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J- 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.