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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1925
Page
8
A reader urges coordinated effort to promote Thomasonville with pamphlets in hotels and information hubs across Florida this summer to boost next winter tourism. Notes a local boast about a trout sighting and recalls Albany's loss to Montezuma in the state tournament.
An extended advertisement critique targets a car model from Maxwell-Chrysler, contrasting boastful talk with a Norfolk style jab. The story shifts to a murder case in which five white men and one black man face first degree charges for the October 19 1924 death of Lewis Barker a clothing storekeeper. Indictments were returned March 14 and Judge Horne ordered a week recess. Six defendants including Higginbotham Parker Priest McRane Winburn Hart are named and held. One body fragment was found last December. Sixty veniremen will be summoned and prosecutors plan individual trials for each defendant.
Montezuma High School defeated Albany 27 to 19 to win Georgia’s first state high school basketball tournament final played Saturday night in Albany. Marshallville took third by beating Adel 35 to 11, with Montezuma hinting at a Chicago national interscholastic playoff.
In Oakland Cemetery Atlanta lie the remains of Georgia figures including United States Senator Benjamin J. Hill. Beside him rests his wife, and also buried is his son Charles D. Hill who served as Solicitor General of the Atlanta circuit for over twenty years.
Camden County long housed Captain William Cone a noted fighter in the War of 1812 and also renowned for his prowess against Native tribes.
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