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fm CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910. Rev. G. S. Taylor Resigns Pastorate of • 'LONG BRANCH BAPTIST CHURCH His Health and Age Prevent His Further Service as Pastor- Resignation Accepted With Re* grcts. The reverened gentleman whose resignation appears below has dur ing his long term of service with the Long Branch church closely and tenderly endeared himself not only to the membership of that organiza tion but to the congregation at large and the entire community. He is . also well and favorbly known in Cai ro and through this entire section. It was with great reluctance and in Sincere sorrow that his people ac cepted his resignation to which •course they were competed solely ny consideration of his physical inabil ity to serve them longer. His home is inMitchell county at a distance too .great for him to traverse, regularly in his enfeebled physical condition He lost his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached less than a year ago and while meekly submissive to the Divine Will,in that bereavement be has never wholly recovered from the shock. Mrs. H. G. Cannon ( and Mr. Robert C, Taylor,, of this • ’'.place are his children, and they . most of all will miss, bie monthly omnihem. Ales 1 that suoh things To the Membership of Long Branch Church. My voice is gone. I can preach in words no more. Even if, in God’s providence, I should recover somewhat of the powers of speech, the place of my earthly resi dence is too far away for my enfeebled frame to endure the strain of monthly visits to you, as .of yore. Alas! brethren with a sad, sorrowful, almost breaking heart, I feel constrained, as I believe, by the Holy Spirit, to resign my charge at this placo. I pray you, brethren, in the name of our common Saviour, to accept my resignation, so regretfully, yet so in sistently offered. I really cannot serve you longer. Pray for me brethren, and in that term I include the entire membership of your church, of both sexes and all ages, pray for me always, as I shall always pray for you, until God shull summon me to my heavenly home. Farewell. And “may grace, mercy and peace from God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, abide with you, all, forever more, Amen!” Faithfully and lovingly, your brother in Christ Jesus, the Lord. G. F. Tayuor. con emu SUPERIOR tOH •comings, H"' must be. Divorce Cases to Be Taken Up First A UGH! CIVIL DOCKET SET TOR TRIAL ODD FELLOWS CONVENTION WILL MEET IN MOULTRIE District No. 1 Will Have Big G ering in Colquit County September 7 and 8. There will be a big gatherii Odd Fellows in Moultrie Sept' 7, and 8. The occassion is a convention of district No. 1, including the coun ties of Dougberly, Colquitt, Thomas, Grady, Miller, Early, Baker, Terrell, Lee, Worth, Turner, Tift, Berrien, Lowndes, Echols and Brooks. It is expected that two hundred Odd Fellows will be in attendance, including some of the high officials of the order. The Odd Fellows of Moultrie and tak- and may Criminal Docket to Be Taken Up Wednesday ASternoon—Cases Set lor Three Days. The following is the official cal endar of the civil business of the September Term, 1.910, of Grady Superior court. All divorce cases will he taken up and disposed of Monday immedi ately after the organization of the court. The criminal docket will be en up Wednesday afternoon cases disposed of as the court hereafter direct. MONDAY. Case No. 49, page 10, Jane Ballard V3. W. E. Cargill; Theo. Titus for plaintiff, and S. A. Rodden bery for defendant. Case No. 71, page 13, Lizzie Darsey vs. Jones Newton & Co. et al; S. A. Roddenbery and Ii. B. Bower for plaintiff, and Ledford and Terrell for defendant. Case No. 1S7, page 35, T. J. Mills for use of Maud M. Pickron, ' Maggie M. Pickron and Matthew M. Powell vs. W. A. Powell and Hunter Pearce and Battey’; Led ford and Terrell for plaintiff, Wil- C. Bell for plaintiff and Cain and Willie for defendant. Mrs. G. F, Shores vs, G. W. ‘ Rob berg; R. C. Bell for plaintiff and ■L Q. Smith for defendant. L. W. Walker et al vs. Pi,A. Jones; R. C. Bell for plaintiff and M. L. Ledford for defendant. Attorneys, witnesses avid all par- parties take due notice and govern themselves accordingly. This 30th day of August, 1910. W. T. CrawfoKd, Clerk Superior Court, Grady coun ty, Georgia. STATE TAK RATES WILL BE & MILLS FOR 1910 Same as- Last Yeai Have Grovwn More 1 nue. me uaa renows oi iviouitne anu *■ . , cf T o *ri planning to give the visitors a royal Georgia’s new tax rate for 1910 will be five mills—just as the 1909 tax rate was, right at the Constitutional limit. This figure will be formely and officially fixed Monday afternoon by Comptroller General W. A. Wright and Gov. Josepp M. Brown. And by it every citizen owning property in Georgia will, be taxed. Governor Brown wa; not present at the: capitd Monday morning, having gpn6 up to his farm in Cherolcee county near Canton, but he. was ex pected back early in the after noon, when he and 'the comp troller general were to declare the tax rate,for the current year. Each year, after all the tax re turns as a basis. Because the increase in current Empire State of South to Get Puclicity TO ESPLOIT RESOURCES IN THE WEST Atlanta.— Within the next few weeks the greatest advertising campaign known in the history of the Southern states will be inaugu rated by the Greater Georgia Asso ciation. The advertising campaign will be started in the Northwest and a represenative has left Atlanta for Chicago to start the movement go ing. It is proposed to educate Western ers on the resources of Georgia, the Empire State of the South, with sjtereopticon veiws, made from every section of the state, showing tl numerous resources in an effort to attract - prospective home seekers. . While in Chicago arrangements will be made to show views in Illi nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indianaand Ohio, working thoroughly every city in these states. In the mean time wide publicity is being given time and a hearty welcome. Dear Brethren and Sisters: I am now undertaking the performance of one of the ssEddest duties of my life. My heart ■sinks within me at the bare thought of it. How can I endure the ordeal that is before me? ■ Yet at the behest of duty, I must pass through that ordeal. God help me! Twenty-seven years ago, in answer to vour call and in obedience, as I believe, to the impression of the Holy Spirit of ■God, I became the unworthy pastor of your church. I entered upon the great work in fear and trembling. I said in my heart, l know I am not equal to £he responsibilities and obligations that X am assuming. But I.could not dodge away from the impulse of the Divine Spirit; I could not disregard “the necessity” as I felt it, that the Lord had laid upon me. And thus, my labors among you .began. I have said “among you.” Among some of you. But among the fathers and mothers of more of you. And among still others who arc now dead and gone, having left no posterity in this commu nity to represent them. In humble prayer I began. In prayers and tears, I have labored among the people of this church and community, in season and out of season, in summer’s heat and winter’s cold, through wet and <lry, in spiritual adversity and soul pros perity, as faithfully as I have been able .e ver since. For one full generation, counting by fact and not by theory, and well into an other, I have endeavored to comfort and build up fathers and mothers; I have led their children to Christ and “buried them with Him” in the watery grave. I have sought to strengthen the living; I have laid away your dead; in everything I have striven to be true and faithful to you and to my Saviour* And, brethren your church records bear witness that my labors among you have not been in vain in the Lord. “This I can say without boasting” and humbly, in reverence to ward God—thanking Him most pro pound^, for the inestimable privilege of leading many scores of regenerate spirits into the Kingdom of Heaven, on ea- lU and on high. But now, I feel that my work is done. I am no longer able to command the hysicai strength essential to efficiency Funeral of Mrs. A- L. Richter Mrs. MeUie, the widow Jot- Mr. Amandus L. Richter, late of Grady county, deceased, died at her home, three miles northeast of Cairo, at 9 o’clock, a. m. Monday, last, and her funeral took place at Long Branch church, the next morning at 11. An immense congregation attended the funeral service, thus at testing the high esteem in which the deceased and her family are held. The exercises were conducted by Rev. R. H. Harris, who preached a sermon, at the special request of the family. As a singular coinci dence, it may be mentioned that Dr. Harris preached a funeral dis course over the remains of Mrs. Richter’s husbard, on the 19tli day of February, last, in the same house. On the latter, occasion as on the former, the exercises were of the most solemn and impressive character; and, at the conclusion of the discourse, the handsome cask et, containing the body of the la mented lady, was interred in the church cemetery, near by. Miss Ethel Reagan led the sing ing very sweetly, on the organ, and Messers. J. M. Poulk. E. O. Har rell, Oscar Taylor, Dan Hughes, J. J- Cook and J. T. Procter acted as pall bearers. Mrs. Richter was be fore her marriage, Miss Mellie Brin son, a sister of Mr.Sim Brinson and a niece of Mr, Litt Belcher; thus having been related to many of the best people in Grady, as well as connected, by marriage with others of the same stamp, Rev. E. F. and Messrs. F. A. and Gus Richter. Mrs, Richter is survived by six children: Mr. Eugene Richter, Mrs. "Lily (Marshall) Perkins, Mrs. Rosa (Gilbert) Donaldson and three un married daughters, Misses Vera, Estelle and Mary; all of whom have the sympathy and condolence of a host of friends. Witness. C. Swicord vs Joe Swicord; S. A. Roddenbery for plaintiff and Theo. Titus for defendant. Case No. 189, page 35, Wtri. Powell vs. Cairo Banking Co. et al; Hale and Nelson for plaintiff and S. A. Roddenbery and R. Luke for defendant. Case No. 190, page 35, D. G. Mc Nair vs. B. F. Kelly; R. R. Ter rell for defendant. TUESDAY. Case No. 179, page 34, Henry Thomas vs. G. B. Trulock; .J. Q. Smith for plaintiff, R. R. Terrell for defendant. Case No. 182, page, 34, D. W. Hughes vs. R. W. Cook; M. L. Ledford and R. C. Bell for plain tiff and J. Q. Smith and Theo. Titus for defendant. Cose No. 186, page 35, Nellie God win vs. W. B. Gddwin; M. L. Ledford and S. A. Roddenbery for defendant and J. Q. Smith for plaintiff. Case 191, page 36, Jacob Carter vs. Maggie Walden et al; J. R. Sin gletary, R. C. Bell and W. J. Willie for plaintiff and Luke and Weathers for defendants. Case No. 192, page 36, Mrs. Sarah J. White vs. Mrs. W. M. Pip pins and W. M. Pippins; R. C. Bell and J. R. Singletary for plaintiff and J. Q. Smith for de fendants. WEDNESDAY. Case No. 193. pnge 36, H. R. Hurst vs. J. P. Malloy; Singletary and Willie for plaintiff and R. C. Bell for defendant. Case No. 196, page 36, N. A. t!ole- man vs - . J. J. Ragan, Jr; R. C. Bell for plaintiff and Cain and Willie for defendant. Case No. 197, page 37, Nora L. Coleman ys. J. J. Ragan ( J r - > R* rate cannot be Iow6red. And because the constitution pre scribes that it shall not be more than five mills, it cannot be in- increased. Comptroller General Wright says there has been an increase of over $600,000 in the appropri ations, as against an increase of some $200,000 in revenue* A quarter of a million dollars more was given to schools this year than last year;$200,000 more was appropriated - for pensions, and and the rest of the increase was taked up in special appropriations for the various institutions of the state.—Monday’s Atlanta Jour nal. Baptist Church Notes. The Sunday morning congregation was fins and appeared to be pro foundly impressed by the pastor’s discourse on “The Passage of The Red Sea.” Without any apparent or heard of reason, the attendance, at night was below the average; but the in terest of every person present was vivid and intense, while the minis ter spoke on “Reaping What We Sow.” There was a large increase in the Sunday school muster, there were numbers of welcome visitors pre sent and the exercises were very en couraging. There was a very gratifying in terest manifested by a goodly com oany, at the Wednesday night- prayer meeting. Mr. Henry O’Neal was the leader, with “The Objects of Prayer,” as the subject for the evening and the people seemed to take hold of it with avidity. When in town call around and let us put your name on The Progress’ mailing list. the movement throughout the state interesting the various sections. Any town and county wishing to advertise in the new organization mav do so by having the photograph made. The cost it norminal and by doing theuctjfertising jointly, ‘ iiL 4!- .. -a , « urareu that 25 times as much can expenses for -fhe yea- exceeds -ttch. Tlio movement, iff the increase m revenue, the' tax b : ' - hoped, will overcome the railroads’ refusal to allow stopovers in Georgia. By showing the views in the various cities of the West it is thought that tourists and homeseekers may be induced to buy their tickets to any point, Tifton. Waycrosss, Amercus or Macon, and take a look over the opportunities offered in the state and if not satisfied to then continue thei 11 journey. It is believed that in this way hundreds of thousands of dollars will life brought to the state for investment. mm W. C. T. U. Elects New Officers The W. C. T. U. held its regular monthly meeting in the Methodist church August 25th. President in in chair. After a short devotional service conducted by Mrs. F. T. Brown the election of officers followed name ly: President,Mrs. T. F.MoorejVice- Presidence, Mrs. J. Q. Smith; Treasurer, Mrs. J. S. Weathers; re cording and corresponding secretary Miss Addie Lou Powell; Vice-Presi-. dent of the Methodist church, Mrs. K. Powell; Vice-President of the Baptist church, Mrs. W. H. Robin son; Vice-President of the Presby terian church, Mrs. A. C. Forrester; Superintendent of the Red Letter' Day socials, Mrs. F. T, Brown; Superintendent of Medal Contest, Mrs. R! C. Bell; Superintendent of Sunday school department, Mrs. J. E. Forsyth;Superintendent ofjFlow- er Mission, Mrs, Eugene Clower; Superintendent of Purity Depart ment, Mrs. W. H Searoy; Super intendent of Jail Department, Mrs, W. C. Jones; Agent for the Union Signal, Mrs. J. M, Poulk. Mrs. W. B. Roddenbery was elec ted delegate, Mrs. F. T. Brown al ternate to attend the W. C. T. U. convention which is to meet in Madison in October. It was discussed whether an essay contest in Grady county Vfould prove beneficial, a committee of five were appointed to consider this matter. Addie Low Powell, Secretary, J !!!!|jj -