Local Gunners Report Doves and Local Candidacies
Locals and personals note Florence Hamilton visiting relatives in Hawkinsville and Rev. M. Kelly preaching at Mt Veron. Candidate announcements include Ordinary Hargrove for re election and Judge A. V. Whipple for representative. A break in at Mr Coney’s store is mentioned along with Mrs C V Morgan’s Atlanta trip for millinery openings. Pinehurst Sunday School convention planned with hospitality committee coordinating homes for delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hargrove
G. W. Coney
Coney
B.D Brown
Unadilla
Brown
Ed. Frank Powell
Superior Court
Powell
Virginia
Fannie Morgan
Judge Fish
Jude Fish
C. V. Morgan
Atlanta
Tax Receiver Plans Reelection After Florida Photo Training
The official, after months in Madison, Florida, learning photography to launch a Cordele gallery next fall, says he will return around the 20th as the fish season ends and will run again for Tax Receiver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Fla
New York
Cordele
Payment of Subscriptions Arriving at Progressive Paper
The Progress offers to accept corn meat peas chickens eggs or other farm surplus as payment for subscriptions this spring. If money is scarce provisions can be given as payment, removing excuses for not subscribing.
Swell At Home Reception Highlights County Social Scene
Honor roll includes Vianna Posie Sexeck Buford Bryan Watts Powell Ernest Stovall Jake Heard Ollie Smith Bettie Rushin Mary D. Roberts Nathan Powell Eddie Fenn Powell Buny Owez Ora Morgan Price Heard John Hargrove Jerome Varnedee Myrtis Everett Ruby Burns Kate Taylor Grady Whitehead Frankie Davies Lizzie Harvard Miss Mamie hosts a grand At Home at D. B. Leonard residence with Nettie Young of Montezuma as guest. Carol's Orchestra of Macon provides music and upscale refreshments. Attendants wear full evening dress and hospitality is generous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buford Bryan
Watts Powell
Ernest Stovall
Jake Heard
Ollie Smith
Bettie Rushin
Mary D. Roberts
Nathan Powell
Eddie Fenn Powell
Buny Owez
Ora Morgan
Price Heard
John Hargrove
Jerome Varnedee
Myrtis Everett
Ruby Burns
Kate Taylor
Grady Whitehead
Frankie Davies
Lizzie Harvard
D. B. Leonard
Mamie
Nettie Young
Montezuma
Carol
Macon
Spring and Summer Dress Goods and Accessories Sale
A line of dress goods including Gismonda Silks La Belle Crepon Vivette Batestie Gypsy Bunting Dimities Calicoes and more. Belt buckles pins handkerchiefs hair ornaments 10 and 15 cents undervests shirts and other clothing items. New hats and miscellaneous merchandise offered at low prices. Call to compare prices before buying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gismonda
Farm loan offer with 8 percent first mortgage options
An ad reveals brokers in New York can place loans secured by a first mortgage on improved farm lands for five years at 8 percent interest. Costs include small brokerage and abstract/inspection fees borne by the borrower. Also notes a testimonial for Chamberlain's Pain Balm relieving rheumatism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vienna
Local ads tout goods and medicines from Heard & Son and Dr. Miles
A collage of local business notices promotes Heard & Son shops selling shoes corsets hosiery carpets and dry goods and touts Dr Miles Pain Pills and Mystic Cure for rheumatism and headaches. It also references J F Calhoun & Co garden seeds midwest grocers Stovall & Forbes Druggists and Justice Court blanks with a tease of upcoming dress goods and trimmings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Anthony
Promise City
Iowa
Stovall & Forbes
J. P. Heard & Son
Chamberlains Cough Remedy Popular with Druggists
A local canvass finds Chamberlains medicines, especially Cough Remedy, leading throat and croup treatments. The Kimball Graph notes repeated success after other medicines failed, and Stovall Forbes Druggists offer it at 25 and 50 cents. Tax Collector J B Scott states tax rounds for voter registration with Mr Dunaway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stovall & Forbes Druggist
Cedar Creek School Social and Local Notices
Deputy Sheppard and Bailiff Yeomans searched for unknowns last Friday, a widow possibly involved. Dora Mieses and Lula Lockett of Cordele visited Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McAfee last Sunday. Masons will conduct burial rites for Rev. F. Lewis at Coney this Sunday. Mr. GC Bass and wife of Cork visited Mr. A Bowen and W. F. McAfee Friday. Candidates proliferate in the area, prompting roads to be doubletracked. An old fashioned log rolling and quilting was held at Mr. W. P H. Smith’s house last Saturday with a fine dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheppard
Yeomans
Cordele
George
Mieses Dora
Lula Lockett
W. F. McAfee
F. &. Lewis
Coney
Lost Deeds for Land Lots Near Warwick Georgia
Wim. Clements reports lost or stolen land deeds from his residence near Warwick Georgia for lots 86 107 and fractional lots 99 100 128 126 with a deed to 100 or 125 covering the whole lot. He warns against trading the deeds and offers a liberal reward for return by March 12 1896.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwick Ga
Basher & Sons Continuing Powells Stand Mortgage Sale
G W Basher and Sons announce continuation of the Powells stand with a large line of dry goods notions shoes hats gents furnishings hardware tinware groceries and more for the retail trade to be closed out at cost. They offer fertilizer prices they claim beat competitors and invite consultations before 1896 contracts.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Florence Hamilton
Hawkinsville
3. M. Kelly
Mt. Veron
Pinehurst
Jas. A. Williams
J.L. Causey
Willie Ludlam
Vianna Posie Sexeck
Calhoun
Dooly and Wilcox
J.H. Woodward
Geo. A. Mills
Lebanon
Conn
D.B. Thompson
Heard & Son
J. F. Calhoun & Co
Miles
D. B. Thompson
Jlack House
J.P. Heard & Son
Abbotts FA
Spring Hill
JF. Calhoun’ & Co
Ladies, Gents and Childrens Hose Se
J. F.calhoun & Co
Miles P. Pee OM al Paia
Dr. Miles
Henry
J. F Calhoun & Co
P. Heard & Son
Ike L. Hall
West Lebanon
Indiana
Chamberlain
Justice Court
Progress Office
W. Thigpen
J. B. Scott
D. C
Cedar Creek School
Wim. Clements
P.G. McDonalo
J. B- McDonald P
G. McDonald &Co
P.G. McDonald & Co
Vienna, and
Findlay, Ga
G. Busbee
G. W. Basher & Sons
Vienna, Ga
G. W
Busbee & Sons
Farmers Supply Co
A.C. Felton, Jr
Mg’r
Macon, GA
Feltons
Jeff .D. Cobb
Mr. Wm. Short
A. C. Felton
Eliot &T
Soston, Bass
New Plymouth Rock Co
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