The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-07-04
LOCAL LEAFLETS.
Picked Up Here and There and Dot.
ted Down for Journal Readers.

have been visiting relatives in Putnam
county, have returned bone
Mr.. George D. Anderson, of Athens
Ga, is in the city, and will spend some
two months in the mountains of North
Georgia.
Rev. P. NJ Ryburn announced Sunday
that the contemplated protracted meeting
at the Methodist church has been deferred
to later period
Com is being rapidly laid BY" 1t
gives promise Of bountitul yield and of
the removal of our corn cribs from the
West to our own county during next year.
We trust some of our girls are not fond
of smoking cigarettes. We presume they
carry them about with them to give to
their gentlemen friends
Miss Eunice May, of Waco, Ga, is
spending few days with Mrs. Fannie
Anderson, on her way home from college
at Nashville, Tenn
A Young Folks Working Society was
organized Tuesday night at the residence
of Rev. G. S. Tumlin. A large number
was present, and the Society starts out
with fattering prospects.
CoTToN is not looking so we'll The
cold weather in the spring has retarded
its growth. Farmers think that it has
plenty of time to gain back what it lost on
this account
WHISKY incapacitates a man for the
labors and duties Of life, as we'll as destroys
his happiness and wrecks his prospects.
There is no hope for the man who persists
in drinking whisky, His downfall is
certain and his doom is fixed.
A cluster Of five large peaches on one
twig, sent us by Mrs. Jennie Fowler, and
and grown on S. NJ. Browns place
Smyrna, shows how bountifnl nature il
crowdiug The peaches this year on fruit
trees.
SATURDAY, negro man and his wife
seated in a wagon, driving mule, were
suddenly brought to a standstill by one
Of the wheels running off the axle They
looked very foolish as the wheel went roll.
ing away from them.
An anonymous correspondent corrects
our item as regards the longest day this
year. and says according to Greer
almanac, which he thinks passes for Or
thodox here, our longest day was fourteen
hours and ten minutes, and we had four
teen of them of the same length.
Cobb County Baptist S. s. Association
meets with Sardis church on Saturday
before the End Sunday in July. All the
Schools of the county are requested to
send reports and delegates
M K. Lyon, GEO. ROBERTS,
Sect'y. Pres
Every nov and then some town trots out
a negro woman 100 years old and asserts
that they have beaten the record, but
Marietta has negro woman Ill years
old, and, owing to her good health, she
stands fair to reach liz years. Her
name is CLANCY Gam, famiiarly called
Granny Gresham" A "bill of SALE sub
Stimulates the correctness of her age.
The Marietta JOURNAL must be very
closely read, as we notice sometimes
people can tell you OF matter it contains,
when they are not even subscribers, and
yet probably they are the ones who make
the greatest complaint If an article ap-
pears not to their liking. There is no ex-
4 cuse for any one being borrower when
the price of the paper is so very cheap.
TIE Rome Herald in noticing Mr.. j.
Cundrelps proposition to remove his fur
niture factory to Marietta, urges upon the
citizens of Rome the importance OF not
letting SO valuable man leave. This
shows how highly Mr.. Cundrell is appre-
ciated at Rome, and it would be to Ma
riettas interest to secure so valuable an
acquisition as citizen and manufacturer.
We hope our people will subscribe literally
to build this furniture factory.
A NOTICEABLE fact is the unusual quanti
ty of German millet planted. All along
the road you can see green patches Of this
most excellent stock feed, some Of which
reaches nearly up to a mans shoulders
1t is often quite problem to get enough
rough feed for stock owing to the scarcity
of shucks andfodder. This German mil
let crop will well supply the deficiency.
MARIETTA is decidedly healthy. 1t is
the resort of health seekers, and they are
not disappointed in being benefited.
Whenever there is case of sickness in
town, as will sometimes happen, it creates
general talk. The health record Of Ma
rietta is number one. No place can show
! up better.