Marion County GaArchives News.....Japanese News - Sept. 10, 1897 September 10, 1897 ************************************************ 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: Deborah Murphy d_murphy@bellsouth.net January 7, 2006, 4:03 pm The Marion County Patriot September 10, 1897 Marion County Patriot, Sept. 10, 1897, Vol. XXI, No. 36 COUNTY AND STATE JAPANESE JOTTINGS Autumn is coming, and rain is much needed in this section for the benefit of field peas, potatoes and sugar cane. Cotton picking is being a great success in this section and the gins are whirling and cutting the white, fleecy staple off the seeds and getting it ready for the great eastern factories. The patrons of the Japanese school will meet at the schoolhouse Saturday for the purpose of selecting a teacher for the next year. The son of Mr. F. M. Johnson, Jr. got his shoulder hurt last Sunday by falling from a tree which he was climbing after muscadines. Soon be possum hunting time again. Hunters are anxious about this plump and delicious animal. Mr. Buck Parker is erecting himself a large four room barn, look out farmers, you will have to get a double hump on you if you beat Mr. Parker in success. Misses Mande (Maude?) and Cora King are visiting relatives near Cuthbert, Ga. We miss their presence in this community. G. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb