The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-08-30
Th6 Mdri6ttd journal
MARIETTA, GA, AUG. 80, 1908.
Local Items.

Mr. and Mrs. George f, Montgomery
have returned from Wrightsville. N. g.
Miss Ruth Towers has returned to
her home in Rome.
Master Oliver Passebois, who has
been sick for two weeks, is up again.
Mrs. r. J. Swain, of Victoria Texas,
is visiting Mrs. w. A. Gatlin.
Mrs, E, B. Freyer is on D visit to
Sewanee, Tenn.
Mrs. Will DuPre is visiting her
mother in Gainesville.
Master Simp Jackson, we regret to
learn, hes. typhoid fever.
Master Claud Bishop, we regret to
learn, has typhoid fever.
The ladies euchre club entertained at
the home of Mrs. V l.. Starr on Thurs
day afternoon.
Master Il. H. Presley is spending
this week with his grandmother, Mrs.
Il. II Cater.
Mrs. j. E. Stephens and son, of Nash
vile. Tenn, is visiting Mrs. e. L.
Milan
Mr.. and Mrs. II. IL. Hughes. of At
lanta, spent several days here with
Mrs. Hughes parents.
MARR1ED,-Mr Joe Abercrombe and
Miss Pearl Goodwin. youthful couple
of Marietta, were married in buggy
at campmeeting on the 18th inst, j
H. Nix, ]. p, officiating.
Mr. H R Delay, of Tyler Texas, is
on visit to his wife here, who is sick
at her daughters, Mrs Willard Benson.
Mrs Delay is some better, we are glad
to note,
Mr. j. B. Braswell, of Gainesville.
Ga, formerly of Marietta, was married
to Miss Gresham, ut Gainesville, last
week
Hon. Joseph M. Brown announced in
the Atlanta Georgian that he would not
be a candidate for reelection to the
commissioner,
Five hacks drive up to every street
car that comes into Marietta, and with
few exceptions drive Off again empty /.
Their patronage evidently doesn't de-
pend upon the street cars, or they
would go out of business.
Milton Superior Court has been post
poned to the second week in Septem-
Der, az which time John Alexander
Grimes will be put on trial for the kill
ing of Mrs. Eva McGinns about two
months ago near Roswell.
DIED.-The infant son, aged months,
of Mr.. and Mrs A. n. Basham. of Jack
sonVille, Fla, died in that city Sunday
morning Mrs. Bacham was formerly
Miss Blanche Fox, of Marietta.
Advertisements tell more than the
mere message on their face. They tell
that the firm making use Of them is
prosperous and progressive. They show
that the firm thinks enough of your
patronage to ask for it.
Mr.. William Tennent Taggart, of
Mississippi, visited his uncle, DR.. Gill
bert Tennent last week Mr.. Taggart
graduated in June with first honor of
his class in chemistry at Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Mississippi,
He has taken up chemistry as his life
work.
The many friends of Uncle Lem Ben
nett will be sorry to learn that he is
now almost entirely helpless. de is
seen no more on the streets, being en-
tirely helpless, blind and deaf. He is
waiting patiently in the sunny after
noon of an unseliish and well-spent life,
being tenderly cared for by his grand
daughter, Mrs. J. e. Mozeley.
Some people are eating no breakfast,
some no dinner, some no supper. COT
fee, tea and milk are being discarded
by hundreds. These are health meas
ores, but grocer of Marietta says if
the fad, as he calls it, continues on,
hei and other grocers also, will have to
go to writing poetry for living.
There has been six assaults on white
females in the outskirts OF Atlanta in
the last six weeks. II is time vagrant
negroes were run in every where and
made to work. 1t is dreadful thing
TO think that our white females can
be protected in the country against
these wild animals Of lust Itisa hor.
rible state Of affairs and will load TO-
dire results !! not stopped,