The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-09-07
Wileys.

sowing Jurnlp seed again, the first
crop being killed during the dry
hot weather.
The rain has damaged a great
deal of fodder in this part of the
county. / hear of some farmers
that had three or four hundred
bundles hanging on the stalk that
is hardly fit to take up.
Miss Maud Frey, of Atlanta,
was the guest of Miss Jessie Mayes
last week and also of Miss Olive
Handy Of this place.
Fl We are glad to note that Mrs.
Minnie Barber, of Olive Springs,
who has been sick for 1S months,
/ i improving. Her husband, Mr..
John Barber, brought her down
to see her mother for the first time
since she asgbeen sick. We hope
IsRe may continue to improve.
There are d great deal of differ
fence in the rising generation and
the generation Of Fifty years ago,
what their fathers got with rakes
they throw away with shovels.
After the miser comes the Prodigal
often men say of the spendthrift
his father was no man s friend but
his own, and now the son is no
mans enemy but his own. The
fact is the old miser went to hell
by the lean road and his son has
made up his mind to go there by
the fat road.
L. D. Spinks has moved his
sorghum mill last week up to w.
Frey's, where he will spend several
days making sorghum.
In union there is strength. If
the farmers of Cobb county would
all come together and lend help
ing hand to the Farmers Institute
| think it would be benefit to
Cobb county farmers if it was
worked right and not have no big
and little you. But that has
been the trouble with the farmers
in every organization that they
have went into for several years.
Big l and little you and politics
will ruin any organization on
earth.
Miss Ada Warner, of Atlanta,
who has been spending several
weeks with her parents at this
place returned. home last week ac-
companied by her sister Miss Ma.
lble.
Johnnie Dow, of Augusta, is the
guest of his sister Mrs. Katie Frey.
Mrs. Katie Butler and Miss
jamie Dow, who have been spending
several weeks with J. w. Frey and
family, returned to their home
last week in Augusta.
The prctracted meeting closed
at New Hope Friday with ten ac-
cessions to the church.
Prof. E. R. Shepard closed his
school at New Hope last Friday.
Mrs. S. R. Johns was on the sick
list last week.
/ c. G. Rogers is suffering a great
deal of pain at this writing from
having tooth pulled. There are
are several pieces of the jaw bone
looming out through the gums.
| Some of the young men down in
these diggins are very well pleased
with the latest style of buggy
riding, especially when the young
lady furnishes the horse and buggy.
j. j. Thomas informs me that
he is to be married next Sunday.
He refuses to tell who the girl is,
bnt ! guess it is Miss Sonsarah
Snider as he has been seen going
in that direction very often.
Mrs. M. E. Baily was called to
the bed side of her sick son last
week, Alfred Bailey, who ID in
Meridian, Miss.
J. T. M. Spinks is no better.
We are sorry to note he has the
slow fever, though we hope by the
skill of DR.. J. d. Malone he may
1 soon recover.
1t is J. G. Reed and not s. c.,
as the printer made me say inrlast
weeks issue.
Little Quillian Handy was very
sick last week.
/ w. III. Wylie had about one
thousand bundles of fodder pulled
and hanging on the stalk during
last weeks rain. :
| j. L. Reeds children all have
the whopping cough.
J. G.. Reed is suffering much
pain with bone felon on his
finger. W f8uttN
We are sorry to note the illness
of Mrs. J. H. Spinks.
News comes to us from Texas
that Mrs. L. M. Whitehouse ar
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