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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 23,. 1890.
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LOCAL. HAPPENINGS. HICH WAfS AND l}V-WAYS
The News of the Day Told in
Brief—Personals, Etc.
I-AXjIE
AT
On Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday
next,beginninp: Mon
day morning at
clock ive will place on
sale 5,000 yards Plaid
white Nainsooks for
ladies’ and chilrens’
Tegular price 25c
no bettr bargain ever
offered in Thomasville
attend the
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^ Broad StJ
iifexr
.Sheriff Hurst continues to improve.
The uniform of the Hussars are ex
pected to morrow.
Miss Lota Harmon, of Boston, was
in the city yesterday.
Leo Frank, a drummer of Savan
nah, was in the city yesterday.
W. N. Spenc.-, of Camilla, was in
the city yesterday.
The Thomasville «iun Club ought
; o be represented at the shooting tour
nament tn Savannah next week.
The ice cream parlors and tin- soda
water fountains are beginning to do a
lively business.
The English sparrow is getting a
loothold here. “Johnny get your
gun.”
Willie Smart was arrested Monday
and placed in jail charged wtth^ for
gery. He is colored.
Mrs. J. H. Lion, of Louisville, Ky..
is visiting her mmher in law, Mrs.Belle
Linn, at Magnolia Place. Mr. Linn
will come down later. ^
The Albany passenger tram, No. 6,
which formerly arrived here 5:20, now
arrives at .5:415, twenty minutes lat£r.
Thnr leaving time at Albany is only
ten minutes later.
Air guns, wlvch ihoot with consider
able torce, but without noise, have
been in'roduced here, and the small
boys have discarded their sling shots,
and armed themselves with the im
proved weapon,
Misst-s Emma B. McCartney and
Maria McGinnis, who have been
spending the winter here, at the home
of Mr. David McCartney, on Hansel)
street, left for their home. Fort How.
ard, Wis., yesterday morning.
The session of the superior court
brought quite a number of farmers 10
town yesterday. ' They all report crops
doing very well, notwithstanding the
dry weather. Oats are suffering and
cotton and other planted crops needs
rain to induce germination.
L. B. M. H This is the adver'ise
ment ol Lower Broad Millinery Houre
which appears this morning in new
form. TI11* popular house takes pride
In a neat “ad’' as well as in keeping
the latest styles of goods.
Mr. C. W. Lapham and family
leave this morning for their home in
Chicago. The health of Mr. L has
been greatly improved since his com
ing hefe, some weeks ago, and he re
turns to his business I'fe fully equipped
for the summer campaign.
Miss Estella Wolff left Sunday for
New York, where she will spend the
summer with relatives. Her Thom
asville friends will wish for her a great
deal of health and pleasure in the
great metropolis, and a safe return 10
her home among the pines.
Messrs. A- V. P-tlin * Bro. have
something to say this morning, in re
gard to their carriage shops on Lower
5,S’d street. They are now prepared
to serve tft* public in a most satisfac
tory manner, and yi}} take pleasure
, u wailing upon you. See their ad-
vertisTiDent elsewhere.
Captain Milfcrof the South Georgia
College Cadets, in the absence of
Captain Hansell, put the Guards
through a lively d'ill on Monday night,
Captain Miller is a fine drill officer,
and the boys found it out before he
had been handling them many min
utes. A competitive drill in the mac-
ujj, before the company .' as dismissed,
attracted quite a crowd. The boys
went out on errors until only Orderly
Sergeant Smith, and Mess. Will Tay
lor and Frank Smith were left standing.
The commands were sharp and quick,
but the mo went through the manual
like veterans; finally Will Taylor
dropped out, followed a moment later
by Frank Smith. This left Orderly
Sargent Smith the champion. -
OE THOMAS COUNTY.
’TIS, INDEED, A GOODLY
LAND.
Homes of Plenty, and Plenty of
Homes for all.
Chapters'From Cairo.
If nil that has been said and writ
ten during the past 25 years to prove
that small farms make the prosperity
of a country, were gathered and print
ed in one book, it would make one
the like of which the world has never
seen.
Much of this vast flood of talk has
come from those, jvhose previous edu
cation or business, had given them but
little opportunity for knowing the
truth or ftppositeness of what they said;
at the same tims it is undeniably true
that “small farms well tilled, small
barns well filled,” arc the surest ovi-
dencesof thrift, and it might be said,
tnc best indications that such thrift
will continue, whether the reflection
comes from inyself, or others that may
be ignorant of the details by which
small farms are made profitable.
I have had occasion in previous ar
tides on t he subject of the development
of Southwest Georgia, to state thnt
the scc'ioa contiguous t> Cairo was
without exception, so far as my obser
vation went, the most prosperous part
of the south, from an agricultural
stand point. '■
After having* spent a week in that
section, I am propnred to reiterato all
I have ever said, and if need be Vt
make it more emphatic. In speaking
or writing of-most of the phases of
material prosperity.it is not necessary
fo trace effects back to causes, it is
enough to accept the effects. The
causes in the present case, however,
are so suggestive, so full of signifi
cance, nnd point with such unerring
force to what other sections can do, if
they adopt the same methods, that I
cannot refrain from making more than
a passing reference to them.
Before the war the 17th nnd 18th
districts of Thomas countv were but
sparsely peopled. Here nnd there at
irregular and wide intervals, a lntisc
nnd a few small fields immediately
around it could be seen; cattle ranged
the hills and found abundaut pastur-
nge. Indeed, tho land was supposed
to be too poor for profitable cultiva
tion, and to the rich planters on the
east bank of the Ochlockoncc river,
the other side of the winding stream
was known n3 “Arabia. ,
When the war closed the rich plan
tations were kept up, as far as possi
ble in the old stylo—hundreds of acres
of cotton, a few acres ot corn, with
cribs and smoko houses in tho far
west The few people in the 17th and
18th districts, there wore but few ne
groes, had been accustomed to do their
own work, and th<> 3C tho 1 come in to
help them developo the country pos
sessed tho same needful accomplish
ment. These sturdy tillers of the soil
went to work with a will; they felled
tfie forests, made themselves homes,
raised their own provisions, left the
discussion of ah»trnpt questiops to oth
ers and lo the end hag proyed the
wisdom of tlreir course. They did not
reach out and try so compass the
earth; they were content with as much
(and as theyconld cultivate with thftir
own hands j small farms became the
order, and has remained so, and it is
no uncommon sight to see two or
throe farmers settled on one lot, 250
acres, of land. Take any of the nu
merous roads that lead out from Cairo,
and one is never out of sight of a farm
house. Expcrienctyhas shown that
these pine lands are the best for all
round servioein the world; they are
cheap, they are easily ‘cleared, easily
cultivated, they yield a wide rango of
crops, they give a prompt and heavy
dividend ou fertilizers used. These
advantages, with industry, economy
and thrift on the part of the farmers
have made the Cairo section what it
is, the most prosperous in the south
LEAVES FItOM THE FAST.
The old Atlantic & Gulf railroad
was not completed from Thomasville
to Bainbridgc until after the close of
the war, though most of the grading
had been finished ready for track Jay.
ing, when the call to arms resounded
through the South. In 18C7 work
was resumed and the road finished
The name gives the purpose for which
the road was begun, that of making it
a thoroughfare to bind the Atlantic
ocean nnd tho Gulf of Mexico in a
close commercial union. Pensacola
was the original southern destination
of the road, .and when it reached
Bainbridgc, Col. John Screven, then
its president, told the people of the
Oak City thnt “the iron horses of his
road would only pause long enough to
drink of the clear waters of the Thro-
nateeskn, and then they would be
away to the Gulf.” Subsequent events
made the beautiful, but somewhat
grandiloquent speech, take unto itself
the airs and trappings of sophoraoric
declamation, rather than the cool and
calm utterances ot a staid business
man'.
As soon as the railroad was finished
by Cairo, the place began to grow.
Mr. George A. Wight was the first
merchant to open after the railroad.
He had been in busiDessat Sofkce for
several years before and after the war,
and his experience and tact enabled
him to attract a fine trade to Cairo, as
soon as lie begun business there. La
ter I will speak more at bngth of Mr.
Wight.
A short time alter the period men
tioned, Maj. B- L. Hearn opened an
extensive business, which he continued
for a few yearp.
Iu 18G8Dr. S A. Roddeubery, who
had been living a few miles north ot
Cairo, engaged in his profession, he
gun to sell guano in Cairo, being per
haps tho first one to engage in the sain
of fertilizers in the county. In 1871
be begun to sell goods at the same
plane at which he now has a store.
About this time Mr. Kcdar Powell
moved to Cairo from his old home a
few miles south of the then village. He
had been a prominent citizen in De
catur County for ninny years, and was
a fine typo of the old time Southern
gentleman.
About 1875 Cnpt. I{. H. Harris
muted to Cairo from Thomasville and
opened a flourishing school, which he
taught for a number of years.
In the meantime many other citi
zens had come to Cairo, nnd it had
become quite a thrifty village.
Even then at this early day great
attention was paid to tho setting out
of shade trees, and as a result, Cairo
is one of the best shaded town in the
state.
It was my fortuno to sec Cairo first
in the spring of 1877. It was then an
insignificant village, with a small
trade aud shipping nuuunlly a few
hundred bales of cotton, a few hund
red barrels of syrup, and a few thous
and dozens of egesand some hundreds
of crates of chickens. The few mer
chants that were then doing business
there kept small stocks of goods, and
it was not thought that the place
would ever nmount’to much commer
cially.
Now it ships annually over 5,000
bales of cotton, all of which is sold in
the place, and the money for which is
spent with Cairo merchants. The
shipment of syrup has increased ten
fold, and it is not too much to say
that Cairo is now the heaviest ship
ping point for -syrup in the State,
The shipments of other lines of coun
try produce has increased in the same
ratio, nnd in the care the merchants
have taken of their country trade may
be attributed much of tho growth and
prosperity of the town. They realized
at an early day in the history of the
place that to hold the trade of their
customers, made up in the main of
small farmers, they must make ar
rangements to take at fair prices ev
erything raised on the neighboring
farms. Tho same wise spirit still
manifests itself, and Cairo is the lar
gest shipping point for country pro
duce on the line of the S., F. & W.
Ry. The receipts of outgoing nnd
incoming general freight ate ahead of
any town ot anything like its size on
the road, and one of the healthiest in
dications of the future of the town is
manifested in the fact that the volume
of business increases steadily with
each pnssing year, The merchants
each year draw trade from points
furtherjaud further "removed, have
larger stocks, sell more goods and
thereby increase their own prosperity,
as well as that of their town. As I
said in thefoutset, tho community of
which Cairo is the trading point, is
made up of solidly prosperous men,
nnd as a result, the losses sustained by
the merchants 7a re correspondingly
light. It is, perhaps, in proper order
to speak of the community first; its
members have made Cairo, and stand
ing thereto in the relation of cause to
effect, it is iu due form to speak first
of the cause, and then truce out the
effects that have come therefrom.
(to he continued.)
State Sunday School Associa
tion.
This body of Sunday School wor
kers to convene here April 30th is
not as some suppose, a sectarian or
denominational organization. It is
composed of Sunday School workers
of the various Evnngelical churches
and its object is simply to promote
Sunday School work in the state. It
does not interfere with the manage
ment* of local schools, nor even at
tempt any supervision of them, but
by means of: county, district and state
organizations, it brings Sunday
School workers together, awakens an
interest in tho cause, nud stirs up the
association lo luok after all destitute
neighborhoods and communities. Its
officers are chosen from the different
churches- For several yenrs, Hon.
Milton A. Gaudier a Presbyterian
was Piesideut, he was succeeded by
Mr. It. B. Reppard a Methodist, who
in turn was succeeded by Mr. John
M. Green the presont President, a
prominent member of the Baptist
church, in Atlanta, lion. Howard
Van Epps of Atlnnta, a Presbyterian,
is rice President, Mr. J. C. Courtney
Secretary and Mr. A. B. Currier
Treasurer, It. B. Reppard_of Savan
nah is chairman of the Executive
committee.
It is thought, that between two and
three hundred persons will bo here in
aitendaxfeo 011 this convention.
Wc learn thnt up to this time
homes for only me hundred and forty
have been secured. Every family,
who possibly can, ought, to entertain
some of these delegates. They will
remain in session only two days. We
would urge tlip.se that have not con
sented to take delegates to do so at
once, and send iu their names and
the number they will eutertain to
Mr. J. S. Montgomery, Secretary of
the Entainment Committee.
“Be not forgetful to eutertain
strangers, for thereby some have en
tertained nugels unawares.”
Attention Guards.
Lieutenant Walter A. Taylor has
kindly consented to drill the Guards
at the extra drill Thursday evening, at
8 o’clock. The new guns are here
and every member of the company is
expected to be* on hand promptly.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark W, Lewis left
for their home in Minneapolis, Minn.,
on the 8:25 train yesterday morning.
They will stop at Montgomery and
Nashville, and will spend about ten
days in Louisville, arriving at home
about the 15th of May. They are
highly delighted with their stay in out
city. Mr. Lewis says that he is restor
ed to health, and says they have met
with courtesy and kindness on every
hand. He contemplates returning to
Thomasville next November.
At LEVYS.
A job of 200Jpieces Embroideries
positively 25 per cent under val
ue.
At LEVY’S,
20 pieces Angora Homespun
Suitings 15c per yard.
At LEVY’S.
We have made a 'large purchase
of Boys Knee Pant* from ! to 14
years," which are now being of
fered much under regular prices.
Call early, they are selling rapid-
At LEVY’S.
Have you seen our French
Batistas, our Domestic and
French Salines, our Foreign and
American Challies. None pact-
tier and cheaper in the land.
At LEVY’S.
Plenty Dry Goods in town—yes,
but few to compare with ours.
Having established an outlet for
line goods we eta afford to buy,
and do carry the finest line in the
city. Our 1
for fine good
sale for them.
"popular low prices
ods insures a ready
At LEVY’S.
Weliave brought out an unusual
large and oxquiiite stock of
White Goods. Our goods in that
line must lie seen to be appre
ciated.
At LEVY’S,
The prettiest spring goods al
ways sell out early in the season
We would advise our friends to
call early to select their wants
for the season.
We offer at all times the most goods
tor the least money.
LEVY’S