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It is only a month till campmcct- li'Pf. He was hnried at bis. home in Brooks county. (I R Mathews has started up nis •liukery.*sg*in. The reuuiou is oniy twe weeks off -from next Saturday. A delay in freights from Marietta paper mills has delayed this paper a day. Kant Vienna will have a two story brick Rtoro noxt fall 76 feet square. (' .1 Fitzgerald has moved hack I rum Byroinville to his father’s farm east of town. Some of the farmers say thoy never had a more agreeable spring for making a crop. Miss Ethel Hall, of Cordele, is spending the week with Misses Cliff and Annie Whitehead. Mr. A. II. Thompson, age 60, died in Cordele Sunday night. He was gin nmnngor tor W T Mathew*. There will he servioes at the Episcopal church next Sunday afternoon at 4:80o’olook by Rev. II T Walden. Lot a good crowd attend. ■» According to the prosent outlook there w|ll lie five candidates for j ustioe of the peace of the Vionna district. W M Forehand, J C Forohand, G F Swearingen, II J Morgan und one whoso name is withheld by request. Death visited the homo of Mr. <1 Ii Ainthews Sunday morning and took from earth tho little ohild who had blessed the home only six weeks with its precious and innooent life. Its little body was laid away Sunday ovoning in tho now cemetery. Berry piokiug around Vienna is good hut we have not run into Ship or McKenzie of Cordole, and Adkins soums-to have a private patoh of his own. “We will wager that by foroo of lmbit Bill Bivins is in the brier patch every other day. Even in the enlightened oity of Atlanta is published a statement from a “spiritualist.” All sane pooplc know that dead people do not solid messages baok to earth. Tho boll woevlll. that oaused so much stir in tho ootton fields of Texas laRt yoar has givon grounds for much “scientific” expressions for the wise moil of tho bugology committee. It is discovered that the little red ant will destroy tho weovilby using it for food, and now they want to till tho ootton Holds with red abts from Mexico. "Let this bo done and they will soon bo seeking a remedy for tie rod ant. Judge Littlejohn Inis not bean to Vionna since the supreme court decided the Elton Gray case, but is expooted to eoine in a few weeks and pasp sentence on Ellon again to hang. From that time Elton will have maybe a month to live, and it may he expected that in the good old summer time ot August the negro will leap from the gallows into eternity for tho murder of bis wife in Cordele last winter. When we last talked to the condemned man be Bald be was putting his trust in the Lord. That is muoh better than putting bis trust in ebot gun as he did when he got mud witn his wife the last time and Blew her. Even a murderer may have a hope of heaven, and his clinnoes dr* generally better than the ohances of the one be murdered {or he, the murderer, is given time to repsnt, and the one ne murdered is given no time at all, no warning and is generally mad and fussing. ( Jilion se»ms to be thoroughly conquored and is praying for tee lorgiveness ot his sins. THE MoNEEL Marble Co.. Ms rietta and Cordele, have the largest trill Sonin. Write or call for price COTTON TIES FOUND Jordan B Forehand drove to town Saturday evening with a bunch -of hoop ties in his buggy to show to the curious people to let them guess at and to spend their opinion. The ties are for tho Lowery round ootton that was put up hero two r years ago and never used. Tno press has boon moved away and the tics with' it, but.by some means unknown to tho public, four bunches, and probably more, wore put in the oreok a milo from town and wore found Saturday evening by the farm hands while thoy were m bathing. Thoy did not know what the' ties were for, neither did the men who looked upon them in town, ami many were tho suggestions made as to what they were for and how long thoy had been in the water. Tho moBt general bolief was, that they were purobased for a moon shine distillery utnk, and that tho bandH were hidden in the water when the project was abandored. The ties were a mystery to all. Thoy were" eight tcet lone with a hook fastened to one end a catch to tho other. No one thought about tho Lowery press nnd its tics until A J Shell and C A Joiner, former monagers of the gin, had a descrip tion of them, and thoy know at once what thoy were, but no orio yet know how how came them in a hole of water a mile from the gin house. Ressdcnce of MR. JOE BURNS* A bushel of wheat by actual count,! Colton growers in Toxas have has been found to contain 809,720 j discovered that turkoyR, owing to grams. i their long reaoh, are able to get tho One third of the people of the 1 boll weevils which infest the top of United States are engaged in agri-| cotton stalks and destroy the crop cultural pursuits.' ‘ j The »or>ej will fatten on these , insects and as a result turkey raising The government lias already taken . , . /,• promises to become a profitable 11ENRY G. TURNER DEAD Henry G Tamer of Georgia died suddenly at Raleigh N. C. last Thursday morning. Ho was one of the best known politioans in the union, was con gressman for sovoral 'years was roooutly supreme court judge and resigned bcoause ofi ill health. He was favorably mentioned for the next vice president of the United Slates. BRUNSWICK ST. SIMONS On Monday, June 20, the Atlantio & Birmingham Railway will have personally conducted cxoursion to Brunswick, St. Simons and Cumber land Island and from all reports i number of onr oitizens will attend. Tne limit of the ticket will allow to spend threo days at the sea shore. Spcoial rates have boon souurcd at hotels and bourding houses to take care of tno party at tno J crate cost. The faro from Vienna is $2.60 round trip to Brunswick. Train leaves at 0:42 a. m. Special train will ar rive at Brunswick at 0:46 p. m. Arrangements have boon made for a special boat to meet the train at Brunswick so thVt all who wish to go direct to either St. Simons or Cumberland can do so. The train will bo stopped to disebarge the passengers within 200 feet of the boat landing. The boat ride from Brunswick to St. Simons and Cum berlana will bo one of the features of the trip. Plenty of first class coaches will be plaoed in the service so that everybody will be comfort able. Nothing will ht you bettor to endure the long, hot summer than an outing at the sea shore. Round trip rate from BruuBwiok to St. Simons 80 oen*s. Cumberland $1. There is ne better month to spend at the sea shore than June. one fourth of all the land in Orogon and turned it into a forest reserve lion. In Germany the preservation of tho forests is considered to be' a matter cf great importance for both health and wealth. The celery crop around Kalamazoo, Mich., amounted to 7,000,000 bunches, valued at $500,000, i:: 1003. About 5,000 acres were devoted to its cultivation. ‘Do it now.” Ilow nuieh have you lost by putting off until tomorrow what you couid do today. Whon a task is done it is off your mind and you feel belter and are ready for “next.” Now we know why they hold the chicken shows at this time of year. The bens don’t seem to have any thing to do nut go visiting, judging from tne price of eggs: It is stated on the authority of the Department of Commerce and Labor that our flour expoitR for 1903 were larger than the exports of any othor year in the, history of our oommeroo. They aggregated 20,000,000 barrels. Seoretary Wilson, in a January promises industry in Texas. Agrionlturo being the first occupa tion of civilized man and pursued b.y trillions for thousands of centuries, one naturally thinks of it as old. But Mr. Wilson, our ablo sccrclary of agriculture, declares that we have hardly made a beginning ot under standing this great science. Hear him: “Agriculture is in its infancy, \\ c hayo'not yet begun. It is a new subject, so new in fact that’ its possibilstias cannot now be com prehended. It is a vast , field and only the smallest part, of it has been covered.” ’ ' In Mexico some people cultivate their crops with oxon hitched to a piece of wood out from a forked sapling. If you ask the Mexican when he intended to quit wasting time, energy atid money with antiquated tools, he will reply, “Manana,” meaning tomorrow, but with the Mexican “Manana' always'one day ahead. How does this word “Manana” apply to you and your methods? Let “do it now” be your motto. It is h umiliatmg to think of the Threo covered wagons came to Vienna from the south Tuesday, stopped about 30 minutes to buy a few supplies and pulled out cast like they had no time to lose. The party consisted of six persohs traveling with three mules and three wagons. They .said they lived ip Atlanta, loft homo January for a. pleasure trip through South Georgia, had been within 20 miles of tho Florida lino and hack this far north, and were going from here to Savannah and down through South Georgia again boforc returning to Atlanta. Wo saw no Wav they have of making a living as they go along, and thoy did not put on the appearance of having much wealth piled up behind tl^em. If I was a woman hunting a husband I would never make eyes at such a"traveler as that. C A euRtom of farmers along tho rural routes in using the rural mail ooxes as a medium of advertising their sjtles, is to bo headed off by the postoilieo department, and a warning has been issued that parties will bo prosecuted for an infraction of the postal laws if the rural mail boxes are used os repository for Bale bills or other medium ot communi cation unless proper stamps aro affixed. interview, said: “Good crops insure number of boys in all parts of the the nation agaiust panics. I have [ country who have never thought the greatest confidence in the that a kho wledgo of scientific farm- agriculturalist as the real sustaining ( jug « ould benefit them in the least, power of the prosperity of tho remarks an agricultural exchange. United States.” In co-operation lies the sola:ion of some ot tho probloras that today confront the workers and producers ot the world. Small beginnings have been mode in many places along this line, and the world . is mi lying to greater and better things. Thuy vabily imagine that’ having been born on a farm, and learned haw to barncsB horses and hitch them to a plow or wagon, and haul and plow' iiko other people, that they naturally know how to farm. There is no one $o ignorant as he who is ignorant of his ignorance. TEACHERS ELIMINATION There will be a general exaini nation for applicants for license to teaoh in the publio 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 k the questions will be submitted, eaoh day. The examination will begin at 7 o’clock a. m. Yours truly, E G GEENE, CSC Dooly Co. Crystal Crepe Paper, Window Shades, and Ladies Umbrellas Received This Week. MOSELEY MERCANTILE CO. Vienna. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Vienna. Ga., June 0, 1904. Prosent, Mayor Lewis; aldermen Walton, Bennett, Forbes; absent, McDonald. Motion carried that attention of citizens of city be called to Seotions 101, 102 and 103, of code of city, which reads aR follows: Sec. 101. Filhty Privies Prohi bited.—No person Bball allow any privy upon'any part of bis or her premises, or of other premises under bis care or oooupanoy, to be in a filthy or offensive condition, Sec. 102. Slaughter Pens Pro- kibitcd.-.-Tt. shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep main tain or have a slaughter pen or place for killing oaule or hogs, within the corpora f e limits of the oity, ana any person or persons so offending shall, upon conviotion, be fined in the sum of not less than Five nor mole than Fifty Dollars for eaoh day suoh bus iness is carried on, and upon railure to pay, suoh fine the persons so offending shall be punished in tho direction of the Mayor. Sec. 103. Keeping Spoiled Meats Forbidden.—No porson or persons shall keep about their-promises any spoiled or decayed meat, fish or green hides. All violations of the provisions of this and the foregoing sections this chapter, wherein tho punishment is not defined, shall bo punished, on conviotion, by a fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars. And, that after the 15th, mst., an inspector will visit each person's premises in tho oity, and report all such premises that is found not in co npliance with the above sections, and that each person occupying said promises so found, will be dealt with as provided by seotion 99, which is as follows: See. 99. Punishment for Failuio to Remove Nuisances.—After., beariug the testimony in the case if the matter or thing should be ad judged a nuisance, then the Mayor and Council may order the Marshall to abate the same forthwith, and the clerk and treasurer shall issne execution against suoh person o wner for the amount expended on r removing same, and addition thereto the Mayor may fin d any person offending against this seotion in a sum not exceeding One Huudrod Dollars or imprisonment. Motion carried that the oitizens of the city are hereby aotified to put their water pipes in gobd order and not allow leakage from them, and to let this matter have their immediate attention, thereby saving expenses of having same repaired by city authorities. Minutes read and approved; council then adjourned. K. R. LEWIS, Mayor. J. A. WALDEN, C. and T.