The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-02-15
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Eachern traded two lots at Fair Oaks
for $50 acres of land in Upson
County this week.
The 20 Mule Borax Team came
through Friday, and it created so
much speculation interest before its
arrival, that its appearance was quite
a disappointment to some of those
who waited on the streets some hours
to see it.
Supt. of Education Awtrey and
DR.. and Mrs. Sawyer have been visit
ing country schools this week in the
interest of pig clubs, corn clubs, can
ming clubs, etc.
A good portion of the wheat and
oats are reported to have survived
the long freezing weather through
which we have passed. Where they
were lost let the corn come to the
rescue.
Te know what is going on in Cobb
County, read the Marietta Journal.
Send it to your soldier boy, it's like
a letter from home to him. And IT'S
only one dollar per year.
Mr.. ]. Ernest Clifford left Marietta
last week for Fort Oglethodpe, where
he has enlisted in the Signal De-
partment of the Aviation Corps, and
after some preliminary training at
Fort Oglethorpe, he expects to be
transferred to one of the Aviation
stations in Texas for air work.
Mr.. Clifford is son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. E. Clifford, of Marietta, and
volunteered his services to Uncle Sam
at the age of 19 years. This goes to
show that Marietta boys are deter
mined to see that we are well repre-
sented in this war not only on land
and sea but in the air as well.
Pension money to the old vets last
week, helped many, and not few
remembered to come by and pay up
The Journal for another year. Our
only regret is that Ordinary Gann's
distribution only takes place once a
year.
Of the Nitrate of Soda which the
Government offered directly to the
farmers at cost recently, the farmers
of Cobb County took 83 tons.
The farmers around Powder
Springs seemed to have realized the
value of this more fully than any
others, for they took much more
than any other section.
Have you forgotten that day last
summer while the whole country was
waiting, while the President, and the
Senate, and the congress, and the
Supreme Court, assembled in that
hall in Washington, and stood with
breathless attention as the first num-
Der was drawn in that lottery of life,
that number which named the first
men in the service of the country,
that number, 258?
Just that tense interest will you
feel on Tuesday if you visit The
Strand and see Mabel Taliaferro in
Draft 25S."
We have in this issue an advertise
ment of the Rucker Cotton seed.
So far as we have been able to
learn the yield from this variety is
equal to the claims made for it, and
the proposition made to farmers near
enough to visit the home farm, is
novel and ought to be convincing.
This is a year when good seed ought
to be one of the first considerations
in farming, and we would commend
at least an investigation of these
claims before you decide on some
other variety for your planting this
year.
We would cali attention of young
to the advertisement of Bagwells
Business College in this issue.
The war has multiplied the de-
mand hundred fold, for young men
with the qualifications which a few
months attendance at a good bust
ness school win give you, and if you
are going to the war, these same
qualifications will help you to rise
quickly from the ranks.
There is no better investment of
your time and money than to put it
into business college course, and
you make no mistake if that college
be Bagwelrs.