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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. MOTOR CAR It Speaks for Itself Fowler Auto Company, Agents Thomasville. . . Georgia to' CAIRO CAFE For Lad.cs and Gentlemen. We Cater «o .he Taste ol All. ( ur export Chef prepares the most appetizing Chops, Steaks, Cutlets, etc. " “ n y0U “ re real huni5r - v aml wa,lt something real good to eat, just come here Phone 75