Temperance, education and road work noted in Cordele items
The Cordele column reports pro temperance remarks amid other social notes. Miss Ella Bess Phillips is selected to head the public school music department, while Miss Dorminey joins as dressmaker. A Waycross extension of the Air Line to Cordele is described, boosting westward access. court actions in county court are listed alongside local social updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Bess Phillips
Butler
Taylor County
Board of Education
Tybee
T. F. Bivins
C. Woodward
Mary Woodward
Cliff Whitehead
Ruby Burns
Ada Powell
M Brown
R. E. Kelly
Lasseter
C. R. Morgan
Woodward
Willie Proctor
Col. N. Woodward
Gordon Burns
A. Walden
F. Summers
M. Eugenia Dorminey
Mingo
Waycross
Fitzgerald
Cordele
Waycross Air Line
Star Jasmine
Sam Slick
Mercer University
Emory College
Oxford
Milledgeville
Major Butler
George Sheppard
Trixie
Xenie
Buffalo Club meeting and local fire damage at Drayton
Members of the Buffalo Club met at W E Trippe's on the 14th with speeches and recitations including Lu Lewis and Will McHavale performances. Contractor Tom Folds advances on the ninth temple of justice nearing completion. Dr W B Watts reports loss of shingles mill belts and tools amounting to 450 to 500 dollars with no insurance and suspected arson not charged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo Club
W. E. Trippes
Lnst
Lu Lewis
Father
Will McHavale
Tom Folds
Temple of Justice
W. B. Watts
Local Shingle Worker Called Home to Father
Mr. Cole F. Weschester, employed by Dr. Watts, left on urgent news from Atlanta where his father lay prostrated by the heat Friday. Dry winds have dried vegetation. rain is badly needed. Effie and Mae Butler attended the Hardshell meeting near Gunter's Sunday, prompting curiosity about who accompanied them home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole F. Weschester
Watts
Atlanta
Effie
Mae Butler
Gunter’s
Wonder
Mingo News Briefs Include Local Visits and Moves
Local notes report visits from Cookstown Hakinsville Unadilla and Cordele. Minnie Dorminey leaves for Vienna for business. Loyd Scarborough ill then better. Bluff Creek picnic well represented. R G Singletary builds a new gunnery. Reynolds cousins and Johnson attend Friendship preaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Slade
Cookstown
CG. O. Curry
Hakinsville
Uoy Scarborough
Cordele
Guy Vinson
Unadilla
Li. H. Peavy
Snow
Minnie Dorminey
Vienna
Minnie
Loyd
J. F. Scarborough
Lou Flemming
Hawkinsville
Mingo
Bluff Creek
R. G. Singletary
Carl Reynolds
Mamie
Kerns
Lizzie Reynolds
Nelson
Maude Johnson
Benn
Friendship
Tax Notice for Vienna Town 1901 Tax Returns
Open for tax returns on taxable property in Vienna for the year 1901. Books close August 15, 1901. B M Wood Clerk and Treasurer. July 10, 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
B.M. Wood
Treas
Pleasant Valley Notes and Local Happenings
Farmers expect about 65 percent of a crop after a hard growing season. J A Varnadow visiting Athens. Miss Callie. Lewis recovers from fever. Mrs W M Forehand ill with chills. J H Forehand and family back in Berrien. J B Smith sick. Miss Lucia McCall shopping. Reunion report sent to veterans in other states. Vistors and services at Mt Beazer. Misses Reid, McCall, Swearingen, Summerford at church. Buelahi Levis ill. Mrs M F Sentell visiting Fenn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope Brown
J. A. Varnadow
Athens
Callie
Lewis
W. M. Forehand
J. H. Forehand
Berrien County
J.B. Smith
Lucia McCall
T.B. Smith
Vienna
Margaret Reid
Nellie McCall
Everette Swearingen
William Summerford
Mt. Beazer
Buelahi
B. Levis
M. F. Sentell
Fenn
Young Peoples Department Letter from Vienna to Cordele
A long reader correspondence page from Vienna Ga and Cordele Ga volunteers shares spring musings, letters about courtship, theatre, dancing, and college advice. Mothers, brothers, and family life appear with notes on manners, fashion, and home duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Young Peoples
Bertha Leonard
Jewel Powell
Tom
Gong
Giong
Tybee
Johns
Russell
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. M. Heard Sr
Temperanga
W.T. Perry
Drayton
Squire Butler
Squire
George
Bowen
Buffalo
Henry
Florida
Montgomery
Clegg & Sons
J. W. Lemmons Et al
Houston Guano & Warehouse Co
Exchange Bank of Fort Valley
A. N
N. J. McKay
I. C. Plants & Son
B. M. Wood
Atlanta Wooden Ware Co
Thos. F. Mitchell
Wight & Wesleskey Co
B. O. Franklin
J. A. Smith
Julius Wolf
Baily Holton
Mattie Shines
I. Y. Peavy
Mollie EH
Ivy
Suiton Note
Annie A. Means
J. M. Lewis
Troyer
Americus Fertilizer Co
W. H. Lowery
W.H. Buasy
Drayton News
Pleasant Valley Notes
Young: Peoples Department
Zora B. Caries
Biwell
Melton
Violet
Buffalo Bill
Ithau
Cordele, Ga
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