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The Grady County Progress.
T. A.X. MAJOES, EDITOR.
Leading Weekly Newspaper in Grady County.
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JUDGE PENDLETON ON THE EFFECTS
OF PROHIBITION.
“Whisky will ruin any community and
prohibition will help it.”
Out of the many conflicting stories sent
out of Georgia about the effect of the pres
ent prohibition law and the many varied
opinions of it entertained by the citizens of
the state themselves, here emerges a clear-
cut, unequivocal statement.
It eomes not in the heat of debate or
discussion, but as a calm, deliberate an
nouncement from the bench, from a judge
•‘-hose conservatism both of belief and of
assertion is synonymous with exactness.
“In this town,” said Judge J. T. Pen
die* on in his charge to the Fulton county
■ rand jury, referring to a place that he vis
:>;ed before and after prohibition, “were six
or seven barrooms, and during court week
drunken men were loitering around the
courtyard, some with pistols buckled to
their belts. Fights were frequent and law
lessness was indulged in freely. Now
when I go to that same town the little shan
ties have been torn away and brick stores
replace them, seldom is any one around
there seen drunk, and merchants report that
business is far better than it was when they
h id whiskey. This is an example of what
prohibition, in so far as liquor is concerned,
will do for a community. Whisky will ruin
any community, an# prohibitinn will build
it up.”
THE VALUE OF THE PECAN INDUSTRY
A dispatch from Albany, published re
cently in The Constitution, indicated that
within the last four months 15,000 acres of
pecan lands had been sold in and around
Dougherty county.
Preparations are under way for plant
ing this tremendous area in the toothsome
nut that promises so large a revenue to
Georgia.
The problem regarding this especial in
dustry has lately changed from one of a
selling nature to one of getting lands to sell.
At present it is said there is an actual
famine of pecan lands readily available.
To be sure, there are still large unoccu
pied tracts in the pecan belt,, but the own
ers foresee the possibilities of tremendous
development, and are in no hurry to rush
t iejr holdings on the market.
Within only comparatively recent years
I-as the country wakened to Georgia's po
tentialities with regard to pecans..
Now, it is common knowledge among
vestors that orchards, properly tended—
■ vd the expense of so doing' is small—re-
1 ;.rn dividends beside which many other
crops are negligible.
It is logical that, in course of time, the
pecan will become one of the state’s best
r.,-venue producers.
The pecan, moreover, is only one item.
(,■ rorg’ia has plenty more such at her back,
inspire the activities of the Greater Geor-
g a Association, and other organizations en-
: .ge 1 n the mission of development.—At-
acucion.
PROHIBITION IN THE LEGISLATURE.
A press dispatch from Atlanta says:
“Prohibition will be a big issue of the Geor
gia legislature which next sits at the state
capitol. The .question was wisely kept out
of the recent gubernatorial campaign by
mutual agreement of all parties concerned,
but it is known now that the Anti-Saloon
League of Georgia intends tc go before the
legislature to make a strong fight for the
abolition of the “near beer” saloon, which
they maintain is to all intents and purposes
in practically every instance a “real beer”
saloon.
“The fight will be to give Georgia a
straightout prohibition law. The move
ment of the Anti-Saloon League will meet
with strong and well organized opposition.
To begin with, there are many sincere po
litical leaders, legislators and other public
men who are opposed to prohibition as a
matter of principle. In addition, the brew
ing interests will naturally leave no stone
unturned to defeat a change in the law that
would put their breweries completely out of
the business. So a red' hot fight is sure to
come.”
A MUTUAL RECONCILIATION.
Cairo, Ga., Sept. 7, 1910.
I withdraw tho epithets used in
an article in the newspapers of Cairo
published last week in reply to an
article signed “Justice,” and also
withdraw the statement wherein I
say that “the writer will have to
answer bejorc twelve good men in
Grady superior court. ” My state
ments regarding my actions in tho
case criticized by “Justice” in last
week’s papers stand ns they are.
J. R. Singletary.
Witness: J. S. Wrathbrb.
Cairo, Ga., Sept. 7, 1910.
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■ I withdraw the word “venal’ ’
used in the article signed “Justice”
in the county papers of two weeks
ago, and agree to stop further dis
cussion of the matter, and regret
the occasion of having to wound
the feelings of Judge Singletary.
J. B. Wight.
Witness: J. S. Weathers.
NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES DISPUTE.
United States Senator Elihu Root, com
missioner for the United States in the New
Foundland fisheries dispute before The
Hague tribunal, has returned. Speaking
of the results of his mission, Senator Root
said: “I can say that the United States
will be in better position than ever before.
A decision which will be given about Sep
tember 16 will be a definite settlement of
the question as to the boundary lines. The
matter is not one of a large amount of mon
ey involved, but upon American success de
pends in good part the existence of the New
England sea coast fishermen. It is for
them we are fighting more than any great
revenue.”
Mil BAPTIST
ASS! TO MEET OCT. 5
Forty-Fifth Annual Sessslon to
Be Held Under the Auspices of
Brtnson Baptist Church at
Cyrene.
The fifty-fourth annual session
of the Bowen Baptist! Association
Will be held under the auspices of
the Brinson Baptist church; sessions
to be held at Cyrene, Ga., beginning
at ten o’clock October 5, 1910.
Elder Z. J. Edge or bis alternate,
Elder N. W. Cox, will preach the
inductory sermon. All the churches
in the association are urged to send
a full delegation of messengers.
Dr. S. Y. Jemison, of Mercer
University, Dr. J. J. Bennett, secre
tary of the mission board, Dr. G.A.
Nunnally,secretary of the Education
board, and o her .visiting luothern
are expected to attend 1..0 associa-
G0VERN0R HASKELL
Oklnhoma May 8and Him
to United States Senate.
tion.
Starting with a $300 pawn ticket for a
diamond ring as his capital, Eugene Scales,
of Dallas, Texas, was last week been ac
claimed “Cotton King,” when August op
tions on the staple went to 20 cents. Scales
is silent as to-the amount he has won
through the bull movement he has been aid
ing for the last fifteen months, but wise
acres credit him with already clearing $15,-
000,000, and, provided he can liquidate his
present holdings at 20 cents pr better, he
will retire from the arena many times a
millionaire—the one man who won where
such operators as Dan Sully and Theodore
H. Price lost after having been crowned
“King of Cottorf.”
Bishop Warren Candler, of the Methodist
church, who was reported in the Atlanta newspa
pers as having said on Sunday that all newly rich'
people were asses, has, through Presiding Elder
Joel T. Davies, considerably qualified that utter
ance. Dr. Davies has written a public card de
claring that the sentence was taken out its con
text, and that while Bishop Candler did speak of
the rapid growth of individual fortunes during
the last half century and the. unfortunate effect of
the increase of wealth upon individual character,
he by no means put all "newly rich” men in the
same indiscriminately common class.
Of course
as asses, for t\ie;
has acquired suck
a beverage that i
pie as whiskey.
: afford to place all
is “Brother Asa G” who
:n .riches,fi^om the sale -of
as damaging to the peo-
Eyidentiy Tom Watson has gone insane
upon the idea of being the political boss of
.the great state of Georgia. When Hoke
Smith was elected four years .ago Tom Wat
son was given credit for his election, and
when Joe Brown defeated Hoke two years
ago a certain element gave him praise.
This turned Tom’s head to such an extent
that he conceived the idea that he was boss
and this year went after every high officer
in the state and as a result met his Water
loo. .
The board of education elected
and empowered by the association
at its meeting in Whigham,October,
1909, to locate and build a second
ary school somewhere in the bounds
of che Bowen Association will be
ready to make their report.
The trustees are going to be able
to make the greatest report of its
kind ever submitted to. aq asocia-
tion.
All the brethern who were ap
pointed a year ago to write reports
on the various interests fostered by
the association will please have their
reports ready at the opening of the
session. This is expected to be the
greatest session the association ever
had.
N. G. Christopher, Clerk.
Baptist Church Notes.
A fine congregation greete^i the
pastor last Sunday morning and
gave him rapt attention while he
discoursed for about thirty minutes
upon “The Climax of God’s Pow
er.”
Another large audience, including
a number of distinguished legal gen
tlemen in attendance upon the su
perior court in session here, listen
ed, with profound interest, to the
evening discourse upon “Death and
the Judgment.”
It was not so announced at either
service, but it is understood that
next Sunday the' time for opening
the evening service will be changed
from 8 to 7:30 p. m.
The Sunday school exercises were
very interesting and the large turn
out of pupils .must have been very
encouraging to the efficient superin
tendent, Mr. W. B. Roddenbery.
Mr. B. VV. Mauldin led the pray
ermeeting Wednesday night and
the occasion was very much enjoyed
by the large gathering. The sub
ject for the evening was “The Di
vine Forgiveness” and Mr. M’s
attractive presentation of it evoked
very enjoyable talks from several
other gentlemen. It was, altogeth
er, a very profitable meeting.
more than one hundred and fifty
negroes who have been hanging
ing around town without any vis
ible means of support, have left
town and are hunting jobs in the
country. Now that the farmers
are beginning to pick cotton it is
an easy matter fbr town, negroes
to find work to do. Thomasville
has taken a sensible way of deal
ing with the vagrant proposition
and Cairo can afford to .follow
the example. N
Church Conference of
Congregational Methodist
The Cairo District Conference of
Congregational Methodist church
will convene at Union church Thurs
day night before the third Sunday
in September and remain in session
through Friday and Saturday. Din
ner will be served on grounds both
davB. Services will also be held
Sunday morning at 11:00. Every
body is cordially invited to come
ar.d bring a well filled basket.
We desire a full delegation
throughout the entire session.
J. A. Wynn, President.
O. L. Mobley, Pastor
and Seceratary of Conference.
Our “Plant
Sending Negroes to the Field]
The court officials at Thomas- ,
ville have threatened to 'arrest
every idle negro found in that
city and the result has been that
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