The Grady County progress. (Cairo, Grady County, Ga.) 1910-19??, September 07, 1911, Image 1

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I ,V ; ■' ' 1 . V A /A * r BIG WASH-OU P. & H. Heavy Rains Last Friday Block Passage of P. & H. Train. CQnON CROPS BADLY DAMAGED. 11. College March “Frat” (new) Barth. Star Spangled Banner. Admission, 25 and 35 cents. Don’t forget the time, place, and* don’t forget to come and bring your family. The Cairo Concert Band is as good as any in’ the state and they deserve credit. The boys have worked hard #nd have a good programme for the concert, and every body should go. You owe it to the boys—You owe it to yourself—go. Last Friday, there fell one the biggest rains according the oldest citizens,that has fallen in years. It was almost a solid down-pour for two hours. The train on the P. & H. railroad, running from Cairo to Calvary, was prevented from going any further than Reno, on account of a big wash-out between that place and Calvary. Three rail ings, .according to Captain Bailey the conductor on the P. & H., -were washed up. The wrecking crew repaired the road Friday night so that the train made its accustomed run Saturday morn ing. i Crops Badly Damaged. Cottoh crops, especially, are greatly injured by the excessive rainfall for the past three weeks It has rained almost every day for the last two, weeks. If it con tinues to rain like it has, the profits! of the farmers on their cotton crop, unfortunately will be greatly decreased. the strength of the English navy, stating.that twenty thousand men in the English' navy were total abstipers, thus producing a navy of men of steady nerves and clear brain. This could not be with men who drink intoxicants, how ever mildly. We have found.in these later days that there is no case of sick ness where whiskey is necessary or even helpful. Evenjits use in snake bite is discarded by physic ians of information. Seventy- eight per cent, of the reputable physicians have discarded its use in every disease, as recently de clared by one of the best physic ians of Atlanta. The Interna- Commenced Monday Morning: With Judge Frank Park Presiding. Grand Total of 6,500 Bales Received During Month Just Closed. A TALK ON TEMPERANCE By Mrs. Roy Ponder. The following is the report of the Committee on Temperance at _ ; Tubercotas Arlington. It was unanimously In Washington three years ago Cairo Concert Band in Conecrt at the Court House Friday Night, Sept. 15th. 1. March-“Grady County Fair’ ( new ) Harlow, (Respectfully dedicated to the Grady County Fair Association 2. Grand Selection—From the Opera “Faust” Goundd, 3. Song for baritone- ‘‘Sing me to sleep” -Green Mr. W. A. Sutton, 3. Spanish Serenade “La Palo ma ” T • Yradier, (By request.) 5. Military March—“2nd Regi ment” Hall, 6. Solo for Tuba-“A Memen to” (played for the first time).. ..... Harlow. Mr. G. A. Wight. 1. A Hunting Scene- (Descrip tive) • • Bucalossi. The morning breaks calm and peaceful. The Awakening of the Birds. The huntsman looks to his steed and prepares for the chase. We jump into our saddles and our huntsman sounds a merry blast. A,Hunting we will go. Their off-the Chase—Bark ing of the Dogs. The Death. The Return Home. 8. a.— “Strolling in the- Moon light” Beyer. b. —“Turkey talk” (A Trom bone cut-up).. - >• - -V U ■ Harlow. (By request) 9. Grand Medley Overture- “Round the world” • • • • • Mackie. Leaving America. England (God Save the king). Ireland (Wear ing of the Green). Scotland (The Campbells are coming). France — (LaMarseillaise). Italy (Gari- bald’s Hymn). Austria (Austri an National Hymn). Spain (Span ish Royal March). Germany (Die Wacht am Rhein). Russia (Rus sian National Hymn). Japan ^Japanese Processional Tune) Home Sweet Home. 10. Concert Waltz Lente— “Hem itetta”. Harlow. adopted. ~ | The world is making advances in many things. But in nothing is it making greater strides than in its knowledge of the effects of alcoholic stimulants on the human constitution. While we are mak ing great strides forward in our scientific, knowledge, we are very sorry to know that the masses of the people are not keeping pace ip their practice with such know ledge! We very much fear' that many of us are expecting the en actment of our prohibition law to do too much in bringing about a a reign of temperance in our land, and that we are neglecting the preaching and practicing of total abstinence. We are not un aware of the great good that is come to our commonwealth as a result of our prohibition jaw, in spite of its non-enforcement in some of our cities and its only partial enforcement ip others. We believe that this law, how ever, is as well or better enforced than most any other law on our statute books, especially those in regard to carrying concealed weapons and gambling. But we must go further and thunder against drinking intoxi cants of all kinds. There was a time when we thought a man could be temperate and drink alcoholics moderately. But that time has past and gone forever, and a saner day has come. To be temperate in regard to lying we must not lie at all; to be tem perate in stealing, we must not steal at all; to be temperate in licentiousness, we must not be licentious at all; to be temperate gambling, we must abstain declared that the fight on tuber culosis must be made synohimous with the fight on alcohol. The fact of the business is the use of alcoholic stimulants, in propor tion to the amount used, prepares the body to be the prey of all forms of disease. Hon. R. P. Hobson of Alabama in his great speech on “The Great Destroyer” has proven ■that so much drinking of alcoho lie stimalants in our cities and high societies is fast producing a generation of degenerates which shows itself in disregard of all law'and the steady increase of all kinds of crime. Respecting the sale of intoxi- canting liquors there are. two notable errors Relieved by .'most of our people. First, there is a, qurrent notipn that, Wtiwfy bet ter regulate the sale bf yjich iri- toxicants in large cities'than in small cities^and towns, and there fore the sale should be confined to-suchiarge cities. "Every one who will study the facts and stop to think will know that it is hard er to regulate the sale or control wrong of any kind in large cities than small ones. Therefore if we are to have the sale of whisky anywhere it would be less harm ful in small cities and towns than in the large ones. { The second * error. held by a great many people i^ that'you can regulate saloon keepers at all. We had as well realize once and for all that this gang cannot be Government Report Had Good Effect, and Holds Prices Up In Face of Unprecedented Move ment of Staple to Market- Grade of- Cotton Better Than Usual Tills Year. SOL. GEN. AFTER;. The Grand jury was organized by electing Hon. W. H. Collins foreman and R. L. Vanlanding- ham clerk. After an able and from all gambling; and to be tem perate in drinking intoxicants we must abstain from all intoxicants. The professors in the great Ger man universities have made ac curate and scientific investiga tions in regard to this subject and in all of their investigations they found only one single man who could take one single glass of beer a day and not have his physical ability to 'do work di minished, and not one who could do as much mental work on one glass of beer a day as he could by leaving it off. The general average was a loss on one glass a day of beer of eight per cent, of work producing capacity. On the strength of these investiga tions the German Emperor has not only turned down his glass forever, but in a recent speech before the naval students of Germany he urged the total ab stinence from even beers and wines as absolutely necessary to the greatest efficiency of the Ger man navy. ; In this same speech the Emperor gave us the cause of regulated. They are all on the body politic,' and be regulated when reg by the grace of God their infamous business. The whiskey business is es sentially lawless from start to fin leechOrs can only enerated and quit ish, hav ing no element of righteousness of good is dead! in it and no possibility coming out of it until it dead!! dead!!! ' May God hasten the day when no man can be found in broad land of ours igriorant or base enough to run a saKoon, and when no man can be found thoughtless enough or disregard ful enough of the safety and honor of womanhood to its sale or for any man 'who fav ors its sale. We say this because we know that almost every case of assault and a large majority of all other crime are tn iceable to the sale of liquor We further pray God. and beg our people to help, to hasten the day when no man will bd ignorant or thoughtless enough to take al coholic beverages into his system at all; for as long as m en drink intoxicating liquors this coming generation must suffer ij rom some form of degeneracy. Figures compiled for the month of August, just closed, show that wagon receipts of cotton this year have so far exceeded allpreviouj records. Never has the month o August shown receipts, of 6,500 bales of cotton, as has been the case this year. The unprecedented rUsh and movement of cotton at this season of the year is accounted for by the fact that the staple is opening more rapidly than before known at this season of the year. It is predicted that by the end Of the month by far the biggest part of the entire crop will have been gathered, and practically all of it will be in by the middle of Oct. The prices recived for <cotton the post month' have been very satisfactory. The highest was about 12 cents, and the lowest was 111-4 cents. At the present time the price paid is 11 1 : 2 to 11 5-8 cents. It is not believed that the price will go below 11 cents this year, and may go high er than it is at present. The gov ernment report, showing less than 13.000. 000 bales, is considered to reflect a true condition of affairs, although European markets were confidently expecting a crop of 14.000. 000 or more. The effect of the government report, therefore, has been to hold prices up in the face of the unprecedented move ment of cotton to market. The crop in this section, as well as being unusually large, is un usually high in grade, the staple being better than it has been in several years. The average price paid for a bale of cotton during the month of August just closed has been about $60, the bales averaging over 500 pounds At this price, there has been paid for cotton in the Albany market during the month something like $370,000. This gives an insight to the cause of the unusual activity in trade now being experienced by Albany merchants, and which will un doubtedly continue throughout one of the most prosperous fall seasons in the city’s history Albany Herald. impressive charge from Judge Park they entered on their semi- mnual grind. The Grand Jury „s composed of 23 of Grady's sturdy and substantial citizens, and the county's interest will be looked after. At the time of going to press only a few cases have been dis-: posed of. Next week we hope i;o give a full list of cases tried. In addition to the local bar there were the following visiting attorneys in attendance on Court: Roscoe Luke, Theo. Titus and Judge Hansell of Thomasville, R. R. Terrell of Whigham, S. S. Bennett of Albany, Ernest Davi es' of Camilla, Judge Harrell, R. G. Hartsfield, Lucien and Gordon Bower and T. S. Hawes of Bain- bridge and J. R. Purtell of Blake ly, Ga. Tuesday, at noon at the Court House, a large crowd of farmers and business men met and after a brief discussion as to recent government report on the cotton crop which was two million bales over-estimate and which report the speculators and spinners are using in.effort to lower the price of cotton. It was resolved that the farmers and business men of Grady County are to do every thing in their power to resist this effort on the part of said speculators and spinners. This move was not only taken in Grady County but in every county in the cotton belt, and doubtless the results of same will be strongly felt There is no question that if all the farmers will stick to this re solution. which they should do and we believe they will, we will have better prices for our cotton. Hurrah for our Grady county farmers for their resentment to. the speculators and spinners. CAIRO HIGH SCHOOL OPENS WITH OVER 300 ft' Still Better Cane. Mr. James M. Stallings brought to The Progress Office the finest stalk of sugar cane that we have seen this season. It measured full six feet and had sixteen joints! Mr. Stallings says that there is plenty like it on his father’s farm. Therefore he wears the belt pf champion ship up to the present time. Who next? Come ahead with your Prof. Henry of North Carolina has the school in charge; his corps of helpers are Mrs. Henry, his wife, Misses Zandt of Lake Park, Fortson of Jackson, Seals of Don- alsonville, Barrett of Barnes- ville, Conder of Palmetto, Harris of Jackson ,. Susie Stubbs of Cairo, Lail of Fulton, Mo. has the Music in charge. There will be an art teacher here in a few days which add much to Cairo’s already good school. These teachers all come very highly recommended and we feel sure that Cairo is to* have the best school they have ever had. Misses Zandt and Stubbs have taught in this school before an we all know that they can not L . surpassed. School opened under very flatt ering conditions, addresses were made by Rev. W; C. Jones ami School Commissioner J. S. Weath ers, iff ! fe>> wM.