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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1901
Page
8
A jumble of local items from Vienna and Cordele covers churchgoers and missions, social calls, and town happenings. Mentions Mrs Evans and family visiting, teaching music, Miss Nina Davies in town, and a push for Waycross Airline railroad expansion toward Cordele.
Inventors are told G Siggers a Washington patent lawyer with 21 years of practice and owner of the Inventive Age has sent application blanks and papers. He is referenced in Dun and Bradstreet reports and invites inventors to call at this office to save time before filing patents through other sources.
Notice to dog owners to pay dog tax or dispose of the dog. The annual meeting of the Women’s Home Mission Society of the South Georgia conference will be held at the Vienna Methodist church from Friday March 29 to Monday April 1. Rev J H Wray of Cuthbert will preach the sermon at 11 o’clock on Sunday March 31. Public invited to attend. Vienna March 28. Vienna reports three buildings burned, with several new starts forthcoming.
The speaker endorses Beauty Forbes as the worthy successor in the drug trade and urges patrons and the public to support him, promising fair treatment and complete satisfaction. Also reports a small fire at the Roberts Hotel children’s playhouse, which caused lively excitement but no injuries, with no insurance.
In Dooly County Georgia the appraisers of Sallie Malina Purvis estate report for year support and furniture for minor children Graham C Tulla Homer and Ola Lee Purvis to be passed upon on April 17 1901. Also Richard Roberts estate report for widow Tula N Roberts and child Richard A Roberts to be reviewed on April 17 1901. Ice house notice states ice available after tomorrow and delivery by wagon. store thanks the public for past patronage.
The Vienna town council met March 25 1901 with Mayor W T McDonald and Aldermen P G McDonald W Thigpen and J J Cooper. They reported work on Fourth Street from church to Pine and amended ordinances to set one dollar dog impounding costs with portions to marshal and clerk and treasurer, owner pays and town bears no liability. A white woman in Irwin County was sentenced to ten months chain gang for adultery with a six month old baby. There is talk of private subscription to cover the fine.
The notice claims lower prices on paints and linseed oil with Crown Brand oil at 80c per gallon. It rejects ready mixed paints, offering to mix pure linseed oil and white lead to produce a superior, cheaper paint than marketed ready mixes.
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