The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-06
LOCAL LEAFLETS.
Picked Up Here and There and Bot.
ted Down for Journal Readers.

OuR manufacturing enterprises seem t
all be doing prosperous business
TEE grape crop this season promises t
be large
Go to the picnics and pick ticks, is ger
orally the way it happens.
THERE would be fewer gorgeously dres
ed women if all 6nery was sold for cash.
Qua citizens are using the paint an
whitewash brushes to good advantage.
A DINGY and dirty kept store is not
very attractive invitation to customers.
MISS LoRENA ROBINSON, of Whitepath
spent several days in the city, visitin,
friends.
PoLIrENEss is the most efficient aid il
the world to strengthen good name or to
supply the want of one.
The real trouble with the average youth
of the day is that he thinks he knows
everything
SoME of the young peaches are now as
large as walnuts, and the trees are loaded
with them
THE dry goods merchants now close for
the summer season every evening at six
o'clock.
FoUND-In Nichols Hall, a pair OF
eye glasses which the owner can get by
calling and paying for this notice.
Misses Oracle I.atimer and Laura Dial,
Of Woodstock, are visiting friends in the
city.
FISHES are biting splendidly now, but
they won't bite the school boy if he sticks
to his books.
Hot water is said to cure nervousness.
Cold water will, too, if you stay at the
bottom Of it long enough.
YES, Marietta is full of pretty young
girls, but our young lawyers, school teach
ers and store clerks, continue to court,
daily and delay.
THERE are three things that man with
any poetry in his soul never tires of look
ing at, namely: trains of passenger cars,
fine horses and pretty young ladies.
WHAT the reading public seem to de-
mAnd is more fact and less fancy. Some
thing brief and to the point. Rhetorical
beauties, however, should not be despised.
Mrs. Poole, formerly Miss HANNAH
Lanneau, of Marietta, and daughter o
Rev. John F. Lanneau, died this week il
Tslladega, Ala, and was brought to Ma
iietta at seven o'clock Tuesday evening
and buried on the same evening in tn,
citizens cemetery.
tbs city was never more quiet and or
derby. Our officers feel like locking up til,
calaboose and Jail and go fishing. Thi
speaks well for the good morals of GU
people.
IT has been many year since the frui
trees were as heavily laden with fruit a
they are this year. What a fortunat
thing it would be if Marietta had a can
ming factory. There would be money t.
be made out of it.
w. P. BUTLER, one of our cleverest an,
most enterprising colored citizens, sent u
some of his best ice cream on last Thurs
day. By his industry and enconomy
Press has been very successful anG
has large number Of friends.
We learn when the next change O
schedule is made on the w. & A. r. r.
our Marietta train will run on Sundays
1t will depart at about O. clock a. M, fo
Atlanta and return at about oclocl
p. m. This will give our people gooc
opportunity for hearing Atlanta preachers
AS THE weather gets decidedly warm, il
fact hot, the boys of Marietta feel that
is their imperative duty to walk one mill
to field below town and play base bal
in the hot sun. Ask them to cut load O
wood under these circumstances and the,
would tell you they didn't feel like iii
was too hot,
AN exchange crowds a great deal O
truth into few words when it says: "Ev
cry community which would grow anC
prosper must be willing to aid There
must be manifested spirit of enterprise
We have no right to expect outside PEG
pie and capital to come to our help until
we help ourselves"
ANUMBER of Marietta people attended
the Last Days of Pompeii" in Atlanta
on the respective nights. On Friday nigh
a crowd of about forty went down. Some
of our people witnessed the performance
at long range from Mr.. A. T. Coryelrs
hill in Marietta. The fireworks could BIZ
plainly seen and the reports heard. Tit
general opinion is that the show is wei
worth seeing.
If ever there was time when our PEG
pie should stand united on any enterpris
calculated to advance the interests of thu
| town that time iS Dow II CON, at;nooe bo :,