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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1925
Page
8
Grain and commodity listings from Savannah and St Louis show turpentine at 1.04 with various price quotes for cash wheat, corn and futures. New York Stocks firm and bonds higher as exchanges mix. Chicago notes wheat weak and hogs lower while New Orleans cotton prices hold around 20.4.
The Reaper of Port Arthur aided in a sea rescue on Tuesday night near the Florida coast. It saved a woman and eight men from the lumber schooner Rosalie Hull after it broke up in a storm. Captain Jonassen reported the radiogram from the tanker.
Cordele Ga Oct 22 paved highway from Macon to the Florida line over the National Highway completed in 1926 is assured. Turner county is the only unsigned county. state funds with federal aid are to match local 25 percent. Officials from Bibb Houston Tift Cook Dooly Crisp and Turner counties reported progress and contracts.
Debates at a church assembly covered a range of motions from enforcing anti narcotic laws to keeping civil Sunday observance standards. The House of Deputies rejected removing the burial office for unbaptized adults and those who self harm and approved omitting the 39 articles from the prayer book with bishops to decide. A resolution to support The Permanent Court of International Justice passed, and Bishop Motoda of Tokyo spoke with greetings. Lewis B. Franklin was reelected treasurer of the Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society.
In Macon Georgia on October 22 federal agents led by Fred B Dismukes raided alleged saloons and blind tiger joints. Sixteen local men including hotel and taxicab operators were jailed awaiting preliminary hearings with bonds set from 500 to 1000 dollars. Over three weeks undercover work followed prior to this widespread seizure of stills in Jones, Monroe, Bibb, Houston, Crawford and Bleckley counties and the arrest of fifteen moonshiners as the whisky traffic was disrupted in Middle Georgia.
Henry S. Johnson Sr founder and chairman of Chamberlin Johnson DuBose Co died in Atlanta after a brief illness. The longtime merchant helped establish the Atlanta firm and led its board.
Thomas and Joseph Ervin, brothers aged 60 and 62, were found dead yesterday on their Doyleston farm. Police believe robbers shot and stabbed them. Nathan Ervin said the brothers lived alone and kept no known enemies. no significant money was reported on the premises.
Federal agents raid Macon counties finding whisky at each site. Dismukes cites charges against those arrested Tuesday night and ongoing hunts for others. Named figures include Harry Griggs Eagle Hotel Mulberry street and W O Swift taxi operator, with Amerson Davidson Nubby Earlton Simpson among grocers. W A Stevens linked to Harry Hutchins case also among the arrests.
New York reports that deaf children can overcome mutism by placing fingers on a grand piano to match tones, a method shown at Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormick's home. Demonstrations will occur Nov 5 in New York and in Cincinnati Kansas City Denver and Pacific cities. Doctors note few children are fatally deaf and emphasize training impulses over speech.
Atlanta reports government agents urge farm families in Georgia and nearby states to grow bamboo. They cite giant timber bamboo and other varieties as profitable with several practical uses on the farm and home such as light fences trellises bean poles fish poles and water pipes. The Agriculture Department has supplied planting stock in some areas to start small groves.
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