The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-01-09

Mr.. Newt DuPreot Dahlonega, Il
visiting Mrs. Julia DuFre.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Hyde 9
fine boy.
Mr.. l.. w. Virgins, of Quincy, Fla.
was here this week.
Born on January 9Th, to Mr.. and Mrs
Lucian HardOge, a ten pound daughter
Mr.. Frank Hardeman and sister
Miss Agnes, are visiting friends in
Palatka, Florida.
Miss Dovie Blair, of Douglas county,
is visiting her brother, Col. D. W.
Blair.
Mr. J S Hicks and family. OF Water
man, have moved to the Psge farm
owned by Capt W r Montgomery.
The brooding house of the Belmont
Farm at Smyrna was destroyed by fire
on Monday night last, Defective fiue,
Loss So 900,
A fire clay is being shipped from Mr.,
j. B. Glover's land on Roswell street,
to Isabella Tennessee, where it used to
line furnaces.
Grand-Master j l. Bass will visit
Cherokee Lodge of Odd Fellows next
Tuesday night, 14th inst. Let there be
afull attendance of the members,
MrJ B Delk had a hog in town Tues
day that weighed eight hundred pounds
cleaned, worth at s cents $64 90;
Mrs. G. S. McCandlish is on visit
to relatives in New York. Miss Elsie
has entered st. Mary IS College, Raleigh,
NC.
Brown st. Clair, colored man. who
has worked for Mr. Chuck Anderson
for forty years, is very low and not ex-
pected to live,
Charley Lewis, we'll known colored
man, porter on the A. K. & n Railway
Murphy branch, had his right arm
crushed in coupling ears, which had to
be amrutated.
The employees of Butler Bros.
marble dealers, presented, Mr.. B. A.
Butler, Christmas, handsome gold
watch Chain, locket with pearl set
ting.
Captain Harry Cole, of the United
States Army, returned from the Phil
ippines last week and visited his moth
err here Saturday and Sunday, leaving
for Washington Monday, where he
will be located.
There were about 300 arrests in At
lahta on Christmas day and the result
is 81 900 in fines Atlanta licenses bar
rooms to make people drunk and gets
taxes that way, and then Atlanta fines
the fellows for getting drunk. Atlanta
catches 'em gwine and comm"
A Cobb county man who went to
Texas, after staying there over year,
has returned Disguised. He says he
saw as many at Memphis on their way
from Texas as he met going. They go
and they come. But when they get
back to Georgia they are contented
and make better citizens.
Cards are out announcing the APP
proaching marriage of Mr.. Dan Thomas
Manget and Miss Carrie Sims Dent, to
take place Wednesday January Is at
5 o'clock at the home of the bride S
brother, Mr. e. Il. Dent, in Newman, Ga.
Mr.. Manget is former Mariettian and
son of Rev. V. T.. Manget of this place.
Ordinary Awtrey has received PEN
sion blanks for 1902 and request all
pensioners whose claims have been
approved and whose names are now on
the roll to call at his Office and sign
the requisite pupers without delay
Blanks for INDECENT widows under the
late act of the general assembly have
been received also.
The Marietta Journal enters its thir-
ty-sixth year with the advent of 1902
in robust health, with a larger number
of readers than ever in its history, and
inspired with an ambition to give the
people of Marietta and Cobb county
the best county paper in the State. Tc
this end we ask the continued cooper
alton of the people in kind words and
patronage.
We are in receipt from State Agri
cultural Commissioner, Mr.. o. B
Stephens, a we'll bound book of 95j
pages of Georgia. Historical and In
dustriel,' profusely illustrated. 1t il
full of interesting information and i,
of inestimable value. 1t is con
else and comprehensive statement o
every department of industry in Geor
gia. Giving q sketch of Georgia anC
the progress made. We appreciate tn,
vs. rk done by Mr.. Stephens in thi
3ok and believe it will be productive
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