The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-12-09
GREAT THINGS PLANNED
FOR CITY AND COUNTY.
Tourist Hotel, Park on Ken.
nesaw. Electric Light
ing System and Other
improvements.

At the Chamber of Commerce
smoker Thursday night more than $500
was raised in few minutes toward
the publication of a booklet illustrat
ing Marietta and Cobb county, several
new names were added to the member
ship and pegs set away ahead for a
bigger and more progressive city.
A tourist hotel, a national park on
kennesaw mountain, a lighting plant
owned by the city, a municipal hosni-
taI paved streets and sidewalks, bet
ter schools and sanitation, cooperation
with the county for improved roads
tnese were some of the things advo-
Gated, and the enthusiasm of those
present was such as to indicate that
Marietta is going after something and
means to get it.
1t was the first time the citizens of
Marietta had met in the beautiful new
building for the purpose of advancing
the material welfare of Marietta and
Cobb county and every man seemed
heartily in sympathy with the move
Ment. From social standpoint the
occasion was enjoyed in the fullest
measure, and the sentiment was unan-
1mous that other dinners should be
held from time to time so that the cit
liens could come together and, while
spending an evening pleasantly, work
out plans for the advancement ofsthe
city and county.
Two tables extended the length of
the auditorium and one across near the
stage. Nearly hundred persons were
present and the meeting was thorough
ly representative
The dinner was not intended to be
elaborate, but it was all that could
have been required and was prepared
most temptingly. The scalloped oys-
ters were especially enjoyed, the sand
wiches We're delicious, the coffee was
fine, the cigars were good and in place
Of beer or wine the diners quaffed
artesian water, clear and sparkling,
from Marietta's own bountiful wells.
After a blessing was asked by Rev.
Edward S. Doan, Colonel Moultrie M.
Sessions, president of the Chamber of
Commerce, made an address.
Colonel Sessions said that one of the
first. duties of Marietta was to erect
a monument to Senator Clay. The sug
gestion met with instant approval and
it will doubtless take the form of a
definite movement in the near future.
Drncidant ~Snccionc cold
This is our first meeting since
the organization of our Chamber of
Commerce. I hope and believe it will
not be the last We ought to have
one of these smokers at least once a
year, if not twice, and let us hope that
the next one can be held in a fine tour
ist hotel.
Il apprehend there is not a man
here who does not know what We al
ready have. 1t is, therefore, needless
to tell you about our big chair factories,
paper mill, marble mills, knitting mill,
machine works and foundry, ice plant,
public and private schools, churches
and library; our new waterWorks
with the finest, purest water out of
a granite we'll 300 feet deep, and sew
erage system, our climate, altitude,
etc.
The Chamber of Commerce has be
come a necessity 1t can get up facts,
nd statistics of al kinds about the
city, and the county, put them in pam
2hlets, booklets, and advertise the city
u Z nt htaT hOHy
now provided for can do and such f&cfs
coming from such a source are usually
aiken as the truth.
Then we can, by united effort, have
The backing of our entire city, secure
cheaper fire insurance, and better
height rates.
IF we will lay aside partisan poll
lies, and thank God that it looks bet
or along that line, and get in about
I,0 members in our body, we can anC
viii accomplish great results, even IL
1911"
Of the many things to be done
colonel Sessions suggested munich
pal building, a recorder or police cour
Judge, to relieve the mayor OF ina
duty, an electric light, plant to OF
owned by the city, which he sai'
would pay a profit of $4,000 year
sidewalks and paved streets, new
school building for the north side;
lHrniture factory, a cotton mill, ina
tae banks erect their own buildings Il
heeping with the importance OF thos
institutions; a county bond issue o
100000 for the construction OF pub
ZIG roads, a national mark on kenneSaN