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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
3
Vienna residents and visitors face a busy slate of personal visits moves and gatherings. Notable names include Chas Hollon F M White W A Ingram N T Grantham Jr and J D Reynolds J D Powell and many others as travel and family events fill the week. The feature also urges readers to subscribe and support local business while Col W W Harvard begins new duties as City Court solicitor.
Mrs Edward Howell entertained guests at her home on Monday evening. The decor featured wintergreens palms and ferns signaling Christmas tide. After games, refreshments were served with Miss Emily Woodward assisting. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Turton Miss Eula Joiner Miss Emma Hicks Richland Miss Kate McArthur Ft Valley Ethel McDonald Emily Woodward Anne Whitehead and Messrs Ernest Stovall Jake Heard Horace Jones Jay Freeman B F Roberts George Swearingen.
A nostalgic reflection on a mother's arm chair as a sacred relic. The speaker recalls childhood lessons, prayers, and the mother’s kindness, then laments her death and clings to the chair as memory flows like lava, insisting the chair remains bound to the heart.
Buford Ingram two years old son of W C Ingram of Mt Vernon died Wednesday morning at 9 20 after a short illness with croup Burial was Thursday morning at Lilly cemetery
Harper's Weekly reports a Philadelphia woman discovers both her servant and her daughter share the name Mary. A struggle follows as the mistress insists on using surnames. The maid finally concedes naming herself Darling under English custom.
Local ad notes Vienna Cotton Oil Co pays top cash for seed cotton remnants and other goods. Also lists property for sale and other notices including a travel job ad, a water tax reminder for 1900, and two four-room houses for sale or exchange in Pinehurst Georgia.
A notice from Dr R C McLellan of Cordele Georgia markets Star Brand rawhide whips for sale at Vienna Hardware Store The whips carry a retail price of 1 00 and are pitched as the best on the market Call and see them at Vienna Hardware Store.
In the Western Division Southern District of Georgia the Joseph Burns bankruptcy case proceeds with a sale of bankrupt stock in Vienna. The auction on the first Tuesday in January 1909 includes dry goods shoes clothing fixtures and farming gear plus 260 bushels cotton seed 275 bushels corn 2000 pounds fodder 6 tons hay and 1600 pounds cotton. Ten percent deposit required. sale subject to court confirmation. viewable by appointment.
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