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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1893
Page
2
A string of items from New York and Georgia recounts domestic mishaps, newspaper handoffs, and political commentary. The Fort Valley press hints a change of ownership, while editorials rail at Georgia laws hindering investment and push for tax reform to ease debt, with reflections on crime and social inequity.
The piece argues that public sentiment is warped by an obsession with money making. It asserts money grants worldly leverage, prompting sacrifice of life health peace honor and virtue. It condemns crime and moral decay driven by wealth, urging reflection on these costs.
A letter praising equal tax burden urges an income tax as fairer. The writer compares a farmer paying 100 in state taxes with a neighbor worth three times as much who pays less due to non taxable bonds. He argues taxpayers with equal wealth should owe similar amounts to support state needs.
An old ad touts W L Douglas three dollar shoes with best in the world claims and dealer J O Hamilton Vienna Georgia. The rest is a volley of Georgia Dooly County legal notices seeking letters of dismission guardianship and sale of estate properties with dates in March and April 1893.
Dooly County Georgia sheriff sale notices list property to be sold on the first Tuesday in April 1893 at the courthouse for cash. Items include a steam engine and boiler woodworking machinery town lots in Unadilla a Cordele city lot tax lien property stock of goods at D L Cawley drug store and related mortgage rack pieces under various fi fas and judgments.
Dooly County Georgia announces tax sales on the first Tuesday in April 1883 for cash. Properties include land lots 77 82 111 114 143 146 176 and 175 177 in specified districts, levied to satisfy 1892 state and county taxes. Levy by J W Roberts deputy. advertisement costs $2.00.
The county will sell at public auction on the first Tuesday in June 1893 the listed wild lands in Dooly County Georgia to satisfy tax liens for 1892. Properties include Lot 100 in the 13th district, and Lots 125 135 137 in the 6th district, plus Lot 155 north east 50 acres. several parcels date to 1859 1882 1890 1891 1892. Sheriff G W Sheppard signs.
The notice details double daily Pullman sleeping car service between Macon and Palatka with through connections to Nashville and St Louis. It lists station stops from Macon to Palatka, pulling trains through Florida and Georgia, with agent signatures Burns and Knapp.
Public notice of auctions at the court house in Vienna on the first Tuesday in April to sell city lots in Cordele owed by residents. Lots across multiple blocks, including properties of R. S. Thompson J. W Walden J. E Beil H. O Miller G. E. Smith McMillan & Littlejohn Lee B. Jones Jacob Lewis A. J. Hargrove D. B. Frederick Gatewood W. Grady and others for unpaid 1891 1892 taxes per the Mayor and City Council of Cordele.
Tax sale notices announce parcels of property levied to satisfy city taxes for Cordele including lots in block 16 and the Cordele Shoe Factory. An administrator sale in Unadilla will convey lot 78 in block 15 from Julius E Peacock estate to highest bidder for cash per court order.
An advertisement touts the Georgia Business College of Macon offering to refund tuition if a course fails to satisfy. It highlights a practical program with real business experience and rapid results, citing rapid typing and bookkeeping proficiency by students and strong job placements after completion. The notice also mentions a stock transfer involving the Bank of Corlele and a dispute with Allen Fort.
A Georgia county court establishes monthly sessions on the first Wednesday of each month starting April 1893 and quarterly sessions on the first Wednesday in February May August and December each year with records kept at the Vienna Court House. No cases will be tried until 80 days from this date. Official acts dated January 23 1893 Signed U V Whitepre.
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