fees are noted with credit rules for absences and holiday July 4.
The Consolidated Loan and Savings Company voted to change its name to Consolidated Loan and Investment Company. President C. M. Jones announced the directors approved a 3 percent dividend on preferred stock payable July 1, marking the sixteenth dividend since operations began in 1930.
A summer program at the Rose Theatre offers eight hidden money orders totaling 15 dollars. The events resemble a scavenger hunt with clues pointing to locations around Thomasville. Finders must reveal true names and addresses to redeem at the Rose Theatre box office.
The Thomasville First Baptist Church prepares for a two week revival starting Sunday led by Dr Fredrick S Porter of Columbus and music director Stanley Armstrong from Memphis. Preaching starts Monday with Porter and Armstrong arriving today to oversee morning and evening services.
Rev. Harvey Wages preaches at 9 45 a m on Glorifying God With What We Have. Sunday School at 10 30. B T U at 7 30 p m. Co M Joye preaches at 8 20 p m in tent quarters at Fletcher and Bartow streets.
Rev. Richard T. Gillespie outlines morning and evening sermons with Do We Make Christianity Too Easy and A Charge To Keep Have. Young people planned to leave for Agnes Scott Conference next week and a Bible Conference is invited at Pelham Presbyterian Church with Rev. H Framer Smith speaking. Circles of the Woman's Auxiliary meet Monday at four, with multiple hostesses listed.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Thomasville will hold a Sunday Lesson-Sermon titled God the Preserver of Man. Readings include Psalms 84 11 and a correlative selection from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy describing God as the infinite one Ego or Spirit supplying all form and beauty and reflecting divinity in individual spiritual life.
The sermon titled The Failure of Average Goodness opens the morning hour with Adina Grace Harbour directing a musical program at Wash ti ARiss. Leone Lemons leads music. Anthony WHE previews The New World as part of revival services at the Baptist Church in Thomasville.
The Daily Vacation Bible School begins Monday at 9 o clock at First Baptist Church. About 100 children registered yesterday for preliminary events, with enrollment expected near 200. All ages from Intermediates to Beginners urged to attend 8:45 am gathering. The W M S and church hold a general meeting at 4 pm Monday. members urged to attend.
An invitation to visit Scoggins Langley Barber Shop for regular haircuts and shaving services emphasizing consistent grooming. The notice highlights ongoing barbering offerings and steady patronage.
The Primitive Baptist Church on Bartow street hosts a revival from Monday night June 13 through Sunday night June 19. Daily services at 11 a.m. and 8 15 p m feature Bible teaching and old time gospel singing. Elder J Walter Hendricks of Savannah Ga visiting preacher and editor of Banner Herald leads the meetings. He is described as a capable minister and church paper editor.
Vashti School schedules three commencement events from June 12 to June 16. Rev Mack Anthony preaches the Sunday sermon, seniors hold class night on Wednesday, and Rev J E Al Fain delivers the commencement address at 8:30 in the school chapel.
USDA Weather Bureau forecast for Thomasville Georgia and vicinity notes generally late tonight and Sunday partly cloudy. Local report lists temperatures highs and lows, precipitation totals, and month tallies with 0.63 inches this month and 10.53 inches since January 1. Also mentions Young Business Women meeting at church at eight.
Camp Frances records a group of Brownies arriving June on Wednesday and departing June 10 after a lively stay. Highlights include hiking swimming dramatics corn shuck dolls clay modeling a Snow White banquet and a playful ice cream freezer reveal.
The Georgia Library Association and 21 publishers sponsor a traveling exhibit of new children s books to be shown at the Public Library next Monday and Tuesday. Children are invited to visit read the books on site. books cannot be removed. The WPA supports the exhibit, aimed at engaging local children with upcoming titles.
Mrs. Joe Neel presented her Emily Neel Dancing Studios class in a Rose Theatre revue last night. Miss Elizabeth Jarrett accompanied. performers included Virginia Mitchell Hazel Milton Jean Smith Anne Bullard Margaret Barker Raye Blanton Betty Stegall Nan Stringer and many others to a large audience.
Dr Ira Gabrielson of the Department of Agriculture explains domestic animals trampling and grazing damage pastures and promote erosion while wildlife allows vegetation to recover. The note reflects a stray, fragmentary reminiscence about scouts and mothers.
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