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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
3
Miss Chloe Tippett visits Vienna. J J Heard, Major Clyatt, and W Fokes make business trips to nearby towns. Cordele and Atlanta hosts include W Turton, Alice Henderson, J M Connell, Nellie Turton, and Miss Rosebud Oliver. Protracted church services continue. tax notices and commerce ads run. cotton bloom reports and a hospital operation are noted.
Miss Luceile Morgan entertained at a stocking shower for Miss Mary Penny soon to wed Mr. French of San Francisco on June 16. About 45 guests enjoyed the elegant affair at Mrs. K. R. Lewis home with Paul Neyron roses, La France flowers, and a stocking-themed reception ending with an ice course. Ollie Forehand won a prize for best stocking likeness.
Notice calls attention to an advertisement about the June 22 excursion to Jacksonville St Augustine and Tampa appearing elsewhere in the paper. The rest is an assorted mix of local ads and a humorous dialogue about Old Man Bitt and his hay heaping boys in a hot field.
A fragmented report mentions Breskfest, Lendos nz in his career, and an oration. It notes an invitation to breakfast from a boot shop near Oxford, learned later to be from the famous Bishop Wilberforce of Oxford, with details of his lodgings and service.
In response to a call by H. W. Powell, Com., a veterans meeting decided to hold the reunion on July 4, noting it falls on Monday. Committees were formed with J. M. Smith and H. W. Powell overseeing the event and J. M. Gammage and H. W. Powell handling the refreshment stand. The stand will be awarded to the bidder, with bids due Saturday the 18th at 2:30 P.M. The camp also received an invitation from Crisp County camp to attend their Daphne reunion on June 10. H. W. Powell, Com., B. M. Wood, Adjt.
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad will start sleeping car service on night trains between Atlanta and Brunswick from June 1 1910. Southbound schedule: Atlanta 8 15 PM to Brunswick 6 30 AM. Northbound Brunswick 8 00 PM to Atlanta 8 25 PM. Connections at Brunswick with steamers to St Simon's and Cumberland Island. Trains feature electric lighted vestibuled coaches and sleepers. Tickets from any company agent. W H Leahy GA Atlanta. AD Daniel PT Agent.
Business locals advertise second hand deer ing reaper in good repair and bargains on Jones chain drive mower and rake Champion mower and rake and other brands. Dealers in Pinehurst and Granata advertise refrig erators and water coolers with hardware store contact. Eye ear nose throat practitioner and filing of glasses listed.
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