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THE VIENNA PROGRESS. SEPTEMBER 6, 1900.
entered at the Potlofflce in Vienna. Oa., at
Second data Mail Matter.
Official Organ Dooly County.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
H. ». SMITH, ltd. and Pub.
The coat is,not in it with tho shirt
waist man.
Tho demand for real estate in Vi
enna is fairly good.. '
The scarcity of eggs reminds us
that ah egg farm would pay.
Tho 1st of Soptomber was Labor
Day, but that is nothing umusual
with us.
Hiram Sharp, whito, was hanged
in Decatur Saturday for tho murder
of his wife.
Our troops will return homo from
lio Philippines when a demooratio
resident is elected.
Fire destroyed the park pavilion
and boat house, at Grant’s Park, At
lanta, Friday afternoon.
Mark Hanna- Give mo onough
boodle and I care not who supplies
the gab in this campaign.
Wo obsorvo that tho big Georgia
State Fair to bo lield in Valdosta tho
coming fall is boing heralded far and
■wide.
Tho cotton crop is short, but tho
price is long enough that tho farmers
will got as much money as tlioy
planted for and at less oxponso.
Do not bo timid or backward about
writing for the Progress, The nows
is what wo want; we modify tho
language and spelling if tl*cy need bo.
Tho Afro-American council hold
in Indianapolis last week refused to
ondorco McKinley. Even tho negro
knows enough about tho republicans.
Mrs. Annio D. Mayes of Atlanta,
despondent over tho faiiuro of hor
play “Bibi,” committed suicide at
Valdosta Friday by taking laudanum.
Sister Myrick, of the Tinios-lto.
cordor, has no objections to tho male
shirt waist provided it will not drive
tho women to something more expen
sive.
A cable lino has boon laid from
Washington to Berlin, and direct
communications are now open be
tween. tho United States and Ger
many.
Tho carnival will have a quoon,
and tho whole county will vote in
the contest. She may bo a Vienna,
Unadilla or Pinehurst girl, Nobody
. knows.—Call.
Mrs. Frank Lewis and children,
of Vienna, have returned to their
homo after a visit of several days to
tho formors sister, Mrs. Henry Payne.
—Dispatch and News.
Former president W G Raoul of
tho Central of Georgia, but now
president of the Mexican Central, is
now president of the Waycross Air
Line with headquarters in Now York
Baggage Master A C Goldwire
and the colored porter on tho B & W
road could not agree; both drew
their guns, Goldwire got tho drop
and the negro is gono homo to dio
no more.
Thomas Jones, a- negro preacher,
was hanged in Raleigh, N. C., last
week for the murder of six persons.
He fell out with the family, and with
an axe at midnight lie Blew them .and
Bred the house.
Address to Country Editors.
When the association met ut
Dublin last year the editors were
entertuiiied like Methodist preaoh-
ers and everything was absolutely
free. They wore invited to differ
ent places for the next meeting,
but the invitation coming from El-
berton was so full of good promises
that it wns decided that we meet
there this year where we wero to be
entertained like priests and no
thought of scrip or purse was to
mar our minds, as no editor should
be allowed to pay for anything.
On our way to Elberton to accept
theso hospitalities so generously
offered we were met at Athens by
another representative to consign
us homes. .We ail went where di
rected, which proved to be the com
mon boarding bolisos of the town
whioh had mutually agreed to
oharge us $1,25 instead of the usual
price of one dollar to all transients,
and wo wero to stay two days. It
beoame rumored, the next day that
the Kansas City boarding house
racket was being run on us, and the
editors commenced leaving on next
train.
And they were the maddest set
of pencil pushers that has ever been
in any township within our knowl
edge. The Gholston Inn is a $2.00
house and it gave us a rate of $1.25
which we appreciated, but we could
not find any pleasure in paying
$1.25 to one doller houses. Conse
quently the meeting was not fully
attonded, so many of our crowd be-
ing gone ahead of the party on the
excursion. One poor woman try.
ing to live by her boarding house
informed us that her rate was never
but one dollar except for that week,
and that she had been waited on
by a committee whioh had notified
hor that the editors were able to
pay their board and that all houses
had agreed on the uniform price of
$1.25 during their stay. She could
not tell who composed that com
mittee but gave us the name of the
man who delivered the message.
■She said she was afraid to charge
less than she had been told to charge
because she was afraid the town
would boycot her house.
Tho man who instructed the wo-
man to go up 25 per cent on tho ed
itors provod to be the man who met
us at Athens and consigned us to
theso boarding houses for homes.
And this same man was eleoted to
an oillco in the convention because
it was customary to elect a man
from the town where wo meet. This
editor had the moral courage to
stand up and vote ugainst him,
though he was the only one in the
convention to do so. We ure called
a crank because we have convic
tions and will.not saorifice them on
any oooasion. Twice in the con
vention tho Progress man cast the
only dissenting vote and was after
wards applauded in private for his
courage.
We need more conscientious vot
ing in our conventions. The matter
of form has lost its usefulness and
wo need changes in business to pre
vent a sameness on our trips. The
driving wheels of. the convention
have been perfectly submissive to
the dictations of- the steam whis
tles. The bone, and sinew of the
Georgia weekly press havo hereto
fore submitted to paying the freight
and allowing the orators to run the
the conventions. The orators are
generally men of other professions
who have only an interest in run
ning a paper, as you will see from
their mast heads or the newspaper
directory. Our.jdistinguished presi
dent is oil inspeotor under Com
missioner Stevens and is well able
to pay his share of expensive con-
tions.
We had a resolution prepared
whioh would prohibit any member,
of the association from holding of
fice more than two years in succes
sion, but found that even those
who favored it would not vote for
it bcoausd they did not want to get
into a wrangle. Hence the resolu
tion was not offered.
When we meet again, we‘should
go there with a fixed purpose for
business. Very few writers- are
good talkers, but every one of you
can vote, and we shall be opposed
to the election of officers except one
at a time By ballot, The railroad
way of elections at the last three or
four meetings has been ridiculous
and it does not voice.the sentiment
of the convention. Too many of
you sit back and vote for the thing
that is painted most beautiful with
a Bowery speech without consider
ing the other side of the question,
Points to.Pencil Pushers.
Be strict to business.
Originality is always preferred.
Steer clear of advertising agents.
If you don’t know a thing, don’t
Bay it.
Have no pets for repeated local
mentions.
Be slow to express an opinion on
a moral question.
Better go a bit shoddy than to
neglect your bills.
Find out what your readers want
and give itto them.
Find out your weak points and
try to remedy them.
Train yourself* to know a news
item when you see it.
Make your paper the best one in
your part of the state.
Make no remarks that you oan
not baok up with facts.
Say nothing about a man you
would not say to his face.
Avoid slang. Your paper may
be a teaoljer in many a home.
Be sooial and recognize your ac
quaintances wherever you meet
them.
Mako no prophesies of what 1 will
happen within the next hundred
years.
In court oases, give the aotual
nows but let the jury make up the
verdict.
Don’t presume that you are a
chief ambng your people, but only
a servant. .
There are very few quotation
marks in this paper, and none at
all in the Bible.
Learn as early as you can what
to keep out of your paper as well as
what to put in it.
You cannot call girls beautiful
and accomplished without falsify
ing or discriminating, f
Keep your columns clean enough
that they may at any time be read
uloud in the family circle.
Respect all churches and show
no partiality to religion unless you
are running a denominational pa-
per. •
Hold yourself subject to correc
tion and open to conviction. Wise
men change their minds; fools
never.
Devote ydur talent to your busi
ness and let the preaohers run’the
ohurches and. the teachers the
schools. •
Be kind and generous to those
under you. Even you may have
been or may become a common
laborer.
Keep your opinion out of your
columns until you are confident you
can defend that opinion against all
comers..
If editing is your business, put
all of your time to it, and commence
on your next issue as soon as you
get out this one, ■ '
If a friend brings you a basket
of fruit, say, Thank you; but don’t
praise him above what he deserves
unless you are soft.
Be not partial in your remarks of
poople of high standing. From the
common people- comes your sup
port, either directly or indirectly,
• Avoid the use of titles for men
except the distinguished. It is folly
to put Mr. to-every man’s name you
mention, and then your .cap M’s
may run Bhort.
Remember that you are not a
superior being, but flesh and bones
just like your readers, and that
your opinion may not be worth any
more than theirs.
Dismiss from, your mind the dir
ty things of your community. Your
mind and pen will run together un-
awares, and if you study evil your
renders are sure to And it out. •
$50 In Premiums.
THE YIENNA PROGRESS -
Will pay $50 in
premiums to the five nearest guess-
ers to the total number of votes for
governor this year, as follows:
For the nearest guess, $20 .
“ “ second and third nearest guesses, each, 10.
A . “ fourth and fifth “ -5.
20
JL0
Total, $50
As a basis we have secured from the Seoretary of State the vote
in each eleotion for governor since 1884, which is as follows:
1884
1886
1888
119,880
101,582
122,000
1890
102*767
1892..
202,701
1894
121,625
1896 L : 123,568
1898 117,455
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tire first day of January for reference in case of dissatisfaction.
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8 1 1900