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GRADY COUNTY PLOGttKSS, CAIRO, GEORGIA.
Money Loaned
ON EASY TERMS
FARM LOANS PROMPTLY MADE
At six per cent, intercut, payable annually. Tbs borrow
er b^s tfie privilege of paying part or all the principal at any
interest period, stopping interest on snob payment. I will save
you money. Come to see me, or write. Prompt attention given
all written inquiries.
W. M. BRYAN,
Office Over Post Office
Thomasville, Get rgia
To Cairo and Grady County
HOUSEWIVES
BT.il IM lltMTiMMIM
Buy the Best and Save Money, Phone or
Tell Your Grocer to Send You
PRIDE of DENVER FLOUR
Best on the Market
Besides being best in quality it is cheaper
because it takes less lard than any other
you can buy.
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE
NOTICE!
We having bought the right to draw
off the fish pond of Mr. John F.
Griner, which has not been turnec
off in seven years. We wish to an
nounce that it will be turned off
at 8:30 o’clock on.
Thursday, Sept. 14th
Everybody is invited to come and brings the
ladies, for we assure each and every one that
f ^d order will be kept.
e guarantee everybody that buys tickets will
be protected against those that do not.
Soft drinks will be for sale only by the owners.
Admission $ 1.00
W. E. NAYLOR
I. W. ALEXANDER.
ANNUAL EXCURSION
via
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
“The Standard Railroad of the South”
to Montgomery, Ala.
September Fourth [Labor Day] l9!6
From Cairo $2.75
Don’t fail to visit the interest in? sights of Montgomery
the Capital of the Confederacy.
Tickets limited to leave Montgomery up to and including
train No. 58 at 7:05 p. m; September 7th, 1916.
For further wformatin regarding schedules, Pullman rerorvations,
call an
H.W.LAWSON,
TicKet Agent A. C. L.
Cairo, Ga.
Calvary Dots
The protracted meeting cloned at
the Baptist elmrch last week.'
Mr. ('. R..Beale came down Fri
day and charged our vats.
Mr. and Mrs. .1. P. Rawls spent
Sunday in Concord.
Mrs. lit Shelter of Quincy, Fla ,
and Miss Bulah Butler of .Jackson
ville, Fla., are visiting the Misses
Butlers.
Mr. .1. H. Strickland and family
<pent Sunday in Reno.
Mr Cap Maxwell of Hinson,
Fin., was in towh Monday.
Mr. Hart Herring left lust week
or Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Elnrbee and
.•hildren und Dr. Maxwell an
(pending a couple of weeks at
Lanark.
A crowd of young folks enjoyed
a fish fry at the river last week
wen though they got rained on.
STATE ITEMS
CONDENSED
Tired Creek News
We were disappointed Sunday
mr prenoher couldn’t come out.
Miss Bertie Willis of Capel sec-
ion was happily married to Mr.
Tom ' Owens Sunday afternoon
diout three o’clock, we are glad to
ixtend our best wishes, for them a
happy journey over the matrimon-
in I sen.
Mr. Grover Womble was among
those at Tired Creek Sunday p. m.
Messrs Riley and Samp Griner
were at Tired Creek Sunday night
Mr. Will Reagan of ' Pleasant
Grove section was a visitor in this
section recently.
A Manly Act
When a young man, Congress
man Park was principal of tin
boys’ High School at LaGrnnge
Fie was loved by all the boys fo
liis fairness and firmness, and l:e
encouraged us in our athletic- exer
cises ns well as our studies.
He nnd no pets and was impar
tial to all alike.
One incident of his firmness" ot
character and his determination to
!o the right thing is irrevocably
impressed upon my mind.
Mr.JPnrk encouraged all the boy.-
o speak and at the close of schoi 1
it was (and still is) the custom to
inve an oratorical contest, Wc
uul some good speakers among thi
boys, but one young fellow evident
y had the rest outclassed, and ii
vas generally conceded that he
would.win the medal, and lie did
nit the judges selected for the o<-
aision, for reasons of their own,
lecided in favor of a boy who
made a very ordinary speech, and
in fact was not even considered by
he boys ns a possible prize winner.
Mr. Park knew tiint a rank in
justice lnvd been perpetrated, rtnd
hat the young man the . boys had
■elected to win did win. He, ol
■oursc, could not reverse t h <
judges’ decision,,and saw that the
nodal was going to lie given to tin
wrong boy. What did he do? He
nose before the vast audience and
said, that while he would make no
complaint against the decision oi
the judges, yet, he was satisfied in
his own mind that there was a
young man there who deserved a
medal and he should have one he
w mid give him one himself—and
he did.
In doing this act of justice to a
boy, Mr. Park did not stop to
consider that he might injure hin-
se'.f by incurring the enmity of tl c
three judges nnd their friends wl o
w ire all among the most influential
patrons of the school. He did not
hesitate for a moment to do what
was right regardless of the conse
quences.
That is what 1 call a man. I
havn’t seen Mr. Park since I was a
boy but I am fully satisfied that
“his shadow has not grown less.”
J. H. HARRIS.
Atlanta.—Tlmt the receipts of tho
Atlanta postoftlce tor tho month of
August will allow a gain of approxi
mately $20,000 over the corroapomling
month a year ago, is the prediction ot
Postmaster Jones.
Llthonia.—Mrs. C. F. Skinner, wife
ot a farmer living about one mile
from Llthonia, threw her two-year-old
son In an old abandoned well about
a hundred yards from the home. She
Is supposed to be Insane.
Barne8vlUo.—First Lieut. John K.
Jemlson of tho coast artillery, who has
boon detailed by the war department
as Instructor of military science and
tactics at Gordon institute, will re
port ready for duty by the opening
of the school on September 12,
Abbeville.—During a thunderstorm
recently lightning struck the barn of
N. P. Wilson, living four miles west
of Abbeville, burning the barn, a mule,
a calf aud a lot of corn, oats, fodder
and other feedstuff. The loss Is about
two thousand dollars, with no Insur
ance.
Atlanta.—By a majority of 4,109 Asa
G. Candler was elected mayor of At
lanta in tho primary. His majority
was larger than the total vote polled
for Jesse W. Armistoad, his opponent
in the race. Mr. Armistead polled 3,-
712 votes. Tho total voto cast was
11,533.
Athens.—Another set of heirs and
another alleged mother for the late
James M. Smith, millionaire farmer,
have been found, It is said, in the in
tervention Hied before Judge Jones
at Gainesville. The case has already
been fought out over a dozen coun
ties, before a dozen judges, county,
state and federal.
Amerlcus.—At their own request
over seven hundred Confederate vet
erans viewed the National cemetery
at Ander8onvll!e. The feature was not
Included In tho program, but a spon
taneous desire to view the famous
spot of tho Andersonvlllo prison caus
ed the entertainment committee to ar
rango for 150 automobiles.
Macon.—Itinerant agents for labor
will have to pay a license fee of $1,000
to the city of Mrcoh before they can
solicit any kind of labor here, under
an ordinance adopted by the mayor
and council. Tlie ordinance is fram
ed to stop agents from tho north who
are making heavy Inroads on the
south’s negro labor.
Amerlcus.—Just about dark one af
ternoon lately a body found lodged in
the middle of the Flint river, three
miles south of the bridge, between Og
lethorpe and Montezuma, was identi
fied us that of Walter H. Wade, the
prominent^ young Leslie business man
who had been mysteriously missing
since the night of August lK
Atlanta.—According to an Atlanta
man, who has just returned from a
visit to Arthur, Tenn., a beautiful pel
ican was killed on a farm near there
a few days ago. It was a large
bird—white, with black tips on the
wings—which - maesur'ed seven feel
from tip la tip. Its bill measured 12
inches In length and it stood five feet
high.
Dalton.—The Dalton lodge of the
Knights of Pythias iB being revived
here. Several years ago, the lodge
was one or the largest of the secret
orders represented here, but rcently
Hi membership has been indifferent.
William H. Lopold, grand keeper of
records and seal, has made a visit
here, and more than a score of the
members are interested in putting the
lodge on the footing it formerly held
here.
Amerlcus.—-The long line of veter
ans,#^official ladles and citizens
brought the reunion to a climax when
(he parade circled and passed in re
view before tho newly elected com
mander, Major Martin V. Calvin of
Waycrosa and the retiring commander,
H. T. Davenport of Americus. As each
brigade passed the band the rebel
yell -joined “Dixie” in high enthusi
asm.
Quitman.—One of the largest meet
ings of representative farmers ever
held In Quitman convened at the
court house to hear the reports of
the sixteen farmers and business men
who went through the boll weevil ter
ritory of Alabama on a tour of Inspec
tion. It proved that if there hnve been
any doubting Thomases among the
farmers on the boll weevil subject,
they are now fully awake to the peril
this pest threatens.
Atlanta.—Out of the ten counties or
dered by Judge John C. Hart, state
tax commissioner, to increase their
returns to conform to the general
state average, but four, rGady, Bul
loch, Jeff Davis and Hart, have filed
protests for arbitration within the
time limit us specified in the general
tax act. The remaining six counties
accepted the order and expect to com-
ply with its provisions. Within the
next few days the arbitrators for the
counties involved and tho state arbi
trators will meet to decide on a third
member, who shall act as umpire.
Atlanta.—A gigantic land show, bas
ed largely on the plans and Ideas that
made so great a success of the Chi
cago "land show" will be put on in
Georgia in January of next year.
Thomasville.—The "forks of the riv
er" is one section of Thomas county
where It has long been said that much
liquor was made by "the light o’ the
moon,” but it has seemed hard to run
up on any of It. A few days ago, how
ever, Sheriff Rheberg and Deputy
Johnson succeeded In capturing a
still up near the Colquitt county line
that had a capacity of one hundred
gallons. ..
Country Produce
OUR SPECIALTY
WHEN you have anything
V* to sell in the way of
Meat, Chickens, Eggs or country
produce, get our prices before
selling as we will pay you the
top of the market.
Gilmore-Maxwell Company
NOW IS THE TIME TO
Sow Peas For Hay
We have the UNKNOWN and MIXED PEA at a
Reasonable price.
Now is the time to take care of summer pigs
By feeding them PURE WHEAT SHORTS. Try them
—they make hogs out of pigs.
We’re sole agents in Cairo for Stone’s 10c Cake
Six Varieties—Buy one and you \yill stop cooking
Cake • - • • » ~
When you want good fresh Bread—
Remember we have it.
Mitchell 8 Walker Company,
Phone 97. Cairo, Ga.
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It Speaks for Itself
Fowler Auto Company,
Agents
Thomasville. . . Georgia
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