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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1893
Page
3
Mayer Watts Co promotes affordable winter goods by highlighting hard times. They claim to offer better prices due to cash on hand from stock sellers and urge customers to avoid shoddy products, inviting shoppers to compare quality and prices.
A local dry goods store advertises a large carefully selected stock of modern fabrics in solid colors and all around good quality. Prices are stated as cut to fit customers’ purses.
This department is full of such articles as are most useful and of a thousand and one things that you would never think we carried unless you come and see them. It is nothing but pleasure to show our goods.
Are our delight, for we know we have the greatest and best as sortments in town. You mey think you are getting a bargain but you have greatly missed it if you buy without looking through our mammoth stack. In Shoes and Hats they don't get up better, prettier or cheaper lines than we carry.
A local retailer touts a wide range of suits for every style and budget from workwear to wedding outfits. The department highlights Quercoats overcoats in various weights and styles, promising stylish garments at lower prices than anywhere south of New York.
A local retailer announces a large furniture stock from common to finest 16th century and antique oak bedroom suites. Prices are marked as affordable during hard times, inviting customers to consult before buying for any household need.
All parties indebted to the estate of John Truluck deceased are hereby notified to come forward and make immediate settlement. Mrs. D. L. Truluck. F. W. Truluck. D. L. Truluck. Executors.
A notice offering to negotiate loans on improved farm lands in Dooly County at a low interest rate. Interested parties should address or apply to Joan H. Woopwakrp, Attorney and Real Estate Agent, Vienna, Georgia.
An employment pitch from the Georgia Alabama Business College in Macon Georgia, touted as the Souths leading practical training school. It offers two to three month graduation, lifetime open admissions for men and women, and guarantees practical instruction at lower cost than rivals.
Vienna’s notices include court attendance, sheriff sale ads, and a bustling Cotton market rise. Local merchants promote jeans, ginghams, shirtings, and cassimers at low prices as ties to Arabi and Cordele visits appear. community chatter covers auctions, auctions prices, loans, well water droughts, and social doings.
Elder Thos J Bazemore, after finishing in Echeconnee, will fill appointments in the Pulaski Association from Friday the 17th at Sharon through December 1 at Salem and beyond Union and other associations. He is described as a good humble preacher and will need conveyance. a Vienna stop is likely.
A visiting group joins Mr Henry R Fenn for a possum day meal at his home as they ride through scenic woods. The dinner features possum pie yellow yams and country fare with chickens ducks hogs and dairy goods. The day ends with a cordial invitation to return and thanks to Mrs Collier and Mrs Fenn.
A letter from Georgia representatives reveals a bill to create a Cordele City Court with a county wide monthly superior court, requiring court houses, an appointed judge paid 1000 dollars yearly, and salaries for sheriff, clerk, and jurors. Citizens fear increased county expenses and oppose expanding courts beyond Cordele.
Located in Unadilla, Dr. W S Johnson, one of the oldest and most popular physicians of Pulaski county, has recently moved to Unadilla for the practice of medicine. The Progress notes he will have a pleasant home and a liberal practice in Georgia.
Good Farms For Sale listing 275 acres well improved with three tenant houses and water wells on Montezuma and Vienna road five miles above Vienna on Penehatchee creek joins IT. T. Morgan South Elihu Walton East public road. 185 acres fine land two tenant houses with wells joining J. E. DeVaughn South Wm. Minor West J. N. Sumerford East. For particulars apply Wa. Sumerford Vienna Ga.
Notice states strong satisfaction with previous fertilizer quality and highlights plans to supply large quantities for 1894. Emphasizes crop results and financial risk borne by dealers, warns customers to beware of unreliable strangers and to support domestic suppliers for dependable harvests.
Dr C T Stovall presents the latest approved treatment plans in Vienna Georgia. Rates guaranteed low and calls answered promptly day and night. Specializes in obstetrics and diseases of children with office at Stovall and Forbes Drug Store.
A political tirade argues against a cigarette ban as a threat to state prosperity and immigration. It warns the senate to oppose the measure with urgency. The piece also notes Georgia State Prison demographics, citing 2,168 convicts with 36 percent under 20.
Seeing is Believing. You know a stylish hat when you see it and you know a cheap one when you price it. Come around and view stock of millinery with latest shapes shades fancies and fads. Hats from 15¢ to as costly as you want. Everything in the millinery line. Cordial invitation to make my store home when in town.
A dated notice from Calhoun and KEttr requests customers to provide payment by October 1 to save costs and alleviate strain. The missive urges aid and conveys urgency in settling outstanding balances.
Hardy S Walden promotes tombstones and monuments with any design on short notice. Customers are invited to see him before ordering for personalized stone work.
J O Hamilton announces closure of his mercantile business. The entire stock must be sold in the coming weeks and divers offers are invited from merchants for the whole stock. Bargains await buyers at the sale.
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