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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
5
Local notices from Vienna on Wednesday list visits by Watson of the sixth district and others, market plans, farm equipment ads, and social travels. The report notes D. L. F. Peacock and J. H. Woodward hosting guests, and L. W. McKenzie, M. E. Rushin, and Annie Laura Jefferson among attendees and visitors. It also mentions new market offerings, excursions to Tampa and Jacksonville, and brief humor and crime-aide items.
Poem describes a night river voyage with dark waters and ominous imagery as travellers move under black skies approaching a distant shore. It shifts to a late unrelated ad scene promising bargains on bats, dress goods, shoes, and hardware items with prices and quantities.
Public notice states we will not charge for school books whether rich or poor. Parents sending children for books should provide money to pay for items such as full line books tablets ink and pencils.
An old town tale recounts a drummer seeking a ride to a Missouri river circus. He hires a Negro steersman, fails to row, and learns the man thought he asked about reading road talk not rowing. The anecdote ends with a wry miscommunication aboard a skiff.
Ridley Furniture Co advertises coffins and caskets along with a line of pocket knives. Vienna Hardware Co promotes meats, fish, and weekly specials. E C Taylor urges phone orders and fresh meats, promising easy access with phone 84. D B Thompson offers cotton baskets sheets and jute goods. Barfield hawks hammocks and bargains in Pinehurst Ga. A. d. CO SE advertises a two thirds stake in a business around $8,000 with full information on application in Raleigh.
One 85 HP return tubular boiler and one 80 HP engine, both in good condition. Will sell separately if desired. Kine Lemper Oil Company, Inc., Unadilla, Ga.
T R Smith writes to farmers promising continued service and cheap insurance, urging support for his established cotton warehouse business.
Dr Holston Elliott Expert Oculist and Optician will be at New Southern every Monday and Tuesday. His work is guaranteed, examinations are free, and charges are reasonable. Prescription work only. It is important frames and mountings are properly fitted.
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