The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-03-24
Gbe Marietta yuurnal,
POWDER SPRINGS.

Everything lively and the goose hangs
high, considering the unusually cold wealth
er that we have had here very lately. Our
farmers were making some progress to,
wards planting, but the cold snap checked
them for the time being. Old uncle Joe
Brown SAYS that he is mighty fred dat we
am gwine to hab bury late spring, as all
de ceons and de possums haint commence
to shed off none of the har an de fur yit
an nudder ting | is noticed dat all de
coons walk up stream yit, as hab not
noticed whar ihny of DER tracks was gwine
down de branch. Spring never comes good
till de coon an do possum gins TO shed off
him har and fur, an gins to walk down de
creek an de branch, std ub gwine up
stream all de time"
There will be a large crop of cotton
planted in this sectioa again, this year !;
also, considerable crop of corn. We
have some fields OF many acres planted
already. We are getting along splendidly
gardening in and around our town. DIR.
Murray has radisLes, of this years growth,
large enough for table use already. Who
else can truthtully say so much in the
way Of gardening?
Our merchants are doing lively busi>
ness for the season. All have sold more
goods up to this time, than any previous
year in many.
Politics are very quiet with us just now,
but We are reading and thinking all the
time. We are we'll informed people at
Powder Springs, for we read the Marietta
JOURNAL and keep posted.
We have no marriages to note at this
writing, but think, perhaps. there will be
some of those days in the sweet after
awhile" as some of our young men are
growing very gallant here OF late. Some
are gallant enough to stand on the oppo-
site site of the street and cast smiles and
sneep's eyes at the young ladies as they go
by on the other side. Watch out girls that
means something.
We are church-going people, aud at
tend the following churches. viz: Metho4
dist, Primitive Baptist and Missionary
Baptist, one of them every Sunday.
THE Entire Nous Musical and Literary
Society" is rapidly growing in size and inn
terest. The officers are as follows: w. NJ
Spann, president; A. P. Lane, vice>presi-
dent; Thomas Camp, secretary; Miss
Lena McEachern, assistant secretary
Rev. DR.. Rivers, chaplain; Mrs. DR..
Rivers, Mrs. A. P. Lane and Mrs. James
W. Smith, executive committee. Through
an invitation extended the club by Miss
Blanche Lindley, it met at Mr.. Anderson s
where an excellent programme was REM
dered. Through an invitation given the
club by Miss Ida Butner it will meet at her
fathers, Mr.. John Butner, Sr., on Main
street, where an excellent programme of
select reading and music will be rendered
by appointed members of the club fer the
occasion; their names will De given in the
next issue OF the Journal.
Our school is in hourishing condition
at present. Powder Springs High School
under the management of w. NJ. and j. 9.
Spann, teachers, is increasing in numbers
every week, and the students advancing
splendidly in their studies.
Am very glad to state that the sick of
our town and vicinity are all getting we'll
Wishing the Marietta Journal and its
many readers the greatest success, re-
main, CURRENTS CALAMo.