The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-07-08
Local Items.

Senator Ben Tillman delivered q |
magnificent address at the Marietta |
chautauqua on last Saturday morning |
Senator Ben TilIman, of South Caro-
lima, was the guest of Mr. ard Mrs John |
Warren Saturday: He is closely re-
lated to Mrs Warren.
The regular quarterly communion
will be held at the Presbyterian church
next Sunday morning at IL o'clock.
MrJ B Lyon and wife, of Ball
Ground, spent Sunday here with Mr.
and Mrs M R Lyon.
Mrs NJ Cogburn was on Monday
called to the bedside of her sister, Mrs
q T Terrell, at Calhoun, who is criti-
cally ILL.,
The city council met Monday night
and adjourned over until next Monday
night without transacting any other
business.
A very heavy rain fell Monday even
ing while the Chautauqua was being
held, but the tent proved a good pro-
lection.
The air of Marietta is considerably
perfumed with gasoline. owing to the
large number OF automobiles on the go
nearly all the time.
So many new model flying ma
chimes are coming into notice that the
Wright aeroplane may look as antigua
ted as an old high-wheel bicycle within
a year or two.
The golden stream was released July
LIST, and millions of dollars were paid
out in dividends by various corpora
tions in Georgia and throughout the
South.
The two Houses will vote for United
States Senator on Tuesday and consoli-
date the vote on Wednesday, when Sem
ator Clay will be declared elected for
the next six years.
The camping party" that left here
Wednesday bought seventy chickens at
Adairsville, for III cents each. We
think Adairsville would be good place
to live.
For RENT.-Six-room house on Church
street, opposite Judge Morris. Pos
session July LIST. Will be put in first
class condition for desirable tenant.
HENRY MEINERT,
Phone &c..
Mr.. w. A. Bishop has rented 9 num-
Der of small vacant tenement houses to
those who are going to work to put in
the new sewerage system.
Monty TO LoAN.-We can make loans
at seven per cent. on good real estate as
security. Loans on farming lands
speciality. 1t costs nothing to see US
at our Office in Marietta and find out all
about it. R.N. HOLLAND & Son.
NoTIoE.-This is to notify the ,-goblic
that Bird Ellison, coLleFsd, and his sons,
Theora and Harrison Ellison, have
DFoson their agreement with me and
left their crop. and oil parties are here
by warned against hiring them.
WIN. ELLISON.
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Cotton jumped to twelve cents last
Friday when the government issued it's
statement Of the average condition OF
the cotton crop as on June 25th. 1t
placed the condition at 7l.6, which COM
pared with 81.l month ago and 81 p
on the same date last year.
Mr.. J G. York, Of Jackson, Miss has
resigned his position on the railroad,
and will buy home in Marietta and
move his family here in October He
has already bought q farm in Cobb
county. He is the son of Mrs G.. W.
York. and we will gladly welcome him
and family,
Reports from Mississippi are to the
effect that many farmers are ploughing
up their cotton crop and planting the
fields in corn and peas. The reason for
this is that the rains aud the boil weevil
have practically ruined the plant, in
many instances nearly knee high, and
the farmers see there is no chance for
crop Of cotton to be produced,
Not less than 200 persons have died
from the effects OF the hot wave in New
York city during the past ten days,
while during the same time there were
a number Of heat fatalities in Chicago
and Philadelphia. We sometimes have
it rather warm, but rarely does the heat
kill here. Our evenings and nights are
nearly always pleasant, even when the
midday temperature is oppressive.
Discussion of the case of the
suspended railroad commissioner,