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«5> Locals and Personals Mr. J. K. Godwin, of Spence, | Mr. J. H. Connell went over to was on the Streets of Cairo, Brinson Saturday and returned Tuesday. — j home Sunday accompanied by his Mr. Ed Singletary, who has wife and daughter who had for years lived in Florida is here, been on a visit to Mrs. Ramon He is a brother of Judge Single- Sutton for several days, tary and has many friends who i Have your ginning done at the are glad to see him back at his Grady Ginning Co.’s new gin just Traverse Jury Lists. old home again. Mr. T J Whitfield, of Beachton, was in the city Tuesday. col. R.R. Terrell of whigham, was in Cairo on legal last Friday. east of Barber’s stables THE CAIRO CONCERT BAND WILL GIVE A FREE CONCERT AT THE COURT HOUSE, ON business THE NIGHT OF Oct. 5th at 8 j o’clock, P. M. Messrs. R T and I E Malloy, Coy Vanlandingham, General two prominent farmers of North Manager of Cranford Trading Grady were in Cairo Friday. Read the ad of Walsh & co. this issure. See the mules at Walsh’s. Company, was in the city Mon day on business. There will be music by the BAND EVERY DAY OF THE FAIR, about 4 o’clock in the Rev. W. G . Sellers was in the afternoon. City Saturday. I „ ! Mrs. Wiley Pearce returned Pro W . H. Searcy has gone home with her son Richard of to Andensonville to assumne the Monticello, Fla. Sunday, duties of principal of the school there. Dr. C. H. Maxwell of Calvary was here Saturday. B. H. Pope of Akridge was here Saturday. From some cause last week the The W. C. T. U. will hold its regular meeting at the Baptist church Friday afternoon at 4 P. M. • Each chairman of the Fair committee is requested to call news items of one of our corres- a meeting of her committee at pondents were mixed with our 3;30 o’clock in the Sunday School locals. We hope this will not oc- room. cur again. Dr. L. C. Graham spent Sunday Old YOU MERRY-GO-ROUND! in Whigham with friends. THERE WILL BE FUN TO . * SPARE AT THE GRADY COUN- Mr Henry Herring of Calvary TY FAIR C 0ME, and YOU spent Sunday m Cairo with his WILL BE GRINNINg like a tather - BASKET OF POSSUM HEADS 5 room house for rent on ALL THE TIME. THE SMILE North Broad Street. Apply THAT WON'T RUB OFF WILL to M. L. Ledford. |BE YOURS IF YOU COME TO Our congressman, S. A. Rod- ^HE FAIR, AND IF YOU denbery, will address the people DON’T. WELL, THE GOBLINS •of Grady county on the afternoon j WILL GET YOU. of Oct. 6th. at the Grady county | Mr. C. F. Sanders went to Do- Fair. Notice a letter from him than and returned home with his in another part of this issue., wife Monday, come out and hear “Our Ander-. Miss Irma Powell left Monday son.” * for Cuthbert-where she goes to Save your cotton and have it take charge of the music depart- ginned by the Grady Ginning Co. ment of Andrew Female College. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pearce 1 , We will be ready to- gin your of Monticello,Fla. were the guests co ^on, bring it to Grady of Dr. and Mrs. E. Clower this Ginmn £ Co., Cairo. wee k # I Secretary Weathers appeared TAGS TO BE ATTACHED TO' bef ° re the Farmers’ Union of THE VARIOUS EXHIBITS will 2 rad f °°£ n .*7 m behalf of the be mailed out by the Secretary T™ by middle or last of next week. | *® ed to FAIR, and He will give FULL DIRECTIONS they wl11 do ,t: ’ to °* Traverse Jury drawn at the September Term, 1911, to serve at the March Term, 1912, Grady Superior Court. 1. A. G. Harvey 2. I. E. Malloy 3. E. L. Maxwell 4. I. P. Chapman 5. R. A. Thomas 6. Matthew Gilliard 7. Joe Lee 8. June Eaton 9. D. P. Ward 10. J. W. Hesters 11. J. F. Massey C. B. McNair W. J. Griner T. H. Hesters G. S. Johnson L. A. Ragans L. Barwick Z. F. Booth W. A. Lee T. P. Harrison R. A. Tyus T. H. Gainey D. F. Oliver T. A. Maxwell John Ahdrews A. U. Wilder G. J. Mckeown G. M. Garland ' J. A. Autry Jesse M. Sellers B. W. Martin J. R. Gray W. L. Parker J. L. Bishop A. H. Dekle T. M. Mills. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16! 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 3k 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. FOR THEIR USE. Mr. Martin Powell left Monday lor Atlanta where he goes to at tend Tech school this fall. Miss Bessie Dunn left Monday for Mitcalfe where she will teach this fall. A FULL AND COMPLETE PROGRAMME FOR THE FAIR WILL BE printed in the Cairo papers next week. NOTIcE THIS in order that you may know WHEN AND WHERE the events are to occur. An attractive feature of the Grady county Fair will be a con test held by the Roddenbery Hardware company in which they will give away to the successful contestant a Studbaker Junior- Wagon. This contest to be held will be given on the Fair grounds at The Roddenbery Hardware compa ny’s booth and will include both the first and second days; a wag on being given away each day. Every man, woman and child at tending the Fair will be entitled to vote, and there is no charge whatever connected with it. The wagons are now on exhibition at their store and the rules for the contest will be published fully in next issue of this paper. Mess. F. M. Brannon and. W. C. Matthews spent part of last week in Jacksonville, Fla. on business. Mess. H. A. Powell and Slater Wight left this week for Ithaca, N. Y. where they go to attend Cornell School. A THOROUGHBRED PULLS ON THE BITS, A TEXAS PONY SETSJBACK ON THE BREECH ING. Be a thoroughbred and PUSh THE FAIR. (Write the Secretary for the Monkey-wrench and book of instructions.) We make farm loans at low rates of interest, large loans specially. Bell and Carlisle. Mr. Marchman has the school in charge there this season. J. M. Sasser, Co. Com. and Pres, of Cranford Trading Co., was in the city Saturday. The Grady Ginning Co. are installing there new outfit; will be ready for work this week. Mrs. C. M. Marchman left Sat urday for Edison where she goes to live. For five year farm loans at low rates of interest on short notice, see Bell and Carlisle. Free! Free! Free! Two Studebaker Wagons To Be Given Away During the Fair. We are going to give away absolutely free on both the first and -second day of the Grady county Fair a Studebaker Junior Wagon, come in our store and see these wagons and learn of the contest before the fair. Every one is entitled to vbte and it costs you nothing. Rules for the con test will be in next week’s issue of this paper. -Wanted- A good man to take charge of a four or six horse farm in Grady County on shares. Thomas Wight. Notice. ^JWe 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. 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. Reno Blacksmith. General repair wheel-wright and blacksmith. Horse-shoeing outfit and horse-shoeing com plete. If you have bad stock that needs shoeing, bring them to A. L. Elliott, Reno Ga. Guarantees them safety to the horse and the blacksmith also. Please bring your stock to me. Oats make tlm best grain ration for horses In summer. One of the very best feeds to grow for sheep Is fodder corn. Blue grass and white clover make an Ideal pasture for sheep. Mutton breed lambs should receive grain as early as possible. Some horses have learned to balk by being overloaded and abused. The Idle curry comb and the fat horse Beldom live In the same barn. Good time to stop thq leaks Is In the months when the least rain falls. Frequent watering of the teams dur ing harvest Is good Insurance ngalnst sunstroke. Look out for ticks. Your sheep enn not fatten If they are troubled with these pests. Mature hogs that are thin mny be made to gain a half pound a day on alfalfa without grnln. The brood mare In foal should be handled by a firm, steady hand, not an excitable, rash hnnd. Do you ever give your horse a cool bath In summer? You know how good It fepla when you bathe. Lime, such as ground oyster shells or la some other form fed In soft feed will harden the egg shells. A horse that Is too straight In his posture Jars himself and gets all the concussions of the road. An umbrella on the cultivator Is a better preventative of sunstroke the cabbage leaf In the hat. It is common sense that a mature sow will produce larger and more per fect pigs than a very young one. Do not attempt to raise fall .pigs without having first prepared a per fect system of housing for the win ter. FARMERS SHOULD USE DRAGS In. Order to Successfully Perform its Duty Implement Should Do Ap- piled When Soil Is Wet. In order to successfully perform Its work the drag should be applied When the soil Is wet, but not too sticky. Hence a large mileage of roads will obviously require treatment about the same time, and to work evpry mile to the best advantage a large number of drags must be employed. It seems, then, that the .most practicable so- Spllt-Log Drag. lutlon of the difficulty would be for a‘number Of farmers resident along the different highways to undertake this work and for each to devote an hour or two with a man and team on a day after continuous rains, when It eould be most advantageously per formed on the portions of the roads •most conveniently situated, and to re ceive a reasonable remuneration for their time and labor. An hour’s work on one drag should accomplish the desired result on a mile and a half or two miles of road, If worked at the proper time. Get Rid of Scrub Males. Now Is the time to castrate all scrub males. Let us get rid of the pests. There Is absolutely no excuse for scrub males. Several neighbors can go Into partnership and purchase good bulls, jacks, boars, rams and other males. We must have pure bred males to Im prove the stock In the South. DEVICE FOR PULLING POSTS Illustration 8howa How Horae At tached to End of Chain Can Pull Up Any Ordinary Post. The device shown In the sketch la very simple for pulling old posts, but It works as well on any post, says a writer In the Popular Mechanics, y Manner of Attaching Chain A plank, 2 In. thick, 6 In. wide and 8 ft. long, Is set slanting against the post and a chain Is fastened around the post just above the ground and run up over the end of the board. A horse hitched to the end of the chain can pull out any ordinary post. Emm 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 an Purity” is our motto. Notice. Lodge dues to the Cairo Mason- ic lodge are now due. Please call and pay. Fraternally, E. F. Richter. Notice. * One dark, brindle cow, marked swallow fork in each ear, taken up at my place one mile from town. Anyone can get same by paying for this ad and damages she has done to my property. J. J. Coppage. A Physician’s Knowledge and skill avail him nothing if his prescriptions fare not carefullyfilled. The potency of a drug depends on its quality. We recognize that fact in compounding our prescrip tions. All Drugs and Medicines sold by us are of absolute purity, fresh and of the pro per degree of strength. When used as directed or- prescribed the result is al ways satisfactory. .Wight & Browne i Leading Druggists Phone 14. Ga, Soil for Late Cabbage. Boll preparation for late cabbage should be as thorough as possible. TJn< less the soil is moist and fine there will be great danger of losing a large percentage of the plants. The disk harrow, Meeker smoothing harrow and plank drag (or other suitable tools) should be used repeatedly until there Is no question about the propel preparation for planting. , Charcoal to Preserve Health. 1 Charcoal Is a great absorbent and 1 should be used freely in the drinking water. A little pulverized charcoal fed occasionally will greatly assist la maintaining the health of the fowls. The best plan [a to have It handy and| when feed la being mixed, put a spoonful in the mash. This should bfj done once or twice a week.