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Vienna Progress
H. D. SMITH.
iKnieici as second olass mail matter.
AUGUST 18 1004
A good hay crop is expeoted.
Tho fall schools will soon open
See J. F.' Waters about cutting
your hay on shares.
You hcJJom see any kind of fruit
on the market in Vienna.
Eggs have been scarce all sum
mer at 15 cents a dozon. ,
1. S. Lasseter is repairing his cot
ton warehouse.
Happy is tho young man who is
contented on the farm.
Miss Minnio Colo has returned
home from Coweta county.
A protracted muoting is going on
at Pleasant Valley.
Summer Smith jias moved to
.Montezuma for tho cotton season.
if A, Brvnn, representing the
Atlanta Journal, was hero Tuesday.
Unadil a’s first bnle was carried
in by R, E. Robertson last Satur
day, the lath.
Misses Minnie and Eula Fuqua
are at homu on a visit from Moul
trie.
Farmer and Mrs. M. E. Rushin
spoilt the first part of tho week in
Montezuma.
S. 11.•• Brown brought the first
bale of now cotton to Vienna last
Tn ursdfty.
Miffs Kate McArthur arrived
Monday on a visit to her sister,
Mrs. J. M. Whitehead.
Kino square miles of land near
Rochelle has been purchased for
North Georgia settlors.
Thu best friond to the friendless
ohildrcn is laid in the tomb of Rov.
W. E. Muniford.
Sovoral new members were re
oeived at the Methodist meeting at
Byromville last week.
There will be n singing all day
next Sunday at Now Hope ohuroh,
a mile caBt of Unadilla.
Miss Janie Thorpe returned home
to Byromvillo Saturday from Thom
as county.
Mr. Willie G. Raines, of Cordole,
and Miss Ada Bruce, of Roohello,
wero married last'week. .
Mrs. H, S. Hammond, of Moul
trio, ago 08, died Monday from an
pver dose of morphine.
A Methodist uhuroh church has
been organized at Lilly with 87
members, mostly taken fhora Pleas
ant Valley.
The fig is a very healthy fruit,
quick to bear and is prolific. Yet
there are very few figs in this ooun
try.
C. C. Duncan has let tho ooutraot
for a 25-room hotel at Unadilla to,
Contractor D. L. Ivey, and the ho
tel is to go up at once.
The legislature was not entirely
idle; it passed about 300 bills, an
average of six a day for the entire
term.
Mrs. B. W. Mayo, of Tifton, re
turned homo Friday evening from a
visit of two weeks to relatives near
Cordele;
Only two legal notices appear
this month, and both from the ordi
nary. There was no sheriff sale
last month aud none for this.
Alton B. Parker was notified last
week of his nomination, and Col. D.
A. R. Crum was notified yesterday.
Both of them knew it long ago.
Mrs. S. F. Summers, of Vienna,
Mrs. T.. F. Amerson, ot Moultrie,
and Misses Mabel and Emma Cain,
of Cordele, are off to St. Simons. .
Misses Bertha and Sallie Lenard
returned home Saturday from White
Springs. They are off now with
their mother to Lithia Springs and
Indian Spring.
Judge D. L. Henderson and fam
ily are visiting in Houston.
Cotton is opening and will soon be
rushing in to relieve the mortgages.
A good corn crop has been made
and all fall crops ore doing well.
Nobody is vet occupying the
Southern Hotel. Lots of good
space lying idle there.
Yesterday was another big day in
Cordele. The Masons had a picnic
and big dinnor at the springs, and
had some good speech-making by
prominent Masons.
Mrs. Lena Whitsott and Mi. R.
Cook wevo married in Cordelo on
Wednesday of last week. The
bride is Frank Powell’s sister, and
sho has sot her brother a good ex
ample.
“When a Dooly county man
comes over here to see one of our
women,” said a man in Maeon
county the other day, '{she just as
well pick up her bonnet and go
with him..”
Dooly has raised <11,000 for a
county lair, says tho llawkinsville
Dispatch and Nows. Cutout coun
ty lair andjinsert baso ball and you
will have it about right.
Byromvillo struck water at 850
feet with her artesian well, then
went 250 feet dooper without strik
ing any more water. The water re
fused to spurt out and thoy had to
put in a pump.
Boarding at T. R. Smith’s are
six men. They represent railroad,
life insurance, electricity, book
keeping, contracting and the press
The landlord is an olficer of tho
law, and he keeps the orowd fairly
straight.
Miss Annie Laurie Jefferson is
making herself puite useful during
her visit to Vienna by keeping house
for Mrs. Rushin, her sister, while
the old folks are away for a week.
Miss Jefferson has suffered slightly
from a spell of lever sinoe she has
been here, but has about recovered.
Misses Mary Lee Pound, of Cor
delo, Margaret Finney, of Had-
dook, and Sarah Mullis spent a day
and night with Mrs. Nell McCall.
The picture of Miss Finney appear
ed i« the Atlanta Journal reoently
as one of the prettiest young wo
men of Haddocks.
Contractor J. Q. Shipp applied
to Rontz Smith for boad last week
and was accepted. Smith immedi
ately sent down town for a load of
oats and bad them at home before
supper time. The contractor iB now
looking sleek and nice, and appears
to bo well fed.
Negroes Burned at Stake
News reached us through the
press dispatches of tho 16th to the
daily press of the state, from States
boro, Bulloch county, Ga., that the
negroes, Paul Reid and Will Cato,
principal? in the Hodges murder,
and whose trial and conviction was
had before Judge Daley on the 17th,
and yore sentenced to hang ou Sep
tember 9, were taken from the court
house immediately after t..oy were
sentenced, by a mob of 1,000 men,
the soldiers in charge being power
less to do aught but act as specta
tors. The Progress does not belong
to the “We-told-you-so” class of
journals at all, nor are we a prophet,
nor the son ot a prophet, but we
just simply felt it in in our bones
that these negroes were going to be
lynched, and were therefore not dis-
appoiuted when the news reached
us, and wo most heartily ?ay amen,
for these wretches have committed
one of the most diabolical crimes
in the annals of the criinin il history
of ihc stale .-.it.ee tho ever to bo re
membered VVi»l folic case.
Now, this campaign year, and of
confessed, implicating other negroes
as he had in the court room. He
denied, however, that he had taken
an active part in the murder. Just
before the matoh was applied to tne
pyre one of those in front asked
Re'd if he did not want to tell the
truth before be died.
“Yes, sir, I killed Mr. and Mrs.
Hodges.’’he replied.
“■Who killed the children?” be
asked. ■
“Handy Boil,” came the response
as the. flames leaped upwards and
further questions' were impossible
m the wild tumult.”
“It was rumored that they were
to be carried out to the soene of the
Hodges murder, but the mob stop
ped them about a mile out of town,
found a light wood stump, fastened
the two men to the stump with
chains, saturated them with kero
sene, piled up lightwood all around
them and set fire to them. In an
instant thoy were a flame from head
to foot, and the people who remain
ed in town could see a volume of
black smoke ourling towards the
I heavens.
Lightwood knots were piled on as
course our lepublicau campaign)
sheets are eager for all such stuff as ‘ the flames grew higher, and amid the
this, and just how those sleekers sh, ; iek8 and groans the two negroes
A WONDERFUL INVENTION.
It is interesting to note that for
tunes are frequently made by the
invention of artioles of minor impor
tance. Many of the most popular
devices ara those designed to benefit
the people and meet popular condi
tions, and one of the mOst inter
esting of these that has oyer been
invented is the Dr. While Electric
Comb, patented Jau. 1,‘99. These
wonderful Combs positively cure
dandruff, hair falling out, sick and
nervous hcadaohes, and when used
with Dr White’s Electric Hair Brush
are positively guaranteed to make
straight hair cuily in 25,days’ time.
Thousands of those electric combs
have been sold in various oities of
the Un’ott, aud the demand is con
stantly increasing. Our agents are
rapidly becoming rich selling these
combs. They positively sell on
sight. Send for sample. Men's
size S5o. ladies’ 50c.—(half prioe
while we are introducing them.)
The Dr. White Eleotno Comb Co.,
Decatur, 111.
CITY BARBER SHOP.
Wmen in tne oity please oall at
the city Barbershop, get a hair out,
shave, .shampoo and face massagr,
dean towels, sharp razors and polite
attention a specialty.
will fix it up will be a cauiion. But
fix it as they may, and make all the
political capital out of it they can,
we do not care the toss of a copper.
We have this to say here in refer
ence to lynch law: That wo are
law abiding, we have laws on our
statute book, and we respect them,
and obey them, for the.representa
tive men of Georgia who enaoted
them are the peers of any set of
men from anywhere. The statute
books contain the written laws by
which we are govorned. But then
there are In every country under the
sun unwritten laws that must bo ad
hered to in order to protect our dear
o ics and our hemes from the rapeist
and the midnight assassin.
Just us long as suuh wretches as
these, bent on the commitment of
the most hen bus crimes, persist'in
their devilish commitments, just so
so long will there be lynohings in
Georgia. So it is practically left
to the perpetrators of these dastard
ly deeds themselves to stop or con
tinue these lynching, for so long as
these crimes are committed, just so
long will lynohings be in the land.
Arriving at tne place of execu
tion the two negroes were made to
seat themselves on a log. They.
were told that th^y had but a short j
time to live and that they should
confess. ;
paid the penalty of their orime,
Just before they wore bound to
the stump thoy were given a chance
to make suoh statements as they de
sired to make, and both made a fulf
donfession of the crime Reid
stated that ho had done all the ac
tual killing, that Cato stood guard
and that the two alone had a hand
in it. lie stated that after he had
killed Mr. Hodges he committed a
crime on Mrs. Hodges and then
killed her and set fire to the house.
He stated that they did not kill the
children, but they were burned to
death in the building.
BUY BURTSBORO.
An ideal country homo is for sale
23 miles north west of Gainsville.
Burtsboro is a country village and
splendid stand for selling goods,
Large roomy buildings, good farm
of 300 acres with 1000 apple trees
just in bearing age and 400 peach
trees now loaded, and other fruits in
abundance.
Daily mail. Post Office pays
over $50 year. Also 30 horse power
steam saw mill.
J. W. BURT,
Burtsboro, Ga.
Miss Mattie Oulter, of Lake Park
oame yesterday to sec Miss Ruby
‘•Reed was the first to speak. He 1 Waters.
WILL MOVE ON CORNER.
AFTER SEPTEMBER 1
L WILL TAKE
POSSESSION OF THE
STORE NOW OCCU
PIED BY
FELDSER & RAINBOW.
SOME SPECIAL PRICES
DURING NEXT 30 DAYS.
T. O. MOSELEY.
Vienna.
PLEASANT VALLEY NOTES.
•»
Rev,, AY. Lane filled his regular
appointment here Saturday ard Sun-
Services will be conducted
throughout the week. Rev. B. E.
Whitington is assisting the pastor.
S. E. Lamb, accompanied by his
niece. Miss Mary Webb, of Byrom
ville, attended services here Sunday.
J. T. Smith has beeu quite sick
this week.
C. G. Bowers and family, who
have been visiting relatives here re
turned to their home at Fitzgerald
Tuesday.
R. M. Lewis has beeu quite sick
this week. '
Everett Swearingen ana wife, of
Vienna attended services, here Sun-
day.
Miss Florenoo Jones, of Pine-
hurst, is visiting Misses Mattie and
Nellie Lewis this week.
Miss Luoia McCall, of Vienna,
worshiped here Suiulu/. ■■ _
Eli Thompson, of Byromville,
was here Sunday It is quietlly
hinted that Unole- Eli is smiling at
the fair sex oneasionally.
Howard Owen and Miss Janie
Thorpe, of Byromvillo, were among
the visitors here Sunday.
II. D. Smith, the jovial Progress
ma i, was here Sunday talking about
what pretty girls lived in Pleasant
Valley. Gome again.
O. P. Ohurehwell and family
visited relatives at Pinehurst Satur
day.
Mrs. T. J. Mason is confined to
hov room this week.
Miss Lucy Cole, of Snow, is vis-
iting relatiyos here this week.
Dr. F. E. Williams, of Vionna,
was hove Sunday altornoon a 9hort
time. ’ XX. •
Dr. Carlisle’s Liver Pills.
these pills meet a went of the people
that do patent pill can supplv, being tho
intelligent administration of an efficient
remedy. ’Whoa tho elimination of dis
eased matter is necessary, these pills have
no superior, esp»cially in a sonthern
climate, where the blood is so ccntaminatpd
with malarial poison.
No intelligent physic! :q will .hesitate
lor a moment to recommend these pills,
tho formula,'-which is invnriably approved
bp the medicid pr< fession, being printed
on cash package.
Dircctns; For Tirpid Liver, Dys
pepsia, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Con
stipation, Colds. Swimming in the bead, &
c., ono or two ] ills should be taken at
bedtime, .
For Chills and Fever, bilious inn-
termittent or continued Fever a full dose
should he taken.
Aa purg’, two'to 'hreo pills at bedtime.
Ask laxative one to two pills at bedtime
DR. R. M. CARLISLE.,
MACON, GA. ;
“G. R. C.
Xs Guaranteed to Cure
Rheumatism, Syphilis, Scrofula, Blood
Poison, Swellings, 8ttft, -Painful Joints,
Backache, Old Sores, Boils, add. all
diseases arising from impure or Impov
erished blood. If it falls to cure, or
dost not satisfy the-.purchaser of Us
worth, we will
Refund the Money
paid direct to os, or to any druggist or
dealer fu medicine, for .OoWen_RhctL-
matte Cure. When you want a blood
medicine, insist on having “G. R. C."
If yohr deaier doqp not hare It, ask him
to order it for you; or send your money
to ua by malt, and wo Wilt ship “O. R.
C.” to roa with all express charges'
prepaid:- Woo $4.00 per bottle? els,
for <5,00.
THE G» R. C. CO.,
Sols mamim’actumm ahd morsicTonj.
Tifton. Ga. , -s