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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1893
Page
3
Mayer Watts Co advertises relief for hard times, claiming to offer winter goods at unusually low prices with cash on hand enabling cheaper stock. It urges customers not to be misled by shoddy products and invites them to compare quality and price.
A local retailer touts a large stock of latest fabrics and colors in solid, reliable goods. Prices are cut to fit customers' purses, inviting shoppers to take advantage of reduced costs on a broad selection.
A local shop heralds its notions department as full of useful articles. It promises unmatched assortments, urging customers to inspect the mammoth stock of shoes and hats to discover the best and most affordable lines in town.
A local department store touts wide variety of suits from cheap work wear to wedding outfits and claims the best prices south of New York on stylish overcoats in any weight. The copy emphasizes value and breadth of selection for all kinds of customers.
This piece touts rapid practical business training at Ga A l a Business College in Macon Georgia. It claims six to twelve weeks of study in book keeping telegraphy or shorthand can lead to positions paying 50 to 75 dollars monthly. It notes cheap terms and urges writing to Mess Wyatt and Martin for immediate enrollment.
Vienna letters recount tax book closings, upcoming holidays, store sales, and community events. Mentions Powell Bros groceries and candied confections, Willis Co. Christmas offers, and a half holiday for The Progress. Local visits, horse trades, school board actions, and a forthcoming Masonic installation are noted along with Christmas readings and church entertainments.
Pure sweet Grape Wine offered for sale by Middleton and Thompson. Advertisement dated December 1 at 3 p.m. requests inquiries to Thompson.
A. J. Blount and J. L. Peavy returned from Unadilla Wednesday after completing a neat painting job for Mrs. S F Horne. Blount also finished painting Mr. R L Barfield’s new residence near Snow and now works for Mr. J F Calhoun.
A fragmented notice states a carload of young horses and mules arrived and a large stock in market with other stock and prices. It reports the dissolution of the firm Edwards & Doughtry by mutual consent with L J Doughtry retiring and A Edwards collecting debts and assuming liabilities on November 11, 1893.
A local crowd proposes a ticket for mayor and aldermen including Russell Kellam and four others. The Board of Education in Vienna GA announces it will on the first Thursday in January 1894 divide Dooly County into school districts for the 1894 year and warns patrons to delay teacher contracts awaiting public school fund benefits.
Unadilla High School announces honor roll recipients including Emmet Graham Virgil O Harvard Marvin Harvard Euan Harvard Edgar Moore Noah Saunders James L McCarthy Willie Leggette Cobb Sumerford Anthony Pate Lena Smith Maggie Horne Eva Henderson Bettie Hill Brantley Pate Ida Sumerfod Lon Griggs and primary department honorees Belle Wilson Mary Brown Laura Kate Pate Susie Hall.
The old Methodist church is secured and a contract closed with Prof. H. C. Brown of Midway Academy to teach in Vienna next year. Brown is known county wide as an efficient teacher. Patrons expect a school of at least 75 pupils and many boarding pupils may accompany him.
A heavy rain and wind swept through the northern and western parts of the county Saturday causing extensive damage. In Fuqua and Byromville wind toppled timber and fences, rattling houses and frightening residents as lights flickered and windows blown. Drayton bore the brunt with several homes left roofless.
Mrs. C. V. Morcay promotes buying stylish new hats and millinery as Christmas gifts for wife and children, arguing against cheap secondhand stock and urging customers to choose quality at fair prices. She promises best, most stylish goods at economical rates.
C T Stovall MD physician and surgeon offers latest approved treatments with guaranteed low rates. Calls answered promptly day and night. Specializes in obstetrics and diseases of children. Office located at Stovall and Forbes Drug Store.
Important to farmers in 1894 the Farmers Supply Co advertises Plowboys Brand Guano as top fertilizer and Black Rock Dissolved Bone as best acid phosphate in Georgia. The State Chemist supports this in circular analyses. They stock fresh bone guano cot ton seed meal and more and claim direct import from Germany of pure kainit. Represented in Dooly County by J J Lashley Vienna and William Short Unadilla. Office 458 Third St Macon Ga.
A festive promotional note from Christ mas goods retailer Powell Bros announcing Xmas boxes toys fireworks fruit nuts raisins candies and a complete stock of items at headquarters. It invites friends to inspect and states will pack boxes and offer competitive prices.
The paper corrects prior reporting on a safe burglary at Mr. S Manuel’s Unadilla office. Burglars pried a side window, watched Manuel at the safe, and took about $100, split as $60 for John Crumpler and $40 for Manuel. A $30 envelope was left behind. No suspect identified.
Advertises taking cotton seed corn fodder peas meal potatoes wood syrup turkeys chickens eggs and all kinds of country produce on subscription at market prices. Encourages renewals or new subscribers to bring any edible or usable item and will allow market price for it.
The readable text shows garbled OCR data with scattered tokens such as punod sad and OZ names, rendering a coherent event title impossible. No clear persons places dates or organizations emerge to summarize into a factual card.
Death came swiftly to Mrs C H Branch after a period of critical illness. Her mother Mrs Luke G Johnson and father Mr Johnson, both aged, traveled to her bedside from Danielsville to offer support before she died. Mrs Johnson’s passing, attributed to La Grippe, stunned the town as her husband and two sons mourn the loss and bring home the sorrowful remnant of wife and mother.
Practical instruction program in four departments offers full year operation. Students may complete courses at any institution. Graduates assisted to positions. For full particulars write to Wyatt and Martin in Montgomery Alabama.
275 acres well improved with 3 tenant houses and wells water, located on Montezuma and Vienna road five miles above Vienna on Penehatchee creek. Borders T.T. Morgan south Elihu Walton east. public road west. Also 185 acres fine land with 2 tenant houses and wells water on Penehatchee creek joining J. E. DeVaughn south Wm. Minor west J. N. Sumerford east. For particulars apply to or address.
Notice to teachers to file all reports in the Commissioner’s office by the tenth of December with separate counts for fall and spring attendees. Teachers who failed to send excuses for non-attendance at institutes must address it, or face fines. The Board of Education will meet Tuesday December 12 to wind up the year and teachers will settle on Wednesday December 20. November 11, 1893. O P Swearingen C8 C.
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