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• r T Sn WOOD and COAL Tip-Top Coal WH. SEARCY 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- /* „ ■Sheriff NO. 5 Georgia’s Greatest Live Stock Convention June 27-28 The Cotton Crop of 1915 *— iiTSMWHnw 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. 21 o cr. *5T i 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. 3 -o X k H C * 'S 0 o o cr CD (U 3- O ^ 5' ' ■j r+ 0> r <T> 3 8 o z o CIO o rf TjL o S cu o & •■o 2! $ ft -0* 3 p> o- CD r 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. m m , - • V ; . 2 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. mm