The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-09-20
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The census gives Atlanta 89,872 pop
ulation.
Albert Rambo has entered Emory
College and Marcellus Rambo the State
University
Mr.. Felix Delk, clerk for J. N. 4 ]. L.
CAN'T, is sick at his fathers in the
country.
Mr.. H. G. Hudgins, of Atlanta, has
brought the DR.. Nelms' farm atSmyrna
and will make a stock farm of it.
Mr.. w. K. Strong, engineer at the
Kennesaw Marble Co, is on ten days
visit to Rutland. VT.
Mr.. Clark Howell, of Atlanta, and
Mr.. Charley Howell, of Chattanooga,
visited Mr.. A. Howell Sunday
Miss Mary Howell has returned from
Grand Rapids, Mich, where she took
course in kindergarten
The crowded condition Of the first
and second grade of public school have
necessitated the hiring OF another
teacher, which will be done at once.
Over 500 children in Atlanta were
turned away from the pnblic schools
for want of accommodation. The
board of education has no remedy for
the lack of funds.
Mrs. S. j. Drawdy and children left
for their home in Tampa, Fla, Wednes-
day, accompanied by her sisters Misses
JESSIE and Ethel Granting, who will
pend the winter there.
Winter is coming on, and there are a
number of people in Marietta, white
and colored, who have made no pro-
vision for the necessaries to keep COM
Portable. Coal. wood, clothing and
food must be had.
During the last three weeks, it has fall
len to Judge Gober's lot to have to sem
tence three women to the penitentiary
for life for infanticide. One in Pickens
county, one in Gordon county and one
in Cherokee county.
Prof. Baldwin, Of Naldosta, is in the
city organizing brass band. He
comes highly recommended and is
meeting with success He thinks he
will have a band in Marietta with
about twenty-five or thirty members.
The latest estimate of the cotton
crop is that it will be less than nine
million bales. If this is correct, then
cotton will go above ten cents. The
supply Will not be equal to the demand
of the needs of the world.
DR.. White, of Savannah, was the
guest of DIR. I. II. Springer here Mon
day He has just spent year in Italy
and was here with a view of building a
sanitarum in our city. He was very
favorably impressed.
A boy in New York found on the
street an envelope that contained a
check for S. 000, and promptly returned
it to the owners, Stein Brothers. dia-
mond merchants. They very gener-
ously rewarded the boys honesty by
giving him a silver quarter. Such lib
crafty of soul is scarce! Let us be
thankful that it is so.
Rev. DR.. Bachman, of Sweetwater,
Tenn, will begin a series Of meetings
at the Presby terrain church the fifth
Sunday night in this month. DR.. Bach
man is minister of rare power and
spirituality and all who hear him will
be edited thereby. A feature of the
meeting will be the music large
choir who are now practicing for the
purpose will have charge of this branch
of the service.
Cotton mills are being erected every
where: one at Gainesville: one at
Canton; one at Catrollton: two at
Winder; one at GAINESVILLE; two at
Lawrenceville two at Eatonton one
ut Carlton; one at Lavonia; one at
Monroe one at Madison; one at Union
Point; two at Hampton; one at Dallas,
but none in Marietta.
Cedartown will have new cotton
seed oil mill in operation in ten days.
Those people up there have push and
enterprise. Marietta is tagging on
manufacturing industries. If they will
pay in Cedartown, why not in Marietta?
The Augusta mills are shutting down
owing to the high price of cotton
they are unable to pay the present
high prices for cotton, and manufacture
goods, unless the price of goods adj
vances also. Many hundreds of opera
tives in Augusta will be idle if such a
closing down takes place.
Mrs. Annie L. Earle arrived Sunday
afternoon from Birmingham, Ala, and
will remain in the city until October
the first, when she viii return to her
home carrying her two sons, Jean B.
and Palmer Earle, with her. Mrs.