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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1901
Page
8
A Home and Warm writer describes a cheap rat control method using carbon disulfide sold as high life. Place in several large mouth bottles around a bin. rats and other pests flee from the odor and relocate while the carbon remains.
To the Public. Those owning lots in the Vienna Cemetery will please present their deeds to me, so I can mark their names on their lot on the cemetery map, thereby prohibiting any mis take in the future sales of cemetery lote. BM Woop, Clerk, and Treasurer. March 1901.
Sal offered one hundred fifty bushels of the famous Russell Big Boll Cotton Seed. The seed is guaranteed pure strain and from last year’s crop. Price is five to ten bushel lots at 500 per bushel.
Notice to the Public that street tax payments are open and due by April 10, 1901. BM. Wood, Clerk and Treasurer, issues the directive and warns readers to govern themselves accordingly. G. Siggers, patent lawyer, Washington, advertised as an experienced attorney, recommends visiting his office to obtain application blanks for patent filings.
A confusing notice list orders dog owners to pay a town dog tax or dispose of their dog. It also calls white teachers to attend a countywide Chautauqua Institute in Albany on April 22 with fines for nonattendance and offers boarding at reduced rates. Also announces a train departure in Cordele on April 20 for Sunday services and includes probate notice authorizing sale of various lots in Cordele to pay debts and distribute estates.
Tax Receiver lists precinct collection dates from April through May for numerous towns, followed by court orders to sell real estate in Dooly and Terrell counties. Notices include guardianships, discharges, and applications to sell wards property, with sale details and dates through May 1901. Names include JG Elder deceased, LJ Elder, Carol Woodward, Sarah J Latrisey, George Latrisey, H Z Taylor, Sallie M Mattie J Hand Maxy A Cross, J H Cross, and Dooly county officials.
Dissolution notices and court announcements from Dooly County Georgia dated March 16 1901 list appraisers who set apart a year’s support and furniture for Sallie Purvis minors Graham Tulla Homer and Ola Lee Purvis with report review on April 17 and similar note for Richard Roberts widow and child. Also GR Matthews Co dissolves partnership and debt settlement urged with GP Matthews and JP Calhoun as agents.
A brief advert notes we do not sell cheap ready made paints, mocking market looting. It invites customers to provide ready mixed paint and promises to blend pure linseed oil and white seed to produce a superior, cheaper alternative than the so called ready mixed paints sold.
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