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VOL. 32.
Matters of Moment in City
- Briefly Chronicled.: -
EVENTS SEEN AND HEARD.
The Passing Throng, Tid Bits of
Social Ocecurrences, and a
General Review.
Subseribe for the Journal. $l.OO.
See us Monday for Tailor Made Suits.
FLorENOE Bros., Kixg & Co.
" Telephone local news to Marietta
JournaL. Phone No. 55.
The man who gives health for pleas
nre pays dear for it. \
For REnr—House and ten acres of
land. Apply to Mrs. T. L. Bussey.
Milk customers wanted. Apply to
Mgs. T. L. Bussey.
Cobb Superior Court convenes here
on the second Monday of this month.
Miss Mabel Allen, of Boston, Mass.,
is’ visiting Mr. and -Mrs. George F.
Newell at this place.
BoArpEßs WaANTED.—At the old York
or Bate house on Atlanta stree.
J. H. Sscaßrs.
New crop “Thlley Sl’::'p&a{toems.
Don’t miss the pi%flgains at Read
& DuPre’s on their Winter Goods.
*The best cut-a-way Harrow is sold
by H. C.Dobbs Hardware Company.
Mr. John T. Brantley, of Waycross,
stopped over in Marietta Friday en
route to New York to purchase goods.
Mr. Stewart Gibbes has decided to
delay going to New York for a few
weeks.
We will show you a beautiful line of
Spring patterns for tailor made goods
at our store next Monday.
Frorexce Bros., Kixa & Co.
For good Overcoats at low prices go
to Read & DuPre’s store.
Phone 119 is the place to get your
feed.
‘Woop For SaLe—Pine and oak.
Leave orders at J. J. Hardfif’s store.
J.F. NNING.
Diep—The wife of Mr. Will Chandler
died on Wednesday evening of last
week. Rev.J. W. Quillian conducted
the funeral services.
Mrs. Ben Carrie, of Kennesaw, spent
Thursday in the city, the guest of her
relatives, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Gram
ling.
*Get your Onion Setts and Garden
Seeds from Faw & RoGgers.
Read & DuPre have the bargains for
you. Don’t fail to get their prices be
fore you buy.
Mosnrer’s BAkerY and Kandy Kitchen
is the place to get fresh bread, cakes,
pieg, pies, fresh candies, soda water, &c.
Deering Mowers, Rakes and Binders
are sold by
: H. C. Doess Harbpware Co.
A thief visited Mr. T. E. Rogers’
chicken house the other night and car
ried off six of his chickens.
Dr. J. D. McCollum, of Vickery, Ga.,
and Mr. R. L. McCollum, of Adairs
ville, visited their sick mother at Mr.
Cogburn’s last week.
GrAvVEL for walks, drives, ete., from
Coryell hill, 10 cts per one horse load.
J. D. Maroxk.
‘Best Maine grown Seed Potatoes at
; Faw & RoGErs.
Mr. Robert Jones, who has been with
Sixth immunes'in Porto Rico, is here
visiting his uncles, Messrs. A. H,, J. P.
and J. W. Legg. His home is in Mor
ristown, Tenn.:
To close out balance of our Winter
Goods, we will give bargains that no
other store wilhgiare to offer you.
REeap & DuPre.
Dr. L. B. Clifton gave some very in
structive and entertaining scientific
lectures and micl’oscopic views and
living pictures at the Opera House last
week. _
Do you wear clothes? Gents clothes?
Tailor made clothes? If you do and
like your money, don’t fail to see us
Monday. A representative of the well
known tailoring house of M. Born & Co.,
Chicago, will be at our store Monday
only with all the pretty Spring patterns
in the world. They are in two yard
pieces, and in eolors and ‘qualities to
suit everybody. We guarantee quali
ty, fit and satisfaction in every partic
ular, or suit doesn’t.cost you one cent.
We will .appreciate your 'looking at
these goods, whether you buy or not.
FrLorExCE Bros., King & Co.
Col. W. R. Power was elected as one
of the Directors of the Cobb County
Fair Association at the recent stock
holders’ meeting. His name was inad
vertently omitted in our article of last
week.
‘ GOLD MEDAL. ;
Mr. John A. Manget on last Friday
showed us the large, beautiful diploma,
nieely framed, with glass front, and
also a $25 gold medal awarded to him
by the Trans-Mississippi and Interna
tional Exposition held at Omaha in
1898, for the exhibition of 171 produets
from a twenty-five acre farm in Geor
gia.. These testimonials eame through
ex-Governor Northen. The inseriptions
set out the above facts, and the diplo
ma and gold medal are something of
which to be proud. Men strive for
honors in the political field, but here
are honors won by this intelligent and
worthy man in the field of indus
try, where Mother Earth responded
generously in the cultivation of 171
products on 25 acres. There is not an
other person can duplicate the exhibit
unless it is Mr.J. A. Manget. He de
serves the highest praise, not only as a
progressive farmer and useful citizen,
but ag a benefactor to his race, giving
an example worthy of emulation.
IT PAXS. ]
Rev. V. E. Manget writes us: ‘‘Mr.
Phillips, of Aéworth, ssw the notice of
the testament which I found, as was
stated in a late issue of the JourNAL.
He was 4 lientenant of Mr. L. C. Pea
coek’s company. He cut out the no
tice-and sent it to Mr. Peacock, who
has written to me from Texas where
he now resides. The book is ready and
will be sent by registered mail at once
to the owner to this war relic in 1864,
This snows the good of a notice in the
JourNaL Let advertisers make a note
of the fact and act accordingly.”
WE NEED IT.
Chattooga’s two eotton factories con
sume about all the cotton raised in the
ecounty.—Summerville News. That is
why your factories make good divi
dends. They manufacture the cotton
at their doors and save middlemen’s
per cent.and freight. That is what
we need in Marietta—a good cotton
factory It would help the farmers
and bhelp the town. With a gin and
oil mill attached, it would pay “a divi
dend that would please the most penu
rious. |
TO BE OPENED.
We learn that Waterman street will
probably be opened through Mrs. Wm.
Phillips’ lot to Col. E. Faw’s, and a
street opened between his place and
Mr. Meinert’s to conneet with Cole
street on the north, and extending
south to connect with street leading to
the Fair Grounds. This will open up
some nice building lots and give a
shorter outlet to that part of town
which will be quite a public improve
ment.
, COULDN'T GO, ;
Judge Gober, owing to official busi
ness, could not attend the meeting of.
the Fruit Growers’ Association held at
Adairsville last Saturday, where he
was booked to deliver an address on
“Peach Growing in North Georgia.”
The Judge has gathered by experience
some very practical ideas on this sub
ject, which would have been beneficial
to the Association. These Associations
are in the line of farmers’ institutes.
SAD NEWS. :
Miss Lucile Hunter, who has been
teaching a kindergarten at this place,
left for her home in Louisvile; Ky.,
Saturday, in obedience to a telegram
that her sister was critically ill, but
when she arrived there she found her
sister dead. Miss Hunter’s many
friends here sympathise with her in
her sad bereavement.
ANOTHER MEAN ONE. -
The meanest manon earth has turned
up—rather, hagn’t turned up—in Bat
tle Creek, Michigan. He broke into
the house of a colored man who had
died durinfi, the day and stole the suit
of ciothes he was to have been buried
in.—Atlanta Journal.
It is stated as a fact, on Monday eve
ning of the cold spell wood was fur
nisoed to a very old sick negro woman
in Marietta to keep her from freezing.
She had already burned up her bed
stead. On the following morning it
was discovered that there was no fire
at all in the house, by those who called
to give her something to eat and coffee,
and as there was no wood or fire in the
house, the old woman was so near fro
zen she could not eat or drink. The
breakfast was left on an old box in the
room while the person returned home
for weod to'make a fire for her. John
Barlow, her own son, 30 years old,
slipped into the room and took her
breakfast, and threatened to kill her if
she told on him. She says he took the
wood from her ‘that was left with her
the night before. Fact, J.Grp Morris.
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.
MARIETTA, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 2, 1899.
We are ‘“Marching’ on.
Coal is still in demand jy our citi
zens. :
Born to Mrs. Gee. T. Wilson, on last
Thursday night, a fine boy.
For RexT—Three acres good land and
small house or cabin. A.S. BurNar.
A freight train killed ‘“Chico,” Mr.
J. J. Hussey’s pet dog on last Friday. o
Marriage license issued to Mr. Jo
seph Lacy and Miss J. E. McCurdy.
Woodhaulers were in.town Saturday
by a large majority.
Mr. Sam Dick will not get into his
new residence for several weeks. :
Marietta churches are greatly blessed
with able, consecrated ministers.
Free | Free ! Free !—I will five to
each and every person buying a load of
shingles, full instruetlons how to put
them on. Henderson, the Shingle man.
Mr. Henry Wyatt, who was quite
sick last week, we are glad to see out
on the streets again, fully recovered.
Mrs. W. L. Pomeroy and child left
Saturday on a visit of two weeks to rel
atives in Blackshear, Ga. ;
Cherokee Superior Court is in session
this'week, and some of our lawyers are
in attendance.
Mr. W. M. McKenzie attended the
Fruit Growers’ Asgociation at Adairs
ville on lagt Saturday.
Mis. DeWit Cole and child left Mon
day on a month’s visit to Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Starnes at Athens, Ga.
Rev.J. W. Baker, who was quite
sick the past week, we are glad to
state, is much better.
The Gratest Grate that has ever
Grated on your hearth, a regular coal
saver, is sold and put up by Henderson,
the Shingle Man.
Rose bushes in Marietta were killed
by the freeze and the bushes should
now be cut to the ground. :
Some "who have examined their
peachtrees say they have some green
buds left.
The work ¢n the Sessions store build
ing is being puched rapidly so comple
tion.
Mrs. McCrae and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Jervey, ofs Atlanta, have returned to
the eity and are boarding at the
Kennesaw House. v
Mr. T. W. Glover bought in lower
Georgia 160 head of cattle, which he
unloaded from the cars here on Satur
day morning.
Frre | FreE ! Free |—l will give to
each and every person buying a%ond of
shingles; full instructions how to put
them on. Henderson, the Shinglé man.
March is ecalled the first spring
month. Now, let “Gentle Annie,”
with her warm sunshine and fragrant
flowers, give us a festival. ¥
A wreck on the A. K. &. N. Railroad,
on the Tennessee division, delayed the
incoming passenger train Friday sever
al hours, 5
We are glad. to see Mr. S. H, Hall at
the store again, although he has not
fully recovered from the injuries of the
fall he received.
« Mrs. Hugh Starnes, who has been
visiting hér parents, Dr. and Mrs. B.
L. Mclntosh, returned to her. home in
Athens, Ga., on last Saturday,
. Diep.—Mr. M. B. McGinty, of Ath
ens, Ga., died iast week. He was born
and raised in Marietta, and was re
lated to the Wallis boys in this place.
Two parrots,' brought from Porto
Rico by Mr. Bob Jones, have been en
tertaining Mr. J. W. Legg’s customers
by conversing in Spanish.
The Gratest (Grate that has ever
Grated on {our hearth, a r?_fular coal
saver, is sold and put up by Henderson,
the Shingle Man. !
Just ag soon as the new ticket case
comes for the new passenger depot, it
will be occypied by the railroad offi
cials.
Workmen on the new Methodist
church building have made & good deal
of progress in carrying up the walls
and putting in the heavy timbers dur
ing the few days of good weather wev’e
had.
On Monday evening last the K. A.
Q.’s met and spent a very pleasant eve
ning at the hospitable home of Mrs. W,
I. Heyward. The young gentlemen
present were Messrs. Will DuPre, Chas.
DuPre, L. N. Trammell, Jr., and Benj.
Wellons.
In this issue the Daughters of the
Confederacy have an important notice
of a meeting which we trust the old
Confederate veterans ‘and others will
heed and be present at their meeting
at Elmvood Hotel next Monday after
noon at 3 o’clock.
Mr. Pat Mell completely fooled our
optics on Saturday. He had in his
hand three hyacinths, pink, white and
blue. They were fresh looking and as
natural aB’ the product of earth, yet
they were the handiwork of his most
estimable wife, She is an artist in that
line,
l BICYCLE THIEF.
About one week ago a bicycle was
stolen from Mr. James McWhirter’s
lbuck veranda at night. The officers
‘had been on the lookout for it ever
l since. Saturday afternoon Elmer Hen
derson, a young negro man about 18
years of age, carried one of the wheels
to a repair shop to get it mended. This
led to his arrest by Constable J. W.
Morris. The negro resisted arrest, and
it required the assistance of Mr. Mack
Phillips to get him to jail. A good
deal of excitement was created by the
arrest, owing to the stubbornness of
the negro. The bicyele was recovered
at his mother’s, six miles’ in the coun
try.
. STABBED.
Last Saturday night, in front of Firss
Nitional Bank, two negro women, Lucy
Gresham and Mary Frazier, had a fight,
prompted by jealousy of the divided
attentions of a colored Lothario. The
Frazier woman got the Gresham woman
down on the sidewalk and fastened her
teeth on her cheek and bit her severe
ly. They were parted, when the Gresh
am woman stabbed the Frazier woman
in the back and on the shoulder and
cut her hands in several places. They
areall flesh wounds, and Dr. Nolan,
who dressed the wounds, says they are
not serious. The Gresham woman
levaded arrest.
NEW COTTON BUYERS.
. We learn that Messrs. Sanders,
Swann & Co., of Atlanta, have leased
the Legg warehouse on the railroad
from Legg Bros., and will buy cotton
here next season, beginning September
first. They will have a buyer on the
streets and will pay the higest market
prices for the fleecy staple. Itisa
very wealthy firm and fully capable of
turning a good deal of money loose
among our farmers for their cotton.
With Messrs. Anderson Bros. and
Messrs. Hudson and Hardeman buying
cotton here, Marietta will continue to
offer the best inducements for the cot
ton trade.
. COMPLIMENTED.
Col. W. R. Power has been appointed
by the faculty of the University of
Georgia to conduct examination of ap
plicants for admission intothe Uni
versity. Young men desiring to enter
the University can make, application
to the examiner for information on en
trance requirements. This is the only
poinvin North Georgia, except Dalton,
where the: examination can be had.
This is a deserved compliment to Col.
Power, as well as to his character and
eminent qualifications.
BURNED TO DEATH., .
A very sad affair occurred several
miles east of Marietta on last Friday.
Miss Minerva Smith, daughter of the
Jate Tillman Smith, was burning off a
sedge-field. By some accidentitl means
‘her clothing caught fire, and before
help could be. of avail her clothing was
burned off her person. Her body was
badly and excruciatingly burned, which
resulted in hen death Sunday. She
was 40 years. of age, Her death was a
sad and horrible one and to be deeply
regretted.
BAD CITIZENS.
Saturday nights thé colored women
and men seem to take the town, a num
ber of them apparently under the in
fluence of whiskey. Besides the men,
some of the women carry sticks and ra
zors, evidently anticipating getting{
into a fight with some one. Profanity
is freely indulged in. Last Saturday
night two colored women had a fight
on the sidewalk, and one was bitten and
the other was stabbed. A moral uplift
is very much needed among some of
the colored race.
BURGLARY.
The Southern Express office, at the
A. K. &N. Railroad depot, was buar
glarized on last Friday night. How an
entrance was made is not known,
whether & window was raised,of' the
parties locked up in the office. Some
twenty-five express packages were cut
open and searched for valuables, which
did not seem 'to satisfy them. They
contented themselves by carrying off
two jugs of whiskey and some elothing.
LUCKY SCRIBE. '
Mr. Ben F. Perry, editor of Cinton
Advance, has been appointed Fertilizer
Inspector for this séction of Georgia by
State Agricultural Commissioner Ste
vens. Mr. Perry will have his hands
full—editing a newspaper at Canton,
insurance agent, running a hotel at
Univeter, and - tagging guano sacks.
With all these to econtribute to his
bank account he will be a blooming
bondholder. But he is worthy of the
best.
Mr. George Herrington spent Friday
in Atlanta.
Mr. Tweedy ani family, of Milwau
kee, Wis., are at Dr. Wm. Alston’s.
Mr. Henry Fleming, of Atlanta, was
here Sunday. -
Mr. Smith Grogan spent Monday and
Tuesday with home folks in Acworth.
Miss Eugenia Small, of Macon, is
visiting Mrs. 8. H. Hall.
Mrs. Fred Morris has returned from
Macon.
Editor Walker, of the Aeworth Post,
gave us a pleasant call on Tuesday.
Mr. L. E. Moore has had the front cf
his drug store repainted.
Mrs. W. F. Groves will add two rooms
to her house and repaint it. |,
Miss Susie May Wallace left Wednes
day on a visit of several days in Atlanta.
Mrs. D. B. Grist and children and
Mrs, Effie Rosser, of Atlanta, are visit
ing Mr. M. T. Grist’s family.
Mr. George M. Fleming was very'sick
the past week, but was well enough to
be at his store Monday.
We give Green trading stamps for all
cash purchases, also for work done' by
our plumbers and tinners.
: H. C. Dosss.
The bargains in Winter Goods at
Read & DuPre’s will be the talk of the
town and county. Call and buy what
you want before they are gone.
Mr. Charley Donelley, the Atlanta
Constitution’s jolly representative, was
here Monday. ;
Messrs. T. W. Glover and . E. Hen
derson left Tuesday on a hunt in Paul
ding county.
Mr. J. P. Welsh left Monday morning
for Chattanooga and other places in the
interest of the Brumby Chair Co.
Mrs. Dr. Tennent will leave Saturday
for Franklinton, N. C., to visit her
daughter, Mrs. Ward.
We are indebted to Senator A.S.
Clay for bound volumes of the proceed
ings of the United States Senute. ‘
Our store is open to bargain hunters,
and after getting our prices you will
see we are givin% the greatest bargains
ever offered to the trade of Marietta
and Cobb county. Reap & DuPre.
The Chattahoochee river was out of
its banks Monday morning and higher
than ever known,
Mr.J. A. MeDonald has moved has
pool table to the store vacated by the
Marietta Market Co., on Mills street.
Mr. George Styles, the owner of
‘‘Archie,” paid his friend, Mr. R. M.
McNeel, a visit here Saturday.
- Mrs, James D. Buttolph and son,
}Frunk, of New York, arrived in the city
Saturday.and are visiting Rev. D. L.
Buttolph and family.
The Methodist Parsonage Aid Society
will meet at the residence of Mrs. W,
8. N. Neal Thursday afternoon at 3
o’clock.
Miss Martha Adams, who was the
guest of Miss Mary Reynolds Sunday,
left for her home in Cedartown Monday
| morning.
Call and see what we have left in
Winter Goods, and if we have what
you want you can buy it at such a great
fiargnin you will go home, look up
_f)our friends and send them to Read &
uPre’s store to get bargains as you
did.
Four charming young ladies of Mari
etta have formed a club called the K.
A. Q.’s, which meets once a week. Fun
is their motto.
Congressman A. . Latimer’s wife
and two daughters, of Belton, S. C., are
visiting their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Boston.
Mr. Johnnie MeNamara and wife and
Mr. Kingston and wife, of At.lanta.‘
spent Sunday in the city, the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McNamara.
A gentleman from lowa was here the
other day looking at the creamery with |
a view of buying it and starting it up.
He will probably do so.
Mrs. John A. Manget left Wednesday
evening for Savannah, where after a
few day’s visit to friends she will join
her uncle’s party for an extended visit
through Florida.
We are offering balance of our Fall
and Winter (ioogs ut prices which no
other merchant will dare to offer you
Reap & DuPre.
Just as soon as the weather permits,
our city authorities should remedy thg
low street between the new depot and
the Kennesaw House. It needs filling
in and an outlet for surface water.
Messrs. L. Black & Son are at work
on the Crockett house on Cherokee
street and the Mozley house on Tram
mell street every day the pweather is
suitable. |
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.
Mr. and Mrg. Charles Gilmore and
child, of Chiecago, are stopping at Mrs,
Gibbes’. They are relatives of Mr.
John R. Winters, and Mrs. Gilmore
and child will remain several months,
HORRIBLY MANGLED
oA MILL MACHINERY,
Georg:]a;;;e;md at
Vinings: i
HIS LIMB?CUT OFF
He Was the En;l;: at Thornton’s
Flouring Mill and Had ‘Wan
dered Up Stairs.
On last Tuesday afternoon a horrible
and fatal accident occurred at Mr.E. A,
Thornton’s flouring mill at Vinings in
this county. George James, volored,
was the engineer at the mill, and una
wares to any one and without notifica
tion as to-why he should do 80, he left
the engine room, his post of duty, and
ascended to the third floor of the mill.
He was caught in the fast revolving
machinery and his legs, arms and part
of his head were ground off and hurled
in different directions. The ceiling,
floor, and walls were besputtered with
blood and, ‘pieces of flesh, while his
lifeless hidy was thrown through an
opening o the second floor. It was a
nickening‘:ight to the horrified employ
es when they discovered his remains.
Coroner Lyon was sent for and held
an inquest,
James has & family in Macon where
he eame from,
FULL BLANT. ’
Messrs. Florence Bros., King & Co.,
speak to the trading public in this is
sue by using a half page advertisement.
They have just opened their gro
cery department in the Brantley
Building, recently vacated by the Rack
et Store, and by the 10th inst., they
hope to have possession of the store oc
cupied by Sessions & Trammell,iin
which they will carry Dry Goods, Hats,
Clothing, Shoes, Gents’ Furnishings,
Notions, &ewisitblyesm, Messrs. J.
R. King and Will A. Florence, being in
New York thiz week to makelpurchases
Thus with two stores doing a strictly
cash business, they propose to sell
‘at astonishingly low prices. In their
conspicuous advertisement in this is
i sue they give prices on groceries that
‘the trading public will be sure to take
‘advantage of. Twenty pounds of gran
‘ulated sugar for $1.00; Arbuckle’s cof
fee 12¢ per Ib; 11 lbs green coffee for
$1.00; 2 1b can tomatoes 6¢; 2 1b can
corn B¢, and s 0 on. Read the adver
‘tisement for yourself. Enterprising
and energetic they are going to get
trade or know the reason why. Call
and see them.
GONE AND GOING.
Mr. W. H. Fox has closed out his
store'here and in about two weeks he
will go to Jacksonville, Fla., where he
will work at his trade. His family will
remain here during the summer
months before joining him. We great
ly regret tolose Mr. Fox as a citizen
as he is an upright, christian gentle
man, liberal and clever.
Mr. H. W. Taylor, who has been
with Mr. L. E. Moore’s drug store, has
given up his position and left on the
Wednesday for his home in Bowling
Green, Ky. Ileis a genial and coar
teous young man and has made many
friends here who regret his departure.
Mr. Charlie Metealfe has resigned his
position at the office of the W. & A.
R. R. depot at this place, and has been
succeeded by Mr. John H. Boston, Jr.
Mr. Metealfe will take a trip to Cali
fornia about the flrsf of May.
Mr. Walter Thornton and family
and Mrs. Springer and daughter, left
the first of the week for Waycross,
where they make their home. It is a
source of regret to our people to lose
them as citizens, and hope their future
will be full of happiness and prosperity.
' THANKS.
We, the undersigned, a committee
representing the colored people of Bap
tist Town in the ecity of Marietta, de
gire to thank the white citizens of Ma
rietta for their kindness to us during
the recent spell of extreme cold weath
er. Many of us were entireliy without
fuel and some without provisions, and
had it not been for the charity of our
friends some of us would have suffered
intensely. We especially thank Mr. J.
Gid Morris for his efforts in our behalf,
and assure him and all who helped us
in our'time and trouble that their
kindness will not soon be forgotton.
N. S. BreruLiNG, Pastor.
Carrory FreemMaw, Chairman, ;
SussorißEßS—Notice the printed date
after your name, and see if your sub
scription has expired, if so renew at.
once. Those not renewing will have
their names dropped from the list, -
' NO. 11.