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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1902
Page
2
A town column lists residents and visitors including F M Farfield of Pinehurst with pneumonia and J W Carner in Richwood. Mentions of school teachers, local correspondents, a protracted meeting by evangelist Thomas Leach, nursery men scouting the area, and progress on Scarborough Forest warehouse with completion anticipated in weeks.
A verse from Vienna Georgia voices caution about heavy cotton planting. It urges farmers to store grain and meat to ensure survival if cotton prices fall, stressing faithful work and prudent farming to keep a full barn.
Grand jurors for February in Dooley Superior Court were drawn. Listed jurors include G W Slayden MT Lanier J C Cooper J C Mercer Allen Owens XH Davis W J Musselwhite J M Ward R C Harris J H Henders on W B Seymore Z Harden J R Darfield W I Byrom O P Swear engin HW Powell J T Brown DT Mashburn F M Stripling Jack Bridges 11M Williamson John Pate HW Campbell J R Horne J Jt Morgan J T Westbrook Z I Penny W R Harris A J Dunaway T H Gregory.
A long list of jurors summoned for the first week appears, naming many individuals including King, Thompson, Peacock, Page, Peavy, Slade, Bryant, Pearce, and others, with several repetitions and variations in initials and suffixes.
The Gainesville Eagle praises Justice's Jackson County Nursery and J H Williamson along with Billy Harrison for selling fine nursery stock. It notes Mr Anderson Logan bought about 150 worth of stock for a country place near Athens road and warns readers against fraudulent nurseries selling worthless stock.
Mrs. Daniel and daughter Nellie visit relatives in Dooly county. Ed McKenzie of Cordele visits sister Mrs. A H Perry. Mrs. W N McKenzie of Arabi and Mrs. George McKenzie of Cordele guest here this week. Woodson Tolen sends a double melted hog carcass curiosity to the office.
In Macon, Charlie Franklin, 62, who served 21 years for a murder he says he did not commit, confronted ex-defender Washington Dessau and explained the case. He recalled the real killer confessed on his deathbed, details of prison life, and his role building the Macon to Rome railroad segment.
J A Lasseter closed out the balance of his goods to A Wells who will move them to a store on a large farm near Drayton. Wells is described as a prominent citizen of Dooly.
D B Thompson offers Cotton Seed Meal Acid Phosphate Kainit and Ammoniated Guano for sale to customers. J R Horne Pinehurst Ga advertises two fine milk cows with calves about two weeks old.
Notice lists several properties including a residence on Church Street with five rooms and 11-4 acres plus a barn wood-house and smoke-house priced at 1100 dollars. Also four three-room tenant houses near the depot with water at 1200 dollars and a store-house lot 30 by 80 at 900 dollars. An old Jackson gin property with two tenant houses a barn and one acre priced at 1000 dollars. Terms cash or two years on half the amount at 7 percent interest. Stock on hand and in transit 1000 dollars. Ninety cents on the dollar for spot cash with notes and accounts for 600 dollars.
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