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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1893
Page
3
The text urges buying winter goods cheaply to beat gloom and debt. It claims suppliers offered cash discounts enabling lower prices and warns against shoddy, high priced goods. It invites customers to see the stock and compare value.
Quiet business in town with notes of Thanksgiving plans. Local ads offer Jeans and Shirtings at low prices from Calhoun & Kelly. Mrs Morgan ill with cold, Miss Turlington visiting, and local officials discuss closing shops for Thanksgiving. Hog killings and dull cotton markets cited.
The department brims with practical items and countless clever ideas for everyday needs. Clerks invite customers to visit and see the wide range of goods on display, promising pleasure in examining the collection.
Shoes and Hats boasts the greatest and best assortments in town. Shoppers are urged to examine their mammoth stack to find lines that are brighter, nicer, and cheaper than elsewhere.
A local retailer advertises a broad assortment of suits in all styles and prices. From inexpensive work suits to elegant wedding outfits, they promise options for all kinds of people and occasions.
The ad proclaims a large furniture stock from cheap goods to 16th century and antique oak bedroom suites. Prices are marked to suit hard times, inviting shoppers to consult before buying for any room needs.
The Ga Ala Business College of Macon Georgia offers rapid practical courses in book keeping telegraphy and shorthand aimed at quick employment. In six to twelve weeks students can complete training for about 20 dollars and begin positions paying 50 to 75 dollars monthly. Six graduates were placed last week as a result.
On Tuesday December 5 1893 J W Roberts deputy sheriff will sell before the Court House in Vienna Georgia at auction to the highest bidder for cash one 3 room dwelling and lot three vacant town lots in Vienna Ga The sale is a rare chance for a big bargain in real estate.
A printer visits a business house and asks if they want ads. The owner says no, not believing in advertising. The drummer then declares he only sells to live men and would trade with a dead man in the graveyard, delivering a sharp closing remark.
Lou Nobles brought ten potatoes weighing 34 pounds to the office eight were missing. He admitted he obtained them from his son in law J. D. Rountree’s potato patch and had told others he raised them himself. The office forgave him after questioning.
Notice to teachers to submit all reports by the tenth of December and to file excuses for nonattendance for institute attendances to avoid fines. Board of Education to meet December 12 to wrap up the year, teachers to settle December 20. Includes regional sentiment quotes from Greensboro Journal and a humorous print mixup about a marriage and grocer’s notice.
C T Stovall M D Vienna Ga advertises latest approved treatment plans with low rates and 24 hour call service. Specialties include obstetrics and diseases of children with office at Stovall Forbes Drug Store.
A writer observes a dirty tumble down house with First Chance and Last Chance signs beside a clean, lofty Templar Lodge. The piece links alcohol, ruin, and reform, arguing that society presents a First chance for vice and a Last chance for redemption, like two contrasting houses. Enterprise prompts reflection on beginnings and ends in moral choices.
Sam Jones argues three staple money crops cotton wheat iron set price pressures. He claims economics cannot fix the issues as supply and demand persist while repeal of laws and tariff readjustment fail. He condemns politics and legislation as ineffective amid widespread economic strain and social bustle.
The period's papers report widespread failures across large dry goods firms as money pressure persists. Trade is dull, manufactories underused, and wholesale and retail sectors show little profit. Outlook remains weak, with improvement unlikely before next year unless agricultural prices rise.
Advertisement notes a Christmas sale on toys shoes hats dry goods and notions with cheaper prices than wholesale. Promises millinery at cost and 1000 yards of ribbon at 75 cents on the dollar. Sign-off from J A Smith agent invites customers to verify claims in person.
Mrs. Jas. F. McArthur of Hawkinsville End Unadilla Ga invites ladies to her millinery stock arriving from New York at unheard of low prices. She promises savings on purchases over three dollars between now and Christmas, urging customers to visit her location.
The Stockholders of the Bank of Vienna will hold their annual meeting on December 4 1893. J. O. Hamilton serves as President.
Mrs C V Morgan invites townsfolk to visit her millinery shop to view a wide range of hats. Latest shapes shades and fads offered from 15 cents up to higher prices, with an invitation to make the store their home during town visits.
For particulars apply to or address. 275 acres well improved with three tenant houses and water wells on Montezuma and Vienna road five miles above Vienna on Penehatch ee creek. 185 acres fine land with two tenant houses and wells on Penehatchee creek. Joins nearby landowners J E DeVaughn Wm Minor J N Sumerford Elihu Walton T T Morgan.
The Primary Department lists Mary Brown, Dean Saunders, and Belle Wilson among honorees. Susie Lowery Lena Smith Bettie Hill Ida Sum erford Carrie Johnson Maggie Horne Brantley Pate Virgil Harvard Brantley Ivey Noah F Saunders Emmet Graham Edgard Moore James McCarthey Cobb Sumerford named to the November honor roll.
A brief notice from Stovall and Forbes warns the recipient to settle an outstanding drug account at once. It urges prompt attention to obligations and implies pressure to meet the payments without delay.
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