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THE VIENNA PROGRESS. SEPTEMBER 13,1900.
Mackerel fish at Jordan Bros.
The watermelon season is over-.
The Unadilla News has suspended
Dr. J M Whitehead is at Reynolds
this week.
C. M. Hall has entered school at
Unadilla.
Walter P Hall wi II go to Mercer
next week.
Shoes from 25c to 84.50 nt Jor-
, dan Bros.
Don’t forgot to guess on the gov-
ornor's vote.
See .1. F. Calhoun & Co’s. 5 and
10c tin ware.
I fix watohes and mend jewelry—
W. Thigpen.
Contractor Cole’s two girls have
returned home.
The postoffice has been moved to
the Roberts blook.
The Hargrove building is going
up two stories high.
O. M. Heard spent Sunday with
relatives in Houston.
Prettiest line ol China ware in
town at Jordan Bros.
Miss Bertha Leonard returned
Monday to Lucy Cobb,
Everything in Groceries’ low
down at Jordan Bros,
The CASH gets Shoos at a bar
gain at Jordan Bros.
Miss Luoy Heard is clerking in the
bank of J P Heard & Sons.
Any one wanting business lots to
build stores on- in the best business
part of the city, see .
D. B. Thompson.
J Frank Powell knows of a man
going forty milos Sunday to see a
girl and she was hot at home.
What is the difference between
Bill McKinley and Buffalo Bill?
That’s easy; Buffalo Bill has a show.
Way cross Horald.
Any one wishing a home in the
city of Vtonna, cheap for cash or
one years’ time see
D. B. Thompson.
The Houston Baptist Association
will meet in Ashburn on Tuesday
Oot. 9, instead of Wednesday, 10th,
as first announced.
J F Calhoun & Co. • have now
things to say about new goods and
new prices. Read their announce
ment on this page.
There is but one way to manage a
subscription list with satisfaction to
all, and that is to stop the paper
who the time is out.
I pay the highest price for cot
ton seed, because I have unexcelled
advantages for weighing und un
loading them. D. B. Thompson.
Miss Edith Page went from here
Monday to Pinehurst to spend
week in the Dr. Roberts' homo be
fore returning to Byromville,
J J Cooper is continually receiving
the goods ho bought in New York
recently, and when tho goods are all
in, you may expect a lively announce
ment.
People wishing the highest price
iave it put in “Round-
lap Buies.” If you wish to hold it
the insurance is only one per cent.
D. B. Thompson.
Hon. Jno. A. Wooton, of Chaun-
oy, J. H. Jordan and A. E. Jordan
and family spent Sunday at the Jor-
J. F. Calhoun <fc Co. have just re- j dan home near Findley and got a
ceived a nice line of neokwear! j good dinner.
Shoes! Shoes! ! for everybody.
Prices low. Jordan Bros
General repair work done by T T
Martin at Christian’s old stand.
A M Lane of Rooholle visited rel
atives here Sunday and Monday.
For photo work go to Cofield’s
over Citizen’s Bank, Cordele, Ga. tf
It is a hard matter to get a negro
pi'
J. F,
) pounds good family fli
. Calhoun & Co. for 99o.
! Miss Maude Bryan, of Kathleen,
is visiting Mrs. O. M. Heard.
’ Miss Luoy Bello. Harvard visited
relatives-at Pinehurst Sunday.
t J. F.
Are offering Prints at 5 and 6cts.
Outing’ at 5 to igcts.
Cashmers at 25 to 50cts.
Worsted at 10 to 20cts
Crepon Skirt Patterns at $5,00.
Trimmings, Laces and Embroideries to Suit.
Every lady in Vienna and surrounding community are espec
ially invited to see our line and make our placo headquarters.
□HR NOTION DEPARTMENT _
is complete. Gents Furnishing a specialty. FI AT S—the quality,
style and price will suit you.
-»0 SHOES, SHOES.
We pride ourselves in this line.
Children Shoes from 25C to $1.25
mm Ladies “ “ 79c to 3.00
mw Men’s “ 99c to 4.00
8*
to do anything now but piok cotton
I pay 18 cents per bushel for cot
ton seed. D. B. Thompson.
Mrs. G W Hayden spent last week
at the homo of Judge J H Wood
ward.
Clocks, watohes and jewelry
mended by W. Thigpen at Calhoun’s
store.
Fishing seems to be good with
some of the boys while court is go
ing on.
D. B. Leonard and his son-in-law,
Col. M. P. Hall, spent Monday in
Macon. * ■
You will find ail over Embroid-!
ery for your, yokes at J. F. Calhoun
& Co’s.
The mill of justice is grinding
slowly and the taxpayers are taking
notice of it.
C W Smith, at Unadilla. is de
tained from the store with his son
since'last week.
•I will take boarders by the week
through court at 75 cents a day.
J. A. Smith. .
Dr. G M McMillan has bought the
Cordele City drug store from Dr. W
E Beacham.
A short crop at a high price will
bring more clear money than a long
crop at a short price.
Any one wishing to buy a stock
of goods cheap for cash, call to see
me. D. B. Thompson.
The grand jury adjonrned Wednes
day evening. The presentments will
be published' next week.
Mrs. Ethel Merriday, of Palatka,
Fla., is spending a month with her
annt, Mrs. G W Wooten.
I will advance eighty per cent,
on Roundlap bales cotton in stdre
at the rate of six per cent. Re
member the insurance is only one
per cent. D. B. Thompson.
Ail subscriptions more than a year
old will bo discontinued on the 1st
of October.
Now that the Unadilla paper has
turned up its toes, we will work that
town for news and printing.
Up to the hour of going to press
not one cent has been paid to this
office for last month’s legal advertis
ing. . Henceforth they miist be paid
for in advance.
Mrs. W M McDonald, of Laville,
'who has been visiting friends and
relatives in this city for the past week,
returned home Tuesday after enjoy
ing a pleasant visit.
Jno. E Howell was here yesterday
returning to Moultrie from Indian
Spring. He said it looked quite
natural to see the subscription book
being lugged around the court house.
Tilt your chair a little further baok,
cross your ankles and read with
pleasure the things on first page, and
profit by what you learn. W T. Jay
is a buyer and Fate Calhoun can help
him sell.
The Bank of Vienna and the Bank
of Unadilla have official statements
in this issue showing both banks to
be prosperous and in a healthy eon
dition as well as looation. These are
good banks.
Wagon loads of negroes are hauled
■ . Hi
It will pay you to see our line and get our prices before you buy.
GROCERIE$==A Ml line.
Come to see us-will do out best to please yon.
J. F. CALHOUN & CO
Campmeeting Funds.
We are requested by the commit
tee to state thut the funds sub
scribed to repovor the tabernacle
*t the campground are payable to
E G Green, treasurer of the camp-
meeting fund.
Let all pay promptly and let the
good work go on.
India Sufferers.
Editor Progress—Please per
mit me to acknowledge receipt of
the following additional contribu
tions to. the India Famine Relief
Fund:
M. J. Addison Adkins, for 9th
District ;...:......$6.18
Mrs. Z. W. Lusseter, Vienna 1.00
Respectfully,
Dr. C. T. Stovali/
Negro Killed.
out to the country every morning and
they are* not dead, either. The
women of Vienna are having to do
their own housework because the
negroes are doing the cotton patches.
We have a witty little poem on
the boys and girls of Vienna, and
would publish it this week if we knew
who wrote it. Publishing things
without knowing the name of the
author is like eating things handed to
you in the dark by unknown persons.
A telephone message was sent
from Cordele to S J and T J Hill at
the courthouse that a negro had, cut
their brother all to pieces and had
escaped. We hear this morning that
Mr. Hill is able to be in the chase of
the negro. Wo presnme it is Bart
Hill who runs a saw mill a mile be
low town.
Calhoun’s gin is unable to. do the
work put upon it. They run three
gins and tarn out about twenty-five
bales a daj% and at seven o’clock
this morning twenty wagons with
cotton for nineteen bales were wait
ing for room. One man said he got
hero two hours before day and four
teen bales were ahead of him.
Cotton Market.
Two Macon negroes picking cot
ton near Unudilla Tuesday evening
got to throwing dice for sacks of
cotton, so the story goes, and one
beat the other, of course. The de
feated one went for u shot gun,
came back to the field and shot the
other dead. The murderer is in jail
here, but we ure unable to obtain
the name of .either.
There was no eye witness and he
told his own story. •
PETE ITEMS.
1’etP, Sept. 11, 1900. .
T M Lewis and mother visited
Mrs. Gaiiies near Drayton Sunday.
Bob Childs, of Monroe county,
has beep the guest of his sons,
J F and W V Childs, for the past
few days.
Miss Virginia Dickson returned
home Sunday after several day’s
visit to her sisters, Mrs. Lilly, of
Fuquu, and Mrs. Shirab, of the
“Bay.”
C R Hall n»w sports a bran new
top bngvv. It is not an unusual
thing i... >v to see Charles and his
best girl now out driving Sunday
afternoon. Bui »h! well they must
gw to Sunday scuuui, ut course!
We have written statements from
D B Thompson, tho round bale
man, and I S Lasseter, of the
Planters warehouse, the middling
cotton was selling yesterday at lOf
in the square and 10£ in the round.
NOTICE.
dr. stoyall’s Drug Store!
Host complete stock between Hacon
and Jacksonville.
Everything at and below city prices.
Drugs of every kind. Full line of Sharp
and Dohmes fine Chemicals, and
other Standard makes.
All the Standard Patent Medicines, including:
Smith’s Chill and Fever Tonic, Grove's Chill Tonic, Bryan’s
Chill Tonic, Dr. Stovall’s Chill and Fever Tonic, with Iron.
All the above, wliioh are the best and most popular Chill
Tonies now on the market, are
POSITIVELY GUARANTEED TO CURE
or your money refunded in full, and just as cheerfully as it
was'taken.
Soaps—Laundry, Octagbn, Clairette, etc.
Castile—Blue, White, Green and Brown.
Elegant Toilet Soaps—Cashmere Bouquet,
Glycerine, Turkish Bath, Bay Rum, Honey, Egg-
white, Vions, Pears, No. 4711, Cold Cream, French
Carnation, “Rose Parisenne,” Cuticura, Packer’s
Tar, Snyder’s Healing, Carbolic, Colgate’s and
Williams’ Shaving Soaps’ etc.
Perflimerv—Complete assortment of Colgate’s
Best Extracts, Toilet Waters, Eue de Cologne
[Imported]; also Stearns’, Lazell’s and others; as
well as Imported'Perfumes.
Paints of all Kinds—Ready Mixed and
Crude—-Oils of every kind.
School BookS’—The largest and finest lot of
Stationery in town.
Spectacles, sole agency for Hawkes.
Jewelry and Watches—Well, just come
and see our New Lot just in.
Soda, Matches, Starch, Potash, Tobaccos, Snuff,
Cigars, Condensed Milk, Teas, Pepper, Spices, Baking
Powder, Gold Dust, Pearline, Lamps and. Lampware,
Window Glass, Putty, etc.. Sewing Machine Needles,
Thermometers, Plasters, Syringes, etc. Other lines
Come and see us. -
There will be introduced ut the
next session of the legislature a bill
to amend the charter of the town
of Unadilla so tliat said town can
operate a public school system..
Board Trustees, ,,
Unadilla High School. | too numerous to mention.