The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-09-16
MARIETTA MATTERS.

The candidates for county officers viii
| begin to bestir themselves from this on.
Politics is very uncertain and disa
greeable business.
A number of our citizens attended til,
Tabernacle meetings at Gainesville.
Mr. B. R. Legg and wife have returned
from their visst to Ashville, N. C.
The best So Shoes ior men in town a
Sessions Handy 4 Co.'S
The sweet potato crop this year is yer,
fine
-FouND-A key. Apply at this office
and pay for this notice
Mrs. H. A. Mcclellan is on visit t.
Illinois and Minnesota.
! We will thank our county friends fol
every item Of news they can gather for us il
their respective neighborhoods.
Rev. c. H. Bliss tent-meetings have
been well attended. He is fluent talkel
and quite an intelligent gentleman
"A. A. Fletcher & Co. are agents for the
best Cotton Gin made-Gullett Steel Brush
The handsomest line of Rugs in the city
can be found at Mrs B. Schoenthalls.
The street committee is certainly doing
its duty this year as far as their means will
allow them
The Gem City Guard have rented Me-
/ Cutchcon's Hall where they at night learn
to keep step
Sessions, Handy 4 Co. are offering
Hats to suit everybody in prices and styles.
"A number OF colored men of Marietta
are working on the railroads near Birming-
ham, Ala
-Mf. +. B. Garwood leaves this week to
take position in the Lagrange Oil and
Manufi cturing Company.
-Oyer $40 90 in cash, besides boxes Of
goods were sent from this place to the
Char ston sufferers
" regret to learn of the death of Mr..
Ed. barton which occurred in Canton on
last thursday. Ha leaves a young wife and
a number of relatives to mourn his death
M. D. S. Blackwell of this county has
a peaotree that is 40 years old and has rio-
ened to growths of peaches each year, the
first lonth eallier than the last.
"A lrge amount of hay is being harvest
ed by ar farmers. The year has been very
tavorate to Its growth, and ii will pay to
take cae of it,
Fit veal every week at Stephens Bros
market. Telephone "a
"A. Fletcher & Co. have in stock
full l'nef wagon and buggy harness.
-Ses9ns, Handy & Co are still selling
! 20 polds Rice for one dollar,
gales of Syrup for one dollar,
~ polds of Flour for one dollar
We Te misintormed last week as to
| Mr.. A. y York buying the Whitehead
place. lhas, instead, bought house
from Mr., F. McCatchy on Atlanta street.
The kn party at Mr. Starnes' on last
Thursdayigh was largely attended. 1t
was love night, and under the silvery
= rays of thaoon, bright eyes and inspiring
music, no e couli fail to enjoy the occa-
sion. Thables were well patronized and
q handson sum was realized
!. Mr.. Aversion Branham, formerly of
Marietta / now on the editorial staff of
d the Atlantsonstitution, gave US pleasant
call on la Friday afternoon He is q
wholesouldellow and one of the brightest
and most ertaining writer's on the Geor-
gia press
-Cheaponey to loan on city and farm
! property. ID. W. BLAIR,
u Attorney at Law
y -Smallanufactories are the industries
to build ulcity. You may have too many
, stores, butu can not have too many fac
y tories. L them be diversified. These
will interpolation, spread out your city,
= build upw schools and increase your
~ churches.
The has never spent any money to
III better adtage than what it pays Mr..
Gorham teep the cemetery in good OF
der. Alhan John Motley, Chairman of
the cemy committee, has done good
5 service III this year and deserves the
thanks one public
Go tHphens Bros meat market and
get tenderaks. Telephone "a.
tie -Choidams, Lard, Bulk Meat, Syurp,
| Suyor % Flour Erite ond D,no
e. be sold los by any one at McCutcheon S,
The Iman's Hall has been grained
w and varnid and beautifed. 1t is one of
:, the handsest halls of its size in the State.
: We have 9od fire company, good engine
nv and goongne house. What we lack is
plenty of er and more hose. Give this
to our fires and their services cannot be
excelled. ley do their duty every time
- Mr.. u P Boring of this county
made on average of 223 gallons of sor-
ne ghum to tlacre this season. Who can
beat it? % cents per gallon this would
nc yield $50 The seed would make it
II worth $40 per acre which beats cotton
raising a ydeal
--Bulld}eans pants are the best, for
sale by Sens, Handy & Co.
DR.. GIN, of Atlanta, and DIR. Seize,
of this plaperformed another operation
upon Col. W. Alexander, cutting into
II and puncttg one of his kidneys, from
J. which largmonnt of pus was discharged
- through rpr tube. This was the most
rs. difficult and nful operation yet perform
ed.
lg' -"AdvertDy the year, said an old
experienced bes8 man 1T is cheaper
- and yields be return in proportion to
oo the money irted An advertisement
should always lefore the public in some
set shape. If it diaears it is soon forgotten,
and those that min have the superiority
nc and advantages the competitor There
is only one eXclfor the discontinuance Of
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