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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1897
Page
5
The store advertises Georgia Collard Rock Hill Buggies and New Surreys plus harness and ladies and children Oxford Ties. A broad assortment includes six dress goods like organdies in many colors, ribbons, laces, and linings. The whole shop promises fresh, desirable merchandise.
Local notes show Mr. G. W. Johns in Macon and numerous visitors from Cordele Unadilla Drayton and nearby towns. Mentions include Jno Powell Pinehurst J. D. Cobb Lee Tripp and J. M. Carmack in Vienna with social calls, fishing trips, band plans and upcoming commencements.
Local merchants advertise ice cream freezers, barber services, 10 pounds of ice for five cents, new ribbons, potash, carriage and horses, bleached materials, ladies gloves, tobacco, boys suits, Calluloid starch, stable care, raisins, laces, and Dr Miles pain pills. Abbreviated prices and shops include Penny’s, G R Mathews, J P Heard & Son, Want a Nice Carriage, Howell’s Stable, B Calhoun & Co, and D B Thompson.
Our counters, shelves and storage rooms are packed with goods. We bought heavily and half cannot be displayed. We must have room and offer thousands of dollars in dress goods. Come see the finest, most stylish pieces. $5,000 worth must be sold. Great stacks of it. Every suit perfect in workmanship and value. Hardware, Grocery, Buggy and Wagon stocks complete. Try us for bargains.
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