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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1900
Page
5
Miscellaneous town notices advertise jewelry repairs at Jordan Bros Corders Cordele and D A Taylors stock offers. References to elections November 6, local marriages and social notes, plus meetings, sale items, and business changes.
In Cordele an unidentified printer EB W Fisher vanished after last being seen at the carnival. The advertiser notes he is a good printer and office man and that he hoped to stay five years, but he disappeared taking no belongings and leaving only work items.
A pod printer aims for a permanent office role by proving steadiness and freedom from cigarettes. The notice states single male preferred for the position.
Bradshaw October 16. Johnnie Sanders is sick but improving. Carnival attendance includes Cordele visitors and local families. Jordan Bros offers new shoe lines in Vienna. Qeary Sanders ill with fever but improving. Henry Lupo and Thomas McKinney enjoyed the Freewill Baptist meeting in Wilcox County. J Q Adams buys materials to build a dwelling near home. Mars Hill church delegates return from Houston Baptist association in Ashburn with Rev. G J Jennings. next year in Pinehurst. Cotton is short but corn, wheat, potatoes, sugar cane, peas, and ground peas give food and meat for next year. cotton prices are good and contentment returns.
Miss Estelle Hatvan weds Rev. Euston Clement at the bride’s home in Unadilla on October 10. The ceremony featured organ music, a flower-adorned parlor arch, and a ring service. After a reception for about a hundred guests the couple left for Key West to begin their new life, with praise for the bride’s lineage and the groom’s standing in the South Georgia conference.
A fragmentary notice advertises seed rye delivery in Vienna at $1.65 per bushel. It also lists TL, T. Morgan Capes, pants, neckwire, hate, umbrellas, hardware, tinware, pocket knives, table cutlery, tobacco and cigars, all offered at low prices by D. A.
The hardest working students in Miss Anna Hamiltons music class include Miss Louie Fenn Miss Sallie Leon ard Essa Hamilton Vera McDonald and others noted on the honor roll.
An old advertisement touts Lamar's Lemon Laxative as a cure for years of constipation and indigestion. Testimonial from H. J. Barrer of Hotel DeLeitch Eastman Georgia claims complete relief after trying many remedies. Product urged for sale by all druggists.
J R Freeman claims to have found gold ore on a southern plantation hill near Dr Heard's old site. The editor recalls Dr Heard saying gold existed there decades ago and notes a two foot hole with dirt washed to reveal grain-like particles. Freeman may have caught the fever and the town hopes for gold.
James R. Kurny of Vienna Go offers 250 acres for sale in 50 acre tracts, with halting cash and easy balance terms. Land is one mile from a church and school in one direction and 14 miles in the other. Contact Jordan Bros for groceries low down.
A bill will be introduced in the upcoming legislature to amend the charter of Unadilla to allow the town to operate a public school system. The notice mentions Unadilla High School and includes a shopper note about Jordan Bros selling shoes from 25 cents to 4 50.
Five shares of Capital Stock in Peoples Bank of Cordele offered at a bargain. Address Bank Stock, Progress Office. Vienna Georgia.
Wanted several persons for district Office Managers in this state to represent me in their own and surrounding counties. Willing to pay yearly $400 payable weekly. Desirable employment with unusual opportunities. References exchanged. Enclose self addressed stamped envelope. 8 A Park, 20 Caxton Building, Chicago. A nice line of shoes at D A Taylors. Shoes Shoes for everybody. Priceglow. Jordan Bros.
At 10 oclock this Thursday morning a fire erupted in the gunnery area of D. B. Thompsons gin. The extinguisher failed after the engine stopped, blazing the condenser and surrounding wooden work. Local help, including the town crew, saved the granary except for the condenser and adjacent timber. Thompson estimates damages around 260 dollars and hopes to resume operations by Tuesday.
The article notes the governor prize winners are unknown until the legislature convenes. Georgia total votes were 119,489 with the secretary of state race showing 98,814 for the Democrat and 24,780 for the Populist, totaling 119,594. The governor vote is expected to be slightly less than the secretary of state result.
Progress office invites readers to an eye examination with minimal cost. If glasses are needed, they offer a range of frames including plain, fancy, rimless, and gold filled with new Aurocone temple design. Spectacle cases chains and cords also available.
If you want a loan of any amount from 150 to 5000 dollars the Ga Loan & Trust Co of Macon can make it. They can set interest at 6 percent. D L Henderson is the attorney for Sun Ga Loan & Trust Co.
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