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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRADY COUNTY.
VOL. 4
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1913.
NO. 10
SPEER HEAPING
TOSSTARTM
Washington, Sept. 24. — The
taking of testimony in the case
of United States Judge Emory
Speer, for alleged miscounduct in
office, will begin before a sub-
' committee of the House about
November 15. Chairman Clay
ton, House judiciary committee
chairman, made this announce
ment today. It is expected they
will be sent to Macon to take this
testimony.
GRADY COUNTY FARMERS
UNION DAS DIG MEETING
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The regular meeting of the
Grady County Farmers Unioir
held last Friday, was one of the
best held this year.
Some jnine local U nions were
represented and ihe attendance
was unusually large.
Several interesting papers were
read touching agricultural
themes, presenting information'
of importance to farmers. Edi
tor Blanton spoke on Rural Civi
lization to the benefit and profit
of all present/ ~
The Union is growing'in num
bers and in strength in Grady
county, and everybody of every
faith and order, calling and oc-
cdpation, ought to help it along.
There are some people who be
lieve that the Farmers Union is
antagonistic to other interests.
Foolish thought. A child ought
to know better. If-the farmers'
are prosperous are not all other
interests prosperous? The Un
ion is working for the independ
ence and prosperity -of the
farmer. You can hslp-everybqdy
can help.
OUR NEW ADS.
There are a big bunch of new
ads in this extra ordinarily good
paper. It will pay you to read
them—every one. They are:
Poller’s Department Store,
Crawford-Miller Co., C. E. Van-
Landingham & Co., Robert Dix
on, Mitchell & Walker, J. L.
Oliver’s Soil, Mrs. J. H. Spence,
Citizens Bank, Farmers & Mer
chants Bank, Higdon-IIerring
Co., Cairo, and Trulock Hard
ware Co., Dixie Drug Co., Miss
Lena Belcher, Whigham, and
Clay’s Ginnery, Olivary. Please
look them over.
NEW SALES STABLES
FOB CAIRO
There is to be another Sale
Stable in Cairo, a-bran new firm,,
and the opening/announcement
will appear .next week.
Sheriff R, L. Nicholson is at
the head of the new firm, and
his stables will be located near
the jail.
Mr. Nicholson will leave for
the West one day this week for
a car load of stock. He expects
to be back in at least ten days,
and will then open up for busi
ness.
T STATE
Assistant State Entomologist
A. C. Lewis of Atlanta, was here
Tuesday. He came to investi
gate wilt-resistant cotton being
grown on the farm of Mr. J. B.
Wight.
This variety of cotton does not
have what is known commonly,
as “black root,” and is earlier
than other varieties. This scien
tific investigation is being car
ried on by the State for the pur
pose of ascertaining what va
riety of cotton will mature quick
est, with the idea of escaping,
as much as possible, the ravages
of the boll weevil.
Mr. Lewis was well pleased
with his investigations here.
He said that the weevil would
hardly reach this section before
the fall of next year, and that
the little pest would be here in
force to attack the crop of 1915.
Mr. Lewis said that once the
weevil got here he was here to
stay and that it. was perpetual
fight with the farmer and the'
weevil henceforth.
COTTON PRICE
SIEAfl!LY_ AOYANCES
The price of cotton advances
slowly but steadily, Cairo buyers
are paying the tip’ top price in
cold, hard cash.
Prices this week have been
from 13 1-4 to 13 1-2 cents, and
it is coming to Cairo from all
quarters.
Supply merchants, guano dealers
and banksreport collections en
tirely satisfactory, showing that
this county is coming- around in
great shape.
Congressman Roddenbery
Hovers At Death’s Door.
At 7:00 o’clock this, Tliursday morning, Congressman
S. A. Roddenbery was still alive, but at the very door of
death,.
Friends at his bedside announced that he was breathing
about every four minutes, which would indicate that the
end is at hand.
Congressman Roddenbery has been ill for several weeks.
This much was generally known throughout the district,
but only a few knew that his illness was unto death.
T-Jntil Sunday last the distinguished patient fought hope
fully against the dread disease, and all of of us felt that
he still had a chance to recover. But at that time hope
for his recovery, or even for a rally of his departed
strength, grew faint, and his true condition was made
known to the public.
Mr. Roddenbery, even as we write these lines, may have
crossed the river, or he may linger’on for several hours.
But there is no hope that he will last through the day.
For a week, or since the annoncement of his true con-
dition ; this town, his boyhood home, has been in sorrow.
While every face, possibly, has not shown it, every heart
has felt it. That he must die now at the noonday tide of
life, leaving the work so well and so ably begun, unfinish
ed, seems hard to realize A almost impossible.
But death is already upon him. That eloquent voice is
hushed—the eye that beamed upon his friends that impe
rial sentiment of love, loyalty and friendship, is closed
in the last slumber. When the last moment for our des-
tinguished fellow citizen shall come, may he walk through
the Valley of the Shadow leaning on the Everlasting Arm.
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
“Make Our Bank Your Bank”
Statement showing condition at the close of books
September 22, 1913,
RESOURCES
CASH on Hand $46,558.20
Loans and
■Discount 103,833.13
Banking Hous
Fur. & Fix. 6,697.22
Total
$157,098.55
LIABILITIES
DEPOSITS $106,328.46
Capital Stock 30.000.00
BillsJPayable 15,000.00
Unpaid Dividends 16.00
Undivided Profits 5,754.09
Total
$157,098.55
We beg to invite your attentetior. to our growth in de
posits of over $7,000.00 since pur statement of the 12th, and
note that we have also retired $10,000.00 of our bills payable
and still have on hand more cash than on that date..
Wc ask your careful consideration of this showing, and
upon its strength solicit your business. WATCH US GR,Q W
“MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK’’
W. T. Crawford, J.. E. Forsyth,
President Thomas Wight, V-president. Cashier
Mr. M. E. Lightfoot
In Trouble With Uncle Sam
A young white man named M.
E. Lightfoot, who has been work-
ing.in the postoffice at Cairo for
some time, has got in very bad
with Uncle Sam and it begins to
look as if Uncle Sam is going to
give him a good deal af trouble.
It is said thatUncle Sam thinks
that Mr. Lightfoot is also light-
fingered and that he has been tak
ing liberties with mail matter
which cannot be tolerated by the
postoffice department. To be
more explict, Mr Lightfoot is
accused of opening registered
mail and of taking money from
them. .
He .was suspected for some
time, but there was no direct evi
dence against him. Recently
Postoffice Inspectors Payne, of
Albany, and Adams and Mckew,
of Atlanta, formed a scheme to
find out just who was opening
the registered mail. One of
the postoffice inspectors fixed up
a decoy letter, placing three $5
bills in it and dropped it in the
mail at Reno, Ga.
The mail was delivered a day
or two later, but it contairled only
two bills when it was turned over
to the party to whom it was ad
dressed. The postoffice inspect
ors kept a close watch on the let
ter and they declared that only
one person handled it after it
reached Cairo, and. that person
was Lightfoot.
Lightfoot denied his guilt and
intimated that the money was
taken by some one else.
His bond was fixed at $300 for
his appearance at the next term
of the federal court.-Valdosta
Times.
Mr. Lightfoot returned Satur
day. 1-Ie says he is innocent and
will remain in Cairo until his in
nocence is proven. He says he
never took any money, and furth-.
er he does not believe that the
money ever left Reno.
R0SEY OUTLOOK FOR
GEORGIA HUNTSMEN
That the quail, turkey and
deer hunting in Georgia during
this approaching season will be
better than ic has been for a
generation is the statement of
Jesse E. Mercer, state game and
fish commissioner. Mr. Mercer
declares that all game, but par
ticularly the quail and turkey
and deer, has increased very
rapidly this year.
For some reason the correct
dates of the open season have
been misunderstood recently,
says Mr. Mercer, and some news
papers of the state have printed
those dates wrong. The dates
have not peen changed since last
season, sa'ys he. Here they are:
August 1 to Jannuary 1, cat
squirrel, September 1 to April 20,
migratory ducks. October 1 to
December 1. male deer. Novem
ber 20 to March 1, quail, doves,
turkey gobblers and plover.'-De
cember 1 to May 1, snipe. De
cember 1 to January 1, wood
cock and wood duck.
PRISON FARM IN
Representative Collins, who
was a member of the House com
mittee to inspect the state prison
farm at Milledgeville, returned
from that mission last Tuesday
morning. A representative of
this paper saw Mr. Collins when
he alighted from the train and
asked him how things looked at
the prison farm.
“It is the nearest nothing I
have ever seen, ” said he. Then
Mr. Collins described the farm,
buildings, - etc., and the crop
growing on the farm. He thinks
that the State should sell the
farm for whatever it can get for
it, 'and buy lands upon which
something can be grown.
To say that Mr. Collins was
disgusted with the entire out
fit is putting it mildly. We
have never seen the state prison
farm, but we have seen Mil
ledgeville, and we can easily be
lieve every word Mr. Collins said.
Mr. Collins is of the opinion
that the Committee will recom
mend the removal of the farm,
AD OF LAST
WEEK HAD ERROR
Kindly, at our request and
solicitation, read the statement of
the Citizens Bank once more.
The reason is that there was a
couple of errors in the statement
last week- our errors—not the
Bank’s.
The ad. came in last Thursday
•morning- press day—and in the
rush—with five other ads. to
change—to get ready, the proof
of this adv. was not; read.
It. R. TERRELL
From The Atlanta Constitution.
According to R. R. Terrell, of
Whigham, Ga., former represen
tative in the house from Grady
county in the general assembly
of 190 ('-08, the people of south
west Georgia are amply prepared
for the invasion of the boll weevil.
Mr. Terrell was in Atlanta- yes
terday on business, with the pri
son commission. Discussing the
outlook for farmers in Grady
county,, he said:
“Grady county is in splendid
shape this year, because, while
the cotton crop is not as good as
it might be, the farmers are get
ting an excellent price for it, and
they are not depending upop it
as their all.
‘ ‘Grady coupty farmers do not
put all their eggs in one basket,
you may be sure of that. .We
have already learned the lesson
of diversification, and learned it
well. I suppose that the most
important.crop in my county is
the syrup crop. I dare say I am
within the truth when I assert
that Grady county produces more
canesyiup than all the rest of
Geoi gia combined.
Tobacco Important .
“Next to syrup in importance
comes tobacco. We have a little
strip in Grady county extending
down into Florida, which pro
duces a quality of tobacco which
cannot be grown anywhere else
in the world outside of Cuba.
This is naturally a very impor
tant crop with-our farmers.
After that comes cotton, which is
a money crop this-year, because
the farmers are out of debt and
the crop is bringing a good price.
• ‘Then our food crops, corn and
hogs, and the feed that it takes
to make hogs, are unusually good.
On the' whole, our farmers have
no kick-coming this year, and
should the boll weevil hit us next
year, and knock our cotton crop
nut as badly as some of the ex
tremists lead us to anticipate, we
will still be in good shape, be
cause we have not put all our
eggs in one market, and have
syrup, tobacco and hogs to fall
back on.”
CHAPTER ROYAL
ARCH MASONS
A chapter of Roval Arch Ma
sons was organized at Cairo Wed
nesday night.
There were some fifteen mem
bers here who belonged, to some
of them at Bainbridge and some
at Thomasville, and Wednesday
night eleven others were initiat
ed into the mysteries of the Royal
Arch. After the degrees were
concluded, the Chapter wa:l or
ganized with the following elec
tive officers:
L. B. Powell, High Priest, W.
H. Clark, ( King, Thomas Wood,
Scribe.
The work was put on by Right
Worshipful High Priest E. A.
Mellon of Union City, Ga., as
sisted by a team from Thomas-
ville and Bainbridge, The work
was of a very high order.
There are several appointive of
ficers, but they have not yet been
named.
The Cairo chapter will meet
once a month on the 4th Monday
night.
The new Chapter begins under
very favorable auspices and it is
expected that it will grow from
the start.
GRADY CO. MEDICAL
SOCIETY MEETS OCT. 1ST.
We are requested to announce
that there will he a meetime of
the Grady County Medical Soci
ety at the court house, Coramia-;
sioners Room, on Wednesday,
Oct. lstSvt 10:30 A. M.
'All members are expected to.
attend, as business of importance
will be attended'to.
Don’t forget the time and
place and the hour.
CALVARY MASONS TO
HAVE PICNIC OCT. 8TN
There’s a good time coming for
the Masons of Grady county
their friends and families.
• On Wednesday, Oct. the 8th,
the Masonic lodge at Calvary
will pull off a big Vine. There
will be some big speeches by big
Masons; there will be some rid-
in’ c.f the goat, and good eatin’
oh, my.
The invitations have not been
issued yet, but theysocn will be,
and the program will be enclosed
therewith. It will be an up-to-
date Masonic picnic and that
means a good time for one and
all. Get ready for a trip to Cal
vary on Oct. 8th.
Major R. L. Wyley, of Thom
asville was 1 in the city Thurs
day.
Condensed Statement of Condition of
CITIZENS BANK, Cairo, Ga.
At close of business Sept. 12, 1913 published under call from
State Bank Examiner.
RESOURCES
hoans and Discounts
. $203,691.30
Banking House,
13,505.90
Furniture and Fixtures...
Due from Banks and Cash
in
Vault —
.. 66,573.19
Total...
. $‘.>83,770.45
LIABILITIES
Capital Slock. * 50,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits ‘.*7,744.49
Cashier's Cheeks _ 364 74
Oeposils ' 196,661.22
mil- Payable. 10,000.00
Total $283,770.46
Upon the strength of the above statement we solicit your
banking business. Call in when you come to town and open an ac
count with us, we guarantee that you will be satisfied ‘with your
banking connections when you have an account with us.
CITIZENS BANK, Cairo, Georgia.