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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1894
Page
3
Vienna Georgia physician and surgeon offers obstetrics and women’s diseases as specialties. All calls answered promptly day or night. Office located over W C Willis and Co store.
In Vienna Georgia a physician, specializing in surgery obstetrics diseases of women and children, offers 24 hour calls. Office location is over W C Willis Co store with night availability at Busbee Hotel and prompt after hours service.
A jeweler named W. Thigpen offers prompt repair services in Vienna at the Racket Store. The note expresses satisfaction with prior work and invites customers to seek fixes or adjustments.
John H. Woodward announces loan opportunities on improved farm and city property in Dooly and Wilcox counties. Loans range from $400.00 at a low interest rate and he invites inquiries to negotiate terms.
Vienna Progress reports local ads and notices including dates of visitors from Cordele Hawkinsville Pinehurst and Atlanta. It notes fresh beef delivery, road repairs, a cotton growers meeting, jewelry and baking powder promos, and political commentary on Georgia elections.
The large Lumber Mfg Co of Findlay, run by E E Bailey, went under a temporary receivership Friday with C H Everett named as temporary receiver. Also a dated notice to guano customers urges prompt settlements on fertilizer notes to enable further sales next season.
Miss Jeannie Morgan offers the newest stylish French patterns with perfect fit using the Tailor System. No extra fittings after measurements, with service available at office or residence on Sth Street in Vienna Georgia.
An argument between Ned Chatham and Wilson Belcher at Fenn, Georgia ends with Belcher shooting Chatham with a Smith & Wesson revolver after Chatham advanced with a razor. Chatham dies. Belcher escapes and remains at large. Also a summons to Dooly County Bar Association members to meet in Vienna for civil case assignments on November term 1894.
Dr H C Timmons of Atlanta Georgia endorses Royal Germetter as highly effective for dyspepsia indigestion catarrh and nervous debility. He praises it for stomach and bowel troubles weak women piles and skin injuries as a standing household remedy offered at 1 6 for 5 and sold by Stovall Forbes.
A fire early Friday morning gutted Mr. Green Peavy’s home near Liberty church destroying most contents. Sparks from a torch held by Peavy’s eldest daughter into an adjoining room started the flames, leaving only a small furniture lot saved. Peavy, a poor farmer with no insurance, bears the loss.
The Vienna Institute is leased to establish a first class High School with a broad curriculum. Miss Sadie Bess Bryan will supervise the Vocal and Instrumental Music department, bringing credentials from LaGrange Female College. Tuition remains $1.50 to $2.50 per class as before, and classes begin the first Monday in September.
Mr and Mrs Jno E Howerr express gratitude to neighbors and friends who aided during their son's sickness and to those at home and abroad who offered sympathy and condolence after his death.
Uriah Lockett and Bertie Angely were married last Thursday afternoon at 3 30 at the home of M E Rushin with Rev B W Davis of Vienna Baptist church officiating. The couple left for Cordele to begin their new life, as Lockett is a popular Cordele man and Angely a Vienna beauty. The Progress offers congratulations.
We have opened a first-class Dress-Making establishment in the Millinery store of Mrs. C. V. Morgan and invite ladies to call. A perfect fit, the highest art and fashionable styles are offered by Mrs. L. M. Wynx and Miss Anna Penny.
Mrs. C. V. Morgan announces major reductions across all hat lines as fall millinery arrives. She invites Viennans to inspect the carefully selected stock offering style elegance and low prices, promising fashion and value.
Mr. J T McAllister of Atlanta Ga testifies Germetuer saved his baby Paul from a serious dysentery case and carried him through a severe illness to recovery. The statement underscores the product’s claimed protective effect and substantial weight of recovery.
Little Olney Howell, only child of Mr and Mrs Jnc E Howell, died Wednesday night at 18 months due to dysentery followed by congestion. The child, described as bright and lovable, was laid to rest Thursday in the new cemetery after a grave-side service by Rev. B W Davis. The bereaved couple and their friends mourn the loss.
14674 acres of farm and timber land 14 to 3 miles north of Vienna on G. & F. railroad. 400+ acres cleared, rest in timber. Suited to cotton and crops, well watered, near schools and churches. Terms cash or 4 equal installments with interest. call Levi B. Nelson or J. H. Woodward, Atlanta. If not sold by Oct 20 they will be rented.
Notice lists tax collection dates and locations across Georgia towns including Byromville Unadilla Pinehurst Vienna Drayton Cordele Fuqua Tipperville and Findlay. The collector E Rushin promises daily service during court years and invites taxpayers to present their payments. The Atlanta Business University advertises its programs in bookkeeping banking shorthand penmanship and other commercial subjects with details to secretary R J Maclean Whitehall St Atlanta Ga.
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