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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1927
Page
8
June 14 report from Mostow notes the Moscow Council of Physical Culture proposes extending the nationlization principle to dance. The move follows the observed popularity of dance among Russian youth and aims to promote safe, coordinated activities.
The banks of Thomasville Ochlocknee and Pavo announce the organization of The Thomas County Clearing House Association. A service charge plan begins June 25 1927 to curb losses from small balances. Fifty cents charged for accounts below fifty dollars with more than three checks in a cycle. Ten cents charged for each cashier s check issued.
South Carolina stays cloudy tonight and Tuesday with gentle variable winds. Alabama and extreme northwest Florida expect local thunder showers tonight and Tuesday with gentle west and southwest winds. Georgia has local thundershowers tonight and Tuesday with gentle variable winds. Florida mostly fair tonight with local thundershowers in the extreme north portion and Tuesday thundershowers with gentle variable winds.
The council bans fox-trot and two-step as immoral but advises couples to change partners during dances. A special conference is called to study round dances and to devise a new dance if possible that is less wearing on youth morals.
Major F Sidney Cotton led the Nungesser Coll search over Comes By Chance Placentia Bay and Port Blandford looking for the missing French plane. The Jeanne D Arc left Quidi Vidi to extend the search westward but no trace was found.
Mrs. Clarence Collins of Gainesville, 52 miles north of Atlanta, was found unconscious on a road near Lawrenceville after leaving home to visit friends. An unidentified man and three women assisted her to a relative’s home, then to a hospital. doctors checked for narcotics as she remained incoherent.
The Thomas County Masonic Convention scheduled for Friday June 24 is indefinitely postponed at Horeb Lodge’s request due to sickness and Providential causes. Boston Lodge cannot host now and a later session will be announced by correspondence and newspaper notices with delegation plans. Worshipful Master J. Gorham Garrison issues the postponement.
In Tampa Florida William E Sullivan a motion picture machine operator was seized by four men dragged into a car driven miles into the woods and severely whipped He returned home at 230 am and did not identify his assailants Richard Nosti a friend who went to his aid was struck with a pistol butt and treated at a hospital Police said the investigation will be pushed
Washington June 20 The quarantine of Texas due to the Mexican fruit fly Morelos orange worm was discussed at a federal horticultural board hearing. Hidalgo and Cameron counties were cited as affected and the pest threatens citrus industries in California and the Gulf states.
The Thomasville Georgia Board of Education met June 17 1927 in the First National Bank directors room. Present were President Jerger and Messrs Little Watt Upchurch. They authorized plumbing work and wall calking estimates at Fletcher ville school and minor repairs, elected new teachers including Hodges Holland Cheney Crawford Woodruff Vaughn, accepted the resignation of Lester, authorized equipment purchases, approved the 1927-28 budget, and approved several bills including Broughton Dixon Dickey Candy Harris Cooper Bracey and Economy Market.
The board recorded payments totaling numerous vendors including Manry Plumbing, Times-Enterprise, Americana Corporation, and Standard Oil. The session concluded with no further business and the board adjourned. B. R. Jerger served as President, B. B. Broughton as Secretary.
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