The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-09-02
MARIETTA MATTERS.

| NOW is the time to begin advertising
fall goods.
The oyster season will soon open, and
so will the oyster.
Many of our people have secured fine
stands Of turnips
Salt Spring water is sold in Atlants at
25cts gallon
1t is better to be innocent than to be
penitent.
| The crop prospects for corn and cotton
are very encouraging in this section.
DIR. N. N. Gober has bought lot on
Lawrence street from Mr.. A. A. VIM.
| Miss Daisy Cox left Wednesday on
visit 10 l.aGrange.
Most OF Our ptizens have laid in their
winter supply Of coal
| MIR. George WhItlock returned from
Nashville last Monday.
Mr. T. H. Shockley has gone to mar
ket
| "A. A. Fletcher & Co. have in stock a
full line of wagon and buggy harness.
Mr.. Tidy, of Baltimore has been in the
city several weeks, visiting Mr.. A. Y Leake
and Mr. James PitnaF.
Solicitor General George F. Gober and
wife and Mrs. DIR. n N. Gober left Tuesday
on visit to Cincinnati exposition.
The County convention to nominate
two candidates for the Legislature meets
here on the first Tuesday of this month.
III you want the best beef in town 90 to
Stephens Bros. meat market. Telephone
a.
Cheap money TO loan on city and farm
property. D. W. BLAIR,
Attorney at Law.
1T will saon be time for the first bale of
cotton to come into Marietta. Our cotton
buyers intend to pay the top of the market
DR.. Goss has had his home very much
improved by the workmans hammer and
| the painters brush
An alleged half man, half bear, was
On exhibition here at Nichols Hall last
Monday.
Mr. B. R. Legg and wife left Monday.
afternoon for Ashville, N. c., to spend
few weeks.
"A A. Fletcher & Co. are agents for the
best Cotton Gin made-Gullett' Steel Brush.
Mrs B. Schoenthal left last Saturday
for New York 10 visit friends and buy new
goods.
Miss Clara Hirsch left Marietta last
Friday morning on visit to Washington
City.
DR.. Greer is making preparations to
have the store, occupied by Austin & Grist,
extended.
The handsomest line of Rugs in the city
can be found at Mrs, B. Sehoenthalrs.
"A few more of those good Hams that
we had on hand before the rise and we are
selling at old prices, Sessions, Handy Il Co.
-Messrs. Mckenzie and Warren have
each bought lot from MI. T. H. Shockey
on Lawrence street and will build on them
They paid 81 900 for the two lots.
The Ladies Methodist Parsonage So
ciety will meet at the parsonage this Thurs
day afternoon at 4 o'clock. A full attend
Rnce is requested
DIR. g. W, CIeIand, Mr. Vim Aston
Jr., and Mrs. John r. Sanges left on last
Sunday morning on visit to Indian Terri
tory
Some Of our cotton merchants predict
that Marietta will receive her first new bale
for this season between the I4th and goth
instant.
Rev. G. S. Tumlin's sermon, Sunday
morning, at the Baptist Church, was one of
great power and beauty, comforting and
ediiying.
Staple Dry Goods, such as Jeans, Cot
tonades, Cassimeres, Cahcoes, Bleaching,
Sheeting, Shifting, Checks and Hats Shoes
&c, at bargain at McCutcheon's
Sessions, Handy & Co. prices 20 lbs
Carolina Rice $l00 3gallons N. O. Syrup
$l.0O; 40 lbs -four $l.OO
1t is agreed by all that large number
of cartridges will be raised this season
Hunters can clean up their guns for work
by the LIST of October.
Miss Bessie E. Baker, of Savannah,
who has been spending few weeks in the
Gem City, returned home last Saturday to
the regret Of her many friends.
Mr. John Northcutt and wife and Mrs.
DIR. Gober returned Sunday after spending
several days at Bowden Lithia Springs last
week
The newly elected Democratic Commit
tee of Cobb county are requested to meet at
the Court House in Marietta on the LIST
Tuesday in September for the purpose of
organizing and other business.
The NJ. & N. Ga. R. R. has crossed the
Toccoa river, and are pushing their road on
to completion. They have enough iron to
lay the track two miles into North Carroll
ma.
Mr. G. 7. Sibley went up to Marietta last
night to recuperate. He has been sick for
the past six weeks with typhoid fever 1t is
hoped he will fully recover his health-Au-
gusta News
FARM FOR SALE.--For sale on favorable
terms, good farm of So acres, two miles
southwest of Mariettr, near Powder Springs
road. Price very reasonable Apply to
Mrs. w. H. Goodwin, Marietta or John B.
Goodwin, Atlanta, Ga.
The boys in town put in some lively
shooting Of bull-bats on last Friday after
noon inside the corporate limits. The Mar
shall put in appearance and invited them to
matinee before the Mayor
The improvements on the interior OF
the Methodist Church as far as progressed
are very beautiful and quite satisfactory. 1t