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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1897
Page
4
By an act approved December 19 1890 the first Tuesday in December each year is set apart as Arbor Day in Georgia and consecrated for tree planting. The Macon News urges the people to observe the day’s importance. Col BR G Ingercol reflects on the value of rural life and the solace of the country over the pursuit of money and power.
Announcement states the marriage of Jas B Pato of Cordelo to Mise Claude Lawson of Perry. Ceremony will be at the bride’s mother’s home in Perry. Lawson is a Viennа teacher once liked by locals. Pate is a leading Cordele merchant with J S Pate & Company. Process extends congratulations.
Henry Grady urged communities to magnify their towns, support local companies, and teach children to rely on home resources. The Savannah Press echoes that locals should patronize home industries to prevent blighted ventures as merchants and citizens increasingly import goods from the north or east.
A Times-Re corder reader urges residents to support local merchants and manufacturers in the north and east, arguing that patronage of home industries strengthens the city’s sovereignty and prosperity, while criticizing reliance on outside goods and services.
Georgia Dooly County will be sold before the courthouse door in Vienna on the first Tuesday in December 1897 between legal hours. One fifth undivided interest in 1514 acres described with lot lines and branches. Property to satisfy a Superior Court execution against Mrs. Mariah L. Wilkes. Notice given as required by law. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy praised by Mrs. F Butler of Fairhaven Conn for bilious attacks. Sold by Sheriff J W Roberts.
Pursuant to order by Hon J Deargrove the court house door Cordele in Dooly county Ga will sell to highest bidder within legal hours on November 22 1897 the entire stock of merchandise including Groceries Dry goods Notions Shoes Hardware Tinware Glassware Canned goods Cigars and Tobacco and all other articles in the store of J S Holleman with one more horse named Maggio and one horse wagon Also property levied as the property of J L Holleman to satisfy four Mortgage Fi Fa from the superior court in favor of Miss R C Rodgers This 12th day of November 1897 J W Roberts Sheriff D C Busbee Crum Busbee Plfs Attys
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