The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-11-24

WISHING MIS-. IL. Il. Moore, returned to
her home in Atlanta Saturday.
Mr.. Robert L. Northcutt is at Tar
boro, N. c.. where he will be for the
next two months
The Marietta Chair Co. has recently
paid per cent semi-annual dividend.
The company is prospecting and it's
goods meeting with favor.
Saturday the town was full of coun-
try wagons and people,. The rains had
soaked the earth, and work could not
be done on the farm.
The colored pastor of the African
Methodist church here, Rev. Mathews,
has been sent to cambridge.
Some night prowler, with penchant
for something to eat, stole quantity
of fresh meat from the back veranda at
Mr.. A. H. Legg's house on Friday
night.
Atlanta is going to have peace
jubilee" December IA. This means
Atlanta wants a big ''piece" of the
trade of other towns, by getting up
something to draw crowd there.
Chewing tobacco in church and
splitting on the carpet is very indie
cent thing for decent man to do, and
yet you will see man do this in
Marietta church occasionally.
Mr.. Frank Reynolds gave an after
noon tea at the Black Cat Club rooms
on Friday afternoon to Mr.. and Mrs. L.
E. Moore, Miss Susie HARDWOOD, of At
lanta, Miss Mary Wilson, of Nebraska
and Mr.. L. N. Trammell, Jr.
Governor Gambler Friday pardoned
Ted Medley, sent up from Cobb county
for two years for selling whisky with
out license. Ted had served twelve
months and promised not to do so
again.
Rev. j. T. Jenkins, editor of the
Western (N:C) Baptist, at Waynes-
vile, will preach at the Baptist church
next Sunday. While here he will be
the guest of Mr.. John H. Lewis. Mr..
jenkins is very able and eloquent
preacher and we trust our citizens will
give him large audience.
The Governor has appointed and the
Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Judge Geo. F. Gober to be trustee of
State University for the State at large
for eight years, vice Dr. w. H. FELTON,,
whose term expires August, 1899. This
is quite compliment paid Judge Go
Der and he will fill the position with
credit.
Mr.. w. w. Dexter, of Houston, Tex
as, was in the city Friday. He is well
known to Mr.. S. K. Dick of this place.
While here he arranged date for Hon.
Joe Henry Eagle to deliver lecture
here December 10, on GRADY" a splen-
did tribute to Southern sentiment,
thought and manhood. He is consid-
cred one of the most eloquent lectur-
ers on the rostrum.
Mrs. w. A. Lindsey is at present Wis
iting her sister in Tice, Ill. thirty miles
from Springfield. From there she goes
to Palmer Lake to visit her parents and
will then begin her journey to the far
northwest, Portland, Oregon. She
will remain indefinitely with her
daughter, Mrs. Brown, who is the wife
of prominent and successful dentist
of that city.
Marietta man says that he has in
vested $4,000 in bridal presents since
September of last year. Nowadays an
invitation to wedding means pres
ent whether you attend or not. This
liberal man ought to get even by mar
rying himself, as the giving and accep-
tance of bridal presents is pretty much
of an exchange or swapping affair after
all.
Sheriff Bishop received a telegram
from Rome to arrest a white man
named Reynolds, giving description, on
Friday mornings south bound train,
and that he was moulder: He found
man on the train that filled the de-
scription, he was moulder, and was
from Rome. he took him off the train
and then examined him carefully and
became satisfied that he was not the
man, that his hair was too dark. He
gave him his dinner and paid his way
to Atlanta, letting him depart in peace.
His name is Bagwell.
The man who won the Omaha prize
for the best small farm collection at
the big exposition was small farmer
living near Marietta. He and his wife
made the crop on twenty-five acres Of
ordinary Georgia land.-Americus Re-
cord Just SO. Cobb county lands
only need to receive proper and intelli-
gent treatment and culture to be made