Candler County GaArchives News.....CANDLER COUNTY April 22, 1915
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Metter Advertiser April 22, 1915
CANDLER COUNTY
(By Miss Elizabeth Williams)

	In 1905 there was a proposed addition of the county to be known as 
Candler.  It however did not become a county until Nov. 1914.  There was a vast 
sum of money expended over the creation of this wanted and much needed county.  
It was named in honor of Georgia’s noted Candler family principally Ex Gov. 
Allen D.  After the creation, next was the election.  We wanted men who knew 
and had ability to do things that should be of most benefit to the people.  We 
wanted men to start the wheel of fortune and of prosperity to moving, and not 
only start it, but start it so forcibly that let come what may, it will still 
prosper.  This I think is plainly proved by the election of said officers, as 
they are of Candler’s most thoughtful and learned men.
	Candler County is located in the eastern part of Georgia, lying between 
the red hills of Georgia and the low lands of the southern end of the state.  
It is bounded on the north by Emanuel County, on the east by Bulloch, on the 
south and west by Tattnall.  It is in the path of the gulf winds which cools 
the atmosphere by night, and waters the fertile fields by day.
	It is in this county where the best Georgia melons are grown.
	It is here that the best of cooperation between the farmer and the 
merchant exist.  The merchant offers the best market price and the farmer puts 
on market the best country products in the best market form.  There is no 
better farms and farming to be found in the empire state of the South.  
Practically all the grounds of the county are fertile and are being cultivated 
by the more scientific form of cultivation.  You see no more of the scobters 
for the new ground no wooden plow and beam but the harrow, the disk, the deer 
machine for cultivation and the song of mowing machines chorded with the music 
of the reaper and binder, which is run, not only by the negro, but by the young 
man who has been educated to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow which by 
the way is the commanded way of the master of that harvest.
	Farming is considered to be one of the most elevating pursuits of the 
present generation of this garden spot.  It is being taught to children of the 
rural districts in a practical form as well as in book form.  The good people 
of this county are not farming for the sole purpose of making of money but, for 
the purpose of improving the farms and making the best of homes.  They are 
doing this in order to keep boys and girl out of Sodom and keep them where life 
is pure and unspotted by the loafing boy and girl who seeks to be entertained 
by loafing uptown and seating themselves in an ice cream parlor or down to the 
pool room and skating rink.

(Continued next week)


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