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The Cairo Messenger VOL* !• Did you ever wear I & r STAR BRAND SHOES? If not we insist that you try them. We have just a complete Spring line. They are absolutely solid throughout and every pair guaranteed, and prices very low. We also carry a complete line Up-to-date Clothing, Dry Goods Notions and Staple Groceries. We want your Chickens and Eggs and Country Produce will pay highest prices for same. Yours for square dealing, FORRESTER BROS, Cairo, Ga. Easter Sale of Hats! ♦-/ We have just opened up the handsomest Line of /pring Millinery ever shown in Cairo. The sifHes are Beautiful and Becoming. Monday w§ will display a line of Patterns that : are made to the Queen’s Taste. : Our line of Street Hats are Stunners and we are selling them at prices that are extremely gratify mg. Everyone is cordially invited to call and see them. Miss J. D. Brown & Co. i— -j . -j. : Will Move From Cairo August 1st. Since we have made this decision, we have received the goods, which was ordered previous to this and if prices are any ducement—you will help us to move them: A case of Crockery of 480 pieces, A big lot of Men and Boys Pants and Overalls. 186 Men and Boys Straw and Felt Hats. A big lot of up-to-date Millinery goods, which very attractive to the Eye, besides a lot of other Spring and goods such as Slippers, Hosiery, Underware, Shifts and Skirts, Collars, Ties Etc. Come to see us before buying. Bring us your chickens and Yours to Serve, a. L*. DUREIN, H. •*VV- Montcrlef, Manager. Additional jCocai, 1 Hon. Jno F. Howard spent : ^ednsday in the city. Buy your Easter Egg dye from ^s. Wight & Browne. Hr. Walter Davis paid Pine s Bark a visit Tuesday. 4 ! Ladies. Send your Easter 4 suit’s to us next Monday and get ■ them Lfi Bros. laundered right.—Maul : ^Hs. 4 W. . \ Th H. Robinson visited I amasvill e friends a short while Tuesday morning. ; Lor Sale.—O ne merry-go r ° Un< ^> cheap for cash. For | * ™' ^ ■ ce an H particulars address B. W. Adkins, Cairo, Ga. Cairo* Thomas County, Georgia, March IQO-i. Close at Six O’clock. It i< about time some was being made to get the chants to enter into some of closing agreement for summer months. During long, hot and quiet days of mer, those having to stay in stores and business houses find much recreation and ure from the six o’clock movement. Let the get together and sign an ment to close their stores some early hour after April 1st or 15th. Lace curtains, Table To wells, Napkins 4c laundered by Troy Steam dry—Mauldin Bros, agents. Charlie Walsh Dead. It is with genuine sorrow we announce the death of Charlie Walsh, the 9-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Walsh, which occurred in this city Tuesday morning. The little fellow was a victim of a inalignaut spell of ’grippe with complications, and for sev eral weeks a hard battle for life was fought, but death triumph ed at last and the end came ear ly Tuesday morning. Charlie was a bright and man ly little fellow and a favorite with all who knew him. He was the idol of the fond parents, who have the sincere sympathv of all in their sorrow. The services were conducted from the parents’ residence at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morn ing by Rev. T. A White, pas tor of the Baptist church. The interment occurred at the City cemetery. Honor Roll. II. GRADE. Robert Hudson, George Moore, Bertha Horton, Von Hurst, Olney Hurst, John Bell, III. GRADE. Marshall Reviere, Sallie Belcher, Laleah Wight, Esther Baggett, Isla Fearnside, Roy Williams, Maxie Handley. From Elpino. The farmers of this section are very busy in getting their crops planted. Mrs. W. T. Whigham from the Limesink settlement, visited Mrs. W. H. Cone Monday. Mr. Tom Oats and Mr. Horace Gainous were pleasant visitors in the Spring Hill neighborhood last Sunday. The candidates are still vassing this part of the county. One farmer said he would plant his crops after April the first; he has to entertain candi dates now. Mr. Billie Maxwell and Mr. Jeremiah Bently went to Pelham last Saturday. Mr. Tom Griffin has a very sick baby at this writing:but we trust it will soon be well again. Mrs. Blanton of Thomasville is now the guest of her sister Mrs. W. J. Taylor. Miss Ettie Gaulding of Bain bridge is also the guest of Mrs. 1 ay lor. , Miss Leila Cox accompanied by Miss Verdie Pinson spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Cox near the Limesink. Miss Verdie reports a pleasant time. Mr. Walter Whigham and miss Eva Sellars attended ser vices at New Hope Sunday. Miss Lula Cone spent Sunday with Misses Maggie and Pearl Elkins. Miss Minnie Leavins returned P pASHIONABLE FABRICS. Are now ready for Buyers who want Right Styles and Prices In the latest Conceiveable Patterns. We Suit the “Hard to Please.” we can suit von In material and trimmings for that Easter Frock if you have not al= ready bought. Among the latest arrivals in our Dry Goods Department are Eiamines and voiles lor Skirts. Besides these we have Figured Lawns, Plain White and Lace Striped Lawns, Fancy White Goods, Piques, Ducks, Madras, Ginghams, Mercerized Linens, Etc. in Trimmings a Mg line of Laces, em broideries, All-over Laces, Eic. 9Ifauicim ffiros., U/ie € Up-to~ Date 4 Store, On the Co* »tr Jfext to Citizen* 55ank. home last Saturday from West Florida, where she has been vis iting friends and relatives for the last three months. Mr. Louis Chrildren spent last Saturday night and Sunday with j Mr. and Mrs. Jack Maxwell, in 1 the Gainous settlement. We are glad to know that Mr. Aubrey Leavins after living a few months in Meigs has moved back in the neighborhood again. Mr. Jeff Taylor was among the callers in the Spring Hill neighborhood Sunday evening. Uncle Sam Gnner is still in a very feeble condition; it seems impossible for him to be restor ed to health again. Our public school is on a boom this week, New pupils are still coming in. Kitty. Off to New York. Dr. W. A. Walker left Tues day for New York where he will take a special course in the Eye and Ear department of the Man hattan hospital in that city. He was joined by Dr. M. M. McCord of Whigham, who will take a post-graduate course in the Pol yclinic in New York. Both are enjoying a lucrative practice in their respective locations, and their additional courses will bet ter fit them for their profession. ISO. 11 . | 1 Keeping Time. • There is a time for all things i « so we are told. Also it be might • : added there is time for every- < : body. J keep it—the very best i : makes of Watches and Clocks i ► < : to be found. And aside from ; : getting the right kind of time- i : piece at right kind of prices, ; i when you buy from me you i : have the advantage of knowing i : that if they don’t keep correct i : time, I either exchange them or i : keep them in repiar for you. IF IT’S A Clock or Watch ► « ► < : you need, see me first. i C. F. Sanders, > « Jeweler, w * > < i Cairo - - Georgia. | AAAAA* Preparing to Build. The store house now occu pied by Poulk Bros, is being moved back in order to have work begin on the two new brick buildings to be erected by Poulk Bros, and J. L Poulk. The work of clearing out for the foundation will begin in a few days. It will then be only a short while before Cairo will have two more handsome brick structures.