The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-04-21
TIL 6 Marietta journal
MARIETTA, GA, APRIL 81, 1904.
Local News.

visiting Mrs J. W. Petty
There is only one consuming thought
when man is filled with politics, and
that is the desire to beat the man you
are opposed to.
Marietta man heard some one talk
ing about having "spell' put on them
Says he, Il certainly wish some one
would put one on me, for never could
spell to do any good in all my life.
If you want to excite the interest of
the colored population let a colored
show come to town with gorgeous dis
play and you "sure" get their undivi-
ded attention and their last nickle.
The city with push pushes itself first,
last and all the time. Tt may help push
others too, but the hustling, growing
town looks out for its own welfare and
does something in the interest of its
own progress every day in the month,
and every month in the year.
The Confederate Memorial exercises
will take place here next Tuesday at
the cemetery. Eon. Jno. T. Bolfeuilett.
OF Macon, will deliver the address. He
is gifted and eloquent speaker and our
people may expect rich treat. The
program will be arranged by the ladies
of the Confederate Memorial Associa-
tion.
The credit system is one that entails
vast deal of labor in bookkeeping.
making out accounts, presenting the
same, and losing time from business,
and yet there are men who will turn
you away, time after time, and they
are able to pay, gtoo. An association
should be formed to deny these men
credit until they can. appreciate the
confidence imposed,
Or. Tennent's horse stepped on a very
looking piece of wire several
days ago, and consequently is laid up
for repairs. People should be careful
about throwing such things into the
street Human beings as we'll as ami
mails may he injured by them. When
observed it would require but mo-
ment to put them out of the way. there
by avoiding serious consequences.
Some Of the most successful growers
of cautaloupes in this country live in
this county. Their patches" give
them large returns, They may read
with interest the following note: The
largest cantaloupe patch in the world
will be that which is to be planted near
Greedy, Col, the present spring. 1t
will embrace 1000 acres. Hitherfore
raising in Colorado has been
mostly confined to the famous Rocky
ford district, in the Arkansas valley,
but the farmers of Northern Colorado
have row determined to enter that very
profitable field of horticulture.
Buying votes with money and
whisky must be stopped. The
Grand Jury should make 1 thor
ough investigation of these matters
and indict the guilty parties.
The New York Democratic State
Convention has instructed for
Judge Parker for the Presidential
nomination, by vote Of 301 to
149. This makes Parker's nomi-
nation a foregone conclusion.
A man walked into drug store
sauntered up to the soda fount
and asked the clerk:
<'Wculd you take a mans last
cent for q drink"
"You bet l would" replied the
hard-hearted clerk.
GIVE me a Coca-cola ="
He gulped it down, pushed ,
copper across the counter, an(
remarked:
THAT my last cent. Hate t,
part with it, but concluded to tax,
you up on your proposition. "
Jack Christian, a young whit
man at Columbus, Ca, recent,
6rom Chattahoochee, Ga, wa
caught in o Lett Monday Afternoon
in the dye house of the Eagle ant
PheniX mills. His arm was man
gled so badly that it had to be am
putated below the elbow, and h,
was thrown fourteen feet, with tn,
result that he is now suffering
from conclusion of the brain. Tn
chances for his recovery are small