The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-08-24

Col. w. r.. Powers new house is
nearing completion.
Mrs. j. d. Anderson, who has been
visiting in Canton has returned home.
Mr.. Wilbur Gilbert is visiting rela-
tives in Atlanta.
Mr.. Don Towers left Saturday to
spend two weeks in Rome with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. McAndrews, of Bir-
mingham, Ala, are at Mrs. Brumby's.
Mrs. s. A. Garwood spent Sunday in
Ellijay.
Mr. James Dunwoody, of Shreveport,
La, was in the city Wednesday.
WANTED-A bright boy for office
work. Must write nice hand.
The Marietta Chair Company.
In few weeks cotton will be COM
ing into Marietta and then the trade
will begin to pick up.
Miss Bessie Rossignol, of GAINESVILLE,
Ga, is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. T.
Phillips.
Mrs. w. E. Williams was quite sick
the past week, but has fully recovered
now.
The scarcity of local news i'm
presses us with the belief that it has
left the city on summer outing.
Mr.. B. F. Davies, Of the firm of
Rutherford & Davies, left Thursday
evening on visit to Huntsville, Ala.
Mr.. j. E. Hart, son and daughter,
are visiting his sister, Mrs. w. b. Met
calfe.
Judge Gober is holding Milton Su-
perior court this week, and several of
our lawyers are in attendance. /.
The state tax rate is to be decreased
this year, which will be good news to
the tax payers.
Mr.. w. w. Glenn and wife spent a
few days at Cohutta Springs, returning
the first of the week.
Mr.. Dan Anderson has sold his roam
horse to Mr.. L. G. Read, which makes
a fine match for his other horse.
We regrEt TO learn that Mr.. Ell
Green has the typhoid fever at his
fathers, Mr.. Mark L. Green, in the
country.
The city authorities should be active
in looking after the sanitary condition
of the streets and premises, in order to
have healthy town.
Mrs. Sarah E. Johnson, of Texas, and
Mrs. M. O.. Parker, of Atlanta, who
have been visiting Mrs. J d. Anderson,
have returned home.
Mrs. M. J. Bradley and children
have returned from Strawberry Plains,
Tenn. where they have been for some
time.
Mrs. T. F. Moore, who has been vis-
iting her son, Col. r. N. Holland, re-
turned to her home in Acworth last
Thursday afternoon, accompanied by
Mrs. M. r. Lyon.
A burglar entered Mr.. w. N. CRISIS
kitchen the other night, helped HIM
self to good meal and left. A hungry
man has no scruples about satisfying
his appetite.
Mr. J. A. Fields, with a position as
U. S. revenue guager at Thomaston,
came home Monday sick with typhoid
fever. We hope for his speedy recov-
cry.
Canton is going to have 100000
cotton mill. Already 10000 has been
subscribed by the citizens there and
the prospect for the balance is good.
Canton is showing enterprise that is
worthy of commentator.
People will pay tariff tax, internal
revenue tax, war tax, and never make
a single kick; but il they are taxed to
build good road into town, over which
they have to travel, they will say they
are being taxed to death.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Camp and
daughters, Misses Sallie and Hattie,
left Thursday morning for a months
stay at Lookout Mountain. Judge
Richard Field and family, of Kansas
City, Mo-, are at Mr.. Camps residence
here.
A number of Marietta young men
who have been employed in towns
along the A. X. & N. r. r., have found
''better halves" Young man, if you GO
to the mountains of North Georgia you
are apt to wed one of those bright
eyed, rosy-cheeked lassies
The farmer who takes time by the
forelock and provides himself with
hogs for the purpose of feeding his corn
to them this fall, will be handsomely
rewarded. Corn is going to be worth
much more when sold in the shape of
Dork than when sold In its native stsfa