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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
3
Sunday through Tuesday visits and small town events are listed, detailing residents traveling to Atlanta Pinehurst and Macon, weddings, shop openings, weather, community notices, and a grand melon gifted to the Progress. The column notes postmaster changes and a Baptist church strike of lightning.
The Vienna Cotton Oil Co invites farmers to have their cotton seed ginned and sold. They promise good ginning service and the highest market price for seed through January 31.
An advertisement appeals to cotton seed sellers to maximize returns, noting multiple buyers including a local oil mill and promising the highest cash price to secure a favorable market and abundant harvest.
A brief line from D B Thompson ends with a reminder not to sell seed before reaching Vienna. The fragmentary item mentions seed selling and Vienna without additional context or dates.
The author praises figs as healthful and delicious with potential to become a national craze. Mention is made of figs on Atlanta stands and a gift of figs from Guilford Gunter, recalling childhood visits to fig bushes and the viability of fig trees trained to single trunks for shade and fruit. Describes early bearing in Vienna nursery and compares to peaches and pears in demand.
Mrs W T Cox aged 30 dies Saturday leaving a wife and five children. She was one of nine children of Mr and Mrs R Bb Lane and their first loss. She is buried at the Lane graveyard with her brother J R C Lane of Big Wheel attending with his family.
Mr Jim Barker aged 50 died Friday from paralysia after being taken at 5 AM and living four hours He was buried at Wesley Chapel Saturday The piece also offers whimsical questions about pitching mechanics attire and fashion styles in a satirical aside.
J Frank Powell reports a five ounce gain during a sojourn at the springs. H D Smith and wife of Vienna visited the city Sunday. he edits the Vienna Progress and returned Monday. Mrs. Smith will stay a month to recover her health, lodging with Mrs. O M Barnes on Lawrence street.
An ad touts Smith's Kidney Cure promising kidney health benefits and urges readers to try a bottle sold for 50 cents by Vienna Drug Co.
The Gunter case upholds the trial court ruling with Judge Littlejohn presiding in Dooly Superior Court. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment denying a new trial, sentencing Guilford Gunter to three years in the chain gang. Mrs Spears, widow of the man killed, sues for $20,000 damages in Crum’s care.
Prof. Chas Powell invites job seekers to his shop offering top quality tensorial artistry. He also appeals to country customers to bring razors for sharpening during court week by a professional artist.
Mrs. Mahala Jenks of Neosho county Kansas awoke from a nap imagining misfortune befalling her Illinois farmer father. Two days later a letter confirmed all the family were well, contradicting the dream.
The Vienna Cotton Oil Co announces purchase of cotton seed and guarantees first class service. They have bought a Liddell Double-Box Steam Packing Steam Tramping Square Press and will install it to gin round or square bales as soon as it arrives. They offer the highest cash price for cotton seed.
D B Thompson announces ICE will be delivered promptly in fifty pound lots between six and eight in the morning anywhere in the city between the railroads and branches. No nickel pieces will be sold. If you have tickets after the 15th, call to cash them. He will stop the nickel trade and take his wagon off after the 15th.
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