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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1908
Page
3
A stream of local residents and visitors including L Woodruff John Forehand and Rev AS Sanders were seen in Vienna with multiple mentions of Cordele Parker and Pinehurst. Registration closes April 6 for the county primary and community activity continues with bird hunts and church services.
A mixed local page notes Rev W L Outta at Baptist church services, Rev Walter Anthony at Eastman preaching, and a proposal by Judge H W Powell to raise funds for a Confederate monument via a county wide foot race. It also mentions millinery openings by Ads & Nannie Fullington, a millinery line from O W Horne, and guidance on rural mail stamp practices, with various local visits and shop promotions.
The Atlanta Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad issues color souvenir post cards showing line scenes. A set of seven cards costs ten cents and can be obtained by sending payment to W. H. Leahy, General Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
D B Thompson plans a new East Vienna Farm supply store stocking wide goods except coffee and drugs. Carpenters will convert his brick warehouse to a store and offer prices on request. J R Dickson promotes the Haynie Chopper to save labor, claiming six men’s work, with an $8.00 down payment and $12.60 total price.
A jumble of vintage classifieds advertises items for sale and rent including lumber, a seven room house, purebred poultry, a gentle mare, a red cow with calf, and Armour Fertilizer Works products. Notes indicate contact names and locations in Vienna Georgia and surrounding areas.
Notice from Vienna Georgia banks stating afternoon closings at 5 oclock starting on frat day in March 1908. J P Huarp & Sons Bank and Union Gin Company account holders urged to settle now. All unsettled accounts to be placed with an officer for collection after March 1 1908.
Planters and Not Seed Dealers offer 150 to 200 pounds of Tom Watson watermelon seed. Seed sourced from their own crop of large melons under supervision. Described as red meat, sweet and flavorful with high market potential, citing profits of $100 and $1650 per car from last season. Oglethorpe, Ga. supplier A. Babalby & Bro.
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