The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-04-11
MARIETTA MATTERS.
WELCOME the straw hat.

Thursday night.
CAPT. R. w. Boone returned Saturday
night from Florida.
Mr.. Geo. Whitlock arrived in the city
Sunday from Knoxville.
The books for city tax returns are now
open.
The farmers are hauling out guano right
along as if they were fond of it.
A ride over Marietta will convince any
one of its beauty and growth.
Mr.. Maloy, of American Marble Co..
has returned from his visit to Boston.
HOLD on to your fannels Most too
early to abandon them.
The trees are adjoining themselves in
green very rapidly.
THE windows of the dry good stores look
pretty with their spring displays.
Buy your Stationery at Crosby's Drug
and Seed Store, he has selected stock.
Two squads of hands left last week and
this to work on the N. & II. Ga. R. R.
Miss Nellie Drane is visiting friends in
Atlanta.
Our town is full of visitors and our hotel
and boarding houses are doing we'll.
A colored man has his application on
file in Washington for postmaster at Mari
eta.
3 CAKES toilet soap for cents at Red
Front. GEO. NJ. MANNING.
Large line of white goods at Hirsch's.
Several patches of clover and grass in
and near town are growing off beautifully,
which shows what can be done in this line.
Easter comes on 2lst of April, and ap-
propriate services will be held at the several
churches.
REV Mr.. Tumlin informs us that homes
have been provided for 300 delegates to
the Baptist State Convention
WANTED-Sound Cotton Seed. Apply
to Manning Bros.
Do you want trunk or valse? If SO
60 to Hirschs.
Mr., Hice, of Tallapoosa, has rented the
vacant store in the new hotel and will
move to Marietta and open a drug store.
Hirsch has the largest stock OF scarfs in
North Georgia.
Col. V. L. Starr and his daughter, Mrs
NJ. J. Bradley, returned Monday from
visit to Lookout Mountain and Knoxville
Tenn.
Mr.. Chuck Anderson has the contract
to put mp the new telegraph poles for the
Bennett-Mackey Co., between Marietta and
Rome
Capt. J. G. Hughes, who has been in
Washington for several weeks, returned
home last Saturday. He is an applicant
for postmaster at Marietta, and thinks his
chances good.
The cutting down of Cemetery street in
front of Mrs. Kings residence seems to us
to be bad piece of engineering. Com
mon sense would suggest filling in and lev
cling up to that point.
Prescriptions accurately compounded by
registered pharmacist, with years of expe-
rience at Crosby's Drug and news house.
Mr.. M. L. Kirk, near Kennesaw Noun
tain, discovered that rats were destroying
a good deal ofhis corn. He began to up
turn his fodder and turned his three cur
dogs loose AS the rats would scamper
from their hiding place the dogs would nab
them, and when they got through the
slaughter, 1876 dead rats lay in heap.
SUPPER at the New Hotel on Thurs
day night 18th inst, for the benefit
of the Organ for the Methodist Church
Everybody invited to come. Supper from
to 10 p. m. Contributors will please
send their articles to the new hotel by 8
p. M. Thursday.
Mr.. Andrew j. Barker, of Chattanooga
visited his family Sunday. He says he is
doing well in the family grocery business,
as is also Mr.. j. L. Haley who is engaged
in the same kind of business in the same
city. Chattanooga is manufacturing
town and has large population to make
trade prosperous.
Hirsch's keeps the finest line of shoes
in Marietta
Coal Tar for sale. Phoenix Foundry.
A full measure and a little on the
handle. JOHN A. SIBLEY,
COTTAGE HILL DAIRY.
A CARD of thanks containing thirty three
names Of our citizens has been presented
to the council as expressive of their high
appreciation to Mayor Glover and John
Motley, chairman of street committee, for
opening of street from Atlanta street to
Powder Springs street, also giving a good
street to the city cemetery.
Some of our fremen say that more of
our citizens ought to join the fire company
and aid them at fires especially those who