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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS-PAGE 5
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We now have a pen of .Choice Mules
Climatised and Broke ready for work.
It is our business to PLEASE.
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PINE PARK LOCALS
The farmers of this section are
well up with their work, and
’everything bids fair for a good
•crop year.
A crowd of students from Cy-
rtne Institute, consisting of,
Misses Irma Pollock,. Ruby
Rhodes, and Messrs Ben and
Oscar Kincaid and Perry Lane,
spent Saturday and Sunday with
friends in Pine Park.
Miss Myrtis Chastain and Mr.
Staotori Chastain of Norman Ins
titute spent the week end with
home folks.
Mr. F. I. Stringer of Metcalf
attended to business in this part
last Saturday.
Rev. Mr. Chapman filled his
appointment at the Universalist
Church Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Golden of
Thomasville were seen in this sec
tion Sunday p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Oxendine
spent the week end with the form
er’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. YV.
•Oxendine of .this place.
^ J. ■ R ' Faulkner attended to
business in Cairo last Saturday.
Mi. and Mrs. Graham Ward of
Cairo visited in this part last Sun-
-;'day.-
Eugene and Henry Barwick of
■ Norman Institute' spent Saturday
and Sunday with" home folks.
Our Debating Society is still
progressing nicely. The next
query for debate is, Resolved,
that George Washington deserves
TOdre honor for defending Amer
ica than Columbus for discover
ing it:
. Sam.
New Buggy for $25.
1 have an- open, skeleton-seat
buggy for sale. Has been run
about'100 miles; very light; cost
$60; it’s yours for $25 cash.
See.S. R. Blanton at the
office of the Grady County
Progress, .
AKRIDGE LOCALS
Everyone i§ delighted with the
action on the meeting of the road
commissioners last Tuesday, Now
we are expecting better roads and
levs expense to the county. As
there are few pessimists around
here, everything looks bright for the
future.
The “Rook fever” has planted
itself in our mdist. Some of our
ladies are losing valuable time at
the game.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Sadler of Macon
aie visititg relatives.here this week.
Several of the ladies are enjoying
the fine evenings fishing. They al
ways bring in a few of the finny
tribe.
/. The Misses Christies are spending
this week in Pelham.
There was a successful game of
rook played at the homo of Ij)r.
Belcher Saturday night Mrs.
Belcher made high score.
Col. and Mrs. J. Q. Smith spent
an evening here last week. The
Colonel is one of the best lawyers
in the South and was here on legal
business.
J. N. Carter was looking after his
railroad interests in this section last
week. If you have timber for sale
see Mr. Carter; he will make you a
good price.
Kiak Pope spent the week-end in
Cairo, taking in the school rally.
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Miss Ella Lou Pope of North
Georgia will be at home after the
13th. Her many friends;will be (Re
lighted to knotv that she will spend
the summer here. >
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Abridge has one of the bestMilli
nery stores in the county.', We sell'
hats from 50 cents up to * any price
you want.
Mr. J, A. Pope attended to busi
ness in Cairo Monday.
Akrfdge.
PLEASANT GROVE
Sunday school and preaching
was well attended Sunday after
noon.
Rev. George Hurst gave a Sunday
school lecture to the little folks at
Pleasant Grove Sunday.
Mrs Julia Wilcox and daughter
Susie, visited her daughter Mrs C
G Sadler at Climax Friday and
stayed till Sunday.
Mrs W P Ragan spent the day
with Mrs A M Hartley Sunday.
Miss Laura Coleman visited Miss
Wilma Swann Sunday.
School is progressing nicely tnese
days.
There will be a singing at Pleas
ant Grove secondjSunday evening,
every body come and bring some
one with you,
Just Me.
FARM LOANS
We are prepared to negotiate
five year loans bn improved
farm property in Grady county.
We can offer attractive terms,
especially on large loans. We
shall be pleased to have you cal
and investigate our proposition.
Bell & Weathers
CAIRO. GA.
Several communictions reached
us too late for this. issue. Send
in your news Monday ^nd Tues
day, never later, as this pafter
goes to press Thursday morning, j
John Browning has returned
from South Florida, where he
has been trying to raise vegeta
bles. He says everything is
drowned out where he has been.
REVIVAL flit
BAPTIST CHURCH
"The • revival at the Baptist
church' is grovying in interest
with every service. The attend
ance is very go.od and inceeasing.
The pastor is assisted by Rev.
Calloway who is preaching some
fine sermons. The music is ex
cellent. . .. /.$ra|8
Go out.
LANE WORKS TO
PREVENT FLOODS
Washington.—Franklin K. Lane, sec
retary of tlie interior, detailed a plan
for preventing such lloods as devastat
ed Ohio and Indiana. The plan, which
presents itself to the head of the de
partment of the Interior as an euor-
tuous reclamation project,, binges on
the deepening and widening of the
channels of ull streams liable to ilood
conditions.
Mr. Lane hopes to see the Idea car
ried out through the co-opcrution of
the federal government, with the aid
of the states immediately endangered.
The engineering in ’connection with
channels is directly in the hands of the
war department, nnd Mr. Lune takes
no exception to that. Bat because of
Its reclamation features the plan he
outlines falls wlthlu the jurisdiction
of his department.
Aside from the perpetual protection
against flood which ho believes his
plan would give to settlers in low re
gions. there are widespread districts
along the‘Mississippi and many'other
Vlvers tliat would be thrown open to .
settlement.
“The reclamation service." snld the '
secretary of the interior, “usually is
regarded as relating to the arid lands
of tlie west, which nre reclaimed by
.bringing water from the mountains,
but in another wn.v reclamation Is a
great problem in the Mississippi valley
and the east. Here, of course, tlie land
Is not arid, and there Is no scarcity of
water. .But tbe water is to bo remov
ed from tbe land, and that is as lit sutr
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BUILDING DTK13 AT LAKESIDE, IND., TO
llEKl* ItIVElt IN ITS COURSE'.
Jeet for reclamation work as’that now
being carried on in the desert lauds
out west
“The recinmution of these overwu-
tbred lands, however, to he of reni
value must be„preeeded_by_jivstemntie
work on tlie chnnucts of the streams
draining the arens to bo improved.
Tlie disaster at Dayton illustrates the
point The trouble was simply Unit the
neck of the bottle was too small for
the water to run out Tbo rain fell in
torrents, aud with no unobstructed
channel to the sea the water simply
backed up over the river banks.' Tim
rainstorm, I know, was phenomenal,
and even with the system I have sug
gested would have doubtless resulted
in mnterlnl damage and the loss of
some lives.
“It will not do for Ohio or Indiana
or even tlie two states together* to
spend their money generously in clear
ing the beds of the streams within
their boundaries. Thnt would merely
carry the flood more swiftly to tlie
state lines to thfe south, nnd the water
would back more angrily than ever
into what would quickly be great lakes.
Tlie tiling is too large for the states
alone. A harmonious scientific system
must be worked out by the federal au
thorities, .and the states must thou
make their contributions in the way
that will do the most good to the whole
valley affected.”
TIow this co-operatldn between the
federal and state governments might
he effected Mr. Lane illustrated by
plans now pending before ills depart
ment for co-operation with the state of
Oregon in reclaiming 30,000 acres of
arid land. Tlie land is under the gov
ernment’s ownership— as tlie rivers
would he under the government’s juris
diction—nnd tlie government engineers
of the reclamation service are asked to
do the work.- The state of Oregon sup-v
plies the wnter nnd contributes $450.-
000 to the work. A Similar sum may
be put forward by the reclamation
service, but on the understanding that
tlie sule of reclaimed lands will liqni
date tlie obligations assumed by the
United States.
L0, THE POOR JANITOR!
There Are Several Things That Ho Re
fuses to Do.
Chicago. — The janitors of Chicago
made a declaration of Independence
through delegates to the Chicago Fed
eration of Labor. The federation vot
ed to stand behind the janitors.
Here are a few of the tilings which
are asserted to lie entirely out ’of the
scope of a perfectly good janitor's
duties:
Caring for the tenants’ babies on
tlie maid's afternoon off nnd while the
“missus” is out to ten.
Buttoning milady’s gown down the
hack.
Caring for cats, dogs, canaries and
other household pots.
Running errands to the delicatessen
store on Sunday evenings.
Moving pianos and taking up rugs
without extra pay.
Mending tenants’ furniture.
Being responsible for forgotten keys
nnd suffering to lie routed from bed
two or three times a night by late
home coming tenants.
One delegate said: “We have been
every one's servant too long. A jani
tor -must not only ho that, hut a born
diplomat as well, who knows how to
regulnte a furnace or. button a wo
man’s party dress with equnl facility.’’^