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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS-PACE
GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS
S. R. Blanton & Son, Owners.
S. R. Blanton, Editor and Munager.
Z. V. Blanton, City Editor & Mana
ger Mechanical hepartmont.
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF GRADY COUNTY
One Dollar Per Year, In Advance
Adverting Rates Reasonable and
Made Known on Application.
Entered at Cairo, Ga., Postoffice
as Second Glass Mail Matter.
FARMERS PAY THE PRICE
"Eufaula, Aug. 29—The new
regulations regaring the size of
cotton bales, established by the
railroads and steamship lines, is
seriously crippling local business.
Practically every bale is not of
the standard size and shippers
are not only buying by the mark
et just now, but yardstick as well,
making the farmer pay bale penal
ty.
The above news item was clip
ped from one of the daily papers
last Saturday. As is the case in
almost every thing, the farmer,
he pays the toll. Everything
levies a tribute on the poor old
farmer. And now comes another
levy. If his cotton bale is not
exact, to a hair’s breadth, he
must pay a dollar, and yet the
fault is not his.
There is one way the farmer
can get even. Let him quit cot
ton; let him strike; let him plant
not an acre of cotton for two
years. That would bring the
transportation companies to their
senses. Then, instead of want
ing to knock off a dollar on the
bale, they would be anxious to
pay him a dollar as a premium on
every bale he raised. If the far
mer would actually adopt this
plan, and stick to it, he would be
in better condition at the end of
the two years than if he had plant
ed cotton. There is no money in
cotton at any time, anywhere,
unless it is a farmer who owns
hi^ own land and does his own
work on the farm.
Democratic Im« *gency is doing
business “at the same old stand”
in Washington. Some of the
boys have refused to “play the
game” and the tariff bill will be
amended to suit them. Good
boys. Go for it again.
Learn One New
Thing Every Day.
By HERBERT KAUFMAN
Copy right: HcrbertKauftnan: 1013.
The Mexicans are not to get
any more encouragement from
this country in the matter of
arms and ammunition. Let the
heathens go back to the bow and
arVow, the tomyhawk and the
knife. They are good enough
weapons for any old Mexican.
That Old Dispute.
“Well, after all,” she said,
“you men can’t get around one
fact when you try to make out
that man is woman’s intellectual
superior. You admit that it was
a womau who caused the first
man’s downfall. Now, if that
doesn’t show intellectual super
iority on the part of the lady,
I’d like to know why. If the
man had been above her men
tally, how could she haye accom
plished his overthrow? If he was
her superior why didn’t he—”
‘ ‘Pardon me, ’ ’ the man inter
rupted, “you haven’t started
quite far enough back. As ir,
all such cases, there was anothei
fellow around to put her up ti
it.”
After which she scorned hin
and entered into conversatioi
with a boy at the other side o
the room.
We hope that Col. Huff of Ma
cbn is not so badly hurt from hi
fall but that he will be ablje t<
*show up in Washington at th<
Speer investigation. The Col
is not afraid to talk.
Sooner or later every man who owns or rides in an
automobile finds himself half way on his journey because
“Somebody” forgot to fill the gasoline tank. •
No thing or man can proceed without power.
Engines, bodies, and brains constantly require new
fuel.
Steady accomplishment necessitates regular replenish
ment.
Trans-continental traffic would be impossible without
coaling stations and water tanks. The locomotive is use
less the instant its tender is empty.
Your door bell will fail to ring after a given length
of time. Just as every battery' must be recharged when
the cells are exhausted, so every mind must be refilled as
its ideas are utilized.
This is an age of thinkers.
Progress depends less and less upon hand power.
Machinery is supplanting manual labor everywhere and
in everything
Wheels are no longer pulled; they’re driven. The
craftsman has been displaced by the mechanic. A human
being can’t compete with a lathe or a power punch or a
stamping die or a motor. Photo engraving has superceded
the wood cut.
The trolley has knocked the horse off the car tracks
and the automobile has driven him from the shafts.
If you think that mere industry and application will
suffice for success their failure is stalking you. Men who
work like machines can’t work as well as machines or as
cheaply.
Human automatons, however capable, are thrown in
the junk heap the instant we can devise an automatic de
vice to fulfill the same duties.
Beaten paths lead to overcrowded places and discard
ed opportunities.
The old game of “follow my leader” is out or fashion;
now it’s “follow my inspiration.”
The new century insistently cries for originality.
We want something new every day, and when you cease
to respond to the call your name will be dropped from the
pay roll.
Your past performances have been paid for. Our
rivals won’t permit us to indulge in sentimentality. We
won’t maintain you in ycur present position if your ability
does not sustain you there.
You’re up for target practice at the opening of each
day. We get your score, and, no matter how hard you
aim to please, if your intention isn’t translated into per
formance it won’t count.
What’s the use of having an accurate eye and steady
arm if you’re firing blank cartridges?
There’s only one way that you can last, and that’s to
put a fresh idea in your mental purse every time you spend
a thought.
A man is like a store: when he lets his stock run
down he loses his customers.
$2.75
TO BRUNSIWCK, GA.
AND RETURN
VIA
A New Market with Some
thing Good to Eat.
TO THE PUBLIC:
I have purchased the business formerly known as the ‘ ‘Peo
ples’Market” and have opened up for business. I £ want your
trade. I am an experienced market man and will give you the
very best that money can buy of native products. I shall filljyour
orders promptly and correctly, just as you want it filled, and I ask
you to put me to the test.
Come in and see us and let us get
a cquainted.
H. K. CLARK, Cairo, Ga.
; Phofie No. 36.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
EVERY SUNDAY
June 1st. to Sept. 7th, 1913.
SCHEDULE
Leave Cairo Going 1.25 A. M.
Arrive Cairo Returning 2.23 A. M.
Excellent opportunity to spend Sunday at the Seashore.
Close connection at Brunswick for Beach Resorts. Finest
Boating, Fishing, Surf Bathing, and Hotels on '
Atlantic Coast.
For further information ask Agents, Atlantic Coast
Line, or write,
E. M. North, L. P. Green,
AGPA, Savannah, Ga. TPA, Thomasville. Ga.
We Are Now
Ready to Gin Your Cotton.
Every piece of machinery is in
good condition and we are able
to promise you service and a
good j sample as well as a good
turnout.
Located just below the Variety Works or Lewis Old Stand.
Highest prices paid for cotton seed.
Cairo Qinnin^ Co.
T. S. Copeland, Gen. Mgr. ,
Cyrene Institute
Cyrene, Ga.
Opens Wednesday September 17th
A Christian School founded and maintained for the Edu
cation of Boys and Girls to the complete furnishing of the pupil to
the MENTAL, MORAL and CHRISTIAN CULTURE.
Full and Thorough Courses in the following by College and
University trained Men and Women: Literary, Music, Voice and
Expression, Art and Commercial.
Expenses $125 per school year of nine months,
Dormitories in charge of competent Christian meu and wo'
men. President and Teachers living in close touch with the
student.
For catalog and particular information address Mrs. J. R.
Jenkins, Matron, Girls’ Dormitory or the President's office.
T. A. STANTON, President
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LEWIS W. RIGSBY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
0ft.ee with M. L. Ledford
CAIRO, GEORGIA.
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J. M. SELLERS W. S. MCDANIEL
sellers & McDaniel
ATTORNEYS-AT-L AW
Office in new Davis Building
Broad St., Cairo, Ga.
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