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. Special Edition of The
The Grady County Progress
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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRADY COUNTY.
VOL. 4
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 29. 1913.
NO. $
L,airo and Jrier in teres is — -
Cairo, Grady county, Georgia,
is beyond doubt the best town of
its size in Georgia. Situated in
.the center of the county, on the
main line of the Atlantic Coast
Line Railway, it is known from
the lakes of 'Maine to the Florida
keys and from the Atlantic on
the east to the Pacific on the
west, as the original home of the
unsurpassed Georgia cane syrup--
fche second largest syrup market
in the world, and the largest
market of the famous blue-stem
collard seed in the world.
A great many things have
wood timber close by and easy to
be had, there is no reason why
we should not have furniture
factories and buggy and wagon
manufactories.
Cairo has ten passenger trains
daily, six on the Atlantic Coast
Line and four on the Pelham &
Havanna. And if we weieable
to give to the public the amount
of business*of every line of both
roads, at this noint, the world,
and especially the world around
about us, would be astonished.
The railroads are forbidden to
give out this kind of information,
and therefore we have to esti
Cairo has one of the best High
Schools in the State. The School
employs eleven . teacher- and has
eleven grades, and an enrollment
of between three and four hun
dred pupils. Graduates of this
school are prepared to enter col-
tlege and their diploma admits
them without examination.
If you are going to change
your location, come to Cairo; we
do not ask you to come here first;
go elsewhere—investigate thor
oughly the opportunities offered
elsewhere—and when you have
done this, then come to Cairo,
look, investigate and cast the
anchor.
Grady--Our Own Home County
The prosperity of a country depends not on the
abundance of its revenues nor <?n the strength of its for
tifications nor on the beauty of its public buildings.
It consists in the number of its cultivated citizens,
its men of education, enlightment, and character.
Here is to be found its true interest, its chief
strength, its real power.—Martin Luther.
Hon. ,J. B. Wight, of Cairo.
Pioneer Pecan Grower and Sec’ty.
and Treasurer National Nut
G ro wers Association.
Hon. W. J. Willie
Mayor of Cairo and Solicitor of
the City Court. ‘
In manufacturing enterprises,
Cairo is sadly lacking. She needs
more of these and needs them
badly. We have variety works,
saw mills, ginneries, guano fac-
. tories, barrel factories, (syrup
barrels), syrup canneries, and
some other small concerns, which,
altogether, make up quite a nice
weekly and monthly payroll.
With the two railroads now in
operation, (the Pelham & Havana
railroad being pushed to a south
ern terminus, Cairo offers unsur
passed advantages and opportun
ities to manufacturers, With an
almost unlimited supply of hard-
intervened to give to Cairo the
fame to which she is so justly
entitled, but Georgia cane syrup
has probably done more to adver
tise the town than any other one
thing.
It is a common thing during
the syrup season for Cairo mer
chants to pay out to farmers
from $5,000 to $10,000 per day
for syrup alone. Add to this the
daily cotton receipts, and the
receipts from our even limited
number of industrial enterprises,
and we find that the business
done at Cairo will com rare favor
able with that of any town three
times her size. *
The present population of Cairo
is 2.000, - and growing as rapidly
as ariy town in all the state of
Georgia.
Cairo has three strong banks
and 78 business houses. Several
of Cairo’s firms do a $50,000 busi-
, ness annually, and when condi
tions are at their best they do
considerable more than that.
Grady County Fair 1912. ■
.The above cut shows crowd coming to town to attend the
Grady County Fair, 1912.
5. The increase and improve
ment of professional leadership
among country teachers, minis
ters, and others who serve the
rural community in offices of ed
ucational direction.
6. The perpetuation among
all the people of country com
munities of a definite community
ideal, and the concentrated ef
fort of the whole community in
concrete tasks looking toward
the realization tf this ideal.
7. The recognition of the
country school as the immediate
initiator of progress in the aver
age rural community.
8. The study and investiga
tion of country life facts and
conditions.
9, The holding of annual
country .life conferences.
10. The protection of this
Federation and of all country
life conferences.
10. The protection cf this
Federation of all country life
from every form of exploitation.
FOR SALE—One $100 latest
model Underwood typewriter for
$80.00, One $100 Fox latest
model typewriter for $75.00. One
“Iroquois,” latest model, coaster
brake, $60.00 bicycle for $30.00,
all brand new. If you want
either one of these remarkable
bargains call at this office at oner.
Cairo’s High School Building
Also the School’s, ball team, which bears the distinction of hcv-
. ing won eight games, losing one.
mate the total amount, and in
cluding everything—syrup $3000-
00; cotton,5$200,000; mercantile,
$600,000; guano, $200,000, lum
ber, $500,000, and all other lines,
$100,1000—we have practically a
$2,000,000 business.
Cairo has an electric light plant
and water works, in fact one of i
the best systems to be found in
any'town of like size in the State.
With property valuations of $3,
000,000, she has only 35,000 bond
ed indebtness,!with a moderate
tax rate.
Cairo has three white church
es, Baptist. Methodist and Pre^,-
b. terian, all of them flourishing,
being presided over by able min-,
isters consecrated to the work of
the Master.
Platform of the Illinois Con
ference for Country-Life
Progress.
1. Local country community
building.
2. The federation of all rural
forces in Illinois in one big
united effort for the betterment
of country life.
3. The development of institi-
tutional programs of action for all
rural social agencies. This
means a program of work for the
school, another for the church,
another for the farmers* insti
tute, and so forth.
I 4. The stimulation of farmer
leadership in the county com-
j munity.