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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1895
Page
3
A sequence of local notes advocates public schools for Vienna and Cordele, urging residents to vote for school funding, while detailing nearby events. Other items report calm county court weeks, wedding whispers, Easter pages, rabbit hunting, a cow with possible hydrophobia, a jail guitar performer, a horse car incident, a major fire in Hahira, pension blanks, April fools jokes, and a farmer’s misheard commerce tale.
A Vienna boy, about five, told his father he would work hard and make a heap of money once he becomes a big man like him. The father responded that he would do a great deal more than his dad ever did, prompting a lighthearted exchange about future success.
Jno C Dunaway Cordele Ga Road Superintendent announces a bid for horse and buggy hire during April and May. Mr John B Whitehead appointed Superintendent of the public roads and begins work after the tax. A notice of his appointment and tax collection date appears for districts.
Street Tax books are opened for 1895 collection and will close on the morning of the 23rd. By order of Council. April 2, 1895. J. F. Powell, Clerk of Council. Two Sermons Delivered at Methodist Church by Rev. Wesley Lane. Morning and evening services included a missionary sermon on Thy Kingdom Come from St Matthew 6 10. Evening address focused on Is the young man safe.
The Sunday School Convention at Arabi ran from Friday night to Sunday night and featured many prominent workers from the state. Delegates and visitors were warmly entertained, with congregations filling nearly every service and many instructions and impressions noted for lasting good.
Mrs. Parker, consump tive, died Wednesday night at 10 30 at her home near Findlay. Left a sorrowing husband J P Parker and eleven children. Remains interred at Liberty church Friday morning. Dooly county extends sympathy to the family in this hour of grief.
A Friday evening musicale hosted by Mr. M. E. Rushin in Hawkinsville honored Misses Watson and McGruf. Vocal and instrumental pieces charmed attendees. the event was praised as a social success and a memory of pure pleasure. Notable couples included O. M. Heard with Bessie Bryan, Jas Pate with Eula Blount, and Col. J. M. Busbee with Maggie Blount among others.
A Tuesday field shoot at J. M. Gammage’s farm drew Dr. T. F. Bivins Jos. Burns D. B. Leonard G. W. Busbee D. B. Thompson W. H. Everett O. M. Heard P. G. Busbee J. B. Davis W. J. Lashley G. R. Mathews Jac. E. Howell and others. Birds flew thick as 208 doves were killed with many firing for sport. Howell led with 24, Busbee and Everett tied at 19 each.
Mr Borror reports on Shiloh school where Miss Emma L Ward teaches sixty one pupils. Students study geography using a pond as the Atlantic and plan to form other oceans by digging around North and South America. They note Pacific larger but say hoes tire workers in the Torrid Zone.
Local notes report corn planting progressing, cane patch harvests near, and optimism for a fruit crop. Several residents are named with updates on health, fishing, and garden gains, including Cross Kimsey and Carroll families. Purvis planted Elberta peach trees. some are blooming amid a mild season.
A peculiar book for Ladies 15 HOW cis Union Pub Co Paducah Ky announces new spring stock. We expect to open to the trade in the next few days with an enormous and well selected Spring stock. Opening will be large with newest shapes shades and fabrics in Clothing Shoes and men’s furnishings. Ladies dress cloths purchases exceed expectations and are very pretty and cheap. Public invited to call about the level of April to view the new lines.
Pine Grove schools run full with Pine Grove Academy expanding. Miss Lucy Hill grows better after illness. George Hogsette bitten by a dog last Friday, now back in school. Mr Bennett Scarborough studying at Cochran. Spring weather brings farm work. Miss Lucy Scarborough returns from a visit to the land of flowers. Last Friday’s social event postponed. Reporter traveled to Vienna. Sympathy extended to Brown family on their loss. Everything quiet in Pine Grove and Tippetville. By Rep.
A series of short notices reports visits and travels of local residents. D B Leonard visited Macon on Saturday Col Crum spent time in Vienna, and Dr and Mrs Wm Haslam from Pinehurst shopped Thursday. J B Edings in Vienna for several days. D M Woodward returned from Perry to visit family. Adkins and Powell enjoyed a Sunday with Pine Grove youth. Calhoun to host candy pull for Sabbath school. Powell's son married in Florida with Welborn ceremony. Claude Lawson called home Perry for ill mother. J A Smith and party visited Hawkinsville. Will Ludlam visited Pinehurst and returned with Hattie Shipp. Alliance meeting in Vienna set for April 6 to elect directors. stock representation required.
Notice from E B Barco dated March 30 1895 calls colored teachers to meet in Vienna on Saturday next to select a location for the Annual Institute. They plan to gather April 6 and will not meet at Unadilla on the second Saturday. White teachers will choose a place on the first Saturday.
Alabama farmer Jordan Holland says he solved hog and chicken cholera with a guaranteed cure tested over seven years. His daughter Rachel V Thomas of Cowarts offers the remedy, recipe, and family rights for sale with refunds. She seeks general and local agents and state and county rights.
A Kentucky ad offers a feet odor remedy promising to cure the worst cases. The product is claimed safe for delicate skin and priced at 2 cents, mailed from W F Story in Paducah.
BEAU ES. Of Spring Millinery are being received and the full line will be open by April 1st. Hats, caps, ornaments, trimmings, feathers and flowers. All the newest, prettiest and most stylish shades and shapes at prices low enough to allow every one a new spring hat or bonnet. The ladies cordially invited to call and inspect. With spring greeting. Mrs. C. V Morean.
Tax receivers notice lists multiple precincts and dates including Adkins Pinehurst Unadilla Zoar Byrorville Vienna Drayton Coney James Arabic Pinia Cordele Tippettville Findlay Clewis Fuqua and Vienna with near term book closings June 1. MO C Dunaway. T. B. D. C. WANTED. An assistant teacher to teach for a few months in Mount Vernon schoolhouse in Dooly county district 7. Applicants must state salary required. Apply to C. A. Jorxer Fuqua Dooly Co Ga.
Relief in six hours for kidney and bladder diseases through the New Great South American Kidney Cure. It relieves pain in the bladder kidneys back and urinary passages in both sexes and eases retention of water almost immediately. Sold by Ste ene Forbes Druggists Vienna Ga.
Buists Garden Seeds and Onion Sets advertises a fresh lot with guarantee of soundness. Refund offered for any seeds not sound, as stated by StrovaLL and ForBEs.
Mayer Watts & Co advertise Chicora Soluble Guano Chicora Dissolved Bone pure German Kainit and Cotton Seed Meal as high grade fertilizers. They urge buyers to obtain prices before signing guano contracts.
J F Greer County Judge of Green Cove Springs Clay Co Florida writes that after severe rheumatism he found relief using P P P Prickly Ash Poke Root and Potassium. He credits the medicine with curing blood disorders linked to kidney impurities and recommends it as a reliable purifier based on experience and science.
A compact page notes Dr Miles pain pills and nerve plasters at Penny s drugstore plus assorted household goods and seeds. It lists Jersey cows for sale and farm rent offers in Paduesh Kentucky with share cropping. Also mentions Gold Dust Washing Powder and Woolford s lotion for itching, plus School books for Dooly county and a Grist Mill service near Vienna.
Money to loan on arming lands in Dooly county on easy terms. Agent Col. W. G. Harrson can be found in Vienna from the 8th to the 13th of each month for prompt attention. Letters to Montezuma or Vienna will be answered. J. W. Haywood, Montezuma, Ga.
An notice offering loans by John H. Woodward of Vienna Georgia. Advertises money to loan on improved farm and city property in Dooly and Wilcox counties from 400 dollars up at a low rate of interest. Apply to John H. Woodward.
An advertisement touts a “Mystic Cure” for rheumatism and neuralgia claiming complete cure in 1 to 3 days with the first dose offering quick relief. Priced at 75 cents, the product is sold by Stovall & Forbes Drugists in Vienna. Also notes a commutation road tax collection schedule across multiple precincts and dates led by John B. Whitehead, Superintendent of Public Roads.
Mrs. J. W. Roberts, proprietress, announces new management of the Vienna Hotel. She pledges clean, comfortable rooms, good meals, and ample service to attract travelers and earn patrons.
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