The Grady County progress. (Cairo, Grady County, Ga.) 1910-19??, August 31, 1911, Image 1
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CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31 1911,
NO. 7
GRADY OOIIRTY10 BE
BIG EXPOSITION.
South Georgia Land and Agri
cultural Exposition to be
Held at Tifton.
SEPTEMBER 27—OCTOBER 1
That was the decision of a com
mittee from the Board of Trade
which met Saturday morning
with Mr. John W. Greer of Tif
ton who came to Cairo specially
to interest the people of this
county.
This big exposition is to be the
first distinct land show ever held
in the South. It is the direct re
suit of a movement started at
Cordele two years ago for the
purpose of settling up the idle
lands of South Georgia. That
movement fyas been in constant
operation ever sir.ce and the main
effort has been directed in break
ing up the big tracts of land and
getting them on the market, and
today there are over three million
acres of land on the market in
Sonth Georgia.
It was thought by the'promot
ers that time had arrived to in
vite the people of Nor th Georgia,
Tennessee, the Carolinas, Ken
tucky and North Alabama down
to see these lands and this ex
position was the plan inaugu
rated. All the real estate and
land owners of South South Geor
gia will meet in convention on
the first day of the convention at
Tifton and devise plans to handle
the people who come down to buy
land. It is expected that ten
thousand people will attend this
exposition from the sections nam
ed above for the purpose of buy
ing land and it will require all
the land men in South Georgia to
take care of them,
It would be difficult for a land
owner to talk his county to these
people unless he had an exhibit
present to point to. Grady Coun
ty has been asked to send a speci
fic exhibit of Georgia Cane Syrup
and coilard seed and pecans.
This being a day of specialties, it
is believed that these specialty
exhibits will be more impressive
than general exhibits, although
the county can send anything she
wants to send and there is no cost
to it, since the railroads transport
the exhibit free and the exposi
tion gives free space in the hand
some buildings that are being
erected for the purpose.
The special committee which
endorsed the enterprise and or
der the exhibit was composed of
Messrs. Wight, Crawford, Hall
ifmd the secretary* The commit
tee appointed to conduct a cam
paign for this exhibit was Mess.
W. B. Roddenbery, J. B. Wight
and J. F. Stone. It is the pur
pose to select some one to go
along with this exhibit and dis
tribute literature about the coun
ty, ,te)l pf its resources and carry
i in the
•county and send;people here who
desire to settle here;
; ■ BfeStle.
You should keep your eye on
Itidhfer & Rtishin; They are
putting on wrote more of those
sales, that will do you good to
goto.
Published By Request.
Whereas, certain reports deroga
tory to the character of Rev. J. W.
Cannon,, pastor of Pleasant Grove
Church have gained promiscuous
circulation throughout Grady
County; Whereas, the promoter
of said reports who is a member
of said church, has been given a
fair and ample opportunity to
furnish evidence to said church-
in regular conference in verifica
tion thereof and has utterly failed
to so do; Whereas, upon said fail
ure, said promoter of the reports
aforesaid and accuser of said pas
tor acknowledged in said church
conference that he had misrepre
sented his pastor, wherefor be
ing sorry and penitent, he asked
forgiveness of the church and
the pastor; Whereas, said church
and pastor did accept said ac
knowledgement and arant the
forgiveness sought, thus vindi
cating the innocence of said pas
tor and closing the incident for
ever, so far as the church is con
cerned; and Whereas, after all of
which was ended, an assemblage
of people consisting of represen
tatives of the entire Pleasant
Grove community, regardless of
church relations, has gathered on
the premises after the dismission
of the church: Now be it resolved
by said promiscuous assemblage
that the derogatory aspersions
made by the self-confessed pro-
motor and accuser, aforesaid, are,
by his own acknowledgment ut
terly untrue and unwarranted and
that we take pleasure in. hereby
expressing our unchanged opinion
of Rev. Jesse W.,Cannon; accord
ing tb wljiich' jhe is art honorable
Christian gentleman and a min
ister fully entitled to the undim
inished confidence of all people:
And be it resolved further that
this entire statement be publish-
in the Grady County Progress
and the Cairo Messenger.
J. H. Butler,
G. E. Prince,
J. G. Griner,
Committee,
Interesting Contribution '
The Farmers Union is alright,
and so is its President Mr: W. C.
Barrow. At least this is what the
Band Boys say. V '
Everybody in the County knows
our band and our band boys
We have one of the best amateur
bands in this state, and the Farm
ers Union knew this when they
invited the boys to play for them
on their Picnic day. The boys of.
corse were glad to play, they
however made no charges for
their services except a promise
of something, and Mr. W. C.
Barrow made the boys glad a few
days ago when he presented them
with $25.00 for their services.
The boys need all the cash they
can get to keep the band going,
and they are loud in their praise
of the Farmers Union and Mr.
Barrow who is the President.
An Apology.
Announcement pf the prospec
tive absence of- the pastor of the
Baptist church and,the . arranged
for occupation of his pulpit by
Rev. A. J. Taylor,, on last Sunday,
was 1 —simply •forgotten; wherefor
the said‘paistdr offers .a humble
apology '.to/all concerned.
'.Mr. Taylor preached two very
tor filled’the pulpit of the
Baptist church'iri Moultrie!
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Be a Booster.
Do you know that there’s lots b,
people
Settin’ round in every town,
Growlin’ like a broody chicken,
Knockin’ every good thing
down;
Don’t you be that kind of cattle,
’Cause they ain’t no use on
earth,
You just be a booster rooster,
Crow an’ boost for all you’re
worth.
If your town neecfe boostin’,
boost ’er,
Don’t hold back, an’ wait to see
If some other feller’s willin’—
Sail right in, this country’s free;
No one’s got a mortgage on it,
It’s yours just as much as his.
If your town is short on boosters,
You get in the boostin’ biz.
If things, don’t seem-'tp suit you,
An’ the world seems kinder
wrong,
What’s the matter with a boostin’,
Just to help the thing along;
’Cause if things should stop a
goin’ *
We’d be in a sorry plight;
You just keep that horn a blowin’,
Boost ’er up with all your might.
If you see some feller tryin’
For to make some-project go,
You can boost it up a-trifle,
That’s your cue to let him know
That you’re not a goin ’ to knock it,
Just because it ain’t your
“shout,”
But you’re goin’ to boost a little,
’Cause he’s got “the best thing
out.”
I you know some feller’s failin’s
Just forget ’em, ’cause *j
, know- •
That same feller’s • go£ some good
points,
Them ? s the ones you want-to
show;
“Cast your loaves out on the
waters,
They’ll come back,” ’s asayin’
true.
Mebbe they will come back,
“buttered,,’
When some feller boosts for you.
—The Spokesman.
(. H. MRD WRITES
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Emphasizes the Necessity of
Owning a Home.
“Takes no Prophetic eye
to See it,” He Says.
Notice.
I wish to call attention to the
fact that there are some errors
in the premium list for the Grady
County Fair, and that the same
will be corrected in next week’s
papers. These errors should have
been corrected this week but
owing to the absence of some of
the committee it could not be at
tended to.
Yours very truly,
J. S. Weathers, Secy.
Good For Bob Majors
Donalsonville, Ga., Aug. 28, 19118
Albany Herald,'
Albany, Ga.
Gentlemen:
It might be of interest to
you to learn that your correspond
ent was commended from the pul
pit here yesterday, for the accu
racy of the report sent to The
Herald in regard to the deplorable
afiair at Jakin, Ga. i .
Rev. Mr. Ledbetter whd
lives at Jakin, stated that thdre
port was. ^abscl id ely con5ec| in
every respect, and that he
This scribe has been reliably
informed that about one-fifth of
the cotton area of the United
States is now owned by men of
capital, principally foreign.
The day is not far distant when
the poor man of America cannot
buy a home. Land will be too
high. Capitalists will own it,
who will not sell it at all. How
important it is that the young men
of today should sacrifice Bsome-
thing, deny themselves of some
of the luxuries of life that they
may be able to own a home be
fore it is forever too late. The
once powerful middle class which
is the safety of every nation is
weak and every day declining.
At the close of the nineteenth
century America worshipped
wealth. She sanctified its pos
sessors. Then with trump anc
drum and red banrters flying came
the army of muck-rakers; anc
their revelations made the nation
heart-sick.
The Roman - 'Republic was once
the most enlightened and power
ful of all the nations of’the earth.
Plutarch tells us that ‘‘the rich
men and money lenders acquired
mortgages on nearly all the farm
lands of Italy. The rates of in
terest were so exorbitant and
ruinous that it was impossible for
the small farmers to pay off their
indebtedness. This was exactly
what was desired by the rich me
and money lenders. They dii
possessed the native farmers and
took possession of the lands; thus
becoming a landed aristpcracyy or
“those of great estate,” as Plut
arch calls them. The rich men
and money lenders supplied their
farms with foreign slave labor
purchased cheaply from the gov
ernment. These slaves were cap
tives, sent home by the Roman
armies from foreign lands. The
small farmers, with their helpless
families, after being ejected from
their homes, naturally flocked in
to the cities, where they became
an intensely congested population
of paupers and beggars. Only
rich men could be elected to office
in those days; and these impro-
vished people, prompted by star
vation and distress, looked eager
ly forward to election day, when
they might sell their votes to the
highest bidder, Many efforts
were made to suppress,iby law,
the vioe=jsnd icrime of bribery;
but the voters had beeome feor-T
rupt and yranted b^bery to flour
ish becart^eitbonfribhted to-their
meagreandlimited-resources.
7TT—?—rrt
into a common fund, and if he or
bis supporters were detected in
an effort at bribery, he was com
pelled to withdraw from the race
and the mohey he had paid into
the common' fund was distributed
among the other candidates.
This stimulated each candidate
to watch the others and after the
election the forfeit money was
returned to all the candidates
Who had obeyed the law. Cato,
who was the author of the law
and who was getting old, much
against his inclinations, was per
suaded to run for a very impor
tant office and was defeated by
the operation of his own law.
The large numbers of impover
ished voters resented the restric
tion upon bribery,, because it cut
off one of their sources of re
venue and consequently they
voted against Cato. But a most
remarkable demonstration occur
red immediately after Cato’s de- ■
feat, as the old mart walked
quietly to his home, away from
the polls. A vast throng of these
poor people followed him and cal
led on him to speak to them and
greeted him with great applause
and every manifestation of re
spect and esteem, many of them
even being moved to tears. They
knew he was patriotic and a
friend to the people and to honest
government; but they voted a-
gainst him because under the
pinch of poverty they wanted the
bribe money. History furnishes
no more pathetic incident of the
struggle between poverty and
a truthful correspondent,
(NGTE-rMr.' Itoheirfc fS®!
Majors, editor of the Ddn
ville Enterprise, is corresp9i dent
for The Herald at. that place. *—
Editor.) — Albany Herald. "
statesman, succeeded in having
a law enacted, prohibiting the
•f money by a candidate or
The law also provided that every ther JeMnd
candidate should pay a certain
amount of money, as a forfeit,
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poverty
patriotism. The despotism of the
corporations and the trusts and
the cold clutch of the rich men
and money lenders make crimin
als out; of honest men.
Are we drifting toward a land
ed aristocracy? # It takes no pro-
jjibetic eye to see it. Then how
Important it is to own a home
now in Ameriea, while you may.
Education is another great prob
lem. The people are passing so
carelessly by. You cannot en
slave an enlightened people; but
illiteracy and poverty go hand iii
hand.. These facts cannot be too
forcibly impressed upon the
minds of the people today.
Yours Sincerely,
P. H. Ward.,
In Memory of J. D. Compton.
On Sunday night, Ailg. 20. 1911
the death angel visited the home of
j. D. Compton, of Troy, Alabama,
and took away from the circle ©f
friends one who was dearly loved
by all whom he had ever met.
We must remember our loss is
his eternal gain.
“Brother Jeff,” as he was com
monly known, was a true Christian
and also was a lover of the Revised
Sacred Harp.
All the Sacred Harp singers will
feel that there is one gone from this
earth who was a stronghold of the
cause of The Sacred Harp. He was
not only a lover of The Sacred Harp
but a good friend to all other kinds
of books to be mentioned.. When
he was where there was any kind
of singing going on, he joined in,
and bis whole heart seemed to as
cend to a world of music. I
May the Lord help the friends
land rdatiyes to bear them loss. It
bd'reirtetnber^l by m^ny that
•he.visited-.Georgia several turd
p
during bis, well spent life: . Lay
Cato, the venerable patriot and hw sweet wife and little >a”
have the heartfelt sympathy of
abont zix years ago. She. met B: -
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