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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1894
Page
3
Local notices report Willis Co offering discounts on dresses and shoes plus trains for 48 cents, fresh beef deliveries, and a camp meeting starting August 6. Community updates include visits, health, crops, baptisms, and political campaigning by local candidates and speakers.
The fall term begins Monday August 13. Tuition is 1.00 per month payable monthly. Best instruction system. Community healthy and moral. Board reasonable. Complete satisfaction given. H C Brown Principal Vienna Georgia.
Preparations for a record cotton crop include Lasseter and Smith sharing duties at Planters Warehouse, Forehand Roberts leasing Farmers Warehouse with Varnedoe as salesman, the Alliance Warehouse led by Erihu Walton, D B Thompson converting the old grist mill into a warehouse, and Vienna promising a larger handling of cotton next season as buyers arrange large quantities.
The annual Dooly campmeeting starts next Monday night and runs through the week with tents full. Trustees and ministers express enthusiasm for a large, ongoing crowd, many attending day and night, and several prominent ministers will be present to heighten the spiritual tone of the event.
J G Thurman thanks unnamed supporters for kindness after his recent fire losses. He asks God to bless all who aided him and hopes their misfortunes may be alleviated by sympathy and acts of kindness.
All young ladies of Dooly County are urged to appear at Vienna on Tuesday August 7 at 9 oclock to take the entrance examination for the Georgia Normal and Industrial College. Exams cover Arithmetics English Grammar Geography and History. Applicants must be at least fourteen. The next session starts September 12, 1894. For catalogues write J Harris Chappell President Milledgeville Ga. Q O Swearingen
Ike Tippecotty, on his way to work near the corporate post, heard infant cries and uncovered a freshly dug grave. A newborn girl lay buried and alive, her mother confessed, saying she hid the child to conceal it. The act is described as a diabolical attempt at infanticide.
The Arabi Express reports on R A Bedgood’s 200 acres in cultivation plus 100 acres cleared new ground. He grows corn cotton potatoes sugar cane and ground peas to fatten meat. He aims for about fifty bales of cotton from seventy acres, with some tracts yielding a bale per acre. Farmers push improved methods to keep up with state progress.
An old advertisement touts BRGWH'S IRON BITTERS as a cure for indigestion nervousness malaise and general debility with notes that physicians recommend it and that all dealers sell the product. The item highlights a genuine mark and a crossed red wrapper.
J A Bryan announces new management for Vienna Institute promising a premier high school with strong literary and vocal instrumental music programs. Miss Sadie Bess Bryan will supervise the musical department. tuition remains 1.50 to 2.50 per class. School starts first Monday in September with firm but mild discipline.
A reader condemns a preacher who veered from his sermon to insult immersion baptism as indecent. The letter argues the preacher should apologize publicly, defend the faith without slurs, and avoid casting odium on women exercising conscience. Signers include T. J. Ray and multiple associates.
Hard earned money and dress patterns offered with yardage and large stock of dry goods lawn and dress goods at cost. Nice negligee shirts laundried shirts white and colored suspenders. Gent's furnishing goods cheap. Ladies and children's shoes and slippers at low prices. Hardware 20 percent off. Fresh groceries Bellvue Syrup 40c per gallon. Prices marked to move goods with little or no profit. Come and see.
A Ringwood Illinois resident credits Dr Miles Nervine with ending chronic nervousness and insomnia after three months of use. The letter extols relief from nervous headaches and praises the product, noting the company’s guarantee and pricing of one dollar per bottle. Purchase options include six bottles or prepaid shipment by Bir Miles Medical Co.
Don’t idle this summer or attend another school. Consider Georgia Alabama Business College in Macon Georgia for summer programs. Learn about accommodations and opportunities. Write for full particulars.
Pinehurst Institute announces the fall term begins Monday August 13 1864 with tuition one dollar per month payable in advance. Describes good facilities, healthy moral community, and inexpensive board with full instruction in all branches. For details contact W. C. Sacypers. Also advertises Woolford's Sanitary Lotion claims cure for mange on horses dogs and stock, sold by Stevall and Forbes Druggists.
A local notice announces a price strike on millinery goods as Mrs. C. V. Morcay offers hats, gloves, handkerchiefs, and lace items at substantial reductions. Items include hats reduced from 4.00 to 2.50 and other apparel cut to half price for thirty days to close summer and spring stock.
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