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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1896
Page
8
Multiple legal notices for Dooly County Georgia detailing sheriff sale actions, guardianships, administrations, and filings. Auctions include 150 bushels corn and 1500 pounds fodder, lot 144 in district 18, and 125 acres in two lots. Names include J B Morgan, J T Taylor, W J Pate, J W Dinkins Jr, and G B Dinkins. Dates set for first Tuesday in March 1896 with cash terms, various estates, and court orders.
Court order directs sale at court house door in Dooly County Georgia on the first Tuesday in March. Property described as one third of lot 188 in the 3rd district containing about 67.5 acres. Sold as property of John H. Pate deceased, terms cash. January 27 1896 executors R O Pate McClendon Pate. Also notice of divorce service by publication in Vienna Progress Georgia for Benton Strange case.
City marshal sells city lots 3 and 4 in Block 45 owned by Americus Ice Co for 1895 city taxes, plus lot 3 in Block 98 owned by George Deans for 1895 taxes, and lots 4 and 5 in Block 112 owned by E B Gunn for 1893 taxes, all at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in March 1896. W H Bussey, marshal.
Notice to contractors bids will be received until March 10 1896 to build three bridges one over Miners Creek at the old mill site in ninth district one over Cedar Creek five miles southwest of Cordele and one over Swift Creek near Pitts old mill in the fourteenth district plans and specs available at Ordinarys office February 15 1896 J D Hargrove D D C Cordele Ga Also legal notices set apart and assign year support and furniture for the estate of Mrs N B Woodward minor children Mary J Lucius L Carrie S Emmie B Woodward report due March 24 1896 and similar notice for Hiram Peavy widow and seven minor children with same deadline Our Druggist Stovalls Forbes advertises Chamberlains Cough Remedy and a March 21 1896 school bonds election for Cordele with fifty bonds of 100 each to run twenty years at 6 percent and ballot wording For Public Schools Against Public Schools For Bonds Against Bonds R C Harris Mayor Cordell Ga Feb 16 1896
Black Creek New York ex postmaster D Wiley suffered rheumatism and used canes. After applying Chamberlains Pain Balm he improved enough to discard the canes. He claims the balm did more for him than all other medicines and treatments combined. Sold by Stovall Forbes Druggist for 50 cents.
Public sale under a 1893 mortgage to John A Pitts promises to sell a ware house and two Arabi town lots Nos 119 and 120 in Block 16 fronting Railroad Avenue. Sale planned for first Tuesday in March 1896 at Vienna Court House, to cover 1618?5 pounds of middling lint cotton and $864.24 due plus 10 percent attorneys fee. proceeds first cover debt and costs, remainder to Pitts or heirs. American Fertilizer Co. attorney A V Whipple announces title will be granted to buyer.
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway launches fastest Pullman route from Macon to Tampa with daylight crossing the Suwannee River. A $10 prize for the best name is offered by G A Macdonald, with entrants asked to submit paper and date along with names of Florida visitors.
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