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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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year $1.00 Six months ,50 Three months 26 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. Advertising Rates.—Depends on position, number of insertions and number of inches—will be given on application. Obituaries and cards of thanks will be charged for—5c. a line Not Responsible.—The editor of The Progress is not respon 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* Highest Grade PRINTING Done in the Classiest Manner Possible No work done in a “slip-shod” way. We also have Calendars and fans and can give you a close price on same. One price to evrybody.