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Grady Ccmnty Progress vol. i. CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1911. NO. 36 mv iii cm ISMC LOST By Not Manufacturing Here All of Grady's Harwood AND SHIPPING IT AWAY FINISHED UP The Way Is Open and the Citizens Should Get Busy and- Organize A Manufactory for the Purpose ol Working up the logs. On the Walker lot near the home of D. P. Oliver there are piled 50 to 100 as fine poplar logs as can. bo found anywhere. These arc for shipment to some other place. Freight will be paid on the logs, they will bo manufactured into furniture, and it is very likely that at least some of this furniture will find its way back to Cairo and be sold to our people. Frieght will be paid on the material two ways, and several parties will yet a profit out of it instead of these legs being manufactured into ^furniture and other things right here at home. Are we not throwing away our candle in this matter, and paying others to do for us what we' might do for ourselves? This furniture can be manufactured just as cheaply here as anywhere, and transporta- p ofits be saved. Why is not this done? ( There is abundant of . material- ■within a few miles of Cairo to main tain a hard wood factory for years. Hickory, poplar, oak, ash, and the like are abundant in our swamps. We are throwing away one of our most valuable resources when we fail to manufacture this material in to chairs, tables, helves, spokes, handles, hames and the like. We pay thousands of dollars each year for these articles which are made for us by other people. Why not make them at home and so give our own and other workmen something to do, and keep here the money which we pay others to make these things for us? Properly manged there is oppor tunity for a most profitable industry in this line. As a rule our people are slow to appreciate a business opportunity Here is one which will not only add to our population, but will keep at home the money wjiich we are now conditions relative to the handling paying to other people, in addition to the money that can be drawn from other places by shipping these article to, .neighboring cities and towns. It is time to quit working for other people in this line, and do sotneting for ourselves. Will not some one awake to the opportunity? Two States Report a Fine Week of Progress, Columbus, Ga., Marbh 13.—The Georgia and Alabama Industrial * Index, published at Columbus, Ga., says in its regular weekly issue: “Puolic improvments again con stitute an improvment chapter of the business story of Georgia and Alabama for the. week ending to day. Dallas county, Alabama, awarded contract for road building, Russel county, in the same state, invited proposals for similar work and Jefferson county decided to build 21 steel and concrete bridges. Taylor county, Georgia, will vote on the issuance of road bonds, School bonds were voted by Flomu- Whose “Hog” Will This “Run Out of the Potato Patch?” The following telegram was received late Thurs day afternoon by The Progress from Mr. Barring ton Wilson, former editor of The Whigham Ne\vs. Moultrie, Ga., March 23, 1911. Grady County Progress, Cairo, Ga., Please announce to my friends in Grady county that I have no answer to offer The Whigham News other than a ten thousand dollar damage suit against the editor and the stockholders for malicious slander. Ask them to reserve judgment until they hear the evidence I shall produce at trial. Barrington Wilson. New Interest Shown In The Contest * Watch for the special offer in the next issue. The contestants have gone in with renewed interest as can be seen from their standing. The lucky ones will soon reap the reward for their efforts, only three more weeks and .the grand prizes wifi be awarded to the young lady having the greatest number of votes. • Contestants can you afford to remain idle with the goal so near at hand? It behooves v ou to wake up to the fact that some one is going to win these prizes, aftd .why not you. Friends-nbw if the .time.'&v' t^-ally fh pert of your'favorite. (Jet out and lencfa helping hand. Push her to the front and give her a lead that will enable her to hold the others safe. A little effort on your part is sure to tell, and how it will be appreciated by the young lady, then too you wish to have the satisfaction of seeing your choice win. Young ladies ask the support of your friends,- Get them to help you, at this time there U no one so far in the lead but what can be easily over taken, then use a little extra effort on your part and see if you can’t take the lead and hold it to the finish, it will be well worth your efforts. Just think! only three 1nore weeks and the announcement will be made public who wins, and the prizes will be carried away by the winning contestant. Will it be you? ; Friends of the contestants are becoming anxious as to the standing of their favorites, as can readily be seen by the inquiries being made at this office. The offer to be made in next weeks issue should) en able some one to gain a lead that cannot be overtaken very easily. See the merchants and get them to give you their advertising for the balance of this year get after'the doctors and lawyers and ask them to put in their proffes- sional cards in your favor. Resolve to win and give some one a race that will long be remembered. Below is the standing of the contestants to date; Standing of the Candidates Miss Ora Brinson 59,025 Bertha Powell 32,075 “ Lela Moore 3,050 “ Maggie Rehberg 7,000 . “ Rochelle Morrisonw 2,076 “ Sallie Belle Cooper. 4,425 V Addie Lou Powell 1,200 “ Lucile Stringer 43,875 “ Mary Bell 13,425 Estelle Herring 1,526 “ Carrie Autry 2,050 Belle West 2,000 Miss Maude Maxwell.., i 1,000 Mattie Butler'..^,..... 1,000 Winiford Harper...... 1,000 Ethel Brock 1,075 “ Bessie Mitchell..^ 1,000 Pauline Sasser. 1 ...... J.,000 “ Katherihe Dunn...... 5,800 Viola Blitph 3,900 Nora Cox. 12,200 Emma Singletary. G9,950 Mae Maxwell.1,000 ,, Jewell JbneS^... 10,250 Mrs. T. J. Butler 43,725 ton, Ala., and Pelham, Ga., voted improvement bonds. Gadsden called an election on the issuance of $50,- 000 of water works bonds. Ogle thorpe, Ga., will vote in April on lighting and waterworks bonds. McDonough, Ga,, is having plans prepared for water works and electric lights. “Throughout the pine forest belt dollar-curpentine inspired a feeling of radiant optism, the price having advanced from 35 cents to $1.05 per gallon in three years time. A navigation company operating oh the Ocmulgee river in Georgia is to quadruple the present capital em ployed and to purchase two new steamboats. Northern capitalists are to erect a large veneering plant near Dothan, Ala. A company has obtained options on a large tract of land in the black belt of Alabama and will offer it in the shape of small farms to desirble while settlers. The land owners are co operating and rite stockholders in the holding company.” W. C. T.«. OF CAIRO STARTS NOVEL CAMPAIGN Making a Hard and Strong Fight to Enlist Every Lady Its Grady Connty as a Member. The Cairo W. C. T. U. held an interesting and enthusiastio meet ing at the league hall Friday af ternoon. It waB the beginning of our membership crusade. The White side had 14 mem bers present, the Blue side 19. Mrs. Sutton resigned the cap- tancy, Mrs. R. C. Bell was elect ed in her stead. We want every woman in Grady county to join us in our fight against whiskey and its in fluence. If you are not near en ough to attend our meeting help us with your influence, send us your name and $1.00 for dues. Your name will be enrolled as an honorary member of the Cairo Union, your dollar will be used to strengthen the sentiment for temperance and purity in our county and state. Let us not sleep as our Alabama sisters did until the enemy has gained the victory, but let us be up and doing while it is called today. . , We would like to say if any of our gentlemen friends will furnish our union with evidence of blind tjgars said to be in our men'ey ‘feh tiie prosecution of same. If you are interested in temper- ence don’t hesitate, send your name immediately. Weneadyou. Mrs. T. F. Moore, Pres. Cairo W. C. T. U. MEETING IS IN JULL BLAST At the Cairo Methodist Church FINAL REPORT 01 Total crop 11,941,563 Bales—Sea Islands 90,368—Linters 387,592 Bales. Washington. D. C., March 20. The census bureau’s reports show the cotton crop for 1910 to be 11,931,563 bales, counting round as half bales, and including lin ters, compared with 10,386,209 for 1909. Included m the statis tics for 1910 are linters, 397,592 bales; sea island cotton, 80,368; round, 112,887 bales. The average gross weight of bales is 501.2 pounds for 1910, compared with 496.6 for 1909. Expressed in equivalent 500 pound bales, the 1910 crop Is 11,- 969,757, compared with 10,315,- 82 for 1909. Cotton estimated by ginners and delinters remaining to be ginned and inclnded in the statics for 1910, amounts to 70,169 bales. The 1910 crops by states is re ported as follows: Running 600-lb. State— bales. bales Alabama 1,217,399 1,220,607 Arkansas.. 821,236 844,860 Florida 68,295 69,696 Georgia 1,865,896 1,818,682 Louisiana 257,987 266,334 Mississippi 1,260,479 1,303,379 North Carolina 771,185 723,476 Ooklahoma 964,433 957,004 South Carolina 1,237,036 1,166,187 Tennessee ..... 336,206 348,139 Texas.. 3,071,263 3,170,098 Ali other states 91,168 91,295 Negro Killed A negro was killed last Tuesday at Lewis’ Variety works. A belt broke and caught him in such a manner that he was whirled around the shaft, killing him almost in stantly. BEING LED BY HISS EMMA l. TUCKER Who Is Giving Her Bible Read ings Twice Dally—Talk to Men and Boys Only, Sunday—Meet ing to Continue Another Week. The protracted meeting, at the Methodist church, began last Sun day, as announced, in these columns The attendance has been unusally large and the interest is steadily in creasing. Miss Tucker is a fluent and im pressive speaker and holds the rapt attention of her hearers from the be ginning to the end. Her addresses are plain messages from God’s Word, emphasized by clear, terse and striking comments. Her illustrations are ' from 'life, gathered from her very extensive experience in evangelistic and slum work. These are frequently very striking and touching. Her one aim sesins to be to give the people God’s word, as , illumi nated by- the Holy Spirit an ' illustrated in personal experience. Mr. Stapleton is leading the sing- .infc akffijflyfita’yicc,. with '.an pceu- sihnal splo, tp the • deligfit of all. There are two services a day. The morning gathering is at ten o’clock and is for one hour. The night service begins at half past seven. The meeting will continue dur ing the coming week. Meeting for Young Men Addressed by Miss Tucker There 1 will be a meeting for men and bovs only, at the Methodist church next Sunday afternoon, at three thirty o’olock. This service will be addressed by Miss Tucker, with a special message to the men. . All boys are invited. At the same hour the ladies will hold a special service of prayer at the Presbyterian church. This meeting will be led by Mrs. W. C. Jones. The usual session of the. Sunday school, hit the Methodist church, will be called in, on account of the men’s meeting. , Stores Will Close at 6 O’clock After April \ Cairo, Ga., March 20, 1911. We, the undersigned merch- chants of Cairo do agree to close our stores each afternoon at 6 o’clock,.Saturday excepted, from April 1st to August 15, 1911. J. L. Oliver’s Son, John L. Poulk, Poulk Bros. Co., Wight Bros. Co., Wight Hardware Co,, Cairo Furniture Co., Higdon- Herring Co., Roddenbery Hard ware Co., G. S. Johnson, O. F. Sanders, Grady County Furniture Co., J. A. Hudson, Abe Poller, M. Rappeport, Forester Bros. Who Has Announced It? Announced what? That the re gular services of the Baptist church are “called in.” Not the pastor. On the contrary, he announces that those services will be held, as usual, next Sunday morning and night. The subject, at/the morning hour, will be The Re son Why. r/jBuii'r IT. Ha BBjBy