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L i=ni 1 n ==ni== ==rcr= la Rv EEEEJEEIEEEj i U leorg ISl or =hi= iers 7 =====11=11=1 Mayor W. F. Hinson, of Hazel- hurst, is a candidate for re-election. Richmond county’s floating debt has reduced *5,808 during the past year. Within the shipping territory of Perry there are 450 acres devoted to melons this year. Baldwin county board of educa tion borrowed sufficient money to meet the deficit in the teachers sal ary fund. Representative R. P, Hobson will deliver an address in Augusta after the adjournment of the extra session of congress. W. J, Williams, of Eastman, will address the veterans of the Telfair camp next Saturday on the subject “The Battle of Chaneellorsville.” The heavy rains of Wednesday resulted in the killing of hundreds of chicks, they being unable to get to shelter in time to escape the down pour. The Daniel Mineral Springs prop erty, in Greene county, known throughout the state, has been pur chased by J. F. Holden, of Craw- fordsville. Crane, the boy in jain at Dah- lonega for murdering a man named Parks, is frequently visited by parties, including preachers, wom en and pretty girls. Laurens, Emanuel and Irwin counties are all agitating the matter of a bond issue for building public roads. The grand jury strongly in dorsed the bond issue. The Presbytery of Eacon will convene with the Presbyterian Church at Camilla on the evening of April 18. There are 26 ministers and forty-six churches embraced in the Presbytery. In Jeff Davis county, Lucinda Hall, in company with William Durr, seriously cut Henry Williams an old ex-slave, at a supper. Wil liams was cut in nine places. The woman has been jailed. C. M. Courie, a Dawson county poultry fancier, pays $8.50 a piece for chicks the descendants of “Peg gy,” the famous $100,000 prize hen. Dawson enthusiasts are pay ing some fancy prices foi hen fruit. Presiding Judge L. S. Roan, at Atlanta, has refused a new trial to Sam Swatson, the negro convicted of a criminal assault on a young woman at Columbus last Dccembor. No new date has Ikjou set for the hanging. In each of the twenty-two dis tricts of Terrell county an election for school trustees will be held May 6. County School Commissioner J. W-F. Lowrcy gives notice that in districts in which there is no incor porate town three trustees will be elected, Will Pindergast, with two child ren, returning home from Thomas- ville, when the bridge across Bar nett’s Creek gave way with team and mules, was badly damaged. One of the little boys jumped and saved himself, but the father and the other child fell in the stream. Twenty years ago Mat Wood, a gold mine operative in Lumpkin county, while at work in the gold mines, was. covered up by a cave in there, having a broken leg and be ing otherwise injured. Recently this old wound gave Mr. Wood so much trouble that an operation be came necessary. The semi-annual meeting of the Odd Fellows of the First Division will be held at Sparks, April 26 and 27. Hon. Orrin Roberts, grand master of Georgia, yhas been invited and will be presentVs will also Hon. T. II. Robertson, grand secretaay of the state. ' This division is com prised of the following counties: Baker, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty,Early Echols, Grady, Lee*, Lowndes, Mil ler, Mitchell, Terrell, Thomas, Tift Turner, and Worth. There are thirty-seven lodges in the territory, New Reclining Chairs In stalled by A.C.L.R.R.Co. The Atlantic Coast Line has just put into service New Reclining Chair cars in the Florida & West Indian Limited, Trains No. 82 and 35, between Jacksonville, Fla., and Washington, D. C. These cars are equipped with all melal trucks, steel wheels, and compartments, one a toilet room equipped with two large mirrors, a dresser and white porcelian wash- stand with running water; the other is provided with sanitary convonieno flushed with, water, the same as Pullmans cars. In the other end of the car is a large smoking compart ment, in one corner which is a white porcelian washstand with running water. There is also a men’s saloon heavy steel underframes fitted with with a sanitary convenience as de friction draft gear and heavy buffing scribed above# Special attention has been given to ventilation by means of venti- device to preyent shock. The the latest improved approved ap^ paratus of the Westinghouse Air lators which automatically change Brake Company, known as . High the air in the car and keeps it fresh High Speed Erake. The cars are and pleasant. The heating is what 60 feet in length and have a hand? is known as the Vapor System which some exterior appearance; the gothic, is so arranged as to prevent the over windows being arranged to give the heating of the car and affords a mild effect of a pullman parlor car. The pleasant temperature, interior finish is mahogny with a j Special care has been exercised in delicate line inlay and tasteful mar- j the design of the springs and the quetry over the piers between the cars ric}6 as easy as a Pullman car. windows. In addition to the double' ■ Building “For Keeps.” . The 1 Baltimore Manufacturers’ Recbrd, in a' reCent issue, prints an interesting 'interview with Mr floor there is a deafening floor- pro vided to reduce the noise -while.;,,the. car is in motion. V. - • * t <'// ; j The floor coyering is of, v ,Wilton. , Tr ...... Brussells. The seats-.are the, latest H*'Flaglery relating t6 the develop- designs of reclining chairs,, uphol-'Wfcnt ,qf f the. SoutH. . Mr, Flagler stered in green frieze plusji. I exptessds tho conviction that the .The window sash'are double to' : P r bgrcs& of of the country will bo avoid draughts and‘to exclude dust ■greater in the next twenty-five years and smoke. I thah tlie past.twentv-five and that The cars are provided ^l^hniple the greatest precentage of increase racks for hand baggage. .J ' ’. ( will be in the South.' Mr. Flagler The lightening ii especially* bril-' hbs it’way of expressing himself in liahtjbeing the latest foyij) of PintscH* the vcihacular." He: says: “The mantle lamp with ; corona . ghad^s p?ah; who bets bn the United States which produces the softest defusion ^nd keeps his debts paid' will win thereof. ' ’ .. financial success.” When he was . There, are two, g-cipen’«,i;e'tiring bom he eays in the iutbryietr, there wore only twenty-four miles of rail road in the United States, Ho has lived to see the mileage expanded to 240,000 miles. “Never in hu man histmy,” soys Mr. Flagler, “has there been such a limitless scope for men of broad horizon. The marvelous expansion of rail road development during my life time only exemplifies the vast de velopment of the country during the same time. “While the development of the whole country affords scope for the capital and energy, I believe that the resources of the south in climate soil and mineral advantages, and in geographical position for commerce, will enable this section to create greater business development of the East coast of Florida is, I believe, typical of the possibilities of the South. Though I though I had measured the probable growth of this section, its advancement has far exceeded my anticipations. Out side af the great rush into Okla homa, some seventeen or eighteen years ago, and one or two similiar movements of population in the history of our country, nothing like the present movement to Florida has ever been known in the United States.” Mr. Flagler never talks idly. He is a builder who has demonstrated the courage of his convictions. What he says of the outlook for the South is the deliberate opinion of a capatian of industry,” who is familiar with the field.—Savannah News. CUTS HIS THROAT IN JAIL CELL. Secreted Razor Blade—W. C. Byrd, Thomas county Prisoner, Probably Will Ble. i Thomasville, Ga., April 9-j-W. C. Byrd, charged with the murder of C, L. Prince, attempted suicide in the county jail early this after noon. After Byrd had been (sent his dinner the sheriff heard three caries from his cell and rushed up, to find Byrd on bis cot, bleed ing profusely from a large, gaging wound in the neck. Physicians were summoned and examination showed the throat had been cut from ear to ear and the smaller veins served, but the artery was not cut. the wound was dressed and sewed by physicians. The only weapon found was a small blade of a safety razor which Byrd said he had kept for such an emergency for a long time, without the sheriff’s knowledge. He had asked for morphine this morning and was despondent about his case in the Superior Court next week. Byrd killed Prince Sunday after noon four months ago near Broad street when, with two companions Gunn and Stevenson, and the three were held, Byrd for murder and the two others for complicity. Byrd is not expected to recover from his wound. He has a wife and child at Fort Valley. LYNCHED FOR USUAL CRIME Mob at Lawrencevllle Strung Negro to Pole and Riddled Body WItb Bullets. Lowrenceville, Gal. April 8.—A mob of 200 men stormed the jail at this place this morning and took Charlie Hale, a negro, from a cell to a telegraph pole and strung him up. The mob riddled his body with bullets. . Hale confessed to a most atrocious attack upon a white woman near by. Subscribe for The Progress and you will get the news while it is news. 14 Spring’s Here And the coming of Spring brings the detestable, filthy, germ-soaked fly. Screen your home against these invaders, who are armored with disease and death. We have just received a large shipment of screen doors and windows. We have also received a car of SASH and DOORS. Come into see us and let us show. Our prices are right and we’ll certainly please you. Remember we handle lime and cement also in carload lots. Yours to Please, Wight Hardware Co. CAIRO, GA. □E=—\T^=\r=^\r=y: Attractive Buggies, that the prices and long- wearing Qualities make more Attractive How many times have you accepted the deal ers word about a so-called “Best-Made” buggy to find that after a few months running it was absolutely NO GOOD? And you PAID good money for them too. We deal in Buggies that are in strict keeping with the RIGHT”, and it is NOT neccessary for us words “ALL to misrepresent them; .. B m __ IJ. ot , GOOD ONES and you needn't take our word for it. We’ll sell you wagons, harness, fertilizer and feed stuffs too, if you’ll consider meritable values. In other words our buggies are fo W. G. Baggett & Son, Cairo, Reno, Cranford, Calvary. s SPRING SARSAPARILLA For the Blood And Skin It is better by far than most so-called remedies. It’s better for the simple reason that it performs it’s work. It’s the most powerful remedy on the market. 100 Doses $1.00 Wight & Browne# Leading Druggists. Are Your Clothes Used For DOG BEDS? Did you ever have an occa°ion to “follow your clothes” to the pressing? If you should have an occasion to do so at an expected hour, you’ll find that the “‘nig’ pres’n clubz” are no respector of persons, in their filth-reeking dives, and you likely to find some big dirty buck (or a dog perhaps) at calm repose on your best suit. You’ll find nothing of this sort at our shop, everything is clean, sanitary/>nd your clothes will found hanging on clothes trees. BETTER BE SAFE. Patronize a white man, because it’s safer in the end. Phone 81 CITY PRESSING CLUB Cairo, Ga. A iviw n YES! our line of Advertising Fans II k ere » *** is » P art °f them. r=fr==l| are The price makes them doubly attractive. Progress