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f x > vm<hm*-■ Vp.y, • V* j f - wWft ,vv, - '■■■ ''" ' ■ '■'■ "■ ■*■' ■■ ■ r 1 1 "~ ~ The Grady County Progress. T. A.X. MAJOES, EDITOR. Leading Weekly Newspaper in Grady County. Published Weekly, Every Friday, by THE PROGRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. !.'i>e year - .$1.00 Mix months 60 Three months 25 Application made for admission as second class mail matter to the postotlice department. ' ‘ ' " ' r 1 Advertising Rates.—Depends on position, number of insertions and number of inches—will be given on application. Obituaries and cards of thanks will be charged for—5c a line Not Responsible—The editor of Tim Prookkss is not respon sible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents solic, ited. y 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. i ■ ■ 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 With Ahc Freshest Flowers of the Printing Art. It Is o. Complete, Up to Date Print ing Plant, Ready to Do Your Commercial Printing Attractively, Your Law Printing Accurately, Your Social Printing Artis tically nnd All Printing Expeditiously.