The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-01-17
STATE NEWS.
Culled and Condensed from our Elk.
changes.

The Journal says Atlanta will
send two or three hundred tourists
to Europe this summer.
Lawrence Hall, who moved from
Ebert county to Texas few years
ago, is now worth 100000.
The Atlanta board of health de-
clares that the artesian we'll water
of that city is impure.
REV. SAM JONES and his family
have gone to California. He goes
to fill several engagements on the
Pacific Coast Of long standing.
THE barrel factory of CHANNEL &
Jones at Canton is doing a good
business, and everything else is
prospecting.
Governor Gordon has a stock
farm in Taylor county, and has re-
Gently secured four carloads of hor-
ses from the West to stock it with.
The new Paragon mills at Colum-
bus began operations Thursday. 1t
has 100 looms and will make the
finer grades of cotton goods.
At Madison, Cohen, the wounded
man, who was injured in the Gov
ington affair is still improving. He
walks around the house and was out
riding few days ago.
Judge George N. Lester, after
having tried life in the Ninth Con-
gressional district, has returned to
his first love-the Seventh-and
now practices law in Marietta. 1t
may be that the judge is destined to
meet DIR. FELTON, once more in the
Congressional race of next year.
Atlanta Constitution.
A young man by the name of H
Shiphoist, employed in the shops o.
the branch of the R. H. Jones' Sons
Manufacturing Company, located al
Rome, is missing. He was accused
of stealing goods from the firm, Sc
cured bondsman, and then fed
Work will be commenced early
next week on the new buildings and
works for the Macon Cotton Seed
Oil and Fertilizing Company. An
increase of s125,000 having been
granted at a recent meeting of the
board of directors, the mills ca
pacity will be increased threefold,
giving employment to a large force
of men.
The Augusta News relates story
told by North Carolinian, about a
wonderful tree in that state. He
said there was a popular tree at
Clyde station, Haywood county, SO
large that it made plank enough to
build church 80 feet long and 80
feet wide, II feet high and supplied
weather boarding, ceiling and floor
ing. From the same tree fence
was built on three quarters of an
acre around III III and there
were three loe r. The re-
naming tire o- enough to
build another the same dig
mansions as the @y2@.
A young lady in Meriwether
county has adopted a novel way to
raise funds wherein to build a
church. She does not claim origin
atty for the method of calculation.
but as applied to church building it
is decidedly new. She wrote letter
No. to friend asking him to
write two duplicate copies OF the
letter, numbering them 2. To send
back to her the letter No. 1, enclos-
ing her four cents in stamps, and to
write asking his two friends to
whom the letters No. 2 were adj
dressed, to do the same thing.
Each one of them to write letters,
duplicate of No. 2, numbering them
3, and forward them to two other
friends, requesting them to send her
four cents, and to write more letters
raising the number each time, until
the number of issues had reached
twenty. Then the last issue letters.
No. 20 to be returned with tour
cents each. If this chain is carried
out and each one sends four cents.
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