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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1934
Page
6
Fordyce Ark June 25 Lee Grimmett 47 manager of a service station was found shot to death and his wife Ola 35 and daughter Nancy Louise nine with their skulls crushed and in a dying condition by unknown assailant(s) in their home local police said.
Eastern time service lists multiple departures to Cairo Bainbridge and Florida points at 5 30 and 10 00 A M plus 6 30 P M. Thomasville departures to Moultrie Tifton and north at 10 50 A M and 4 00 P M. Also 6 30 and 11 00 A M and 6 30 P M departures to Tallahassee and Florida points.
Neighbors found Grimmett dead with a rifle beside him after a dawn assault at the Grimmett home. The mother and daughter were hospitalized at Pine Bluffs with skull fractures from a heavy instrument. Officials say no known domestic trouble and finances appeared sound. the fatal shot likely came from the rifle held near Grimmett's face.
Neel Bros offers window glass cutting in any size. Call 476 for service and pricing.
Georgia Press Association president Milton L. Fleetwood visited Thomasville with Mrs Fleetwood and children, hosted by Mr and Mrs J E Smith on South Broad Street. His re election as president at Savannah was noted for his service. The piece also covers the Albany wedding of Catherine Read to Alvin I Mims with guests from Albany Spring City Tenn and Thomasville.
Sunday brought about two thousand people to Big Creek Baptist Church on the Thomasville Moultrie road for the annual home coming and all day singing festival. Devotions led by Rev A T Hart opened the program with welcome by Hon E W McMillan and a reply by Rev Lester Batts. The pastor Rev W Harvey Wages gave a church history before the crowd enjoyed a large covered dinner on the grounds.
A local photographer advertises oil tinting of portraits with services by E Wooddy and mentions Overyalker’s Phar. The notice signals a small business catering to graduates and family photos.
Wilbur Milton, secretary of the Thomasville Y M C A, completed Red Cross life saving training at Camp Carolina Brevard NC and is now an official examiner to train local men and boys. The trip included daily first aid and aquatic instruction with a 6000 spectator pageant at camp. City dog tax of 1.00 is due by July 15 at City Hall.
Thomasville youths and recent graduates are urged to attend the Young Peoples Revival at the Methodist Church tonight at 7:30. Rev. Anthony Herne presides with Rev. Stanaland of Boston leading song, as the revival runs nightly all week after its opening sermon by Rev. Joe Cook on What Is Good Like.
Lois Pauline Willis formerly of Thomasville marries Clyde Herbert Wilson of Sarasota at First Methodist Church Ocala. The couple will reside in Sarasota after a wedding luncheon at the bride’s parents home. Willis has degrees from Westleyan College and Stetson University and teaches English in Sarasota High School. Wilson is a Sarasota attorney, a Washington and Lee and UF graduate.
Corbeil Ont June 25 The Dionne quintuplets were four weeks old today and celebrated by gaining three ounces in weight with a total increase of eight and a half ounces since Saturday.
The passage notes Judge O K Reaves of Tampa and mentions his grandfather A M Wilson who served as a state senator for many years.
Large crowds attended a Sunday gathering at the local church with the Duren and Evans families from multiple counties. Families of Rev. James W. Evans and E. L. Evans joined in reunion and fellowship, while guests from Thomasville and across the region enjoyed meals and remembered departed relatives.
In Dawson North Dakota a farm mother Mrs John Canfield shot dead her two sons Donald 11 and George 9 and wounded daughter Margaret 12 and son Jack 14. She then attempted to hang herself and was jailed. officials say she was mentally unbalanced and acted for the children's supposed good.
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