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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1895
Page
3
Weekly Wednesday evening gathering at the Baptist church begins promptly at 6:30. The meeting offers interest and benefit to young men and invites all to attend.
A list of lawyers practicing in Vienna Georgia announces a new law office on Cotton Street near the New Court House. D L Henderson W W Harvard Graperson and Harvard advertise services in all state courts and federal courts in Macon and Savannah, with dates noted as 3-13-94. Also listed are A V Whipple Martin and Whipple, G W Busper D A R Crum J M Busbee, detailing practice before Ordinary Court and various circuits.
Watts and Howell Physicians and Surgeons advertise service to Drayton citizens offering 24 hour response. The Vienna Georgia office emphasizes obstetrics and diseases peculiar to women with prompt calls day or night and offices above W C Willis & Co Store.
Dr W H Whipple physician and surgeon specializes in surgery obstetrics diseases in our climate and diseases of women and children. Offices over W C Willis Co store. All calls attended promptly day or night. Night calls at Judge A V Whipple's residence.
An assorted fragment lists dentists Dr J M Whitehead Dr Williams and Dr Maury M Stapler with offices in Cordele and Macon Georgia and a watch repair service by W Thigpen at Vienna Racket Store. It promises prompt service and satisfaction and notes recent move back to Vienna.
Local items recount Vienna visits by prominent citizens, court actions, and sales. A 16 month pig weighing 377 pounds is noted, plus school attendance at Dooly County, dental practice signals, marriage license mishaps, and community deaths. Also mentions a Findlay receivers sale and a dramatic hot brick accident.
Postmaster Harvard received a postal card last week bearing a request to post a message in a public place. The inscription is signed by William Bodiford from Braidentown Florida and mentions James Roland and family.
The Vienna School now stands as the largest in Dooly County with over 100 pupils. To meet growing needs, an additional teacher was added, Miss Claude Lawson, a highly accomplished young lady from Perry, to the faculty.
Cards announce the marriage of Mr. D. A. Taylor and Miss Clara McKenzie of Pateville to be held this evening at the Baptist church in Arabi. The couple are prominent and receiving early congratulations from friends. Progress offers felicitations. Electric lighting debated as town considers electric lamps and possible connection with Parratt Lumber Co. dynamo plants nearby. The council urged to investigate the issue.
The Cordele community is urged to join a Progressive push for a new schoolhouse though the Cordele Sentinel objects. A Times-Recorder report recounts a bizarre attempted revival of Will Murray by superstitious locals, with a witchcraft style vigil and wrongfully accused acts surrounding the deceased.
A Kentucky horse dealer sought payment from a Dooly county farmer for a note of 380 dollars, dated before the war. The note was thought canceled but resurfaced when a collector’s search failed, then was found by the farmer who had since moved to Houston county. The farmer paid the note with interest.
Dooley Superior Court juror list includes AF Ware BB Pound DLF Peacock Zack Hardin Willis Johnson Sr BP Howell BSPate JPHearn KM Patterson LNobles TJRayJdCGMercerRWhiteheadWJ Musselwhite Jacob RobertsJH Morgan i Williams Jr JnoR SmithLC AveretteFM StriplingJRB BarfieldHR BrownRL BrownLee BJonesJnoT BrownJABroxtonFMBarfield 8J Hill JEYowell JOHamilton Traverse Jury first week includes JWBivinsJosR WilliamsGH RainesJnoDFaulkJHRainesJMV WilliamsCCWilliams Jus PopeJJ PeavyRLMcKenzieCE JenkinsMV PeavyWA GreerJA TisonJnoH ForehandJ A FennCI PowellJCTra cy JesseC PeavyTL PowellRM RainesHM PowellCH EverettJMM PipkinsJoeJ WilliamsCA SandersRH Pate JrJnoH PittsGeoWFloydJH BedgoodMH ReevesJF ButlerJM ConnerAD BridgesDG QuattlebaumJna Crumpler 2nd week includes JAPeavyS ManuelJasTBrownWillisJohnson JrJJCouperWHJollyJos BurnsWB LockJBB MusselwhiteLMashburnFJ Moore8JSheppardJosMorelandJrABJohnsonHM WilliamsonJM GrahamJnoW JonesN J GranthemWBFLillyHRFennWBJohnsonWHallAE JordanJT HooksEL ThomasJI JohnsonJnoFJoinerOF HerringE8JohnsonCE HamiltonJE FokesJrBFPeavyHL FingerTI EngramSRFennCary Josey
Chicago vocal teacher Prof D C McAllister testifies after suffering Grippe for over a year he used Germetier with satisfactory results and calls it a great remedy. Dr Kings Royal Germetuer is sold by Stovall Forbes at six for $5.
Central Alliance Co operative Company stockholders are asked to meet at their Hall in Vienna Ga on Saturday 16 inst at 100 clock A M. Business of importance demands attention and stockholders are urged to attend. Also notices of in office after the 13 inst and various local advertisements appear in this stretch.
An old newspaper page carries ads for a pure grape cream of tartar powder claiming 40 years standard, Stovall and Forbes promoting school books in Dooly county and a veterinarian remedy for horses. The Atlanta Business University advertises advanced business training with courses in bookkeeping shorthand and elocution inviting inquiries to R. J. Maclean in Atlanta.
A Peekskill militia camp incident ends with a sentry halting his own wife at the guard line. The corporal recognizes the couple from their hometown as the wife pleads for closeness and the husband jokes about having his way since marriage. Also noted are a yarn about jury duty dodge and a court scene where a man hears his own name called, then learns a funeral oblique twist.
The Vienna circuit will convene its first quarterly conference at the Vienna Methodist Church on Saturday and Sunday February 16 and 17. All officials are requested to be at their posts on Saturday. Wester Lang P. c.
Nine times out of ten when we are out of sorts our troubles can be removed by that reliable old medicine. The column extols a familiar remedy and hints at its enduring usefulness for everyday ills.
Advertisement extols Brown's Iron Bitters for over twenty years curing dyspepsia biliousness malaria impure blood neuralgia headache liver and kidney troubles. Praised as strength giver from zoona and vegetable remedies, it claims benefits for women and children, non staining to teeth and non constipating.Contact details and free book offer included.
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