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The Grady County Progress.
T, A.J. MA70BS, E33ITO®.
Leading Weekly Newspaper in Grady Co u nty
Published Weekly, Every Friday, by
THE PROGRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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Entered as Second-oluasnuiil matter July 22, 11)10, at the Post-
office at Cairo, Ga,, under the uct ot Congress of March 3,
1870.
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sible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents solic
ited.
Let every one in Cairo get together and go to boost
ing the town.
Don’t forget to push along the movement to organize
a board of trade or chamber of commerce for Cairo.
Farmers are now complaining of too much rain. At
least too much of the kind that they have been receiving—
the washing kind.
The time has come when “sleepy hollow” methods
will not build up a town. Wake up and go to work to
make a Greater Cairo.
Albany base ball team is “dubbed" the “Babies" but
they are proving tp be giants. All of Southwest Georgia
is “rooting” for Albany’s team.
The democrats of the house will attempt to pass the
Canadian reciprocity bill in one week’s time, and while the
senate is wrangling over it a tariff bill will be passed by the
house.
The town is now furnishing some fine pasturage to
stock owners. It seems to us that a stock law' would be a
good thing the year round. May be mistaken, but it looks
that way.
The base ball fever seems to be beyond v raising in
Cairo this year. N® talk of a team being organized this
year. Its a case of “you next” with last year’s /.manager.
He has got enough of it and is willing to pass it up to. some
one else. f
TIME FOR A BOARD OF TRADE.
It appears to The Progress that the time
has arrived to organize a board of trade or cham
ber of commerce.
It is unnecessary to enumerate the many
advantages that such an institution would be to
the town and county. The town has grown to
such a point that it takes the united efforts of
the people to keep boosting. Very few towns
lave the advantages of this one', located in one
of the finest farming sections of the state, as
well as timber of all description.
As long as it devolves upon individuals to
look after the many inquiries nine times out of
ten they will go unanswered, and such neglect
has a bad effect upon the outside world.
The editor of The Progress receives such
inquiring letters almost every week, and has
since he has been located in Cairo mailed copies
of The Progress to a large number of home
seekers, but as no follow-up literature was on
hand, and no other interest taken in such in
quiries very little good has resulted from such
work.
The work done by the boards of trade for
Cordele, Fitzgerald, Tifton, Moultrie and other
South Georgia towns prove that such an institu
tion is a paying proposition. ,
The town is ripe for such an enterprise.
The time demands it and there is no sense in
procrastinating longer.
Is there not some one sufficiently interested
in the future growth of Cairo to inaugurate the
movement?
The town needs a new hotel, a furniture
factory, cotton mill and several other industries.
With such an enterprise the probability that
there would not be so much antagonism among
the people. \
Isn’t it worth while to tty?
Let a meeting of the citizens be called with
out delay and get ready for the influx of home
seekers that ,are\ coming southward and try And
1 Ann OAWI A a4* t ^ VIA aI «*
A little investigation upon the part of the business
men of Cairo and they will find that they are paying higher
freight rates than they should. A live board of trade would
remedy such an evil.
The Progress has almost doubled its circulation
within the past two months. The wise advertiser will
take note of that and place his advertisement where it will
reach the most people within their trade territory. If they
will do that The Progress will receive a generous portion
of it.
get it on foot. The business
helping hand we are sure.
men of Cairo will lend
It is said that Wh. Searcy made some of the older advertising the town,
heads at the banquet, given in Bainbridge to the delegates
to the bankers association, held in that town this week,
his address on “Money,” sit up and take notice. Wh.
woke up Thursday morning and found that he leaped into
iame.in one night as an after-dinner speaker, and that too
on the dry subject of “finance.”
We understand that an effort will be made at the
next session of the legislature to create another judicial fcir-
cuit, to be composed of the counties of Grady, Thomas,
Brooks and Decatur. Under the present arrangements at
torneys and the people of this section are put to great in
convenience to get to the judge to sign papers, etc. The
only expense it would add would be the judge’s salary of
$3,000 a year. This would take two counties each from
the Southern and Albany circuits. These four counties
would furnish something over 100,000 people. Savannah,
with only about 65,000 people, has a superior court. The
Tallapoosa circuit is composed of only four counties with
only about ,60,000 people,
fee of great benefit to the people of these four counties. The
people of these four counties should take this question up
locate same of them in Cairo! and Grady county.
Say, what has become of the movement to organize
county fair association? It is time that a permanent organ
ization was being perfected. Several farmers are preparing
to make an exhibit. We would suggest that the Farmers’
Union take this movement in hand and see if they cannot that he would take stock in such an enterprise.
A MODERN HOTEL NEEDED FOR CAIRO.
At a meeting of the council on last Tuesday
night it was decided again to put the city hall
on the market.
This location would be an ideal one for a
hotel, and the town is in need of a modern hotel.
Mr. Z. R. Jones, proprietor of the Central
hotel, is a strong advocate of a stock company
being organized to buy the city hall property
and the two adjacent lots and erecting a modern
hotel. He says that is one enterprise that is
needed here above all others. He desires to re
tire from the business, and even if he does not,
says that he will not stand in the way. In fact,
he goes so far as to say that if it is necessary in
order to get a first-class hotel building in Cairo,
WHY ADVERTISING IN
NEWSPAPERS IS INCREARING
We have noticed various comments of late
in the newspapers relating to the remarkable
growth of advertising. The statements relate
to the increased display matter not only in news
papers, but in magazines as well.
The writers, however,.remain content with
stating the bare facts as regards the greater
amount of space used now in comparison with
that of a few years ago and fail to analyze the
causes of this really amazing growth.
So far as the increase of advertising in gen
eral is concerned, we believe it! is caused by the
increase of competition in business. Commer
cial rivalry was never more keen than it is to
day, and the producer who lags behind in the
publicity procession has only himself to blame
for small sales, small profits and limited reputa
tion.
Advertising is the staff of commercial life.
Advertising is the greatest wheeihorse of mer
cantile progress.
The merchant who has competition to meet
cannot afford to offer the best articles on the
market and rest assured that his rightful share
of trade will come to him. He must tell the
people about these articles or they will lie dust
covered on his shelves.
Then, too, the increase in the wealth of the
country multiplies activities that have use for
advertising space.
So far as the newspapers alone are concerned,
they are not only benefitting from the causes
mentioned, but their advertising is rapidly ex
panding owing to the better idea of their., value
as publicity mediums had by advertisers and the
publie. The space buying public is coming more
than ever to realize that the best possible meth
od of reaching the people of purchasing power is
to use the newspapers. Magazines hit any spec
ified piece of territory in spots; the local news
papers cover it entirely. Billboards are rarely
impressive to large numbers , of people in high
class communities, and street car advertising is.
valuable only in the large cities.
The increase of advertising in the country
newspapers is almost entirely,due to the grow
ing knowledge of their undoubted merits on the
part of users of space. This field, neglected by
many advertising managers for years, appears
to be nearing the time when .it will come into
its own. These papers have-suffered a great
deal from the monopolization of the foreign ad
vertising field by the magazines of large circu
lation.
But the trend is gradually swinging the
other way. Magazine advertisers are becoming-
newspaper advertisers. The number that has
changed is small as yet, but the movement has
begun.—American Press.
Why not have better hotel facilities here?
Everyone recognizes the necessity of such a
building and it would go a long ways toward
CAN IMPRISON WITHOUT
VERDICT OF TWELVE MEN.
Samuel Leob, convicted two years ago of
violating the city ordinance of Atlanta, against
keeping liquors in his place of business and sen
tenced to $500 fine and thirty days in the city
stockade, went to the stockade Monday to begin
his sentence.
Leob is a Decatur street merchant. He
fought the case through all the state courts, and
then took it to the Supreme court of the United
States on the ground that the recorder had no
right to impose the degrading punishment ex
cept on trial by jury. He lost his case in every
court and went out Monday and was put to
work in the blacksmith shop.
Hon. Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, Ohio, died
Such an arrangement would Monday evening. • He was one of the leading democrats
of the country and was four times mayor of Cleveland.
f . — ^ -r He also represented the Cleveland, district two terms sr.
at the next session of the legislature and push it to a finish, congress*
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