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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1904
Page
2
The Ashburn newspaper announces a cost saving resize for summer months and states Mr. O. B. Brady is employed after seven years with the paper. Brady has thirty years of printing office experience and will help restore the paper to its former size and quality.
The community reports schedule changes at the A and B and other local notes. Farmers discuss prospects for a good crop while residents visit Porter Springs Vienna and Montezuma. A. M. Lewis named game warden for Dooly county. several marriages and social events noted including Alvin Roberts and Faye Worde. A school excursion train to Mayon arrives late with passengers.
Mr Bayaden of North Carolina promotes a New State Survey project to benefit citizens if supported. Metz Joiner, a popular boy preacher, travels the county attracting crowds and praise. Contractor J Q Shipp starts Monday on the second story of J B Coopers brick block, adding eight offices and a storage room with three stairs and an elevator, boosting property value. The Rochelle New Era urges every county teacher to subscribe, but notes teachers rarely take the paper.
English actor Charles Warner, vacationing in Georgia, arrives in Vienna to perform Friday night at Heard's opera house with wife and Miss Blanche Keene and Mr. Kent Stanley. He will present The Heart of a Woman and The New Faust and show a moving picture of the Battle of Port Arthur. Seats are 10 and 15 cents.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in August next at the court house in the county to the highest bidder for cash. The property includes 25 acres of land at the southwest corner of 101 and 14 acres of land in lot 116 in the 9th district. Levied on as the property of Della F. Brown to satisfy an execution from Macon Superior Court in favor of J. H. Graves for the use of officers court. Tenant in possession notified by law. G. W. SHEPPARD, Sheriff.
An advertisement extols Dr Carlisle's Liver Pills as an intelligent, superior remedy for torpid liver dyspepsia indigestion sick headache constipation colds and malarial poison in the blood. It claims universal medical approval and includes directions for dosage and purification of the stomach and liver in a southern climate.
Lamar Gray of Macon Georgia advertises coffins caskets and robes with adjustable deposits to invest in a quality outfit. Customers are told to leave orders at Progress office and that shipments will go by next train with prices starting at three dollars.
Reward offered to any person who cleans and presses my clothes or who brings in Bill. Good, neat, clean work and reasonable prices. Office phone 88 and residence 92 Governs Ernest.
Ideal country property 25 miles northwest of Gainesville in Burtsboro. Features include 800 acres of rich farmland with 1600 apple trees in bearing age and 400 peach trees loaded with fruit, plus other produce. Also a 30 horsepower steam saw mill and a Dr. R M Carlisle line advertised. For sale through local druggists.
An old city notice advertises barber shop services and urges readers to send 50 cents for a Lips to Agents circular offering $50 to sellers. It also lists multiple employment solicitations for faithful agents, traveling reps, and industrious personnel, with salary, expenses, and self-addressed envelope details from firms in Decatur and Chicago.
A promotional notice extols the Dr White Electric Comb and Dr White's Electric Hair Bry claiming to stop dandruff hair loss and headaches with use. It touts widespread sales and offers samples and agents with pricing details, presenting a period advertising pitch for a 1900s beauty gadget.
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