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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1896
Page
5
Locals and personal items describe weather woes, health updates, visits, and small town goings on. Several residents and visitors, including Mrs J J Lashley and Miss Irma Swearingen, are noted with illnesses and travels. The piece mentions court, school debates, trout fishing, railway ticket sales, and church repairs amid a drought affecting cotton.
A basket picnic is announced to be held at the old field near the residence of Judge G. I. Lasseter on Saturday May 2 1896. Everyone is invited to attend and bring well filled baskets.
Local merchants advertise shoes shirts and edging while promoting patent medicines. Calhoun Co touts Dr Miles pills DeWitt's salve and Mystic Cure for rheumatism. Stovall Forbes sell for sale scholarships and Pain Balm relief with a business college offer nearby.
Vienna Georgia retailer urges readers to visit store to compare goods and prices with competitors. Promises to show merchandise and offer favorable prices, inviting smart shopping choices.
A house used to bag cotton at the Cordele factory burned on Tuesday. Loss estimated around 300 dollars. If not controlled quickly, the blaze could have spread to the entire plant.
Rates include matriculation fifty cents monthly for residents and one dollar for non residents. Music three dollars monthly. Public fund entitlement exclusions charged one dollar monthly. Fees due first of each month. Apply to John E Howell ex officio Treasurer for admission tickets and catalogue. The district promotes graded plans with church facilities artesian water and a first class public school system.
The shop advertises low prices on calico through pieces at 5 cents and up, ginghams 6 cents and up, pet cale 7 cents and up, Virgitte Bataste 6 cents and up, Dimities 8 cents and up, ladies undervests 5 cents and up, gents overshirts 20 cents and up, gents dress shirts 50 cents and up. Also gypsy hunting 5 cents and up, ladies belting and buckles cheap, hats 25 cents and up, plus a full line of shoes, hardware, tinware, groceries, and a supply trade specialty.
We are agents for Stephens Bros. & Co. of Stephens Pottery in Georgia and now stock Vienna with a large assortment of sewer and drainage pipe from gin to 24 inches in diameter, stove flues, urns, pots, and more. Visit STOVALL & FORBES in Vienna, Georgia for prices.
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