Vienna news notes and local happenings in Elks County
Vienna district reports visiting relatives and Memorial Day closures, church baptisms, public orders to muzzle dogs after a mad dog sighting, a nearby lumber car fire, and a steady stream of social events. Notables include Miss Beasie McGarrah winning a high school orator contest, W M Forehand as justice of the peace candidate, and Thomas J. Cox's death. Local schools, churches, and merchants are mentioned along with county cotton crop figures and a mill fire.
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Orateread
Tifton
Beasie McGarrah
Houston
Arabi
Sparks
Ella
Bacon
Houston High School
Lawson I Brown
Brown
Undertaker Office Orders Coffins and Robes for Progress
Lamar Gray of The Moneel Marble Co offers coffins from $3 to any amount and delivery by next train. Prices vary, with robes and caskets available. Call for details from the firm in Marietti Gordele and surrounding mills.
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Progress Office
Lamar Gray
Moneel Marble Co
Marietti, Gordele
Zion Hill News Sing at Zion Hill Draws Large Crowd
Rev Reynolds attended his regular appointment with Rev Wilson and Conner at Zion Hill on the 3rd Sunday. A large crowd enjoyed the sing last Sunday. Mr and Mrs Lewis Powell visit daughter Edna McSwain near Arabi. Farmers vary in cotton planting due to cool windy weather. Retta Pittman grows the finest knee high snap beans. B S Pilkinton reports the loss of a fine male Saturday night. Cotton Planter.
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Rev Reynolds
Wilson and
Conner
Zion Hill
Lewis Powell
Edna McSwain
Arabi
Retta Pittman
Pilkinton
McNeel Marble Co. of Dele Georgia Seeks Prices and Designs
The McNeel Marble Co of Dele Georgia advertises for prices and designs for monumental work. Monuments and memorials likely offered through Monumentalwork com ST tL.
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THE
McNeel Marble Co
Codele, Ga
Wanted Everal Industrious Persons Across States
Advertisement seeks eleven years of experience with weekly cash salary and line of credit. Call upon merchants for successful engagement and profitable work. Include self addressed reply with references and rate details to The National at 982 February Street Chicago.
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Everal
Gadhi
Fewrborn St
Chiengor
Fragmented moral quips on debt and virtue from a muddled text
A garbled collection of adages and social observations about education, guardians, marriage, money, and manners. Notable lines reference lawyers as confessional figures, fears of wealth, city hall employment, life preservers for trouble, and the uneasy dynamics of relationships and reputations.
Winds of May and the misfortune of love in verse
A fragment from a 19th century column uses breezy verse to mock winds, misfired courtship, and social irony. It contrasts a cheerful line about the May wind with a sobering quip about a failed romance and a tragic pun about a dying suitor, reflecting era humor.
Frayed Hands and Crude Verses in Public Echoes
A collage of harsh verses and stray notes on male aggression, social manners, and justice. The piece moves through tense misreadings of handshake force, threats, and threats masked as humor, with interludes on deception, police, and aging in a stream of polemical quips and satirical snippets.
Pert Paragrahs Satirical Fragments From A Debarked Page
A garbled montage of wry lines and misspellings critiques on wealth beauty sleep and politics. It touches on burglary manners provisions during sieges and the gulf between romance and practicality with odd misspellings and dated phrases. The tone resembles light editorial quips from a historical page.
When a man is intoxicated with a woman's beauty
A pithy once-common saying notes that intoxicants mix with allure can dull judgment, while a sober focus on a woman's beauty may lead to clearer thinking or restraint, reflecting social views on drink and desire.
Bizarre Fragment Hints at Imagined Battle Scene
Fragmentary text depicts a boastful siege with “modern guns” and an army of bowlegged men. It references an impossible capture and a storm position fortified by firearms, though many words are garbled and unclear.
Weather Whispered Plans For A Pleasant Fair
A garbled poem notes weather forecasts for St. Louis in June and a fair period with cooler days. It mentions press agents predicting pleasant, cool conditions, occasional heat, and even a snowy whim. The piece mocks hype and hints at a seasonal show atmosphere.
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St. Louis
Ike
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