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Col S R Fields was here Monday T). fi. Avora attended ordinary's court. II C Melton has moved to Rioh- wood. 11 N Fenu and wife spent Sunday in town. Gordon BurnR is at homo from college. Sj A Morgan of Amencus, was here Tuesday. E S Bowen was hero yesterday slinking hands with his friends. •Tno. IT Forehnnd and wife were here shopping Monday morning Ti^o next sheriff spent some time recently with frioiiun in Sumpter. Miss Maude West, of Moultrie, is here on a visit to Mas. A E Jordon. P G Busline, of L’ordclo, spent Sunday with his parents in Vienna, Joe C Fcnn and wife, oi Cordele, v : silcd O S Bazcmore's family Sunday. Miss Mary Swearingen went to uolumbus yesterday to visit her brothers. A B Tippett is fixing to put up a telephone line from Vienna to Tippettville. Mrs. S. F. Summers has roturnod from a visit to Bolingbrokc in Mon roe county. Geo. W. Butler, Jordon Butler and Pat Jlutler were among the callers Monday. Miss Lula May Forohaiid is clerk iir for MrB. R P' Mitchell in her millinery store. Editor C J Shipp and wife of Cordclo were hero visiting M E Ruslun's family Monday. G W Smith of Unadilln was . tho sale hero Monday and brought two or three yokes of oxen and wagon. The second district Masunio gathering is to bo hold in Albany June 15 10, to whinh tho lodges ar invited. Mrs. W W Jordon is having a serious spell of fever and. she has her sister, Miss Anpie Wooten, of ^timber City, with her. Misses Mary and Martha Parker- son have dosed their schools in W-iloox and they returned home yesterday for tho summer. Mrs. G. G. Goff and children, of Vienna, arc visiting the families of Messrs. J. F. Holmes aud E. R. Bamor, ?n Valdosta.—Times. Miss Sallio Leonard is at home for the summer from Lucy Cobb Institute, but will bo away a ween in Augusta attending a house party 'Johnny Hargrovo and Price Hoard have returned from Mercer. They aro tho least boys in that oollege but not the slowest m their bocks. J Frank Powell, Miss Jewel Powell aud Miss Muda Sumorfork, of Vi enna, were enjoying the hospilaltios of the Lanier Monday, says tho Macon felegranh. J T Coleman and little daughter of Byromvillo were here Tuesday. Mr. Coleman says they are making preparations for a big day at she re-unio'n on tlio 2nd of July. (Jol. M P. Hall has some fine hogs. Blooded stock are' the best. C I Bennett has a fino bunch of pigs also' (hat are only a few weeks old and would barbecue real well now. Rupert H Stovall lias r'eti rned home ■ for the summer. He is student of BellvueMedical Hospital in Now York. Whouho graduates next year he will bo Dr. Stovall III, his father . and grand-father being dootors. Messrs ^F M Year wood, W S Year wood and J B McDonald have bought a turpentine business at Melrose Fla, for whioh they paid $45,000 cash. The firm name Yearwood & McDonald, and they have 45 crops now running gum. The farmers are laying by corn. Cordele is to have another bans. All who setll^ in Vienna seem to prosper. Purohase your goods from those who advertise. Miss Mary Bowen was shopping hero this morning. Lots of nice things could be raised this year for a county fair. Lots, of yellow-feot ohioken aro saving for the Dooly oampmeeting. It emit the county $158 to got Joe Gout Spradlcy back hero from Texas. Peaches are selling on the streets at 50 .cents a peck or 10 cents a dozen. Mr. T I Ingram and Mrs. C Z Turner wore married Wednesday in the 14th district. , / Who will take np Hon. Davo Harvard’s fight ugainst oigarettes in tho next legislature? The negro children aro making well of the bluokberry crop. They boat the editors to them. The stores are showing much respect to tho meeting' by closing tho doors during tho morning ser vice. We have a nice water cooler for sale at tnis office cheap. It cost $3 and you can have it for naif that price. Tho honey season is about over, ana there was just about enough produced in the county for one break fust. Eggs aro selling at 16 omits dozen aud scarce at that. Botter than a gold mine would be a success ful egg farm. There is a mowing maohine and rake resting up for the summer and fail crop of bay, and will out on shares. Report at this office if you will have any to nut. The next union sing after the one at Snow uoxt Sunday will bo at Oak Grove, five miles west of Ashburn, on the 8rd Sunday in June. Then oomca the convention at Pleasant Valley in September. J A Walden took two old butcher knives to Bonnctt’s shop yestorday aud had them dressed off. Judgo Waldeii bought tho knives 33 years ago and has kept them all through his married life, only letting them got a bit rusty. Tho lemonade privileges for the ro-union at Byromvillo was sold to J J Fields and ' Bryant Bros, tor $70. They give notioe that'they will supply cool drinks in abundance but will not take care of jugs and bottles for the public. Loo Nobles brought his shot gun to Hall’s shop Saturday for repairs. There is nothing especially funny about that, but the replies,, to inquiring friends why he was carrying his gun were sometimes, laughable. To some be said lie had some money in his pocket dud was afraid to walk around town with it without his gun. Senator D A R Crum came to court Monday morning with a cabbage in each hand as large as a peck measure with slight exceptions. He destributed them among his friends but did not have * enough to go around; neither would ho have had enough if lie had brought his entire patch. Ilis friends are more numerous than anybody’s cabbage., Resilience of DR. J. WHITEHEAD on Church street. JOINED THE CHURCH The most beautiful and touching scene of tho meeting now going on at the Baptist church was six little girls as they joined tho chufoh Tuesday night and stood in lino to answer tho questions and reoeived'thc right band of Christian fellowship. They presented a heavonly scene as six angels standing before an earthly throng pointing the way to heaven. They are Misses Sallio Mobley, Aline. Joiner, Gladys Heard, Louise Hargrove, Laura Kate Morgan and Essa May Hamilton. Wednesday Misses Letitia Wood and Mvrtlo Smith joined. Wednes day night little Miss Luoilo Morgan and Earl Lashloy added their names, making nine girh and one boy just entering their teens, and one mac, to bojfoaytizcd Friday night, when the meeting will oome to a close. Mr. % W Lassbter joi ned Sunday and his wife put in hor letter. TO MEN ONLY Rev. J C Solomon preaobed a sermon Sunday evening BASE BALL MEETING Thorp was a public meeting at the obdrtliouse Tuesday ovebmg to get up abase ball team tor Vienna. | A public subscription has boon taken and about $600 promised with the expectation of $400. more. The company organized under the name of tho Vienna Base Ball Association and the following officers elected: B M Wood, President. K it Lewis, Vice President. L L Woodward, Secietary and Treasurer. J L Taggart, W T McDonald, Ed Howell. DiVoutors. Thov will employ tho host players obtainable and rush up a lively team. There is something new every week in the Mosley advertisement in this paper. to men only. He invited them to lay off their coats and be comfortable while ho addressed them with his coat off. He said he knew of iu' place in the Bible that says man shall keep on his.coat. He preached an excellent sermon that was full of warnings against bad habits, but said nothing tbat ladies and ehidren could not hear. The sermon was bitterly opposed to the cigarette habit, and several incidents were related to show the folly of the practice and the de' structive results that are almost sure to iollow the excesssve use of them. He referred to tho railroad iu their refusal to employ men or boys who smoke cigarettes, and he inti mated that other businesses might do woll to follow the example. On strong drink lie related several incidents of a serious nature resulting from the awful habit, and especially deplored the beginning of drink by young men and boys. His sermon was strong and full of reason and good advice. SEEDLESS APPLES Sharing honors with the wireless teb graph, smokeless coal and miorobeless water at tho World’s Fair is an exhibit of seedless apples. California contributed some seedless oranges and Florida seedless pears, but it remained for Colorado tu produce the apple without core. Not only has this fruit an absence of seed, but thj tree upon which it is grown is blossomless. Mr. John F. Spencer of Grand Junction is father of the speoics and he says that the seedless appleisalso immuno from the ravages of insects. Horticulturists who visit the World's Fair are greatly interested in the exhibit, as the culture of tho fruit is regarded as an important discovery. Mr, Spencer is now experimental with the various varities of apples and be believes that he can develop' a seedless Winesap, a seedless Gano and other favorite species. If ho is successful it is likely that other fruit growers will follow his ex ample. It is claimed that the seedless apple is not hurt by the frost be cause it has ho blossoms. It ip a hardy grower and thrives abundantly m the Colorado climate. These advantages in its behalf rccoomcnd it to all orphardists. The Spencer display is mado in the Colorado .exhibit in tho Palace of Horticulture. Several bushels of the fruit are in cold storago and the supply ib constantly kept fresh. SING AT SNOW There has been some scattering remarks concerning the union sing at Snow next Sunday that led some to n slight suspicion that there will be no sing in the church that day, but we aro authorized by one of the leaders to siato that the singing will be and tint there is no mistake of a good time expected. Pre parations nio being made by tho good ladies for a dinner like they, had there two years ago, and that was no puny'affair, but one of Snow’s 'best. Tho singing will begin by 10 o’clock and last till about 4. CAMPMEETING The meeting held at campground yesterday was ono of business and plans ware laid for a campmeeting to begin of the third Saturday night in July and last four days from tho 10th to the 20th. Committees were appointed on the differents works of the grounds and meeting; and they expect a good oampmeeting. The general work day for prepar ing the grounds will be Wednesday, July 13. Our Special io=day * * Slipper Sale Includes Everything Handled in that Line. MOSELEY MERCANTILE CO. Vienna. Two young ladies near Athens were killed Monday by lightning. Sylvester has gained tho court house contest against Isabella and they will be ready to load the oapitol of the county on a wagon for its new home as soon as the legislature gives them the wink. At Cripple Creek, Colorado, Monday 12 non union minors were killed and seven wounded by the explosion of dynamiter plaoed by union laborers. Labor unions would control tho world if it wore not ■ for the rascality of them. Japan aud Russia are very busily engaged at wiping eaehother from the face of she earth on the other side of the world from us. The Russians outnumber the Japs, by three to one, but the Japs are threo to ono * the best fighters. Great destruction is 'being wrought on both sides. Well, we Parker people came very near not carrying the state for him. CohgrOBSman Griggs was only defeat ed by eight votes, and instructions for Parker were carried by a major ity of only nine. Hearst was much stronger in Georgia that a groat many people forooa themselves to think.—Dublin Courier Dispatch, According In newspaper reports, the worlds fair is 'running as slick as a peeled onion. But they had a little difference cn the l’ike Sunday when the authorities stopped a bull light after the visitors had paid to go in. When they coukl uot see thc\ sights they demanded their money back. Failing to get it they fired the cow pen and bnrfit up a $2,500 building. TEACHERS EPAMINATION . There will be a general exami nation for applicants for license' to teach in the public schools of the state, held at the Academy in Vienna on Friday and Saturday, June, 17th and 18th, 1904. Teachers wishing to make a license muse attend both days, as only a part of the questions will be submitted each day. The examination will begin at 7 o’clock a. m. Yours truly, E G GEENE, CSC Dooly Co.