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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1900
Page
3
A local clothing store promotes honest methods and economy as its guiding principles. It pledges reliable service, quality America made apparel, and low prices on new season shirts hats and neckwear aimed at men and boys shopping for spring and summer outfits.
Thomasville Georgia lists the Levy Mercantile Company located in the Mitchells House Block as part of a local business directory entry.
Judge Hansell directs clerk to notify petit jurors attendance is unnecessary next week as no jury trials will occur. Postmaster George Smith’s salary rises $200 yearly from July 1 through Griggs influence. Local committees plan celebration for railroad completion. Guards camp on Cumberland Island July 17 to 25. melon crop expected yet short in volume but potentially profitable. buyers urged to visit fields.
Three year old Ernest Norton died after a throat illness and was buried at the Presbyterian cemetery. Rev J M Rushin led the funeral. The artesian well near town reaches 185 feet with several days of active drilling and rock strata encountered. J B Way & Co bought Zeigler block for 5000 dollars, planning a commissary for turpentine interests. J C Ivey to run mercantile operations. Rev J M Rushbin filled the Baptist pulpit in Newton area. Farming slowed by rains. first melon car shipped from Boston. pear crop expected. Mrs Kate Massey left for Clearwater Florida.
The Epworth and Westminster Leagues raised funds in Thomasville for famine relief in India. The amount sent to Brown Bros in New York totals 13282 dollars, minus 743 dollars from the Beethoven Musical Club. The groups are praised for their noble work and success.
A June 9 dispatch reports hundreds of missionaries fleeing Beijing. Forty American and English missionaries are gathered at the American Methodist mission, surrounded by 300 native pupils, unable to reach home. Ten American marines guard the compound as reinforcements are awaited to evacuate to the coast.
City meeting at BEM Mazette's office organized a celebration for the Tifton Thomasville and Golfrena line arrival likely by July 4. Hayes chaired the meeting Merrill named secretary and committees for finance refreshments amusements decorations reception. A follow up set for June 20 to fix a date.
W D Marchett Camp No 423 of the O V C met June 13 1900 with A P Hansell presiding. Minutes from May 5 were read and adopted. The group aims to organize attendance at the South Georgia Brigade reunion in Waycross July 3–4 called by Gen McGlashan. A committee was named to reach members and boost county turnout.
The John B. Gordon Chapter of the C D U held an enthusiastic May 22 meeting. Mrs L H Kaines of Savannah, a Georgia Division organizer, visited to complete the Chapter's organization and urged forty ladies to submit application blanks promptly for Credential Committee review. A July 21 gathering on Manassas Day is planned. Cor Sec J B G Chapter Thomasville Ga.
Meigs reports a car load of melons on the track grown by Mr. C. R. Sasser. The melons average 22 pounds and will be shipped tonight marking Georgia’s first melons carload of the year.
Mrs Raffie of Boston, barred from the Federation of Woman's Clubs Convention in Milwaukee due to color, departed for Boston this afternoon aboard the Color Line at The North in Chicago.
The State Democratic Convention in Atlanta met at 10 AM with PF G duBignon elected permanent chairman. It endorsed Bryan and Chicago platform, opposed focal option and prohibition, and elected delegates and alternates from state at large and second district. The event adjourned at 4:30 PM.
The Young Female College chapel hosted a crowded annual commencement delayed by rain. Students received praise for a well staged program featuring solos, duets, drills, and a notable violin performance by Miss Belle Bettman, with President Baker and Miss Forbes lauded for their leadership.
A man named Thomas Hobson, about 40, from Wilmington Delaware, assaulted seven year old Bessie Smith near Coatesville Pennsylvania. The child lies despaired of. Hobson is in the borough lock up and may face murder charges. He fled into the woods after the attack at Rock Run.
Ohio Democrats favor Bryan and Dewey for Kansas City. The state convention opens in Columbus as Admiral Dewey visits last week. A plan to bring Dewey during the convention was dropped due to finance objections amid talk of a joint Bryan Dewey ticket.
Gen. MacArthur cables from Manila reporting captures of Generals Hizou near Mexico and Cavestany at Alcola, noting Cavestany as a key Pangasinan insurgent leader. Gen. Corbin says these gains show principal uprising leaders abandoning the cause, marking a significant development in the campaign.
Shanghai cables report desperate street fighting in Pekin ongoing since Sunday. Fatalities are heavy as mobs, allegedly Boxers and supporters, clash with foreign troops defending legations using a few machine guns.
German foreign office received a dispatch from Pekin stating the American mission house at Tung Chow near Pekin was burned by natives. Officials think the incident occurred Saturday or Sunday morning.
Albany June 12 Gov Roosevelt again said he would not accept the Republican national ticket’s vice presidential nomination. He declared he has nothing to add to his previous statement and that his decision is irrevocable.
A testimonial from Draggist J. Goldsmith of Van Etten New York endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as superior for his own family and customers. The remedy is sold by Thomas and Dickinson druggists and recommended for ordinary coughs colds and post influenza coughs.
The note highlights the liver’s health as key to well being and promotes DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as famous pills for liver and bowel relief, attributed to J. W. Peacock.
W Whedon of Winterset Iowa writes about a carpenter who paused work due to diarrhea. He states a bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy bought locally cured him after one dose and he returned to work. Sold by Thomas Dickinson druggists.
In Cairo the school community praised the principal and two assistants for their leadership and devotion. Students presented tokens of thanks, recognizing the teachers’ role in shaping minds and strengthening community bonds.
Louis F. Waibel of St. Louis asserts he recommended eethina when doctors had given up on a child and claims the remedy cured it, describing his claim as a decisive success.
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