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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1900
Page
5
Items recount the post primary mood and local happenings including weddings, church events, a charitable burial, a new church building dedication planned near Mount Pleasant, and social notices from Cordele Sentinel. Mentions F J Lewis, Minnie L Powell, Rev. L A Cooper, and Stovall's drug store with community ice cream reception.
A 60 dose vegetable tonic named LAMAW LEMON LAXATIVE promises to cure hundreds and relieve headaches constipation indigestion and liver disorders. Marketed as prompt gentle and purely vegetable it is offered by all druggists with a sale price of 50 cents.
WDurely personal Prof. 0. M. Hail of Pima visited friends here Sunday. Miss Emmis Roberts has returned from Wesleyan college at Macon. Miss Annie Wooten of Eastman, is the lovely guest of Mrs. W. W. Jordan. Dr. J. M. Whitehead spent last week at Kerns doing dental work. Gus Jordan and family spent a day recently with Farmer A. Horne. Gus reports an excellent crop. Miss Mary Webb, school teacher of Sandy sronnt, visited Col. John Fy Powell’s family Sunday. Col. G. W. Wooten left for Morgan county to attend his father’s funeral. a brother and a niece died in Albany recently. A note urges inviting boarding young men to the Bocooh Haven picnic next Thursday, arguing for thoughtful hospitality to prevent loneliness.
One good seven year old family horse and a new Rock Hilltop buggy plus two second hand open buggies for sale. Bargain price offered by PG Bussie of Vienna Georgia.
Vienna town council invites bids to furnish wood for the Water Works. Bids will be received up to the evening of Monday May 28. R Kurds serves as clerk in the bidding process.
The piece lists a B Y P U program led by R O Powell on May 20 1900 including scripture reading song service and a Rev L A Cooper talk. It also advertises goods from Jordan Bros and D B Thompson in East Vienna including flour Capitoa and silk parasols plus millinery at Mrs E G Whiton's and Bennett Scarborough selling flour and groceries.
A bustling local ad for Jay's Grocery highlights low prices on okra, tomatoes, canned meats, peaches, fish, mustard, oats, shredded coconut, pork and beans, coffee, flour, prunes, and crackers. The note emphasizes high quality, a full stock, and the owner’s eagerness to win customer trust with strong value.
The store proclaims a full dry goods supply including calicoes 3c to 5c, lawns 4c to 10c, organdies 10c to 20c, cotton ducks, welts, laces, embroideries, matting, curtains, and a wide range of shoes, hats, notions, hardware, groceries, cigars, and tobacco. Goods arriving daily with circulars and next week’s addenda from Smith & Raker.
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