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The Marietta Tonrwal
VOL. 32.
Matters of Moment in City
Briefly Chronicled.
EVENTS SEEN AND HEARD.
The Passing Throng, Tid Bits of
Social Oeccurrences, and a
General Review,
Mr. Coryell Hunt is/quite sick.
Remember we put up all window
shades bought of us. Carnes & Gilbert.
Mrs. Fred Morris is on a visit to
Macon. :
Mrs. O. K. Strong, of Atlanta, is vis
iting Mrs. F. H. Palmer.
Telephone local news to Marietta‘
JourNAL. Phone No. 55. :
Subsecribe for the Journal. $l.OO.
Mr. Henry Wyatt, we regret to learn,l
is dangerously ill. 1
Don’t miss the big bargains at Read
& DuPre’s on their%\’inter Goods. ‘
The best cut-a-way Harrow is sold}
by H. C. Dobbs Hardware Company.
Florida vegetables and oranges are‘
killed, but Marietta had none to kill.
Mr. Talmage Wardlaw, of Lost Moun- ‘
tain, left for Texas last week.
Don’t forget to see our eounter of 10¢
articles in fancy Glassware. |
CARNES & GILBERT,
Alba _Heywood Comedy Company‘
will be here about March 10th.
For good Overcoats at low prices go
to Read & DuPre’s store.
Phone 119 is the place to get your
feed.
Woop For SarLe—Pine and oak.
Leave orders at J.J. Hardage’s store.
J. F. MANNING.
Mrs. Mamie Costephens and son, of
Emerson, were in the city Friday.
Miss Susie Harwood, of Atlanta,
spent Thursday in the city.
It was a ‘‘solid”’ north and south last
week. :
Mr. Gross, of St. Louis, spent Sunday
here with his sister, Mrs. Tucker Haw
kins.
Sheriff Bedell, of Canton, was here
last Thursday.” Said he had a warrant
to arrest the railroad.
Read & DuPre have the bargains for
you. Don’t fail to get their prices be
fore you buy.
MosrEß’s BARERY and Kandy Kitchen
is the place to get fresh bread, cakes,
pies, pies, fresh candies, soda water, &c.
Sunday night week there came to
Mr. and Mrs. David Davenport, on Mr,
W. J. Frey’s place, twin girls, weighing
respectively 7 and 8 pounds.
To close out balance of our Winter
Goods, we will give bargains that no
other store will dare to offer you.
‘REAp & DuPre.
Mr. L. N, Trammell. Jr., of Marietta,
was & visitor to the city Wednes@ay on
business.—Cartersville News.
Six young ladies were pall bearers at
the burial of Miss Lillie Belle Sum
mer at Senoia, Ga., who died last week, |
The bargains in Winter Goods at!
Read & DuPre’s will be the talk of the I
town and county. Call and buy what
you want before they are gone.
Deering Mowers, Rakes and Binders
are sold lg
.C. Doees Haroware Co. |
Mrs. J. 8. Davis, ofsCave Spring, Ga.,
is visiting her father, Rev. V. E. Man
got, &
Tne A. K. & N. Railroad has bought
three new engines. Engineer Higgins
goes to Pittsburg, Pa., after them.
We are ofifelggg balance of our Fall
and Winter Goods at prices which no
other merchant will dare to offer you.
READ & DuPrE.
If the weather doesn’t get better and
allJow town and country people get to.
work, all will have to go into bank
ruptey.
The A. K. & N. passenger train was
delayed Thursday evening by the ‘
steam shovel blocking the way at Isa
bella, Tennessee. |
The freeze in Atlanta last week gave
the plumbers one hundred thousand
dollars worth of work, and it will take
two months to repair all the burst
pipes in that city.
Our store is open to bargain hunters,
and after getting our prices you will
see we are ;zivin{l the greatest bargains
ever offered to the trade of Marietta
and Cobb county. ReADp & DuPre.
The southbound passenger train on
the W. & A. R. R., was one hour late
Thursday evening. Conductor Turner
was in Mariettaat the time and had to
bring out the train that night, but he
made it by a scratch. A
LENXTEN SERVIOES at St. James Epis
copal Church—=Bunddys, Holy Com
munion, 7:30 a. m.; morning prayer,
10:30 a. m.; evening prayer, 7:30p. m.
Mondays evening prayer 4 p. m. Tues
days, evening prayer. 4p. m. Wednes
days, morning prayer, 9 a. m.; evening
prayer,4 p. m. Thursdays, evening
prayer, 7:30 p. m. Fridays, morning
prayer, 9. a. m. ; evening prayer, 4 p. m.
Sagurdays, evening prayer, 4 p. m,
Rev.C.T. A. Pise will conduct the
services.
Ameng the many charitable acts per
formed by our citizens last week in
helping those in need of coal and fuel,
the disiribution of a car load of coal
free by Mr. T. M. Brumby is one wor
thy of mention. It was a timely and
thoughtful act’ of generosity duly ap
preciated by those out of coal and
couldn’t get it. i
We are going to close out all our
Winter Goeds regardless of what they
cost us. They are yours at prices that
will astonish you. Don’t fail to. get
our prices before you buy.
Reap & DuPre.
During the hard freeze of last week
Mr. Johnston says the hydrants of the
waterworks, by using plenty of salt,
and keeping the pumping engines go
ing, didn’t freeze, and they were ready
at all times to respond to an alarm of
fire. Atlanta hydrants froze. Mari
etta is aßhead on that score.
Mr. D. F. MeClatchey, Jr., on Wed
nesday night of last week, while pass
ing on the sidewalk, his feet slipped
on the ice and he fell on his left arm
and shoulder, spraining his “wrist and
bruising his shoulder. He has suffer
ed interisely. We hope he will soon be
all right again.
Diep.—We regret to learn of the
death of Mr. W, A. Petty, which oc
curred at his home in this county near
Upshaw, on last Thursday morning of
pneumonia. His son, Mr. J. W. Petty,
who clerks for Mr. J. W. Legg in this
place was at his bedside when he died.
The deceased was a good citizen aud an
upright man. He leaves a family.
The Arnold Funmakers will hold the
boards at Black’s Opera House for three
nights, commencing Monday, Feb. 27.
This company is recognized as one of
the best and will give perfect satisfac
tion to those who attend. :
Call and see what we have left in
Winter Goods, and if we have what
ou want you ean buy it at such a great
fiargain you will go home, look u‘E
your friends and send them to Read
fl)'l(llPre’s store to get bargains as you
14.
Mr. W. H. Fox has been snffering for
the past week from a wound made in
the palm of his right hand by sticking
a fountain pen in it. He was threat
ened .with lockjaw for several days,
which required the assiduous attention
of a doctor for a day or so to prevent.
An old colored man of Marietta, so a
lady informs us, speaking of the freeze
last week said: ‘‘Goodness alive! Dey
tells me dat de themumeter is down to
eight degrees below Cairo.’”” Hisdaugh
ter spoke up: “‘Golly, dat’s certainly
cold.” /
A man was heard to say that the
charitable people of Marietta had re
cently provided him with coal to keep
him from freezing, and next summer
when the thermometer plays at about
90 if they will manage to cool him off,
he will be ever so grateful.
Don’t buy a dollar’s worth of goods
elsewhere until you have seen the bar
gains we are giving to close out all
our winter stock. Read & DuPre.
Lieut. A. W. Corliss, erstwhile su
perintendent in building of National
cemetery at Marietta, has been pro
moted Major Augustu W. Corliss to
Lieut. Colonel in Seventh U. 8, In
fantry. .
Mr. L. E. Baker, of Canton, was in
the city Thursday and closed the trade
with Mr. Will Byrd for the purchase of
his house in Canton. While in the city
he was the guest of Mr. I. C. Feris.
Mrs. MeCombs, of New York, the
grundmother of Misses Susie May and
Emma Wallace, is at Mrs. Campbell
Wallace’s, on Kennesaw Avenue,
Carp oF Tnaxks.—l desire to thank
the many friends and neighbors for
their kindly aects, and sympathy so
appreciatively tendered, during the
sickness and death of my husband.
The heart is stirred with emotiong of
gratitude even in dire distress under
such bereavemant and sorrow.
Mgrs. W. A, Perry.
Upshaw, Ga., Feb. 20, 1898.
A delightful entertainment was given
at Bolton Saturday evening last by Mr.
and Mrs.J. M. Moore. Those present
were Misses Jeffries, Murphy, Jones,
Cole, Hoyt, Lizzie Hoyt, Payne, Colling,
Alice Jeffries, and Edith Gable ; Messrs.
Charles Gramling, Jarold Ransom, R.T.
Squires,Clyde and Werner Jeffries,Robt
Adkins, Ralph Landrum, Jamie Ruore,
Will Molden and Eddie Gramling. ,
MARIETTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 23, 1899,
Mr. Ernest King is now fireman on
the A. K. & N. Road.
Mrs. Wheelan has been sick for the
past week with the grip:
Mrs. Harry Dewar, of Nelson, was
here Monday. , g
Mr. T. 8. MeKinney, of Blue Ridge,
is here this week.
Born to Mr. and Mrs, Maurice Hirsch,
in Monroe, Ga., a boy.
For SarLe.—Plymouth Roek eggs for
hatching, also three trios at $2.50 trio
if taken at once. R. J. T. Agricola.
Hon. O. B. Stevens, State Agricultu
ral. Commissioner, was in the city on
last Saturday. .
Miss Blondelle Malone, of Columbia,
8. C., is visiting the family of Dr. J. D.
Malone.
Mr. and Mrs. Collins have left what
is known as the Col. Phillips place, near
Elizabeth, and now reside in the city.
Mrs. H. W. Shaw has been sick
for the past week, threatened with
rheumatism. ’
Losr—A pair of gold rimmed eye
glasses with chain attached. Liberal
reward if returned to Jourxaw office.
~ Mr. Thomas Gibbes of the Techno-
Llosical School, Ad&p&n, has been at
‘home here for the past few days sick.
~ Mr.J.J. Lovell, Charleston, W. Va.,
is visiting his sister, Mrs. C. M. Crosby.
He speaks of moving to Marietta. We
“hope he will do so.
~ Mrs. Jesse Permenter, who has been
1 visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Baze
'more, returned to her home in Atlanta
"lalt Saturday. 4
Opinions are divided as to the injury
done the budding fruit trees by the
freeze. Injury to considerable extent
has been done. .
- The Marietta JovrNaL is making a
fine record as a first-class local news
paper.—QCartersville News. You are
‘displaying a good deal of energy on
that line yourself, brother.
A little negro boy picked up hand
\.ome fur collarette on the streets last
Thursday, and very promptly returned
it to the lady he saw drop it.
Mrs. Hamby, the wife of a Methodist
minister of Rome, lost her purse con
taining $lB.OO as she was boarding the
train last Saturday at Blue Ridge. =
l Rev. W. A. Lindsey and his voecalist,
' Prof. James York, are in Central Illi
' nois, conducting successful revival
services.
Miss Lemma Lewis has accapted a
position in Millinery department at J.
M. High’s, Atlanta, where she will be
pleased to- see all her Marietta friends
‘after March Ist.
"If the weather man has anything
worse in stock than he has given us, we
wish to cancel all engagements for Ma
rietta. We want sunshine and silver
dollars to come this way.
The Amicalola Marble and Power
‘Company, of which Judge Gober is
President and Col. W. R. Power, Sec-.
retary, has bought engine No. 21 from
A. K. & N. Railroad to ply between the
quarry and Ball Ground, where the
branch road is being built.
The most pitiable suffering during the
cold weather was found among eolored
people in ‘“Mayestown.”” They let each
day provide for itself, and when thé
freeze locked the wheels of business
and they had no work or money, they
felt the pinchings of poverty to an ex
cruciating degree. Save *for a rainy
day. :
State Entomologist, Mr. W. M.
Scott, was the guest of Mr, W. M. Me-
Kenzie here Friday evening and Satur
day. Mr. Scott examined the peach
trees in Mr. McKenzie’s orchard near
Kennesaw mountain, and saw no evi
dence of any destructive insect. He
found, however, that the buds on the
peachtrees, and even some of the twigs
were killed by the recent freeze. The
probability is there will ‘be no early
peaches in this section.
The Ice King played one of his most l
unexpected pranks in the elegant home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Seymour. They
were congratulating themselves that
their rooms were kept so warm there
was ne danger of the water pipes burst
ing. The next moment the King’s de
fiant ldugh was heard—or was it the
water he released from the reservoir?—
as it came gurgling down, flooding
bathroom, libragy and hall.
In a letter from Mr. W. E. Talley, of
Millen, Ga., to his father here, Mr. A,
H.Talley,he says: ‘“The Marietta Jour-
NAL visits me regularly each Thursday
morning, and it is a very welcome vis
itor. Keeps me posted on all local
itéms. It is one of the best county pa
pers I have ever seen.”” We appreciate
the above beeause it was not intended
for the editor to see. Prof. Talley is
principal of the high school at Millen,
and is one of Cobb county’s brightest
and best young men,who has character,
intilligence and integrity to back him.
{* We have quite a number of citizens
jengaged in poultry raising. At the
Poultry Exhibition in Atlanta last
' week they made entries and carried off
: several prizes. J.D. McCarthy, of At
; lanta, golden Wyandotte hen, first
| prize ; Maury and Walling, of Marietta,
silver Hamburg pullet, first prize, and
! for silver Hamburg cockerel, second
prize; W. E. Reynolds, Marietta, sec
ond cockerel, first second and third
pullet; Dark Brahmas, W. E. Reynolds,
Marietta, second cock and second hen;
Buif Plymouth Rock, W. E. Reynolds,
second cockerel, second pullet; Silver
Duck-wing game, W. E, Reynolds, see
ond cockerel, second hen, first pullet.
' Mr. Will Hames says he has exam
ined the peach trees in his orchard and
the buds are certainly dead and there
will be no peaches here this season. In
talking to one of our citizens who also ‘
has an orchard, Mr. Hames said : .“Doi
not get discouraged, keep working your |
ground around your trees, and add fer
tilizers and keep them ina healt.hyJ‘
condition and you will strike a good
season and a big crop after awhile.
Running a peach orchard is like betting
on grain or cotton futures—you hnve!
to keep your margin up.”’ ‘
A Fixe ExTeErTAINMENT.—Dr. L. B.
Clifton, of Macon, a scientific lecturer,
will give a series of entertainments gt
Black’s Opera House, beginning to
night, Thursday, consisting of moving
and living pictures, Naval Battles of
Santiago, and all the Great Battleships
both American and Spanish, a complete
outfit run by electricity. The naval
battle of Manila will also be given. Dr
Clifton was former State Entomogist,
a gentleman of high character and
standing. If you want toenjoy a pleas
ant evening attend this entertainment.
An elopement in colored society oc
curred last week, so we are informed
by a reliable colored man. Jim Gres
ham hecame enamored of Charley
Smith’s wife, Josie, and they skipped
to Savannah, where they were last
heard from. The woman left a hus
band and three small children. The
husband is in great distress on account
of it.
Mrs. W. W. MecCulloch entertainedl
the Euchre Club Wednesday evening,
February Bth, at the residence of Mrs. |
E. M. McCulloch, on Powder Springs
stroet. The lady’s first prize was won
by Mrs. Starr, second by Miss Har
wood. Mr. Boone won gentleman’s
first pnjze, and the second prize by Mr.
Adrian Cortelyou.
Mr.J. W. Lewis, Jr, the efficient
night operator at the telegraph offic'ei
at W. & A. R. R.depot, has been at
home several days sick with the grip.
Mr. W. L. Dobbs has been performing
his duties. g
Mr. Henry Wyatt, we learn, has rent
ed Mr. J. P. Dawson’s new house on
Kennesaw Avenue and will housekeep
there. Mr. Dawson and family will
board for awhile.
The Marietta Knitting mill’s goods
are finding a market in Texas, Missouri
and Illinois, to say nothing of states
nearer home. The excellence of these
goods sells them whenever seen.
Assistant U. S. Attorney N. L. Mas
sey and Col. Geg. L, Bell were regis
tered at the Elmwood Saturday as the
guests of Judge Gober.
Sunday the sunshine flooded the land
and it was a glorious day. Our people
got out doors and enjoyed the fine
weather. Church attendance was large.
Georgia marble is being shipped to
San Francisco, California. Twenty-nine
hundred miles is a long way for our
Georgia produet to go. :
Miss Josie Hardin, a very beautiful
and charming young lady of Columbus,
Cra., is visiting the family of her cousin,
Mr.C. M. Law, on Washington avenue.
The Woman’s Foreign Missionary
Society will meet at Mrs. . F. Me-
Clatchey’s residence Thursday after
noon at 3 o’clock.
Mr. Frank Swalley, who works at
the chair factory, has made a bass vio
lin of native woods that is quite cred
itable in workmanship. :
Col. J. R. Towers has recovered from
hig illness and is out on the streets
again.
Miss Elizabeth Hunter, who has been
at Dr. Cortelyou’s, left for her home in
Louisville this week.
Mrs. Fred S=hilling, who has bheen in
Atlanta for some time, returned home‘
Saturday evening. : ;
Miss Rosa Lee Norton, of Cartersville,
was the guest of Mrs. T. W. Read here
Sunday and Monday. .
Prof. Charles Clotfelter spent last
week with homefclks -in Conyers, re
turnieg Sunday.
City public schools resumed Monday
after a week’s suspension. 2
Clyde, the little child of Mr. C. A.
Fleming, of Lawrencedille, got hold of
a bottle of poison, drank it and died.
Col. J. Z. Foster visited Chattanooga
on legal business first of the week.
f Architect Wheeler, of Atianta, was
here Monday.
F Miss Clinton McMillan, of Augusta,
is visiting Mrs. Pat H. Mell.
Get your Onion Setts and Garden
Seeds from Faw & RoGERs.
Miss Eugenia Small, of Macon, will
visit Mrs. 8. H. Hall next Saturday.
Dr. I. V. Waddell, professor in Eu
halee College, spent Sunday at home
Mr. Ed Jervey, of Atlanta, was in
the city Sunday.
Mrs. Roesell, of Atlanta, spent Sun
day in the city with her son, .
Mr. Charley Green, of Oartersville,
was here Sunday.
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Miss Ruby Agricola, of Atlanta, spent
Sunday with her paYents here.
Mr. T. H. Hunt, of Holly Springs,
spent Sunday in the city.
.. GRAVEL for walks, drives, ete., from
Coryell hill, 10 cts per one horse load.
J. D. M'Awmt.
Services at the Baptist church at
night now begin at 7:30 o’clock.
Fouxn—A fine wateh chain on Atlan
ta street. Apply at this office and pay
for this notice.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McCalla, of De
catur, are visiting Col. and Mrs. W, R.
Power.
Hon. Pierce Latimer, of Cherokee
county, was the guest of Hon. John E.
Mozley Sunday. ‘
Best Maine grown Seed Potatoes at
Faw & RoGgrs.
Col. and Mrs. L. N. Trammell spent
Sunday with their son, Col. Paul Tram
mell, in Dalton,
Mr. W. L. Dobbs, telegraph operator,
spent Sunday in Kennesaw basking in
the sunshine of a smiling face.
I have re-engaged with Read & Du-
Pre. All work tendered us will be
given prompt attention,
Ww. Coravy, Tailor.
The Third Georgia Regiment in Cuba
has been ordered to Savannah to be
mustered out.
Mr. H. Cannon has rented Mr. John
D. Northeutt’s residence. Mr. North
cutt and family will board with them.
Miss Clara Williams, who spent the
past week with homefolks in Aeworth,
resumed her place in the publie schools
here Monday.
Mrs. Truslow and son, Waldo, who
have been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
George Manning, left Wednesday for
their home in Savannah
Messrs. George F. Newell, Sam Jones
and Adrian Cortelyou will set out 10,-
000 Elberta peachtrees on fifty acres
‘of Mr. Sam Joneg’ land, near Elizabeth,
at once, the orchard and land being
owned jointly by them.
Two dead soldiers were brought here
from Anniston, Ala., the first of the
week and interred in the National
cemetery: Private Thomas Shockley,
2nd U. S.lhfantry, and Private Jona
than D. Carroll, 2nd Arkansas Regi
ment,. #
Mr. Leota Mason returned home |
from Jackson, Ga., on last Sunday and
took a clerkship in the A. K. & N. Rail
road office at this place. Mr. Stewart
Gibbes, who has been holding the posi
tion, will leave the first of March for
New York where he takes employment
in a railroad office.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
invite all members of the memorial ‘
association, both gentlemen and ladies,
to meet with them at their next regu
lar meeting at the Elmwood parlors,
Monday afternoon, March 8, 8 o’clock.
Algo cordially invite as many Confed 2-
rate veterans as can to meet with them *
at the same hour. ;
Mgs. Nespirr, Pres.
Mgs. McOvraroney, Cor. Sec.
Schubert’s Symphony Company were
greeted Monday night by one of the
largest and most intelligent audiences
that has assembled in Marietta in many
anday. Tltisneedless to say that the
musical program was a most excellent
one and highly enjoyable. Little Tom
my Purecell, the violinist, is a show in
himself, and his musical renditions and
recitations met with hearty encore.
The company can always get a good
audience in Marietta.
The Cartersville News copied our ar
ticle aboul Alex. H. Stephens and the
natural ink and Mr. R. H. Earle’s pas
sing civil service examination, and
gave us no credit. Its exchanges copy
it and credit to the News. The Ring
gold New South had some eight or ten
of our loecals in its_last issue without
credit. We are glad to see the Jour
nal’s industry appreciated by our es
teemed contemporaries.
SBusscrieers—Notice the printed date
after your name, and see if your sub
scription has expired, if 80 renew at
once. Those not renewing will have
their names dropped from the list.
~ State School Commissioner writes
me: “I find that the Treasury will
not have sufticient money to make the
two months’ payment on the first of
March. The Governor has adyised that
inasmuch as we ecsn pay for one month’s
work on the first of March that this be
done. ¥ # The tmwhers’redd’lng course
for the next state examination will
consist of the 1898 Manual of Methods,
new edition of Pages’ “Theory and-
Practice of Teaching,” edited by Prof.
E. O. Branson; and Miss Arnold’s
“Waymarks for Teachers.” Price $1
each, postpaid.” “Teachers can procure
these books now and read them before
the summer examination.
, W Power, Supt.
We regret to learn of the accident to
Mr.S. H. Hall at Legg’s drug store,
which occurred Monday. afternoon.
He made a misstep and fell from the
store floor to the basement, some six
feet, sustaining some very painful in
juries, necesitating his remaining at
home. His many friends hope he will
soon be all right again.
Subscribers to the Marietta Tele
phone Company will, please add the
following to their lists: 140, J. W.
iSet.ze, residence; 141, Wm. Johnston,
‘residence ; 142, Rev. J. H. Patton, resi
dence; 143, Rev. J. T. Jenkins, resi
dence; 144, Brumby Chair Co., office;
145, S. V. Sanford, residence.
Charlie Wheeler, colored, charged
with larceny after trust, a watch being
the entrusted property,and Will Jones,
charged with stealing a pockethook,
containing 50 cents, from Missouri
Mayfield, colored, were tried before
Judge Alexander Monday and bound
over,
Mr. Walter Thornton has accepted a
position with Grace-Brantley Company,
merchants in Wayeross, 'and will move
there with his family on next Mon
day. The trade made for the Moss
residence with Col. Blair.has been re
scinded.
Irl Hicks, the weather prophet, pre
diets more storms and rain with thun
der. The combined influences, Mer
cury, Venus and the earth at this time
insures much unsettled weather. We
guess the farmers of Cobb will have to
plant their erops in the mud.
A white boy, George Tidwell, about
15 years of age, was placed in jail here
Monday charged with an attempt to as
sault the bH-year-old daughter of Mr.
Bill Robertson, who liveg in the east
ern part of the county.
Rev. Dr. Bachman, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Chureh, Chattanoo
ga, was the guest of Major McCollum
on last Friday night. He was enroute
to Spartanburg, S. C., to visit his
daughter.
Mr. Ralph Northeutt and Mr. George
Norfhcutt have bheen appointed by
county School Commissioner Power tc
scholarships in Technological Institute,
Atlanta.
We are glad to know that Mrs.
Spaulding has so far recovered from a
relapse of la grippe that she is now at
home to her friends at Mrs. B. W,
Seymour’s.,
Mrs. E. M. Ward, mother of Capt.
D.T. Ward and mother-in-law of Dr.
and Mrs. Tennent’s daughter, died in
Franklinton, N, 0., last Saturday at
the advanced age of 84 years.
The mustering out of the troops has
caused some of our Marietta young
men to lose their government positions
in Atlanta. Mr. Harry Leake is back
in the city again to stay.
Mr. Lee Roueche returned Tuesday
evening from State Agricultuaal Col
lege, at Dahlonega, and takes a clerk
ship in the H. C. Dobbs hardware store.
Senator A. 8. Clay has not been in
the city recently, and Mrs. Clay says
he will not be here until the fourth of
March.
An engine on the W. & A. Railroad
has a dynamo attachment by which it
generates and lights itself with elec
tricity.
The consumption of horsemeat is in
creasing in Germany. And yet over
here in America we are making a great
fuss about “embalmed beef.”
The sun did a good deal towards dry
ing up the roads Sunday and Monday
but the rain came Tuesday morning
and duplieated their bad condition.
Mrs. J. T. Corley, of Cartersville,
was the guest of Mrs. T. W. Reed here
the first of the week.
Marriage licenses issued to John
Dickerson and Nackey Horton; J. M.
Brimer and Luna Dobbs.
Mr. J. S. Reid will open a grocery
store in the building recently jocecupied
by Phillips & Phillips.
Miss Dove Blair is still quite sick.
Mrs. Sanford is teaching her grade in
public schools.
Mr. J. I. Chamberlain has been very
| gick, but is improving. ' ;
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