The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-10-04
MARIETTA MATTERS.
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JOURNALS Bell Telephone, No. Is.
Conductor Bill Turner's gray horse
died last Saturday.
Nightwatchman McDopald says he
doesn't know any news.
DR.. @. H. Fields has moved his office
over Sessions 3ros.' Store.
DR.. Wadsworth is carrying on series
of religious services at Olinville Meth
odist church, at night, this week.
Mr.. John D. Northcutt has 400 acres
near White Path, where he is raising
goats.
Anyone wishing to rent safety vault
boxes, call on NJ. NJ. Sessions & Co.
The Success Heater requires but one
piece of wood. Dobbs is agent for them
Money to loan at per cent. No fees
nor commission. ENooH FAw.
Old folks singing at Bethlehem on
second Sunday. Bring old books.
Miss Fannie Groves is visiting home
folks.
Over20O bales of cotton sold here last
Saturday. The prevailing price was
10 lie.
Mr.. Frank King, at work in Chatta-
nooga, spent Sundpy with home folks
here.
E. w. Walker, colored, of Kennesaw,
picked 300 pounds of cotton in one day,
and 203 pounds in half day.
The matrimonial market will take on
a boom now that ten cent. cotton is
being marketed.
Mrs. Kate Campbell Smith and little
daughter, of Chicago, are visiting Mr..
Lumpkin, on North avenue, and other
Marietta friends.
For RENT-"Mountain View" the
| Spaulding place on Campbell's HILL
For Notwithstanding. Grand Rap
| ids oak and wa ut chamber sets, ex-
tension table, etc. Mrs. S. G. Spauld-
| ing, So Polk street, the Groves place.
Tht state and county election was
decidedly quiet at this place. You
would hardly have known that an cleo
tion was in progress, if not called upon
to vote.
/ A newspaper can say nice things
about man and his whole family for
two long years, and then incur their
lifetime enmity in one short week by a
seeming slight.
Remember that the friend OF today
may be the enemy of tomorrow, and by
no act of yours place it in the power of
a friend. should he become your enemy
to do you harm.
An exchange says an Arkansas
preacher is responsible for the state
ment "that God made the world and
then He rested. Later on He made a
man and rested again. Then He made
a woman, and since then neither God
nor man has had any rest"
! NOTICE OF LOCAL LEGIsLATION.-A bill
will be introduced into the next session
of the General Assembly of Georgia en-
titled An Act to create a new charter
for the city of Marietta in the county
of Cobb and for other purposes.
A number of our citizens have taken
down the enclosures to their front
yards. If cattle driven to pastures
could be controlled from running into
yards from the streets, the plan could
be adopted universally.
Concealed pistol carrying is hard to
stamp out. You let a man carry a pis-
toll, he feels heeled for any emergency
and he talks mighty big, and provokes
a difficulty quicker than he otherwise
would.
A farmer when he gets old and de-
crepid, wants to move to town and
spend the evening of life. The mer-
chant, after strife and dissatisfactio
of mercatile life, hopes to be able to
buy good farm and move away from
the city, to live honest and die happy.
A darkey who went into store and
for the first time saw photograph put
the tube to his ear, and, after listening
a second started for the door, with a
exclamation: Gosh, all fish hooks
Here comes brass band, and left
dem mules unhitched."
A man is not necessarily a bad man
simply because he does not think as
you do You may come to think some
day as he does, and then you will be
self-condemned. 1t is better to Judge
a man by his motives rather than by
what he says and thinks. A man who
governs his life by high and unselfish
motives is good man, no matter
whether he is against you or with you.
How little is man missed. He dies