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PUBLIC DRAY
The Old lielfnble
J. F. MONTGOMEP.V
Day Phono 141, Nl«ht 147
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The rain which fell Tuesday
night, breaking the long drought,
was a most welcome one. So" far
as we have been able to learn it
was pretty general throughout the
] county. Reports that come to us
is that the crops all through the
county arc in oxfloi\ent condition.
Unless some unlooked' for condi
tion arises, prospects for a success
ful crop year in the county aic the
best for a long while.
Cairo Stores Will Likely
Close For A Half Holiday
A movement is on foot in Cairo
to have all the stores close each
Thursday at one o’clock for a hnlt
holiday. A petition was circulated
this week and almost all the bus!
ness men readily agreed to close,
evidently feeling that this small
consideration for their employees
was the proper thing to do. .The
petition will be further circulated
and we hope that in our next issue
we shall be able to announce the
date at which the closing will bc-
The many friends of Mrs. F. A
Stigar, will regret to learn ' of' her
sudden death at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Booth near Atta-
pulgus last Sunday night. Mrs.
Stigar had only last week gone from
her home two miles east' of Cairo
to the. home of her daughter. Sh£
Imd not been jn good health for
some two months, but her condi
tion was not considered as critical
and her death came as a surprise to
her family nnd friends.
Mrs. Stigar was buried Monday
afternoon at Attapulgus. Th(
burial was largely attended. Mes
srs 1{. W. Pondpr, W. C. Barrow,
Sherwood Gainous wcht down from
Cairo to be present.
Besides her daughter Mrs. Booth,
Mrs. Stigar is survived by her son
Mr. A. B. Goode now who mnkes
his home on the.Isthmus of Pana
ma.
gm.
• This is "a-custom'that has spread
all over the nation within the last
few years, nnd one we believe that
can result'in only good. .Mau is
r/ithor afeomplex creaturh ' nnd in
•the general scheme he needs a little
play occasionally to make his work
. more efficient. The long summer
days afford attiple time, to accom
plish all the work that is to be done
during the dull summer season, and
at the same time make it possible
to enjoy this weekly half holiday.
We trust that every business
man in Cairo will enter heartily in
to the spirit of this move and that
every place will close in faet as
ifyell as in name.
We hope the friends and cust
omers from the country will realize
what this weekly half holiday Will
mean to the boys who have very
little opportunity to get out into
the fresh air, and that, they will
remember to come to town on
other days than Thursdays. .
We hope that all the ladies in
Cairo will be only too glad to lend
every assistance possible to this
move, and that they .will be especial
ly careful to order everything that
they may need . before Thursday
aftemponj It.as no easy matter to
live up to a closing- agreement un
less those on the outside will give
their co-operation. Remember
that, although you are only ’ one,
that it is the aggregate of singles
that.dnake the whole. Let every
body help.
Mr. Wind At Hospital
Mr. F. J. Wind, the veteran own
er of the Cairo Messenger, who has
been in. failing health for many
months went to Atlanta last- week
for an operation. Saturday morn
ing at the Wesley Memorial Hos
pital Dr. Harden assisted by Dr.
Lcland Baggett nnd others per
formed the operation which was a
highly successful one. Last reports
received from • his bedside are
that he is doing flue. 1? p. Bag
gett in a letter to iiis father here
states that Mr. Wind is the hap
piest nvan in.Atlanta. Those of us
who know the energy. nnd love of
work of the “Major” can readily
believe that this is true. ,
We hope to be able to report the
continued improvement of our old
friend.
RACE GETTING WARMER. $5 IN GOLD
GIVEN AWAY SATURDAY JUNE M
Miss Versie White Wins
Miss Versie White of Cairo route 3, won the 810.00 Special Cash
Prize offered the contestant turning in the most cash subscriptions from
May flth at 4 p. m., to May 27th at 4 p. m.
Application for a charter was
filed Friday with the secrotary of
state by the Commercial Bank of
Metcalfe, to bo located at Met
calfe, Ga., in Thomas county. The
bank is to have a capital stock of
82f>,000 nnd the incorporators are
J. W. Horne, J. T. Holland, Elmer
Horne, W. W. Feekel, 1L C. Cope
land, G. F. Hicks, E. F; Horne, all
of Metcalfe.
Near Fifty Colts
To Be in Parade
$5 Goes Saturday June lOlb, 4 p.m.
Last Speeinl Cash Prize of the eontest, To the contestant turning
in the'most cash subscriptions from May 27th at 4 p. m., to June 10th
at 4 p. m., we are going to give 85.00 in gold
Teachers’ Examination
August 4th and 5th
Who will win last Special Cash Prize!
At the beginning of the eontest we said we would give away 825.00
in special cash prices. We have already given away 820.00 and will
give the remaining 85.00 away Saturday June 10th to the contestant
turning’in the most cash subscriptions from May 27th 4 p. m., until
that date. Who will be the contestant to win this last ensh prize?
$20.00 in Cash won and Delivered
In My Day
The 820.00 in cash prizes-already given away by us wero to the
following contestants Miss Carol VanLandingham of Cairo, 85.00;
Miss Alice Fulford, of Meigs, 85.00; Miss Versie White, Cairo route 3,’
810.00. Who will win the last 85.00?
Growing In Interest
The contest is getting very interesting, and is anybody’s race at the
present time, as SOME of our Contestants are JUST now waking up to
the fact that they nre in a REAL RACE and will have to GET BUSY
Not Afraid of a Loud Noise
A day or so ago one of our contestants, who is now bchintl some of
the others in vote*, remarked that she did not enter this contest to be
scared out of lfrby any kind of a “louti noise”—she was in it to a finish.
She is not from Missouri cither, but “dead game" all the same.
Good i Judgment
The contestant that stays in the fight to-a finish and secures as
much as 825.00 in subscriptions and does not win one of our big prizes
or a. special cash prize, will be paid 10% for the subscriptions turned in
to us. ’
Thar wuz Tom an’ Boh an’ Lrm
An’ cr whole raft more o’ them—
Some ov’ cm now er-ftlAspm' in the groun;
But cr finer lot o’ boys
Never jined to raise er-noise;
Thcr ekala shore’ ain't never yet been
fouti’i '
To The Public
June 3rd, a Legal Holiday being
Saturday, we the undersigned
banks wish to notify our friends
especially those from the country
that out banks will be open on
Saturday but that we will he clos
ed on Monday June 5th.
It (s customary with us to ob-
scrveralj legal holidays but. this one
comihg on Saturday we feel that
the pUbjic generally would be pleat
ed to know that the banks would
bo open,that date; please bear in
mind thp,t wo will be, closed on the
following Monday. >
■Cfiiro Banking Co.
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Citizens Bank.
Now I’m gittin' old an' gray,
Blit, my frien’s, ther was er day
Vhen I wuz with ’e
When l wuz with ’em, active as the best;
1 could run nn 1 jump nil right,
I could tussle out o’ sight— .
Er sho-nulT bully rooster with the rest!
I could cut cr double shuttle;
I wuz hot stuff in a scuttle;
Er way-back ’possum hunter, so they say
I could, koteh an’ hole a shout,,
An’ out. butt er billy gpat; 1
I slioly wuz some piinkin*, in my day!
A boss nr bull I’d ride,
Though.I’d oomo out short on, hide;
Er sumniersc't I’d fling ’em any day;
Allers lo.vcd to fish an’ hunt,.
Took hud luck without cr grunt;
For I wuz mighty gritty, in my day.
To all shin-digs I would get,
Wlier I’d pick my ole banjo;
An’ then I wuz er singer, so they say;
An’ my head wuz in the sky,
When I wore my red ueck-tio;—
You bet I wuz cr dandy, in my day!
—J. H. H.
Notice
Mrs^Mi H. Stephens, of Boston,
is visitlng^h.e^/datijightcr ‘ MrsAE*);’
Mauldin.
The Southwest Georgia Singing
Convention will m^et at Capel
church seven miles North of Cairo
the 1st Sunday in June. Every
body invited to come and bring
baskets.
When I slept down at the river
My feet got from under the kiver;
T.hc mosquitoes, they bit
Till!.had a hard fit,,
And malaria got into my liver.
ALL CAN WIN
The 10% proposition puts it in the power of EVERYBODY to
win SOMETHING. For if they will only work they cannot be losers
SO EVERYBODY GET RIGHT.
Contest Ends June 30, 12 p. m.
This contest is to continue for a month yet, and a live worker ern
do wonders in that length of time.
’ NpW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME .
Don’t wait until it is over and find out that by a little more effort
on your part you could have won a prize. Remember that of all the
sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these “it might have been.”
WE NEVER MISS THE “LASSES” TILL THE JUG RUNS DRY
We seldom realize whafwc COULD hayc done until it is TOO
L ATE. Don’t wait until tfiis contest is OVER to talk. Do your talk
ing NOW in securing subscriptions and you will probably not have
anything to regret.
. . THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
Nearly everybody remembers reading about the race between the
gopher and the rabbit. The rabbit could run the fastest, but the goph
er was the most regular and won the. race.
The steady persistent workers will be the winners in this contest,
ns regular work counts more-than sudden sprints.
BEHIND AN OX TEAM
If you have ever done much traveling you have at some time or
other, traveled with a slow team. And no doubt you have occasion
ally let it get some distance ahenA of you, thinking you could easily
catch up, but you found out that you had to do some fast traveling to
again get In sight of that slow team.
Wake Up Jacob
So wake up—be on the job—do all you can yourself arid ask your
friends to help you—they will do it when they fine) out that you mean
business. Cafl at our office and get a bunch of subscription books to
divide out among your friends so they Can help you solicit.
DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP
The Progress expects every contestant to do their duty—in justice
to themselves, as well as to us. So everybody get busy nnd do the best
you can. Algols can do no more. 1 .
AIM HIGH
To the Teachers of Grady County
The next regular state cxnminu
tion will he ‘held on Friday arid
Saturday, August 4th nnd 5th.
have on hand a lot of the new
Manuals for teachers and they will
be furnished free to the teachers
nnd others who expect to take the
examination id August. This now
manual has been revisgd and is
quite different from the one that
has been in uso since 1911, and
every teacher should he provided
with one. The reading course for
191(5 is.as folloiys:
PRIMARY and GENERAL ELE
MENTARY
Manual of Methods, Free, Coun
ty Superintendent.
Cublicrly’s Rural Life & Educa
tion, 81.25, Southern School Book
Depository, Atlanta, Ga.
Colgrove’s The Teacher and the
School, 81.00, Chas. Scribner’s Sous
Atlanta, Ga.
HIGH SCHOOL and SUPERVIS
ORY
Manual of Methods, Free, Coun
ty Superintendent,
Hollister’s High School Adminis
tration, 81.35, Southern School
Book Depository, Atlanta, Ga.
Cubherly’s .Rural Life and Edu
cation, 81.25, Southern School
Book Depository, Atlanta, Ga.
The books above will be sent
postpaid by the .firms mentioned
above and at the prices quoted.
2t. • Yours very truly,
J. S. WEATHERS, Supt.
Already thirty-six colts have
Jccn reported to the committee for
colt parade next Saturday. Com
plete arrangements arc being made
to enro For all that come nnd there
<» no doubt that the number will
reach near fifty by that day.
Prof. M. P Jarnngin has written
definitely that he will he here that
day. Ho is authority on all mat
ters pertnining to live stock arid is
himself a successful colt grower ,on
his largo farm, in Tennessee, It
will he worth your while to hear
what he has to say to the Colt Club
Boys next Saturday.
Whether yqu have any colts now
or not, be sure to coino out, to the
livestock Meeting Saturday. The '
parade will be at teii o’clock and .
the speaking at the court house'at
eleven o’clock.
, eounty is organizing the
first. Boys polt Club in the eoijp-
try. We are going to send the,
news of'it all over the country next
Saturday. Come out nnd help
make the occasion a full success.
1 hero will be no prizes offered in
the parade next Saturday, but the
rules for the Colt Club will be an
nounced, and later there will he a
colt show hold when there will be
some valuable prizes given.
If any one has a colt that they
wish to bring, even if it has not
boon.reported to the. committeo,
they can bo assured that it will bo
proporly provided for if they bring
it even though it has not been, re
ported; but if it can he reported in
advance it will be appreciated Jjy
the committee.
Everybody report' with their
colts by nine o’clock or ns soon
thereafter as possible to Crnwford-
Miller Co’s. Stables.
t AH the ladies arc especially in
vited to review the parade from
the Court House grounds. They
are also invited to see the colts at
the headquarters for the day, at
Crawford-Miller Co’s, stables.
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“Dad” Bailey Installs Motor
Miss Annie Bullock of. Ochlock
nee, spent Inst Salurdny night, with
her Uncle arid Aunt Mr. nnd Mrs.
Noah Singletary.
jn
“Dnd” Bailey at the Cairo Ice
and Bottling Works has installed a
new electric motor. He - is very
much pleased with the results that
lie is getting. “Dad” has a well
.equipped plant for bottling the
cold drinks, and a fino line of custo
mers. Give him a call.
To the Farmers of Grady County:
farm
We are prepared to give you quick service in closing
loans. If you will need money this winter to pay of]
ij i J xnmicj* vino winter tu pay oil
old debts, or to prepare to pay cash when the boll-weevil'
comes, now is the time to get your loan. The demand for
money will.be heavy this winter. We can give you the best
terms to be found; Bring yonr deeds and let us have your
application right away.
BELL & WEATHERS,
CAIRO, GEORGIA
Money Loaned
ON EASY TERMS
FARM LOANS PROMPTLY MADE
At six per cent, inlcrent, payable annually. The borrow
er has the privilege of paying part or all the principal at any
interest period, stopping interest on touch payment. I will save
you money. Come to see me, or write. Prompt attention given
all written inquiries.
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If you aim at tho top of a trpe, you may not quite reach the mark,
but, you will hit higher tljan if y6.u>had aimed at some of the lower
branches. Do your best at any job you tackle; anything that is wprlh
doing at all is worth doing well.
W. M. BRYAN,
■ Office Over Post Office Thomnsville, Georgia
