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■ ■ ■ GHAUV COUNTY yrtOORBy. CAllW. GRADY COUNTY PROGRESS Thomasviile Minstrel Coming January 12tii. THE OFFICIAL PRINT SHOP OF GRADY COUNTY. D. L. WILLIAMS, Editor and Proprietor Entered us matter of llio secoml clous ut the Cairo, Georgia, Pout Ofilco, under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE; $1 .00 a Year; 00 cents for 0 Months; 25 cents for Three Months j < - ADVERTISING RATES: Most Reasonable and Made Known Upon Application. OunJjoM r.pApr.P - ESSIVE JIMHFi With the “ALL WINTER READING” Club is our Biggest, Best Bargain. Our Jjflpar contains all tlia Local, County and im portant State news. “Tlio Weakly Kansas City Star” liaD tlia world and general news. f . "Tlio. Progressive Farmer" is die South’s leading Agricultural weekly, of -which it is said, "you can tell by n man’s farm whether he reads at or not." "The Fann ers Business Bool: and Almanac” is issued by the Progressive Farm er and is a simplified form for keep ing farm accounts. Forty pages, card-hoard cover. Today s Magazine is amonth- ly containing clean Btories and much good reading for all the fam ily, while "The Housewife," a monthly, will he found interesting to all and helpful to wife and daughters. The Grapevines are of four varieties selected for Soudiem growing. 'mm StlBSi 1 Uivmi H0MU4 The total vnlue of n year’s pTTpwSy suhsenplion for our paper and a year each for the other publications of the “All;Winter Reading”!! Club, together with the Fn micro* 13uemess Boole ond the Grapevines is mere than four dollars. Our £nce for this Biggest, Best Bargain is given in last line of this announcc- ment. All acceptances are to he sent to our office and includes one year’s renewal or new subscription to our paper. “T^he Progressive Farmer” Gtanda back of tlu*3 remarkable offer and will supply the sub scriptions one year each to all the publications except our own and will also send you the Farm, era’ Business Book and the four grapevines. Wo recommend your immediate acceptance of this offer os every publication named in clean, interesting and useful, while the Farmers! Business Book and the Grapevines will prove valuable to you. i FILL IN AND MAfL, SEND OR BRING THIS FORM TO U$ ■ . . I accept the “ALL WINTER READING” Club oiler: ‘Sffe Name Address. Route. -State. .Amount $_ -Date- Price of this Club Offer $2.00 \ T Country Produce OUR SPECIALTY 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. Dont forget that one of the best treats that Cairoites lmve enjoyed this season will he afforded by the nnnistrel show staged by Thomas- villo that will lie given ut the School Auditorium on the night of January 12th, _ Gilmore-Maxweil Company Grady County Live Stock Association Meets Sat., 6. The next regular meeting of the l.ive Stock Association will be on the first Saturday in January which is the 0th. At this meeting Mr. John H. Mock of Albany has promised to be present and as lie is a speaker of note, and no doubt will have n message Hint day that Grady coun- l,v ought to hear, it is expected tlial a large crowd will be present. 1 he officers of the Association mo anxious to increase the mem- borshid ol (he Association. This organization has done and ip doing some excellent work, and the farm ers of the county could do no bet ter thing than to enroll themselves as members of the Grady County Live Stock Association. Happy New Year A- C. L. The Atlantic Coast Line Rail road Company have issued a hand some wall calendar for 1017 and they offer to mail this large calen dar free to anyone sending six cents in stamps to pay the postage. If you need a good wall calendar this one will please you. Mr. Paul Searcy Accepts Posi tion With Cairo Firm— Mr. Paul C. Searcy, has served his connection with the Bank of Thomasville, and will be located after January first, with the drug firm of Wight & Browne, in Cairo. Air. Searcy is one of the popular and prominent young men of the city and has hundreds of warm personal friends who will regret to know that he leaves here. Mr. Hull Searcy succeeds to his place in the Bank and Mr. Ben Kincaid, will have the place made vacant by Air. Searcy’s advancement. -Times Enterprise. Toone, to all—to our old friends and new—to those whose loyal patronage" year after year has built this business. It is with deepest feeling of gratitude that we wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year. JOHN L POULK Phone 121 5“The Quality Store” Cairo, Ga. To The Trustees Of Grady County Schools I have recieved several letters asking about the institute for 1917. The school Supervisor who has this work in charge informs me that he will not bo able to reach Grady County before April. Due announcement will be made re garding the matter when the time for holding the institute has been determined. This notice is given in order that, you may notify yonr teachers that there will he no de lay in beginning the spring term promptly on Jan. 1st, 1917. Very respectfully, J. S. Weathers, Supt. SERVICE Oestruefive Fire Tuesday Nigl,t The residence of Mr. C. E. Yan- landinglmm located just out of the city limits on South Broad Street was entirely consumed by (ire last Tuesday night about 12-45. This wae a seven room house and had not been occupied for some weeks but was to have been occupied within a few days by Mr. G. B. Godwin. Too much headwao had been gained by the flames for efforts to amount to anything to save the building and the efforts of the fire boys were 'confined to keeping the flames from spreading to other nearby houses. A transportation line has just one thing to sell and that one thing is service. The line that sells good] service is a good line. I It is the object of the Central of Georgia Railroad to sell its patrons the very best service. Our ser vice is not a thing supplied by any one employe, nor does it consist of special attention to any one in dividual patron. It means 'good efficient, courteous attention from our working force to all the people or as near this idea as is humanly possible. We try to render such service all the time. We are not content with having given the people of the South good Service; we want to make it better; we wish to go to the limit in making travel easy for the whole people. If you are going on any trip that may be accomplished by use of our lines, let our nearest repre sentative know about it. It will be good exercise for his talents to practice courtesy and efficiency on you. Birmingham, St. Louis, Chfrago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis New York, Boston and many other larger centers are most con veniently reached-via the entral, and its connections. ’ CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAIL WAY. THE RIGHT WAY SERVICE. To Cairo and Grady County HOUSEWIVES Buy the Best and Save Money, Phone or Ttfll 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 Annual Stockholders Meeting Anual Stockholders meeting of the Farmers Union Warehouse will meet Friday Jan.-2nd. I Free--$5-Free , , IN GOLD | V To the person bringing in the targets load of Scrap Iron between Jan. 1st arid J£n. 15th. Loads of 2000 lbs. or . more will be considered. We pay the highest mar ket price for all kinds of Junk. ‘ Located in Wight Hardware Company’s Warehouse. Rear of Hutto’s Blacksmith Shop. Cairo Junk Co. Cairo - - Georgia.'