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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1938
Page
2
Mr I P Hart of Pavo Ga died Wednesday night at 8 45 and funeral services will be held Friday at 3 30 PM at the Salem Baptist Church. He was known to many friends in the region and his passing is mourned locally.
Mr and Mrs C D Moore travel to Boston to attend the June 23 Harvard graduation of their son Burness Moore who completes a three year psychiatry course and will begin as an interne at Vanderbilt University Hospital Nashville. He won the Beck scholarship three years ago providing 2000 annually for three years and is an alumnus of Thomasville High School with high honors.
Vashti School holds graduation in the school chapel this evening at eight thirty. Rev. J Ed Fain of Albany will deliver the address.
C E Hay Jr and Joseph E Timberlake of Glen Arven Country Club Thomasville scored a birdie and an eagle in recent weeks. They receive Duke of Dundee Air Conditioned Briar Pipes with an awards card signed by George R Wilson awards committee chairman. Other club members seek to match their records.
Tokyo reports the 1937 conscripts show taller, heavier, and healthier men. Average height rose to five feet four and one eighth inches, weight to 115 pounds four ounces. Trachoma cases fell to 85 per 1000 and venereal-disease rejections to 10 per 1000, illiteracy dropped sharply.
Salisbury England reports that Bishop Neville Lovett of Salisbury offered a private bomb proof shelter beneath his residence for air raid precautions. Inspectors said the shelter could withstand even the heaviest bombs and shield many buried residents.
In Shanghai cabarets a revival of old American ballads fuels popular appeal. The top ditty among youth is George M. Cohan’s The Man in the Moon is a Coon, revived as swing arrives in the war weary city.
J H Swart, station agent at Kahblotus Washington, holds a rare railroad posting in a town that runs only two trains weekly. The piece notes his unusual position and the light local rail traffic surrounding it.
Olive Rich reads Ten Thoughts for a Camper from The Way of Understanding by Louise Arnold and summarizes camp values. The list urges quietness, nature, self reflection, sharing wisdom, planning, guiding younger Girl Scouts, maintaining cheer, neighborly welcome, respectful conduct, and leaving camp better for successors.
Gainesville June 15 Twenty candidates passed the mid summer exams of the Florida State Board of Pharmacy Roy Hunter secretary and treasurer announced today The list includes John Wayland White W 8 Koch G W Corrill L A Thomas Solo man Oliakoff James W Taylor Grady B Strander Edgar R High tower Ralph I Coley A F Sealover A W Wise Williem S Gibson James M Dick F M Williams J H Kirby Edith Doosa B L White Marvin 8 Powell Leon L Shepard and Marshall W Whigham home addresses unavailable Next exams set for January 1939 Dr White top of the field among ninety candidates with 20 passing
Readable weather forecast fragment shows temperatures with yesterday and last night values, noting highest and lowest readings and monthly extremes. Details distorted but indicates a local meteorological outlet reporting daily temperature ranges and monthly low.
Miss Flora Ferrell of Cairo visits Mrs. Lloyd Cason. Mr E F Willis and son from Cairo attend the ball game. Mr and Mrs Heyward Vann return and host at the Dawes Apartments. Residents plan activities at Cherokee Lake and summer talks. Mary Rosalyn Vann leaves for Georgia State College for Women. D F Scoggins travels to Wilmington NC for treatment. Elizabeth Heath and Carl Singletary from Columbus visit. Mrs Lloyd Cason and others return from Newnan and Atlanta. Claude Maddox of Tallahassee attends funeral in Boston. Ernest Milton and daughter Mable visit from Barnum Springs NC. Hardy Wilks family and others from Perry GA, Dee ran GA, Columbus GA visit J L Robison home.
Primitive Baptist meeting advertised with morning services at 11 and evening services at 8 15. Church reporter encourages families and friends to attend and hear old time gospel preaching.
Atlanta Journal readers are directed to contact Bridgers as the Authorized Local Representative for filing address changes delivery complaints and subscription inquiries via specified phone and post details.
The notice invites boys and girls of the specified age to join an evening scavenger hunt at eight o'clock on Tuesday. It describes the event as part of a series of recreational evenings for young people.
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