The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-02-28
Local Items.

EMr. L. @. Gilbert, of Macon, was q
visitor here Monday.
Miss Pearl Fowler is spending few
days with her parents here.
Mr.. g. w. Carter visited his father in
Madison county who is very sick.
Miss Marie Massey is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. E. w. Coleman, in Canton.
On the first OF April Marietta will be
without an opera house, tut Judge
Gober will build one, we learn, by fall.
Mr.. Robert Leroy Wallace, of Daw-
son, Ga. was the guest of Mr.. W. I.
Fowler's family few days last week.
Charles Boyer, a very aged and we'll
known colored man, died Saturday. He
was 81 years of age. tE#8#
Mr.. and Mrs John A. Manget were
here Saturday and Sunday, just back
from California. They had adelightful
trip.
Our merchants are getting busy sup
plying our farmers with guanU, farm
implements and other things needful
to make crop.
Miss Annie Bostwick returned to her
home in Atlanta Monday, after spend
ing week very pleasantly with Misses
Pearl and Leila Fowler.
For a farmer to quit his farm and
come TO town and stand around with
his hands in his pockets. looks as if
men as we'll as conditions are changing.
A modern hotel is necessity in Ma
rietta and will prove q feeder to our
present hotel and the boarding houses.
We need all we have and more too.
Hoke Smith having announced that
he has quit working for money, the
Quitman Advertiser concludes that he
is going into the newspaper business.
Electric power is the thing. We
have both steam and electric power,
but the most reliable and satisfactory
power is the electric, furnished by the
Georgia Manufacturing & Public Ser
vice Co of this place.
DIED.-Mrs. Martin, sister of Mrs.
James w. Legg, died of pneumonia in
Birmingham, Ala, last Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Legg attended the funeral
on last Monday in Birmingham.
The W. II NJ. S will hold it's regular
monthly meeting next Thursday after
noon in the Methodist church parior
Annual election of officers, and good
attendance isdesired Come and brir g
your mite boxes.
Mas. I. j. HAMBY, Rec. Sec
Another Mariettan honored. Hon
Gordon Gam has Just been elected
mayor Of Chattsworth. in Murray coun.
ty, Ga. When Cobb county man
moves into a town, they generally
thrust Office upon him Gordon will
wear the honors worthily.
General William Phillips, of Mari.
eta, spent few days with his son, w
w. Phillips. He met many old Con-
fedeIate friends while here, as well al
made new ones. General Phillips is 8
great Sunday school worker, and has
prom ed to return at an early day and
give a lecture at the chapel on Sunday
school work. -Cartersville News.
The remains of Mrs Benedict, for.
merly Mrs. Sallie Grant, we're. brought
here from Cedartown Monday for in
terment in the Episcopal cemetery
The deceased is survived by the follow
ing relatives Three sons, Samuel Ben
edict, Rev. George Benedict, head O
the Samuel Benedict Memorial School
and Ernest Benedict of Cincinnati
one daughter, Mrs. Robert Zahner, o
Atlanta; one sister, Mrs. Williams
wife of Bishop Williams of the dioces,
of Michigan.
Many people believe that every maj
who loans money is a usurer and
dangerous man. Many of tie creates
institutions of the country are able t
be great and useful because of borrowe,
money. Not one big institution in tie
gets along without borrowed capita
Seven out of ten workingmen are adj
to get work because of borrowed money
To borrow money is not an evidence {
weakness, but, in many cases, an ev
dence of strength. It is not discredi
able to man that he saves somethin
or his cd age and invests it.