The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-07-04
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.


home from her visit to Gadsden, Ala.
Miss Lucia Williams is visiting Mrs.
d. n. Anderson.
Mr.. VIII G. King is home from Way
cross.
Gainesville has voted to issue bonds
ior electric lights.
Miss Emma Pope, of Atlanta, is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs II B. Moss
Mrs. ]. f. Stephens is visiting Mrs.
E. L. Milan at The Hedges.
Mrs. R. Fl. Prestley and children, of
Atlanta, are visiting Mrs. f. l.. Milan
at The Hedges.
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor was the
guest of Mayor T. NJ Brumby while in
the city Monday.
Prof. Joe S. Stewart and family, of
Dahlonega, ARE here taking in the Chau-
tauqua.
Miss Maud Cronk, of Mobile, is visit
ing her brother, Mr.. J. w. Cronk, at
the Atkinson House.
Miss Louise Herrin has returned
from her. visit to Buffalo, and the Pam
American Exposition.
LADIEs-Our low cut shoes have ar
rived. The largest and most complete
line in the city. We have all the diff
ferent shapes and feathers.
Read & DuPre.
Semi-Weekly Atlanta Journal and
eight page Marietta JOURNAL for one
year for $1.60.
If Senator Clay keeps up the record
OF the past few days in getting Geor-
gians government jobs he will soon be
as invincible as Lon Livingston. Way
cross Journal
When youwant some one roasted" in
the community, through some griev-
ance, don't ask the editor to do it for
you, but write the article and sign your
own name to it, and assume the respon-
sibility.
There are men in this town who paw
ten cents aweek for the Atlanta papers,
and yet borrow their home paper. while
there are others who owe us several
years subscription and pay cash for the
Atlanta papers. Come now, if you want
us to treatyou right, you ought to treat
us right.
The Augusta Herald comes to the
conclusion that man who has no more
regard for his family than to do things
which excite their humiliation, has no
right to expect newspapers to keep
their names out of print for the sake of
the family that they disgrace.
WANTED.-First-clas allround chair
man-also tirst-class finisher Good
salaries paid. Address, Columbus Chair
90. Columbus, Miss. Reference wanted.
Judge G. T. Carrie, the oldest news
paper man in the state, was here one
day last week. He has lived many
years in Kennesaw and kept the hotel
there when the General" was stolen
at that historic place during the civil
war. He was engaged in newspaper
work in 1S45 at Augusta, Ga, and later
at Penfield, Ga. He is now in his Slst
year, but gets about we'll yet and can
relate many interesting "reminiscences
of antebellum days.-Acworth Post.
Andrew Lawrence, negro, was arrest
ed Wednesday night on the charge OF
shooting at Mr.. A. A. Towers on Whit
lock Avenue, 'misstaking him, it is al
legged, for Mr.. Simp Jackson, against
whom Lawrence had a grudge, because
he whipped his brother Wolfe Lawrence
for insolence at his home where he had
him employed. Andrew Lawrence was
fixing to leave town it is said when he
was arrested at his mothers on the
east-side Of town.
Our experience in the newspaper
business teaches us that an editor of a
country paper does more gratis work
for the public than any man in the
county. II all the space we use in try
ing to boom our town and county and
in helping individuals and society was
paid for at half the legal rates we would
be the richest men i'll the country, yet
we believe we do as much for the
county and community as the wealth.
lest men.-Huntsville (Ark) Republi-
can.
The Southern farm Magazine says:
Politics has been the ruin of thousands
Of young men in the south. Not that
they have not lived honest lives, but
that they have nothing to show at the
end for their own benefit or for that of
their friends and neighbors. Politics
has been the bane in diverting valuable
energy into useless, though expensive
channels. There will always be plenty
of men ready and willing to go to Con-
gress or to hold other office. Unfor-
tunately, it is necessary to have a few
OfficehOldprs Rut the country how or