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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1907
Page
3
A dispatch from Vienna reports residents and visitors including A P Gaines from Drayton H D Wood Pinehurst A B Walden Findlay and others. Local business changes include Newby and Bush dissolution with G L Bugh retiring and plans for new development. Community appeals push for a public library and a larger department store while noting jury summons and school progress.
Merchants offer large stock at heavy markdowns to close out the season, urging shoppers to visit despite small purchases. Mrs. L. F. Coxe returns from Jacksonville after visiting daughter Mrs. Benn Leslie, with marriage to Miss Lillian Turner last Sunday. A brick church and city landmarks are urged as essential for upbuilding the city, with the Methodist church project valued around $15,000.
D B Thompson announces a 14 acre subdivision named Florida Villa near the Suwanee corridor. The September 14 1907 sale offers 15 cash per lot with 2 monthly payments at eight percent interest. Cash buyers receive a seven percent guarantee after twelve months. A public event includes a ball game and an address on home getting and saving.
Ladies are invited to view a new line of spring and summer dress and waist goods in white and figures prices at F. M. Barfield in Pinehurst Georgia. Clothing shown with no trouble to show goods.
The next general examination for license to teach in state public schools will be held at the Academy in Vienna on Friday and Saturday June 21 and 22, 1907. Applicants must attend both days as only part of the questions will be submitted each day. Signed E G Greene, C S C D C.
AColored People Notice invites a strictly colored sale of Florida Villa property on September 14 1907 with a brass band and free entertainment. It warns no whites will bid or be cried at the sale and promotes home ownership as a life purchase. Also ads note farm supplies and a drug company sale and closing of Dooly Drug Co. by Dr E B Davis.
First class star house for rent in Lilly Georgia advertised as cheap. Apply to Co. T. Hudson Lilly GA for details and availability.
J A Adkins and Sons announce they will thresh grain in Dooly County with a new elevator this year. They promise faster service and better satisfaction, using a gasoline engine and aiming to serve Vienna Georgia patrons efficiently.
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