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IMkmwm PASSES AWAY. r *' .y,^; v .'•! -^gaamiLj, BRi had Ween 111 For Nearly xYeat ll' . { Was Bnrled WitbMasonti/Houv. / .One of,.Cairo’s most highly res pected ,:$jgi esteemed citizens, ' C&ptH.Tfr Sutton, passed away Wednesday night at 9:30. He had been a sufferer for years, stricken with parlysis al most six years ago and for the last three years has been a help less invalid. ‘ V He was a member of the Bap tist church and a free Mason.. He was buried with- Masonic honors Thursday afternoon. Religious services were con ducted by Dr. Robert H. Harris, his pastor, at the Baptist church. • .The Progress extends sym pathy to the grief ‘stricken wife who has so faithfully and pat iently cared for him in all his affliction', and also to the bereaved ' children and other relatives. How to Get Rich. - Live.rip to your engagement. Barn money before you spend it. Never,play at any game of chance. Drink ho kind of intoxicating liquor; V Good character is above; all things •Ise.' 'Keep your own serets, if.you have can possibly ruth. Make fever: Borrow, if _d;it. .. . v .. Always speak the* few promises. Keep good company or none. Never be idle. Do not marry until you are able to support a wife. Keep yourself innoeent if you would be happy. Ever live (misfortune excepted) within your income. When you speak to a person look him in the face. Make nojhaste to be rich if you would pfosper. Save when you are young to spend when you are old, Avoid temptation through fear you may not withstand it. Never speak evil of anyone, Be just before you are generous. Never run into debt without you see plainly a wav to get out again Small and steady gains give com petency with tranquility of mind. Good company and good conver sation ar the very sinews of virtue. Your character connot be essen tially injured except by your own act. If any one speaks evil of you let your life be so that none will believe him: When you retire to bed think over what you have been doing during the day. If your hands cannot be useful employed, attend to the cultivation Industrial Index Finds Quite n Lot of Interesting News About Cairo And Grady County Yach . Week. Cairo and Grady counWFV ve- s nu’cps and developement arc being brought IK‘fore the business world iff a. very strong manner by the Geor gia-Alabama Industrial Index..’ •.‘ Each week this valuable and- to llable statistical journal of the bus- iness world of Georgia and Alabama finds quite a good deal of interest ing news about Cairo and Grady ■county to serve to it’s readers. The two recent issues have con tained several articals written and published in Tin: Pkouhkss, among more notable of these were The Growth of Oranges in Grady county the Pecan Industry, and bfief notes of the organization arid launching •of the Wight Reality Company and the Grady County Furniture Com pany and the rebuilding of the Farmers Union Warehouse, and others. We are trying to do something iTIOir SOLD SEVEN BALES OF C -*• | it is’Sfild That 11 it Test Case is an the way of . material and sub stantial .help for Grady county and her clever people with whom we hav.e cast our lot. u . of your iriind'. Specsal Sermon to Young People The sermon next Sunday night at the Methodist church will be to young people,particularly to those who are attending school. Service will begin at seven o’clock. All are corduallv invited. Suprise Party ' A.number of the society Eset gave the Missess Bell a suprise patty Wednesday evening Beautiful music was rendered during the evening by the Misses Mary Bell, Bessie Dunn and Mr Ward Wight. Tiff games ‘‘up Jcnks” and forty-two were-en joyed by all. Late in the evening delicious fruit was seoved. Those present were Misses Fannie Maye of Cuthber , Irma Powell, Bama Richter, Bessie ond Lathleen Dunn, Margaret Hudson, Bessie Od»m, Oddie Lee Powell, Miss Ray, and Blanche Bishop, Messrs W. J Powell, MeBlie Powell, Ward and Slater Wight,, Forcie Clifford, R§ma Sapp and Charles Bealle. Pension List for Grady County Approved Claims for pensioners 1911 under New Act. E M. Blitch, R Herring, C D Hand, B F Harrison, JD Johnson, S A Perkins, J E McManeus, L A Ragan, A J Miller, Y T Glover, Littleton Harrison, D W Maxwell, M F Sanders, M Shiver, W R Lewis, J W Clifford. Approved widows claims for 1911. E E Barrow, Sugen E Billett, Malissa Coleman,' E A Griner, & P Nesmith, Sarah Thursby, Martha Singletary, Sophia Singletary, Ella Scott, Sallie Walden, Sarah Brock, Caroline Owens, Martha McWil liams, M A E^v.ett, Mary Weath ers. The above' and foregoing is a list of narr - of those whose clnims were app .ved for persons for 1911. Ab F H Herring, Ordinary. Miss Pauline Oates Entertains. Miss Pauline Oates entertained the eight grade of .he Cairo Public Schools at the home of her parents on Broad street Tuesday evening. Quite a number of entereBting gjmes were played and at a late hour delicious refreshments were J paper is the best investment a com Your Paper. The late Hon. David Davis once said: ‘ 1 Each year every local paper gives from $100 to $500 in free lines for the benefit of the community in which it is located. No other agency can or will do this. The local editor, in proportion to his means, does more for his town than anj other ten men. In fairness, then, he ought to be supported, not becouee you happen to like him or admire his view points and his way of expressing it, but because a local Wlge of Mr. Ellis McManeus Died ' Wednesday-frlntered at Long Branch Cesnetary. . Mrs. Ellis jkcAfaneus, wile of our fellow townsman^ Mr. BEllis McManeus, died W,qi}‘nesday hboi t noon, and her repaints .were in terred at Long Brandi ' cemetary Thursday afternoon. Regions services were con ducted by Dr. Robert II. Harris. The Progress °3oins the many friends of Mr. .McManeus in ex tending sympathy in . his sadest hour. • * brilliant or crowded with briljiarit thoughts, but financially' it is offer greater benefit.to a community than a teacher or a' preacher. Under- us now, we do not mean intel lectually or mon-ally, but .financially and yet on the m^rral question you will find the majority of local pepefs are on the right side of the question “Today the editors of local papers do the most work for the least money of any mfen on earth. Pay for and subscribe for-your, local pa- Made It will Show. That Firohi- hition Law Has Been Violated In Cairo, Recently. There is, it is said, being sold in O/firp,. a ooricoctipn that is causin': coiiifiderabie‘drunkenness, in town, especially on ( Snturday V. By some it is claimed thiit the. “stuff” will stand the test till Of* prohibition laws, but when, really tested wo have.'o.ur dofibfc and wo would, suggest tied the officials make a'leift case and letWe.-itAiLtffl; higher court* for n deeisioh per, not as a charity, hut a§ an in vestment.’’—Ex. Getting Shot. The smart man burst into the room. #■ ‘‘Hear theyiews about Dickenson getting shot?’’ he ;oared' red.with Club members dropped tbeir pa pers and sprang suddenly to life. “No!” the.-cried. “When?” “Bout half an hour ago! ” gasped the smart man. “I was there and saw it! ” “Where did he get shot?” broke in another. “Down ht the shot maker’s! ” chuckled the smart mart man, slipping into the best chair. ‘ ‘He bought two pounds of it! ” NOTICE! The case pending in the courts to determine which of the Cairo papers is the official organ of Grady County has been appealed to the Supreme court. If the judgement of that Court shall be that The Progress is the official organ, then this paper will be entitled to pay for all le gal advertising done in the mean time, notwithstanding parties may have already paid the Mes senger therefor. Justice demaifds,' v therefore, that all persons be warned that when they pay the Messenger for legal advertising, they do so at the risk of what the final de cision may be, and they may have to pay again to The Prog- RRESS. If no.conviction.can lie secured in the superior cuiirt, of course it would not go higher up. On the other hand, if a conviction; is ac cural and the defendant is able’ to do so the .case could bo appealed to-, either the court of,;.uji>peiJs;' or the supreme court fpf! finai'afljri’diOatiiiri. That the stuff will produce drun ken ness Is .very"evident', if One will make a little investigation dn&Ssit- urddy’s in Cairo. ' l Washington, Dee. 2.' 1 one invesligajes the usbs of the' clearer lieetjip.es ,thii oonvie that anywhere anil, everywhere, tliis 'country land in its prodig--, ‘tiveiiess. is just wliat the .. cultivat'd!* makes it , provided lie. starts witlv ' a reasonably good soil. By eombinfng thorough tillage, crop rotation, barnyard forlih/el and a judicious use of comriietoiat- , fertilizer, \V. 11.'IUihose, of.Brun- lidge-,Alii., has succeeded in^pa-o- ' ' “tag day” tomorrow for the pur pose of raising funds. Way cross will have an election sometime in Janurary or Fe I air ary to settle the question of permitt ing cotvs to run at large. E. N. McKeithen, W. E. Har rison and E. L. Person have announced rfpri treasurer of Clay county at the .special election to be held Janurary 10. Senator*elect J. E. Sheppard of the Thirteenth district will probably make a tour of the state 'in the interest of his candidacy for president of the State Senate. Sothern Farmers are Beglnlng Example ol Alabama Man. V during t-vvefr jtdi.le.s nf cotln-n frorii a threfts- acre I met, .tfliing nothing .1 hit HlP i' , 'Vdiii:iry j .,c(jlliiii seed, the cost pdrtadri: bcii'ig $3.§v50; a* follows: Breaking the hind, .$3,50.; reliedding $2.'00j : ijpi»i»g, .*,$ 1.50; upRivatuijc^'-- ginning,.hi,O'L ' Du- $3.00;'picking, 81 (i anti, hauling' $3;.U0. On ille UiYte-ay^e W'.vT Mr. bose .elenred'over’$150. lii ; cent letter’to the Southern Com-' mercial congress, "Washiitglou, D. C., Mr. Dubose giiieB.luil|'dbi.ailsi.it8 served to the assembled guest. ni^ity can make. It may not be Georgia Briefs. Vidalia’s three banks have formed a clearing house associa tion. W. C. Thomas and A. J. Pern - man, Jr,, have announced fer mayor of Talbotton. Over $3,000,000 were invested in new enterprises in Columbus during the present year. Toombs county votes on a good roads bond issue the second Wed nesday in Janurary. The news hears that there are four avowed candidates for mayor of Blakely at the coming city el ection . v 1 : hi The Anti-Tuberculosis Society of Richmond county will have Wild Man Roaming Desert of Colorado, Finds Gold. San Bernardino, Cal., Cec 26.— Clad only in a breech clout., wearing sandals and armed with a shotgun, a wild man is roaming the Colorado desert, according to Phillip Hess, a Calixco miner. He says he has verified this statement by filing on a geld claim which, he declares, was shown to him by she wild naan, whom lie met wnile prospecting. “it was north of Coyote that I ran across the civilized barbarian,’ said he in recounting his adventure. ‘He was hidden behind a bunch of sage brush and had me covered with his shotgun the instant I yelled at him. * ‘Stive for a breech clout am) san dais os worn leather he was naked. His hair hung to hie boulders, ahould judge he was more than six feet tall—a splendid speeiraan of physical mandood. Still holding me captive, he guided me about a half a mile to the north, where he Malted at a narrow gulch. “There, he exclaimed, stake that out and go back and.tell your friends that a man that was a rich New Yorker and blew in a fortune guided you to riches.” Captain Bartlett, of Otis, who believes he knows the idenity of the wild man, has left on a prospecting trip in the desert and to search for the-wild man. t'O tilC method of cultivatiuiT by him, All through tin; south fai •triers and planters are getting similar ex- collerit results with various’other ' crops. .Several profitable bulletins on eot - ton growing- base' been issued'by the United States department of agriculture, one of the most in- structiive being Bulletin No. 346. ‘ ‘ A Profitable Cotton Farm, ’ ’ which describes in detail the various steps to success. This bulletin can bo obtained upon request from the Southern .Commercial congress, or from the Secretary of agriculture, department of agijiculturh, Wash ington, D. C., go, though It is a tocord that, sim ultaneously, he holds up his hands like the man in a cartoon and says as regards his prrticular benofienry "Neyer again.” The Battle of Benevolence Positively, it is thrilling! One day Mr. Carnegie planks down $10,000,000—just like that for peace. The next- day Mr Rockefeller, having previously read the morning paper, retorts with a $10,000,000 donation to the Univenity of Chica- What next? For surply we ha,*e not witnessed the .last vrilley in the battle of be nevolence. Meanwhile, the Common People, ure of :i that abused figure of song and story together with,his foster-brother,"the ultimate Consmper (thwigh Henry Cabot Lodge declares the latter dosen’t exist), can stand by in absolute and care-free enjoyment of the spectacle. They are losing nothing—unless' the price of steol and oil is hoisted an inch—and they are luxuriating in the role of spectors at what is un questionably the most Homeric duel of philanthropy ever staged in the world’s history. Therefore, on with the dance while John and A.ndy outvie each other in sinking the lance into their own quivering, if swollen, fortunes. Here is needed n§ commission of peace—merely the upturned basket which an occasional prayer to the combatants to “tilt this way a little more. Coristution. Market Today. Eggs are bringing 35e today. Cottonseed $26.10 Syrup 34c to 36c. Pecans 15c to 25c. Merchants who deal in but ter are payin 25 cents per pound for it. Sell your produce in Cairo, you’ll get the benefit of the best market in this section. 1 HiBSggg m .J