The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1907-09-12
I he Marietta journal
MARIETTA, GA. SEPT II, 1907.
Local Items.

Mr. and Mrs. Haley have returned
to the city from their wedding trip.
Senator Clay spoke at Sunmerville
last Tuesday,
Mr.. Groves Cohen ha 8 taken position
in the First National Bank of Marietta.
Mr.. Henry Wyatt, of the First Ma
tion al Bank, is taking vacation.
Every Saturday the town is full o
people. giving busy aspect to the
square.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety will meet Thursday afternoon at
the Methodist church at o'clock.
Miss M. K. King is now on visit to
her aunt, Mrs. w. E. Baker, of Barring
ton Hall, Roswell, Ga.
Miss Mary Smith and her niece, Miss
Eloise Smith. of Houston, Texas, are
visiting Mrs. John D. Nortbcutt.
Mr.. Will McCrary is exhibiting a
beautiful gold medal as the award of
artistic work at the Tri-State Assccia-
tion of Photographers.
Mrs. W. +. Baker, of harrington Hall,
Roswell, Ga, visited the family of Mrs.
G. Fl. Camp, on Kennesaw Avenue, and
her niece, Mrs. Pratt, on Polk street,
last week.
MARRIED. The news comes from Fort
Wayne, Ind, OF the marriage of Miss
Ivalene Dalman to Mr.. Homer Faust,
of that city. The bride will he remem-
bered pleasantly as with Mrs. Warren
IN the millinery department. for long
while. We all watt good wishes.
The officers came marching through
the streets Sunday afternoon with eight
negro men that they had arrested while
engaged IN gambling at Reynolds pond
on the southwest side of town. There
were about twenty-five engaged in the
'crap game, it is said, but all escaped
except eight. Mayor DCbhs, Monday
night. at the trial, placed fines on six
and discharged two.
We saw carriage in town Saturday,
drawn by one horse, that had five grown
women in it, one boy, one little girl
and baby, basket of dinner and
big watermelon. All the available space
was used and none to spare. The horse
pulled his load with ease All parties
were happy and serene.
Mr.. McCrary is receiving many con-
gratulations on the gold medal that he
has just received from the Southern
Tri State. Photographic Association.
This was second highest medal awarded,
Mr.. W. S. Lively, of the Southern
Schools of Photography, winning the
first medal. This medal was open to
the world. Nc should be proud TO win
first medal in the Tri-States- Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi.
THE man who handles the local de-
partment of newspaper learns after
due experience not to expect very many
thanks for a column of pleasant things
says the Sandersvile Herald, "but he
knows, as surely as come seasons, that
single line in which there are unin-
territorial mistakes will cause one to
be heard from. Also that when he has
made pleasant mention 999 times of
some person, place or thing, but on the
one thousandth time fails to Go so, he
must not expect to be forgiven. The
omissions may have been from acct
dent, inadvertence, or even an entire
lack of knowledge, it matters not. The
simple fact remains that he will be
judged on that"
The march of time is doing away
with the yard fence, Forty years ago,
and less, 1t was an indispensable neces.
slty, but the new order of things calls
Tor no fence; that means ho palings to
nail on and no gate to run up against
on dark night, all of which will re-
duce profanity TO minimum. Many
fences have been discarded and Others
are contemplated -pittsburg (Texas)
Gazette.
Ii our citizens would see to it that
their horses and COWS were kept up and
not allowed to get out of their lots, this
mo fence" question could be more ex.
tensively adopted in Marietta and save
heap of expense; but to go to sleep at
night and get up next morning and
find your yard of grass and flowers
deprecated by Loose stock, would bring
up unpleasant feelings not in keeping
with the Christian religion.