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i - THE SI) A 7 OCTOBER 10 you sea frost Thursday^ Col. John F. Powell went down This is one ot W. C. Willis tfc Co's, biggest Bargain months. Pretty cool wave lust week. A number of our citizens visited friends in the country Sunday. Mayor J. B. Seott of Cordele morning? C! olera is killing the hogs in some communities. M iss Ora Davies is visiting Mrs T. P. McElreath at Ashburn. Cotton took a spurt upward last week and buying was lively. Saturday was not so lively as was among his Vienna friends yes- i usua l y et trade was very brisk ali terdav. We are having fine weather now and the crops of all kinds are being housed. Chickens, eggs and butter are still a scarce commodity in our market. Checked Homespun 4/. W. C. Willis & Co. day. Col. Mid Busbec and Col. J. F. Powell, of Vienna, were in town Wednesday.—Ashburn Advance. A number of our citizens at tended the Baptist Association at Cordele on Thursday and Friday iust. to Irwin Superior Court last week and spent several days. He is counsel in a number of cases down there. Mess Mayer, Watts & C’o., say that the people have found head quarters for good goods at low prices and they are busy waiting on them. The way to eell goods W. A. DAVIS. W. F. HOLMES. BEN T. RAY. X\[. A. jDavis Co. —COTTON FACTORS — Nos. 405 and 407 Poplar Street, MACON, B. P. HOWELL. W. B. MORGAN rA. Why buy goods from other peo ple before you inspect our line of DRY GOODS, SHOES, HATS, •- CLOTHING and Furniture? Frost will soon be here and then cane grindings and candy pullings will he in order. Mr. J. T. Croom is smiling over a new girl baby that came to his home Sunday night. See our line of Stoves. Cheaper Remnants Cashmere DeLaine8/. W, C. Willis & Co. It is to your interest to buy where you can get the most goods for your money. We buy Our goods with the CASH and “don’t have to” pay credit prices, hence we can afford tc discount other people's prices. You can find with us the best bought and selected stock of DRY GOODS. we have ever offered to the trade— and everything marked down to •‘hardtime” prices. IN CLOTHING. We can fit, suit and please you,’ for we have (he Latest styles, the Best goods and the Lowest prices. All we want to do is to get a chance to show you. Come in. than ever. J. P. Heard &Co. The fields are being opened and the hogs beginning to grow and fatten. Our t r jwn and county' were very quiet last week. No news being told and nothing unusual happen ing. The most complete line of Shoes on the market. J. P. Heard & Co Those who have had sufficient force to keep up with cottoa as fast as it opened have it ail about picked out. Our neighbor town, Cordele, will apply to the legislature for a char ter for “The City Court of Cordele Ga. Collector Rushin begins his rounds Monday and will be com ing every few days until the taxes are all paid. With increased facilities for handling the staple, wo again offer our is to advertise and then sell them. - services to the planters of this section, and solicit the continued pa- t-l i.l tronage of our friends. e 1 quarter 3 on erenee ^ We keep fully abreast with the times, and the improved methods of the ienna circuit will be lielcl, ha.m.iling ecitton, anti froru our g re at experience in the business, we with the church at Drayton on the j flatter ourselves that we can make it to your interest to patronize us. We handle all cotton at the low price of fifty cents per bale. We work for the interest of our customers, and it is always gratify ing to please them. 2nd Sunday and Saturday before in November. This date has been changed from the 4th Sunday and Saturday before in Octobej. The Southern Building & Loan Association of Huntsville, Ala., made another loan of $1000.00 in Vienna last week. This associa tion has been bv far the more lib eral with loans in Vienna than any association ever organized here. Mess. W. C. Willis & Co., have been busy’ during the past two weeks trying to get their immense . A. DAVIS & CO, Macon, Ga. Ship Your COTTON t0 W 8 II & 0, IL kprfc B. P. HOWELL & CO. Livery Sale a ml Feed Stables. VIENNA, GA. We occupy the “Heard” stables, successors to J. M. Field's Livery business, and with good teams are ready to serve the public in our line. First-class teams, single or double, at reasonable rates. Stock left with us properly cared for. JS^^Drummers’ trade, a specialty. Yours for business, B. P, HOWELL & CO. .OFFICE OF, Wednesday was County Court j new stock upon their counters and day. Judge Whipple went through | shelves. I hey’ have at last the dockets easily as they were nvxA.ooivr, Remnants Satines 8/. W. C. Willis & Co, Then you are the people we arc looking for. We never bought sueh a stock before in our whole mercantile experience and if WE don’t SELL, you will live to re gret it, for others cannot offer such bargains in shoes, good shoes, stylish slioes, line shoes, at such pricy s as we offer you, Oi r shoe stock is coming in ev ery day but it will probably be the latter part of the week before they Lit lie head's, big beads, heads, square heads, long short heads, flat heads, all can get a fit in our,, round heads, heads HAT DEPARTMENT. The Hats must go. You lm the price. Vienna 1 display of never seen Minting. Antique and Kith Century Oak bed-room Room suites as handsome as can be found in the cities. Large stock iff all other grades of Furniture at astonishingly low figures. If you need anything in this line you in jure yourself by. not looking at our stock. 10-2-8 w Mrs. J. D. Norris. neeMiss Jean- nie Stovall, of Louisville, Ivy’., is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. S B. Stovall. Bear in mind that the Progress is willing to help you out and will take depreciated silver dollars on subscription. Don’t forget that we can beat anybody ’s price on Jeans. J. P. Heard & Co. The Ordinary and Sheriff's offi ces are p reductive of considerable business this month. Read our our legal advertising columns. Dr. James M. Whitehead will leave this week for Atlanta where he will finish his course in dent istry. Success to you, Doctor. We sell ever, tiling from a paper of Pins to a Mule. Consult us be fore you spend your money and see wliat we can do for you. J. P. Heard & Co. We offer the suggestion that a few rustic seats would not look out of place in our park. Neither would a pretty playing, fountain. We collected a whole bushel of sweet potatoes all at one time last week and if we could borrow a pos sum dog now we’d be “strictly in it.” not heavy. All manner of obligations, bank, provision and guano, are being paid much more promptly this year than usual. Remnants Calicoes i\<t. W. C. Willis & Co. Cotton did not come in so lively arties shipping to us on Through Bill Lading to straightened them out and now j Savannah, Ga., care of Union Compress, Macon, their ^toek presents a level,- »P-1 wil J save - 0 pcr cent . of f re jg h t pearance. Drop m and see it. -i t a , -n , • 1 r i • Tf , T .. Railroad Agents will explain mode of shipping m Have you been to Miss Riden- jt . ai i r . i i -Tf i hour's new Millinery establish- this way. Also drayage of io cents per bale will be fl s ft ment and seen her new stock? You want to go before you buy any r - thing in that line. Rev. P. G. McDonald returned Sunday night from the meeting of last week, still lots of it was on the; the Harmony’ Association at Daw- market «nd sold readily for about 7£ to 7-J- cents. Sheriff Sheppard keeps busy these days levying and collecting fi-fas and looking out for the “wanted in Dooly’.” Our editor attended the Associ ation at Cordele on Thursday and Friday last—and has felt very well, thank you, ever since, Mr. H. N. Smith of Drayton spent Saturday in town up in hi s return from the association at Cordele, to which lie was a delegate. The report from all sections as to the cotton crop in the cotton growing states shows that it will be considerably’ short this year. Only tlie latest and best at most popular prices. Come and inspect 6nn and the Pulaski Association (of which he is a member) at Ab beville. He reports a most pleas ant time and says that six or seven Associations were represented by- full delegations at all these meet ings. Mess. J. M. Gam mage, W. J. Lashley, C. II. Everett, G. W. Busbee and D. B. Leonard formed a party that went down to the river Thursday n orning and spent two days angling for the finny- tribe and shooting the wary squir rels. and had a big time, not only get ting as much us they- could eat but brought some home. Mess. Busbee and Crum received last week 20 volumes (all that saved. W. B. & 0. G. SPARKS, MACON, GA. The Vienna Beading Club, Will meet Monday eyening at the home of Mrs. A. I. Davies. All are invited and as there’s quite an interesting program for the even ing a large attendance is looked for. LOOK! To Our Customers. We are greatly- in need of money and we sold you expecting pay by October 1st., Now will you kindly „„ . . icome to our aid, and save cost and I hey were quite successful | j- ee jj n „ Your friends, Calhoun & Kelly. Attention. and you will surely buy. Drop in 1 bave becn published to date) of and make yourself at home. J the American and English Ency- The New Millinery Store. : clopcedia of Law, which are just The Bank of Vienna publishes] from the press and as pretty as another fine showing i;i to-day’s! books get to be. They are not issue. This institution is as solid ! only pretty but very valuable and as any in the state, does a fine make an invaluable addition to business and makes money. j their library. 'These volumes coh- The party that went to the river lain il t,,OUS!and P !l ges each. hunting and fishing last week had sueh good success that another party will go down to-duy if the weather is favorable. Sheriff S heppartl bagged a bird lowest cost Miss Ridenhour’s new Millinery establishment is already popular witii t he ladies and she is kept busy waiting upon those «h 1 want the best and most s ylish goods at Mayer, Watts & Co. Headquarters for Buggies and Wagons. The “Old Hijkory” Wagon is the best. J. P. Heard & Co, Col. W. V. Harvard and mother and sister, Mrs. C. R. Morgan, spent two or three da3’s of last week on a visit to relatives near j Culpepper shot it Montezuma. One of the measures to down at Adel last week. The ne gro was shot at twelve times by the arresting party before being caught. He now sings in a cage. Mr. R. D. Culpepper kill d a mad dog at his home below Cordele on Wednesday last. The dog had bitten several hogs and created considerable confusion before Mr. most come up important before the Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Smith spent two or three days in Hawkinsville last week.* Miss Nolia Bell of next session of the legislature is to that place, sister to Mrs. Smith, | provide for the payment of school teachers quarterly. By all means let some arrangements be made whereby this can be done. NOTICE. All parties indebted to the estate of J oh 11 Truluck deceased are hereby no tified to coats forward and make im mediate -ettleinent Mrs. S. S. Truluck. 1 ck. ! T. W. Truluc D. L. Truluck. Executors. Fanil Lauds. “Henry Grady” Flour is the best. J. P. Heard & Co. • $4.3a per Barrel. Our streets are in fair condition but as the advuloretn taxes have been collected we suppose the Council will put a force at work on the streets now soon: as the town is out of debt and they have no other use for the moiiev. Next Sunday will be “Missionary day” with the Sunday School at the Baptist church. A very pretty- hud died and they were in attend ance upon her funeral. Mr. J. M. Woodward and family, of Macon, have become citizens of our town, and are now occupyirg the Holliman dwelling, on the corner of Jackson and Broad street. —Hawkinsville Dispatch ana News. Col. D. L. Henderson, an excel lent young gent'emen and one of Dooly county’s most prominent attorneys, of Vienna, passed through the city Monday last en- route to Abbeville on legal business- —Cordelean. The Vienna Baseball Club went Mr. C. R. Morgan, our popular warehouseman of the firm of Mor gan & Smith, was reared down on Flint river and has killed many a turn of ducks, turkeys and squir rels thereabouts. Every few days now he gets a message from down there that the swamps are full of 1 u keys and squirrels and it throws him into a perfect fever of excite ment to get off down there and he says he is going to-day if the weather will permit if it “busts” the cotton season wide open. Mr. H. R. Fenn was in town Saturday and smiling as if in the best of humor. We asked him the cause of it and he said that he had just sold eighteen bales of cot ton that were picked off of twenty’ two acres and he had two or three bales to pick yet By staying at home and attending strictly to his business this year he had made as good crops as the land would pro duce and was paying out of debt with a little ahead anil ’twas enough to make a man feel good- We agreed with him. I am going to discontinue my mercantile business. My entire stock of merchandise must be closed out in the next few weeks. Eveybody invited to come and get some bargains. I will entertain bids from mer chants for the whole stock Respectfully, J. O. Hamilton. Shoes, Hats, Crock ery. Shoes, Hats, Crockery. Shoes, Hats, Crockery. Nicest, . Neatest, Cheapest line of Mil linery Goods every brought to Vienna. Come and look for yourself. Blue Racket Store. Specialist in Diseases of Women, Strictures, Nervous and Private Diseases. Correspondence solicited. North-east corner Suwannee House. CORDELE, GA. Bring Your Cotton to Farmers’ Warehouse, Lost Money. Between Vienna and Mrs. Christ mas’ on the Abbeville roud, near the residence of Mr. G. I. Lasseter, $30,00 in greenbacks, a twenty and ten dollar bill, folded in an envel ope. The- money dropped out of my wagon as I was travelling. A reward of $10,00 will be paid for the same if returned to me or left at the Progress offiee. David Barfield. S m of Warren Barfield. AUCTION SALE. J. A. SMITH, Agt. Prop. VIENNA, GA- You Want Reading. VIBArtVA- GrA. MORGAN & SMITH Proprietor. Our whole idea will tie to secure for every bale of cotton, no matter to whom it belongs, the highest market price and deserve your confi dence and trade. Our house is centrally and conveniently located. We mean business Give us a trial. MORGAN & SMITH. To the Planters. THE ATLANTA CONSTITimON. They- must be closed out. My remaining stock of Groceries, To bacco’s, Crockery, Tinware, Hard ware and Furniture will be offered f ir sale at Auction on Saturday, the 21st inst. Everything will be sold or given away. There are many valuable articles in this stock. Come to the sale. II. W. Taylor, Vienna, Ga. THE MACON TELEGRAPH. We, T. T, & J. H, Morgan, J. B. & R. H. Davis J. M, Gammage, J. T. Carlisle and J. W. Lashley, have joined together under the firm name of MORGAN DAVIS & Co. for the purpose of do : ng a Cotton Warehouse business atVienna, Gal We have secured the Alliance Warehouse and the services of Mr. E. G Green as Scalesman and will lend all our energies to secure first-class export buyers for the season and the highest price for every bale of cotton. We see no reason why Vienna connot be made as good mar ket, (freights to the ports added) as any in the state. Assuring our brother planters that we are only working for our common good as a class we ask them to let us handle their crop. Liberal advances made on cotton in store. MORGAN, DAT IS auA Co. WAREHOUSEMEN, Vienna, Ga, Ga C. T. Stovall, M. D. THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER. Southern and Florida R, R. SOW AN EE RIVER ROUTE JO FL OR/DR. Condensed Time Table. Either of These and I am prepared to negotiate loans on improved farm lands in Dooly at a low rate of interest. Address or apply to John- II. Woodward, Attorney and Real Estate Ag’t program is being prepared. The down and played the Cordele Roys exercise will take place during j Friday afternoon and “done ’em their regular Sunday- School hour, from 10 to II a. m. Everybody in vited to be present. Vienna, Ga. Do You Want Work. i Don't fail to see us when you ; need Bed-Springs, Mattresses. I Trunks and Furn iture. We are I strictly “in it” on these goods. J. F. Heard & Co. Either As Stenographer, Book-Keep er or Operator! If so, write for guarantee and particulars, to the Georgia----Ala bama Business College, Macon Ga., the most famous and successful in the South, and which the Chicago Trade Journal declares “occupies the same relative position to the Mayor Heard held a court late Saturday afternoon and added $2.50 to the treasury of the town. ’Twas a very quiet affair and no | body- was hurt but some pretty- tough talking was done and Mayor Heard thought the indulging party- should pay for it. Weather begins to feel like Over inferior business colleges that j coats, dont it? We are prepared surround it. as does the great Uni- for it. The largest, cheapest and versify of Chicago to the primary- most stylish stock of Overcoats,— schools of the land.” all sizes, styles, weights and prices By its exclusively practical '! ever put on the market here, methods of instruction, this Col- j Take a look at them, lege has no difficulty in graduating j Mayor, Watts & Co. students in two to three months,! and securing them excellent posi- „ . , , , . , lions indeed, it unreservedly guar- ; 0l,r neighbor killed a nice shoat tin tees to give a more thoroughly Inst week. We tried to persuade practical training, in shorter time him that the best way’ to prevent and at less expense than any oilier i spoiling would be to put it out j; stitution in the laud. It is open I , „ \ , . . . . „ „ . , , , , . , ‘ , on tiie back ienc at night where it to both sexes, day and night, the ” entire year, but the present will be j ' voul<1 be c0!l1 but hc bad uUas 01 Rund the best time to cuter. 1 his own. up” to the tune of 12 to 3. The game was very’ interesting and very much enjoyed. Rub up down there, boys, for we know that you can piny better ball than that. There were six or eight barrels of fish, the toothsome mullet, shipped to Vienna Saturday on the soutli bound express and 6old out Saturday afternoon. Every darky in town, almost, sported a siring before night. The agent of the express com pany says that the jug trade to Vienna is not one-third as much as a year ago. Our people are p tying their debts with their mon ey- and are not chunking it away in “lire water” and “benders.” This is a good indication. To close out Mr. H. W. Taylor w ll offer the lemniuder of his stock of Groceries, Crockery, Tinware, Hard ware and Furniture at auc- tit n on Saturday, the 21st inst. If you need anything in any of these lines you will make money by be ing in hand. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Vienna, — — Ga. Mr. G. R. Mathews caught Ike Jackson, the negro who broke into his house some weeks ago, last week and landed him in jail. Ike was caught in the very billy coun try above Forsyth where he no doubt thought he was safe. Mr. Mathews got very little of what he stole from him as he had spent the money- and traded off the pis tol and watch, but he thinks he will recover them in a few days. Another mysterious robbery was fastened upon Ike. About the same time of Mr. Mathew’s loss some one broke a pane of glass in the back windows to Mr. J. O. Hamilton’s store and stole a nutu- The latest and most approved plans of treatment. Rates guar anteed low as the very lowest. Calls answered promptly night and day. Obstetrics and diseases of children a specialty. Office at StoAuli & Forbes Drug Store Seeing: is Believing:. THE YIENNA PROGRESS One year for l.KO. tpr Do n ’t,^^Jflet this opportu nity pass but secure your home pa per, The Progress and one of these City Weeklies, One year $1.50. South Houxd No. 3 No. 1 V. it. A. M. ti .V> H INI 1 10 28 1118 10 10 11 05 v Atlanta A Macon Junction Macon Noktii Bound. No. 2 no. V. 3f. Am 3f 8 or, 7 40 4 35 4 10 4 50 4 30 Cordele Tifton 2 15 1 52 1260 12 23 Valdosta Jasper Lake City Jacksonville A. M. I*. M. 11 05 10 45 10 02 0 *5 9 10 8 40 7 00 0 30 A. M. P. M. 7 24 8 45 8 45 10 00 Ar A. M. V. M. Georgia—Alabama Business Colleges (Macon, Ga.,and Montgomery,Ala) A. M. I’. M- 7 31 6 13 j » ou 5 ao j Only Chain of Business College* la A. M, Notice! -O- There are lots of birds in the’; bcr of £ 00tls - Several very fine woods snd squirrels in the swamps. • suits that belonged to Mr. Hamil- This is the direct result of so many (nearly all) lands being pos ted and the hunters kept out, giv ing game a chance to multiply. Now a fellow can have a little sport when he goes out gunning, pro vided he owns the and or ean get a permit. ton’s stock were found in Ike’s possession. Altogether it may put Ike in for several vears. BROWN’S IRON BITTERS You know a Stylish Hat when you see it and you know a cheap one when you price it. The goods will convince you of style, the prices of cheapness. Come around and let me show you mv stock of Millinery, All the latest shapes, shades, fancies and fads. Hats from 15/ to as costly you want. Everything Millinery line. i . Remember that you are cordially 1 J aniiaiy invited to make ray store “Home” . . when in town. AH parties OWingi w£d«STr. Pl,totta lours With gOOUS at lowest j 1 . ~ , For .Summer tonris Our Credit Books the!are now closed until FARMERS FAVORITE. SH00-FLY. Saturdays Only. SOUTH BOUND. Loave... .Atlanta 1:30 p.m. “ ..Macon Junction. .5 :00 “ Macon 4:50 “ Cordele 7:30 “ Tifton 9:00 north bound. Leave Tifton 6:05 a. m. “ Cordele. .. 7:42 “. .Macon Junction.10:10 Arrive Macon.. 10:20 “ Atlanta... .1:45 The South. Instruction Purely Practical Students of each College conduct Actual Bnsines Transactions with those of the other by Mail, Freight and Express. Four Departments—Commercial Stenograph, Telegraph and Pen Art. Btipils Guaranted the comple tion of any course in any other S\\ort Line Vo \\ ov\iYs Fair Through Pullman- Buffet Sleeping CABS Jacks*onvllp to Nashville, via Atlanta, con necting in Union D^pot fti Nashvile witbl Ventibnlrd Limited for ('hiengo. With Velvet Trains, via W. A. It. R., from Atlanta to Chicago, making only one and Jacksonville to . . a« tourists, points in the Caro- 11r o t-v /''tf i Li art f/'A f I a li«»* and Virginia, connections made with LIS ciiC IlUlllICU LU oClllC i Fast Mail Trains and Vestbnied Limited, _ , | via R. AIL. in Union Depot at Atlanta. or'PAiinfc Close connections via G. P. It, IL tor Birm- lilCll dLLOUlIlo, IlUlCb ingham and Kansas City. Sleeping Car on Night Trains prices. Mrs. C. V'. Morgan. SUBSRIBE Cures Indigestion, Biliousness, T^^pepsia, Mala ria, Nervonsuess, and General Debility. Pbysb \ •ran3 recommend it. All dealers sell it. Genuine •Mii trade mark and crossed red lines ou v. rappee. &c. with the least pos sible delay. Don’t put off your l Drug account to the last. Stovall Forbes NOW. j Wholesale and Retail Druggists. from Mncti and Patatka. paxKengera kav- Palatkcan remain in Sleeper at Macon until 7.00a. m., where break fm«t can he had and connections made with 7:40train for Atlanta, and trains for .Yuguata. Athens, Milledge- ville, Montgomery and Savannah, and all points East, North and South H. BURNS, A. C. KNAPP, Trav. Pass. Agt., Traffic Man'gr Macon, Ga. Macon Ga, institution, Both Colleges open the entire year—Graduates assisted to pos itions. For full paiticulars write to c - Wj-att and Martin, Macon, Ga. or Montgomery Ala- Tax Notice SUBSCRIBE HOW I will be at the following precincts on the' dates named to collect your .State and Coun- y Taxes for 1803. fiyromville Oct. 10, Oct, 17, Oct. 18, Oct. 19, Oct. 20, Oct. 21, Got. 23, Oct. 24, Oct. 25, Oct. 26, Oct. 27, Oct. 28, Oct. 13, and Nov. 39 Tippettville Dec. 11 Fuqua Dec. 13 Findlay Dec. 11 Vienna Dec. 10, 18 and 19 Books close in accordance with law on tb0N night of December 19th. Yours to serve, M. £. Hushin, T. €. J>. Ci* Zoar Un ad ilia 3rd district Pinehurst Vienna Cordele Plnia a rabi 14th district Coney Drayton 0th district Oct. 3) and Nov. 13 : Oct. 31 and Nov. 14 Nov. 1 and Nov. 15- Nov. 2 and Nov. 10’ Nov. 3 and Nov. 17 Nov. 4 and Nov. 18 Nov. 0 and Nov. 2*F Nov. 7 and Nov. 2f Nov. 8 and Nov, 22 Nov. 9 and Nov. 21 Nov. 10 and Nov. 21 Nov. 11 and Nov. 25*