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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1893
Page
2
The Vienna Progress collects local July 4 reflections and updates from readers. Rain boosts corn prospects, shipments of melons pass through town, and Pine Ridge church hosts a large gathering. Local socials include weddings and millinery notices while civic items cover jail break attempts and a baptism reunion. Community life, family milestones, and shop moves mark the week.
The note expresses gratitude to David M. Woodard for a 40 pound melon and a box of apples given last week. The writer emphasizes their obligations and appreciation for his kind gesture.
The Progress office has moved from its old stand over Planter's Warehouse after five years and now occupies space above Stovall & Forbes' drug store. They offer larger, more convenient quarters and invite friends to visit the new offices to see increased facilities.
Late Saturday a deal between Mess Joe M Fields and J E Howell led to Howell purchasing Fields livery business. B P Howell will supervise operations for J F Waters, as they seek liberal patronage from friends and the public. When you need a team, see them.
At a Vienna Seminary board meeting last Wednesday Prof. W. J. Heard was re-elected principal for another year. Trustees praised the renewed leadership and pledged to work harder for the school, noting Heard’s untiring efforts to make the school successful.
Mrs. B W Davis wife of Reverend B W Davis Baptist pastor at Cordele and Vienna died at their Cordele home after several weeks illness. She leaves eight children and a grieving husband. Vienna friends join the Progress in offering sympathy.
A birthday dinner hosted by Mr J P Heard honored his 46th mile post birthday. Relatives and friends attended as fruit lemonade and other refreshments were served. His brothers James M Bailey A Jake F John H and Walter J Heard presented a gold headed cane, speech by Dr John H Heard of Rutland Ga, recipient heartfelt reply and best wishes for many happy returns.
Notice states a white and red speckled mull headed unmarked yearling heifer about two years old strayed onto R A Wilson's property five miles north of Vienna. Owner urged to claim.
Under a Superior Court order in Dooly County Georgia a sale is set for Saturday July 22 1893 at 11 am at the Sinquefield mill west of Richwood now owned by the Fenn Lumber Co. Items to be sold include a 20 horsepower portable engine and boiler a 35 horsepower return tubular boiler a saw mill thirty five feet of carriage log carts and other fixtures. The property is the Fenn Lumber Co property. Terms of sale to be announced at the sale. A E Cotwelt Fenn Ga.
Pinehurst Georgia merchants tout a wide assortment of goods with low prices on tin tops fruit jars sugar and coffee. They invite customers to trade chickens eggs hides and tallow at market prices and promise savings and service at their Pinehurst store.
Can Serve you Now. never has so much trouble been taken and expense incurred in Vienna to prepare a neat place for ladies to trade millinery. First season with increased line of Hats, Trimmings, Flowers, Gloves, Corsets, Hosiery, Umbrellas and more. See goods before you buy elsewhere.
A playful verse portrays brave crocuses as winter messengers eager to report spring. They brave the cold, wear fur coats, and recount a bluebird’s claim that spring is here, though the narrator questions the timing and fate of their message.
In December 1850 a traveling clerk forgets his valise and boards a delayed train to Glasgow. Snowbound at Carlisle he discovers his valise holds a stranger’s papers and a manuscript by Ches ter Sylvanus Richardson. The tale details mistaken ownership and the mystery of how the bag came to mislead him.
A traveling professor, mistaken for a famed scholar, is escorted to a warm welcome by Mr. Lincoln and family. He delivers a creditable lecture that earns praise, while Miss Lily's charm and the risk of exposure loom. Afterward, he contemplates confessing, but chooses a cautious silence and plans to retrieve his bag by telegraph.
A dramatic tale recalls a deception during a visit to Lincoln and Lily, where a man posing as a professor sends a telegram, flees to Glasgow, and later reunites with Miss Lily as Rochester. The account blends theater intrigue with a volatile wave of personal folly and eventual reconciliation.
Notice to debtors and creditors of estates in Dooly County Georgia dated May and June 1893. Administrators C A Horne and J D Hargrove seek dismissal from estates of S F Horne M A Horne and Mrs M A Horne with letters of dismission to be granted on the first Monday in September 1893 after all demands are presented or payment made.
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