The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-02-09

in Birmingham, returning Tuesday.
The best cut-a-way Harrow is sold
by HI. @. Dobbs Hardware Company
Hon. w. L. Peek, of Conyers, was
the guest of Gen. VIM. Phillips Friday
and Saturday.
We regret to learn that Mr.. n. M
Mayes is quite sick at his home in the
country.
You are complaining at the mud
now, but you will be complaining of
the dust by and by.
The gentleman who borrowed our
gas pipe cutters will please return them
and pay for this notice.
| III. @. DoBBs.
Home institutions supplying home
consumption is the secret of success in
the South.
The front of Mr. G. M. Crosby's drug
| store has received new coat of paint,
which brightens it up nicely.
A dance was given at the Elmwood
Hotel ballroom on Friday night by the
young men of the town.
Mr.. G. J. O'Farrell, travelling agent
of the Atlanta Journal, was registered
at the Kennesaw House on Friday.
Deering Mowers, Rakes and Binders
are sold by
H. G. DoBBs HARDWARE Co.
A beef packing establishment is to be
built in Americas at once. Let our
farmers raise cattle.
DIED-On last Friday, near Water
man, Mrs. Martha Gam, aged SO years
Rev. J. H. Williams officiated at the
funeral on Saturday at Milford.
Mr.. J. w. Lewis, travelling for the
Marietta Knitting Company, came
home last week, but is off on another
trip this week.
The Marietta Knitting Company will
build at once a new boiler room, 16x22,
and put in 60-horse power boiler. A
L.
White Wine Vinegar, 25c per gallon !;
Apple Vinegar, Zoe per gallon. Grocer
les must go. Store for rent March 1st.
w. HI. Fox.
Mr.. 7. J. Lowe, of Middleton, in an
advertisement in this issue, tells our
farmers what he can do for them in
fertilizers. Read it and keep posted.
Col. j. r. Towers came home from
Rome quite sick Friday, but tsis many
friends hope he will soon be all right
again.
Mrs. Smith, who lives on Misses
Kirkpatrick's land, is worried with nu-
merous hawks, and she says if these
town fellows want to find game come
out to her home and kill these hawks.
After this month, Mr.. Foster Barber
will not be oil inspector at this place
He did not apply for reappointment.
Mr.. Hope Irwin, we learn, will be his
! successor, son of Mr.. Robert G. Irwin.
Mr.. w. P. Motley has sold to DR..
Malone the Fox dwelling on Roswell
street, and six acres of land of the Cor
yell property. Mr.. Motley speaks of
leaving our city.
Mr.. Ed Jervey and wife, of Atlanta,
came up Friday evening and attended
the dance at the Elmwood Hotel. Mr..
and Mrs. Jervey will spend the next
few months in Savannah.
Mr.. J. H. Barnes, superintendent of
the Marietta Knitting Company, has
plans to build nine room two story
dwelling this spring, on the lot be-
tween Mr.. J. L. Reeds residence and
that of Mr.. J. N. Squires.
Mr.. w. J. M. Hames stepped into
Oogburn Bros. store Saturday and dis
covered little negro boy behind the
counter filling his pockets with pickles.
He grabbed him, and Mr.. Cogburn
made him empty his pockets, and let
him go.
In Merritt's district, in this county
a lady died recently who had saved the
boards that her deceased husband was
laid out on forty-three years ago. She
requested before her death that the
same boards be used for her when
she died, which was done. After her
death the boards were sawed the right
length and placed over her coffin in the
grave.
The hog is most profitable as a sub
ordinate department. Quicker returns
come from him than from horses, cat
tie or sheep. He pays the rents in
European countries, lifts the mort
cages in the Northern States, and, in
conjunction with the COW, he will re-
deem the worn-out cotton and tobacco
helds OF the South. No agricultural
people thrive who buy grain or meats
and pay for them with the price OF