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VOL 2, N019.-j VIENNA. GA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 16.1902. TWICE-A WEEK $1.00 PER YEAR
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM MR. J. P. HEARD
To the Readers of The News He Gives a Pen Picture
of Different Cities Visited and the Various Things
Seen on His Recent Trip to the West—He Will
Write Again and Tell About Kansas City.
To the Editor of Vienna Newel
A* promised, I herewith hand you a
sketch of my trip to the west, Colorado
and the Rocky mountains, but before
attempting to give any description of
these places. I will first give you a short
sketch of my trip to these points.
We were unable to obtain tickets in
Macon, and in company with my friend,
G W Fullingtnn, more familady known
as Dock, we went to Atlanta to see
what could be done, in the way of trans
portation and what Atlanta fails to do
can hardly be accomplished at any
other point. While we saw many more
populous niul larger cities than Atlanta,
we saw none that had more hustle and
business about her than the Capitol of
our grand old state. While we could
not obtain our tickets to our. point of
destination, we took tickets to St. Louis,
Mo., and ap order on the C. & A. R R. to
Kansas City and on the U. P. to Denva,
and then tin order on the Kio Grande to
l'ueblo.
We were offered tickets to Salt Lake
City, ’Frisco, Pueblo and Colorado
.Springs nil for the same price, $49,10,
and we accepted tickets to Pueblo, Col,
We had a stop-over privileges at St.
Louis, Kansas City and other points
• beyond. We went by Louisville and
Nashville to St Louis.
In our own state we found the crops
very spotted as the rains seemed to
have been partial and the crops gener
ally were only fair at best. I saw no
crops that was superior to the crops in
our immediate section'.
In Tennessee the crops seemed to be.
even poorer than those in Georgia, and
in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and
Misouri it seems that the season had
been more favorable and the crops were
all the heart could wish.
We saw numbers of fields- in this
territory that would produce from 75 to
100 bushels of corn per acre and from
50 to 00 bushels of wheat, and it was
said by planters there that crops never
had been better.
I am quite sure that Kansas and
Misouri will produce enough breadstuff
to feed the entire world os they claim
to have as large, if not the largest that
they have ever produced.
At Glasgow, Hardware v Co., Mo., and
Saline Co., Mo., the lands are fertile
beyond description. Wheat and corn
are the main crops', though mules, cat-
' tie, horses and hay are, raised in abun
dance here. The Chicago A Alton rail
road .crosses the Mississippi river at
this point.
The people are plain, unassuming and
lay no claims to shrewdness but you are
extremely fortunate if you come out
even in a mule transaction with an
ordinary planter. Our Sorgum Millet
is grown very largely iu this section and
it appears to an observer that nature
‘in dispensing her gifts to her people
was extremely lavish in this particular
section as everything, both for man and
beast, grows in extreme abundance.
At Higginsville, Mo., they have estab
lished a Confederate home on the out
skirts of the town which is an honor to
the state and a source of pride to the
people. It was built by private and
popular subscription by Missouri people
and they take great pride in the Con
federate home, and my heart swells
with gratitude when I hear these people
talking about the care they were taking
l of the Confederate Soldiers.
' The home is' nearly or quite self-
sustaining but I learn that the state
made a yearly ‘ appropriation for the
support of the home. Missouri people
are very largely Southern people and of
Southern sentiment, and are as good
people as any people I know.
At Marshall, Mo., there ia one of the
finest colleges in the United States.
We arrived at 8t. Louis after 30 hours
run from Atlanta being a distance of
about 700 miles. At St. Louis our
transportation expired and before
presenting our order on the Chicago A
Alton to Kansas city, we lay over three
days on account of sickness of my friend
Fullington, who had a billions attack
enough So that we called in a physician
who made usJive visits and boarded at
the same hotel where we were stopping
and he charged us $25 for his service.
He was an elegant gentleman and
treated Dock very nicely and we thought
he could well afford to do so when we
heard the amount of the bill.
I visited while in St. Louis a number
of attractions, the destruction of Pom-
pbi, the finest I ever saw, especially in
the exhibition of fire-works. I pre
sume from 35,000 to 40,000 people were
present at the great amphitheatre.
Delmar Garden and Park six miles out
of the city of St. Louis is one of the
great attractions for the city. They
have the Scenic Railway, Mid-way
Plaisance, Loop and Luop and many
other attractions of this character
They have a preformance of High Order
of Vaudeville every evening and the
people congregate there in great num
bers to get rid-of the heat and to amuse
themselves generally. St. Louis people
are a great beer drinking people and at
these gardens an immense space is fur
nished with tables and seats and sales-
inen for the saloon buisness all through
the gardens catering to the wants of
the many guests. I visited Delmar
Garden both on going and returning,
and was astonished at the great crowds
that frequented this place.
Loop the Loop railway is one In which
the rood traverses the inner rpof of the
building and you ore riding entirely
with the car above you and you are
sitting with your head downward and
you are going at such a velocity of
speed that you return your position in
the sanieway water remains in a bucket
when you swing it around over head.
I understood that several hod died of
heart failure in looping the loop, though
these things are not talked of much
there. 1 also visited Delmortace track
where the races are in progress and
hnvo been for quite awhile. Races in
the afternoon rain or shine always
comes off. They have nothing but
thorough-breds to enter, consequently
they have nothing but running races.
They have these races each afternoon,
and I saw as many as twelve starters in
a race. The horses all start from a
standing position and not in a running
position as we start them here. From
25,000 to 50 4 000 people visit these races
dally. The street cars are taxed to
their utmost capacity to accomodate
the crowds to this point. They have a
beautiful mile track and a seating
pavilion that will aceommdote twenty
thousand people. There were twenty-
four book-makers on the ground, and
all them seemed to be doing a good
business, confidence men and courts
were fortunate. They do not call their
system of book-making betting but call
it playing, the races of everybody takes
more or less stock in the play. Men
and women of good standing take more
or less stock in it, and second rate wo
men from the great populous city of
St. Louis frequent the races in great
numbers and play the races all the
time. Pool buyers pass through the
great pavillion taking pool on the races.
It is very exciting and the people im
mediately after the race is over are in
a perfect work to lutvo their tickets
cashed. You can most generally judge
the fortunate ones immediately after
the race is over, the fortunate ones
going to the book-makers and lining up
in great lines to have their checks
cashed and the unfortunate ones visit
ing the paddock and watch the horses
training forttye next race. We have
nothing in our state fairs that I have
NEWSY ITEMS FROM
CITY OF UNADILLA
As Gathered by Oor Hustling
Reporter Each Week
Many Visitors of Note Come and Go, Some
Yon Know and Some Yon Don't-
Other Interesting News.
Unadilla, Aug. 14.—Our town is
presenting a more lively appearance
now that cotton ts coming in. Both
warehouses are in .first class shape
and feel confident' that we will
receive our share of cotton this tall.
T H Gregory refurned from New
York Monday where he has been
spending a few weeks purchasing
his fail stock of goods.
Mrs. G. H. Willis is home again
after spending some time at Indian
Springs and with parents in Macon
E.' A. Lockerman and wife are
now residents of our town, having
moved in from Emerich last week.
Mr. Lockerman has accepted a
position as book keeper with the
Unadilla bank.
Dr. and Mrs. A. L. McArthur
of Cordele, visited relatives here
last week. They were accompanied
home by Mrs. McArthur’s mother,
Mrs. Evie Glover.
L R McArthur apent Wednesday
in Macon where he went to meet a
representative of ! u holiday dealer,
and purchased a nice line for Mc
Arthur Bros.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Bridges of
Hawkinsville visited relatives here
this week.
Charlie Mims of Cordele, spent
Thursday here with lut daughter,
Mrs. L. O. Wooten.
Mrs. J A King is very ill at this
ever seen that will at all compare with
the daily races that come 0ff at the Del-
mar Vace track.
We also visited Nelson Morris A Co’s
packing house at this point, nud while I
will attempt to give you a description
of the manner our beef and pork is
dressed, it will be only a faint attempt
as it will have to be seen to be under
stood and appreciated. Commencing
with the alaughter of hogs, they are
driven from the stock yards up an
elevated gangway into the building at
about the 4th story. They are huddled
together in small pens and ore caught
up in chains with a running loop around
the leg and hoisted up by machinery to
an elevated track that is an incline and
the motion of the hog rolls him imme
diately to the man who does the stab
bing, who stabs the hog one lick with a
knife and he follows the incline to the
caldron of hot water liken to a tanvat
with mon on either side who picks and
scrapes until he is passed out at the
other end ready for the gutter. He is
then elevated to another track which is
also inclined and goes to the men who
disembowels him in a miraculous short
space of time I snw him gut 40 or 50
under the eye of an inspector and the
average time is eight seconds per hog.
I saw him gut one in five seconds. This
seems a little discreditable but I can
prove it by Dock. The cattle are done
very much the same way except they
are felled by the stroke of a hammer
before they aro knifed and are not
scalded. Everything in this slaughter
house is utilized except the low of the
cattle and the sqneel of the hog.
We leave St. Louis tonight at 9:30 for
Kansas City. Will tell you more next
time. J. P. HEARD.
BANNER 8 ALVE
the most heeling eeive in the world.
writing, and it is feared that she
will not recover.
Mis. L O Wooten gave the little
folks an entertainment on Tuesday
afternoon, complimentary to Miss
Lily Joiner of Hawkinsville, who
is spending some time with ber.
Mrs. S. J. Shepherd is visiting
relatives in Macon this week.
The little folks were given an
entertainment by Mrs. S. Speight
last Friday afternoon complimen
tary to Miss Kate Taylor, of near
Hawkinsville.
Miss Muhue Lee McArthur re
turned Monday fiom Gordon where
she has been spending some time
with grand-parents.
Miss Lizzie Morgan and Mrs. C.
Z. Carroll spent Wednesday in the
country with the latter’s-, parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Broxton.
Mrs. S. D. Simpson of Alabama
and Mrs. Frank Williams of Cor
dele, who have been spending some
time here with their mother, Mrs.
S. Felder, left Sunday for Cordele,
Leon and Virgil. Henderson of
Vienna are spending the week with
relatives here.
Mrs. J. L. Graves and children
of Sigsby are visiting relatives here.
Jas McCarty of Fitzgerald visited
his father two miles west of town
last week.
Dr. V. O. Harvard of Arabi, was
here Thursday on business.
Dr. L. O. . VVooten's horses ran
.away with his driver Thursday
evening demolishing the buggy,
and-hurting the driver and horses
slightly.-
Our young people had quite a
pleasant trip hut Tuesday evening
out to the country home of Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Barfield. The Misses
Barfield entertained in honor of
Miss Wallace of Gainesville, Miss
Pate of Unadilla, and Miss Shipp
of Cordele.
At 7130 o'clock a number oCour
young people got on a wagon and
others in buggies drove odt arriving
about nine o’clock, where all were
cordially received by Misses Flor
ence and Margaret Barfield, assisted
by Miss Wallace.
As is customary at this home,
every one was made to feel free and
easy and thoroughly enjoyed the
evening. At 11 o’clock delicious
refreshments were served in an in
formal way, and at twelve all said
goodbye and returned home, hsving
very pleasantly spent the evening.
Quite a number of voung'pcople
were there from Henderson and some
from Pinehur.t, thus attesting the
popularity of the Misses Barfield.
Our young people would be glad
to have these pleasant occasions
oftener.
FOLEV’S CIDNEY CURE.
Will cure Bright’s Diseases,
Will cure Diabetes,
Will cure atone in in bladder,
Will cure kidney and bladder diseases.
Owen—Mason.
On Wednesday afternoon at four
o’clock at the home of the bride’s
father, Hon. Jno. C. Owen of
Byromville, his charming daughter
Miss Emma, was marrit-.d to Mr.
J. B. Mason of Pleasant Valley,
the ceremony being performed by
Rev. J. M. Kelley of this city.
These are both popular young
people and have a host of friends
in the county that wish for them a
long liie of happiness and prosper
ity.
LEWIS NOMINATED
BY ACCLAMATION
Popnlar Congressman of Third
District is Giles an Oratien
He lade a Ringing Speech of Acceptance,
Discassing the Tariff, Trusts and
Democratic Unity.
Montezuma, Ga., August 14—*
The third congressional district con
vention assembled'here today. The
body was called to order by J. M,
Collum ol Schley county. Prayer
was offered by Rev. H. P. Jackson
of Montezuma. A. C. Riley: of
Houston, was chosen temporary
chairman and ]no. T. King of Wil
cox permanent chairman* Messrs
Harrison, Bend and Suwtell were
elected secretaries of the body. J.
H. Hodges oi Houston, was made
chairman of the committee on'
platform. Hon. E. B. Lewis of
Macon county, was renominated
congressman by acclamation after
an eloquent speech placing him in
nomination by Hon. J. M. Dupree.
This is Mr. Lewis’ fourth term and
the tributes to him were extremely
gratifying. He has made an ^ble,
faithful and popular representative.
' This convention was perhaps the
most largely attended in the history
of the district, It has been estima
ted that 300 delegates were present
Men irom almost all the walks of
Ijfe were present, The deligates
were with the home peoph in giv
ing our popular congressman an
ovation. Placet of business wero
closed and all interest was centered
In this event. In the speech pre
senting Mr Lewis to the convention
he said: “Here is a man who never
made a promise he did not keep;
never deceived a friend or betrayed
an enemy."
He made a ringing speech in
accepting the nomination, discuss
ing the tariff, trusts, democratic
unity and other questions of the
day. He was at his best and the
speech was enthusiastically receiv
ed and applauded. VVith rhe
election of an executive committee
the convention adjourned.
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