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CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY,! GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911.
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School Boys Will Cultivate
Acre Instead of 1-4 Acre.
RULES OF, CONTEST
More Land to be Cultivated so
Boys Can Compete lor all Prizes
Ottered on Corn.
In order that all boys may become
thoroughly acquainted with rules gov
erning the state and national contest
The Progress prints below the com
plete rules as sent out by the State
College of Agriculture.
1. Boys must be regularly organized
by the teachers into local s school
clubs, and the school clubs into county
organizations, with a president, vice-
president, secretary, and treasurer.
Where no club is organized by the county
school, commissioner, local school clubs
will not be debarred from entering the
state contest.
2. No limit should be placed on the
number of boys belonging to a club;
they may be few or many.
3. All boys between the ages of ten
and eighteen are eligible as members of
the club, and no boy will be allowed to
compete for a prize that is not a mem
ber. If a boy in a community has not
the opportunity to attend school, he
should be allowed to join the club, and
enter the contest, as it enables him to
obtain some educational benefits.
4. The inembers of the club muat
agree to read the instructions sent out
from the State College of Agriculture
and the United States Department of
Agriculture. Teachers should set aside
certain times fori periodical meetings of
the club, during th^ school session \ when
instructions'for grbwing crav# way be
discussed. f *
15. ' Each boy must dan his own crop,
and do his own work. A boy not strong
enough to handle a large implement
may employ help in preparing his land.
6. The measurement of the acre and
yield must be made by a reliable com
mittee of two or three members, ap
pointed by the county commissioner of
or the principal of the school, education
7. After the corn has been measured,
a written report of the ’crop, and a
ten-ear exhibit must be sent at once to
the county school commissioner, for
the contest in the county fair.
8. In awarding prizes, the following
basis shall be used:
(a) Best yield per acre. 30.
(b) Best showing of profits on
investment 30.
(c) Best exhibit of ten ears 20.
(d) Best written account, show
ing history of crop 20.
Note.—The written account, of not
over five hundred words, should be in
the language of the boy, giving a care
ful description of his method of growing
the crop.
9. The foregoing rules should govern
the acre contest. All boys shouid cul
tivate an acre of com if possible, as
the state and nationai prizes are given
on acre yields, but where a boy cannct
secure as much as an acre of land, he
will be allowed to cultivate only a
part of an acre (not less than oiie-fouth
apre will be accepted in any contest,)
and prizes may be given in the county
to meet these conditions. In addition
to the acre contest, prizes should .be
given in each count) for;
(a) Ten ear exhibit of prolific
com.
(b) Ten ear exhibit of non-
prolific com.
(c) Best bushel of corn.
Five stalks with ears attached, should
accompany each ten ear exhibit in this
class.
10. The winners of the county con
test shall be eligible to the state con
test. In counties whore no contest is
held before the time ofthe state contest
individual jpembers the club may enter
for the stpte prizes.
11. Boys competing for the scholar
ships to the State College of Agricul
ture must be between the ages of
fifteen and eighteen years ?s no boy
can ehter the institution under fifteen
years of age.
12. Directions for measuring.
(a) Th- committee measuring the
The Progress’ Big Contest
V Begins With This Issue.
Everybody is Invited to Enter This Contest. This is the
Best Offer You Will Ever Have Chance to Take
Advantage Of.
Commencing with this issue of The Progress, we are inaugurating
a Great Popularity Contest, for the most popular ladies in the
county and vicinity, and are offer ing very handsome and valuable prizes,
amounting to $610.00.
This contest is being conducted by the United Contest Adver
tising Co., of New York, Chicago and Jacksonville, the largest and
most experienced company in the world. They have placed in charge
of this contest one of their most experienced managers. In this manner
the contest is conducted by people who are absolutely disinterested and
non-partisan, insuring a fair count of the votes to all, and who is here
for the purpose of giving the nominee every assistance and full informa
tion relative to the contest.
The Grady County Progress has gone to an enormous expense
in entering upon this contest and the premiums offered are well worth
your efforts to win.
As first Grand Prize is offered A Magnificent Seminole
Parlor Grand Piano, value $450.00, manufactured by on of the
largest piano concerns in the world, and backed by a Twenty Year
Guarantee.
As second Grand Prize is offered A Beautiful Three-Piece
Parlor Suite, value $1 00.00, finished in mahogany and upholstered
in velvet plush.
TO THE PUBLIC.
This content is to be the greatest ever inaugurated in this section
by any paper, We have spared no expense to make this a “live-wire
proposition” that will keep the community much interested in the out
come. We are endeavoring to give the people of Cairo and Grady
and surrounding counties the moSt up-to-date weekly paper in the State
and we solicit the hearty co-operation of the citizens in this contest.
To the merchants who advertise with us, we wish to say that we
expect by this contest to double our circulation and our advertisers
will realize that it is to their advantage to help this work by supporting
thecontestants. Y -If:
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VUM TO
G. A. Wight Introducer of
Vaccination Ordination.
MUST BE VACCINATION
The contest begins with this issue, the time to enter is now, don’t
wait. Get in the race before the others get in lead. See page ad
vertisement in this issue.
For any information or particulars write or call at the office of
The Grady County Progress and same will be gladly given you, and at
all times the management and the contest manager are waiting to aid
you in any way.
com should first measure the size of
plot, giving length and width in yards
and feet, and the area in acres, or parts
of an acre therein
(b) When the corn has ripened to
marketable condition, harvest, shuck,
and measure in the ear, using the basket
or barrel, or some other unit of measure.
Shell and weigh at least three units of
measure, and strike an average per
unit. Multiply this average of weight
per unit of measurement by the num
ber of measurments of com in the ear,
and the results wili give the yield per
acre.
(c) After the p)ot has been measured
and the com weighed, the committee
shall sign the following which will be
found on each report blank furnished by
the State College of Agriculture.
“We, the commitee of measurment
hereby certify that we have measured
the com of...
of Georgia,
on this day of 1911;
and that the following statements are
correct: Length of plot, yards,
.feet; width of plot, yards
feet: area, 1—.acres, or
parts of an acre; amount of measured
com obtained;.. bushels,
pounds in the plot.
Committee.'
The Young Ladies
Prayer Meeting
The Young Ladies Prayer meeting was
led Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Weathers.
A very impressive service was held.
The meeting next Saturday afternoon
will he hold by Miss Sallie Belle Cooper.
The subject being “Self Denial.”
All aire invited to attend those services
which will meet with Mrs. George Wight
<:h 'Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock.
Athens Boasts Haying
35-Year-Old Grandad.
Athens, Ga,, February 6.—Athens
has the youngest grandfather
of which there is a record in this part
of the cot ntiy. P. M. B. Y. Davis, a
barber, who is now lying quite ill at his
home here, is just a few weeks past the
36-year milestone. His daughter Mrs.
J. W. More, whose home is in North
Carrlino, but who has been visiting her
parents here for several weeks past,
has given birth to a dainty little babe.
The grandfather is eighteen years older
than the mother of the babe and the-
mother is just seventeen years older
than the little one; Mr. Davis’ father
is living and his grandfather is also
living. The great-grandfather of the
babe bom is 67 years old and the great-
great-grandfather is nearing the eighty
third anniversity of his birth.
Strawberries for Desert.
A letter from Mrs. Mamie Burts to her
father, Dr. Harris, says that at Master
Edgar’s birthday dinner, last Sunday,
they had a vase of orange blossoms in
the center of the table and strawberries
for desert! All grown in Lakeland.
Dr. Harris is going down there, next
week and he says he is planning to have
his birthday anniversary shoved forward
from April to February.
Grist Mill at Barber’s
Old Stable in Cairo
We have a new mill and will keep
fresh meal at all times.. Our motto
is to 1 please our customers. Calver
Taylor Miller.
Barber & Taylor.
Have you nominated some one
in our Grand Voting Contest?
For the Protection ol the Citizens
Against Small-Pox—F ee Ser
vice by Physicians.
.‘ Owing to the prevalence of small-
t ox, hot only in Grady county,
airo, but in the entire country,
from the Great Lakes to the Coast,
the city fathers of Cairo intend to
orotect the people,and at a meeting
'Monday night passed the following
ordinance.
, Introduced by Councilman G. A.
Wight,
Whereas, The disease of small pox is
prevalent in the City of Cairo, Ga., and
vicinity, and there is great danger of the
rapid spread of the disease within the
limits of said city unless proper measures
are adopted to prevent the same, as far
as may be practicable, now, therefore,
the City of Cairo, by its mayor and coun
cil, to the end that the spread of said dis
ease may be checked and for the sake of
the safety, comfort and health of the cit
izens of said city, docs enact and ordain
an ordinance as foilows:
An ordinance to provide for the vacci
nation of the citizens of said city with
certain exceptions, to prescribe the man
ner in which said vaccination may be ac
complished; to make it penal for persons
to go upon the streets, sidewalks or other
places whatsoever in said city, except
upon their own private premises who
shall not be vaccinated in accordance
with this ordinance pto require a red flag
posted at each hpme where the disease
.exists; to prescribe other penalties for
violations of this ordinance, to designate
a city physician and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. Beit enacted and ordained by
the mayor and council of the city of
Cairo that from and after the passage of
this ordinance each and every person
resident in said city or employed therein
or in attendance upon any of the schools
of said city, or who daily comes into said
city for any purpose, between the ages of
two to fifty years,shall submit themselves
to the physician hereinafter appointed
for vaccination ut the city’s expense, for
the prevention of the spread ot small pox.
in said city, whonever such physician
shall call upon such persons at their res
idence or place of business, or at any
other place in said city, or whenever such
person.s shall be requested by the mar
shal or any police officer of said city to
repair to the office of such physician for
the puroose of being vaccinated as afore
said.
Sec. 2. He it further enacted and or
dained that any nerson may be excused
from sneli vaccination who shall produce
a physicians certificate that lie or she lias
been successfully vaccinated since 1901
or that lie or she is an immune from said
disease ; or that be or she is in such state
of health that vaccination would be dan
gerous; provided further that any per
son shall have the right to be vaccinated
by the physician of his own choice at his
own expense.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted and or
dained that any jierson not coming within
any of the exceptions of section Two
above, who shall refuse to lie vaccinated
by the physician hereinafter named when
called upon either at his residence or at
his place of business or at any other
place for such vaccination, or who shall
refuse to go to the office of such physi
cian for the purpose of being vaccinated
when requested either by the physician
or any police officer of said city, and who
after having so refused shall go upon the
streets, sidewalks or upon any other place
in said city, excepting upon his own pri
vate premises, until this ordinance is
suspended, shall, apon conviction, be
fined in a sum not exceeding $60.00 or
be imprisoned in the city guard house
not exceeding 30 days or be sentenced to
work upon the streets of said city not ex
ceeding 30 days.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted and or
dained that Dr. T. J. Arline is hereby
designated as the city physician to do the
vaccination under this ordinance, and ho
n. ju-iviy iv-j ifsted and authorized to
make'a house to house canvass in said
oity and to vaccinate all persons who do
not .:omo within one of tho exceptions
set- forth in section two above, and to re
port promptly to the mayor all persons
who refuse to bo vaccinated in accord
ance with the regulations of this ordi
nance. ' Any other physician may bb
designated as city physician at any time
in addition to the above appointment
with all tiie uutliority of the city physi
cian appointed above.
Sec. 6. Bo it further enacted and or- 1
dalned that it is hereby made the duty
of the city marshal to call upon the busi
ness men and their employees,' of said
city, and tho other persons not oxcopted
under this ordinance, at their respective
places of business and request them to
go to the office of tho city physician to
be vaccinated and promptly to report to
the mayor the nunies of all persons who
refuse to go to such office and bo vacci
nated upon being requested.
Sec. 0. Be it further enacted that ft
shall bo the duty of the city physician to
report to the mayor immediately upon
discovery all cases of small pox in said
city, and thereupon the mayor shall re
quire the niurshal to fix u rod flag before
each home where such disease exists, and
any person who shall remove tho samo
so long as such disease exists in said
home shall, upon conviction, be fined in
a sum not exceeding $50.00 or be im
prisoned in tho guard house not exceed
ing 30 days, or be sentenced to work upon
tho streets of said city not exceeding 30
days.
rieo. 7. Be it further enacted and or
dained that all ordinances und parts of
ordinances in conflict with this ordinance
lie and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved, this the 8tli dafeof Febru
ary, 1911.
W. J. Wii.t.ik,
Mayor.
Certified and entered on the minutes
this tho 8th day of February, 1911.
B. M. Johnson,
Clerk.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a
true: and correct copy of an ordinance
enacted at a meeting of the mayor and
council ol said city on the ,8th day Of
Fdbi’uirjr, 11)11. : • ' \ * -
B. M. Johnson,
Clerk.
SECOND EDUCATIONS
TRAIN COMING FED. 10
Consists ol Six Cars and Is Fall
Interesting and Educational
Agricultural Exhibits.;
The second educational train under
the direction of the department of agri
culture at Athens will be m Cairo, Feb
ruary 16 (Thuraday of next week) for
three hours from 11 o’clock A. M. As
far as possible, all the people of the
county'should visit this train and
get whatever of benefit you can from
it. The train will oarry seven cars, of
which six are used for exhibit purposes.
There will be some live stock consisting?
of horses, cows, sheep and hogs, all of
the finest breeds, and discussions by
experts on the subjects of breeding etc.
Tnere will be a car load of machinery,
exhibits of com and cotton, poultry,
boys com club work, models of farm
buildings, outline of fanners reading
course, and many other things to num
erous to mention that will interest you.
About twelve experts on different
lines will accompany the train and will
will lecture on live stock, deed selection,
commercial fertilizers, farm crops and
rotation, diseases of farm animals, in-
jurous insects and plant diseases, soil,
and fertility, boys and girls ihdustrial
eulba.
Every person visiting the train should
cgster his name in order that he may
get ie touch with free literature which
the college of agriculture distributes.
Co-operation is essential to success
in all movements. It will help you to
come out ahd fee vyhat these people
have to exhibit. Of coprae, it is not
expected that you can follow in every
detail the plans and outlines given but
if you get one good suggestion on any
one topic, it may be of untold benefit
to you in the yeafrs to come. If you
can find out a plan to save your live
stook in an epidemic of any kind, this
information will be worth thousands of
dollars to the people of our section every
year. It will not hurt and it may do
you good. Be sure to be in Cairo, Feb
ruary 16; 1911, at 11 o’clock and see the
train. Bring your wives with you and
the children who are old enough to
appreciate what these e>hi '.ts mean*
