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THURSDAY, MARCH 22. 1945
Rev. C. I. Whitley of Royston con
ducted religious services at the Fire
Baptized Holiness Church in Jef
ferson the past week-end. Rev. J.
R. Baird is pastor of this church.
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Misses Janet Hood, Frances Bry
an, Martha Ann Kelly, Ethel Mar
tin and Martha Glass Crooks, stu
dents at the University of Georgia,
are spending this week’s holidays
at their hohies here.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Potts and
Mr. and Mrs. W\ J. Massey and chil
dren were in Gainesville Sunday,
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Ven
able, and enjoyed,the birthday cele
bration of Mr. Venable.
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Mrs. Bill Massey, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
F. C. Staton, has returned to her
home near Nicholson. While here
she was honor guest at a lovely
“Shower,” given by Mrs. Virginia
Wills McClure.
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Sergeant Vfernon Carter, who was
in Miami, Fla., for reassignment for
Army duties has been ordered to
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, and
is spending a few days at his home
here before reporting to the new
headquarters.
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H. W. Fuller, proprietor of the
Jefferson Tire Shop, and family
are now occupying one of the bun
galows recently built by T. M.
Crowe on Oak Street. The other
residence is occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. Hunt.
After spending a few days with
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Potts, Seaman
1-c Summie Potts of Ft. Pierce,
Fla., and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Potts
of Winter Garden, Fla., have re
turned home. Seaman Potts has
been in the service of his country
for three years.
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Friends of Dr. Leatus Sanders will
learn with much regret that he is
ill in the hospital at Monroe and
that his children, Miss Mary San
ders of Commerce and Mrs. Gunter
Stevenson of Winter- Haven, Fla.,
are at his bedside. For many years
Dr. Sanders has been one of the
leading physicians of Commerce.
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Those visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Claud Venable of Gaines
ville Sunday, the former celebrat
ing his 54th birthday, were Mr. and
Mrs. Coot Potts and Mr. and Mrs.
W. J. Massey, Jr., and their two
little daughters, Betty Sue and
Lynda, all of Thyatira.
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The Rich Foundation of Atlanta
gave $250,000 to Emory University
last week to further plans for a
school of business administration.
The money will be used to erect a
beautiful two-story building at
Emory and was donated in memory
of Morris, Emanuel and Daniel Rich,
who in 1876 founded Rich’s Depart
ment Store in Atlanta.
PFC. WILEY P. SCOTT WRITES OF LONDON
SCENES AND LeTOURNEAU
EQUIPMENT IN FRANCE
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Mrs. M. L. Crystal had as her
guests the past week-end Seaman
2-c Julian Fleming, just back from
the South Pacific, Miss Ruby Chrys
tal of Athens, Major and Mrs. E. W.
Foy and Miss Marion Foy of Geor
gia Military College, Milledgeville.
* * *
Mrs. Frances Hanson Merrill of
Atlanta was a recent guest of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Han
son, and her daughter, little Miss
Suzanne Merrill, at their home on
the Gainesville Highway. It will
interest friends of the Hanson fam
ily to know that Mrs. Bill Hanson
and daughter are now making their
home in Pensacola, Fla., and Miss
Sarah Hanson is in training at
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Whitfield had
as their guests Sunday Mrs. H. P.
Bell, Miss Virginia Bell and Miss
Elizabeth Whitfield from Atlanta,
P. 0/1-c Eugene Whitfield on leave
from the South Pacific, Miss Mary
Lyle, Miss Dalores Loggins, Mr. and
Mrs. George Whitfield and little
daughter, Pat, from Athens, Mr. and
Mrs. H. F. Whitfield, Mr. and Mrs.
Odis Robinson and little daughter,
Harriett, from Statham.
After April first all uniformed
troopers under the direction of the
State Department of Public Safety
and special delinquent tax collectors
under the direction of the Depart
ment of Renvenue and sheriffs of
the state will begin checking motor
vehicles on the deadline date for
purchase of automoblie tags. Own
ers and operators found without
current license plates or without
evidence indicating application has
been filed will be penalized as pro
vided by law, it was announced.
T. Jack Dempsey of the State Re
habilitation Educational service was
in the city last week for a brief
visit and announced that a clinic
will be held in Jeffersoij in June.
Six clinics are being held in Geor
gia during the last 10 days of March.
At these clinics physically handi
capped persons will be placed in
jobs, or they will be assigned to a
medical center for physical restora
tion which will lessen the handi
caps before they are placed in jobs.
* * *
Dr. Thomas C. Dooley, Copper
Head, Tenn., Mrs. A. R. Kennedy
and son, Billy, Cooledge, Mr. and
Mrs. Otis Weatherford
Mrs. G. L. Colbert and daughter,
Jane, and Mrs. Lois Car well, all of
Atlanta, spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Dalton and Mrs.
J. C. Dooley, coming to see Lt. Mil
dred Dalton, who arrived recently
from the Philippine Islands, after
being interned for three years in
a prison camp.
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