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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1903
Page
2
Races scheduled for next Thursday amid a long column of local notes. The item lists farm reports, births, deaths, sales, church activities, and community happenings in Vienna including hogs, crops, and social events with names such as Miss Bertha Leonard, Rev. Walden, J. G. Forehand, and J. D. Hargrove referenced in the scattered notices.
On a fine spring day the Mt Pleasant settlement held a community gathering. A J Shell and XK G Greene brought preachers Reys Atkinson and Kelly, plus A F P Gilleland, to town. Families shared a large dinner, games thrived, and Sunday school speeches by Atkinson and Kelly followed a joyful afternoon.
In the days before his death in the shoofly accident, the man known as Mr. Brewer drank in town and carried a wine bottle on his last evening. He asked about train No 64 at the depot, though such a train does not exist here. He alighted at mile post 54, two miles above town, and was struck by a truck beam when the Shoofly passed at 7 pm, dying about 30 minutes later. He was about 45, leaving a wife and six children. his body was taken to Banks County on Friday.
The Vienna Epworth League hosts a Friday May 8 program at Mia L Davies home featuring opening song and prayer by Rev B Whittington, music and instrumental pieces by Hummie Roberts and Ernest Stovall, recitations by Myrtis Everett and Lilla May McDonald, violin by Emmie Woodward, a quartet by O M Heard, R O Powell, Marvin Pittman, J L Taggart, a planting contest, and a cordial invitation to all.
Mr Vernon and the Braddock Stancels of Drayton were guests of Mrs Mary Ingram Saturday. Memorial Day decor includes snow white sands from mills and local cemetery scenes. Mrs W I Butler is very ill. Hubert Ingram is 11. Visitors include Mrs Annie Waihams from near Cordele. Our Sunday school reopens after winter quarters and plans a Camp Ground picnic with fishing and lemonade. Teachers Rev J M Walters and Miss Sadie Varnadoe attended the Chautauqua in Albany and report a good time. Pleasant Valley and Mt Vernon Sunday schools will picnic at the Camp Ground on the second Saturday in May. Also noted are visits by Uncle Ashley Royal and J A Varnadoe with cousin Viola. Joe Joiner visited relatives.
L C Brewer, a Banks county man and teameter for a saw miller, was killed Thursday near the town edge by a G B and FF Shoofly train.
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