The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-01-07
NESBITT.

We are sorry to note that Col. [.
B. Irwin, Mrs. A n. Edwards and
Mr.. Barnes are all on the sick list.
Also Mrs. d. c. Underwood does not
! improve much.
Mr. John Bird, of Lawrenceville,
CATER an absence of four years,
visited friends here in the holidays
Rev. Mr.. Brown, the new pastor
for the Elizabeth charge, will fill
his regular appointment here next
Sunday morning and night.
Atlantians just will advertise At
lanta. Here's hoping that the re-
callers will succeed in recalling the
whole bunch and then recall all
those little dirty Atlanta dailies and
the negro paper too, for they have
been on the wrong side of every pub
lie question, both religious, moral fl
nancial and political that has been
sprung in 10 years. Now just
watch them fling fits about the W.
& A. Railroad being paralelled. when
ever they express them selves, you
may take the opposite and know for
a certainty that you are right
The banquet given by the Geor-
gia Chamber of Commerce at Nariel-
ia last III Irsday was a great sue
cess in mai ways. Thoy have un-
dertaker 10 do and no doubt VIII
accomplish great things or Georgia
in the na7' uture. The mat Il moa
or means that succeeds in bringing
lots of Yankee money to Georgia
will be indelibly stamped in the
minds of future generations, but the
one thing most needful is for Geo:-
gians to learn to keep what they
get.
Take a synopsis of the people you
know and all that have made any
measure of success are those that
have Termed how to keep what they
get
The big dailies, the weeklies, the
bankers and the supply merchants
have just about all laid down on the
subject of growing home supplies and
diversified farming. Every body
knows that the salvation of this
country is with Yankee money ami
keeping what we get is the second
blessing.
Here's hoping that the l.. & N.
people will parallel the w & A. and
that the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce will settle a million dollar
yankee at every mile post through
the entire state.
While on our recent tour of the
west we spent two days around New
| Orleans taking in the sights. We
went 10 miles up the Mississippi riv-
er into the trucking region. It's a
feast to the eye of one who thorough
ly enjoys truck farming to see the
hundreds of broad level acres that
are covered with fine garden sass
Of every imaginable tempting vege-
table that you could wish for. We
saw hundreds of men, women and
children planting, cultivating gath
ering, washing, punching, packing
and shipping these fine vegetables
to the northern and western markets.
We then visited the markets 3 in
all the city where you can buy or
sell anything in the way Of meats,
fish, poultry, eggs, fruits or yege-
tables. They are open day and night
Sunday and Monday The big
French market covers some two or
mere acres of ground and the shed
is owned by the city. The business
is done by farmers, principally Ger
mans who rent there 1--WE were in
formed that this trucking section
continued for 65 miles, space by
the square foot and for only one day
at time At this big market we
saw loads of vegetables, the equal
of any load Of fodder or shaaf oats
that one commonly sees in Georgia,
all washed and tied in punches as
many as 200 doz. punches Of turnips
to a wagon, and every thing else IN
proportion on other wagons, but We
believe that the most prosperous sec
ton we visited was the sugar cane
fields in Louisiana. For some two
hundred miles nearly all the lands
was cultivated in sugar cane; it was
harvest season and hundreds Of large
sugar refineries were in full blast.
Fine old colonial homes and thou
sands of cottages for the hired peo-
pie and everything looked like it had
just been to a fresh coat of paint.
1t really looked like there was enough
sugar and sugar-hOuse molaSses be
ing turned out to sweeten the world
so that enmity, jealousy, hatred, ma
lice, ill-will and even the European
var might stop. Mrs. Head states
positively that | wont have any
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