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The Marion County Patriot March 19, 1897
Marion County Patriot, March 19, 1897, Vol. XXI, No. 12

VISITING AND BEING VISITED - Other Things which Folks Do and Get Their Names in
the Paper

Prof. Melson visited Americus Saturday.
Miss Hart Jossey visited at Ellaville Monday.
Mrs. J. E. Lowe visited Columbus Saturday.
Mr. F. B. Montfort was in Columbus Saturday.
Miss Essie Roebuck returned to Americus Saturday.
We regret to leard [learn] that Mrs. H. B. Mauk is seriously Ill.
Mrs. L. W. Wall is visiting her son, Dr. Wall, at Bronwood.
Will McNeal, of St. Louis, was here a few days the past week.
Mrs. Morgan McMichael returned from Columbus Saturday.
Rufe Brown, of Richland, was in town several days the past week.
Miss Minnie Lowe went over to Columbus Tuesday on a visit to relatives.
Mrs. E. J. Wilson, of Montezuma, is here with her husband, stopping at the Lowe
Hotel.
Mr. J. B. Fulford, of Shellman, was here yesterday to attend the Fulford-Wells
wedding.
Mercer Tharpe, Miss Annie Tharp and Miss Maud Matthews visited relatives at
Lumpkin last Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Summergill and little daughter, of new Orleans, and Miss Jessie Duncan, of
Columbus, are visiting at the home of Mr. W. M. Williams.

Murdered in Texas.

We regret to learn that Mr. Walter Wright, brother of Mrs. E. W. Lowe of Buena
Vista, was murdered in Texas by a brother-in-lew [law] name Jackson some time
last month, but we have not been able to learn much of the particulars.  It
appears that Wright and Jackson had gone to a new section of country and lived
together in a temporary shanty.  They were clearing up land and Jackson borrowed
a rifle and carried to the field with him, but Wright suspected nothing as they
were brothers-in-law and on the best of terms.  When Wright had his back turned
Jackson shot him in the body and again in the head after he fell.  The murderer
has been arrested and is in jail.  He confesses that the murder was cold blood
and premeditated, and says he did not sleep for several nights planning the
murder.  Jackson will certainly test the strength of Texas hemp.

W.D. BENSON, 
Variety Shop and Blacksmithing.

I respectfully inform my friends and the public that I have opened a variety and
blacksmith shop in Buena Vista.  I do cabinet work, upholstering, all kinds of
carriage work, painting, glueing, repairing furniture, etc.



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