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THE GRADY COUNTY
PUBLIC DRAY
The Old Rellablo
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THP OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRADV COUNTY,
VOL G.
■CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY,.GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 5,1910.1
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A Letter Presented
To President Wilson
The State Sunday School
Convention To Break
All Past Records
Arpil 20, IOIG.
The Prcsidoni,
While House,
Washington, D. C.
Sir:
At ii special meeting of the Exe
cutive Committee consisting of tlie*
otfieinl representative* of the thirty
constituent, bodies of the Fedcrrl
Cotmeil of the Churches of Christ
in America, held on April 19th, the
following.action was taken:
PREAMBLE
inasmuch ns the conditions of
suffering and peed, in the nations
directly affected by the war in Eu
rope and Asia are appalling beyond,
description, and are not known tc
the masses of our people, who lmvo
not been sufficiently informed con
cerning the facts to inspire them tc
interest or action; and since tin* in
ability of the nations, strained as
they arc, to meet these needs, con
stitutes nil urgent appeal to the
neutral nations, and especially to
the people of tho United States, to
use thpir utmost endeavors to bring
relief whenever possible to all who
suffer; therefore
Resolved, That the F e d e r a 1
Council of the Churches of'- Christ
in' America while recognizing the
various relief organizations already
at work, and having no purpose
save that of cooperation, believes
that the time has come for a relief
nibvement of such magnitude as
shall fittingly recognize the obliga
tion of Christianity to respond to
all human, need and emphasize to
all t he world t he motal and spiritual
consciousness and t he Christ iarvnnd
philanthropic spirit of the. Ameri
can people.
1. That the Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ in America
initiate a nation-wide movement for
the relief of suffering in Europe and'
Asia growing out of condit ions’ cre
ated hy-tlie war.
2. That tho movement shall be
under the leadership and inspira
tion of tluvCImrchos, a preeminent
ly religious appeal to the people
through the churches and religious
orders and organizations, endeav
oring to arouse among all classes
the sentiment of personal seir-sac-
l'ifiee.
ft. That the Federal Council of
{lie Churches of Christ in America
suggest for the inauguration of the
movement tiie week preceding
. Memorial Sunday ifoi' l-he solicita
tion of funds for the suffering peo
ple of Europe and Asia;' that the
President of the United States be
.requested to invite all the churches
and religious organizations of the
United States to set- apart Memor
ial Sunday, May 2S, 191(5, for the
Consideration of the widespread sor
rows of the peoples and for most
generous contributions to relieve
the suffering; and that, a delegation
be appointed to present in person
4 this proposal to the President of the
United States.
4. That tlie movement ho un
restricted in its appeal hot h in re
aped to the securing of funds' and
in the distribution of relief and that
when individuals, churches, anil
ot her organizations desire, t hey may
may designate their-preference for
thamse of funds.
-5. That the Administration here
after to be appointed shall'- follow
up these initial ‘appeuls so long as
T necessity may exist- or until the
] Executive Committee shall other
f, wise order.
The President of the Federal
■ Council, the General Secretary and
•the Chairman of the Executive
-Committee with others to bo asso-
f eiftted with them were appointed as
the delegation to wait upon the
Information from the office of the
Georgia Sunday School Association
indicates extraordinary prepara
tions are being made for -the State
Sunday School Convention which
is to be held in Atlanta June I3-I4-
15. The officers of the State Sun
day SpIiodI Association and tin
Program Committee are determined
to make this the best Suiulnj
School Convention o\'er held in the
5tatc and break all past records foi
ittendanca. More, than GO speak
ers are on the program. Among
them are such men as Mr. Marion
Lawrence of Chicago, General Sec
retary of the International Sunday
School Association. Mr. P.E. Green,
Birmingham; Superintendent ol
Soblmth School work, Alabama
Synod of t lie Presbyterian Church,
U. S. A.; Dr. Plato Durham of
Atlanta, Dean of t h e, Candler
School of Theology; Dr. W.L. Pick
ard of Macon, President Merrei
University; Miss Daisy Davies, La
Grange, President La Grange Fe
male College; Mrs. II. II. Tift, Tif-
ton; Dr. A. W. Van Moose, Rome,
President of Shorter College; and
many others of qqual prominence.
The music is to he in charge of
Prof. E. O. Exeell of Chicago, who
is one of the world's famous con
vention song leaders and composers
ot music. He will be assisted b,\
Prof. Alvin \V. Roper of Winona
Lake, Ind., who has been pianist
with Prof. -Excel for a number of
years.
The Atlanta Sunday School
workers and church people are tak
ing hold of the arrangements with
true Atlanta spirit. Mr. J. V.
Wellborn of Atlanta is Chairman
of General Committee on Arrange
ments. TJic Committee on Enter
tainment is composed of Prof. Floyd
Fiejd, Chairman, and 29 other
prominent- church workers of At
lanta.* They are securing 'homes
for 2,500 delegates.
All white Sunday Schools in the
State are entitled to three delegates
besides pastor and superintendent.
■Every Sunday School in the county
is requested to gleet, three alternate
delegates who can take the place of
ally regular delegate who finds it
mpossible to attend. In case any
school, or church that has no
school, fails to elect delegates, the
first three adults.who register from
that, school will be counted as dele
gates.
Each delegate will be furnished
free entertainment for lodging and
ireakfast while attending the con
dition. This armugement was
made because any church in n city
the size of Atlanta is several miles
from the majority of the hollies.
For this reason the officers of the
State Association felt that the del
egates would prefer-getting their
lunches and suppers at down-town
cafes near the convention church.
A very low railroad rate has been
granted'from various parts of 4he
state. The round trip rate from
Cairo is $8.00,
$5 IN GOLD GOES MAY 6th.
RACE IS WARMING IIP
mb carol mmmam
MM THE IS APRIL 22ml.
Closing Date Is June 30th At 12 P. M
Additional Cash Prizes Offered For
Best Workers In This Race. Be
sides Big Prizes And Cash Com
missions.
Miss Carol Vanlandingham IVon $5.
Miss Carol Vanlandiiigham turned in the greatest number of cash
subscriptions from the beginning of tlie contest to Saturday April 22nd
at 4 p. m. and won $5 in gold. $5 in gold will be given the worker in
t iis contest that turns in the greatest amount of cash business from
Saturday April 22nd at 4 p. m. until ^'EXT SATURDAY, May Oth, at
1 p. m. BOTH NEW AND OLD SUBSCRIPTIONS COUNT.
List Narrowing Down /
The list of candidates is narrowing down, and some of them will go
this week unless they wake up to the fact that this is a REAL contest—
and not a game of parlor ping-pong.
Prizes Of Merit
WheiP'olfactory gets J 100,000 carsjTohiiuUn its''orders, there is
merit and want ability to its product. When June out of every three
ears you meet on the road is an output of that particular factory,
THERE IS A GOOD CAUSE FOR IT. The Ford is a car . that any
man can operate without purchasing a bond for some garage keeper
-very three weeks; a Ford will take you there and bring you , back; a
Ford will do ALL THESE THINGS, and then some more. THE
CAIRO MOTOR CO., sells the FORDS BECAUSE THIS STRONG
ONCERN BELIEVES IN THEM. Mr. A. W. Miller has sold
Fords every since lie has been in the auto business. The mnmnioth
sale of Fonts is possible only because OTHER FOLKS BELIEVE IN
PHIS CAR as well as the maker and agents. Besides selling ears,
THE CAIRO MOTOR. CO., maintains a repair department that is right
up to now, and carries a full line of parts.
Music In The Air
lames Morris Stovall
Donalsonville, Ga., April 27, 1916.
To Friendship Lodgo No. 85,
Knights of Pythias:
Your committee to report suit
able resolutions commemorative of
the life and character of James
Morris Stovalt, submit the follow
ing report:
Brother Stovall was horn i n
Franklin county Georgia in 1870,
and, after completing his education
in tho high schools of that county
in the town of Layoniu, he entered
college at the age of twenty-two.
Graduating a few years later, he
returned from Nashville, Tcnn.,
coming back to his native state,
where lie entered enthusiastically
into the profession of tcnching, in
which profession he rapidly gnined
a wide recognition and soon became
one of the acknowledged lenders in
the cause of education, to which
work he devoted thirteen years of
active, useful service, eleven years
of which time was spent in the
schools of this county and the ad
joining county of Grady, Five
yeurs of this time he served as sup
erintendent of the Donalsonville
High School, which institution he
raised to a high state of efficiency.
His mind was well adapted to
tho profession he selected. He was
elevated and advanced in his ideas,
and his stern integrity and devo
tion to truth gave great power to
his lofty intellect. He was clear
and vigorous of mind and strong in
body, but thirteen years of unceas
ing work undermined his strength
and his failing health compelled
There is a difference between NOlSEJnnd MUSIC. A kid witha
tin can and a stick can make NOISE, and some pianos show a similarity
of musical-taste, but thc'H. M. 1 Cable Piano, The Progress is giving
away IS ALL PIANO. Mr. C. P. Poulk has sold pimios all over this
section for YEARS, and his line is so well known it needs no more in
troduction than to say that his high standard of excellent musical iutru-
ment is maintained in The Progress" Second Prize.
him to abondon the work to t^lich
he had devoted his life and-uri
Buck’s Stoves For Quality
Buck’s in Stoves Stands for quality always. The 885.00 Range,
with the 15 Piece Set Enamel Ware to lie given away as third prize in
our contest-, speaks for itself, Look at it- in Roddcnbcry Hardware Co's
Stoic Window.
The Royal Blue China Set
The 100 Piece Set Royal Blue China to be. given away as fourth
prize in our Contest is not only pretty, but serviceable. It can be
seen at Wight Hardware Co’s Store.
President of the United States.
We therefore convey to you in
behalf of the Federal . Council ami
its constituents bodies this memor
ial, believing that this movement,
while appropriately initiated by the
Churches, should through your co
operation become a nation-wide
movement reaching all the people.
Respectfully yours,
(Signed) Shailcr Mathews,
(Signed) Frank Mason North,
Chinn.j of Executive Committee.
Charles S. Mnefarland,
General Secretary.
Warming Up
This Contest is growing in interest and new contestants arc enter
ing the race every day. It is not too late to enter and win ns tljc can
didates are just now getting actively tp work. The Contest does not
end until June 30th and a live contestant has plenty of time in which
to enter, work and win. EVERY BODY GEY BUSY.
Anybody Can Still Win
Any person of THE LEAST ABILITY, AND HUSTLING
^SPIRIT, cun WIN THE AUTO for it is a demonstrated FACT that
friends of the various workers whose-names arc in the race WILL
BACK THEM WITH SUBSCRIPTIONS IF THEY BUT ASK FOR
TIIEIR'RENEWAL or THEIR NEW SUBSCRIPTION. It takes
WORK, but work will WIN. In our-next issue will bo found the
names of candidates whom we are sure will put up a fight to the
finish—so BE SURE AND MAKE SOME SORT OF REPORT THIS
WEEK, for every uninterested candidate will positively be DROPPED
after this week, nor will the name of any candidate who is hot PER
SONALLY ACTIVE, and who is not showing that interest by keeping
in touch with this office,,be found in this contest AFTER this week.
Every body will get a FAIR; SQUARE DEAL and all workers will be
commensurably rewarded for what they do, BUT.WE EXPECT EACH
AND EVERY CANDIDATE TO BE A WORKER FROM NOW ON.
$5 In Gold Goes Saturday May 6th
Race Is Warming Up.
The Prize List
A Ford Five Passenger Automobile.
A $267.50 H. M. Cable Piano.
A Buck Range—Best Made.
A Set of Royal Blue China.
$25.()() in Cash Prizes.
A Cash Commission to all Non-Prize Winners.
Armour Packing Com
pany Buy Grady Cattle
ths
The biggest cattle deal of th
season for Grady county was mnd
this week when The Wilder Plan
ing Company sold to tho Armoiir
94 head of cuttle for the round i
of $4,650.40. Wo have no informa
tion of tho amount of profit thn
this deal gives to Messrs. Thom;;
son and Wilder; but we arc
that it is a neat sum, besides
large amount of fertilizers
they will have for use on their
land.
Examples like this point, the way
to what is going to mean great ad
vancement to the farming interests
of Grady county. It is a safe prop
osition that there is good profit in
feeding cattlo if only the fertilizer
are had for profit, and when, ns in
this case, there is a substantial k
profit in addition, the feeding of
cattle becomes one of our most
profitable undertakings, * Hi vpiiH
Watermelon Growers Will
Meet at Thomasville
A meeting of tho watermelon
growers of Thomasville and adjoin
ing counties will be held in Thom
asville, Monday, May 8th for the
purpose of discussing marketing the
crop and to listen to lectures by
Government Experts on the subject
of tho diseases that have caused so
much loss to tho growers the past
year or. two.
which his life was finally sacrificed.
He died April j Oth, 1916 and was
buried on the following day at
Whigham, Ga., wjth masonic hon
ors.
The large congregation of devot
ed relatives and ildmiring friends
that followed his funeral car to the
cemetery is a strong attestation of
the high respect, esteem and love
in which he was hold by those who
knew him best.
His forty years of active life was
crowded with deeds of kindness and
works of love and was illuminated
with a pure, unselfish devotion to
duty. As of .the Master, we can
sayj of Jour departed brother: "He
went about doing good;” and that
consolation which comes only
through duty nobly done was his
comfort and support to the last, as
shown by this beautiful testimony
of his fihal hours on earth: “I have
fought a good fight; I have finished
my course; I have kept the faith;
henceforth, there is laid up for me
a crown of righteousness.”
On June 3, 1906, Mr. Stovnll
married Miss Mattie Fundcrburkc,
of this county, and four bright
children came to bless this union,
one of whom, little James Morris,
Jr., rests with his father in a bettor
world; leaving three to comfort and
brighten their widowed mother’s
life. We would enter with decided
hesitancy and extreme delicacy into
the scored precincts of his home,
into which there can now come no
human consolation commensurate
with the great sorrow so recently
befallen them. But here his genial
and affectionate nature shone with
peculiar brilliancy, shedding happi
ness and joy over a home in which
ho was greatly blessed.
With his soul breathed out in
prayer, wo loave our beloved Stov
all with his God and submit the
following resolutions:
Resolved, That we extend our
deepest ancl most tender sympathy
to his widow and other' loved ones
in this hour of sorrow—a sorrow wc
deeply share.
Resolved, That the hand of death
Tho Thomas bounty Commoi';
mtAssociation unci''Hie. A. B. & A.
arc working together co
operating with the Government and
State College of Agriculture in an
effort to place before the growers
all the information available so they
may take every precaution to pre
vent this season the trouble and .
loss heretofore experienced, arid it
is greatly hoped everyone interested
in the watermelon industry will bo
present nt the meeting in Thomas
ville at 10:00 a. m., Monday May
8th.
W. W. CROXTON,
General Passenger Agent,
,A. B. & A. Ry., Atlanta, Ga.
%
Our good friend Dr. A. B. Cooke
who has recently been suffering
from a severe attack of rheumatism
is much better and wc arc glad to
say, nblo to circulate among his
friends again. He paid us a pleas
ant social call Saturday.
which has so recently stricken tho
name of Janies Morris Stovnll from
the roll of the living, leaves not up
on our records a more perfect model
of a true Pythian Knight and Chris
tian gentleman and leaves no man
more truo in in the practice of vir
tue and the pursuit and vindication
of truth and none more liberal in
the service of his fcllowmon nor
more loyal in his church relations.
Resolved, That in the death of
this good man, this lodge loses one
of its strongest members; the cause
of education one of its staunchest
friends and most liberal contribu
tors; the church one of her most
true and loyal supporters, and tho
general public one of its most per
fect models of Christian manhood.
Resolved, That a copy of this re
port be made a part of the records
of this lodge, a copy be presented
Mrs. Stovnll for the family and
copies be furnished the newspapers
of Decatur and Grady counties and
the town of Lnvonia for publica
tion. Respectfully submitted,
N. L. Spongier, J. I. Porry,
J. F. Brown,
Otho Benton,
Thos. Choson,
Committee.
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