The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-10-10
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

not very apt to attract much trade. ,
The annual reunion of the Confeder
ate veterans of Georgia will be held il
Macon 23rd and oath inst.
Mrs. Carrie Malcolm, of New York
who was lin the city, left Monday tt
visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. G.
Whitlock, in Rome.
The Marietta Journal and the Allan.
at Weekly Constitution one year $l.85
Mrs. F. G. Blankinship, of GSan Fran.
cisco, CAL, is visiting Mrs. Joseph NJ
Austin.
Mrs. M. g. Holtzclaw who has been
spending the summer with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. L. B. Robson, on Roswell st.
has returned to her home at Perry, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Robson and
children left the last of September for
two weeks trip to the mountains
near Asheville, N. g.
The Atlanta Daily News has been abb
sorbed by the Atlanta Journal, by pur-
chase of the controlling stock and sus-
pending the paper.
The marshals raked in about eight
colored women and men for disorderly
conduct on Saturday and Sunday night.
Profanity and a general disturbance
figured largely in the offenses.
Come to the all-day singing at Anti
och Sunday. Everybody come. Come
in the morning. Prof. Jas. B. Watson,
of Dallas, will be there. also several
other good singers. ID. A. Sewell.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Ex-Governor Thomas G. Jones, of
Alabama, Democrat, United States
Judge for the Northern District of
Alabama. This looks as if the Presi-
dent intended to treat the south right.
AS the winter season opens up so
does new beef markets. 1t doesn't
take so much ice in the winter, but the
markets that have to run through the
summer months are entitled to the
trade.
The following additional subscrip-
tions have been made to the Cobb
county exhibit at the Inter State Fair
in Atlanta: d. N. Anderson, $500; r.
H. Northcutt, $500; F. Schilling 5000;
John Awtrey, $500.
How painful it is to stand in crowd
of men and one man of that crowd will
punctuate his conversation with dirty
words and profanity. We casually
dropped into such company the other
day, but quietly pulled ourselves away,
leaving the man to keep up obscene
conversation, which was a mirror of
his character.
The Lost Mountain Farmers Club
adopted the following resolution: Re-
solved, That we express our thanks to
Neal & Massey for their support and
encouragement given us in our agricul-
tural fair. The subscription to the
Journal offered as a prize, was award
ed to E /. Mayes for the best variety
of corn.
G. S. MAYEs, Secretary.
Mr.. W. j. Wade, the successful and
industrious market gardener, near
town, has left with us some OF the larg-
est sweet potatoes that have found
their way to Marietta this season,
They are sweet Jersey yams and there
are no better potato raised. Mr.. Wade
is making fine reputation as farmer
We thank him for his kind remem.
brance.
The only cases of scarlet fever we
hear Of in town are at the home of Mr.
Howard &. Coryell, his three children
having light cases. Near the Kenne.
saw Marble Works we learn that Mr.
John Cunningham child has it. With
due precaution there should not be any
occasion of the disease spreading here
If every case is promptly reported and
isolation is pursued, followed after re.
covery with the burning of old clothes
and disinfecting premises, then a ces
sation ought to ensue.
The new Bureau of Inspection anC
Weighing have resurrected an old elias
sification on marble and placed the tar
if on marble shipments that if adhered
10 will kill the mrrble industry in this
section. AS a sample, the old rate un.
der late classification to common points
in Ohio on finished marble from Geor
gia is about $1.00 per hundred pounds
while from Vermont, greater dis
lance it is only q cents per hundred
pounds, All other points are just al
bad for Georgia marble. Am effort il
being made to rectify this unjust tariff
which discriminates against Georgi.
marble.