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A war of extermination should be made on the nasty
house fly.
The land of Grady county is becoming more valuable
every day.
Don’t forget to help one of the contestants to win one
of our prizes.
Can’t Cairo have a cleaning up day and make the
old town a spotless one?
In all the newspaper wrangle don’t forget that you
want to plant something for the county fair.
Over one hundred new subscribers were “knocked’
onto our book this week, and more will follow.
The Canadian government is trying to prevent negro
immigration from the United States into that country.
From the number of automobiles now in Cairo and
Grady county it is in order to organize an automobile club.
We want to place The Progress in ever home in
Grady county, and are going to very near do so before we
stop.
Drop your business long enough to start a movement
to organize a Board of Trade. Let all hands go to boost
ing awhile.
Don’t lag, contestants. Make the coming week count.
You have turned on the home stretch and it will be the
hustler who wins. Get Busy.
The gamblers will continue^ to gamble and The
Progress will gambol along for years to come. We are
not “four-flushing” in this statement.
The Progress is receiving more than its share of
knocking. However, it will be here to publish the obituary
of the knocker, be that when it may.
Say, what about getting the Meigs Lumber Go’s.,
road into Cairo. It will help the town grow, and every
thing that helps the town should be sought after.
The naval store operators are now rolling
in clover. Turpentine is playing around $1.05.
The stores will begin to close at six o’clock
on April 1, and then for the weekly band con
cert.
The knocker who knocks everything and
everybody does not accomplish anything for him
self.
Grady county could ship hogs as well as
Brooks if the farmers would make up their minds
to do so.
The mayor and council of Cairo should see
to it that all disease breeding cesspools are dried
up at once.
?$;f* The towns in South Georgia are having
cleaning up days. Cairo should join in in the
movement.
Gov. Elect Hoke Smith is spending this
week in Thomasville. He is due to spend a day
or two in Cairo next month.
One of Elberton’s banks is offering a prize
to the farmer raising the largest hog. That
bank is after more meat.
Swainesboro has organized a Good Roads
Association and as a result the agitation of is
suing bonds by the county is being urged.
Justice is going to be high in Atlanta. The
county commissioners of Fulton county are go
ing to build an eight story court house.
No better county for stock raising can be
found than Grady. Let the farmers wake up
to that fact and go to raising hogs and cattle.
Lynnfield, Mass., voted for liquor and the
city council straightway made the license $25,-
000. No one seems willing to put up that much
money to sell “pizen.”
When you are “cussing” the “hello;’ girl
you may be “cussing” an heiress dnawares. At
Los Angles Miss Mary Morse, a telephone oper
ator has fallen heir to $100,000.
Theo. Copeland is the only knocker that is
doing anything for the town. He is engaged at
present knocking up eight houses. The town
should have a few more knockers like Mr. Cope
land and less of the other kind.
The Macon Telegraph issued an 84-page
edition last Sunday. It was the largest edition
of a newspaper ever published in Macon. The
Telegraph is deserving all the patronage it is
getting. There is not a better paper published.
Can’t the banks of Grady county be induced to offer
premiums for the best yield of corn, cotton and sweet pota
toes grown in Grady county? Gentlemen, think over it.
The word “acquisitions” appears twice in the editorial
reply to L. H. Foster on page two. It should be “accu
sations.” Some difference in the meaning of the two words.
It is said that an effort will be made to put in a mod
ern ginnery in Cairo during the summer. The promoters
will soon begin seeking subscriptions to stock in the enter
prise.
Valdosta had a $65,000 fire last Monday.
Think of it! Four thousand homes in Grady and
over 3,000 of them without a local paper published at the
county seat. There should be a harvest for some hustling
contestant.
Yes, Pauline, The Progress’ subscription list is
growing by leaps and bounds, notwithstanding the contin
ued fight being made on it by certain interests and the riff
raff and rag-tags.
The four banks in Grady county, in their reports,
make a fine showing. Their combined deposits reaches
nearly half a million dollars. That’s some money for one
agricultural county.
Read that news story and suggestion on first page and
see if a factory can’t be organized to work up the timber. If
there was a live Board of Trade here there would be some
thing doing along this line.
The Southern Railway Co., has put on two
more immigration agents. The railroads of the
south have awakened and are doing their utmost
to fill up the waste places, and will do so .in a
few years if let alone by the political agitators.
Benjamin D. Green, was on Wednesday
freed from the Federal prison in Atlanta. The
government, tried to make Green tell what has
become of his money in order to get it as a fine.
Green says that lawyers and stockmarkets have
consumed his fortune,
Booker T. Washington, the negro educator
of Tuskegee, Ala., was severely beaten up by a
white man in New York Monday night. The
white man charges that Booker insulted his wife.
It looks more like a case of “notoriety” seeking
on the part of the white man as Booker has too
much at stake to make such a break.
The people of Cairo should inaugurate a
campaign against the disease scattering house
fly by screening it out. If possible the council
should pass an ordinance requiring all property
owners to screen their houses. If this is done
there will be very little sickness in Cairo this
summer, but it will work a hardship on our
friends, the doctors.
There is room for the booster here, but none
for the knocker.
1,500 STATE MILITIA
OFFICERS WILL BE TAKEN
INTO MANEUVERS.
This Number Only can be Sent
to Texas Under Federal Appro-
| priation-Apportlonment Ac
cording to The Strength of
Various State Militias.
Washington, March 21.--Of 3,-
jces from State militia
irtment’s
Much Money to Chinese
Washington, March 21. —For
the relief of the Chinese famine
and- plague sufferers, ■ the State
Department today received five
thousand dollars from the Chris
tian Herald, making a total from
that source of eighty-two thous
and dollars, including the flour
shipped to China from Seattle on
the transport Buford.
The money will be cabled to
United States Minister Calhoun
at Pekm for distribution.
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