The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-07-30
GEORGIA PRESS FINDS
CITY OF CkRROLLTON
Editors Held Big Three Days SEES.
sion in the Capitol of the Free
State oe Carroll.

| Last week, the Georgia Press AS
ISOLATION was entertained in the city
of Carrollton, and the attendance ex-
ceeded two hundred, the largest in
recent years, if not in the entire his
tory of the association.
Carroll County, Georgia, has long
been known as the Free State of
Carroll" and we think she merits
the title and the honor, for it is an
honor to hold the position she does
among the counties of the Empire
State of the South.
Blessed with all the natural ad-
vantages common to the state, her
her sons and daughters have worked
to surpass her sister counties in the
social, religious, educational and in
dustrial affairs of life.
How well they have done this, on
ly visit of few days to the town
of Carrollton, will disclose, for the
people of Carroll have been entirely
too modest in proclaiming their vir-
tues to the world
Situated as it is, just off the beaten
paths of travel and traffic, and yet
within a few hours ride of our bust
est marts of trade, it has remained
a region practically unknown to very
many Georgians, and among these,
many Georgia editors.
Notwithstanding the unusually in
clement weather which swept over
our state last week, we now feel sure
that the Georgia newspaper men are
much better informed about one of
the best sections, inhabited by one
one the best peoples in our state,
which is the same as saying, in the
whole world When the weekly press
knows thing, the rest of the people
are going to find it out also.
Although Carrollton has less than
five Thousand people, the county has
thirty-five thousand, and these are
nearly all are white farmers owning
small farms, prosperous, free and
independent, the class who constitute
the best citizenship of our nation.
While the population of Carrollton
is comparatively SMALL, it must be
remembered that it is not numbers
alone that go to make a town, what
sort of people they are, and what
they are doing, has infinitely more
to do with it. In this respect Carroll
ton is ALL RIGHT!
The people of the Gree State of
Carron'' are producers, making what
they consume at home, and something
to sell the other fellow, and while
cotton has been the great money
crop. as in so many other counties,
the people are turning to diversity
in planting, and food crops are now
larger than they have ever been.
The number and character of the
church buildings show that spiritual
affairs have not been neglected, and
in educational matters the town and
county is well in the forefront. The
A. & NJ. College for the district is
situated at Carrollton, while at the
town of Bowdon is another great
school, which the weather prevented
our visiting. Carrollton is well pro-
vided with city schools, and has al
ready raised its tax assessment to
a figure sufficient to make finances
for it's schools no longer problem.
Carrollton has a live trade board,
two of the best newspapers In the
state, two large cotton mills, and
other M anufacturing enterprises as
are usual in the smaller cities Of the
state. She has a good hotel, but her
guests of the press were entertained
most Hospitality in the homes OF her
people. Her banking facilities and
her business houses are equal to any
like community.
This wear will long be remembered
by the Georgia press as the one IN
which it discovered Carrollton.
The invitation of Washington, the
capital city of Wilkes County, was
unanimously accepted for the 1921
meeting of the association.
The recent report Of the life IN
surance bureau of the government
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