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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1895
Page
5
A long, chatty column reports on town life with fish, mullet, and canal water issues. Notable items include sick lists, social visits, real estate activity, farm news, new pastors, and local arrests. Multiple locals and visiting editors figure in, with jokes about reading and a colorful slice of small-town Georgia society.
Photographer John Carter will arrive in Vienna on Friday November 15 for a ten day stay to offer cabinet photographs. First week special price is 1.95 dollars per dozen. Read full announcement elsewhere.
A collage of quotes and items from Georgia papers notes a Colquitt county farmer fearing corn ears fall on him, Georgia’s school book funding, the South Georgia conference at Fort Valley, pork and politics in Georgia, woman suffrage, the cradle of Democracy, editorial opinions on local legislation, and praise for progressive city governance as seen in Glasgow. The clippings span politics, education, infrastructure, and social issues with regional anecdotes.
A group of forty to fifty, including thirty students and many patrons, traveled by train to the expo in Atlanta, enjoying three days of sightseeing and returning exhausted yet delighted. A later notice announces a December 6 1895 teacher licensing exam in Dooly County, with Payne's Page on Teaching as a study guide. George S Haslam of Pinehurst broke his leg after a plank tipped while he worked on high benches. J J Moring, a long time county resident and devout Methodist, died at his North Vienna home at nearly eighty four, leaving a widow and three children.
A notice lists residents with advertised letters including Berger Albert Brown Payton Battle Chist Collier Jas Cater Miss Martin Clerkland Mrs Lucinda Clance W C Cain Miss Annie Davis George Daniel William Daska Gid Davenport Wm Edmondson Miss Henrietta Erwin Timothy Hampton Miss Mary Johnson Miss Annie Melton Melton Preston John Rhyner Lee Rambo Mrs Annie Spraberry Jack Turner Janie Tidwell John White Leonard Ward Miss Lois. Ask for advertised letters at the post office.
The Dooly County board of registrars, appointed under the new election law, have struggled to meet to compare voter lists with defaulting lists. A third member, Jas F Cobb, is away at the exposition, delaying the work. The defaulting tax payers list shows 989 names, with about 600 actual defaulters, leaving an estimated 3500 qualified voters if all register. To date only 1809 are registered in person.
The Meriwether Vindicator reports a Hamilton superior court session closed a long running case begun in 1862. Originally filed by Munroe Davidson of Harris county to recover for a cotton sale to Trammell, it produced an execution sold to Mr. Brooks. The original $500 claim has accumulated interest to $2,000. Mr. MacLoughlin collected the amount last week. The extended case is likened to Jarndyce vs Jarndyce by Dickson.
Business locals advertise table doylies at 30c per set and up. J. F. Calhoun & Co. promotes a big stock of horses and mules cheap for cash or on time. J. O. Hamilton touts Hane's Natural Leaf Tobacco and Big Buck tobacco at Pennys. J. F. Powell & Co. claims low prices and horses to plug stock. Store offerings claim fresh stock and low prices with a likely injury scare.
Croup remedies advised for mothers with a focus on early hoarseness and the Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as safe and effective. Also notes a November 16 1895 meeting of Dooly county board of education to locate 1896 public schools in Vienna Cordele and six other districts with district trustees and patrons invited. Additional items promote Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and Chamberlain’s Eye and Skin Ointment and Dr Cady's Condition Powders for horses.
Ticket prices and sale dates listed for an exposition. Prices range from 6.50 to 3.20 with daily sale limits and special rates for military companies and school groups. G A McDonap G P A noted.
Large lot of new crop South Georgia Seed Rye offered at $1.75 per bushel. Also seeds for field and garden. Signal includes tax collectors rounds in 1895 and a list of distant town sales. Christmas book sales offer and agents wanted in the South with commissions and territory details.
Mrs. C. V. Morgan at Milliver showcases stylish hats with ribbons plumes and affordable prices. Feather boas, silks, velvets, and the celebrated C. B. Corsets promise quality and lasting shape, inviting customers to visit and be pleased.
Due to illness, Atlanta photographer Wm Kuhns sends Conyers artist John Carter to take negatives in Vienna and Dooly County. Negatives are shipped to Atlanta for finishing, taking 6 to 10 days. Carter offers cabinet photos at 1.95 per dozen during Nov 17 to 23 with reduced prices.
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