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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1908
Page
3
A compilation of local visits and travel notes across Vienna and nearby towns. Notables include Hamilton in Atlanta, Kerula, Calhoun in Kafe, and J D Hall on business to Blakely and Albany. Several residents and visitors from Byromville, Fitzgerald, Cordele, Unadilla, Sanford, and Panama City are listed with dates and brief actions. Public notices on property, sales, and church service are included alongside brief ads and arrivals.
A correction clarifies a marriage notice wording from a newspaper item and notes a Phonograph prize given by Max Feldser on January first to the top trader. it was received by L. Woodruff's family. The machine is valued at 35 dollars. Also listed is a for sale notice for one good milch cow with a young calf from E H Peavy Pinehurst Ga.
Several farms for rent or sale listed by J P Heard & Sons and QO M Heard. Vienna Cotton Oil Co promotes cheap meal and hulls, dressed lumber from J A and D I King Unadilla. Lost pearl handle parasol and ladie's silver watch with Jamestown Exposition souvenir. For Choice Cut Flowers contact IDLE-HOUR NURSERIES. One hundred bushels Woodward Oats for sale plus wagons, mule, and secondhand buggies. Pinehurst and Byromville ads mention farm land near Vienna Drayton and local suppliers.
A Dublin anecdote collection showcases imperturbable men ignored by street urchins who beg for a cigarette butt. A waiter mishears a traveler asking twenty minutes to wait. the joke lands as the train has already departed. In Joys of Absence a correspondent admits time is spent answering letters from George.
The exchange contrasts optimism and pessimism with a child named Johnnie asking about the difference. The reply cites that optimists see ripe times while pessimists see rotten times, attributed to Harper's Weekly.
Vienna Georgia schedule notes for the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway list departures from Vienna at 2.82 pm No 2 to Macon Atlanta and north with parlor car. 3.40 am No 4 flag stop for Macon Atlanta and north. 9.23 am No 6 Shoofly local to Macon. 8.28 pm No 12 Valdosta Express local to Macon. 1.24 pm No 1 to Valdosta Palatka Jacksonville with parlor car. 2.26 am No 3 flag stop to Valdosta Palatka Jacksonville with sleepers. 6.30 pm No 5 Shoofly local to Valdosta. 9.06 am No 1 Valdosta Express to Valdosta. Arrivals from north No 1 1.24 pm, No 3 2.26 am, No 5 6.30 pm, No 11 9.08 am. Arrivals from south No 2 2.42 pm, No 4 2.40 am, No 6 9.23 am, No 12 8.28 pm. For full schedules call W. O Wilson Vienna or Rhodes Macon.
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