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Locals and Personals
B. M. JOHNSON, Local Editor.
C »>- p - C- Andrew 3 left thiaj William Havens, Joe Godwin
week for Cuthbert and Camilla and Robert Davis were over in
where he will spend several days the sticks Sunday
with relatives. Mr. Cook of firm of Moore,
Owing to the rush of advertis- Spiney and Burroughs was in
ing on the last moment we were Tired Creek section Sunday.
delayed with our publication a
few hours.
Mr. H. A. Powell Saturday and
part of Sunday in Bainbridge as
guest of his brother Frank.
For five year farm loans at low
rates of interest on short notice,
see Bell and Carlisle.
Mr. K. C. Moore of the Agri
cultural school at Tifton was in
town this week.
Mr. Donald Pearceof Whigham
was in town Monday on business.
Mrs. P. C. Glenn and daughter,
Joy. of Tampa, Fla., are the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dunn.
Miss M aude Sutton left this week
for a visit to her brother Mr. Joe
Sutton at Kent and Jacksonville,
Fla.
In another column we publish the
statement of The Farmers & Mer
chants' Bank.
Miss Ada Harrell of Quincy, Fla.
is visiting Miss Mamie Bennett.
Watch the ad of Cairo Furniture
Go’s they are reliable what they
tell you will swear by.
Let everybody push the GRADY
COUNTY FAIR. This is our
first fair and we want it count
for something for all the citizens
of the county. There will be
no charges of any kind for en
trance to the fair. There will be
no charges for entries of exhibits.
The fair is free to all and for all.
Get busy and push the fair.
A 5-rooni cottage to rent. A.
B. Cooke.
Dr. D. H. Henley spent Satur
day and Sunday in Waycross with
friends.
We make farm loans at low
rates of interest, largeJ loans a
specially.
Bell and Carlisle.
The editors of this paper are
putting forth every effort to give
the people of Graay county a
clean, newsy paper and want
your co-operation.
Free Band Concerts
at the Fair.
The Cairo Concert Band will give
free concerts every afternoon
during the Fair. You know the
Band Boys. They have the goods,
and will deliver them free of
charge. Everybody attend the
Fair and hear the best Band in
South Georgia, the Cairo Concert
Band.
The Grady Ginning Co. are
installing there new outfit; will
be ready for work this week.
Mr: Robert Wight will leave
Saturday for Atlanta where he
goes to attend Tech School.
Col. M. L. Ledford made a busi
ness trip to Jacksonville this week.
Mr. Marvin Miller of Tifton
was visiting home folks and at
tending to business in Cairo this
week.
Mr. C. C. Buchannan of Way-
cross was looking after.business
here Tuesday.
G. W. Helton and G. B. Willis
visited new Tired Creek Sunday<
G. B. Willis and family were
Mrs. Mamie Burts of Thomas-
ville is over visiting her father
Dr. Harris and Mrs. W. H. Rob-
nson this week.
Miss Marion Bell and Miss Pol-
lie Swicord of Climax were the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Her
ring this week.
Mr. L. L. 0’Kelly of Thomas-
ville was attending to business
in Cairo thisweek.
In this issue notice is given of
the readiness to gin long and
short cotton by the Grady Gin
ning Company.
Merry-Go-Round
For The Fair.
The Fair Authorities have en
gaged a Merry-Go-Round for the
Fair. This will not be free, but
it will be fine for the young people
and some of the older one3 will
not object to seeing it. There
will be other attractions for the
Fair. The fair committee is
busy trying to please the people,
and have something worthy of
GradyCounty. Get busy people,
and push the fair, for “ He That
Bloweth Not His Own Horn, The
Same Shall Remain Unblown."
John Kelley passed through
this section Sunday en route to
his daughter Mrs. Minnie Helton
of Cairo.
We are sorry to report the ill
ness of Master Bob Lee Watts at
this writing. But hope he will
soon be up again.
We will be ready to gin your
long cotton, bring it to Grady
Co., Cairo.
Mrs. M. B. Smith was visiting
friends in Cairo this week.
Mr. Lonnie Gray of Bainbridge
was over this week seeing home
folks.
. No Fakes or Gambling
Schemes At The Fair.
Tbe Grady Gounty Fair is in
tended to promote the ‘ interests
of Grady County, and there will
be no fakes or gambling schemes
at the fair. If any such fakers
or gamblers try to operate during
the fair, they will be packed on
ice at our $15,000 Jail for future
reference.
Have your ginning done at the
Grady Ginning Co. 's new gin just
We are reliably informed that
contracts have been let for two
more nice residence on North
Broad Street.
Mr. R. L. Vanlandingham will
build a handsome two story build
ing on the vacant lot between Col.
Ledford and J. R. White and Mr.
W. 0. Harrison will erect a nice
little seven room house on his va-
cent lot just above Mr. Courtney.
This makes about a dozen new
residences for Cairo this year and
there are rumors of others.
The two guano factories that
are being built will soon be com
pleted and business will start.
Outsiders that see our guano
factoeies and see the machinery
that'is being installed tell us that
they are far superior to any other
small guano foctories in this coun
try; they say that the buildings
and machinery would do credit to
much larger towns than Cairo.
Rev. R. Kerr, who was pastor
of the Methodist Church here
during 1897 and 98, and now pas
tor pf the Quitman Methodist,
Church, will preach at the Meth
odist Church next Sabbath morn
ing and night. Brother Towson
goes to Quitman to preach and
to lecture next
Notice to Correspondents.
We again call the attention of
Correspondents and Contrib
utors of communciations to the
necessity of having their articles
in our hands, by Tuesday morn
ing. Numbers of communciations
have been crowded out, because
of failure to observe this notice.
Some communciations can be
carried over; but news items thus
dealt with would be too stale for
publication.
t Sunday and Mon
day at a Missionary Institute
the guests of G. W, Helton and that is to be'heid'in Bro. Kerr’s
family Sunday. . • Church. .
H. R. and wife visited out of
this section Sunday morning.
--~ L t>; -ber’s stables.
Save your cotton and have it
ginned by the Grady Ginning Co.
5 room house for rent on
North Broad Street Apply
to M. L. Ledford.
Mrs. W. H. Robinson was shop
ping in Valdosta this week.
League Program, Sept. 19th.
Subject: Bible Study Rally Day.
Leader: Mrs. Weathers.
Reference: 2nd Peter 11-16,
Matt, xxii 29, 1 Peter 1-23.
The Bible: A. C. Roddenbery.
The American Bible • Society—
Its Origin, Purpose and Achieve
ments (Miss Mary Bell.)
The Power of the Bible to Con
vert and Save: Leader.
Clipping From Cairo Meuenger.
Sunday was a most enjoyable
occasion at the home of our fel
low- townsman, Mr. Abe Poller.
Rabbi M. Pelovitry, of Thomas-
ville, together with a large con
course of Abe’s brethren from
Thomasville, Pelham and Whig-
ham, attended the circumcision of
his youngest son, who was christ
ened Fredrick, and the Wedding
of Miss Goldstein, the youngest
daughter of Mr. M. Goldstein, of
Pelham, to Mr. Frostic. , The
happy couple were showered with
rice and congratulations from
their friends. Abountif tiiTepast
was partaken of by the guests.
They all left, wishing the host a
long and happy life, and that
they might have the pleasure of
another such occasion.
A. Guest.
-Wanted-
A good man to take charge of
a four or six horse farm in Grady
County on shares.
Thomas Wight.
Notice.
We will be ready to gin
your long and short cotton
Monday, Sept. 17, 1911.
We guarantee first class
work and’quick service.
||We want to buy your cot
ton seed.
Grady Ginning Co.
. Our Bread
Sells itself. All we have to do
is, fill the order and take in the
money.
The reputation of The City
Bakery far the excellence of its
Breads, Rolls, Bins, Pastry and
Cakes are like Caesar’s wife
above reproach.
Give us a trial, Satisfaction
guaranteed. “Cleanliness and
Purity’’ is our motto.
CITY BAKERY
TELEPHONE NO. 173.
Notice.
Lodge dues to the Cairo Mason
ic lodge are now due.
Please call and pay.
Fraternally,
E. F. Richter.
Notice.
One dark, brindlecow, marked
swallow fork in each ear, taken
up at my placeonemile from town.
Anyone can get same by paying
for this ad and damages she has
done to my property.
J. J. Coppage.
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Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
cotton seed
WANTED!
I am prepared to buy your cot
ton seed and will pay top cash
price for same at all times.
Hope you will give me an op
portunity before selling.
tf W. H, ROBINSON.
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Reno Blacksmith.
00.1 ajfattiCTw iltt*
General repair wheel-wright
and blacksmith. Home-shoeing
outfit and horse-shoeing com
plete. If you have bad stock that
needs shomng, bring tWn to A.
L-. Elliott, Reno. Ga. Guarantees,
them safety to the horse and t'
blacks'mith also. Please bring j our
stock to me.
Better have calloused hands than
calloused hearts.
Work becomes drudgery only when
we fall to put our heart into it.
It is a man’s duty to think up ways
of making his wife’s work easier.
The man who used brains to save
his legs is not lazy—he Is just wise.
In a co-partnership each of the part
ners is responsible for the debts of all.
The. pipe wrench Is a whole lot
more practical on the farm than the
pipe dream.
The man who never does more than
he gets paid for, never gets paid for
more than he does.
A dozen interesting books will do
more to keep a boy contented than
two dozen sermons.
It is just as essential for the farmer
to keep accounts as it is for any busi
ness man In the land.
A man with the right kind of spirit
will not pass a person on the road, if
he has a vacant seat in his wagon.
Let the boy go to the circus by all
means; and take mother and the
girls along with you to see that be
does not get lost.
The city housewife cannot under
stand why the farmers are not all
rich when she considers the enormous
price she pays for vegetables and
fruit.
It is all right to teach the boys to
grow more corn to the acre, but It
would help them greatly if they could
be taught how to raise a drouth re
sistant corn that would assure them
of a crop each year.
No use for the politician to let hts
whiskers grow, wear old clothes and
leave his auto at home when he goes
out electioneering among farmers
these times. Whiskerless farmers who
wear good clothes and own ah auto
hre very much in evidence.
Giving Small Ones a Chance.
Two or three feeding coops or pens
should be provided for the chickenB
and other poultry at this time. Each
of these coops should be provided
with different sized openings for the
admission of the different sized young.
The young will soon learn to rtin to
their own ooops at feeding time, and
thus will not be trampled on by. the
older chicks and grown fowls. , Many
chicks are made lame. and not a few
killed when all. the flock is fed to
gether.
HOW FARMERS MAY BENEFIT
Agricultural Co-Operation Leads All
Other Lines of Mutual Business |
In Thla Country. j
Pew people seem to be aware of tho
extent and Importance of co-operation
among farmers In this as well an In
other countries. Of course, everybody
ltnowB that the organization of any
business depends upon co-operation.
The necessary good will between sell
er and buyer In order to transact a
bargain, the necessary harmony be
tween employer and employed In or
der to produce and handle goods, Is
co-operation as far as It goes.
Where co-operation begins to dimin
ish disorganization setB In, says a
writer in an exchange. But what ha#
been known as co-operation for 140
years, since the days of Robert Owen,
Is free co-operation. Free co-operation i
1b, of course, on the basis of mutual ,
aid and equal rights.
Agricultural co-operation of thla ■
type leads all other lines of mutual'
business In this country just as It
does in the rest of the civilised world.
Speaking more particularly, a quarter
of all the co-operative societies In the
world among people of 25 languages ”
are agricultural companies. France
leads, but the United States Is making
steady progress In this department of
mutual enterprise.
Observations of the working of rural
co-operative societies throughout the '
United States led President Roose
velt’s country Ufa commission to one .
of their two chief conclusions, that
future economic betterment .of the
rural population depended upon fur
ther development of co-operation.
Agricultural conditions the world over
are peculiarly adapted to this mutual
way of doing business In buying and
selling. In banking and In.some lines
of production, as, for example, cheese
and butter making.
Co-operation In the United States Is
traced historically to the Influence o<
Brook Farm, a communistic experi
ment in the early forties at West Rox-
bury, by some literary people and re
formers. Nathaniel Hawthorne, In
writing of It, said: "We sought our
profit by mutual aid.” And this ex
pression of purpose was In. the agree
ment of members; "To institute an
attractive, efficient and productive ''
system of Industry.”
Although that particular undertak
ing failed, the principles there laid
down have been taken up by success
slye associations of all descriptions
from that day to this increasingly.
Among farmers there are very effi
cient organizations for shipping, mar
keting and selling produce In many,
speolal lines, as In the cases of the
powerful tobacco and fruit growers'
associations in several parts of the
country; for buying seeds, fertilizers,
implements and farm supplies, and for
securing credit at low rates of Inter
est.
The .object.of co-operation In selling
has been to eliminate the middleman,
..who apart from the cost of transpor
tation, usually absorbs half the cost
of goods tq the consumer. Co-opera
tion In this line, however, has result
ed in standardizing commodities at
better prices. The farmer has bene
fited by getting more money for finer
stuff at the cost of the consumer, the
status of the middleman remaining
about the same. The country is
thought to be greatly in need of a
credit system available to farmers,
which our ’banking system does not
supply. The few co-operative agrlcul-"
tural banks which we have are said
by the expertB to just fill the bill.
Some Idea of the extent of the agri
cultural co-operation already existing
in this country may be gathered from
sbme government statistics three or
four years old relating to the leading
mutual associations for rural better
ment. For irrigation enterprises alone
there were at the time 30,000 asso
ciations. The rural Insurance asso
ciations took second place with some
16,000 societies. Rural telephone serv
ice had 15,000 co-operative associar
tlons; buying associations, 4,000; sell
ing unions, 3,000; educational, 2,000;
production, including dairying and
fruit drying, 75; co-operative colonies,
60. The grand total was 85,000 so
cieties enrolling over 3,000,000 persons.
The principle and practice of mutual
aid It was reported is steadily pene
trating every branch of farming and
into every part of the country.
The agricultural co-operative, so
cieties of the United States are In
groups centralized in sections of the-
country: Creameries In the north
central and western states, particular
ly in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota;
fire insurance in New York, Pennsyl
vania and the)'north central; Irriga
tion In the Rocky mountain and Pa
cific; fruit marketing in the west, par
ticularly In California, where' 80 per
cent, of all the fruit is-co-operatively
graded, packed and sold; vegetable
selling In New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois,
Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, and to
some. extent on the South Atlantic
coast; imilk in New England’ and New
York; wheat In the northwest, and
farm supply buying In Utah.
Altogether this is a showing 1 for.
‘agricultural co-operation whj.qhv com
mands 'respectful attention," especially
since there is every evidence of steady
expansion and penetration year by
year Into the vitals of the nation. i