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GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS, CAIRO,
Children Cry for Fletcher’s
j Tlio Kind You lluvo Always Bought, and which has been
iu uso for over 30 years, lias borne the signal are of
— and has been limdo under his per-
■ sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in tills.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-goocl ” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger tlio health of
Iufuuts and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Cnstoria Is a harmless substitute for Cnstor Oil, Paro«-
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups, It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor oilier Narcotics
substance. Its nge Is Its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles nml
Diarrhoea. It regulates tlio Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates tlio Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
Tlio Children’s Panacea—Tlio Mother’s Friend.
Cook Clayton Visits Boll
Weeiil in Native Heim s
GENUINE CASTORSA ALWAYS
} Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NKW YORK CITY.
Country Produce
OUR SPECIALTY
W HEN you have anything
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.
ffilmore-Maxwell Company
Sanders
Has The Goods And The
Price That Will Please you
It is hard for any customer to resist the appeal of the
splendid pieces of high grade Cut Glass to lie found in
C. F. Sander’s sparkling assortment.
Call and See for Your self
C. F. SANDERS,
Cairo, Ga,
(r.y Mark F. Ethridge)
Just 11 ck ficm an ui| hi we. !•
trip, a good portion of which w,
spent in the boll.weevil, or <otti
planting, ri litn of the coimliv.
Cook Clayton, fieri: of the I'niled
St.n -di-tiict court, can new |.<
a .1 authority on the sul-jui-
and not without justification.
Mr. Clayton, being a fanner hin.-
self, and naturally interested in :.
subject which Georgia fanners are
vitally i fleeted by, entered field.- of
•otton in the Mississippi delta
•vhieh ran higher than the' top h
his m: chine, and found boll wievi;
young, boll wco\ il old, and
about to I e la,11 v.iv\il—in i lia:
word-, I o saw il at well:. s.;\v it a!
play, if Iioll weevil do such. Ami
now Il.e chief topic of Mr. Ch y
ton’s conversation is the I cl
weevil.
ilis (lip, made in an automobile'
with hi v.ife and two children, nr
companicd by Seymour Byrom, ol
Byion.ville, his wife and family,
led him first through the rollon
belt of the union, in which he
crossed Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico’and
Colorado on the outgoing trip, lie
crowed the Mississ ppi river at
Vi kshurg, making the trip west,
an 1 returning he crossed at Ilele: a
Ark., after having traversed on his
way back from Colorado, the stabs
of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkan
sas.
In Heart of the Delta
On his return, Mr. Clayton stop
ped at Mintcr City, Miss., in the
heart of the Mississippi delta, the
largest cotton producing center in |l
the world, with the exception of
he Nile valley, being the guest o!
I. Ford Rodgers, a former Macon
man who.nas been in the delta foi
dmost thirty years. Mr. Rodger,
is one of Mississippi’s largest plan
ters cultivating approximately
1,000 acres.
lie hrs had the boll weevil will:
him for several years, Mr. Clayton
dated, hut raises as line cotton ns
is produced in the south undci
cultivation.
“IIow docs he do it?” I asked
Air. Clayton.
“Wny,” said that gentleman,
“by planting early and by fast cul
tivation, which matures his crops
about August I. The boll weevil
rarely begins work by tins time;
his habits arc regular. I saw
thousands of acres worked the
same way that would produce from
three-quarters of a bale to a hale
an acre. If our Georgia farme
will get up early and stay lute-
from March to August—they' will
succeed in making fine crops of
cotton, if the weather permit;
despite the weevil.
The Answer is Easy
“How do the farmers make big
crops in spite of the weevil? Why,
that’s an easy question. Let each
farmer keep a double supply of
seed, planting in March, the first
lot. If the frost gets these, replant
at once. Work the crops fast and
the bolls will mature by August
The weevil never touches a boll
that is about to pop.
“I noticed one-filing that sur
prised me. Mr. Rodgers produced
a staple that is about twice the
length of our Georgia cotton, for
which lie is getting 21 cents a
pound, as against our 10 cents, the
production being about the same
the best Georgia lands give.
Large quantities of this staple is
found in Mississippi, in the same
latitude us Macon. Some of this
cotton was successfully grown in
Dooly county this year and
brought 20 cents a pound.
The boll weevil is coming, and
farming had belter practice pre
paredness now.”—Macon Tele
graph.
| There is a Negro story of a tr.r-
jk»y who, every lime it snowed,
'T: w his feather:; about him :.i:d
; ’. : mly resolved to I r.ild him a
i !i use, Rut b ft re hi' could decide
j v.d.eie to build, or what kind of a
boose, the on came out and he
I .■ oiild shake cut hi s feathers, strut
| mouik! and say to himself: “Ne-
j body want ■■ to he in a house on a
day like this,” and the ie.si.lt was
be fro.w to death one winter night.
’1 here are a lot of people in tl e
-same frame of o n 1': s the turkey.
When things are going wiong.
v.mk is slack. Lines are bard, siik-
i 1 s or : evident «< mes and tin ir
i a ney is gone, they (irmly rosob.c
ihat in the future, (hey will take
rare of their money and look out
for the ininy buy; I uilil them n
hou.-e, rs it weie; but ass soon as
.hing.-i right tin msclves, they for
si their good resolution and the
next lime of need finds them as ill
oiepared ever.
Ms st of us are merely grown up
children. We want wli: t we want
when we want it. Wo live day by
day. To-morrow is a vague’ un
certainty to iw. The boy will
gorge himself with green nppks
in June and forget that there is a
pin deal law against rating green
qiples. To-morrow he will find it
out, and may resolve not to cat
green apples again; but a good
resolution never gels a man any
where unless he keeps it. Many a
New Year’s promise is made only
to be broken and pledges arc signed
'lily to be forgotten. How many
i man has resolved to stop drink
ing when dringing has brought him
in court! He should have stopped
fore. ;
Thousands of men have firmly
resolved that they would start a
-livings bank accout, made a do
COME TO US.
Your Table will he well : i) plied with the host
the market alfords if you buy your grot’olios anciprovisions
from us.
Y‘ air GanK Account will bo amply safe
guarded because our prices are away down, as low as posi-
Hc for groceries and provisions of quality, even lower than
they should be.
Your Healths will bp amply protected because
we sell only goods of known-purity and excellence.
Tour Appetite will be well satisfied because
we sell groceries of quality that possess an unusual amount
of nutriment, and they are good to the taste.
Your Friends will remark on the excellence of your
cooking, for the goods wc sell, combined with your own
good sense, will produce a meal fit for the gods.
White & Stringer
The Leading Grocers
DONALSONVILLE, GA.
v.a
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
“The Standard Railroad of the Scu.h”
Account
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA FAIR
October 3rd to 7th inclusive
Tickets on sale October 3rd to 7th inclusive, limited to
posit or two, and then quit. An
examination of the books of any reach original starting point returning prior to midnight
j. -T 1S SM)
Will euro Rheumatism, Neu
ralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic
Sprains,_Bruises L Cuts, Burns, Old
used internally or externally. 25c,
savings hank will show a large
number of accounts with but one
deposit. It is mute evidence of a
good resolution broken. A cer-
1 aii: father with two children had
them insured in an industrial in
surance company. He concluded
that he could save the money he
was paying for insurance some oth
er way and decided to put it in a
savings bank, and proceeded to
open an account for each child.
The first was the last deposit ever
made. The insurance collector
quit his visits and the father’s good
resolution to save for his children
stopped with his coming, and to
day they are without either a bank
account or insurance.
The rainy day comes to every
man. No matter how long it may
be delayed or how distant it may
seem, or how bright the sky to-day
Double is I ound to come to us all,
some lime. A certain young man,
full of energy and ambition, with
as bright prospects ns a man ever
had and highly successful, made
the boast that he never expected
his income to be less than it was at
that time; but inside of three years
it was nothing. IIo thought he
had a life job, and it had every in
dication of being such, but the
props went from under, and at
forty he had to begin building all
over again. He does not boast
now.
The turkey in the story was no
more foolish than a lot of human
beings. The difference lies in the
fast that the turkey takes what is
given him, or what lie can find.
We have the power to choose. We
arc in a large measure masters of
our own fate. The beaver and the
ant have the right idea; thev build
their houses, fair weather or foul
knowing that having a house you
can go into it when it rains or stay
out of doors when it don’t, as you
like. You are safe cither way
October 8th. 1916.
Special train service Thomasville to Donalsonville and re
turn October 4th. 5th. and 6th. Ask your Agent about
the scheduled
H. -W. LAWSON, TICKET AGENT A. C. L., R. R.
Cairo, Ga.
Loans! Loans! Loans!
We arc better prepared than ever t) offer the most attractive
propositions on farm loans. Our’companies are offering the bc3t terms
we have ever had, both as to rates of interest charged and as to terms
of payment. Wc can make you a loan for 5 years with only the inter
est payable annually, and with the privilege of paying principal back at
any interest paying period in sum:s of §100 or mutiples thereof. We
eaii make you a loan for 7 or 10 years with interest only payable for 3
years, and principal divided into equal installments for the remaining
years during which the loan will run. Our rates of interest are from
5 1-2 to 8 par cent, depending on the amount of the loan and length of
term the loan runs. Wc have the Best Terms to be found any
where. Wc can help you whip the boll weevil. Now is the time to
make your arrangements. Como to see \JS.
BELL & WEATHERS,
CAIRO, GEORGIA
LOW FARES TO ATLANTA
AND RETURN
VIA
A. B. A. RAILWAY
Account
The Great Southeastern Fair
=■ - ^-AND=A
Grand Circuit Harness Races October
21st. Inclusive.
14th.
CASTORSA
For Infanta and Children
Ssa Us® For Over 30 Years
cf
The New Fair Ground i and Race Track now represented a
vestment of 8700,000,03, and addition and improvements are
added daily.
The forth coming Fair promises to surpass any'Fair
Southeast since the Great Cotton Stato.s Exposition.
Specific fares, dates and tickets will be sold and return limit
be announced in a few days.
Make your plans to attedn.
W. W. Croxton, G. P. A. ’
Atlanta Georgia.