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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
3
A campaign notice urges voters in the Cordele Judicial Circuit to support D B Jay of Fitzgerald in the solicitor general race. The item emphasizes the candidate’s candidacy without additional policy details.
A man was knocked unconscious by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm while in a store with several African American customers seven miles south of Cordele. The shock eased after some time, while the storm damaged a door and scattered patent medicines.
Voter information for Hal Lawson in the Cor Ida belt race and Aug 22 ballot date. Local ad touts cheap guns at a Tentlate hardware store. Col L L Woodard visits Fitzgerald. Eviction notices and laxative product plugs appear alongside burglar alarm notes. Town remarks urge eye vigilance on stolen pistols and a jab at youth smoking. J P Heard & Sons sells secondhand mules.
John N. Pleasant of Magnolia Indiana recommends Dr King’s New Life Pills as the fix for biliousness and constipation. The Vienna Drug Co advertises the pills at 26 cents with money back guarantee. Also notes a summer sale on dress goods hats suits slippers jars and other seasonable items. O W Horne Pinehurst Georgia signs the notice.
Rev E H Shingler of Warwick will preach at the Baptist Church at 11 am Sunday. Pastor W L Cutts will dedicate the Tippettville church house at 11 am Sunday, then fill his pulpit at night. Shingler proceeds to Lilly for night meetings and Cutts will join Monday for a week of meetings. Fraternally W L Cutts
Petitioners from Vienna Georgia seek incorporation of the Georgia Eastern Railroad Company a 82 mile line from Vienna through Dooly Wilcox Pulaski Dodge Sumter to Eastman with capital stock 19000 dollars in 169 dollar shares. Principal office Vienna and 30 year term, four weeks notice published as required.
An eye catching note from Wa co Tex praising Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption and a Vienna Ga doctor s tips on stomach health. It extols the sea wall safety in Galveston and cites a five year cure for a chronic cough with new discovery. It advertises remedies and local services with prices and contact details.
Notices announce hearings and sales for estates in Dooly County Georgia. D L Henderson and D L Person request leave to sell lands of Jack Pitts and Mra E A Brown with hearings on September first Monday. W T Sims seeks permanent letters of administration for John Sims. J W Brown seeks sale of Henry Shaw estate lands to pay debts. Appraisers report twelve months support for Carolina M Hudson and eight children. Public outcry sale of Enos S Bowen estate personal property to be held September 1 1906.
The Sheriff announces a sale of land in Dooly County near Vienna. Property of R B Scarborough and A Bourporatia, consisting of parts of lots 243 and 244 in District Five, subject to two executions from the City Court of Vienna, dated April term 1906, for The Savannah Guano Company. Sale posted August 7 1906 by Sheriff Louis Clewis.
G A Wright files libel for divorce against Ethel C Wright in Dooly Superior Court. Defendant listed as non resident. service by publication ordered. Case set for September term. notice signed by Judge Z A Littlejohn and clerk J Frank Powell. Plaintiff's attorney W V Harvard.
An ad notes Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as a non opiate cough remedy that avoids constipation common with other treatments. It claims to move the bowels and promotes availability at Vienna Drug Co.
Notice to all creditors of the estate of Enos S Bowen to render accounts within thirty days and for debtors to pay promptly. This August 9, 1906. Executors Maracuta Bowen and Parker. FOR RENT One 7 room house close in apply at Postoffice.
A fragment describes Major Hamm editor Eminente Ky and a testimonial by Bucklene Renson Salve claiming a cure in ten days with a product: Quickest healer of Burns, Sores, Cure and Wounds sold at Vienna Drug Co's drug store.
For sale a good farm of 176 acres with about 80 acres cleared, located within 1 1/4 miles of Pinehurst Georgia. Contains ample water and timber suitable for a saw mill. For particulars write or see J. D. Evers, Pinehurst, Ga. 8 41 mo.
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