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LAST SUNDAY At the Methodist, Church With Great Success MISS TUCKER GOES TO JENNINGS, FLA. A Collection Was Taken up lor The Support o! a Missionary— A Snlliclent Amount was Raked to Support Two. Miss Tucker Held 63 Meetings. The protracted meeting, at the Methodist church, closed last Sunday night, at a late hour, Miss Tucker left Cairo Monday afternoon for Jennings, Fla., where she began a meeting that evening. In twenty days this wonderful little woman conducted sixty-three different services. Some of these ? were special meet ings, but forty-one of them were for mixed congregations. With unwavering faith in God and in tense zeal for the salvation of souls and the advancement of the cause of Christ, she weilded, with telling effect “the sword of the Spirit.” Her Bible readings caused the people to see them selves as God sees them and Un der the light of God’s Word, sin ners were deeply convicted of sin and Christian people of their shortcomings. The meeting, as a whole, was a “church meeting.” Its prin ciple result was among church members. What it is to be a follower of Christ, what God expects of his children, the peril of failure, ths penalty of neglect, these and many similar truths from God’s Word, calculated to convict and arouse, were the messages that were used to pro duce-heart searching on the part of professed Christians. It is the general opinion that these services were the most spiritual and the“deepest’ ’ that the church has ever had. ""Miss Tucker put special empha sis upon two aspects, or sides of Christian profession, —the finan cial and the missionary. Apart a special sermon on ‘ ‘tithing, ’ ’ preached one Sunday morning, she constantly emphasizing the duty of Christians to pay one- tenth of their income into God’s cause. As a result of a Bible reading on the subject, in which Malachi III: 8-12 was emphasized over forty persons publicity pledged themselves to tithe their income for the cause of Christ. One very notable result of the meeting was a collection for the support of two foreign mission aries, either a man and his wife, or two single missionaries, in the foreign field. From now on the the Cairo Methodist church will have its pastor in the home field and another in the foreign field. Thus it will be doing as much for others as it is doing for itself. The accomplishment of this ob ject has been earnestly desired by a number for some years and its final completion, when an nounced Sunday evening, was an occasion of much joy to many. One marked feature of the col lection was that they, the sub scribers made their subscriptions not under the influence of an ap peal, or any excitemext, but pri vately during the quiet pf the af ternoon, between the morning and the. evening services, report ing the same in sealed envelopes to the pastor of the church. This subscription of oyer one thousand dollars, taken in this quiet way without any ostentation, or in fluence, other than the sense of I obligation to the Lord Jesus and to those who are without the gos pel, is a striking illustration of the character of the meeting and the depth of the work done. Another gratifying incident of the meeting was the final extinc tion of a bothersome debt that has been hanging on for several years. A debt that had defied several efforts to extinguish it. Miss Tucker had much to say to the Christians about their finan cial obligations to the cause of Christ, and constantly warned them against the love of money which “is a root to all evil.” In coming to Cairo, the matter of compensation for her services was not mentioned. After get ting here she allowed no public collection to be taken for herself. What was given her was done so voluntarily, as a thank offer ing for help received. There was no public appeal, no one was approached and no one new what another gave. That is her meth od and shows conclusively 'that the money side of the matter gives Miss Tucker no concerp. The meeting that has just closed has been a memorable one to many and it will live in their lives as one of the greatest spirit ual uplifts that has ever come to them and to theirs. Epworth League Program For Tuesday, April IS. The young people of the town are cordially invited to attend the services of the League on next Tuesday evening. The program which is especially on Easter is as follows: Opening Song—Congregation. \ Song—Choir. Prayer. Scripture Reading—Leader.'’ Discussion of Topic. — “The Res- urection and the Missionary Propaganda. ’ ’—Leader. Cardinal elements in the Mis sionary Message. (1) A Living Christ—Mrs. Weathers: (2) Light—Miss Barrett. (3) Suffering—W. D. Clifford Duet—The Beautiful Story. Recitation—What we would tell— Little Girls. Recitation—When Easter Skies Look Down—Sara Higdon. Song Congregation. League Benediction. Leader—Susie Stubbs. North Cairo vs South Cairo. North Cairo won a game from South Cairo last Saturday evening, although errors were plentiful it was a snappy game and lasted for eleven innings, finaly resulting in favor of the North club, score 4 to 3. Carl Brown of North Cairo fielded a brilliant game at short, and both pitchers pitched a good game. In the second inning South Cairo scored two runs and in the third added another to their score which was their last run. In the third North Cairo scored their inital run, and did not score any more until the ninth when they tied the score in the eleventh Jack Dunn brought in the last run whioh won'the game. Line-upas follows: North Cairo South Cairo Thrower, lb., Powell ss. Lang p. V. Jones 2b. Bell, rf. Hudson c. Brown, ss. Wight cf. Lewis 2b. • Moore, lb Bell, If. Blair, If. Williams, cf. Malloy p. Dunn, 3b. VauLandingham rf. Lang, c. PI. Malloy, umpire. We arc ready to show our calen dar samples. We make them up here and save you the freight. The Prosress. ENGLISH BIBLE IS 300 YEARS OLD Translated From Its Original Language in 1611 EXACT DAY OF PUBLICATION UNKNOWN The First Bible Printed Was Known as "King James Ver sion” in Honor oi King James oi England, Who Had it Trans lated. The English Bible is just three hundred years old. It was in 1G11 that its translation from the origi nal languages was finished by a company of scholars, appointed by King James of England, and its first copies were printed. Ever since, “King James’ Version,” the “authorized version” has been the Bible of Protestantism. This one, single book has been the greatest factor in the spiritual life of the English speaking ppeple, as well as the most influential in its customs, laws, government and social life. The three hundredth anniversary of its translation and publication is a notable event in the history of the Christian church audits importance is world wide. “The amazing ex tension of the English language tlnoughout the world has given to the English Bible not only a uni versal religious significance but an immeasurable influence upon the ideals and the life of the people of the earth.” Believing this, the American Bible Society and the Bible Societies of England and Scot land have arranged for the celebra tion of this historic eyent through out the English speaking world. The exact day of the year 1611, when the first Bible of the “author ized version” was printed is not known. In view of this fact, in order that the celebrations may at tain general and national signifi cance, Sunday, April 23d, 1911, has been selected as the day for the celebration of the tercentenary of the King James version of the En glish Bible. The pastors of Cairo have arranged for a union observ ance of this great event. The de tailed program of the celebration will be announced in the next issue of The Progress. In the morning there will be a general union serviee at the Metho dist church with a sermon by Dr. Robert H. Harris. In the evening the service will be held at the Baptist church, pre sided over by Rev. W. E. Towson. Brief addresses on themes appro priate will be made by Cols. R. C. Bell and J. S. Weathers, W, B. Roddenbery and J. B. Wight. The subject of these addresses will be announced next week. It is seldom that any one has the opportunity to attend a three hundredth anniversary and espec ially of a world-wide event of the character of this one- It promises to be a notable occasion in Cairo and one of much interest and profit. We are glad that the pastors of our town have planned for. these public exercises in which the story of the dear old English Bible and its influence upon our lives shall be fittingly told. Two States Have a. Glowing Report The Georgia'and Alabama Indus trial Index, published at Columbus says in its regular weekly issue: “The great mineral districts of Alabama is on tiptoe of expectancy for further announcement regarding the important merger of coal, iron and steel companies now Bin pro cess. The companies now combin ing Will own AlaJfvma properties worth fifty millicm dollars, it is said, and it is believed that the for mal consumation of the merger will inaugurate a program of improve ments that will mean the expendi ture of about $1,000,000, conspicu ous among them being doubling the capacity of a large steel plant at Gudsdeli, Ala. That the consolida tion will bring fresh capital tp North Alabama seems certain. “Contract was awarded for grad ing the route of the electric railway to bo built between Atlanta and Au gusta, and for the building of a rail road from Alapha, Ga.,to Nashville. Morgan county, Alabama, awarded the contract for building of steel bridges. New city halls are to he erected at Decatur,Ala., and Hunts ville, Ala. Americus, Ga., voted $100,000 of improvement bonds and Newnan, Ga., $50,000 of paving bonds. Fayett county, Alabama, is inviting bids for building a court house. NEGRO SHOT AT CONDUCTOR Mr. Forrester on Albany Train and Mr. Walden oi Tbis City Have Narrow Fscape From Vio lent Negro—Negro Wounded Twice. Thomasville, April 11.—Yester day afternoon,a negro, Ed Kimball, on the Albany to Thomasville train, was sbotjAuce by Mr. O. D. • Wal den, the garage man of this city. The negro got aboard the train at Camilla and when Conductor For ester came around for tickets, the negro was very obstreperous, so much sh that the conductor ordered him to get off or be quiet. The negro pulled e gun and threatened the conductor. The conductor then got his gun from the baggage car and mean while the negro had proven that he was angry by attacking Mr. Walden Mr. Walden was between the negro and Mr, Forester and was handed Mr. Forester’s gun, which he took just as the negro shot in his direc tion. He took the pistol away from him and in the scuffle shot the ne gro twice, both falling to the floor, The negro was shot in the arm and in the body. People quickly gathered and if it had not been for cool heads, the ne gro would have been taken out and summarily dealt with. He was taken to Pelham and given medical attention. Passengers on the train say that both Mr. Walden and Con ductor Forrester acted with unusual bravery and did not make any vio lent effort to stop the negro until he had shot at them and threatened to kill out the whole bunch. It is not thought that the negro will die. DIRECT VOTE FOR SENATORS Democratic Leaders Pushing a BUI to Change the Federal Con stitutlon. Washington; April 13.—Repre sentative Underwood, the majority leader, has served notice on the house that the majority intends to adopt an amendment to the federal constitution providing for popular elections of United States senators before today’s session adjourns. After a lengthy wrangle, it was agreed that four hours debate on the measure will be allowed. The bill was then presented n,y Chair man Rucker, of the committee on election, and was called up imme diately. It is expected to come to a vote late this afternoon. Subscribe for The Progress and you will get the news while it is news. r Hats are Essential to good health and keeps dandruff out of the hair and keeps the hair alive. IIAI Pannamas, Slraws and Soft hats cleaned, blocked and re banded at rea sonable prices Out of town orders giv en prompi attention. R. W. Ponder Phone 81. Application for Charter. GEORGIA—Grady County. To tho .Superior Court of said county: The petition of K. P. Wight, W. S. Wight, Thomas Wight, G. A: Wight, P. M. Baggett, W. G. Baggett, J. M. Poulk, E. J. Poullc, C. E. Mauldin J. B. Wight and M. L. Ledford, all of the county of Grady, and state of Georgia, and C. M. Poulk of Bibb county, and State of Georgia, respectfully snows: 1. That they desire for themselves, their associates and successors to be incorporated and made a body politic under the name and style of Georgia Fertilizer and Manu facturing Company for the period of twenty years. 2. The principal office of said com pany shall be in the city of Cairo, state of Georgia, Grady county, but petition ers desire the right to establish branch offices within this state or elsewhere whenever the holders of a majority of the stock may so determine. 3. The object of said incorporation is pecuniary gain to itself and its share holders. 4. The business to be carried on by said incorporation is that of operation of cotton gins, cotton seed oil mills and the manufacture and sale of fertilizers. 5. The capital stock of said incorpo ration shall be Twenty Thousand - ($20,- 000.00) dollars with the privilege of increasing the same from time to time bo any sum not exceeding Two Hun dred Thousand ($200,000.00) dollars by a majority vote of the stockholders, said stock to be divided into shares of One Hundred ($100.00) dollars each. Ten (10) per cent, of capital to be em ployed by them has been actually paid in. Petitioners desire the right to have the subscription to said capital stock paid in money or property to be taken at a fair valuation. 6. Petitioners desire the right to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to have and use a common seal, to make all necessary bylaws and regula tions and do all other things that may be necessary to the successful carrying on of said business, including the right ti buy, hold and sell real estate and personal property suitable for the pur pose of the corporation, and to execute notes and bonds as evidence of indebt edness incurred, or which may be in curred in the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and to secure the same by mortgage, security deed or other form of lien under existing laws. 7. They desire for said corporation the power and authority to apply for and accept amendments to its charter of either form or substance by a vote of a majority of its stock outstanding at the time. They also ask authority for said corporation to wind up its af fairs, liquidate and discontinue at any time it may determine to do so by a vote of two-thirds of its stock outstand ing at the time. 8. They desire for said incorporation the right of renewal when, as provided by the laws of Georgia, and that it have all such other rights, powers, privil eges and immunities as are incident to like corporations or permissible under the laws of Georgia Wherefore, Petitioners pray to be incorporated under the name and style aforesaid, with the powers, privileges and immunities herein set forth, and as are now or may hereafter be allowed a corporation of similar character under the laws of Georgia. M. L. Ledford, Petitioners Attorney. ^Filed in office 11th day of April, J. M. McNair, ,, , „ Deputy Clerk, GEORGIA—Grady County. I, W. T. Crawford, clerk of the su perior court of said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the application for oharter of Georgia Fertilizer and Man ufacturing Company, as the same ap pears of file m this office. Witness my official signature and the Apri^im court ’ this the llth da y of W. T. Crawford, Clerk Superior Court. Give your subscription to one ol the contestants and. help her win®