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Cotton a Month Late in Thomas
County — Little Improvement
During the Last Week.
The last week has shown little
improvement in the cotton situa
tion in this section and it is still
opening very slowly, the weather
conditions continuing unfavorable.
A trip around the territory shows
the crop to be what cotton men
term “spotted,” one field shown;
up well and the next being very
backward and in poor condition
generally. The receipts hero have
been the lightest known in a long
time for tho same season of the
year and experienced buyers sta’e
that the crop is fully a. month late.
Thomas Farmers* Warehouse
Association.
The annual meeting of the Far
mers’ Union Warehouse Association
<of Thomas was held here this week
for the pufpose of electing officers
for the ensuing year. A board of
directors was first chosen consisting
■of J- M. Sheppard, J. I. D. Ken-
Kenned,y, W. P. Wages, C. F. Reh-
‘berg, G. 0. Lunsford, J. F. Hicks,
B. W. Stone, J. W. Roland, J. B.
Moore, W. H. Culnepper and J. S.
Turner. This board then went in
to executive session and elected as
officers W. P. White, president; J.
Willis Moore, ’dee president; C. F.
'Reiiberg, secretary. The meeting
was well attended and a good deal
of routine business was transacted.
The Farmers’ Union warehouse in
this city will open for the season on
Sept. 5.
ThomasvIUe j}, D. F. Degree
Team.
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Piney Woods Lodge I. 0. 0. F.
of this city will send a degree team
of twentv men to exemplify work
in the first 'degree at tho meet
ing of the District Convention of
\bdd Fellows to be held in Moultrie,
Sept. 7 and 8. Fifteen counties
are included in this district and
there will be a large crowd of dele
gates present, from the various
lodges in it. The Thomasville
team is considered the crack one in
this section and returned to-day
from Bainbridge, where < it went
yesterday afternoon to exemplify
work in the lodge in that city.
New School Building Completed.
The new building for tho use of
the Thomasville public schools is
completed and will be ready for
occupancy when the schools open
Sept. 12. This building is on the
east side of the railroad and will be
used for the primary department
and scholars from the first to the
fourth grade. The overcrowded
condition of the schools last term
necessitated the purchase of an ad-.
. ditional building and it was decided
by - popular vote to put it on the
east side of the railroad so that the
younger children might not be ob
liged to cross the track in going to
. school. The indications are the at
tendance at the schools will be
larger this year than ever before.
Church Advertising
Philadelphia Record
The pastor of a Baptist church in
Spokane, Wash., has been called a
sensationalists because his sermons
are always preached to full houses
brought together by methods a little
out of the ordinary. His l’eply is:
There is something worse than
sensationalism. It is the inabilty
of the church to produce life,
have drawn people to hear my ser-
\ mons by advertising. I have at
tracted them with moving pictures,
hot suppers, pink teas, flowers and
flags. If I have had any degree of
success in Spokane it is because of
the liberal use of printer’s ink.
The usual church idea of the use of
printers’iak ia iu the publication
of a formal notice, unvarying in its 1
phraseology, of a-, formal service.
The application of business-like
methods to church publicity any
where would produce just such re
sults as have been acheived in Spo
kane and dozens of other cities where
vigorous use of newspaper space has
been made. It is not necossari'y
undignified fora church to be alert
and wido awake.
BIG ROAD MAKING
PLAN IN FLORIDA
$10,000,000 Bond Issue Is Pomlsed
To Darry Out Giant Scheme
Reports from Florida indicate
that that state has become more en
thused over the good roads move
ment than any other state in the
South. For years Florida has had
mar.y good roads some, of the most
Sparsely settled sections being con
nected by roads paved with phos
phate rock and other paving mater
ial. The latest movement reported
from that state is a propositton of
issuing ten million dollars worth of
bonds to be used in improving the
roads. The programme contem
plates the building of a road of
vitrified brick fifteen feet wide
from Pensacola, Fla., to Jacksonville
and then to tho south as far ap
Miami.
Another road is to be built from
Jacksonville across tho state towards
the southwest to Ft. Meyers, Fla.,
with crossing roads running from
these two main arteries at four or
five different places.
It was contemplated to work the
convicts on the public roads and
thus do away with the lease system
which is still in vogue in that state.
It is claimed that the interest on the
bonds will not amount to as much is
now being wasted annually on patch
work. If this scheme is carried out
it will add a great deal to the values
of property in Florida and will also
add much to the inducements which
that state has to offer to settler
from all sections.
It is the biggest scheme for road
building that has yet been inaugu
rated in any of the vSouthern states.
b :d and a stall wide enough for me
to lie down in comfort. Talk to
me. Your voice often means as
much to mo as the mins Pet me
sometimes, that I may serve you
tho more gladly and learn to love
you. Do not jerk tho reins and do
not whip mo when going up hill.
Never strike, beat or kick me when
I do not understand what you want
but give me a chance to understand
you. Watch me, if I fail to dr yo r
bidding; secHf something is l. t
wrong with my harness or my feet.
Examine my teeth when I do not
eat. I may have an ulcerated
tooth and that, you know, is very
painful. Do not tie my head in an
unnatural position or take away my
best defence against flie3 and me. «
quitoes by cutting off my tail.
And finally, 0 my master, when
my useful strength is gone, do not
turn me out to starve or freeze or
sell me to some cruel owner to be
slowly tortured and starved to death:
but do thou, my master, take my
life in the kindest way and your
God will reward you here and here
after. You will not consider me ir
reverent if I ask this in the name of
Him who was born in a stable.
Amen.
airo Bargain Store.
I HAVE RECEITED MY FULL LINE OF
FALL - GOODS]
CONSISTING OF ]
[Clothing, Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats and Caps.i
Don’t fail to call and examine the goods. I promise to give!
|you full satisfaction for your money. I have a small store and less
J expense; I can sell cheaper than any store in Grady county.
PONT MAKE A MISTAKE.
Remember the Placo: Corner Broad and Bryant.
I. SHAPIRO, Proprietor.
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JUST EEEIVED!
EXPENSES OF CANDIDATES
The Law Requires Loosers as
Well as Winners to Publish
Same.
Savannah, Ga., Sept. 5.—Much
interest has been arroused in Chat
ham county by the announcement
of Solicitor General Hartridge that
the primary law of the state pro
vides that all candidates in the re
cent primary both winners and los
ers, should file with the clerk of the
Superior Court a list of the expenses
incurred in their race.
It has been understood all along
that the winners would have to do
this but the losers have not given
the matter a thought, as they be
lieved themselves exempt from the
exactions of the law. Now however
they will get busy and fix up their
expense accounts.
Those who have filed their ac
counts so far show that the average
expense of a candidate in a cam
paign like that just closed in Chat
ham county was about $200.
Obituary.
The ways of Providence are very mys"
terious. God’s dealings with tire children
of men are often past human comprehen
sion. But far be it from us or from any
others, even those most greviously affect
ed by His most startling dispensations
and puzzling procedures to mariner or
repine in view of any of His visitations.
Why our beloved brother, Matthew
Howze, should have been set apart to
suffer such heart-rendering and soul-try
ing experiences we do not know. Nor
do we ever expect to comprehend ill this
life. Blit we do not and lie must not
complain. For .“the Lord doetli all
tilings well.” Our God .is too w^se to
make a mistake, too good to he unkind.
Each of us would say, as we would en
treat our brother to feel with the patient
philosopher of Uoz, “Though He slay
me, yet will I trust Him.”
A mysterious disease insidiously crept
into our brother’s home and laid a wast
ing hand npon the faithful heart of his
wifely companion. Resistless, relentless,
deadly, was that grasp. Ere long, that
loving heart ceased to beat and a suffer
ing heart ceased to heat and a suffering
soul ned forth from an exhausted tyody,
out and up to the God who gave it.
In the meantime the same strange ' in
trader hail fastened a ruthless malignant
clutch upon the more tender heartstrings
of a gentle, lovely young girl, our broth
er’s cherished daughter, and notwith
standing every effort to baffle and expel,
the moment auuo at last when the tor
tured Spirit of that sweet child winged
its doubtless glad flight aloft to heaven
And now, what shall we say? There
is nothing to be said except in utterance
of words of commiseration. Therefore
he itresolved,
1st. That we do heartfully and sin
cerely lament the decease of cur beloved
sisters, Mrs. Howze and Miss
Mattie Sue HOwz;, the wife and daughter
of our brother, Matthew. Howze;
2nd, That we lovingly bear testimony
to their Christian fidelity and moral pur
ity of life;
3d, That it is our firm and abidfn g
conviction that tney are both at peace
forever more in the paradise.of God;
4th, That our sympathy, our condol
ences and bur prayers are due our
Prayer of a Horse.
From The New York Sun. '
As a result of a visit to Pittsburg
recently acting Police Commissioner
Bugher yesterday gave out this no
tice to be displayed conspicuously in
all stables where sleep the horses of
the department of Police:
THE PRAYED OF A HORSE.
To Thee, My Master, I Offer My
Prayer:
Feed me, water and care for me,
and when the^ day’s work is done
One car Page Wire Fence in all heights.
If its A WAGON you want to haul
in your fall crop we have them for you,
both one and two horse, and our prices
are right.
Remember we sell LIME and CE
MENT also. We buy these in car lots
and can always make you as low price
as you can get in any town in this sec
tion.
Yours truly,
Wight Hardware Co.,
Cairo, Georgia.
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..CITY PRESSING CLUB...)
ROY W. PONDER, Proprietor. $
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VVyE clean and press your clothes for $1.00
Yy per month. Extra work done on short
notice.
We Clean, Block and Reband
Straw Hats for 50c to 75c.
LADIES’ SKIRTS
CLEANED and PRESSED, - 75 to 50c.
GIVE US A TRIAL.
If you are pleased tell your friends; if not tell
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brother in this dark and trying
his life, and the same are he
dear
hour of
lereby most
affectionately tendered.
Signed by the committee.
J. W. Cameron,
N. AfoRRISON,
M. G. McManus.
DON’T KNOCK
Come Right In
•nd see our eampleo of timely print
provide me with shelter,a clean.dry '~ 0J? —
~ ’ III.
Ride Easy When You Ride
We have in our \yarehouse a
” complete stock of the
J. G. Smith and Franklin and Nor-
n man Buggies
And a large supply of other makes as
well as Harness and Wagons. Can
save you money by coming to see us
when in need of any of our goods.
W. G. BAGGETT & SON.
Inform the public what you have
for sale through the columns of The
Grady County Progress.
We have in stock 50,000 Envel
opes and a large variety of other sta
tionery. Bring your job work here.