16 Jan 1902
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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1902
Page
1
A cluster of town notices and local events unfold. The city council enacts a stock law forcing livestock off the rancho in 80 days while a new county road survey unfolds. Courts handle serious cases, including a death sentence appeal and a pardon bid, as Vienna elects officials and plans school and railroad progress. Local life moves with marriages, business shifts, and a dramatic incident as Aaron Jolly meets a violent end after misdeeds.
Mr. B. 8. Wood died Sunday at his home in the sixth district. He was the last of the Wood boys except John. A large man weighing about 225 pounds, he appeared in perfect health and was about 85 years old.
A reader in a letter to the paper argues from Acts 2 27 and other scriptures that Jesus conquered death and hell. He warns the younger generation to use a concordance, read the Bible carefully, and avoid leaders who deny an afterlife punishment while urging Christians to be Jesus witnesses.
A Georgia man who married a Ashburn woman then deserted her, later identified as C. R. Gulley or Bridges, has been jailed in Bainbridge for safekeeping. His failed multi state marriage scheme involved a first wife in North Carolina and a current wife who was lured to Mississippi. The tale raises questions of bigamy and adultery as authorities sort legal home and culpability.
The text ponders morality and responsibility amid wartime power, noting a Baltic Baltic canal project from Riga to Kherson, and reports an American manufacturer in Germany boosting output by banning beer during work. The remarks mix political doubt with industrial shifts and strategic geography.
The brightest property in Vi enna for sale by D B Thompson includes a five room residence on Church Street near G 5 F de pot with 1 to 4 acres, barn, wood-house and smoke-house priced at 1100. Four three room tenant houses near depot with water priced at 1200. One store-house on Thompson's old stand with shelves counters and bins priced at 900. Jackson gin property with tenant houses barn and one acre priced at 1000. All cash or two years on half at 7 percent interest. Stock of goods on hand and in transit priced at 1000. Ninety cents on the dollar for spot cash. One thousand dollars of notes and accounts for six hundred dollars.
Six milch cows with young calves, four mules, one fine Kentucky saddle and harness horse, three horses, and a 15 horsepower Skinner engine offered together.
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