The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-05-26

father, Mr.. j L. Reed here, recovering
from injuries received in bad head
end collision in Union Station Yards in
St Louis, Mo, between in bound Van
| dalia mail train and outbound Balti-
more and Ohio passenger train. G. j.
Bunker, conductor had an arm broken
g. j. Riley. engineer, back injured and
! Edward Reed hurt internally. A wrong
switch was thrown. Mr. Reed has
been unfortunate in his railroad ex-
perience, this being the third injury he
has received,
The surveyors still continue to sur
vey up and down the railroads and
about Marietta. Some of these days
you will know what it all means. 1t
! means, in our opinion, straight line
into Atlanta of the A. K. & n. Rail-
! road, now owned and controlled by the
! Louisville & Nashville Road. The pa
pers say it will be direcJ route from
Atlanta to CINCINNATI via Knoxville.
If you go away or have visitors at
your home and the editor'should fail to
make local mention OF the fact, don't
for moment think we omitted to do
so intentionally. 1t is nearly a matter
of impossibility for us to keep up with
every occurrence, and we keep phone
in order that our friends may help us.
Ring up No. Is and give us the news
items
On Sunday last Bishop Nelson preach
ed at the Episcopal church in the morn
ing and Rev. G. T. A. Pise in the even
ing Rev. Y. E. Manget preached at
Presbyterian church in the morning;
DR.. c. E. w. Dobbs preached morning
and night at the Baptist church; Rev,
Fletcher Walton preached at the morn
ing hour at the Methodist church and
Rev. S. B. Ledbetter preached az night.
Gen. VIM. Phillips, of Marietta, who
commanded Phillips Legion during the
late war, was in Newman last Tuesday
on visit to his son, Mr. M. T. Phillips
He is now so years of age, but is still
hale and hearty, and would pass for a
much younger man.-Newnan Herald
NOTICE PIo-NIoKERs-Having compli-
ed with the law for authority for this
action, Picnics will not be allowed on
the grounds of the Concord Wooden
Mills, except through special agree
ment.
For SALE-173 Acres of land IN the
both district, rented for 1904 to Jerry
Ballenger, kennesaw, Ga. Price s.. 595.
Also 200 acres of land in the 18th dist
riot, rented for 1904 to j. d. Sanders.
Marietta, Ga. Price $4,000. All of the
above lands are in Cobb county. Ga.
Ii not sold these places will be for rent.
All parties interested will please com
municate with,
IHE SOUTHERN MORTGAGE Co
"A South Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga.
After newspaper man has yelled him
self hoarse trying to persuade people to
patronize home merchants and accident
ally stumble upon the fact that some
of the people he is trying to protect
are sending away their jobs of printing.
it rather shakes his faith ir mankind
and makes reciprocity look like lead
dime with hole in it, says the Way-
cross Herald
EDITORS JoURNAL-I see the CITY
Council propose to have new charter
introduced into the next legislature.
This advertisement gives no notice of
what this charter contains. Wouldn't
it be the proper thing for,the city coun-
Gil to publish synopsis of this pro-
posed charter as to whether all the
provisions would be agreeable to the
tax payers or not? Let the informa-
ton be given. Tax PAYER,