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'ow if sottm en MOSELEY MERCANTILE Co Vienna. J'ne Houston Baptist Association ■will convene with the church in Vienna on We. in outlay. Oct. 19, the same day the slate fair opens. The members of this Church are prepar in'.' 10 take Ctrl' ol the .Ve'eiriites in' Vienna Progress h. SMITH. ’Entered ad Mvcoml class mail matter. nWrEllBEB 22 1904. The 'State fair is nor i month oil. Karl Joyjf' :s now clerking for Bi V ant ’Bros for the season. - Sec .1. I 1 ’. Waters about hutting your nay. 0111 oer T. R. Smith made a trip to Warwick Tuesday. ,T. P. Heard was looking after his Macon interest Saturday. Mrs. S. P. Odom and daughter, Miss Annie, were here Tuesday. Mrs. A. O. Westbrook* Co. will Open a millinery storo in the Mc Donald blc ok. Miss OlllO Smith spent the first of tho weuk in Cordele with her aunt, Mrs. T. Pi Businas. Lynchers in Georgia tiro buoom. iug reckless’since the private hang ing act has been in practice. Write Stanleys Business College, Macon, Ga., at once for illustrated catalogue and speoial ratns. ^ J. A. Walden is adding another room to Ins house, and A. P, Free man has the contract. Miss Ruby AVatera has returned to Cox Collogo and Miss Martha Outlaw has returned to Law Pat k Miss Ada Powvll returned a few days ago from Atlanta, where she bus bueli studying tho millinery HtylcB. The now brick warehouse for I. S. Lassecer is going up as fast as tho laborers can build it. It will be UOX'UO foot. 'The.industrious younar man with •out bad habits stands a anighty good show of making a reasonable suc cess of life. Miss Zofa Carnes has returned from Atlanta with a handsome line •of millinery goods for Moseley Mer cantile Cc. Wagons are in town every Mon day morning before day for cotton pickers, .r,nd they carry all sixes and colors that can pickmottou. Air. 8. F. Sum mors and children are spending some time in Coweta county; while Mrs. .Summers is vis iting Mrs. Amerson in Tliotnasville. The Atlantic liners will now give one hoard and lodging for 17 a week .and take one across tho ocean besides. What’s the use staying at homo? Let us never forget that an act of goodness is of itself an act of hap piness. No reward coining alter the event can compare with tho .sweet reward that went with it. Kontx Smith said the house was so crowded .at Pleasant Valiev Sun day that you could not get a postage stamp iu thero. Probably he was night. None were for wale in there. Owing to tho scarcity of the Progress oilioe is only partly moved. Tho type is set to . building and tho presses are in an other, and the paper this week has only four pages. The state fair management has sent us a paper of needles for sew ing and dartiim;. i. o ■ Lili-, §000 or twelve months, pealed for a new trial, and petted soon to be out under 1 The Houston [’ will . ., , e ,v,„ | oust that breeds early death as sure. Lee Bryant, considered oneofthe ^ Thflf. receive §4.50 D v.rries. negroes in Vienna, picked | ‘J b 20o:i pounds of cotton last weekl awcek ’ between Monday morning and Sat- A very simple way to tell wheth- ur.tay dinner, and was paid §10.56 or your room is properly ventilated f or ; t is to place a trade-neck bottle of wa- ,Several thicknesses of newspa-1 ter into which put an ounce of lime pers laid between the bed springs | water sorm when' in the room, let- awl mattresses are equal in warmth |ting it remain tiu-re unc veic to another mattress. Laid between, nit-t’Lt, If in IhC■}corning e l . tho blanket and quilt they equal an j water ir- mdi e v^utiaiou extra blanket. j vev y Bad it Thero is nothing so divim ns aj t<!t woman’s glanco, nothing so carc-s-1 t J >0 ,v>t shake IE the liin? W»- oii your covering itfi your hand and , -I, the ventilation is u\i w ,'j good. If the lime win* 'unuijns clear the air of Jhftt. mom is pure. ing as a woman’s hand, nothing su sweet as a, iCoamn's heart, With such gifts why sbd’llil (?bc w.sh to be otherwise than lovely? Photographs can t)0 nicely cloak--j r j’] K development of the railroad ed with a soft eiotb moistened with j industries is shown in the fact that hike-warm water to which a little; the Pennsylvania lias recently laid ammonia has been added. Use very I down rails weighing 142 pOWmls per lightly and immediately wipe the! yard, the heaviest steel, rails ever picture with a soft dry cloth. j laid, the lorgest heretofore being 1\ A. Culpepper, near Cordele, j 125 pounds. A few years ago a 00 has four boys who picked a bale of - to 70-pound rail was regarded as cotton in a day, tho exact weight of | quite heavy, but engines and oars said cotton being 1503 pounds. 1 increased in size, thus requiring an Jack 8mith says his neighbor Jake 1 increase in the size and strength ot Smith has tour boys who can do the!rails. same. The cotton cop is cut short about one-fourth. AVhen tho August rains began, there was never a better prospoot for a largo crop. But it stopped beating right then, and practically all of tho cotton will be open by the 1st of October. R. E. Wright, of Colon, this county, was here yesterday snailing as sweetly as if he was thirty years younger. We love to sec men re main young a long time. Mr. AVright has collected tho names of Company C, 55 Georgia Regiment, of which ho was a member. The list has over 100 names, and it will appear in this paper noxt week. •Tns. T. Ensign, a well known saw null man of Ocilla, formerly of Worth, manager of tho Ensign- Oscamp Lumber Co., waH killed,m- strntly last Friday morning at Ocilla by a flat car running over him. He was walking down the traak while a train was backing a flat oar in behind Inin, which ran ovea him, and lie died iu a few min utes. His body was crushed and cut to pieces by the wheels of the car. * Thero arc women in the flax mills of Patterson, N. J., who work ten hours a day in dirty water, and breathe an atmosphere like that of a Turkish bath. They re ceive §5.70 a week. There are oth er women in these same mills who work ten hours a day, and at every breath take into their lungs a fine Postal officials say that, owing to the great inorease in the appropria tion for rural free delivery, all thought of penny postage will have to be postponed lor many years. For Sale. AVc have listed with us for sale the following lots of land in Dooly county: Lot No. 31, in second district. Lots Nos. 44, 45 and 250, 8tli district. Lots Nos. 10, 11, 12, 10, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 37, 38, 40, 80. 11th district. Lots Nos. 37, 93, 94, 120. 127. 130, 101, 170, 183, 184, 102, 225 251, 252, 278, 282, 340, 351, 352, 35 0, 358, 359, 300, 13th district. Lots Nos. 152, 170, 181, 182, 183, 14th district. We also have lor sale lands in Irwin, AVorth and Berrien counties. If you wish to purchase write or callon us for terms. J. N. COLLIER & CO., Tifton, Ga. When in Montezuma, Stop at the Gardner House H. N. GARENER, ± ropriotor. RATE $1 DAY, First class table. Rooms nicely furnished. Porter at all trains, your patronaged solicited. Montezuma, Ga. Dr. R. M. CarlisV* L & B kills tile germs ol'all disease^'byeuhuilii • and drinking the same. Also take a dose of Carlisle’s Liver a week and eat anything yon and crow fat ancl happy. DR. .R. M. CARLISLE & CO. 470 Poplar St. Macon, Ga. For sale by all druggists. • “A- word !• the wise enough, And many words won’t fill a bushel” For full weight, Correct Grade and highest prices carry your cotton to Byrom s Fire Proof Warehouse, By- romville, Ga. JSMO 3. BYROWI, Prop. | L. H. WEBB, £ I carry in stock a full line of Harrows, Plain | and Reversible Two-Horse Plows, Disc Plows, ! ♦ Seed Drills. I put in Ponelain Wood Pumps, have the best Hay Press on the market, sell McCormick Mowers and Rakes and carry a full line of Coffins and Robes from the cheap- | est Wood Coffin to the best Metalic Cases. ♦ When in town call to se6 me. I L H WEBB. Notice to Farmers I am in the Cotton Warehouse Business again this season at Cor dele, one of the best markets in the South. I solicit your patronage, with perfect guarantee of satisfac* ion. I also handle Buggies, Wa gons, and Stock in season, and pay highest cash prices for cotton seed. T. P. BUSBEE. AVM. A. OATH, Principal. AA T . G. GATE, Prin. Coni’l Dep’ t Hbustfjn HsSi :®chooi, ARAB!, msOJ -.if \ Ci-mmercial He?a?rtmont: Bookkeeping, Shorthand,^ Typewriting, Arithmetic Grammar, Spelling, Penmanship, Commercial Law, Hanking,Rapid Calculation, Letter Writing, Actual Business, No entrance examination. Enter at any time. For Terms, Etc., Address ~ Prin. Houston HighSchool, or Prin, Commercial Dep’t. ..'VT. •*- W t XSS/S,