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The Grady County Progress.
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Leading Weekly Newspaper in Grady County.
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“CAN IT BE DEFENDED?”
This is the title of a forty-one page
pamphlet which has just been issued by the
Methodist Publishing House of Nashville,
Term. The author is our well-known fellow
citizen, Mr. J. B. Wight.
The “It” in the title refers to tobacco
and the little book is a very strong discus
sion of the use of that article. It starts
out with the statement from a very distin
guished minister of the country that the
habit cannot be defended. This indictment
of “the weed” is more than proved in a
char, cogent, convincing manner. The
handling of the subject is calculated to at
tract the attention of the reader and to hold
it to the end. Medical, physiological, socio
logical and experimental facts, marshal°d
under bristling headlines and in logical or
der, constitute a powerful appeal and a con
vincing argument. The rdhding of the
pamphlet—it can be done in an hour—with
a mind open to truth, in view of the start
ling facts presented, will surely bring the
conviction that the use of tobacco cannot be
defended on any grounds.
This is not Mr. Wight’s maiden effort
in this line. As is known to some of our
older citizens, some twenty five years ago,
he published a book of considerable size
with the title, “Tobacco, Its Use and Abuse.”
This work had a large sale, going through
three editions. Five thousand copies of the
present book have been published. It is
having a good sale and a very favorable no
tice from the press of the country. Rev.
Gross Alexander, D. D., the reviewer of
hooks" of the Methodist church, speaks of it
in an introduction, as “worth its weight in
gold.”
The discussion of this subject is very
timely and is much needed. The use of to
bacco is a growing evil, an evil fraught with
frightful consequences as the reading of
this pamphlet will show. Parents should
give heed to this important subject and they
can do r.o better work than to get this book
let, read it themselves and have their boys
read it. Neglect here will bring results ter
rible in their consequences; stunted growth,
shattered nerves, dwarfed mind?, and a
number of other serious results will come
to the boy or youth who is allowed to in
dulge in the tobacco habit. Parents should
awake and arm themselves with the facts
against this evil that is doing so much to
undermine the youth af our fair south land.
' The pamphlet is sold at ten cents a copy
and can be had at Mr. Wight’s office on the
second floor of the Walker building, or of
Messrs. Smith & Lamar, 810 Broad street,
Nashville, Tennesse.
NEEDS IT NOW.
Several years ago Cairo had a board of
trade and during its existence Cairo secured
the Pelham & Havana railroad.
If ever a town needed a board of trade
Cairo is that town. Such an institution
would revive interest in the material growth
of the town and county.
Such an institution could take up and
successfully handle the county fair proposi
tion.
The officers of the old board of trade
were: Rev. W. C. Jones, president; R. C.
Bell, secretary, and Wh. Searcy, treasurer.
Would it not be a good idea for these
gentlemen to take the initiative in re-or
ganizing the board? Gentlemen, lets hear
from you!
At this rate it will not be long before every
county in Georgia has its own band of bo ys
at work, heartily and effectively, f or the
development of a-great staple crop.
That is an end most earnestly to be de
sired. The growth and prosperity of this
rests primarily upon its agricultural inter
ests. Whatever we, as a people, have, or
as a commonwealth, become, is stored in
the soil. For industry and commerce are
after all only the utilization of the products
of the earth.
, Every citizen, therefore, in every com
munity has cause to be interested in this
movement which purposes to enlist the boys
of the state in the cultivation of corn. For
years past we have talked a great deal about
the importance of diversified crops, the im
portance of raising more grain in Georgia
in order that we may not be solely depend
ent on cotton. The boys’corn club is a defi
nite and practical step toward the accom
plishment of this design. If within the
next half decade two thousand boys can be
truly inspired with an interest in the pro
duction of corn, Georgia will become one of
the greatest grain states in the union.
The work of organizing clubs among
the boys should enlist :he aid of county
school commissioners and teachers because
each of these clubs is vitally educational in
its influence. It supplies a specific field of
interest for its members and enables the
pupil to witness in actual results the out
come of his mental and manual labor. In
deed, it would be an excellent thing, were
it practicable, for such clubs to be formed
in city as well as in country schools.
Boards of trade and chambers of com
merce that are near farming territory should
lend their active encouragement to the suc
cess of these corn clubs. A number of
boards of trade have already done so, with
the realization that the advancement of the
town depends upon the development of the
surrounding country. Business men may
well afford to offer prizes to the boy who
produces the best acre or half acre of corn.
She farmers themselves are most vitally
concerned-in this movement and their re
sponse has been particularly cordial. The
surest way to keep a boy at home and to
imbue him with pride and interest in the
farm is to gwe him an independent part in
its affairs. This can be done to a great ex
tent by making him a member of his county’s
corn club, and by helping him in his efforts
to excel among nis boy competitors.
The State College of Agriculture is now
in tre midst of this important work. Let
its officials have the earnest co-operation of
every community to which they go.—Atlan
ta Journal.
F. M. BRANNON,
President.
W. S. WIGHT,
Vice-President.
Wh. SEARCY,
Cashier
CITIZENS BANK
Capital $50,000.00 Surplus and Undivided profits $22,000.00
Total Resources, One Quarter of a Million.
We pay A per cent interest Compounded Quarterly in our
Savings department. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED
FOR SALE
• ••
Wm. Allen place 7 miles north of
5 horse farm open.
Cairo, 500 acres.
The Jonathan Walden place 7 miles southwest of Cairo
4 miles southeast of Whigham.
175 acres of the Whit Gainous place. Will sell all
these places at prices that will please you.
Will sell you any size farm you want.
§ We are in the market for lands at all
times. If you want to sell see us.
South Georgia Land & Loan Co.
| W. T. CRAWFORD, Mgr.
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MARDI GRAS
FFB. 23 to 28, 1911.
Atlantic Coast Line
Offers Very Low Excursion Rates to
Pensacola" M obile -New O
WRITE HIM TODAY.
Every country newspaper man in Geor
gia should write to Senator Terrell invok
ing his aid in the passage of the Nelson-
Tou Velle bill which prohibits the govern
ment from furnishing printed envelopes to
the business men. The country printer is
robbed of thousands of dollars and the gov
ernment is not benefited one penny, but
instead is out of pocket as the envelopes are
delivered free by mail. The Senator is on
the postoffice committee which has charge
of this bill and unless it passes before the
present session of congress adjourns the
printers of the country will be robbed of
millions of dollars.
DOES NOT EFFECT GRADY.
There seems to be some doubt in the
minds of the people in regard to the amend
ment to the Alternative Road Law which
amendment relieves all under 21 years of
age.
The amendment does not apply to the
law under which the public roads of Grady
county are worked and is known as the fif
teen day law, therefore all boys 16 years
and over are subject to road duty in Grady
county.
rleans
Tickets on sale Feb. 21 to 27 inclusive. Final limit to reach
original starting point not later than midnight, March 11,
1911. Extension of final limit to March 27th may be secur
ed by depositing ticket and upon payment of $1.00
Don’t miss the chance of seeing the most
spectacular event of the year.
For Schedule Information and Litera
ture-See your Agent or write to,
W. J. Craig, T. C. White, E. M. North,
Pass. Traffic Manager General Pass. Agent Asst. Gen’l. Pass. Agt.
Wilmington, N. C. Wilmington, N. C. Savannah, Ga.
A CORN CLUB FOR EVERY COUNTY.
In its movement to organize boys’ corn
clubs the State College of Agriculture should
have the co-operation of teachers and busi
ness men as well as farmers, Each day
last week one of these clubs was formed.
From the description given, below < by
Jesse Mercer, of The Fitzgerald Enterprise,
he has evidently been down in Grady, look
ing around, as it gives a good description of
this section:
\ “If there was one single drawback, hindrance,
in pjdiment, stigmatism in the way, we would not
be so sanguine of the future of this section oi tne
South. But with a climate that is ideal, soil condi
tions unequaled in an undeveloped region of the
greatest country on earth to which men are flock
ing to enjoy the bounties of nature. Who can guess
whaa the future has in store for those who inhabit
this laud of opportunity?”
Landredth’s
RED BLISS SEED
IRISH POTATOES
The kind that grow potatoes
for a profit. Fresh seed.
PHONE 14,
Wight & Browne,
Leading Druggists.