Local News From Vienna and Area Highlights
Col John F Powell attended Irwin Superior court in Sycamore last week. Miss Mamie Leonard returns home from Americus and Montezuma. Rev B W Davis of Americus filled his Baptist church appointment here. Bartow Smith and Nora E Brown were married at Drayton with Rev Wesley Lane officiating. E E Bailey and W B Morgan start a lumber business with a new mill two miles east of town. The Fort Valley Leader Woman's edition earns praise. Anna Hamilton of Hawkinsville awarded senior speaker at Wesleyan Female College commencements. Eli Goldwise jailed on larceny charges, case to be tried today. D H Kirk awarded contract for two story residence at Richwood. will work through summer and oversee Chattanooga houses. Ocmulgee Chatauqua in Hawkinsville now in full blast with Rev Sam Jones drawing large crowds. Viennians attending include J A Bryan, Mary and Bessie Bryan, Claude Lawson, O M Heard, Geo W Wooten, D A R Crum, J M Busbee, J D Har grove, and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marerep
Bartow Smith
Nora E. Brown
Drayton
Wesley Lane
Vienna
Mess
E. E. Bailey
W.B. Morgan
Fort Valley
Georgia
J. L. Peavy
I. Y. Peavy
Findlay
D. H. Kirk
Keil
Richwood
Kirk
Chattanooga
Tenn
J. J. West
Chickamauga
Hawkinsville
Sam Jones
J. A. Bryan
Mary
Bessie Bryan
Claude Lawson
O. M. Heard
Geo W. Wooten
D. A. R.crum
J.m.busbee
J D. Hargrove
Messrs
Will Bryant
J.F. Calhoun
J.j.lashiey
J Frank Powell
S. P. Adams
T. P Busbee
J.M. Woodward
A. P. Lennard
George B. Morgan
Powell the Grocer Promises Fine Stock At Fair Prices
A. ik. POWELL, Grocer, advertises a wide stock including canned goods, sugar, coffee, rice, flour, ham, sausage, corn, oats, bran and more. He notes that poorer grades may be cheaper at other stores but the higher quality saves in the long run by avoiding doctor visits.
Cordele Welcomes J C Hamilton & Bro General Supply
Messrs J H Hamilton and W C Hamilton of Vienna open a general supply business in Cordele as J C Hamilton & Bro. They occupy the old Alliance store of F E Varnadoe. The brothers, raised here, plan farming supplies now with banking later. Ashley E Hamilton will join them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
J. 9
W. C. Hamilton
Vienna
Cordele
J. C. Hamilton & Bro
Alliance
F. E. Varnadoe
Ashley E. Hamilton
Tison and McClung to Marry This Morning
Cards announce the marriage of A. J. Tison of Arabi to Nelie H. McClung to take place at 8 30 this morning at the home of Capt. and Mrs. J. H. McClung in Spalding. Tison editors the Arabi Express and travels in Dooly and beyond. McClung has taught at County line Academy on the Dooly Worth county line. The Progress offers hearty congratulations and wishes for a peaceful life together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Tison
Arabi
Nelie H. McClung
J. H. McClung
Spalding
Tison
Arabi Express
Dooly
Miss McClung
County Line Academy
Worth
Death of Mrs J A Smith in Hawkinsville event
Mrs Willow Smith wife of J A Smith died Sunday night at her mother Mrs S I Bell home after years of consumption The couple had recently visited Hawkinsville for treatment and improvement was hoped The procession of bereaved husband and family attended the burial in Hawkinsville yesterday afternoon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkinsville
Willow Smith
J. A. Smith
Assaulted A White Girl in County Jail Arrest
Sam King described as a mean negro with aliases was jailed last Tuesday on a charge of assault with intent to ravish Hattie Smith, a 13 year old white girl living with Mr Turner Jackson near town. He hid in a room, threatened the girl, fled but was captured, arraigned before Judge G Lasseter and bound over to the Superior Court under a $500 bond. Col Jno F Powell prosecuted, Cols Busbee Crum defended. Community outrage noted. justice to run its course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam King
Hattie Smith
Turner Jackson
King
G. Lasseter
Superior Court
Col. Jno. F. Powell
Cols. Busbee
Crum
Rascal
Pine Grove News Notes and Community Happenings
Farmers plant crops and Memorial Day observances mark a busy period in Pine Grove. Rev H V Golden preaches and a large crowd attends church. Miss Stella Ray beats the Chatauqua at Hawkinsville. A cricketing joke and fish fry hint at local amusements while a baseball team forms at Wesley. Marriage of Jno Culpepper and Gertrude Sanders noted with congratulations and a warning about vandalism to a schoolhouse door followed by a legal reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Ansley
Oakfield
H. V. Golden
Stella Ray
Hawkinsville
Cox and Butler
Mt. Vernon
Doolng Dos Spring Farm News In A Rural Note
Spring weather brings a green tint to the fields and cotton appears. The local school maintains steady progress and plans a fish fry soon. Editor invited to join. C E Jenkins loses a Jersey cow after the rope entangled and the animal fell. Zoar singing exercises draw interest every third Sunday. Many visitors attend Cross school house singing. Mail route to be extended from Montezuma to Vienna via Stillwell and Spalding. Railroad facilities remain a top priority for the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Jenkins
Frank
the Cross School
Montezuma
Vienna
Burgh
Stillwell
Spalding
Powell Grocer Warns of Impurities in Food
A. L. Powell, grocer, cautions that impure substances can be hidden in attractive packaging or odors, but will reveal themselves through disease.
The Stroller’s Variety Show and Vienna Lodge News
The Stroller previews a festive Variety Show with satirical scenes and phonograph gossip, then notes Vienna youths forming a local Vendetta lodge of the Coming Men of America. It advertises a July 4 event, a Dooly Confederate veterans reunion, and teases a sign about spittoon etiquette in a shop doorway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Vendetta
Grocer ALL. POWELL Promotes Glass and Crockery Ware
All Powell the grocer advertises fine glass and crockery ware for table use and adornment. He offers toilet basins for bedrooms and urges customers to visit his establishment to compare prices, promising courteous attention and a chance to see pretty lamps.
Fractured Ad Text Prompts Unusual Protest Tour
A fragment shows a defiant line Please violate the rule and references loafers obeying a merchant. The bizarre phrasing hints at a satirical or coded protest, with a note about carrying pocket spittoons as a possible street remark or inside joke.
Thompson proposes expanded depot warehouse at Morgan Davis site
Dr. Thompson announces plans to enlarge the depot warehouse last season run by Morgan Davis & Co. He pledges a general warehousing service with a 25 cent bale weigh and deliver fee, free depot delivery if unsold, wagon to depot insured, and no charge where no sale occurs, shipping to any desired destination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan, Davis & Co
Thompson
Local business ads mix medicines and goods in Paducah markets
The page lists Dr Miles pain pills and nerve plasters, Penny store groceries and meats, J D Cobb Co shoes hats and dress goods, a peculiar ladies book, and other items. It promotes Penny as meat and groceries supplier with low prices, Royal Supply Co. advertisements, and assorted items such as baking powder, tobacco, dress goods, shepherd puppies, school books, and farm equipment for sale in Cordele Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pub. Co
Paducah
Cou Hess
Union Pub. Company
Miles
Royal Supply Co
Kentucky
Mayer Watts & Co. Spring Goods Offer
Tripped up by buying elsewhere before seeing our line. Dress goods are cheap and pretty while the nation department is full of bargains. Gents furnishing goods are elegant with tasty styles and prices down to the low water mark. Mayer Watts & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Cobb & Co
Nation Department
Mayer, Watts & Co
Relief in Six Hours by New Great South American Kidney Cure
Distressing kidney and bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the New Great South American Kidney Cure. It relieves bladder and kidney pain, back pain, and urinary passage discomfort in both men and women. It often eases water retention and passing pain almost immediately. Sold by Stovall & Forbes, Druggists, Vienna, Ga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stovall & Forbes
Vienna
I Cure Stinking Feet Remedy Ad
An advertisement claims a remedy will cure the worst stinking feet with a safe method that won’t damage skin. It promises relief by mail for a price of 2 cents and provides W. F. Story in Paducah Kentucky as the address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Story
Padneah
Kentucky
Money to Loan for Dooly and Wilcox Property
Advertises loans on improved farm and city property in Dooly and Wilcox counties. Amounts from 400 dollars at a low rate. Apply to John H. Woodward in Vienna Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dooly and
Wilcox
John H. Woodward
Vienna
Tax Receiver's Notice Adkins Precinct Dates Listed
Tax receivers list precincts and dates including Adkins Lindsay Pinehurst Unadilla Zoar Byromville Vienna Drayton Coney Ny Arabi Pinnace Cordele Tippettville Findlay Clewis Fuqualay Vienna May 30th 31st and June 1st Books close June 1st Mo C Dunaway T Br Dc
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Adkins
Lindsay
Pinehurst
Unadilla
Zoar
Byromville
Vienna
Aa & GB
Drayton We
Coney
James Oo Ny
Arabi
Pinnace Ts
Cordele
Tippettville
P. M. Findlay
Dog Gland Cure Advertised for Skin Diseases
An old advertisement touts a remedy claimed to cure mange scratches and other dog skin ailments within 30 minutes. Sold by Srovary & Forses, the product is promoted as faster than any known cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Srovary & Forses
Nervine Cures Chronic Nervousness Says Mrs Wood
Mrs M Wood of Ringgood Illinois credits Dr Miles Nervine with curing her chronic nervousness and sleeplessness after three months use. The advertisement touts a guarantee and pricing: one bottle at $1, six for $5, with prepaid delivery from the Br Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
Atlanta Business University advertised as advanced business school
The Atlanta Business University claims to be the South's leading advanced business school with graduates from other colleges, offering bookkeeping banking shorthand mathematics penmanship commercial law elocution and other commercial branches taught by professionally trained teachers. Applicants can contact secretary R. J. Maclean at Whitenall Street, Atlanta, Georgia for full particulars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Business University
Advanced Business School
South
R. J. Maclean
Whitenall St
Atlanta
Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and Neuralgia Sold in Vienna
The advertisement proclaims a fast cure titled Mystic Cure for rheumatism and neuralgia claiming relief in 1 to 3 days. It asserts the medicine removes the cause and causes immediate disappearance of the disease after the first dose, offered for 75 cents and sold by Stovall & Forbes Drugists in Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stovall & Forbes Drugists
Vienna
Prominent resident testifies to Hog Cholera Cure
A Dooly County resident endorses William Hall's Hog Cholera Cure, claiming four years of successful use and urging neighbors to buy from Stovall and Forbes. The testimonial, published in Vienna Georgia, notes the product from The William Hall Medicine Co. of St Louis and emphasizes following directions for best results.
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Dooly County
Wm. Hall
M. F. Rushin
Stovall & Forbes
Wm. Halls
Wm. Hall Medicine Co
St Louis
T. T. Morgan
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A. L. Powell
Grocer
The
Col Jno. F. Powell
Irwin Superior Court
Sycamore
J. B. Forehand
Fuqua
Chatauqua
Institute
Mamie Leonard
Americus
B. W. Davis
Baptist Church
H. B. Whitsette
Lady of
Cordelo
Communications
Draytog
Pine Grove News
Laura
Minnie Dorming
Willie Scarborough
Annie Hill
H. E. Pearce
Annie Lee Boatright
D. D. Pearce
Georgia Boatright
J. Q. Smith
Ada Brown
R. O. Powell
Lucy Hill
J. E. Smith
Mattie Pearce
Rome Hogsette
Friendship
Jno. Culpepper
Gertrude Sanders
Jeff Sanders
Houston County
Judge Sanders
Tom
Bessie Patrick
W. E. Trippe
J. M. Horne
Little Creek
Ville
Confederate Veterans of
All. Powell
Oxford
J.P. Heard & Son
C. V. Morgan
Penny
J_D_ Cobb & Co
Z_T
Dr. Price
North Carolina
Big Buck
Lucille
Lucy Hinton
San Francisco
J. D, Gobb & Co
Central Stables
J. F. Waters
Woolford
F. E. Varnedoe
Ders
Whitehead
J. M. Whitehead
Winchester
Wnchester Repeating
Winchester Ave
New Havens Con
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