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The Grady County Progress
vol. 2
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1911.
| NO. 16
&RANF0RD POWER
Cranford, as we all know, is a
thriving'little town on the Pel
ham &, Havana Railroad six miles
below Cairo, it has two or three
business houses that are doing
well and quite a number of nice
residences. The Cranford-Power
Company has recently been or
ganized and. have bought the old
Collins Mill at Cranford and will
begin at once to develope it's
powers, all the old wood work at
the mill has been torn away and
the contract placed with the
James Leffell Water Wheel Manu
facturers, of Springfield, Ohio,
for the development of the water
power at the mill. Mr. S. W.
Brackin qf Ozark; Ala., has the
supervision of the work in charge
and guarantees to develope a hun
dred and twenty-nine horse pow
er when it is completed at low
- water. The contract for the dam
arid machinery to be put in was
at a cost of about four thousand
dollars. The mill when complete
which will be done by January
first-, will gin cotton grind corn
and-possibly several implements
will be added before it is com
pleted,.with the water power that
• s guaranteed, they will be able
to grind. 250. bushels, of corn a
day ar.d gin cottonVquaily as fast.
" This power plant may some day
: fyrnish Cairo with electric power,
it has sufficient water power to
furnish lights for two or three
towns the size of Cairo and would
be well worth the consideration
of our city fathers, if this was
done we could have electrical
power day and night and possibly
where a lot of our machinery now
run with steam or gasolifie would
be rim by electricity. If the
proper contract could be had with
this company the city could run
wires from Cranford and furnish
the fight users with a consider
ably better rates than they now
have.
The work will begin at once
and we may keep our eyes on
this enterprise, it may some day
in the near future mean 'a lot to
Cairo.
Should Mam Confide His
Business To His wife?
It depends upon' the wife.
There are women who are capa-
ble of sharing responsibilities and
wise in discharging them. There
are other women—bear boll worn ■
en—who need to have all the dif
ficulties of existence simdlified,
all the little problem^ of life
smoothed out and solved for them
by another
when they are made that way
they are only delightfully decor-
atiVe bits in the scheme of iife
So it sdnetimes happens that
when a man has married a girl
because of the sunshir e in her
hair, or the shadowy depth in her
eyes, he has not always acquired
toerewith the clear brain and the
steady ha d that may help at
the of his business affairs, and he
can not now expect his wife to
share very much the burdens of
his responsibilities.
But there are other marriages
move than beauty deep; Some
times they are even those rare
ideal unions that are soul deep.
They happen semi-occsiorially
when Jove comes to a man and a
woman who are mentally and so
cially and every way equals.
Then, it is the womans right to
know and the man's "right to
share with her every pulse-beat
of existence—even to the annoy
ing details of his daily business?
perplexities' A’.ways’she can help
him endure thein..Sometimes she
may help him to solve them.
Wherever there is a mans a-
chinvement there is always in
the background feminine inspii-
ation and femn'.ne sympathy
that is the ecmpletement of his
strength. Somewhere there must
always be a woman to whom he
can go and say, “I’m tired, dear;”
and when she has inswc-rec 1 ,
‘Tell me all about it,” difficul
ties that have been as mountains
begin to fade awoy like mist.
For every man who succeeds,
this woman exists.
By Mabel Potter Daggett in the
Delineator.
CAIRO TO LOSE
A
EVERYBODY THAI’S TRIED IT
IT’S
RE
A person who. dees nothing is
tampering with a cemetary lot,
normal life means activity, .and
activity means growth, and
.growth means joy; no one except
the person who is weak or ill in-
creaces strength by doing noth
ing, on the contrary, if ycu are
well ar.d jts; lay around and do
nothing you may not know it but
you are gradually killing yonr-
self, but then what difference
does it make, if you are not go
ring to do something you might
as well be dead, who cares?
What’s that?-an ad. in the
Progress, try one, and if ycu are
not satisfied, try another.
The progress goes into over
one thousand homes and it’s pa
ges are read by more than three
thousand people, and if you’ll
open up your heart and give us
an ad it will help business.
■ V .
try one.
General rumor has it that we
are to losefwo of our best citi
zens-, Messrs T. A. Stringer, and
Wb. Searcy,' these 'gentlemen
we learn are.going to Gainesville,
Florida and willi^o into the
whole-sale grocery business, they
will organize with a capital stock
of twenty thousand. They go on
the first cf January and will open
business immediately. Gaines
ville is to he complimented on
getting these two gentlemen,
they have made Cairo good and
honorable citizens arid they will
do the same for Gainesville. Mr.
Stringer has lived in Cairo some
seven or eight years, he came
here as a clerk for Ritcher and
Rushing and no doubt he made
one of the best clerks Gairo ever
had; after working as head clerk
for this firm some four or five
years he wentin the retail gro
cery business with J. R. White
forming the company of White
and Stringer, this? firnj. we don’t
have to tell that they have done
well, their business shows for it
self. ;
Mr. Searcy with his' parents
moved to Cairo from , North
Georgia several years ago, Air.
Searcy being only ; a M^/vihen
they came here, r l\e^'\ve)ht/ to
school a while and then he gbt a
job as rural free deliveryman
from the Cairo office; he filled
this position with honor and wa-
offered a position with the Citi
zens Bank which he accepted
he at first was only clerk in the
bank but was soon promoted to
assistant cashier and two or three
years ago he was made cashier
and. has filled this position to the
satisfaction of every one con
cerned, he has without a doubt
made many customers for the
Citizens Bank, he always has a
a smile for every one and/follow
ed close the rule ‘‘If you can’t
say something good don’t say
anything,” I venture to say that
every customer of the Citizens
Bank is a friend to Mr. Searcy
and will add further that quite a
number of it’s customers weie
made solely by him.
Both of these gentlemen have
numerous friends in and around
Cairo that will learn of their leav
ing with much regret.
The Progress joins tjieir many
friends in wishing for them un
limited success in their new field'
HAS DISAPPEARED.
w,
Sam M. Clyatt Drew Two Hun
dred Dollars From Bank and
Has Not Been Seen Since.
Valdosta, Ga., Oct. 30.—Two
or three hundred men have been
scouring the woods, fields and
swamps over a radius of ten
miles in the effort to locate the
body of Sam Clyatt, who disap
peared Wednesday and whose
check book was found later.
-Clyatt’s brother, D. T. Clyaft,
of Brooks county, and Sheriff
Goronto, who is the latter’s fath
er-in-law, have led the search,
while Mayor Roberts, Chief Dam-
pier and many friends from thi
city have been on hand all day
aiding the searchers.
Clues have .been hard to get
hold of.
The search for him or evidence
to show what happened to him
will continue until the mystery is
cleared up, or until the task
seems entirely hopeless.
Before leaving home Clyait
drew $250 from bank with which
to close a deal, for some land
TOO 1CHJ0TT0N.
2,317,006 bales more ginned
this year up to Oct. 18th. than
last year to same date. Georgia
increases over last year 634,645
bales.
Total crop ginned to Oct. 18th.
this year 7,740,634, total crop
ginned to same date last year
5,423,628.
This is sufficient explanation
for. the low price of cotton, no
use to ask, “What’s the' matter
with cbtton” anymore, the above
figures tell the tale, and it will be
the same old tale every year un
til our farmers will condescend
to diversify their crops, plant
more corn,' potatoes, peanuts,
collards, etc. and less cotton and
you’ll see the price go up and
stay up.
Notice to J. P. and N. P.
Acts of Legislature of 1911 are
ja my.office. Call and get a copy.
Very truly yours,
P. H. Herring,
Ordinary.
Now in passing down thestreet
you will see piled in the street
beside of the City Hall a large
pile of brick and sand, that means
another nice brick building, this
building will be between Hart’s
shop and the City Hall and own
ed by Mr. Chason. Mr. Hart,
we understand, will occupy the
building.
The hammer is ringing consid
erably on the South side of Cairo
in several different places, name
ly Dr. Searcy, residence, W. G.
B ggett, rebuilding residence,
and a number of others that we
don’t call to mind right now.
cairTsthTbpokis.
Mr. H. A. Maxwell has moved
his old house off College street
back on the vacant lot facing the
West and will begin at cnce to
erect a nice'house where the old
one was.
The hammer and saw is still
ringing early and late on the
houses on Broad street that are
being put up for Mess. R. L.
Vanlandingham and \V. O. Har
rison,
COL LEOFORD SPEAKS
AT EPWORTII LEAGUE.
A very helpful and interesting
feature of the Epworth League
held at the Methodist Church on
Tuesday night, was the address
of Col. M. L. Ledford on the sub
ject: ‘‘Temperance and Pros
perity.” Col. Ledford emphas
ized the fact that Temperance is
a subject that, although frequen
tly discussed from jpuipit and
platfOrm, has a vital hold Upon
the attention of the people hnd
cannot be stressed too strongly-
nor too often. He showed that
tax returns from cities that used
to have bar rooms show that tax
values have materially increased
in those places, and - 'that the cry
that prohibition means business
depression is untrue. The argu
ment advanced by some that there
is more liquor sold under the
present plan in Georgia than
there was under Local Option
was also exploded. The principal
point stressed throughout his en
tire speech was the fact sobriety
means material prosperity as well
as the individual uplift of society,
and that want and intemperance
go hand in hand. A larger num
ber than usual attended the meet
ing to hear Col. Led"o -d and all
were highly pleased v.ith his ad
dress. The Epworth League
highly appreciates his kindness
in sneaking to them.
Cairo is grei.tly m need of a
hardwood mill, hQse factory, cot
ton mill, machine shop, syrup re
finery, . canning factory, furni
ture factory, buggy and wagon,
chair factory, cotton mill, cotton
seed oil mill, and various other
industries. If you are in the mar
ket for a location move to Cairo
and live happy ever thereafter.
Last Saturbay Cairo was
When U stranger comes to Cai- well represented at the great
ro usually he goes to the hotel [ Forepaugh & Sells Brothers show
first place, and when he gets'in Thomasville, people left on
through stumbling over those old every train and - quite a number
sorry brick side walks what kind
of an opinion can we expect him
to have of our town? There are
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 20.—The
Georgia railroad commission \vas
eorganized this morning with
the election by unanimous vote of
Commissioner C. Murphy Candler
as chairman. Judge H llyer, vice
chairman, presided at the meet
ing but decl'ned to allow his name
to be placed in nomination. Paul
Trammel, who succeeds H. War-
nell Hill, appointed to the su
preme bench, attended the meet-
went over in autos.
We would guess, putting it in
round numbers that Cairo must ^ waa sworn in M a me iu-
have sent ever a delegation ot „
also some would-be paved walks
on the South end of the business not less than fifty or seventy-five, ^
section that could be considerably t thisgoes to prove tli&t the. Cairo •
4 • ’ A—-1* ...nnT fA nftft a QlifMXT- '!
improved.
her of the commission.
Judge.Hill. sat with the supreme
UiWifwVvP W f• • "i
1 people want to see a show. ' court at its session today.