The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1915-10-08
MARIETTA GEORGIA
ON THE CREST Of
PROSPERITY'S WAVE
A Comprehensive and Carefully Pre-
pared Classified Index of Some of
The Leading Business Enter
prises of The City.

Progress is a law which must be
respected and followed Without
progress town or city must retro
grade. There is no middle course,
it must either go forward or turn
to the rear and go backward Ma
rietta has fought steadily for the
success that now crowns her brow,
and every where one sees it demon
strated. From a village it has
grown to be a power in the world
of trade and commerce. The bust
ness men and other citizens are of a
race who build cities, as the head
ing indicates. Make desert places
bloom and know not the meaning OF
the word defeat
It's all progress now with a Cap
ital P. The time has gone when
they revelled in the INDECENT South
ern sunshine and fought her glo-
rious battles over again, a younger
generation has come into the arena,
and the battles are for Supremacy in
the field of trade She is looking
forward, and not backward, towards
the goal of still greater achieve
ments in the future
Both the capitalist and the wage
Garner are welcome here, the former
for the betterment of conditions that
are so attractive here, and the latter
that he may by industry and fru-
gality, become a fore-runner in the
race of material development.
It's good place to live and a good
place to grow up in, no need to go
elsewhere for | notice the young men
are growing up here, all the time
and in city where the means for
such growth is amply provided for,
Another thing, it's no longer neces-
sary to go elsewhere to purchase
goods, Atlanta for instance at the
expcns of time and money, for the
stoT IS OF all kinds in Marietta are
filled to repletion with everv-
Of
ford5 Neither is it wise to select
from Catalogues from distant cities.
The merchants of Marietta are all
courteous and accommodating, want
your trade and show their appre-
citation in every available manner.
Good schools and churches of all de-
nominations abound and the moral
atmosphere is unusually clear, while
the accommodations for travellers
are excellent. The Kennesaw Hotel
right opposite the depot, with it's
wide open doors extends hearty
welcome to all.
Marietta has three solid banks,
free mail delivery, a fine fire de-
partment, competent professional
men, every needed retail business,
several large manufacturing enter
prises, wholesale grocery establish
ments, hundreds of beautiful homes,
good roads to all nearby towns, alb
J,
both train and electric transporta-
tion facilities, a superb climate,
pure artisan well water and per
feet health conditions, with hun
dreds of contented wage earners.
ample telegraph and telephone con-
nections and an unqualified record
for enterprise, and a hearty well
come to all new and desirable citi-
zens, two weekly papers, the Journ-
al, in which this page appears, edited
by Mrs Annie l.. Carter and Manag-
ed by Josiah Carter, Jr., and if you
are not already a subscriber, the
writer suggests that you become one
at once and show by your example
what it means to be city builder,
saying to each and every one you
meet THE half has never been
told"
Be a booster for Marietta and her
people, for the writer takes pride in
the fact that he is permitted to make
this mention of the city, it's mer-
chants and its people through the
columns of the Journal