The Dawson journal., 1885-04-16
A TRIP TO NORTH GEORGIA.
DAWSON, Ga, /
April 14th, 1885.
EDITOR JOURNAL

> "NNA NA NAAO ""y "P W uud-
rietta that is worth mention. Tar
rived in the city on Tuesday night
a little after IL o'clock and got a
good nights rest, and at 10o'clock
a. M, Wednesday, the members
of the Grand Lodge, with Local
Lodge members, met in the Odd
Fellows Hall, formed procession
and marched to the court house,
where an address Of welcome was
delivered 10y the mayor of the city
(who is q member Of the order) in
nice little speech, and replied to
by J, G. Printup, Grand Director,
of Rome, Ga. The members of
the Grand Lodge then formed a
procession andSwere escorted back
to the Odd Fellows hall, and the
Grand Lodge was opened and pro-
ceeded to the business of the same.
Thare were about rs lodges repre-
sented and about 25 of the repre-.
sentatives were on their first trip.
AT 5 o'clock p. m. the Grand
Lodge proceeded to the election
Of the Grand officers for the ensu-
ing year with the following result:
The grand officers elect of the grand
lodge X. 0. H., are: Grand Dictator
Cedartown; Grand vice dictator-H. M.
Reid, Fairburn; Grand assistant dictator
IL. II. Cabaniss, Atlanta; Grand Chap
lain, A p. Jones, LaGrange; Grand re
porter-S. X. Cook, Barnesville; Grand
Treasurer-R II. Jones, Cartersville;
Grand guide--J @. Adams, Eatonton;
Grand guardian, r. A. S. Freeman, West
Point; Grand sentinel, w. T. Heidi Jones'
boro; State medical examiner, r. B. MIS-
bet, Eatonton; Representative to supreme
lodge, j. G. Printup, Rome; AL
ternate, Il. B. Nisbet, Eaton
ton: Grand trustees, NJ. NJ. Hill, Au-
gusta; F. G. Weisiger, Columbus; j. e.
Toole, LaGrange; Finance committee. II.
Edmondson, Augusta; 4. T. Harden. Sa-
vannah; W. A. Teasly. Canton. Next
place of Meeting, LaGrange.
After supper the Grand Lodge
installed fAe grand officers elect
and finished the labors about 8
o'clock and closed to meet in La
Grange on the End Wednesday in
April, 1886.
The session was pleasant and
harmonious. At y o'clock, the
9th, about sixty delegates, with a
goodly number of the Marietta
lodge and their wives and daughters
boarded the North Georgia mar
row gauge railroad and had a
pleasant trip up as far as Jasper,
Plckens county, where the train
stopped and remained about an
hour. The silver cornet band
there amused the crowd and the
citizens of Jasper with some fine
music. We had fine view of a
range ofthe Blue Ridge mountains
on the east side of the town, and
the visitors were delighted with the
beartifal sight and information
from some of the citizens. While
there | saw five bales of cotton on
wagons come in the town and al
most thought [ was back III Daw-
son, ,and if it had not been that our
train was ready to start back
would have gone and looked at it,
if not drummed it for my ware
house. Jasper is ffty-three miles
above Marietta, and the railroad
is completed twenty miles further
on to Talking Rock and will soon
be up to Ellijay. We left Jasper
and in fifteen minutes were eight
miles back to Tate Station, where
all left the depot and and took an
old trail down the hill to the Geor-
gia marble quarry. The route was
very rough and at some places very
steep, but the ladies made the trip
down very well. Near the quarry
lives Col. Tate, who has one of the
cosiest places [ ever saw; it is near
the foot Of the mountains and his
water is procured through cas-
ing and runs out like an artesian
well, and is the best spring water
| ever drank. He says he has
been living there fifty years. In
his yard he had a long table pre-
pared and the good things fur
nished at dinner for the delegation
by the ladies of Marietta were
spread and greatly enjoyed by all,
as it was near 2 o'clock p. m. AZ
ter dinner the visitors went down
about 200 yards from the house to
the works of the Georgia Marble
Co., where are now being worked
out large quantities Of marble
of very fine quality. Co.
late says there is an inexhausta.
BILE bed of it running six miles up
a little creek at the foot of the
mountains and it is found in the
bed of the creek, and will prove an
immense fortune to him, as he gets
a royalty ON all the company takes
off the place, who have all the
modern tools and implements for
working it, and are now getting
out and finishing up about 200
feet per day, and are increasing
their force and work every day.
They have railroad running
down the quarry from Tate Sta
ton, to carry their supplies and
bring out their marble,
which cost them S21,OOO.OO.
After inspecting the marble works,
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