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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1906
Page
3
Carl Forehand and W H Steele of Lilly visit town while many locals and visitors are listed. A prayer meeting at the Baptist church is announced. Numerous social calls, visits, and arrivals are noted, with motors of Cordele, Se ville, Augusta and Hawkinsville represented. Hoke Smith to speak May 16. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar promoted. Local merchants and merchants' notices featured.
Advertised remedy Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces. It states local applications fail and the cure comes from a mix of tonics and blood purifiers. The promotion includes testimonials and notes Toledo Ohio as the company location and PY. Cuzner & Co. as the proprietors.
Carl Morgan, painting a roof at the planing mill, slipped when a ladder hook broke and toppled him onto a railroad track. He suffered hip and side bruises and wrist sprains, was carried home for care, and is expected to resume work in a few days. The notice also promotes Smith's Kidney Cure with a money back guarantee by Forbes & Coxe.
Fragmentary notes advertise ice for sale in Macon with a joking, back-and-forth tone. The garbled text mentions a Mr. E C lor and a playful invitation to call, promising explanation and a pairing of two people to view or purchase.
Col E F Strozier and Col M P Hall visited. J E McGough and F L Bradshaw were in town on business. The Baptismal service at the Baptist church Sunday night baptized ten converts with seating over taxed and one awaiting baptism. new members to receive fellowship next Sunday at eleven o clock.
A Dallas based excerpt recalls a man leaving a former job to farm in Bristol Texas. He began in August 1905 after subscribing to Farm and Ranch and buying three old disc plows for 15 dollars each. He planted forty five acres of alfalfa in October with a wheelbarrow drill, harrowing twice, and reports a good stand despite recent rains and snow.
A practical farmer is not defined by years on a farm but by study and adaptation. Those who learn from successful methods and follow proven paths are more truly practical than perpetual reliance on old routines, even if inherited from their forebears. The Georgia Department of Agriculture emphasizes learning and applying improved practices over sticking to traditional, unchanged methods.
In a note to customers C. A. Thompson of Vinehurst Georgia announces several stalls and hitching posts erected at the rear of the store for customer use free of charge. He asks patrons to remember this when visiting town and signs the message Very respectfully.
An old patent medicine ad promises a full cold cure in one day using LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Duggists refund money if it fails to cure and E. W. Grove’s signature appears on each box.
An advertisement urges farmers to prevent hog cholera using a product from Jas Williams of Vienna Georgia. It claims three years of successful use and mentions community adoption with a contact for details.
J A Adkins of Vienna Georgia announces a new threshing outfit ready for the season. Farmers with grain to thresh are urged to contact him by R F D No 1 for service and business arrangements.
The Tripps place six miles west of Vienna offers 664 acres of well improved level land renting for 25 dates. Price is $16 per acre. Pine timber on the property has been sold. Contact J. H. Henderson in Macon or A. E. Jonpan & Co. in Vienna Ga.
Petitioners led by C H Rodgers J J Hucks and others of Georgia seek incorporation as the Grand United Order of the Rising Star of Bethlehem of America a benevolent society to aid widows orphans the sick and bury the dead. They request twenty year term with renewal and authority to form branches within Georgia and to hold property and sue or be sued. The Home Office would be in Unadilla Dooly County.
I J Frank Powell clerk certifies the true copy of the final petition for charter now on file in the clerk’s office of the county. The petition was filed on April 1906 and this certification is dated April 6 1906 with official signature.
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