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NEWS. Z': ■ w 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. ' ( ■ 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. -mMimMIHMHMMMMMMI*? 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. I *- ..CITY PRESSING CLUB...) ROY W. PONDER, Proprietor. $ rf u £ 0 £ ni 00 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 o° j m f 5 I 0 i U ill us. f 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.