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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1893
Page
3
Early melons ripen as crops flourish in Vienna area. Key notices urge attendance at the Vienna Seminary closing, while shopping ads promote Hunt & Powell goods, K G groceries, and J P Heard shoes. Local social updates include visits, farm progress, and upcoming railroad schedule changes.
At 104 years old Micajah Owens nears life’s end as relatives gather around his Wilcox area home. He has long resided there and now grows feeble with age, his candle nearly burning out.
To the Ladies I make a specialty of shampooing ladies hair and trimming bangs Will call at your home Work guaranteed satisfactory All orders attended promptly Your patronage solicited Charley Powerle Tonsorial Artist Vienna Ga
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 expanded lines in hats, trimmings, flowers, ribbons, gloves, fans, corsets, hosiery, umbrellas, baby caps. See goods before you buy elsewhere.
Mr C W Varnedee reported ripe melons on June 12 and hog cholera hit the community with many deaths. Our school closed on the 8th and pupils anticipate a pleasant break. Miss Nina Godwin returned home Friday after closing her school Thursday and she leaves with the affection of her pupils and their guardians.
Mrs. Willie Mims died at her home 24 miles south of Vienna from heart disease. She was the daughter of Mr W A J Hall of near Snow and leaves a bereaved husband and two young children. The Progress extends sympathy to the family.
Request offers profit from peaches and apples by making pure cider with no chemicals using juice and sugar, costing 12 cents per gallon, sold 65 cents to $1 per gallon. Citing M R Ellis who produced 1350 gallons last year. Health claim by physicians. Apply to J C Lewis or J R Kerry, Vienna Georgia.
Mr. T. A. Musselwhite of the 11th district says the ProG kess is essential and plans to keep using it. He notes no one in his neighborhood has run up store accounts this year and praises crop prospects, saying he has lived at his home 57 years. Uncle Tom, as friends call him, predicts continued success for the area.
On Thursday afternoon June 15 I lost a card case pocket book between Willis and Co and Calhoun and Kelly's stores. It contained two five dollar bills a Thomasville Georgia cigar advertisement and a note payable to Standard Manufactory and Commission Co Savannah Georgia made by Nettie Holloman Scotland Georgia. Reward for return to L Brows Jr.
Mr S T Woodward found his horse dead in a ditch after grazing in the pasture last Sunday night. Mrs J M Taubert, visiting relatives in Houston county, returned home last Wednesday. Mrs Miller of Athens, visiting her daughter Mrs W N Edenfield, returned home last week. Miss Elma Roberts of Byromville plans a visit this week. A local says the nearest way to Snow is via Wade Lowery’s place. Wash Williams and family attended Hawkinsville school closing exercises last week and reported a good time. Ichanop Crane.
In Richwood the community mourns a national disaster in Washington D C last Friday blamed on officer negligence. The text links the Ford's Theatre collapse to a coincidental parallel with Lincoln's assassination and Edwin Booth’s burial, framing it as a profound calamity and a reminder of history.
The paper notes its advertising medium drives attention in Dooly. It cites a prior issue urging a democratic postmaster appointment for Cordele and reports J. M. Davis was named to replace M. G. Hall, highlighting the Progress as influential with the administration.
A prisoner known as Lord Beresford, once seen in Georgia’s cities and claiming English nobility, serves a six year sentence in a Georgia prison. He is housed at Kramer camp, five miles west of Abbeville, working as a lumber checker while under state supervision.
An advertisement endorses Brown's Iron Bitters as a tonic for children and adults, claiming it seeds vigor, builds strength, and cures malaria and indigestion in a pleasant formula.
In Drayton a late night elopement joined a couple with the consent of the bride's mother, taking place at Judge H. J. Morgan's home. The town notes social calls, visitors from Mt. Vernon Findlay Snow and Coney, and playful gossip about local fortunes and invitations to 4th of July dinners.
Bulletin invites customers to inspect a large drug and patent medicine line at the Blue Store in Vienna. It touts fair pricing, low markups, and a guarantee on goods, listing many remedies and everyday items with discounted prices and urging customers to compare with rival shops. Dr T P McKearan signs the notice from 734 i.
Community hopes for a strong crop with good prices. A concert at Unadilla school featured Professor Coleman and assistant Miss Griffith, earning praise. Gossip touches on a furlough for a young man, a potential new warehouse, and locals like J R Amison of Fenn visiting from Fenn. A warning to improve behavior from Rafe.
Stovall and Forbes claim to lead the town and surrounding area in selling drugs and medicines at full strength, fresh and pure. They tout lower prices than any competitor and compare their savings to easy long loans, urging buyers to act now.
A Pinehurst Georgia general store reports steady trade and strong prices amid hard times. The ad lists rice, sugar, coffee, starch, jars, glassware, lamps, oil, and assorted dry goods, inviting customers to inspect goods and promising fair prices and quick payment for farm produce. It notes the store buys chickens, eggs, and tallow at market prices and signs as Friarsdon BarrFiero Co., Dealers in General Merchandise. Also includes miscellaneous notes on unrelated items such as a kitten injured by a flywheel, Egypt sewage concession, funeral vanity, and Scandinavian population figures in U.S. cities.
Notice is given that a general examination will be held for applicants for teacher's license on Saturday June 24. The meeting place is the Vienna school building by 9 a m. This notice is dated June 8 1893 and signed by O P Swearingen C S C.
Old Snow remains busy as rain dampens activity while General Green presses on. Mr and Mrs Clewis mourn the loss of their six week old babe. The local school closed last Friday as fruit ripening hints at seasonal change and social invite plans surface.
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