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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRADY COUNTY.
VOL. 4
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JULY. 3 1914.
“Little Joe” Brown To
Run Against Smith
In Brief Statement He Makes Known
His Intention to Run Against
Hoke Smith.
Fight Will Be Hot From Rabun Gap to Tybee Light
Hon. Joseph M. Brown, of Ma
rietta, has formerly anflounced
that he will oppose Hoke Smith
for the United States Senate.
His announcement is short and
to the point. He merely states
that in response to the call of
thousands of voters from all
parts of the state that he has de
cided to enter the race and v, ill
make known his platiorm later,
and that he will have his head
quarters open by July 15th.
For weeks and months there
have been rumors after rumors
regarding what “Little Joe”
to make a fight and the announ
cement of former Governoi
Brown has fallen like a boml
shell all over the state.
The race no doubt will be hot
ly contested from now on.
Former Governor Brown’s an
nouncement is as follows:
To the People of Georgia:
In response to the call of thous
ands of white voters, I hereby
announce myself a candidate foi
the office of United States sena
tor, for the term beginning
March 4,1915. I will be very
7 HON. JOSEPH M. BROWN
"Who announces he wifi oppose Hoke Smith
would do or not do, and many
different dates have been set for
his announcement.
This will make the third time
that Mr. Brown has opposed
Hoke Smith. He defeated him
for Governor in 1908 and in turn
was defeated by Governor Smith
in 1910.
“Little Joe,” since his defeat
by Hoke Smith in 1910, has been
regarded as the leader of the
so-called anti-Hoke Smith fac
tion in Georgia politics.
It was general# believed that
Senator Smith would be return
ed to the senate without having
grateful for the support of all
who have confidence in my fit
ness for the position and my fi-
delty to the trust thus delegated.
Will announce platform later,
and will open campaign head
quarters by or shortly after July
15.
In the meantime I earnestly
request my friends in every
county to organize, and be pre
pared to use all proper endeav
ors to win success at the polls
on the day of the primary.
Your fellow citizen,
Joseph M. Brown.
Marietta, Ga., July 1, 1914.
BIG HAIL SI Oil AGO
FIRE AT AMSTERDAM.
We learn that on last Friday
the Amsterdam section suffered
from a severe hail storm and
that about fifty aer.es of fine to
bacco was ruined, and that sev
eral window panes were blown
out of houses, and one of the
largest packing houses in that
section was destroyed by fire the
same night. •
It seems that corn was stored in
the packing house and in order tc
keep the rats out they had the
ouilding charged with gas in
some way and the night watch
, «an in making his rounds struck
a match i:i the building and tht
result was that the building was
wreckted and the watchman was
blown about 300 yards and threi
negro children, who were right
near the building, were instantly
killed. The watchman was sev
erely injured but it is thought
that he will recover.
Besides the building and the
loss of life about 1500 bushels ol
corn were destroyed.
We understand the propertj
loss is fully covered by insurance.,
When Grand Mother Was a
Pretty Girl.
Didn’t you ever hear your
grandmother tell what a fine com
plexion she and her girl friend:
had in their young days? And
hasn’t she told you of the wa>
they made a compound of butler
milk and other things to apply
every day for keeping the skin
s /ft, clear and satin-smooth?
Some of those old fashioned
beautifiers were very effective,
even if rather crude. Buttermilk
certainly has a wonderful soften
ing and whitening effect on th<
skin when used right.
. We are fortunate in having a
delightful toilet cerate, made
from pure fresh dairy buttermilk
combined with other ingredients
that nourish the skin, and it is
delighting hundreds of women
who care for their complexions.
You migh like to try it yourself.
Ask at our store for
Buttermilk Cerate.
A tube car. be had for 25c, a
large jar for 50c. There are
many Penslar preparations,
covering every toilet need—all
just as fine as the Buttermilk
Cerate which, by the way, is just
what everyone needs now to heal,
smooth and soften rough chapped
kin. We recomend it absolute
ly.
The Grady Pharmacy
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City Court Jurors.
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CAIRO, GA.
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our banking methods,
and we point with
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among whom are the
best business men of
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W. T. Crawford, Pres. Thos. Wight, V-Pres.
J, E. Forsyth, Cashier.
List of Jurors drawn for fhe
July term of the City Court of
Cairo, Grady county, Ga.
J. W. Hurst, Joe B. Dorsey,
J. P. Rawls, S. O. Robison, J.
T. Ponder, J. L. Swords,
T. F. Dyson, E. Odis
Alligood, G. H. Harrison, C. F.
Johnson, J. L. • Peebles, J. D.
Hair, G. J. McKown, C. E. Van-
landingham, W. W.. Downs, A.
H. Vanlandingham, C. V. Chap
man, W. H. Clark, J. A. Aus-
burn, A. H. Maxwell, W. D,
Trammell,. J. H. Wade, J. T.
Owens, Wm. L. Hill.
The above list of Jurors drawn
this 26th day of June 1914-
Jno. R. Singletary, Judge C. C. C,
W. H. Hudson, Deputy Sheriff,
Grady county, Ga.
B. M. Johnson, Deputy Clerk,
1C. c. c.
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GRADY COUNTY ROADS .
CAUSE ACCIDENT
Mr. Emmett M tchell, whilf
driving to Mr. Blackshear’s place
Sunday had an accident which
might have resulted seriously,
He drove out the Clay street road
and turned toward Beachtonjust
before reaching the Walden
bridge, There was no sign oi
an obstruction and no warning.
When going along an apparently
level stretch of road at the rate
of about fifteen miles per hour
he saw in fifteen or twenty feel
of him a ditch four feet deep
right across the road. Then
was no sign to warn lvm of tht
ditch and he immediately put oi
all of his brakes, the car rolling
into it.
Judge R. G. Mitchell, w a s
thrown against the top of tin
car, bruising his head and Mrs.
W. W. Bruce fell forward, strik
ing her face on one of the cor
ners of the iron support to ih
xtra scats. They turned ar<
quickly came to town, when
medical attention could be givei
the injured. No serious resullt
will be suffered by the twc wh<
were injured. None of tht
others in the car were bruised.
The accident was an unusual
onfe in that it would have in nint
cases out of ten have prove:
very serious indeed, probably
killing all in the car. There wa.
no excuse for the negligence o,
the road authorities of Grad;
count/, in leaving the road ii
that condition, unless there was
a warning posted. The ditcl
cannot be sebn thirty feet fron
wht#e it runs across the road,
and it was probably left then
when hands dug it for the pur
oose of laying a pipe across th
r o a d.—Tuesday’s Thomasviilt
Times-Enterprise.
Mr. Thos. Wight, Chairman o 1
the Board of Commissioners oi
Grady, when f een by a Progres:
reporter Wednesday morning,
gave out the following statement:
“When we rebuilt the Waldei
bridge on that road, some timi
ago, we straightened the roac
for about a mile, throwing out
the old road and putting the new
one in good condition. We took
a pipe from across the old roac'
moving it to the new one. Aftei
changing the course of the roac
and removing the pipe, I was in
structed to leave the old road
open, as there were several fam
ilies having to use it. Howevei
we did not leave the road in bac.
condition, but graded it and filled
up the ditch. I then told the
parties living on the road that
the county could not keep up the
road, as it was not a public thoi
oughfare, and they would have
to look after it. I suppose the
recent rains had washed out the
old ditch.”
It was through Mr. Mitchell’s
mistake that the accident oc
curred, in taking the old road in-
stead of the one now in use.
It seems lucky, that Mr
Mitchell did not get over th«
ditch, for if he had he would
have probably run into the creek,
thereby sustaining more serious
injuries.
Masons of Second District to
Meet at Sylvester.
The Masonic Convention of the
Second Congressional District
will hold their annual meeting
with the Lodge at Sylvester in
Worth county on the third Wed
nesday in this month, so we are
informed.. There are about thir
ty lodges in this district and
large delegations always attend
these annual gatherings. Worth
county has never entertained this
body but this meeting promises
to be the most interesting in the
history of the Convention.
The personnel of the two
houses is practically unchanged.
There are five new members in
the house to replace four who
tied and one who resigned, and
one new senator to fill a vacancy
caused by death.
The first week of the Georgia
legislature has gone by without
the passage of any general bills
of great importance, but the law :
makers are girding themselves
for several fights which promise
to make the session interesting-
before its close.
The present assembly will go
lown in history, as Governoi
Slaton remarked in his annual
nes^hge, as the “debt paving
egislature,” for its work has-
oeen 'marked by an earnest ef
fort at economy and laws pro
aiding for wiping out old obliga
tions of the state.
The prohibition question prom
ses to become one of the big is
sues of the session. It was in
jected after several years of “lei
sleeping dogs lie” by the mem
bers from Bibb county, in the
shape of bills providing for the
legal sale and manufacture oi
real beer instead of “nigji beer”
and others to provide a 3 months
ninimum sentence for whiskey
selling in place of the year now
fixed as the minimum.
The attempt of two members
to repeal the tax equalization
taw which has so greatly increas
ed the revenues. v of the statq is
certainly doomed 5 ’to defeat', '"ac
cording to the friends of Gover
nor Slaton, who stood back of
the bill last session and com
nended in his message. Tht
governor has received letter;
from 128 members of the gener-
il assembly pledging him their
support for senator in his pre
sent race, and it is certain that
there are many more with him
who have not yet expressed
themselves. This gives him a
large majority of the 220 mem
bers in his senatoriol race, and
it is certain that an even larger
proportion are with him in the
tax equalization matter.
■ “I haven’t seen a man who
said he wasn’t for me, and I
haven’t seen a mar. who said he
had seen one who isn’t for me,”
That is the rather unique way
Clifford Walker, of Monroe,
sized up his own race for state
attorney general to an Atlanta
correspondent. He has just
completed a canvass of thirty-
five counties and expects to cov
er most all of them before the
campaign is over. Mr., Walker
had no opinion tp express as to
jther races. He said he was so
busy looking after his own that
he did’nt have ^ime to look
around to see how others were
The revival services which
have been in progress for the
past two weeks at the Methodist
church closed last Friday night.
Rev. J. H. House, of the Pavo
Methodist church, assisted Pas
ter Wright in the meeting, in
did all the preaching, and his
sermons were very helpful and
refreshing.
Never has it been our pleasure
to hear the gospel presented in
more simpler style. The mes
sages were earnest and forceful,
yet void of any fiery emotions.
As a result of the series of ser
vices much good has been accom
plished in the spiritual, edifica
tion of the church as a whole.
Unusually large congregations
w ;re present at both the after
noon and night services and also
at the children’s services.
On Sunday morning four
oright, happy children were re
ceived into the church on profes
sion of faith and others will be
received soon.
President J. Randolph Ander
son of the Senate and candidate
for Governor has . the heartfelt
sympathy of thousands of friends
over the death of his mother in
Savannah last Saturday. Mrs.
Anderson was 74 years of age
and was a great grand daughter
of Thomas Jefferson.
running.
Georgia Shippers are begin
ning to feel the good effect of the
repent x rder of the railroad com
mission revising express rates
within the state, and -the far
mers especially are profiting by
reductions in rates on fruits and
vegetables, according to reports
received by local commercial
bodies. The board of railroad
commissioners' has done some
excellent work for the state
since its organization. It is
working harmoniously, and bus
iness men are congratulating the
state that there is but one mem
ber whose term is expiring. He
is the Hon. Paul Trammell, and
up to this time he has had no op
position for re-election.
Atlanta’s gratitude to Forrest
Adair and her appreciation of his
work in bringing the great
Shriners’ convention to that city
and making it such a success
was demonstrated in a remark
able way recently. Through a
public subscription amounting to
$2,500 a great solid gold loving
cup was presented to Mr. Adair,
with a solid gold plate and a
Shriners emblem which bears a
diamond and tiger claws. The
cup bears the inscription: “For
rest Adair; Citizen and Shriner”
and is easily the most valued of
all Mr. Adair’s possessions. Thb
presentation took place at the
Adair home in Druid Hills, in the
presence only of his family. .
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