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THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS
THF OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRADY COUNTY,
VOL 7.
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1916.
ONLY ONE MORE WEEK BE
FORE THE CONTEST CLOSES
LAST SPECIAL PRIZES. 75,000 EXTRA VOTES
WILL BE GIVEN AWAY SATORDAY JUNE 24th.
60.000 Extra votes will be given to the contestant turning in the
most cash subscriptions from Saturday, June 17th at 4 p. m., to Satur
day, June 24th at 4 p. in.
25.000 Extra votes will be given to the contestant turning in NEXT
to the most cash subscriptions same dates.
Miss VanLandingham Won
50,000 Votes Last Saturday
Miss Carol VanLandingham won the 1st prize of 50,000 extra votes
.given away last Saturday.
Miss White won 25,000 Votes
Miss Versie White won the 2nd prize of 25,000 votes given away
last Saturday. y
Miss Fulford Third
Miss Alice Fulford, who has beep prevented by sickness in her
family from doing mUch work lately, has started out again with much
energy and came third in the special prize contest Saturday.
The Race is Very Warm Now
The contestants have found out that they are not playing a game
of “Thimble,” and have gone to work in earnest.
Can’t Tell Who Will Win
We never know which way the “cat will jump.” Surprises are
likely to occur at anytime. Let every contestant do their best NOW,
so that they will not have anything to regret LATER.
Think What You Can Win
Stores Close To
day At 1 O’clock
Past Game Of Base Ball
Cairo-Monticello
Cairo has her first Thursday
half holiday today. Here is hop
ing everybody will enter heartily
into the spirit of the thing, and
that there will be no effort on the
part of any one to “beat the devil
around the stump.” All should
close up and get away from the
regular place of business for a little
relaxation.
The ball game which is staged
for the afternoon between Monti-
ccllo and our local team should be
one of the very best of the season.
Monticells is supposed to have a
cracking good team, and with Red
Mosely, Upchurch and Ansley
backing up our picked men the
game should be a battle royal.
Lock your door tight and go to
see the game this afternoon.
Mass Meeting
Grady county should send one
hundred cars to Moultrie next
Tuesday under the auspices of the
Grady County Live Stock Associa
tion. Our Boys’ Colt Club should
also be given a full share of boost
ing.
There will be a mass meeting
Program Fourth Ot July
Celebration at Court House
10:09 O’CLOCK
P a r a d e—Everybody decorate
their cars.
Song—America—By Audience.
Song—By Children.
Invocation—Dr. J. A. Wynne.
Address—Citizenship.
Mixed Chorus.
Male Quartette.
A good game of ball and a water
fight will be among the features of
the afternoon.
Torchlight, procession at 8:00
o’clock p. m.
Refreshments will be sold on the
grounds at Noon, 12 to 1 o’clock,
and also in the afternoon following
tho ball game.
All business houses and ns many
residences as possible are requested
to decorate with the national col-
State Sunday School
. Convention is Big Succss
The State Sunday School Con
vention held in Atlanta, June. 13th,
14th, I5th, broke all past records
in many ways. There were 2106
registered delegates as compared
with 1376 last year which was the
previous high record. The dele-
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Georgia’s Greatest Live
Stock Convention June 27-28
The Cotton Crop of 1915
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AT MOULTRIE, GA., JUNE 27th
1916.
Just think how much you can earn in the next week by a determ
ined effort on yo—' part. Everybody can win something that TRIES,
and NOW is the time to GET BUSY.
10%, 20%, 25%
Don’t forget, that we give a percentage to all contestants turning in
as much as $25.00 In cash subscriptions, who fail to win one of our
prizes or one of our Special Cash Prizes.
Help Your Favorites
Now is the time for EVERYBODY to subscribe to their LEAD
ING COUNTY PAPER and help their favorites in the contest.
Do It Now
Subscribe to the OFFICIAL ORGAN of your county and help
some of the contestants in the race. You can help us any OLD TIME,
but after NEXT WEEK will be TOO LATE to help the Ladies.
Everybody Get Busy
held at two o’clock Saturday after- gates were classified as follows:
noon to consider the matter. If it 135 pastors, 299 superintendents,
is not raining this meeting will be 101 teachers and Sunday school
held around the checker players’ officers and 671 others. These de-
oak tree, just south of the depot. legates were from 131 counties.
The Live Stock Conference at i The reports of the employed
Moultrie is a big affair. Grady workers show marvelous progress,
county should have her share of During the past year they held 128
the boosting. If you have a car
get ready to go and take a few
friends with you.
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Contestants this race is going to wind up with a whirlwind finish,
and each one of you want to do some whirling to win.
Guess Who
Who will win the Automobile? Who will win the Piano? Who
will win the Buck Range? Who will win the China Set? The earnest
steady workers will WIN. v
Closely Contested
Each one of the prizes will be closely contested for, and a few more
subscriptions turned in may prove the ones needed to win.
DOWN TO BUSINESS
The contest has only one more week to run before it'closes. It is
now a strictly business proposition and it is up to each contestant to
do their BEST.
TACKLE EVERYBODY
Ask everybody to subscribe. You need not think that you will
get your feelings hurt, for ANYBODY that is ANYBODY, will either
subscribe or give you a reason for not doing so. Just “Dig In” to
everybody. Sometimes you will secure a subscription when you least
expect it.
It Is Never Too Late To Win
In the game of baseball between Cairo and Camilla, Cairo went to
bat in the ninth inning with the score against them and WON OUT.
That is only one instance of many that could be mentioned.
NEVER SAY DIE
Always go in to WIN, and fight to a finish. You will be thought
more of than if you prove to be a QUITTER.
CAN’T LOSE
An earnest contestant can’t lose as we are going to pay a percent
age as already stated, to those who do not win a prize and turn in
enough votes to show that they were really trying to win.
AFTER THE BALL IS OVER
Don’t wait until AFTER the contest to say what you COULD j
have done—DO IT NOW.
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Couifty Conventions and attended
202 meetings of other kinds. They
delivered a total of 1,053 addresses
and traveled 45,784 miles. The
treasurer’s report showed that
while more work had been done
and the expenditures larger than
in previous years, all bills were
paid. The reports also show that
all except 19 counties in, the State
were organized, 12 had reached the
Gold Star Standard, and 51 the
Banner Standard.
A new feature of the Convention
this year was the Adult Bible Class
parade, which was estimated at
between 1,500 and 2,000 m6n in
line. The parade wns composed
of all men delegates to the Conven
tion, and men’s Bible classes of
Atlanta.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
The convention in session voted
to continue the work on the same
general lines for the ensuing year,
and to try to raise sufficient funds
to put on additional worker in the
field, which will be a “Teen Age
Specialist.” At the last session
of-the Convention a special offer
ing was taken to begin the fund
for this purpose
Another forward move taken by
the Association was the formation
of the State Adult Bible Class
Federation, to be composed of all
organized’Bible Classes of the State
The officers elected for this Fede
ration were President Prof: Floyd
Fields, Atlanta; Vice President,
Mr. R. H. Ferrell, Albany; Sec
retary, Miss Flora Davis, Atlanta.
The Convention also voted to
hold the next session in Savannah.
A FAIR CONTEST
After the contest is over any contestant who so desires can check
their book stubs against our books and see for themselves that every
thing was kept accurately^
' A COMMITTEE OF CITIZENS
A committee of representative citizens will make the last count of
votes. We prefer to do this as .it may be more satisfactory to the con
testants and will be a relief to us.
Washington, D. C.,June 20, 1916
A bulletin on cotton production
in the United States, just issued by
Director Sam L. Rogers, of the Bu
reau of the Census, Department of
Commerce, and prepared under the
supervision of Mr. William M.
Steuart, chief statistician in charge
of tho inquiry, shows the American
cotton crop of 1915—11,191,820
equivalent 500-pound bales—to
have boon the smallest since 1909.
Tho tables contained in this publi
cation will be reprinted in the an
nual cotton bulletin, to be pub
lished about October 1, which will
also include more detailed figures
as to production, together with
data in regard to consumption, im
ports, exports, and stocks of cotton.
The crop of 1915 fell below that of
the proceeding year by nearly
5,000,000 bales, or more than 30
per cent. The production in every
state showed a decrease, the great
est proportionally being in Okla
homa, whero the crop of 1916 was
onlyy a trifle more' than half as
large as that of 1914.
The increase in the production
of linters during recent years is
noteworthy. ’ Starting at 114,644
bales in 1899, the output of this
product increased to 880,780 bales
in 1915. The 1915 linter product
even exceeded that of the proceed
ing year by nearly 24,000 bales,
although the cotton crop of 1915
was very much smaller than that of
1914. This incredse in’ lirttcr Re
duction is due to some extent to
closer delinting of the seed for the
better separation of the meat from
the hulls, but more especially to
the high prices obtained for the
fiber, which is used extensively in
the manufacture of guncotton and
smokeless powder. ' Many mills
now obtain considerable more than
100 pounds of linters per ton of
seed treated, whereas in earlier
years 50 pound per ton was a high
yield.
Sea-island cotton, of which
91’,844 runding bales were i ginned
in 1915, represented in that year
less than 1 per cent of tho total
cotton produced. All this cotton
was grown in Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina* the first-named
state producing 57,572 bales, or
more than three-fifths, of the total.
Although cotton is grown ih 18
states, the combined product of
four—Texas, Georgia, South Caro
lina, and Alabama—represented
nearly two-thirds of the total crop
of I9l5.
Texas alone produced 3,227,480
bales, or more than. one-fourth of
the total crop of 1915. The next
greatest production was that of
Georgia, 1,908,673 bales, or more
than one-sixth of the total. Other
states producing large crops were
South Carolina with 1,133,919
bales; Alabama. 1,029,839 bales;
Mississippi, 953,965 bales; Arkan
sas, 816,002 bales; North Carolina,
699,491 bales; and Oklahoma,
639,625 bales.
The leading cotton county in re
spect to number of baled ginned
from the growth of 1915 is Ellis
County, Tex., which reported 117
337 bales. The only other county
to report more than 100,000 bales
was Bolivar County, Miss.,
which the ginnings amounted to
102,838 bales..
The great live Stock Conference
to bo held at Moultrie next week is
no merely local affair. It is at
tracting notice nil over the coun
try, and there will bo visitors there
from many states. It is to be not
so mubh of a convention of set
speeches, but a gathering of earn
est men who desire to further in
every way possiblo tho live stock
interests of tho south and every
phase of the business will be gone
into in a thorough way to the end
of bringing to every one who at
tends something that will be of
value to him.
We want to especially urge upon
our folks the importance of hot
overlooking this opportunity.
Grady county should send a great
crowd of her citizens up there that
day. And as we have suggested
once before, we would be glad to
see them go under tho auspices of >
tho Grady County Live Stock As
sociation. Just because this con
vention is in our neighboring town
of Moultrie, we must not get the
idea that it is not a great big af
fair. It is a big thing. South
Georgia is getting to be a place
where BIG things happen.
Why not a hundred cars with
Grady County Live Stock banners
go to Moultrie next Tuesday.
Grady County should learn that
she is great.
Let everybody get ready to go
to Moultrie next Tuesday.
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Boll Weevil Expert
Visits Grady County
After Looking Over Situa
tion Thinks Damage This
Year Will not be Large
Everybody Get Busy and Keep Busy
Mrs. W. E. Dunn, and two.boys
Mess. Spurgeon and Bob Harris,
returned home Sunday night, after
an extended visit to relatives and
friends in Alabama.
Mr. J. D. Smith of the Georgia
State Board of Entomology was in
Grady county Tuesday and made a
very careful examination of the
cotton fields of M. L. Ledford, T.
J. Stanfill and W. D. Barber, and
failed to find a single boll weevil in
any one of these fields. Basing his
opinion on this fact, Mr, Smith ex
pressed himself as confideht that
the damage to the cotton crop in
this county this year will not be of
consequence, as the weevil haB to
begin its ravages early in the seas
on for great damage to be done the
crop. Mr. Smith advises that
every farmer keep close watch of
his cotton fields and if the pest does
begin his work that all punctured
squares and bolls Iho carefully
gathered and destroyed.
There is no doubt that the
weevil is in Grady county, and
that by fall he will have pretty
generally spread over the county.
This will make conditions such
that if every precaution is not tak
en to stave off his work next year,
that our cotton crop will suffer
very much in 1917. Every one
should make himself quite familiar
with all the methods of use in com
batting the weevil and should put
them into use as soon as the need
for them arises.
Grady county is certainly to be
congratulated on the fact that this
pest is not likely to injure our crop
greatly this year, and if we are
caught napping for the next crop,
it'will be our own fault.
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