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m m i iH Sheriff * 3§ —*-■ -ij^r -r~-™ r -w. •- » •• •* i | ,;V\ ./r-..; • \ i tanudry.clean- luytoesslnij Best WorB, phone 81 These Letters Tell Iwn Story CttJj;hfy, Git., Aug, 23th, 1910. Mr. Di t. 'Williams, * CuirCj Gii;. ' Dear Sir • I \yiah to call your c.t- tentiori to thu vrVeloseil leper, I think it wouirl bii.ai good,idea t< , eall tlui peoples' attimtion Vo. the big p'hn)iiiy^idi^.’;o'fl'eivi:l ns somi may want to ihiike ah. exhihifc; j-oto call' get., the epilogue from Mr Johnsoh, who waggly? former-secre? .tavy ;iiul I suppowpp yet. ' Yety 'frequently ; fyget Jotters addressed to metis president of: the Ciiiri Boapl of Trade, wliieli rqiglit inter est' tl)o people but 1; i'ougct iihoui them and lay themiadde. .Itseemt to me it Vvouldd!(j^<ipi.'6fitaVile idea 't'o'gnt.tho.Eo.ird •offR^do, rlorgai - ized. and.working agaiji, ho \loul t it is worth what; ity-coStl* \ .... ! , Yobh; very truly\ '■ ; Joe Higdon. • f/;.-Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20th, 1916': Mr.-Josefegtlou, Pres., \ Cairo, Ga. Dear Sir:- \ We have this day, ad dressed a letter to the Secretary of your organization, mailing him a catalog of o.ur 19,16 Fair. We” have outlined to him the amount, of premiums (approximate ly $60,000) that we are offering in all of- the different departments of, the Fair. thi3- year. We are anxious in making exhibits wlt'IF'us. We are especially anxious to have . a County Agricultural'Exhibit from your immediate. County. We ask that you kindly confer with your Secretary, examine our catalog, and see if there is anything tnat yoii.ean do to.assist us in get ting exhibits from that sect ion On account, of the Grand Circuit Races, our immensj Live Stock Show, lyid many other attractive and entertaining features, we arc expecting to draw over 250,000 at tendance during the eight days of the Fair. Yours very truly, Southeastern Fair Association, R. M. Striplin, Secretary. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 29.- Score one for South Georgia! Congratu lations from. North Georgia and Middle Georgia. Hon. Roseoe Luke is a candidate for one of the three judgeships oh the state court of appeals. At present there is nc South Georgia judge on the bench and lawyers here and from over the state, who have disci used the judgeships, pick Mr. Luke as a winner. Already Mr. Luke, ac cording to reports received here, has secured the signed indorse jrients of all the lawyers in twenty cilies.nnd towns in his section of the state, and it is said he will have others. Roseoe Luke is one of the BIG MEN of Georgia. He is a brainy,, brilliant lawyer of twenty ye; rs ‘xporfence and in the course of his uieer hns been employed in some of the most important litigation that, the state of Georgia has ever and; He is peculiarly fitted for a judgeship, and it has. often been said that what he doesn’t know about law t “is torn out of the book.” ' This correspondent has no inter est in his candidacy other than to see an able man placed on the bench of the state, and he is not alone in his belief that if Mr. Luke is elected, which seems quite certain he‘ will’reflect credit not only on |iimself gnd South'Georgia but on the appellate bench of the state,, Mass, Meeting Held to Vate For The Man Who Fought for You Governor Nat E. Harris was a faithful Confederate Soldier. He is no doubt the last of these old heroes that will ever be governor of'any state. But that fact of it self is.not sufficient reason for ask ing for the place of chief executive of a great state. We believe if our voters will take the trouble to in vestigate that they will find that Governor Harris lias “been a faith ful and wise governor, and ithat no .criticism is of real weight can be .brought against him. Georgians are corning more- and more to realize that it wilt be to Georgia’s best interest and fo Georgia’s great, credit to reelect this old veteran, and the tide rises steadily all over the state in. his favor, and we now believe he will be our next governor.' Constipation is the starting point for many serioils diseases. To be healthy keep the bowels active and regular. HERBINE will remove all accumulations in the bowels and put the system in prime condition. Price 50c.. Sold by Wight & Browne. A good sized crowd gathered at (he Court 'House last Wednesday morning to consider plans for holdihg n one day fair in OetoT.er to be known ss Grady Day. T Mr. W. B. KodefiStjrv was elected Chairman of the meeting. In a brief talk ho outlined some of the propo sition that had beert proposed for the day and spoke enthusiastically of the benefit to diversified farming and to trade, stimulus Hint should grow out of a day of this kind. It was moved and carried by linan; imous vote a, Grady Day be held and General Committee be elected to take full charge of all the details and arrangements necessary to the hold ing of n successful day. The fol lowing committee was chosen: Wh Sajjrey, J. E. Forsyth, A. W. Miller, Thomas Wight, J. S. Weathers, J. W. Miller, J. B. Roddenbery, R.. P. Wight, ~ R. Beale, C. P. Poulk, P. H. Ward, h. W. Rigsby, H. II. Wind and D. L. Williams. It was also parried on motion that an advisory committee from the va-. riojiK school district of the county he selected by the General Committee to usisst thnt^eommittee in its work. Mr. Otho Benton, Mr. W. H. Van-' landinghnm, Mr. John B. Lane/ and Mr. J ,B. Reynolds representing the Southwest Georgia Fair at Donal- smiville, were present and were ask ed to address the meeting, Mr. Benton responded in n most happy vein, feli- ‘itating Cairo and Grady, county on their progressive spirit. JTe extend-, cd a pressing invitation to our peo ple to attend the fair at Donnlson- villo, and urged as man.yas possible to send exhibits there, There was decided enthusiasm shown by those present for malting' Grady Day a red letter occasion in the county, and the committee will go actively to work , to complete all details. > Judge Harrell’s Friend Meet launch His Candidacy The friends of Judge W. M. Harroll mefc here Thursday night in the city h/ill and immediately 0 launched; his candidacy for the Judgeship of the Superior Court of the Albany Circuit. Plans Were made for his campaign and his friends named ' committees to look after different parts of the work, Citizens from all f round attended this meeting and were very enthusiastic in their remarks and purpbses as to the election cif the Decatur man. Judge Har rell has ‘a host, of friends, real working friends as~ well as in fluential men that are interested jn his race pud the work will be immediately gotten under, way. He will find the solid backing of his county behind hirq and when he goes out to the other feilow he will carry with him the stamp of approval of “the “Home ‘ Folk:-. ’ The folks that know better of a man’s work, his ability and charac ter.' Carrying the solid endorse ment of the folks at.- home with him he will make splendid headway in the other epunties. No better auspices ever attended the opebing of. a^ man’s campaign than did this meeting lend to the race of Judge Harrell. His friends are exceedingly, active in his be half and he will win is practically assured. Watch the boys get. down to work and you will see who will be the next judge of the Superior I court.—Post-Searchlight, April 6. Hugh M. Dorsey Speaks in Cairo Hugh Dorsey spoke Wednesday night in Cairo to a well filled house Ho'was introduced by Judge W. J. Willie who referred to him as the next governor of Georgia. This expression was applauded by about una sco ork-FrtHrd iof those present which, |y Ailroads ,iI would seem to indicate about tl;e proportion of those who, were pres ent who were his supporters. Mr. Dorsey made about th& same speech that, he has been mak ing at: other places over the state. He made a good impression on his hearers, but it is to be doubted if he really made any votes by his speech. DETECTIVES WANTED We will consider applications for membership in this Agency, frem certain localities-in Georgia. We, look after Criminals, collect names and addresses o f Fllrire-s, &e. Collect Debts and furnish Com mercial reports to business con cerns. For full particulars write, VA. & "TENN. DETECTIVE AGENCY, Inc, Mahoney Building, ' Br.'stcl, Tepn.-Va. Is the advance of 20 per'cent re cently made on Grady County “Im proved lahd” justified? If jfc j H her citizens arc willing to pay iti. IIow can we bo satisfied that it is ynualiz- ing in proposition to the value of other Counties of the State? We think conservative investigation of tho adjoining counties would come as near satisfying as to go over the entire State. Improved land last year iti. Decatur averaged $5.01, Mil ler $4.85, Mitchell $7.01, Grddy $5.14 Thomas $0.75. Mitchell decreased this year about $80,000, which will probably drop, her avoragb to $0.76. Thomas decreased ubout '$100,000 which probably dropped^hor to $0.50.’ Grady increased, about $00,000, which carried her to about $5.40. We m ye no figures on Decatur and Mil ler for 1010. From first glance you might conclude we uro tig) low* ns Grady has us good land ns the other counties and this we: agree is true, speaking of her soil. Lands 'are made valuable by improvements';- us an illustration, take lands oil' the East side of the Oehlockiiee river in I homes county 'where money has been spent freely improving and beautifying and are now returned on the tax digest nt $20.00 per acre, at $2.50 and in t*ir opinion tile Grady while on the Grady county side it is side is high in. proposition. The original soil oi one is worth as much us the other—improvements made tho difference. This is only one instance, but we can enumerate tunny others. Grudy County has what would be termed one first-dusk railroad running ueross it with Cairo, and two smaller towns on it, it being about 20 miles East and west to the extrmo limits of the county, Qo through Thomas, Decatur nnd Mit- , 'hell and see ho\v Judge W, M. Harro#- of Bain- bridge is in-the race for judge of the Superior Court of the Albany Circuit His formal announcement will be found elsewhere in this is sue of the Journal. Judge Harrell is already well- known in Mitchell county having been employed as counsel in some of the most important cases tried in the county during past several years. He lias been' actively en gaged in the practice of law for 30 years except 8 years of which he was judge of the City Court of Bainbridgc. Ho is president of tie Decatur County Bar Association and at a meeting of this body hold last Friday he was unanimously endorsed for the office. So.far.he is the only candidate who has made formal announce ment blit he will be -opposed by Judge A. S. Johnson of this county who several weeks ago stated that he was in the race and would make his formal announcement in due time. There have alsti been others whose names have been mentioned as probable candidates and as the time for the election draws nearer there nmy be other entries.—Pel ham Journal. . (“Adv”) For Sale—Pair splendid mules wagon and harness, for $500.00. Also for sale good fulghum seed oats 75 cts. per bushel. W. O. Hahisom GRADY DAY OCT. 11th. The Steering Committee has fixed that date. Let everybody boost for GRADY DAY! iscatfored aronnd will the (/ averagg'$md valiitsW.a county! It is said that we receive from the State several thousand dollars more for pensions and schools than wo pay hi; it is a'lso stated that there are about 90 other comities in the same One of the lowest value dis tricts in Grady pays more taxes than gets in return for school and pen sions, but does .this fix a value ? We do not see the reason. .The City of Cairo has u tax value of about one million dollars or one third of whut is .shown on the digest^ Have you heal'd he'r 'citizens^ suy we are not willing tit abend our money building roads, bridgos and muking- other im provements in the country or county? 'i\e feel the same interest in roads in tho country as in town. She .stands ready ( to build und maintain that .which makes Grady County. The sumo is true of the larger counties, h niton should desire the prosperity of Grady, as we buy her goods, mude in her factories, by her lubor., We help build Atlanta and there is no good reason that if we do, it is part ly- ours and we suy it Is right that tliey help pay their part of taxation. They need us, nnd we need them. COMMUNICATED. ut^iip. Ph in lPriri.; Mis| Jm/uleM’ayne, irospel'ons JVJts. W. L. j3ry an , ipEtill go to lielp- Seventh grade; Miss Claudfa Kief- Solicitor Bell Unopposed We are glad to give to our read ers who all know and. love “Ches” Bell the following clipping from tho Bainbridgc Democrat; Hon. R. C. Bell, of Cairo, an nounces for re-election as Solieitcr General of the Albany circuit, un opposed. The occasion, perhaps calls for a tribute, but it is written more ex pressively in the hearts of the peb- ple than we could hope to make it here. This fact, above all, has im pressed itself alike upon the lawyer and the layman, that he seeks to convict no man, but conceives it his whole duty to see that the State is ably and impartially repre sented. ' We heard a man say today, “Well, I’ll vote for him for solici tor-general; but. I’d rather vote for him for governor.” And to this observation a host of voices will echo, “Them’s my sentiments, exactly;” Fall Session Cairo .. PuMic Softool The next, session of the Cairo public school will open on Monday ?ept. 4th at 8:30 o’clock. Supt. Bryan is already in town making Arrangements for the opening and all of the other teachers will ar rive the last of this week. Die town is to ho congratulated on the fact that the great majority 0 the faculty, have been connected with the school before. Tho three new teachers are Mr. T. M. Gol- phin of Seneca, S. C., Miss Claudia Kieffer of Springfield, Gu., and Miss Jurelle Little of Cordele, Ga. Mr. Galphin is a.recent graduate from Mercer University where he took h high stand. On two seper- ate occasions lie represented hi3 college in Intercollegiate debates. He is a man of pleasing personality ind we believe will give thorough satisfaction. Miss Claudia Koiffer who will have the sixth grade has had good educational advantages and several years’ experience. Miss Jurelle Little the fourth grade teacher is a graduate of Brenau College and was one of tho leading students while there. She < was elected president of her class several times and was also honored with the presidency of the student body. Si%e graduating Miss Little baleen teaching in Geor- gia. r~ ^ Tub entire faculty is As follows: L. Bryan, Sitpt,; T\M. Gal- ipbin I* 'fer,''Sixth grade; Miss Annis Keliy, Fifth grade; Miss Jureilo Little, Fourth grade; Miss Adrian Turnoff, Third grade; Miss Beulah Zant, Second grade; Miss' N. -Reside Kriechbaum, First grade; Miss Eva Hall, Assistant; Miss Mattie Barrett, Expression; Miss Louise Tuten, Music. All patrons will please bear in mind that matriculation cards will be required, in advance. These can be secured at Roddenbdry Hard ware Co. All old pupils will please report to the rooms that they were in last year. All now pupils will be met by the Superintendent in the chapel directly after the open ing exercises. m Red Poll-Short Horn Sale We call attention to the adver tisement in another part of this is sue of a carload of Red Poll and Short Horn cattle to be sold at Auction by the Thomasvillc Live Stock Co. We Would be gla!d to 30 every farmer in Grady County who has pastures that he can'keep free of ticks invest in a good buff of one of the beef breeds, and we hope a good delegation of our farm ers will be present at the sale. re~» ferred to. OETURN GENERAL WRIGHT In voting for Gen. W. A. Wright for Comptroller General the people of Georgia will not only be helping a worthy one-legged Confederate soldier, but they will ho reelecting t) office a mail who has stood firm for the best interests of Georgia through a long term of years. In the matter of the enforcement of the corporation tax law alone, he was worth many thousands of dol lars to the state. Georgia should ■ not be ungrateful to her faithful officials. - S-Ma' FOR SALE—One 6-horse Olds’