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MS; & ■% f\ /} » /I s WFs? ■ '.-v .■■■■■' : ^:WM PUBLIC DRAY The Old lielfnble J. F. MONTGOMEP.V Day Phono 141, Nl«ht 147 SMS 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. ■%1 i “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. •J- ■ft*—it 'm •••■ m 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