Newton County GaArchives News.....GOSSIP HERE AND THERE September 21, 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 August 6, 2006, 4:29 pm The Georgia Enterprise September 21, 1883 ~LARKIN BRITT is reported to have ten acres in snap beans. ~Treasurer STALLINGS and wife spent Sunday at Rocky Plains. ~ADDISON HARPER has commenced to catch sucker fish on Alcova. ~Banker SHEPHERD will slaughter quails with a breech loader this fall. ~Prof. BRAD WELDON returned from Barnesville Saturday. ~HALE’S Conyers Weekly is as full of life as ever. ~JAMES DELANEY, of Florida, stopped over here Friday night and left for New York on Saturday. ~The closing exercises of Miss LOU LEE’S school, at High Point, was largely attended Friday night. ~A snake was killed on the steps of OLIVER ELLIOTT’S place of business the other day. ~Mrs. B. F. MOON, of Rockdale county, has been very low for some time past. ~Quite a number of squirrels can be seen in the yard of Esquire B. F. CAMP. ~A large drove of English sparrows make Col. BAGBY’S lot their headquarters. ~Rev. W. J. SCOTT has written a reply to “Our brother in black,” and the book is now in press. ~The familiar face of JOHN TAYLOR can now be seen at CHARLIE JARBOE’S saloon. ~J. S. THOMAS, our Marble dealer, invites the public to call and see his work. ~It will look like old times when THOMAS A. PERRY moves back to town. ~Commissioner JAMES T. CORLEY had a pleasant time during his visit North. ~Mrs. M. F. MCCORD is much better and is spending this week in the country with her mother. ~After a short vacation EDWARD CARR has commenced to sell goods again. ~Rev. J. N. BRADSHAW preached an able sermon at McDonough, Sunday. ~THOMAS HARPER, our dollar store friend of Atlanta, has captured a burglar at the “pint of a pistol.” ~Georgia don’t hold within her bounds a better jeweler than Capt. LEVY. ~Judge THOMPSON, of Eudora, brought up a load of mutton and apples Saturday. His driver had a dozen possums along. ~J. S. THOMAS proposes to place a fine marble tombstone over the grave of your loved ones as cheap as anybody. ~Messrs. JACK GRIER and GUS BERGREN filled their appointment at a muscadine vine on yellow river, Sunday. ~I. W. MEAOWS is now with W. A. NORTON. He sells goods with as much grace and ease as he did in the long ago. ~Uncle EDMAND DORSEY is 78 years old and he picked 178 pounds of cotton Friday. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/newton/newspapers/gossiphe1564gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb