The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-11-21
Local News Overflow.


ifall-Robinson' Sparks and Harris
a Mrs I. w. Haywood is on a visit to
New York.
: Mr.. Jas. II. Barnwell, of Houston,
Texas, visited parents here last week.
: Friday morning was pinchingly cold,
and people shivered,
e Mr.. W. S. Butler has been at home
sick since Thursday last, we regret to
learn.
Mrs. ]. w. Lewis has been suffering
with nervous neuralgia for several
days.
Mr.. E. y. Milan has been confined ut
his home for the past few days with a
severe cold.
Misses Julia and Celestia Presley
were the guests of Miss Laura Milan at
The Hedges few days last week.
Mr.. Clarence D. Barnwell, who has
been in Mexico for the past two years,
is expected home on a visit to parents
this week.
AS Christmas approaches, the matri-
monial fever will rage. The Ordinary's
pockets will swell with money as these
seekers after welded happiness join
hearts and hands.
Beginning next Monday, every after
noon at o'clock, during the week, the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
will hold week of prayer III the Ladies
parlor of the Methodist church. All
ladies are cordially invited to attend.
An effort is being made to get up
military company. We hope the move
ment will succeed. The discipline is
good for youngImen and in case of emer-
gency a military company is a very
good thing to have around.
Experience often comes high, yet in
certain things every man has to have it |
and it is usually worth what it costs.
In some things every man must have |
his own experience, too; that of Others
will not avail Albany Herald. OF
course. Experience is knowledge.
The melancholy days have come,
Fair ladies now will wear
The red hats of the season
Wild growths of football hair
Will hence adorn the youthlet,
While in the poultry pen
There's not lordly turkey
But fain would be hen.
The weather man told US in advance
that it would rain Tuesday, but he
didn't tell us it would also snow. Well,
it did. But there was no frozen earth
to hole it; if there had been, there
would have been an inch or two OF
snow to gladden. the boys and girls in
the sunny south.
TURNIP CONTEST AT LEGG's DRUG
SToRE-R G Meek, Acworth, 4234 lbs
t H Leecroy, Marietta. 451a pounds
G G Mathews, Smyrna, 3514 poudds
+ Duncan, Roswell, 80 pounds
H Frey, Marietta, 49, pounds
NJ J Hendrix, Delmar, 39A pounds
M A Griggs, Upshaw, So pounds. The
prize was won by M A Griggs, Upshaw,
weight of turnips 55 pounds.
The Augusta Chronicle says: 1.-THE
bill which proposes to prohibit divorces
in Georgia will not stop married couples
from getting divorce if they desire to
do so, but will only necessitate their
moving to another state for this purpose
1t is probable that half of the divorce
cases tried in the superior court in this
city are Carolina couples who come to
this state to be divorced"
A cat walked the feed wire of the
trolley on the Buffalo and Lockport,
New York, railway. Her tail touched
the parallel wire that carried the cur
rent back to Niagara Falls and 24,OOO
volts passed through her; her charred
body fell across both wires and this
short-circuited the current and burned
out the fuse at Niagara power house.
For two hours the electric railw avs and
street lighting plants in western New
York were without power. See what a
cat can do
At the State Fair in Savannah the
committee on the best agricultural
display, awarded to Brooks county the
first prize, $500; Spalding second,
$1,000; and Barlow third $500. The seven
other counties received 5000 prizes each.
The committee consisted of r. F. Crit
enden, of Shellman, P.J. Breckmans,
of Augusta, and G. w. Holmes, of
Madison. This was surprise to those
who had seen the respective county
displays. 1t was generally conceded
that the contest was between Brooks
and Cobb. 1t was certainly expected
that Cobb would receive the second
prize, as she received the first at the
Inter State Fair IN Atlanta. A gentle
man, who was in Savannah, said to US