The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-12

Tor the dedication.
If you don't keep off the grass in the
city park, the marshals will get you.
The grip still holds it's grip on a
number of our citizens.
Give in your city tax returns to
Clerk K. K. Lawhon at once.
They say smallpox is at Tate, Ca,
and quarantine is on.
See Florence Bros, King & Co.'S low
cut shoes for men, women and children.
The sun sets one minute later every
day.
Mrs. Cathren and daughter, of Brain
tree, Mass, are visiting DR.. P. R. Cor
telyou's family.
| MAD STONE FOR SALE-A sure remedy
for any kind of poisonous bites 1t has
been in use 70 years. Will sell it very
cheap. j. o. BUTLER, Marietta, Ga.
The city assessors this year are
Messrs. Humphrey Reid. J. NJ. Austin
and DIR. I. H. Springer.
Gardening is going on in good earn
est, and shooting the chickens out is also
going on.
That's long heat to July 2Sth for
county officers. The perspiration will
melt many collar by that time.
We have some great values in Straw
Hats. Florence Bros, King & Co.
The Middle Georgia fruit crop does
not appear to be injured seriously yet,
but it has had very close shave.
Mr.. J. A. Nolan, of Morgan county,
spent Sunday night here with his
brother, DR.. G. T. Nolan.
Now, that the millinery Openings"
are over, the pocket book will have its
opening.
1t will be too bad to cut off so many
candidates in the flower of their youth,
but then all of them can't be elected
They say that field peas are selling
at $3.50 per bushel in Georgia. Plant
peas and less cotton.
We have the largest and best stock of
Low Cut Shoes ever shown in town.
Florence Bros, King & Co.
Plucking fruit blossoms to see if the
peaches were dead has been the bust
ness of a number of anxious orchard
owners
You have just twenty-four more days
in which to register for primary to vote
for state house officers and judges.
Register at once.
My, my, Marietta ought to have that
cotton factory. If you want Marietta
to continue to be good cotton market,
you must have it.
1t is not the height to which man
! is advanced that makes him giddy-it's
looking down with contempt on those
who helped him up.
Rev. ]. H. Patton, of this place, de-
livered another lecture on his trip to
the Holy Land at the Presby
church, Euharlee, on the 10th inst.
The farmers are hustling now. They
are hauling out guano, breaking land +,
planting corn, and fixing to make big
cotton crop.
Mr.. Brand Garner, who was cashier
and bookkeeper for Florence Bros,
King & Co., has gone to Florida to ac-
cept a position, and Miss Eugenia
Wales, of Dalton, takes his place.
An old negro man, named "Uncle
Charles" went to cape Friday morning
and threw his jaw out of place. He
does it frequently, but gets it back all
\ right.
If you want the correct thing in
straw hats and low cut shoes go to
| Florence Bros, King & Co.
The new court house is nearing COM
pletion, and by the fifteenth CT May it
will have received it's finishing touches.
The adjourned term of court will be
held in it in July.
A proverb from the French says that
"A thing which pleases is already half
sold" This constitutes no ordinary
tribute to the power of the advertise
ment. The newspaper subscriber reads
an advertisement, becomes pleased with
the description and prices of certain
goods, and thus a purchaser is nearly
won.
Buy your Straw Hats from Florence
Bros, King & Co. Over 1900 to make
your selection from.
A bright blaze in Frank Rogers
barber shop, over Rutherford & Davies
store, Thursday night, attracted Mr..
Charles Paille's attention He rushed
over there to find that lamp had ex-
ploded and the burning fluid on the
floor was leaping dangerously high.
, After heroic effort the flames were
subdued and a serious fire extin-
' p,1icbad