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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1894
Page
3
A physician and surgeon will continue practice at the same location in Vienna Georgia. Allocations from the former residence will be promptly attended. Special attention given obstetrics and diseases peculiar to women. All calls answered day or night. Office over Willis and Co store.
Unadilla and Vienna merchants tout coffins for sale and Hardey wares, paint and glassware for houses, crockery lines, and a broad mix of sales pitches. Letters note long trips, hogs and cows on streets, seeds, dressmaking, and a gubernatorial talk as crops and textiles drive local business.
Calhoun Baltiarids Obelise is advertised as a celebrated flour, promoted for carriage of car-load lots, highlighting its popularity and accessibility in bulk orders.
The article extols the products of the Southern Phosphate Works as the most popular and best suited to local soils, highlighting their proven effectiveness for agricultural use and soil health.
The firm of Lewis Fleming Williams dissolved mutually. J B Lewis and J F Fleming retire, their interest bought by W L Williams and M E Williams, who will continue the business, assume liabilities and collect debts. Dated January 11 1894.
Rev. T. C. Boykin, a long time Sunday School evangelist, will deliver an address at the Baptist church here Wednesday night. The message is urged for all ages to attend and fill the house, promising a rewarding experience for listeners.
Pinehurst merchants and farmers W L and M E Williams killed a 520 pound gross hog last week yielding 458 pounds of meat and 100 pounds of lard. They run substantial farm interests and are noted for large home supplies with fine stock horses cows and hogs.
February honor roll features a long list of Misses Bettie Hill Lena Smith Lalia Griggs Ida Sumerford Stella Raiford Eva Henderson Gussie Mason Carrie Johnson Mattie Tharpe Susie Lowery Ella McCarty Hattie Pattishall and Mess Virgil Harvard Noah Sanders Alfonso Harvard James McCarty Brantley Ivey Walter Hall Emmett Graham Chas Hall Brantley Pate Bertram Saunders with Primary Department members Lizzie Lane Laura Pate Dean Saunders Ava Johnson Mary Brown Louise Lowery Bill Wilson
List of uncalled letters with names and entities including W. J. Harvard postmaster and Miss Lizzie Jackson and Miss Mamie Taylor. Note advises patrons to ask for advertised letters. One foreign language letter from Nagy Mihaly.
In Unadilla three boys Nichols Graham and Johnson played a makeshift game for oranges to settle who would pay. Nichols led 14 to 12 to 10 before Johnson exited first Graham next and Nichols quit as others stopped. The scene required the scavenger cart to clear hulls from the sidewalk.
Dr Maury M Stapler, specialist in eye ear nose throat and lungs, practices at 6 Cherry Street Macon Georgia, referencing Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital in New York.
At the brides parents home, Miss Mattie Carmack married John H. Pitts of Arabi. Later at Teelock, Miss Della Carmack and John U Powell wed with Judge J D Hargrove officiating. Both brides praised as amiable, well regarded, and part of respected families with wide friend networks.
In Drayton the forecast hints at a late spring while recent days were ideal and vegetation improves. Local residents Miss T J Ray and C W Ansley visited Americus, Mrs Ray and Morgan toured Vienna, and Miss Mamie Lewis with Mrs H J Morgan went to Montezuma. Justice court met last Saturday with Cols Wooten and Harvard in a lively dispute before Judge H J Morgan. Some bachelors still woo. others plan changes as warmth increases.
The county offices face a likely six or more candidates for representatives and other contested posts. M. E. Rushin thanks voters for three terms as Collector but will not run again. Prof. E G Greene is urged to apply, with Sheriff and Clerk races still shaping up. Names like Capt. S. W. Coney Mayor J B Scott and Jno C Owen are mentioned as potential entrants amid talk of fun in Doolyay. Miss Jeannie Morgan is noted in passing.
Miss Jeannie Moneas offers dressmaking with the Taylor system and French fit, removing the need for trying on. After taking measurements she delivers a guaranteed perfect fit in any dress style, along with ladies underwear on short notice and stamping. Residence work at Fifth Street.
The February number of The Southern Temperance Magazine is a thirty-two page monthly with a full table of contents. Editor Rev J A Scarboro writes on The Christian Citizen Plans and Opinions and notes. Walter B Hill outlines Extinction of the Liquor Traffic from a speech in Augusta. Rev Thomas Dixon on The Saloon. Rev Sam P Jones on Shoulder Hits against liquor. Mrs Mary Lathrop on Woman's Mission. Dr Talmage sermon praised. What Prohibitionists Say is a full department. Upcoming March will feature The Negro and the Liquor Traffic by Rev J B Gambrell D D Mercer University. April will present The Saloon Behind City Walls by Rev W A Candler D D Oxford College. Dr Candler praised as fearless. publication described as large and neat, price $1.00 per year, ten cents a copy. address Macazine Atlanta Georgia.
The firm Pate McKenzie Co dissolved by mutual consent on January 26 1894 in Cordele Georgia with J S Pate C L M McKenzie and W M Smith signing. A free scholarship offer from Georgia Alabama Business College Macon Ga promises education in the Souths leading institution to a worthy youth from any county.
Dr C T Stovall outlines the latest approved treatment plans with guarantees of low rates. Calls answered promptly day and night. Obstetrics and diseases of children are specialties. Office located at Stovall and Forbes Drug Store.
Middleton and Thompson advertise pure grape wine for sale with a sale date set for December 1. D B Thompson signs the notice.
The Sullington & Barfield Co invites customers to inspect their bright new stock in Georgia. They advertise high grade fertilizers and savings, promising personalized service and a large on hand supply to aid this year's crop.
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