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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1894
Page
3
To the trade and planters of Dooly and adjoining counties we offer cash or time terms for all farm supplies in 1894. See Calhoun and Kelly at Vienna Georgia before making arrangements. We are yours to serve.
Local notes from Vienna Georgia date varied events and people. Mr Bivins of Giovania visits his brother Dr T F Bivins of Vienna is praised for the town’s thrifty people. notices cover auctions, circuses, school openings, court activity, land sales, and community updates including repairs, shipments, and community leaders.
A local group announces independence for the coming weeks after collecting six chickens two turkeys seven pounds of butter two bushels of potatoes and one bushel of meat through a subscription. A friend sent a box of spare ribs backbones sausage and cracklins. The group mocks the president's control over the Congressional Record and seed distribution.
Balilard's Obelise Flour promoted as celebrated and popular will be offered in car-load lots for bulk purchase.
Mr Willie Hogsette and Miss Bembry married on the eastern side of Dooly last week. Saturday night neighborhood youths planned a serenade but the couple, warned in time, watched from a nearby house as the merrymaking lasted two hours.
Southern Phosphate Works products are praised as the most popular and best adapted to local soils, indicating strong regional demand and effectiveness in agricultural use.
Two 1 horse farms to rent and several farms for sale across the county with easy terms, inquiries to J H Woodward Vienna Ga. Foreclosure case involving E Paulk Co Irwin county heard here with John F Powell lead counsel for Flannery Co. Auditor Sessions of Tifton presiding. Sunday School Evangelist T C Boykin will tour Houston Baptist Association mid February delivering addresses at Unadilla Harmony Pinehurst Byromville Vienna Bethel Cordele Ebenezer Mt Arabi Red Oak Ashburn and other churches with local notices urging arrangements and transportation to meetings.
Obituary notice records the deaths of Mrs Eliza Engram and Mrs M A Calhoun at the homes of their sons. Engram died Thursday last at age 80 after rearing a large family and living a life of service. Calhoun died Tuesday at a son in law's home, aged elder, laid beside her late husband at Mt Vernon church burial ground on the 17th.
The Cordele offices of Clerk and Treasurer and City Marshal were to be filled last night amid many candidates. The Loafer column names contenders including Terrible Jay-Bird Brooke known as Wind-Blown-Whiskers Brooks and Mr. D Livingston Cawley. Other names such as Cobb, Austin, Perry are mentioned as possible applicants.
A list of contenders including Farris Smith Shipp Hixon Yekle Taylor B W Scott and Col W Dunlap Scott is noted as pursuing a prestigious four free scholarships at the Georgia Alabama Business College Ma con Ga with the aim to educate a deserving youth in every county. The colonel’s candidacy promises a heated contest among 369 rivals and mentions several other aspirants such as Ben Morris Billie Thornton Frank Smith Bussey and S A Prince.
Unadilia High School will open on the second Monday in January. Prospective entrants are asked to enroll on the first day. Tuition is one dollar in advance. Miss Lucy Robberts, an experienced teacher with notable attainments, has been secured. The musical department remains under Mrs. J. D. Fraser. T. A. Coteman, Principal.
Pinehurst Academy announces the Spring Term starts Monday January 8 1894. No tuition charged. an incidental fee of 1.00 per month per pupil payable in advance. Terms available with Secretary Treasurer W O Saunders or Principal J R Horne and W L Williams.
The Farmers Supply Co urges peach growers and truck farmers to choose their high grade products, including Plowboys Brand Guano and Black Rock Dissolved Bone, claiming state analysis backing. They stock fresh bone and blood guanos and cotton seed meal, import pure kainit from Germany, and report large Southern sales. Representatives J J Lashley Vienna and Wm Short Udallilla serve Dooly County, with a calendar offer for 1894.
C T Stovall M D lists updated treatment plans and low rates with prompt 24 hour calls. Obstetrics and diseases of children are highlighted as specialties. Office located at Stovall Forbes Drug Store. The Pinehurst Georgia mercantile firm of Lewis Fleming Williams dissolves. J B Lewis and J F Fleming retire, Williams duo to continue business and assume liabilities. Dated January 11 1894. Middleton The Sweet Grape winelet December 1.
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