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Come to Our One Cent Sale This Week-—Wight & Browne THE GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS COTTON GINNED IN GRADY COUNTY TO SEPTEMBER 25- According to tho report of the Bureau of the Census the nurtibe of hales of cotton gintien in Grady County up to September 25th. was 4003 as against 3944 to the s; date in 1915. While this should not be taken as an indication that the crop will be larger that the one of last year for the reason that the crop was earlier this year than last, yet would seem to indicate that the shortage in this crop will be by no means as great in this county as was at one thought would be the case, With the high price prevailing for both cotton anil seed this year’s crop will no doubt be the most val uable one ever marketed in Grady County. SCHOOL NEWS Honor Roll for September. First Grade. Nannie Mac Crawford, Fannie Mae Gibson, John Walsh and Francis Wight. Second Grade Margaret Bell, Melvin Hancock, Majorio Cumbie,- Mae Hart and Franklin Warned. Third Grade. Lousia Wight, Roy Bishop, Albert Kelley, Donsa Montgomery and Buryi Highon. Fourth Grade. Margaret Poulk, Mae Walker, Margaret Wight, Madge Butt, Evylen Jones, Unice Blaekipan, Alma Lewis and Earl Ray. Fifth Grade. Oze Carlisle, Alton Nicholson, and Glower Mott. Sixth Grade. Artluir|Baggett,Howord Baggett, Hattie Donnelly ond Willis War ned. Seventh Grade. Versio Barrineau and Loulic For ester. Eight Grade. Cloudie Barrineau, Burton Wight and George Forester. Ninth Grade. Grace Vanlandingham. Tenth Grade. William Wight, Powell Jones, Reid Spears, Dwight Brown and Louie Powell. Miss Adrian Turned and Miss Little made a pleasant trip to Thomasvillc, Saturday afternoon. Quite a Humber of the teachers and pupils attended the Donald- sonville Fair. A course in Commercial Geo graphy has been put in the tenth grade, and several of the. senior pupils are taking this course in stead of Latin. Mrs. Krieehbaum has been elected to (each this class. • Mrs. Annis Kelley was in Thomasville Saturday. Miss Bertie Baggett is assisting Miss Kreichbaum in the first grade.' On Monday morning the girls of the eight grade spelled against the boys. The contest was rather close but the girls won in the end. An interesting Geography match was held in the seventh .grade during the week. In addition to our study of the history of the past, we believe in knowing something of the history that is being made today. The members of the tenth grade are Mr. J. B. Wight sold this week nine bales of tho above variety of cotton for nearly nine hunijred dollars and they were all small bales at that and all top crop, Tho price for which this cotton was sold was 22 1-2 cents per lb. Mr. F. A. Richter who carried some samples of this cotton to Savannah was. assured by one of the prominent .cotton buyers there that the ’ cotton that Mr. Wight has been growing this year of this variety is the best cotton of this long staple upland type that he has ever seen. Mr. Wight has been growing this variety for sev eral years and each yenr in con nection with Mr. J. S. Wight and Mr. A. C. Lewis of the state De partment of Entomology he has been making selections to still futh- er improve the variety. In this connection it will not be out of place to state that Mr. Wight informed the Progress man that the stalks in his field, were being cut as rapidly as possible and that all stalks would be plow' ed under just as rapidly as the work can be completed. We would like to believe that by Nov ember the 15th, at latest that all stalks in Grady county have been plowed under. GRADY DAY WAS PR0N0UNC1 SUCCESS Ten Thousand People and Miles of Parade i re Features of Biggest Day in History of the County. They began coming early and when the long parade of Agricult ural floats, commercial floats, de corated automobiles, school floats, etc, started at ten o’clock there were easily six or eight thousand folks here. And as they kept pouring in for the greater part of Flight Notice Ice Customers. After Saturday my ice wagons will be taken off. Will deliver ice only at Storage Room nnd business district. ' Cairo Ice and Bottling Works. FOR SALE. One Seven Room House on South Broad Street, For Sale or Rent. Can give Possession at once. Apply at this office or of C. E. VanLandingham, ^— Colquitt, Ga. Hand made Harness are best. Get them at Robt. II. Hudson’s. reading “Review of Review” and giving one class period during the week to this discussing of .live topics of the day. The seventh, eight and ninth grade pupils are subscribing to Current Events. Every one connected with the school enjoyed the holiday ' on Tuesday. Tjie Grady Day Fair was a success in every way. Considering the fact that we have been in school little more than a month, we think that we had a very creditable school dis play at the fair ground. Our school float was ‘enthroned Minerva, the -Godess of wisdom while grouped at her feet were four of tho smaller children hold ing a globe, a book, a slate, and an abacus, representing four branches of bearing. At each ' coner near the red, rose covered standards stood four of the larger girls carrying bouquets of red roses while four boys selected from different grades walked at the cor ner holding the red and white lib- bon streams and waving Cairo High School pennants. Follow ing the float came three wagons full of children from thq^ lower grades, this alone was an inspiring sight. Let every one in Cairo join in a ringing cheer from the heart of the Cairo school. ‘ Let. your school be your pride, and your town is made.” —By Kiah Pope. the day it is probably a conserva tive estimate to say that there were ten thousand peoplo here during the day. And i't was a good humored and good natured crowd. No boister ousness was to be observed throughout the day. It was a well behaved crowd, evidently prosperous and happy. Measured from almost any an gle Grady Day would have to be pronounced a success. The live stock and agricultural exhibts were areditable to any county fair and when it is considered that the time for preparing for the occasion was very limited and only small prizes offered, it is conclusive proof of the fact that Grady coun ty could hold a great county fair if plans were laid in advance. The big parade formed Broad street near the Methodist church marched through town as far as the Baptist church doubled and returning through town passed down Central Avenue to the fair grounds for the day at Copeland’s Park. There were some splendid agri cultural floats from the school districts. The prizes for these as will be seen else where went to Fail-view, Woodland, Golden Rod and Live Oak in the order named. The commercial floats were noteworthy, among the best of these being those of Ro'ddenbery Hdwc Co., Cairo Furniture Co., J. L. Oliver’s Son, Poulk-Wight Co., and Wight Hdw. Co. The decorated automobiles also added largely to the attractive ness of the parade. Among the most striking of these might be mentioned those of Central Drug Company and the Wight& Browne Drug store. The School Float of the Cairo High School and the one of the ! W. C. T. U. added much to the attractiveness of the parade. There were a great number of features that we are unable to mention at the time. A complete list of the prizes awarded will be found in another column. The Band Boys From Pavo. The committee having the matter in charge were particularly fortunate in being able to secure for Grady Day the cornet band from Pavo. This accomplished band added much to the sucess of the occasion by the spirited music they furnished. This band was made up of a splendid set of fellows who were not at all miserly in the amount of playing that they were willing to do. On behalf of those in attendance upon Grady Day we extend a word of apprecia tion to the Pavo Band. Aviator Williams who made the flight for Grady Day was in rather tough luck. Before he had been ih- the aii- for very long he discov ered that he had burnt out a bear ing in his machine and decided that it was the part of wisdom to to .come down, The thousands who were near enough to witness the flight enjoyed it. His contract called for a flight over the town and of course he regretted as much as any one that lie was unable to com plete his flight. Hero is hoping that he has better success at his next appointment. gopelanTs park This ground has held some large crowds at various times before but it is much to be doubted if there was ever so many people here at one time before-even back at thc"- timo when Gen. Gordon, Congress' man Blount and Ben Russell made those great Democratic speeches there in the days when populism Iwas a fa'ctor in the state. Mr. Copeland contiiics to make improvements on his play*grounds and the spacious pavilliqn that was used on Grady Day for the exhib its is a splendid building and no doubt will become a popular resort when opened as a skating rink. For Grady Day Mr. Copeland had built a splendid lot of stalls and pens for the horses, cows and pigs so that the exhibits were cared for without trouble. Mr. Copeland is to be commen ded for the admirable way in which he sought to cooperate with the committees in arranging for 'the day. A Letter To The County Commissioners Gentlemen: Your attention is respectfully called to the condition of the Dixie Highway through Grady County from the Thomas line to Florida. It appears .that the: roadway has been neglected apparently, its drainage and some of the sand bottoms almost makes travel on it prohibitive. IhiS matter is called to your at tention in the best of spirit and only for the. purpose of promoting -the mutual good of your county as well as all other counties and citizens in this section. You know that the bringing of many tourists through our section over the Dixie Highway is bound to re sult in great good to this whole territory and Grady County will receive its full share. May we not hope that some de cided action may soon be taken with regard to this part of the Dixie Highway? It, certainly is a pleasure to work with you gentle men and if we can be of any as sistance to you with respect of this matter please do not hesitate to command us. Thanking you for your attention at our next meeting and waiting your decision, we are, Yours very truly, Commercial Ass’n For Thomas Co. I. ROSCOE LUKE DELIVERS ADDRESS DAY That was a splendid idea and well carried out in the display put in the parade on Grady Day by Roddenbery. Hardware Company. It was in reality a series'of floats each illustrating a point which taken as a whole made a very im pressive demonstration. It was arranged in somewhat this manner ; a large float ahead bearing the motto Quality First-Satisfaction Always. Following this was a second float bearing the sign Boll Weevil Remedy Follows. Follow ing this a stalk cutter with this sign, Cut Stalks, next, a Disc Plow with this, Plow Deep, next a Disc Harrow with Pulverise Soil, next a Grain Drill with Piant Grain, next a Mower with Make Hay, next a Hay Rake with Save Labor, next a Hay Baler with Save Waste, next a Weber wagon loaded with hay with Feed Stock-Get Rich. The idea of thus displaying im proved agricultural implements in such a way as to also carry an in structive and educative feature was an original and unique one. and well deserved the award of first prize which was awarded it. More Cars of Hogs Shipped this Week More and more Grady county is coming into her own as a stock growing county. Two more cars of hogs have gone from the county this week to swell the already con siderable number that have already been shipped’ this season. The first of these cars was shipped from Whigham Wednesday and the oth er one from' Cairo Thursday. They were bought by Mr. C. R. Beale for the White provision Company in Atlanta. We did not learn just those furnishing the,hogs from here but learn that Mr. J. B" Wight and Mr. W. T. Crawford furnished the greater part of those going from this point.- Grady county has a good crop of hogs this time and we expect to see the sale of hogs from this county far outstrip what we have been accustomed to seeing in the past. In response to the invitation that had been extended him, Hon. Roscoe Luke of Thomasville, who has recently been elected to the Court of Appeals bench, addressed the Grady Day audience last Tues day. After a fitting introduction by Mayor M. L. Ledford, Mr. Luke began his address by express ing his pleasure at being in Grady County on the occasion that brought him here and said that he felt that every one was to be con gratulated on such an occasion. He tnen proceeded at some length and in a most happy way to em phasize the benefits that should grow out of such get together meet ings, calling attention to the splen did opportunities that Southwest Georgia lias of leading all the state in matters of better farming, better live stock growing and kindred things as well as in the matter of becoming known as the place of Georgia’s best citizenry. He suggested that in view of the splendid success that attended Grady Day that tho county should arrange for a fair of greater dura tion another yenr. He then paid glowing tribute to the great nation of which we are a part, and congratulated the peo- pls of the United States that they have in the President’s chair so wise anil, groat a man as Woodrow Wilson, He said that the American people stand now and always for peace nnd prosperity. IDLING DROS. ,C0MINIG THIS WAY World’s Biggest Rir.pus and Spec tacle “Cinderella” Announced For Early Date. Court Adjourned Until 2nd. Monday In September GEORGIA, GRADY COUNTY. In the Superior Court of said County. Sept. Adj. Term, 1916, Oct. 6, 1916. It is ordered that the said term of said Court do now take a .lecess and adjourn over to the 2nd Mon day in December 1910, when the same shall be reconvened as a con tinuation and pijtlohgation of said Sept.. Adjourned term 1916, for the trial and disposition of any cases that may then be called. Let the jurors, parties, witnesses attorneys, officers and other per sons concerned take notice and be governed accordingly. The Grand Jnry will not be re quired to report for service on said 2nd. Monday in December, unless hereafter ordered by the Judge but shall be subject to call. This Oct. 6. 1916. In open Court. E. E. Cox, \ Judge Superior Court, A. C. Filed in office Oct. 6, 1916, . .... J. M."McNair, Jr. C. S. C. Announcement is made that on Friday, Oct. 20th., Ringling Bros, circus will give afternoon and night preformances at Albany. The famous showmen are this season presenting an all new and wonderful program. The tremend ous fairyland spectacle, “Cinder ella” will appeal to both young nnd old. More than 1000 persons take part in it. It is easily the biggest spectacle' Ringling Bros, have ever staged and its glorious “Ballet of the Fairies," with 300 dancing girls, is in itself worth going many miles to see. Follow ing “Cinderella” 400 arenic artists appear in the main tent program. Because of the great European war the Ringlings have secured scores of circus preformers never before seen in America. An en tire trained animal show has been made a part of the main tent pro gram this season. The menagerie now numbers 1000 wild animals. The elephants, including “Big Bin- go” the earth’s' largest pachydrem haye been increased from 41 to 800 and almost 800 horses are carried. There will be 60 clowns and a big free three-miles street parade show day morning. ^ The Iron Claw is getting better every week don’t fail to read it in tho Progress and then see it at the Alcazar Theatre every Friday. For Hog Ttroubles Use Swine-Lixir, GRADY PHARMACY