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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. -■!&.!*&. ~ X i .. 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. . i 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