County Commissioners Move to Create City Airport Project
The county board approved a resolution to form joint committees with the city to select a site and spend fifteen thousand dollars on airport land and planning. Sites near Tallahassee road and Hugh Moore place on Pavo road are under consideration, with 720 acres offered at five dollars per acre and a 276 acre site at forty dollars per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallahassee Road
Claude Rountree
Wimpy
Citizens Committee
Hugh Moore
Pavo Road
Messrs
Beverly
Pilcher
Powell
Key
Drink Bruce's Juices Delivers Unusual Orange Mix
An advertisement for undiluted fruit juice blends from the Fruit Juice Company promotes Orange Grapefruit Tomato or Orange and Grapefruit combinations. It offers 24 6 oz cans per carton and lists J. I. A. Turrentine as the distributor with phone contact 808 for individual service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Medical Association
J.1a
Turrentine
Colquitt County Population Rises. Farm Numbers Fall
Census figures show Colquitt County population at 31 697 as of April 1 1940, up from 30 622 in 1930. The number of farms declined from 3 088 in 1930 to 2 779 in 1940, a drop of 309 farms over the decade and 202 fewer since 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. R. Bryan
Coquit County
Georgia
Colquitt County
Moultrie
Thomas
Colquit County
Times-Enterprise Delivers Clear War Front Coverage
Readers in middle Georgia praise the Times-Enterprise for its complete fresh war news sourced from the Associated Press. The paper emphasizes authoritative daily European front developments and broad, timely coverage valued by Thomasville and southwest Georgia audiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T.E
Times- Enterprise
Middle Georgia
Times-Enterprise
Atlanta
Associated Press
Thomasville
Georgia
Plumbing Fixtures Complete Line For Inspection
Brewton Supply Co a plumbing contractor offers a complete line of plumbing fixtures for inspection and sale. The advertisement lists contact phone 10 for inquiries and orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewton Supply CO
Plumbing Contractors
County Baptist Sunday School Convention At Beachton
The annual Sunday School Convention of the Thomas County Baptist Association will meet at Beachton Baptist church on Saturday June 29. Rev. F. A. Bone presides. Programs include devotions, talks on teacher life and character, records value, Sunday School evangelism, and spiritual power for a Sunday School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas County Baptist Association
Beachton Baptist Church
F. A. Bone
Mash
W. M. Davis
A. H. Giddens
J. G. Carter
H. H. Parish
Louis Smith
K. W. Anderson
County Commissioners In Session For Regular Meeting
County commissioners held their regular monthly session today, transacting routine business and addresses as usual before the board.
Piney Woods Lodge Sets Evening Meeting on Broad Street
Piney Woods Lodge will hold its regular meeting tonight at 8:00 PM in the hall on South Broad Street. Members are urged to attend as A. C. Walden, N. G., and Roland Durant, Rec. Sect., preside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piney Woods Lodge
South Broad Street
Thomasville Merchant H. Goldstein Dies at 1 30 AM
Thomasville merchant and realty operator Hyman Goldstein died at his Dawson street apartment at 1 30 this morning after a prolonged illness. Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Jewish Synagogue on Crawford street with Rabbi Herman D. Bloom officiating and interment in the Jewish cemetery. He leaves sons Harry and Joe Goldstein and daughters Mrs C m M Zeff Mrs Lewis Prisant and Miss Sara Goldstein along with seven grandchildren. Death ends a 35 year Thomasville business career in dry goods and extensive real estate holdings. Funeral arrangements were by Whiddons Funeral Home.
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Hyman Goldstein
Thomasville
Dawson Street
Crawford Street
Herman D. Bloom
Messrs
J. N. Rosalio
Herman Rosenberg
Ralph Kolesky
Louis Lewitt
Dave Lipsey
al Feinberg
Russia
London
England
Leah Marcus
America
Goldstein
Mr. Goldstein
Harry and
Joe Goldstein
City
C. mM. Zeff
Kenosha
Wis
Lewis Prisant
Albany
B'nai Israel Synagogue
Whiddon
Thomasville C I T Branch Shines In Contest
The Thomasville branch of the C I T corporation placed third in percentage increase and fourth in volume increase among 21 branches. An 128 percent rise over last year marked the contest, while the office moved from Albany to Thomasville last summer opening August 11 1939. Forty five counties in southwest Georgia and North Florida are served from this headquarters with staff including Herman Neal and a team of sales, collection, and office personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
C. I. T. Corporation
Herman Neal
Albany
Georgia
Florida
Mr. Neal
J. FE. Roberts
J. M. Smith, Jr
J. J. Moorehead
Augusta
Hal Knight
Macon
Sarah Renfroe
Mary Harris
Willie B. Oliff
C. H. Terry
Regular Monthly Meeting of American Legion Post 31
The regular monthly meeting of T. L. Spence Jr. Post No. 31 American Legion will be held at the Legion Home on N Broad Street at 7:30 tonight. The program includes music and installation of officers for the coming year, with commanders and commanders elect from all Second Area posts expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. L. Spence, Jr
American Legion
Legion
N. Broad Street
Shovuoth observed as Feast of Weeks in local synagogue
The Shovuoth festival, marking the giving of the Torah and harvest in Palestine, begins tonight and lasts two days with services Tuesday and Wednesday night led by Rabbi H. D. Bloom. The reading of Ruth on the second day ties to Davidic lineage and Psalms. Life insurance ad follows.
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Mt. Sinai
Sivan
Egypt
Palestine
David
Lan
H. D. Bloom
Petition for Gibson Estate Incorporated in Georgia
Mary Wille Gib son and others petition to form Gibson Estate Incorporated a twenty year corporation in Thomas County with principal office in Thomasville. objects include turpentine naval stores farming and real estate. capital stock 10000 dollars expandable to 100000. stock paid in 10 percent. authority to issue bonds up to 30000. rights to sue be sued make by laws own real and personal property. amend charter wind up renew and other powers under Georgia law. attorney B B Earle. Superior Court Southern Circuit authorized incorporation as Gibson Estate Incorporated in Valdosta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Thomas County
Superion Court
Said County
Mary Wille Gibson
Ruby GG. Johnson
Corinna G. McMillan
I. &. Gibson
C. E. Gibson
G. W. Gison
Annie G. Gothard
A. J. Gibson
P. O
Thomasville
Miu
Maury G. Palin
Chatham County
Savannah
East 38Th
Ward Corporation
B. B. Earle
Superior Court
Southern Circuit
Chambers
Secretary of State
E. Gibson
Lectures by Doctor McFerrin Draw Large Thomasville Crowd
A large audience at Mode Theatre heard Dr. Chas. B. McFerrin present the first of a three part series on correct eating. The talks focus on health economy and nutrition from a food perspective, with local firms sponsoring the event and inviting the public. The second lecture is tomorrow at ten, and the final session Thursday at the same time and place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mode Theatre
Chas. B. McFerrin
Doctor Mcferrin
Thomasville
McFerrin
Louis H. Jerger
Rountree’s
Thomasville Ice and Manufacturing Co
Thomas Drug
W. J. Powell
M. T. Wells
Spencer ‘Corsetiere
Georgia Packing Plant
John Dixon
Quality Foods
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Joan Crawford
Fredric March
U.S. Navy
FOX News
Dennis Morgan
Eee Internationa
Leslie Howard
Ingrid Bergman
United Artists
Spencer Tracy
Northwest Passage
Yeon
Schick
Razor
Schick Biades
City Council
Pune
T. A. Futch Howe. CO. Inc
County Baptist
Beachton
T. F. Callaway
J. R. Hobbs
J. G. Garrison
W. R. Croft
Freeman Johnson
W. M. Taylor
A. C. Walden
N. G
Roland Durant
Rec
U. 8. Department OF Agriculture
Rea Air
H. Goldstein
Thomasville Branch
American Legion Tonight
Robert Thomas
New York Life
J. Ginson Estate, Incorporated
Said Corporation
Turpentine and Naval Store
Lahaina Roads
Pearl Harbor
U.S
Pacific Waters
Honolulu
Thomasville Awning Company
J. Gwaltney
N. Broad St
J. N. Rosolf Office Supplies
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