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The Cairo VOLr. I* Talk Electric Lights. Talk Water Works. Did you attend church Sun day. Work for Electric Lights and Water Works. In today’s issue of the Mess H eager will be found the adv of ■ yp. A. Goldstein. i Ti, e Cairo Furniture Co., have the lar ■ jest, prettiest and cheapest line of House H Furnishings ever shown in Cairo. I I “All’s well that ends well,’’ means also that Cairo’s public 1 W ell has been well fixed, which 9 j s well. A strong pull and a long pull | and a Electric pull altogether, Lights and and Water we’ll have Works. Messrs. A. N. McBride of Thomasville and M. C. Sheffield of Merrillville, visited Cairo since our last. ■ Attention is called to the ad iil vertisement of Mr. R. F. Dixon, administrator of J. B. Dixon, dtceased, W. P. Sparks, Thomasville, Ga., has one 25 horse boiler for sale. Good as new. Terms very reasonable. Write to him. Mrs. T. F. Dyson returned to her home in Meigs Tuesday, af • ■ ter spending several days with I relatives here. m W. H. Robinson & Co. has an H entire change of advertisement ■ in today’s Messenger to which II we call the attention of the readers of the Messenger. B || Do you need Furniture of any kind? If so the Cairo Furditure Co., have it and I a| their prices are below competition. Mr. B. F. Powell has had a ■■ I neat sign painted on the sum B l| mer It is curtain the work in of front Cairo’s of his artistic store. B f|| C. house Ray. and sign painter, Mr. P. I Dick Pearce and Tom Dun II § bar, ipulators besides being expert man of the yard stick, are II I developing into first class cane III growers, They have two and a half acres of as fine cane as you B wish to look at. 1 For Granite and Marble Mon* B j uments R. A. and Weldon, Iron Fencing, Thomasville write I Marble Co. ■ Little Margaret Wight hap * B pened to a very bad accident last Friday by falling from a B B small tree and breaking one of ^ er arms. We hope she will B soon recover. j| Mr. Jno. L. Poulk will soon 1 Gently completed. All thats B ls Lking now is the incoming l ar ge lights for the win ■ dows. B £* Anything for the hour. Thats what Co. I on can find at The Cairo Furnitrue House Furnishing is their busi ness. In another column will be lound a card of thanks to the v °ters, that speaks volumes,and coming from the gentleman it ( ° es it can be relied upon for sincerity and truthfulness. It couldn’t be anything else com ln g f rom J. J. Cone. Messrs. Mauldin & Bros, have an entire change of adv in flumes. oday’s Messenger that speaks These are hustling gentlemen, and being adver sers of facts it will pay you to w ^ at they have to sav in us advertisement especially. Cairo, Thomas County, Georgia, August 26, 1904. Below we publish the consol odated vote of the different pre cincts at the white primary held last Friday for the nomination of the different county officers. The managers of the voting precincts met at the office of Judge C. P, Hansell, chairman, on last Saturday and proceeded to consolidate the vote which resulted as follows: For Representative. Fondren Mitchell 924. J. B. Rountrefe 964. J. R. Singletary 838. J. B. Way 661. For County Commissioners. E. M. Smith 1110. H. C. Copeland 898. J. D. Barrow 885. M. D. Redfearn 671.. For Sheriff. T. J. Hight 906. J. J. Cone 307. • Ordinary—W. M. Jones 1210. Clerk—J. W. Groover 1212. Tax Collector—P. S. Heeth 1217. Tax Receiver—Jno.F.Howard 1219. Treasurer—John F. Parker 1208. Surveyor—A T. Stanaland 1188. Coroner—Chas. Gandy 1214. The managers, after consoli dating the returns, adjourned and Judge C. P. Hansell issued the following order: In accordance with the fore going returns made by the managers of the election, the following are declared the nomi nees of the Democratic party of Thomas county. For Representative—Fondren Mitchell, J. R. Rountree and J. R. Singletary. For Ordinary— Wm. M. Jones. For Clerk Su perior Court—J. W. Groover. For Sheriff—T. J. Hight. For Tax Collector—P. S. Heeth. For Tax Receiver—J. F. How ard. For County Treasurer— ]no. F. Parker. For Surveyor— A. J. Stanaland. For Coroner— Chas. Gandy. For County Com missioners—E. M. Smith, H. C. Copeland, J. D. Barrow. Chas. P. Hansell, Chmn Dem. Ex. Com. J. C. Beverly, Secty. On last Thursday evening Mrs. W. H. Searcy entertained in honor of Misses Mitchell and Slappy. After the guests ar rived and at a late hour they had a game entitled, What Did Mrs. Johnson Have For Supper,” which was enjoyed by all. Ice refreshments was ser ved duiing the evening. Those present were, Misses Clara Mauldin, Maud Sutton, Rosa Howard, Irene Mitchell, Erne Slappy and Mae Crawford. Messrs. George Wight, Will Crawford, Mack Johnson, Yancv Bryant, Richard Pearce and W. H. Searcy. Mr. B. H. Porter, one of the most pleasant gentlemen on the road, has been in this city for a day or two. He is agent for the Manhattan Life Insurance Co. and any one needing life in surance could not do better than to patronize the Manhattan. Mr. H. S. Heeth was a Satur day visitor to Cairo. Mr. Harry Hart has been in Thomasville this week. M r . G. W. Chestnut was a visitor to Cairo this week. The cotton gin is kept busy now both early and late. Mr. W. S. Wight visited Thomasville a few days ago. Mr. C. C. Cocroft of Thomas ville visited Cairo Wednesday. Mr. Joe Heeth of Boston at tended the election here Friday. There was quite a large num ber of farmers in town Satur day. Mrs. J. A. Butler of Quitman is visiting relatives near town this week. Don’t fail to read the new adv of the Cairo Furniture Company. Mr. R. F. Evans of Moultrie, is visited relatives in the city this week. Mr. Hinton Evans is building a handsome residence in North Side on Arline St. Mr. Hal Mitchell and son Joe of Oakland Farm, paid the city a visit Saturday. Mr. Jim Montgomery, a prom inent farmer near Pine Park was in town Friday. Mr. W. B. Jones, living about two miles from here, was a visi tou to the city Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Brown left Friday last to visit friends and relatives at Quincy, Fla. Mr. Clyde Maxwell came up from Attapulgus Saturday to spend a few days with home folks. Mr. Will Forester, conductor on the A. C. L. left Friday after several days stay with home folks. When you want to buy any thing all you have to do is to consult the columns of the Mes senger. Messrs. S. P. Vanlandingham and I. D. Singletary of Wood land Settlement were in the city Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Clisby Trulock of Whigham, spent Friday after noon last in the city greeting friends and relatives. Mr. W. E. Dunn left last Sun day morning for a protracted stay of several days with his family in Newton, Ala. Mr. B. A. Alderman, Pine Park’s efficient Post-master and one of its leading business men, paid the city a visit Friday. Mr. R. W. Faison of Way cross was in the city the latter part of last week, the guest of his sister, Mrs. C. A. Mauldin. Cairo is paying 11 Savannah 1-4 cents for cotton while quotations are only i o i -4 cents. Moral—Bring your cotton to Cairo. No Substitute offered. Say what you wdll about drug gists offering something just i ( as good” because it pays a better profit, the fact still stands that ninety-nine out of a hundred druggists recommend Chamber lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy when the best rem edy for diarrhoea is asked for, and do so because they know r it is the one remedy that can alwmys be depended upon, even in the most severe and dangerous cases. Sold by Wight & Browne. INO. 33. 66 KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT Brings Success. This has been said of advertising. ITS SO, if the article advertised is a thing of merit, and sold at a Live and Let Live prieejand the firm doing the advertising TELLS THE TRUTH, standing back of every assertion they make and makes good every article that fails to come up to their represen tation. We Do All This, and it has made for us a reputation of which we are not T\ ashamed. We are prompted by a Determination to Do Things kight, it and we know our way of doing business makes a strong appeal to your better judgment, and makes it a pleasure tor you to part with your hard-earned Dollars. OUR FALL STOCK is beginning to arrive and in a few more days we will have a FULL HOUSE” that will be a FEAST TO THE EYES, and the prices we make you on oui goods will be a great temptation for you to buy of us. WE BUY Cotton, Hides, Wax, Tallow, Chickens and Eggs, Meat and Lard, and give you goods in exchange at cash prices. Come to see us and lets get up a trade. Yours to Live and Let Live, # y/fauldin Svros.j jfdverrisers of &act$, CaSa. On the Crrmr 7?ext to Citizens S&anh. ii 4