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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1908
Page
1
The Macon News notes a sharp drop in liquor related cases. March docket shows 27 drunkenness entries versus 111 in the same month last year. Since January this year 44 such cases appeared before Recorder Urquhart, far below 428 in Jan March of last year. Prohibition is linked to fewer crimes. empty barracks and lighter court calendars are reported.
The Cotton Seed Crushers' Association of Georgia offers 100 dollars in gold for the four best school compositions on The Value and Uses of Cotton Seed Products by Georgia students. Essays must be up to 750 words, judged locally, with three best advancing to the County School Commissioner by April 15, 1908. Local prizes in Dooly County also awarded.
A new enterprise named Union Bottling Works with Mr Eugene Brown as manager opened for business in Vienna this week. A notice appears in another column of The News. Wishing the new concern much success.
In Columbus Georgia on April 26 the memory of Confederate dead will be honored at St Luke Church, the site of the first memorial exercises in 1866. The local women led by Lizzie Rutherford Ellis and M J Williams organized the tradition, with Memorial Day now a regional custom in the South. Memorial Day falls on Sunday this year, reinforcing the historic service.
Rev J M Walters of Hartsfield was chosen representative of Colquitt county in a last week primary. He faced three opponents and drew strong support from Hon W A Covington, a state prohibition law author. Walters formerly taught in Mt Vernon and Macon County and has taught in Colquitt for several years.
A discussion of the aims of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in memorial and educational work. It praises monuments like the Francis Barton Memorial Hall at Rabun Gap and a Wirz monument in Sumpter, and cites efforts to honor Confederate soldiers, preserve history, aid survivors, and educate the South’s youth.
Mr. Jim Dupree of the second district was shot in the right eye during a community party several days ago. An operation by Dr. Peete of Macon on Wednesday attempted to extract the shot, and he faces possible loss of sight. Friends sympathize and hope he keeps his eyesight.
Attorney General J. Fraser Lyon of South Carolina visited Savannah to confer with W. W. Osborne and Alex Lawrence, representing claimants in the South Carolina dispensary dispute.
A series of revival services started Sunday at the Vienna Methodist Church led by Pastor L A Hill with Rev Walker Lewis of Atlanta assisting. The community is urged to attend as revival is believed needed and strong interest is shown due to Lewis's forceful preaching.
Eastern investor James G Campbell and W Jordan Magssee of Macon return to sign contracts to build dams on the Ocmulgee near Jackson and the Oconee near Milledgeville plus the Flint and other southern Georgia rivers. The project aims to develop 150000 horsepower to power trolley lines and cheap rural electric light.
The News reports a large Pinehurst gathering spanning Thursday to Sunday with near twenty churches represented. Twelve pastors attended plus many messengers, as Dr. B Ragadale of the State Mission Board of Ga. spoke daily. Vienna participants and Pinehurst hospitality impressed. next meeting planned at Wenona Bust church Crisp County on the 5th Sunday in May.
Columbus Iron Works Co sent a shipment of cane mills to an interior point in Honduras. The 1,000 pound packages were packed for burro transport through Central America.
Registration books for the county primary close Saturday night April 4. Everyone should register on or before next Saturday night as books come in from districts Monday and are turned over to registrars to assemble the voting list. Remember that is the last day.
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