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FHONE NO. 229
The GRAfe'; County Progress
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ORGAN OF GRADY COUNTY.
VOL. 3
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY.
GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1913.
NO. 45
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PICNIC Willi CALVARY
10 A CLOSE
The Pelham & Havana Rail
way depot v/as a lively place last
Friday morning about nine
o’clock. What made it lively
was the presence of between 600
Hnd 700 picnicers, of all apes and
sizes, composing the Sunday
Bchools in Cairo, Baptists, Meth
odists and Presbyterians, besides
some not members of the Sunday
schools, all headed for Calvary
for a days outing.
The officials of the P & H had
made ample preparations for the
merry, murthful host and Con
ductor Bill Bailey was the young
est and the' happiest child in the
entire gang. And by the way,
it was conductor Bailey’s birth
day and he claimed the occasion
for a birthday honor.
The Calvary schools met the
Cairoites at the train, turned
over to them the keys to every-
- thing and told thew to * ‘go yon
der” and have a good time. But
presently the Cairo folks and the
Calvary folks got mixed up to
gether and you couldn’t tell one
from tother. And about this
.time somebody said- ‘‘yonder’s a
. free' lemonade fountain” and
then everybody wanted some ice
cold lemonade. And oh my! it
was just so good you couldn’t
get-enough.
And somewhere along about
; fhat time, I don’t just remember,
somebody said ‘‘dinner’s ready.”
Now you. all know what that
DIVIDED WE FALL”
Tire 1912-13 Session of the
Cairo High School is coming to a
close. The active work will close
this week, the first two days of
next week being cpnsumed in
the regular monthly examina
tions and the other days in finals.
Promotion is in order and all pu
pils are trying to make their
grades.
Sunday May 25th at the school
auditorium will be preached the
annual sermon to the graduating
class by Rev. J. B. Ward of Bain-
bridge. Mr. Ward is a young,
deeply spiritual preacher and his
sermon is expected to be an ex
cellent one. The sermon will be
at eleven o’clock at the school
auditorium.
Monday night at the audi
torium at eight o’clock will occur
the graduating exercises and the
annual literary address by Mr.
R. H. Powell, President of the
South Georgia State Normal Col
lege at Valdosta. Mr. Powell is
one of the greatest educators in
the state and his address will be
well worth hearing. On Friday
night before these exercises wil ■;
be held the annual concert by
the Music and Elocution depart
ments. This will be held in the
auditorium. Friday night May
23rd.
To all these exercises the pub
lic is cordially invited. This is
the first year the exercises will
be held at the school building,
• means at a pier
I can tell you. It means a whole
lot of good eatin’ and a whole lot
of good eaters to eat it.
Everyboy from Cairo carried a
basket of dinner, but it wasn’t
needed. Them Calvary Crack
ers thought they had to feed
that whole crowd, and they must
have thought also that every
body was going to be mighty
hungry. There aint no words in
the English tongue big enough
to describe that dinner. I read
. .thro two spelling books, one dic
tionary, one almanac and one of
Laura Gean Libby’s latest novels
looking for big words, but they
wasn’t nothing big enough to do
it justice. If mixing up with
the dinner might be helpful,
mabe.Mr, Kadar Wight might
find some words to suit. One
thing is certain, he shore did eat
some dinner. But then he.
wasn’t ‘‘all alone by the sea side”
in the . eating business—there
don’t' not having had an auditorium
that will hold
some time.
the people for
CITY TAXES
Give in your City Taxes,
Rumors are afloat that denom-
inationalism is being injected in
to school affairs.
Whence come such rumors and
what is the basis of them?
The Board of Trustees has five
members, three ot whom are
Baptist and two are Methodist.
What might have beeri/the de
nominational line up of teachers
had a majority of the board cho
sen to act on denominational
lines?
Of teachers the past year nine
have been Methodist, two Bap
tist, one a Presbyterian and one a
member of the Christian church.
The preceding year showed
very nearly the same general
proportions.
This showing is significant,
and there seems to have been no
charges against the Board of de-
nominationalism touching same.
Concerning recent election of
teachers formal annoucement
have not been made, but prati-
cally all of the old faculty was
re-elected, some declined and the
vacancies have been filled in
part, the total number elected
being eleven, seven of whom are
Methodist, two Baptist, one of
the Christian church, and one
whose church affiliation is un
known to the writer; two places
are yet to be filled provided same
number are elected as last year.
My reason for calling attention
to this matter and for giving
pose of defending myself; as ii
has been and will continue to be
my purpose to do what I believe
IN BEHALF CANDLER COUNTY
■Mayor W. J. Willie of thL
city was the guest of honor at a
monster rally at Metter last Sat
urday, and the press notices of
the same are highly complimen
tary to our distinguished fellow
citizen and mayor.
Metter is pulling with all her
might for a new connty, to be
known as Candler county, and
the rally last Saturday was a
new county rally. Col. Willie’s
old home is in this immediate
section, and he received the Ma
cedonian signal to ‘‘come over
and.help us.” And he went—and
from all accounts his services
were timely and of a high order.
Mayor Willie feels almost sure
that Candler county will be creat
ed by the next legislature.
the
books are now open. In return
ing your property to the city,
make.your returns on what you
owned March 31st.
B. M. Johnson,
Clerk and Treasurer.
School Property For Sale.
We, the trustees of Woodland
school, will sell the house and
lot known as the Golden Rod
school, on May 23rd at 11 a. m.
J. A. Wynn.
were several others and me.
After that dinner my thinker
wouldn’t think worth a hardly,
and forgot a whole lot that ought
to be recorded here.
The retreat from Calvary be
gan. between four and live o’clock
and was conducted in good or
der and we all reached Cairo on
time, feeling that we had been
somewhere and had had a migh
ty good day. Picnicer.
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Now most of the time this
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We Pay Interest On Deposits As Follows:
On time Certificates of 12 months 5 per cent
On time Certificates of 6 months * 4 1-2 per cent
Savings Deposits Compounded Quarterly 4 per cent.
We credit our growth to the assistance we have
been able to give our customers. There are. many
ways in which a bank can assist the people of the
community in which it is located. You will find
that our officers take a pleasure in advising and in
structing you in matters pertaining to banking or
other forms of business.
to be the best thing for the
school; and it is well known that
my policy has been to pay no at
tention to groundless criticism of
my public acts; but I am writing
because I feel deeply for the wel
fare of our school and for the
peace and harmony of our people,
and I deplore exceedingly i
seeming effort on |the part of
some to inject sectarianism into
the community by misinterpret-
ing the motive that has actuated
the majority of the board in a
recent election of teachers.
I feel that the people can safe
ly rely upon the fairness of those
members Of the board against
whom these criticisms have been
directed, to oppose all denomina-
tionalism in the election of teach
ers. Their past and present
records on that point vindicates
them thoroughly.
I can further assure the people
of Cairo that if, unfortunately,
sectarianism should ever be in
jected into school matters in
Cairo, it will come from others
than those members of the board
who have been misrepresented
and unjustly caiticized.
In view of the fact that Grady
county is one of the eight coun
ties in Georgia showing the high
est percentage of illiteracy, it
behooves all goQd citizens to de
vote their energies to the reme
dying of this deplorable condi
tion, and to best accomplish this
we need to be strongly united on
plains that are high and for ideals
that are lofty.
Yours for unity and fairness
W. B. Roddenbery
P. S. I want to say further
that each member of the board
Perhaps it might be of some
interest to the public to know
mat the auditor employed by the
Board of Commissioners some
time ago has completed his
work and filed Ifis report, which
has been accepted by the Board.
I he investigation disclosed, ac-
cording to this report, that the
officers whose books were exam
ined. without exception had act
ed honestly and faithfully, but
that a lack of an up to date sys-
tem of book keeping is responsi
ble for some errors which under
the new system installed by the
auditor will not likely occur again.
In some instances the officers
had made errors against them
selves and in others in their favor,
and where errors were made one .
way or the other they have been
corrected and all matters connect
ed therewith amicablyand prop
erly settled.
It is a source of much gratifica
tion to both the citizens and offi
cers to know that rip evidence of
crookedness or intentional wrong
doing appears in the records of
any official whose bocks were ex
amined since the creation of the
county.
W e now have a splendid sys
tem of books keeping installed in
some of our county offices and the
modern system will soon be es
tablished in the remainder of the
offices and we believe that no
county in the state will have a
more systematic and up to date
method of records than Grady.
Respectfully, '
Thomas Wight,
Chairman County Board, Grady
County.
Mrs. Yancy Bryant had as her
guest last Sunday. Mesdames J.
S. Miller, J. R. Miller and J. B.*
Miller, all of Bacanton, Mrs. J. B.
Miller, as Miss Bessie Surles, was
once a teacher in the Cairo High
School and-has many friend's here.
of trustees is serving,the public
at considerable personal sacrifice,
each one having recently signed
as individuals notes to the amount
of $8000.00 which was used in-
enlarging the school building,,
this risk being assumed for the-
good of the community at large,,
and this fact should entitle them:
to the co-operation of the public
rather than to unjust criticism.
Yours
W. B. R.
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We Pay Interest On Deposits As Follows: $
On time Certificates of 12 months 5 per cent
On time Certificates of 6 months 4 1-2 per cent A
Savings Deposits Compounded Quarterly 4 per cent fij
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