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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1893
Page
2
The town reels over reorganizing plans for the Central railroad amid cabinet shifts and political friction. News notes Washington and Atlanta power plays, labor strikes, pension disputes, and a Kansas legislative split in a tense week.
The piece notes Cleveland Progress and cities like Charleston Savannah and Brunswick now enjoy export rates equal to New York, signaling benefits for southern ports and adjacent states. It urges railroads to back port growth to save money for the region and spur prosperity.
The piece argues that pension expenditures rival a large standing army and compares southern payments to French war indemnities, urging suppression of fraudulent names and corruption in pension lists. It cites Judge Keiley and Atlanta Constitution warnings, then includes notices of guardians sale and administrator settlement in Georgia.
State officials plan a state school census with enumerators paid two dollars per day. March first meeting sets territory, compensation, and duties for enumerators to count children aged six to eighteen between March 15 and May 20.
A historical column denounces immigrants as a troublesome class in American cities. It claims foreigners disrupt Sabbath observance, drink, sports, and social order, sponsoring chaos, discontent, and even disease, while blaming the nation for becoming a dumping ground for the world.
Judge A M Keiley, brother to Rev B J Keiley of Atlanta, writes from Cairo Egypt to the Nation with a bold view of Southern people as contributors to a pension fund grown large under the Harrison administration. The piece suggests prominent fraud and criticizes official handling.
On the first Tuesday in March 1892 the Cordele Shoe Factory assets including machines and equipment will be sold at the courthouse in Vienna for cash to satisfy three Superior Court writs. Additional parcels include a house lot in Cordele and several town lots in block 46, all levied against J T Cobb and G E Smith as described, with multiple notices dated February 6th. Sheriff C. W. Sheppard oversees proceedings.
Scrambled OCR shows train schedule fragments for Ga Southern and Florida R R with arrival times around 125 and 209 P.M., connections and conductors listed as Burns and A C Knapp. Includes Macon Georgia traffic manager and route details, but text is garbled and partial.
A series of notices from Dooly and Doo ty counties in Georgia detail applications for administration and estate settlements. It lists D. L. F. Peacock seeking leave to sell J. E. Peacock real estate, G H Tommy seeking permanent administration for Ada Tommey, and appraisers’ reports on four-year support and widow or minor allowances for Walden, Pruluck, and Jackson estates with hearings set for early March.
Notice to all whom it may concern. Creditors of Julius Peacock deceased must settle immediately and claimants should present their claims as law requires. D. L. F. Peacock administrator dated Feb 6 1592. In Georgia Dooty County a separate filing seeks a year’s support for Margaret B Horne widow and two minor children. report to be reviewed on the first Monday in March.
U V Wartz, judge of the County Court in Vienna Georgia, appoints the first Wednesday monthly sessions beginning April 1593 and quarterly sessions on specific Wednesdays February May August and November each year. Papers and dockets kept at the Vienna Court House. No cases tried until nine days from this date. January 23 1893.
Petitioners seek incorporation as The Fullington Barfield Company for twenty years with perpetual succession. Principal offices at Pinehurst Georgia, power to own real estate and conduct general merchandise business, capital stock two thousand dollars, bylaws and board of directors to govern operations, annual stockholder meetings, and a general manager to manage daily affairs.
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