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• • Phone 31 • • We want your trade. We will appreciate your trade and we must have your trade. If its anything in the GROCERY LINE you want, call us, we have it, and if we havn’t got it we’ll get it And if you want it quick, just say quick get it quick. All you’ve got to do is to and you’ll PHONE 31. WHITE & STRINGER LEADING GROCERS CAIRO, GEORGIA mein ACC® We will give counsel to anyone wanting to make invest ment here at home"or elsewhere. It is our business to keep in touch with PROFITABLE, SAFE investments. pur business is t6 keek the dollars in this community moving and working. When you want to DEPOSIT MONEY come to see us. BANK YOUR MONEY WITH US. We pay 4 per cent interest compounded quarterly in our Savings Department. Citizens Bank. Cairo, Georgia. E3S C J. H. MITCHEL, Cairo, - - - - Ga. Would like to talk to you about your grocery trade. Call around and give us an order and we will satisfy you in every particular. We have Fruits, Vegetables, etc. on hand all the time. Call up Phone 97 We Do the Rest. Application for Chapter. GEORGIA—Grady County: To the Superior Court of said county: The petition of J. M. Sasser, J. J. Ferrell, Coy Vanlandingham, J. L. Van- landingham, and Thomas Wight, all of Grady County, Georgia, respectfully shows: 1. That they desire for themselves, their associates and si'cceessors to be incorporated and made a body politic under the name and style of CRANFORD TRADING COMPANY for the period of twenty years. 2. The principal office and place of business of saia company shall be at Cranford, a station on the Pelham & Havana Railroad, 7 miles from Cairo, in said State and County, but petitioners desire the right to establish branch offices within this State or elsewhere whenever the holders of a majority of the stock may so determine. 8; The object of said corporation is pecuniary gam to -itself ana its stock holders. 4. The business to be carried on by said corporation is that of operating a general merchandise business, to deal in dry goods, hardware, groceries and all other articles commonly carried in a general merchandise store. “5. The capital stock of said corpora tion shall be Four Thousand (§4,000.00) Dollars with the privilege of increasini the same to the sum of One Hundre Thousand ($100,000.00) 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 the amount of the capital to be employed 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 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 by-laws and regulations, and to do all other things that may be necessary for the successful carrying on of said business, including the right to buy, hold, and sell real estate and personal property suitable to the pur poses of said corporation, and to execute bonds and notes as evidence of indebted ness incurred, or which may be incur red, in the conduct of the affairs of the corporation and to secure the same by mortgage, security deed, or any 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 affairs, liquidate and discontinue its business at jJ time it may determine to do so by a vote of two-thirds of its stock out standing ar. the time. 8. They desire for - said corporation the; right of tentOST when and as provided by the’lawl of Georgia, and that it have all Such other rights, powers, privileges and immunities as are incident to like incorporations 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 un der the laws of Georgia. M. L. LEDFORD, Attorney for Petitioners. Filed in office Aug. 7, 1911. J. M. McNair, Jr., Deputy Clerk S. C. GEORGIA—Gradj County: I, J. M. McNair, Jr., Deputy Clerk of the Superior Court in ana for said County, hereby certify that the within two pages is a true ajnd correct copy of the petition for chartjer of the Cranford Trading Company as appeared of file in my office. Given under my hand and seal of office, this 7th day of August, 1911. J. M.. McNair, Jr. Deputy Clerk Superio r Court Grady Co. i -* *- >« *- W.T. CRAWFORD. President. WALTER L. WIGHT, Cashier | THOS. WIGHT, B. H. POPE, • J. N. MAXWELL. FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK Capital Stock $30,000 CAIRO, GA. I Save What :^ou Reap. The harvest season i§ h^re, which is also tin* time for the farmer to save. Save the proceeds from your cr.ops, in order f to invest in more land when you Jiave.a good opportunity. ! l Improvement? will also be necessary oh your present faim J and a bank account will enable you to meet the expense of f these necessities and conveniences of life. * What ever your harvest may be, save at the time of reap- j , and open an account with us. f “Make Our Bank Your Bank.” Commercial Printing Some Familiar Quotations. “Alliteratore’s artful aid” was spoken of by the little read poet Churchill. “The pink of perfec tion” was originated by Oliver Gold smith; so were ‘Measures, not men," and “Man wants but little here below, nor wi nts that little long.” Gray, the author of the “Elegy,” is responsible for many popular phrases, am mg them “Full many a gem of purs st ray serene,” “To waste its sweetr ess on the des ert air,” “This .pleasing, anxious be ing,” “The paths of i glory lead but to the grave” and “Where igno rance is bliss ’tis folly to be wise.” Dr. Johnson gave usl “Who lives to please must please tol live.” He also said, “Who drives fait oxen should himself he fat,” in jwhich there is more sound than sen$e. The Silk Spinning Oyster. A mollusk that might take an important place in tektile industries if it existed in sufficient numbers is found in warm seas] especially on the coast of Sicily. It is the pinna, a genus of wing shellled bivalves, of which one species atjtains a length of two feet. To attach itself to the rocks it spins a cable ■ of strong fila ments, called collectively the bys- Bus. These threads a re wonderfully strong, silken in tex ;ure and have been woven into va rious delicate fabrics. A pair of gl< jves from this material may be seen in the British museum, and fine mummy cloths made from it by tho ancients •SeasA - We are Overhauling our Job Presses and Commercial Printing Department We will soon bej In a position to Do a class of High-Class Job Work and at Prices that are Proper Progress Job Office • The Result. "I suppose those garden seeds I sent saved you quite a little money,” said the affable statesman. “No,” replied Mr. Growcher. "I hadn’t the heart to waste ’em. and the result. Is that I’m In debt for garden Implements.”—Washington Star. ■x • — Hie Contrary Methods. “If a successful perfume manufac turer were to become director of the mint-he would revolutionize its meth ods, wouldn’t he?” "How so?” “Because he coins, dollars by «ente,"-»alttam Affl*rte8IlL_3i4e' t tbe comlBS summer - Texas on tho Good Roads Wagon. The use of the automobile In Texas has caused a demand for better roads. It has taught the farmers to see tho saving In having good roads and road Improvement, and road building Is go ing on In nearly every community. . 1 Texas will have one of the longest automobile roads in the United States when a few unfinished links 1 are com pleted. This 'road will extend, from Houston to Brownsville by the way of Corpus Christl, Kingsville and Inter mediate points. Connecting with this at Corpus Christl will be another road to San Antonio. This will be completed