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CAIRO,GRADY COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1010.
NO. 31
CHlMS 1 PUBLIC
I OFFICIALS, CITY
Thp ushering in of tho new year
wilVurthg several changes in the
official pcrsonel of the City and of
the £ounty.
dol, M. L. Ledford, Mayor, Mr.
J. MyPoulk, Councilman at large;
Dr, jSugcne Glower; Mr. W. G.
Baggett; Mr. A. L. Miller and Mr.
J. E;-Ilurst have given the town a
vet&efficient and highly satisfac-
totwadministratidn, and they give
upfifheir official relation to the town
on .the 31st. with the affairs of the
town }ri excellent condition.
Thpjnew administration will be
matje up of Mr. A. W. Miller May
or; 'J.-.M. Poulk, Councilman at
larks'; W. L. Wight; W. J. Willie;
J.lfibWnrn'ell and J. E. Hurst.
Th;s v is a strong and conservative
NEW BUSINESS
10 OPEN UP.
Messrs K. P. Wight and P. A.
Jones have taken over t he farm
implement and machinery business
of the Wight Hdwo. Co., and will
conduct it in the future ns a sepa
rate business in the wearhouso in
rear of the Wight & Miller garrngc.
These enterprising gentlemen will
add to the already large stock of
farm machinery and implements
carried and they propose to supply
the farmers of .the county with ev
erything in these lines that may be
needed as an aid to better farming
and the saving of labor.
Right now. when the coming of
the boll weevil makes it even more
important than ever before to save
labor cost in the production of farm
crops the opening of this implement
The Economic and Moral
Problem of Whiskey!
bridy' of business men and it is ex- J house is a timely one and we pre-
peetpd that under their administra-' diet a successful, line of trade for it.
tioriRhe city will contiune to nd-
vAiifee.
•Ltjis expected that one, of the
first'things that will bo taken up
by: the new administration after
the ■ selection of the police and
street men for the next year will
be-' the matter of calling an election
for. bonds to take the place of the
onq -that was recently postponed.
• in the County officers there will
also, be some important changes.
Mr. P. H. Herring who since the
formation of the county has held
in. ^-'most capable and satisfactory
mariner the office of ordinary.^ will,
retire' totH the old year and Will be
succeeded in the position by Mr.
i- W. C. Barrow. Those who know
i Mr. Barrow will have no doubt
1 that the office will continue to be
. -conducted in a manner entirely to
the satisfaction of all.
Mr W. A. Carr whom his friends
usually fondly refer to as “Bill
eupancy of the sheriff’s office will
retire and be succeeded by Mr. D.
D. Perkins. The remarkable cam
paign of Mr. Perkins in which he
made friends on every hand by his
pleasing personality will not soon
be forgotten. Mr. Perkins coinos
to the position of sheriff with the
best wishes of the county and there
is no doubt that he will handle this
difficult place in a most successful
manner.
The other county officials remain
the-same as during the last' term.
A Need-An Opportunity—
What Will We Do With It?
We are taking it for granted that
you realize .that there is an urgent
need in Cairo for a mill that'.will
insure a ready market for all the
peanuts that .may be grown in the
county next year. We "'do not
think this is a matter' that admits
of argument. If .Cairo is to main
tain her leadens a • profitable. mar
keting point- for. -AhV; products
grown on our lands a . mill to fur.
nish this market for peanuts is an
essential institution.
Wo do not believe that the pea
nut is going to' prove a bonanza
and that our 'farmers will ever
grow them to the exclusion of
other crops that may prove more
'uoutiiij iwnuAcicr tu as uiu > • • . .
Carr” after a most satisfactory oc- profitable, but we do believe that
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Our Depositors Number
Over One Thousand
Many of these have been with us since we organized,
January 1st, 1994, and many of them are new accounts,
. people who have come with us. recently. ■
These accounts are large and small, there are none to
large and none to small for us to give them service.
This is their bank, that’s the way we have always wanted
them to feel about it, and thats the way we believe they
do feel.. 1 J -
To give our customers the very best. service, consistent
safe and conservative banking, is thti constant Effort of
- all of our officers and employees. P . . .
If you think you would like to do business with us,
■ come in to see us and let us talk the matter over with
you. - -,. .. .
Citizens Bank
CAIRO, - - - - GEORGIA
W. S. Wight. President H, G. Cannon, V-Pres.
WH Searcy, V-President and Cashiet
In regard to the whiskey ques
tion in its economic and moral us-;
pects, I wish to say:
It is too collcssal in its full
meaning to bo fully and correctly
understood by any one man.
I will venture to say that the
great and vast population of the
universe, with their wisdom eoq-.
centrated into one great, mind,
could not ferret out the gigantic
cost that whiskey is totaling up
annually for this great American
nation and for other nations in like
manner.
It is a question that has too
broad a sphere of operation to be
limited to or confined to the realms
of any one country.
But, like the canopy of heaven
that suspends aloof from horizon
to horizon, enveloping this old
planet, so likewise the bitter curses
that flow from intemperance are
reaching far out from nation to
nation and civilization as a result
stands more and more imperiled
and jeopardized.
There is no statistician, however
skilled in his profession, however
perfect in his system of gathering
information and facts from the
board universe that has evor yet
compiled or correctly estimated
the'economic and moral cost of
whiskey to humanity today.
No other source but God Al
mighty in the Heavens will ever
know the extreme devestation, the.
Mr. J. W. Clifford
Died on Monday
WHY NOT A FARMERS
PRODUCE EXCHANGE?
Mr. W. T. Crawford
Admitted to the Bar
* When the news of the death of
this good man spread over the
town on Christmas evening, while
;not unexpected it brought a sense
of sadness to the entire town. No
citizen of Cairo was more univor-
<ivNv respected and loved than Mr.
Clifford.
While Mr. Clifford lmd not been
n his accustomed good health foV-
the. past several weeks yet: ho was
not considered seriously sick until
Wednesday morning the 20th.,
when lie was stricken with par
alysis ' from which lie gradually
grow worse until his death at about
six o’clock last Monday evening.
He was 72 years old and had re
sided hero since 1893, moving here
at that time from Boston in Thom
as county. No one who know Mr.
Clifford could be other than im
pressed With the purity and lofti
ness of his character. He was ore
o? those" rare characters of whom it
can lie said that you have never
heard aught agninst them. And
rarer still he never spoke ill of
others. In . the -condemnation of
wrong he ■ could bo ns severe as his
own evident abhorence, but of
persons ho never spoke ill.
While loved and popular with all,
it was perhaps in his loved camp 1
of Confedrate Veterans that he was
at "best advantage. Ho was the
Commander of the Grady County
Ctffbp No. 1G50 and nothing more
The matter is under contempla
tion to establish in Cairo under
competent management a Farmers
Cooperative .Produce Exchange.
With the: changing conditions
brought by the, coming of the boll
weevil and the necessity for devel
oping markets fpr various products
grown on the farm for which there
is no stable market at this time
makes the formation of an enter
prise of this kind a very t imely one.
Besider being able to handle in
an intelligent manner truck crops
and other farm products this ex
change could hoof decided Value in
the securing of proper seeds of all
kinds for planting purposes. In
fact the scope of usefulness for a
farmers oxcliango is almost without
limit.
We hope to bo able to make defi
nite announcements in regard to
this organization at an early date.
the peanut has got to act ns the
tide over for our farmers next year
while the readjusligeiib is beit g
made to new conditions, and we
believe that with a steady market
that there will always be enough
peanuts grown in the county to
supply a mill. ..
Wo believe that' the need and
opportunity is too clear to be
neglected. We believe that our
people will rise to the oecnsion and
that we will soon have this mill
an assured reality. .. .
infernal curses, that intemperai&e; flighted him than to Work in and
i§ wreaking upon the moral #fc>.ugh MgS gfipU*l%LjpJ!l
economic -conditions of civilwation
everywhere.
Viewing the whiskey problem
only from an' economic viewpoint
I will say that it is rolling up an
eoormous cost to this nation in the
losstof human life—a consideration
that is far greater and more im
portant than the mere accumula
tion of a few million dollars in an
nual revenue to the government.
Whiskey is not a. local, but a
national issue, and there is but one
way of getting permanent and
final prohibition, and that is by
and through a constitutional
amendment to our Federal Consti
tution.
And such a procedure could be
the most effectually accomplished
by each and every voter making
strenuous demands on his repre
sentative in Congress for the nec
essity of a speedy passage of suih
a constitutional amendment, and
which I am quite sure would be
quickly ratified by the states.
Aside from the enormous loss of
human life as a result of Intemper
ance, 'we have annually an ineffici
ency in. the standard of labor that
all aggregate a sum far surpassing
{he annual revenue obtained from
the sale of these intoxicating liqu-
Wc also have happy and pros
perous homes reduced to poverty
and misery.
We have the bright and brilli
ant minds reduced to the feeble
minded.
We have illiteracy as a result
of intemperance, prevailing every
where.
We. have insanity everywhere,
of which, I believe, is largely if not
altogether due to intemperance.
The “White Slave Traffic” is
born and bred of intemperance^
TheAlockets of the high courts
show the greater per cent of all
crimes are due directly to intem
perance.
And the annual cost to tax
payers of our country to operate
and maintain these courts that try
these annually committed crimes
could be averted by and through
prohibition and the rigid enforce-
Mc set-Vod through the Confeder
ate war and was a gallant soldier.
It was an interesting experience of
those who were fortunate enough
to have the opportunity to hear
him relate some of the incidents of
the battles £ through which he
fought.
Mr. Clifford was selected at va
rious times on the staff of tile Gen
erals commanding the South Geor
gia Brigade of the U. C. V. He
has for the last good many years
bseri regular in attendance upon
the encampments of the U. C. V.
The funeral services wore held
last Tuesday evening at the home
where a large number of friends
gathered ;lo pay their tribute of
love and sympathy. The burin 1
Secured in Thomasville where be
was laid to rest beside his wife who
died twenty years ago.
The members of Mr. Clifford’s
immediate family that survive
him are Messrs Ui A., W. D. and
Julian and Miss Nellie Clifford.
A good citizen a true friend and
a gallant soldier has fallen. No
more will lie bivouac with his
comrades here below. Their ranks
are thinning rapidly and ere long
it shall be said of all this noble
company:—
The muffled drum’s sad roll has
beat,
The Soldier’s last tattoo;
No more on life’s parade shall
meet,
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame’s eternal camping-ground,
Their silent tents arc spread;
And Glory guards, with solumn
round,
The bivouac of the dead.
WHY NOT SOME CAN
TALOUPES?
Cantaloupes have been grown
successfully and marketed in somo
sections during the last year or
two, and with the intelligent meth
ods that are being used in market
ing them there is no doubt a goocl
opportunity for the . growing of a
.fp\y.,cars til ijicsq jft,6*a4jr-Gounty-.
Already a number of our good
farmers are interested in this mat
ter and stepfe are being taken to
obtain 1 more detailed information
as to just what the outlook for
markets etc. is, and a little later we
hope to bo able to make further
announcements in regard to the
matter.
The many friends of Mr. W. T.
Crawford will be interested and
glad to know that ho passed sue*
cussfully tho examination recently
taken by him for admission to
practice law in the courts of'Geor
gia.
It is also interesting in this con
nection to learn that he has already
formed a law partnership with Col.
W. V. Custer of Bainbridge who is
widely known throughout this sec
tion ns a brilliant and successful
member of his profession. These
gentlemen will open an offico in the
Crawford Building next to Bell &
Weather’s office. Mr. Custer will
also maintain an office in Bain-
bridge. /
Wo have been informed that Mr.
Crawford will resign his position as
an President of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank, and will likely be
succeeded in that capacity by Mr.
Thos. Wight. Mr. Crawford will
very likely be made Vice President
of tho bank and will act in an ad
visory capacity, and will in fact
maintain his same keen interest in
the welfare of the bank at present.
The experience that Mr. Craw
ford had in the court room for tho
seven years that he was Clerk of
the Court,''apd the business expe
rience that he has gained during
his six years presidency of the bank
which he now gives up will prove
a valuable asset to him in the prac
tice of his profession. With the
law and with the splendid legal
connection that he has been able
to form with Mr. Custer there is no
doubt but that ho will have a suc
cessful career from the very first.
Wheezing in the lungs indicates
that phlegm is obstructing the air
passages. BALLARD1S HORE-
HOUND SYRUP loosens the phle
gm so that it can be coughed up and
ejected. Price 25c, 50c and $1.00
per bottle. Sold by Wight &
Browne.
Rev. II. P. Stubbs the pastor
will preach at Tyred Creek church
next Sunday morning and evening.
It is hoped that a good congrega
tion will meet him at that time.
Call for Pride of Denver Flour
when giving; your order to the gro-
ment of the laws regulating same.
For whiskey and its destructive
effects ugon thS lives of men is
indeed confronting this and other
nations with oric of the greatest
economic and moral problems
known in the history of mankind.
And like an old saying, quoted
me which ran thus: “The half
has never yet been told,” regardr
ing the curse of intemperance in
any of its phases.
Yours respectfully,
Arthur Lofton.
Whighar, Ga.
FARMERS & 1ERCHANTS BANK
(State Depository)
Offers You
Absolute Security
Friendly Service
A Banking Home
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“Make Our Bank Your Bank”
W. T. CRAWFORD, Pres. THOS. WIGHT, V.-Pres.
J. E. FORSYTH, Cusbie,.
