The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-05-15
Th6 Marietta Journal
MARIETTA, GA, MAY Is, 1902.
Local Items.

Mr.. John Schilling, of Atlanta, spent
Sunday here with homefolks.
Olinville Methodist Sunday School
will picnic at Soaps Greek Thursday.
Mr.. Jack Moore, of Griffin, was here
Monday afternoon and Tuesday.
The A. K. & N. officials will leave
Saturday next for Knoxville, where the
offices will be located.
Mr.. VIII Springer, wife and children,
of Atlanta, visited relatives here Sun
day.
Miss Olivia Eskaw, of Atlanta, was
the guest of Miss Eva Henderson last
Sunday
Rev j. T Jenkins filled his pulpit at
the Baptist church Sunday, one joining
the church at the morning hour.
Mrs. VIM B Sheldon, who is visiting
her sister, Mrs. I. Ashby Blythe, Ph;la-
delphia, will return home on June 1st.
Col. H. B. Moss, wife and daughter,
spent Sunday with his father at Mable-
| ton.
Mr.. S. S. Brewer, prominent citi-
zen of Elberton, was in our city on
Sunday, visiting Mrs. Lula Warren.
Mr.. W. R. Turner left Saturday on
visit to relatives in Florida, where he
hopes to recuperate and get needed
rest.
Mr.. H. c.. White, chief of police of
Gadsden, Ala. visited his brother, Mr..
John ID White, here Sunday and Mon
day.
You will soon have to decide how
many Chautauqua tickets you want.
There are no complimentaries. Stock
holders and all others have to buy
tickets.
The Georgia heirs of John Brown,
who died recently in Gilmer, Texas,
leaving large estate, have employed
Sessions Il Moss, attorneys, to go to
Texas to represent them in the division
of the estate. Mr.. James Brown, of
Marietta. is one of the heirs.
There are people who will live in the
city for years and never take their
home paper, but borrow, and as soon as
some one of their family dies or gets
married they expect an elaborate notice
of the same. There would be no paper
il all acted that way.
Mr.. Augustus Page, son of Mr.. James
E. Page, of Gastonia, N. c., was mar
ried last week to Miss Jessie Martin, of
Louisiana. They arrived in our city on
last Friday and visited relatives, Mr..
j. d. Anderson. Mrs. E. A. Page and
Others. They left for Gastonia Mon
day.
The directors and stockholders of the
Marietta Chair Co. held their annual
meeting in the office of the company
last Monday afternoon. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: j. r. Brumby, president; B. G.
Brumby, vice president and secretary.
The directors elected for the coming
year are j. r. Brumby, J. r. Winters
L. d. Hoppe, B. G. Brumby, John P.
Cheney. A dividend of S95 was de-
clared and is to be paid on June 1st.
Some drunken negroes went to the
colored public school house on Thurs
day night, had keg of beer, had a
carousal, shot off their pistols, broke
off the guttering of the building and
threw the empty beer kegl in the well.
The MarShals made cases against Oil
yer Gresham, Charley Ramsey, Web
Gresham, Rio Parlor, Warren Butler,
John Butler, Gene Davis, and viii
Reed, all colored. Trial was had Mon
day night and Mayor Legg fined them
one dollar and cost each.
On last Friday, while little bright
innocent boy was at neighbor' sihouse in
the country, man stopped at the door
and said, I'm candidate, and | want
you to vote for me-" The man then
drove on down the road where the lit
tie boys father was blowing and again
said, I'm a caudidateIand want you
to vote for me-" After the man was
gone, the little boy, who hadn't quite
taken in the big word which the man
had been using, straddled his "stick-
horse" and went prancing OH down the
road past where his father was blowing
and said, 20, papa, IN cat's-tail, and
II want you to vote for me-"