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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1941
Page
7
An advertisement touts 8.8.8 tonic to rebuild stomach digestion and blood health, promising renewed appetite and zest for food. It cites tests and thousands of users and includes a police interaction oddly appended about a driver and a staggered man.
Bold Springs community members share meals visits and greetings among Cairo Culbert London Ochlocknee and Thomasville areas. A homecoming day is planned for Bold Springs Church on the fourth Sunday in June with a public invitation to bring friends and enjoy a church dinner.
In a tense exchange the officer presses for an address and asks where the man is going. A second person warns, and the first man appeals to a past employer, arguing the officer wouldn’t arrest him. The dialogue centers on names and recognition.
Georgia Attorney General Ellis Arnall told the Georgia Wildlife Federation that about nine tenths of local game and fish laws are unconstitutional and deserve scrap. He urged a coordinated long term program to create a constitutional commissioner for game and fish and argued Georgia should access Pittman Robertson federal funds.
Washington reports Georgia filed 70 315 individual income tax returns for 1939 out of 7 648 682 national total. Alabama 49 538 Floridians 72 589 South Carolinians 949 936 North Carolinians 61 529 and Virginians 90 9 Tat. Georgia cities and counties listed: Savannah 5 222 Chatham 6 327 Macon 2 972 Columbus 2 631 Muscogee 13 more Richmond 3 432 Augusta 3 432 etc. 26 returns from abroad and 900 from other states.
About 500 officials and sportsmen attended the first annual session of the newly formed federation aimed at preparing and preserving wildlife.
Cairo Georgia June 12 city council met in regular session with Mayor Warnell. They approved starting a test well for soft water and discussed deep well water supply plans. Post office box cooperation and two ten minute parking spaces were approved. An election to adopt or reject zoning amendments was set for July 1 from 9 to 6 with appointed registrars. Adrian Rosser named head of Cairo utilities effective July 1. J J Glifford elected assistant to Rosser. Council adjourned.
Cairo Georgia June issue reports Caria Kiwanis leads Georgia in attendance for the first quarter of 1944 with 96 percent, far above other clubs. Carl Minter announced Grady county plans to organize a Georgia Home Defense Corps unit of eighty men ages 15 to 21 to provide air raid warnings.
The union between Mary Betty Mae Williams of Columbia South Carolina and Bernard Rolin of Meigs and Columbia was solemnized months ago in South Carolina and recently announced in Meigs. Rolin, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. P. Rolin of Meigs, worked with Sing Oi Company in Columbia. He has siblings Maitland Yates, Clinton Cooper, Leland Cooper, C. P. Flynt, Aubrey Rolin, J. D. Rolin, and Austin Rolin living in nearby towns and states.
Meigs Georgia June 12 Sunday afternoon the Epworth League entertained the Dixie Union at the church with a delightful meeting and enjoyable program. Members from the district attended including Pelham Baconton Cairo Moultrie and Albany. Quite a few were present.
Meigs Georgia items note James B. Stamey returning to Norfolk from a visit to her mother Mrs R A Bright Well. The Vicks return from Macon with their daughter Mrs W J Bailey and Mr Bailey. The seniors travel with Lupt and Mrs W H Rehberg and Miss Martha Rhoden visiting Washington DC. Martha Rhoden returns to Moultrie. H L McDonald and wife back from Jacksonville Beach. Hollis Ferguson and baby visit Meigs. James Kennington of Dawson visits his parents.
Pietro Picatello a 46 year old handyman dubbed Charlie Chan due to resemblance was booked in New York on two homicide charges for killing 23 year old Rose Siegel with a meat cleaver. He allegedly confessed and placed the body in a trunk then left it in the woods on Staten Island.
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