The Grady County progress. (Cairo, Grady County, Ga.) 1910-19??, July 28, 1911, Image 1

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The Grady County Progress VOL 2 CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1911. NO. 2 tm-BUKELV CD. LOCATE III ITUM V . PURCHASE SITE FOR "PURE SOUTH GEORGIA SYRUP" REFINERY PLANT INTERESTED Promoters of Industry to Have in Operation by Jan* &&I uary l, 1912. A deal was closed at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon whereby At lanta is to secure one, of the most progressive syrup refining plants of the South, tfie Garner-Blakely Company, of Bainbridge and Cairo, Ga. John St Garner, John D. Blake ly and K. P, Wight purchased \ through J. T. Kimbrough & Co. .; a centrally located tract of j ground 180 hy 150 feet.’&t Benja- min and Whitehall streets and ■‘fthe Central of Georgia railroad, ■{ onwed by J. R. Smith and-the Georgia Realty Company. A sub stantial two-story 4 brick building is already on the lot; and it ; will be remodeled, while the o’ther parts of the refinery plant are i built. The work will* be cbm- % plste^so the firm can commence •4bi|sin^ hereby January J. the AtWnta ; planFtb'-be the general headquarters of the firm. . "U| Th4 %Gmildi--Blakeiy’''1^5ip!Sfiy !at present does a $150,000 annual business, but expects to double this: in course of time after com pleting the Atlanta plant. The firm will this fall pack 250,000 gallons of syrup on the :amous Ingleside and two other big south Georgia. The pack ill amount to 20,000 cases, be- inning in November. They are onnected with the Wight Broth- rs of Cairo, Ga., and are mak ers of the celebrated “Wire- tigrass” and “Pure Georgia Cane” ^yrups. The above item, taken from The Atlanta Georgian, is a slight idication of the spirit of enter- rise characteristic of some Cairo business men. In addition to the firm named by the Atlanta paper, every member of which is a hereditary “hustler,” like the father of the family, Geo. A, K'Wight, [Sr., known and loved so .- well by this writer, in the years /agone, there are other merchants 'and projectors in our midst, of whose enterprise, you will hear, [ere the setting of many more H. The Finest Yet. • Mr/ C. G. Stevens exhibited to /'Wednesday, two stalks of red ne from his’ fields in the low er part of this county each four feet six inches in length and showing fourteen joints. One is a-stubble cane and is reall heav ier than the other which is from THEN AND NOW. Our readers may pardon a few reminiscences. Not of the ed itorial kind, as relates to a news paper. At the time referred to, we were editing boys and girls, in the “Cairo Academy”—not papers. Ah, how well do we remember those boys and girls—our beloved pupils! Not all of either sex were holy angels; but they were all belolVed, nevertheless. And few, if any, have turned out badly. Not many of those boys and girls—or the men women into whom they developed—are to be found hereabouts to day. We cannot locate possibly a tenth of them, anywhere. But some are settled in or near Cairo, and they are all associated in our mind with pleasant memories. We mention some of their names as they recur to us, off-hand. And that, without any trimmings to them—except as may be necces- sary to distinguish them. Here they are: Walter Rodden- bery, merchant-farmer; Byron Wight, planter-pecan - grower; John Crawford, post-master; Ke- dar Powell, merchant; “Sime” and Jim Vanlandingham, far mers; Lou Vanlandingham, now Mrs. ^ach Booth; Lem Powell, merchant; Mellie Powell, now Mrs. Walter Jones; Jim Hurst, planter and magistrate; his Wife, 'then Annie Rvnwiv 'her sist-m* m is spring’s planting H. Still Finer. Mr. Hibe Butler brought toour office Monday, a stalk of red cane from the field of Mr. Emory Max well, which showed twelve joints! 'Mr. Butler reports plenty of cane in that field over four feet long. The one shown us measured four feet and a half. H. then'‘Annie Brown; her sister, .Missouri BroWn; their 4 brother; Will Brown, contractor; another ■bvother^fahlt, Blown, the orig- 'inal “Buster,'” salesman; Annie Dunbar, now Mrs. John Poulk; her brother, Tom Dunbar, sales man; Tom ' Wight, Chm. Co. Com’rs.; Carrie Wight, his sister; Sallie Hurst, now Mrs. J. M. Dekle; Jesse Caiman, Tax Recvr.; Nathan Malloy, merchant; Charley Cannon, Farmer; Wal ter Connell, farmer; Lina Hall, now Mrs. Hal Mitchell; Greene McManus, Co. Tr.; Emmie Rich ardson, now Mrs. BenMcManens, Sr.: George Helton, farmer; Jim Carter, farmer; Frank fRicther, Sr., merchant; Jim Chester, farmer;. Tom Whigham, farmer; Murray Maxwell, salesman; Ben Pope, merchant; Tom . Stanfil, farmer; Dudley Stanfil, Dept. Sheriff; Lula Watts, now Mrs. Joe Nicholson; “Bud” Watts, Co. Bailiff; Lula Watts, how Mrs. Joe Nicholson; and Neil Mug- gridge, farmer. In addition to these, we mention the names of some residents of Cairo, who were our pupils in the Calvary High School: Joe itigdon, mer chant; his wife, “Scrap” Her ring; Ira Higdon, merchant; and Jennie Maxwell, now Mrs. Jim Carter. “Well, what of it?” asks some one ■ at this point. Oh, nothing—except that we are proud of our boys and girls and. want to say _ so. Just as proud of those living in and near Cairo, as we are of Congressman Anderson Roddenbery, Judge W. M. Harrell, of Bainbridge, Prof. O. A. Chester and Col. Louis Chester, of Washington, Rev. Oscar Chester, of the South Georgia Conference, and Dr.W.N Ains-worth, President of\ the Wesleyan Fern. Coll., who made his first speech in our school- room.That’s all. H. P. H. Ward’s communication is in type; but so much adver tising has come in that a portion of valuable matter has been left out that will appear next week. HONEST BILL COLLINS Grady County and Grady’s Rep* resentative Honored. Hon. W. H. Collins, for whose appellation above, this editor is responsible, has been si honored, by Speaker Holder, his committee assignments, ne is a member of the following im portant committees: General Ag riculture, Appropriations, H State Sanitarium and Penitentiary, be sides others less prominent. ,H. THE fcLIND TIGER QUESTIpN. We mean in Cairo. We’i$iaf- ter “the beam in our own eye.” What about it? Last Saturday afternoon, in passing to the rear of a block, in this town, this editor saw more than one group of young men drinking—something—pve- sumytively, liquor. People are not likely to go out behind stores to drink water from’ bottles. And men do not, probably “step round” to the rear, to drink coca cola, in private. Now, the question presents itself, Where did those boys get the liquor? On mentioning the above fact to a merchant into whose store we passed, immediately after witnessing the scene described, he said substanially this: “I was a member of the last grand jury and, as a result of our investiga tions I was convinced that there are white men in this town who furnish.Jiquor to negroes to sell; guaranteeing that if they, the sellers, are- caught and f... they., the- fnr.%h^, wCl!pa/-! fities. The only trouble was, added the merchant* “that we could n’t get positive proof of names.” Since tnat statement was made we learn that a gentleman who is drawn for the next grand ju ry sayes he has the names! ‘ ‘So mote it be.” Now, a suggestion. Judge Park and Judge Singletary “are of age” and competent. But we venture modestly and respectful ly to suggest that instead of im posing a fine in such cases, which can and will be readily paid by the furnishers, they in variably sentence a convicted of fender to TWELVE MONTHS ON THE CHAIN-GANG! That will put a stop to the nefarious business; as the white man will not agree to bear that penalty, as a substitute for the negro. H. were received a few days ago. We now find that due to the fact that several other buildings will be going up in the town and im mediate vicinity at the same time, that it will be impossible to put up the bvilding this sum- mer. The Board has therefore ally Very reluctantly decided to put this work off until the close of the next spring term, and have everything in order so that work may begin immediately after the close of the school. While the school will be crowd ed to some extent for lack of space, yet we can with eight large rooms and one small one accomodate 300 to 325 pupils. The fall term will begin as usual on the first Monday in September. The Trustees have done their best to secure the Very best teachers possible, and we ask the hearty co-operation of all our people to make the school wnat our children need. Board op Trustees. Mr. Julian Roddenbery. We are glad to note that this yonng gentleman is doing fine ly with his broken leg, He has reached the point at which he can walk a little without his cruthes H. Special Attention Is called an article in another lAllimW J -fiaAnu. Tnl A. Remarkable Case Mr. Hibe Butler, one of ou best and most responsible citi zens, related the following facts, in our office, the other day: The first week in October, 1909, some hogs were put into a field of his, to be fattened. The sec ond week, one of them was missed, and was thought to have escaped. The first week in Jan uary, following, that hog was dis covered in an old dry well, on the premises, and was supposed to be dead. The following week, some Iboys, in passing, threw a missile down upon the hog, When, to their amazement, the poor creature struggled itself to its feet and staggered about in the well. The beast was immediate ly extracted and cared for. ^t lived and throve and, the suc ceeding fall was. fattened and killed, for meat. citizens. She has a host of friends who unite in the wish for a “bon voyage” for the happy couple. Rev. B. R. Anderson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, will occupy his pulpit, in Cairo, next Sabbath morning. At night he will preach in the Methodist Church. Cain—Underwood. Last Sabbath morning, at the Methodist Parsonage, by Rev. W. E. Towson, Mr. Josiah Un Cairo Concert Band Program.' Be low we publish another one of the popular, programs of the Cairo Concert Band for their con cert Friday evening. All music lovers and others are cordially. Mr. Harlow and his programs are growing in popularity every week. 1. March—“Grady County Fair” (new), Harlow 2. Overtue—“Golden West” Beyer 3. Paraphrase—“Silveo Threads Among the Gold” Danks 4. Waltz diConcert— ‘ ‘Henrietta’ ’ Harlow 5. College March— “University of Maine’ ’ Crosby 6. Spanish Serenade — “LaPal- oma” Yrandier 7. March—“American Million aire” Brown Star Spangled Banner. Our School Building. As is well known, it has been the purpose of the Trustees to enlarge our present school build ing so as to make it adequate to our present needs. It was pur posed to do this work this sum mer. Several difficulties have been in the way; but the Board considered that these could likely be overcome, and so plans for the enlargement were ordered three or four weeks ago, and of God.” :9!ni<fi Mentis) £ The Uniori Meeting of the Campbell (Baptist) Association will be held with Magnolia Springs church, a few miles southeast of Cairo; beginning to morrow and continuing through Sunday. The friends and admir ers of Elders T. A. White, A, C. Stephenson and G- W. Carroll will have an opportunity to hear them—as they are all on the pro gramme of exercises. H. Ah, There! Teat big, bouncing, baby boy i He’s no joke, that boy. And Tom Dunbar is going around town with an annual smile on that truly celestial. Why? The arrival was at his house, Tuesday night. We congratulate pogsy and momsy. H. - Our rublication Day. Thursday i 3 publication day foi^ this paper and from this time, onward, it will be issued on that day. Advertisers and subscrib ers may count on that. H. League Program On next Tuesday evening the Senior Leaguers will be enter tained with a program by the Juniors. We are certain this will be an interesting program and we cor dially invite all. A Gretna Green Affair. Mr. Ivey Taylor and Miss Mittie Sasser, drove quietly over to Whigham, last Saturday, and (■Were united in marriage, by Rev. J. S. Jordan. I The bridegroom is a son of Mr. George Taylar and the bride a a daughter of Mr. Albert Sasser all of Cairo district. Griner—Posey Sabbath afternoon, in the pre sence of a few friends, at the Parsonage, Mr. Grover Posey, and Miss Clyde Griner were mar ried by the Rev. W. E. Towson. Both of these young people are residents of Cairo and are well and favorably kown. Mr. Posey has a responsible position in the Cost Line, having moved to Cairo less than a year ago. Miss Clyde is the obliging and efficient op erator of the Phone Exchange. She is a native of Grady county, a daughter of one of our leading Bag® farming near Houston in state. The lady of choice is a sister of Col. Sam Cain of Whig ham. Col. Cain and. Mrs. H. F. Smith accompanied the happy caupleto Cairo and witnessed the ceremony. Their trip was made in Mr. Smith’s auto. After the wedding, the party, returned immediately. The good wishes of many friends will follow this young couple as they take up the journey of life together. EXPLANATORY Owing to the unexpectedly prolonged absence of our local editor, at Panacea Springs, it has fallen, to the lot of the senior editor, again this week, as last, to flip out the local items, per sonals etc. If you have any compliments, ring us up; any scarifications, reserve them for Mack Johnson. • H,' Off at Conference. The Rev. Messrs .W.E. Towson, J. B. Wight, Walter Jones, cler ical, and P. Herring, D. L. Will iams, and Frank Brown, lay del egates from the Cairo M. E. church, are in attendance on the District Conference, ,at Arlington this week. ' ' H. Rev. W. E. Towson will be out of town next Sabbath, attending the District Conference at Arling ton. The Confeence convenes Wednesday night. Because of Mr. Towson’s absence, there will be no service in the Methodist Church Sabbath morning. At night, Rev. Mr, Anderson will fill the Methodist pulpit.