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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1908
Page
3
Mt. Vernon noting visitors and residents such as HH. D. Royal Liz Bennett and A. Q Royal. Vienna reports business visits by Col. J. M. Busbee and Judge D. L. Henderson. Mentions Mercer Cutts recovering from lagrippe and shade-tree planting by the city council. Includes lost glove notice, seed peanuts sale, social at G. R. Mathes’, and an Atlanta calendar promotion.
Multiple notices advertise sale of seed oats cotton seed and lumber, a thoroughbred Hereford bull, live poultry, fencing material, and purebred birds. Rentals include a seven room house and a one two horse farm east of the G S & F railroad. Also a call to settle Union Gin Company accounts by March 1 1908 in Vienna Georgia.
A letter from a local businessman announces plans for a large general store in Vienna with a brick wardhouse planned for Farm supplies and other city wares. The writer promises price lists on demand and notes that Govods are stocked locally, with mentions of nearby Cordele and regional banks. Bank hours are set to close at 5 o clock after March 1.
Notice states The Vuien Gin will start to gin on Douay 22, 103 and will hold a procession. After these dates no gin will continue for reasons given. RR Brown Gin referenced in the notice.
Fragmentary OCR notes report a farmer named D B Troxrson selling soil and fertilizer related goods. Details about product names and quantities are unclear due to garbled text.
J K Dickson offers the Hayuie Cotton Chopper to cotton growers in Dooly and Crisp counties. He cites a farm trial last season that saved hoeing costs and boosted cotton by fifty percent when used correctly, with no price change from the 1907 model at 1250 dollars.
We are Planters and Not Seed Dealers offering 160 to 200 pounds of Tom Watson melon seed grown under our own supervision from large, ripe melons. Our crop produced 100 to 150 dollars per acre last year. Oglethorpe, Georgia.
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