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

question should be not so much how to
keep divorced people from marrying,
people from being divorced.
There: will be an all day singing at
Olive Springs on the third Sunday in
May Several prominent class leaders
will be present, Profs. Mullins, Vaughn
and others. The north bound morning
passenger train will stop at Joyner's
crossing to let off passengers, and south
bound will stop in the evening to take
them on. All invited,
Henry Lomax, negro, was turned
over to the officers here Monday morn
ing by Conductor w. r. Turner. Lo-
max had pistol practice on the tram
between Marietta and Atlanta. He
shet several times from the car win
dow near Chattahoochee River. He
was enroute from South Carolina TO
Alabama to work on the Seaboard Air
Line Railroad. Lomax had 38 calibre
pistol which he took delight in hand
ling and discharging its contents from
the car window. He will rusticate in
Cobb county Jail until court meets and
will then pay fine or work it out,
A Marietta lady said to her husband,
MY dear, last night / dreamed the
telephone bell rung and when l asked
who it was the answer came very dis
tinctly, at is Martha Washington.
Maybe you have forgotten" replied
the husband, II expect it was the ghost
of the late political wrangle talking to
you. Martha has been dead long
enough to realize it and not goin' round
talking over telephones, while the ghost
of the late political wrangle imagines
he's "a very ''liye wire" (Contributed)
1t is astonishing how few people have
any sense of humor. They may be edu-.
Gated, refined, and really brilliant, but.
they cannot see 1.-THE funny side" to any,
thing. Bon mots, puns, and little
sparkling bits of repartee, are wholly
lost on them. There is Marietta man.
a very brilliant lawyer, who admits
that he never could see anything hui
morous in pun. He says that in the
making of them words are distorted out
of their proper meanings, and all of it
is exaggeration and falsity. A lady
asked him where the first mention of a
vehicle was made in modern history?
When she told him it was when George
Washington took "hack" at the cherry
tree, he replied, why my dear madam
the illustrious George didn't get into
any hack at the cherry tree. He only
cut it with Ratchet"
The ladies of Memorial Association
desire to return their sincere thanks to
each and every one who contributed to
the success of Memorial Day exercises,
and especially to those who aided so
substantially, and without whose assis-
lance nothing could have been done.
They are indebted to Messrs. Neal &
Massey and Mr.. Awtrey for publishing
notices, to Mr.. Brumby for sending
chairs to the cemetery, to Capt. Cheney
for calling out the Marietta Rifles, to
the Band for furnishing appropriate
music, to Judge Awtrey for the use of
Court House, to the Marshal of the day.
Lieut.. Trammell and his aide Harris
Lyon, to uperintendent Robson and
the teachers for the children, and to the
children themselves for their bright
presence and beautiful flowers. Mari
eta has seen no more inspiring sight
than this hower-laden line of happy
children, cheerfully and gracefully
bringing springs choicest blossoms for
the lowly graves of the dead heroes.
To Mr.. Foster and the orator of the day,
Mr.. Boifeuillet, for eloquent and patri-
otto words, we tender our profoundest
thanks and express our appreciation of
their fattering personals.