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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1902
Page
3
The Mandilla and surrounding area report a maturing school scene with students attending church services, teachers absent recovering from illness, and events such as the Euphra sain Society program and upcoming Stanton Society Washington program. Henry Manuel and Annie May McGlamory are noted as present, while Laura McCary was away for a sister’s marriage.
Bible readings continue each second and fourth at eleven. Several families, including Everatt Swearingen and Jim Cooper, visited friends in Pleasant Valley Pinehurst Broamville Drayton and Bay. Rev John Walters leads a growing school with Mrs Patrick Butler. Osborne Royals wins best behavior. A candy pulling and Sunday school meet weekly. Geo Bray directs and invites all.
EMERICH NEWS notes Mrs. Wright Blow on the sick list. Dallas Peavy of near Pinehurst visited the town Thursday morning. R L Barfield and daughter Florence traveled to Cordele to hear Dr. Talmage. Carrie Till visited Joel Lane’s home last Wednesday night. Barfield gave Florence a fine upright piano in Macon last week. Our photographer left for Fort Valley. Ella Hancock returned to Henderson after a visit.
The Oak Grove Breezer reports guano hauling and steady farm work as planting weather nears. It notes visits by Mr. and Mrs. Miller Fitzgerald and others to Houston County, Miss Lou Harbin hosting friends, a Valentine party, and growing Sunday school attendance. Mentions residents traveling to Pinehurst Unadilla Vienna and Doolin with brief social notes and a cautionary joke about a lost book.
Mrs Adelia Terrington visited our school Friday evening. Mrs Brow visits her daughter Mrs Ashley Wade. Mrs John William Jones, formerly ill, is improving. Little Berta South visits her aunt Mrs Lacy Geines of Columbus. Mr Abe Odom of Ebenezer attended services at Flint River last Sunday. Mr Henry Fullerton of Cordele also present.
A series of social notices from Cordele and nearby areas describe visits by Miss Tullerton and Mrs. Adelia Herrington. James English and Joe Bryan business trip to Cordele. Rev. Joel Dixon preaching at Flint River on the second Sunday. the Bass family visiting. the sick child J. T. under Care of grandparents. Grace Fullerton's flourishing school with new boarders. Mrs. J. R. Barry visiting her parents Isaiah and another unnamed family.
A brief item notes the aim to publish a weekly letter from the country to fill the page. It implies a steady stream of readers sending in letters and a plan to sustain weekly coverage.
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