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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1902
Page
4
Georgia Department of Agriculture reports uneven crop conditions across the state. Corn and cotton show fair prospects with increased corn area and reduced cotton, sugar cane and rice look encouraging, peaches may rise in value, while apples pears and plums falter. Grapes excel in many areas as rainfall improves drought-stricken gardens.
Extracts show barley in corn and cotton trends across counties with changes in acreage and condition. Details include Bartow cotton and corn shifts, Chattooga corn and oats, Cobb cotton and watermelons, Floyd peaches and grapes, Habersham oat declines, Richmond and Hancock crops, and Morgan to Troupe fruit yields and vineyard status.
In the middle Baldwin-Corn area acreage remains normal with a 16 percent rise in condition for cotton, while overall crop acreage drops 10 percent yet condition rises 10 percent. Oats fall 85 percent in acreage with a 26 percent gain in condition. wheat acreage down 26 percent and condition down 20 percent. Peaches reach 80 percent of a crop. Bibb-Corn shows 6 percent higher acreage and 10 percent lower condition, cotton acreage down 10 percent with a 16 percent drop in condition, oats up 10 percent in acreage but 25 percent lower in condition.
The Southern Section presents crop prospects for Appling Corn Dougherty Macon Thomas and others. Crops include cotton corn oats peaches sugar cane rice grapes and wheat with acreage changes yields and condition percentages. Peaches prospects range from 60 to 87 percent of a good crop and overall conditions vary around average to above average.
An advertisement asserts Asthmalene cures asthma instantly and permanently, claiming it works where others fail. It cites Rev. O F Wels of Villa Ridge endorsing the product and urges readers to write their name and address plainly.
Senator Platt of Connecticut says newspapers care little for completed stories. He notes journalists prefer ongoing subjects such as the Teller investigation and the Chinese exclusion bill talks. Washington Post reporters sought details after Cuba committee meetings.
Ex Senator Edward Wolcott and his brother start a law and real estate firm in Georgetown Colorado but shift to a mining camp after profits vanish. He loads belongings on a donkey with the old sign Ed Welcott & Bro. Still, miners at the new camp eye the sign and question who Ed is.
Frank R Stockton shared his famed tale The Lady or the Tiger with Rudyard Kipling at a reception. Kipling teased a jungle ending and an elephant scene, while Stockton refused a $10,000 offer to reveal the real ending.
A newly patented Swedish match claims to be dampproof enabling ignition on damp or wet hard surfaces. Inventors say it is the least poisonous match, surpassing the safety match in safety and practicality.
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