16 Sep 1930
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1930
Page
1
The paper notes the bond election on the 24th affecting Thomasville schools and details community attitudes toward the issue. It discusses local figures, political alignments, and the broader debate over voting methods including praise for the Australian secrecy model and comments on local campaigns and personalities.
The visit of Jack Dempsey to the Striblings crowd this week draws praise for his genial, wholesome manner. Observers say he may leave boxing, but unlikely to return to the ring given future job prospects paying around a thousand per show.
Georgia Masonry extends the proverb contest deadline to September 30 allowing boys aged nine to nineteen to submit 100 word papers on How the Proverbs Can Help Me Make My Life a Success. Over 250 public school superintendents are authorized to receive entries with two best papers from each circle sent to A G Miller in Macon.
Rufus Hart aged 18 and his brother Edgar 24 were jailed in Eastman Georgia on a murder charge connected to the fatal shooting of Andrew Lee last Thursday night. Rufus surrendered to Sheriff G C Rogers. Both brothers refused to discuss the case as authorities pursue the theory Lee was shot during a car quarrel and tossed over a fence into a field.
The U S Department of Agriculture weather report forecasts local thundershowers tonight and Wednesday for Thomasville and vicinity. Temperatures remain high in the east and Gulf coast while the west cools. precipitation in the last 24 hours was concentrated in the lower Lake region and Gulf states with Galveston reporting 2.14 inches.
The Atlanta city council directed the purchasing committee to investigate the office of purchasing agent William P. Price. The panel may issue subpoenas and compel witness attendance amid citizen complaints and Fulton county grand juries presentments. Price was recently acquitted on a four count fraud indictment.
The executive committee of the National Editorial Association selected Atlanta as the site for its 1931 convention, announced from Chicago on September 16. The decision confirms Atlanta as the gathering city for editors and journalists in the coming year.
Washington dispatch notes that five states held primaries or conventions shaping the party ticket for the coming general elections. New York Massachusetts Wisconsin held primaries while Connecticut and Delaware concluded conventions, narrowing the field seven weeks before Election Day.
In the Bay State Wisconsin and Connecticut delegates chose candidates for the house. The five states nominated candidates for the house.
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