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The Grady County Progress. T, JL.X. MAT 02243. BDITOa. Leading Weekly Newspaper in Grady County. Published Weekly, Every Friday, by THE PROGRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year - :. -$1.00 Six months.... - — -- Three months - --- Entered as Seoond-effismail matter .Inly 22, 1010, at the Post- office at Cairo, (la., under this act of Coiigreaa of March 3, 1870. Advertising Rates. Depends on position, number of insertions and number of inches—will he given on application. Obituaries and cards of thanks will he charged for- fid a line Not Responsible.—The editor of Tins Pkoobicss is not respon sible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents solic ited. .FOR A GREATER CAIRO. The Progress wants to see Cairo lead all the other towns in this section of Geor- . gia and Cairo can if she will. Nothing helps a town like her citizens speaking a good word wherever they go. Let us do this. Let’s advertise! Wherever you go—on every train you ride and at ev^ ery hotel you stop, in your conversation “say Cairo, and say it plain.” Everybody be a booster! You do not have to misrep resent Cairo to make people know that it is a good town. Only tell them facts. Speak a word of our climate, our water, our citi zenry, our school, our business men—and then of the splendid terri ory we, have. Cairo could leave the neighboring towns far in the rear if she would. So Jet’s get busy and do it. Where’s the board of trade? Let them first “come back,” then get busy, go out after more people, manufacturing enterprises. If every citizen will become a booster—- talk for Cairo—in a few years time we would have a good cotton mill, cottbn seed oil mill, a fertilizer plant—then farewell lister cities. (’ I Cairo’s- businessmen ar^ niep*bj|a^quare -deal.. They give evdjry farmer or'Sncippbr ,iust what is coming to them-they are not here to misrepresent a piece of merchandise or to make a dishonest' dollar. Our cotton and cotton seed buyers always stand at the top of t|ie market-they “pay the price.” xThfty are each year creating a larger market for Grady syrup. Every merchant or bus iness man of any kind and every citizen of Cairo is for Cairo. All we need is to tell it to the world. We have the goods—lets de liver thenn to the world-pull for a Greater Cairo. As long as we let ourselves believe that a certain section is another town’s territory, and let it go at that, just that long we will grow slowly, as now. What we want is to go forward—get there “by leaps and bounds.” Let nothing 1 bluff us. Step brave ly into, any town’s territory and show them Cairo’s future. Just a-few “good wor-iS spoken here and there will do us a great deal of good. So speak them out. THE BABY IS DOING WELL- Those who read the Messenger know that it has scarcely let a week pass since The Progress was first published without giving us a knock. Those who read The Progress know that this paper has been silent practically all the while as against the rid icule, sarcasm and unkind thrusts of the Messenger, Whenever we have referred to that paper at all, we have only spoken out for a square deal. Those who read both papers, and they are not a few, { know that both the above statements are true. to existence. So far from this, we have not even re turned the blows of the Messenger. We believe we‘ have a right to be here, and a right to a share df the; business ir^ our line. This the Messenger certainly does not seem to admit. \ When we came to Cairo, we believed that Cairo and Gradv countv would support two newspapers conducted on. right principles, and still believe it. It has never entered our mind that we would or could control all the business of this vicinity. Neither has it entered our mind that the Messenger could control it all. We do not apprehend that the Messenger believes it can, though it seems to have an inordinate desire in that direction. Grady county has some 2,000 homes of white people or more, and at best the Messenger goes into only about 650—not over 700 of these—that leaves some 1,300 homes for this paper and if we can have the patronage of half of them, together with those who take both of the Cairo papers and the Whigham paper, we will be satisfied. At least 25 per cent, of the people residing in this county ViH subscribe and pay for all three papers, believing that in helping to support all of them, the county will be repaid many ,times the subscription prices by the advertising given the county in other parts. The merchants who patronize both papers will be benefitted as they will reach a greater number of people more cheaply than by mailing out circulars. Not a great while ago some estimable gentlemen opened a large store here under the name of Higdon- Herring Co. They necessarily compete with many of our other merchaiits. How many of them have you heard whining about the new entry into the mer cantile business? The new firm seems to be welcom ed heartily by the other merchants. Again, how many lines have you read sounding a single note against the new bank? Occasionally a new lawyer opens shop in our midst. Do the other lawyers hound him and bfclate him and do their utmost to prejudice the whole community against him? Never a one will treat him in this way, no matter hqjv >vell they, may think the field i^ filled or how little rooni, they think there is for the nhw comer. I We are informed that Bjvv Wamell Was the lalt physician to locate in Cairo. JDid the other physicians try to run him out? The Messenger, ’ itself, will wel come every new enterprise; if at all .worthy, except another paper, and no matter whether the prospects be bright or gloomy, whether the “opening” be big or small, a little encouragement will be given the new undertaking. But when we undertake the publication of an other newspaper in Cairo, the Messenger puts on its fighting garments right now, unsheathes its dagger and begins to knife us right and left. We respectfully repeat that, notwithstanding the opinion of the Messenger, we contend we have a right to be here, and in spite of the efforts of the Mes senger to drag us down, “we are doing right well, we thank you,” and The Progress is here to stay. Be it known of all men that we have no spite against the Messenger, its editor or management; and if the Messenger will let us, we shall be glad to co operate with it in any undertaking looking to the prog ress of this community. But if that paper must and will remain inimincal to us, we regret to say that the good that two papers may do must be done single- handed, notwithstanding the multiplied strength of unity. The Messenger says, however, that the two pa pers can’t stay here together. We regret to learn of this, for we felt very differently on this point. We have been accorded such generous patronage that it had not occurred to us that either paper would have to move. If the Messenger has been doing as well as we, certainly both can stay. We deeply deplore the Messenger’s alarm. We hope its future may not long be so gloomy. As to the offer to “give or take,” the people are already too well acquainted with the way the ed itor of that papqr regards his contracts: Did he not man ‘baby’’ has got the scared. That’s all. So far as we are concerned, the words are ended, unless it becomes absolutely necessary to speak in ex treme self-defense. We expetft to be occupied with the purposes of our coming here, as above outlined, 6nd we shall hereafter pay no at tention to scarcely any unkind cuts ouf contemporary may make. The' Messenger will, of course, haveits “say” again next week, and will, 6( course, exped the last say. This We vylll gladly yield if it will take its last say, say it and be done. Only this: the “old man” has gbt to treat the “baby” right. APPLICATION FOR CHARTER plain, nor to growl because somebody else is here also. We are here to exercise our best endeavors to give the people of this vicinity a good newspaper and to aid, with all our might, in the upbuilding of the town and county. These are our aims and purposes. We are not here to tear down or destroy anything that is good, nor anything that has an inherent right “old If GEORGIA—Grady Couktv, To the Superior Clouri, of Said County: The petition of L' B. Wight, K. P. Wight, W. 8. Wight and Thomas Wight,' all of Grady county’, Georgia, respect fully shows’:^- 1. That they desirA for themselves, their associate and successors, to. be in corporated and made a body politic un der the name and .style of the Wight Realty Coinpanj\'for a period of twenty years. 2. The central'office of said Company shall be in the city of Cairo, State and county aforesaid, hilt petitioners desire the right to establish branch offices in this State or elsewhere, whenbver the holders of a majority of the Ctock may so determine. <, 3. The object of said' corporation is pecuniary gam to itself and its share holders. _ " 4. The business to be carried on by said corporation is to buy and sell real estate, to hold real estate for The purpose of doing a general farming business, and. to buy and sell timber and to manufact-'- ure lumber and turpentine and .to do a general farming business including the raising of Iivp stock, and also to operate commissaries and general merchandise, business, and to do any and all things incident to and that can h<> successfully carried on in conjunction with said busi ness. . V 6. The capital stock of said corpora- nty wit th the housn privlli lego tion shall tie ($25,000.00) dollars, of increasing the same to une Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) dollars by a ma jority vote of the stockholders, said stock to bo divided into shares of one hundred ($100.00) dollars each. Ten per cent, of the amount of capital to be employed by thorn has actually been paid in. \ Petitioners desire tile right to have tlio subscription to said capital stock paid in money or property to be taken at a fair valuation. (i. Petitioners desire the right, to sue and lie sued, to plead and be impleaded, to have and use a common seal, to make all necessary by-laws and regulations, tc* do all other things that may ho necessary for the successful carrying on of said bus iness, and to execute noteH and bonds as evidence of indebtedness incurred, or which may lie incurred, in tire conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and to secure tho. same by mortgage, security deed, or other form of lien under existing laws. 7. They desire for said corporation the power and authority to apply lor and ac cept amendment to its charter of either form or Hiibstaneo by a vote of a majori ty of its.stock outstanding at the time. They also ask authority for said incorpo ration to wind tip its affairs, liquidate and discontinue its business at any time it may determine to do so by a vote of two-thirds of its stock outstanding at tho time. 8. They desire for said incorporation the right of renewal when and as pro- vided liy the. laws of Georgia, and that it have all such other rights, powers,, priv ileges and immunities as are incident to like incorporation or permissible under the laws of Georgia. • , Whereof, petitioners pray to be in corporated under the name and stylo aforesaid with tho powers, privileges and immunities herein set forth, and. os are now or may hereafter be allowed a cor poration of similar character under tho laws of Georgia. M. L. Ledford, Petitioner’s Attorney. Filed in office Nov. 30th, 1910. J. M. McNair, Jr., Deputy Clerk. GEORGIA—-Grady Coukty. I, J. M. McNair, Jr., Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court in and for said coun ty, hereby certify that the above and is a true and correct copy of the petition of file in my office. ''Given under my hand anu seal of office, Y ■ • ■ this 30th day of November, 1910. J. M. McNair, Jr. Deputy Clerk Superior Court Grady County, Georgia. On and after Friday,December 15, my Long Cotton Gins will be closed down for the season. Parties having cotton to gin will please take notice. • J, J. COPPAGE. P. S. I will continue to buy Seed Cotton. The Progress was not launched to engage in controversies, nor was it harnessed up for a profes sional kicker. We are not here to whine or com* make a fair and square contract, over his own signa ture, to sell to the people who now own The Prog ress, which was no sooner by th^m accepted than by him repudiated? This offer now to sell is simply laughable. If we have made the Messenger worth $1,000 more than when we came, what is it kicking about? Why does it give its columns over to abusing us as regularly as the weeks go by? W e know why: the Walter L. WigJit.Cashier The Farmecs & Merchants BANK Capital Stock $30,000 CAIRO, GA. MARKED I EATURES. Accuracy and Promptness, Safety and Lib erality are the marked features. We in vite you to open an account with this Bank. Call to see us we will appreciate your business, whether your account is large or small. 4 per cent interest paid on deposits Notice to Farmers. All parties wanting Planting Seed from my Fine Long Cotton can get them now. I only have a LIMITED amount and the first comes is the first served. Price for Planting Seed, selected with great care, is $2.50 per bushel. 1 J. J. COPPAGE.