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We have been requested to
announce that there will be a i
unit meeting on Bryan street.
commencing on Saturday before
the sec ond Sunday in October
a t ; i o'clock.
" preaching day and night for
one week by Rev. Rulfe Hunt,
editor of Congressional Metho
thodist, assisted by Rev. T. J.
Brnnson. cordially
The public are in
vited.
Mr. W. B. Roddenberv, with
his customary hustle arid busi
ness qualifications, is having
a large and commodious ware
house built in the rear of his
buggy and wagon repository.
Thehouse will be two story, the
lower floor we understand will
be used to store syrup in. Mr.
James Dekle has the contract to
build the house which is a
guarantee that the work will
sot >n be done in a neat, substan
tial and business like manner.
Cairo's increasing business de
mands more storage room and
hence Mr. Roddenbery’s im
provement.
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Mr. Editor; I have read what
“Uncle Jake” has had to sav for
t lie past two or three weeks. Some
of his conclusions are so incorrect,
and his insinuations are so un
just that it is a little strange that
they could come from him. Some
write in order to get infermation ;
others that they may see them
selves in print. If “Uncle Jake’
belongs to the former class, he
can easily get the infermation he
needs. The County Board of Ed
ucation meets at the court house
in Thomasville 011 the last Satur
day morning in each month at
ten o’clock. Wh ay.1 ie Board does
is open ; it cordially has 1 qperet. 11 Uncle
Jake” is invited t > at
tend the next meeting, and I as
sume him that he will be given
all the information about the pub
lic school svstem of the county
that he desires. -It he is sincere,
Mr. Editor, he Will either inform
himself or quit talking.
J. B. Wight.
Cairo, Ga., Sept. 28, 1003.
Mr. Editor.
Dear Sir: Please allow me space in
your paper, to say to the public that the
colored people of this place are charged
with having a Before Day Club, and
some of our best citizens of the town are
charged with being the leaders. I wish
to say that there is no such thing in the
minds of the colored people of this town,
and as I am a W. M. of a society that has
stood the test over two hundred years,
and if we kuow of any such club or clubs
by any person or persons, I shall do all
that lies in my power to prosecute or
cause the same to he done, for I do not
believe in any such mobs, and I hope
that the good white people will look upon
as a people that they have raised and
cared for since the war. I have 16 good
l| ien, from 3 to 7 miles of this town, on
the lookout for these clubs and if any
sign of such club is seen we wifi do all
|l ’fought at we can to justice. to see that Any such club person that will is
make a law to mob a white man will*also
mob a black man.
Very truly yours,
W. B. Robinson.
Unite a number of Cairoites
attended services at Pine Park
Sunday afternoon last, leaving
on the 1:46 train and returning
°n the 4:57 in the afternoon.
Among Maud the number were, Misses
Lot tie Sutton, Clara Mauldin,
Jones, Mr. and Mrs. H.
J- Poulk, Messrs. B.M. Johnson,
)oe Connell, John Jones, I. A.
Leggett and Will Dekle.
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Ciairo, Thomas County, Georgia, September 30, 1004.
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T!ie following Article cm fills Question
Contains Food for Tlton^t.
When there is any movement for the
good of South Georgia as the new county
movement, we should lay selfishness or
ill-feeling aside: remember the di
vine injunction, Do as you would be
done by,” and put your shoulder to the
wheel on next Wednesday, October 5th,
and vote for the amendment, South Geor
gia s good and South Georgia’s develop
ment.
The movement has the hearty endorse
ment of such newspapers as the Valdosta
Times, Savannah Morning News, Worth
Count}' Local, Dawson News, Macon
Telegraph, Savannah Press, Atlanta Con
stitution, Atlanta Evening New's, Tifton
Gazette and other leading papers of the
state.
The following article is taken from the
Tifton Gazette in reply to the Thomas
ville Times-Enterprise in regard to new
counties:
At a period w hen every section of the
state appears almost an unit m coming to
the aid of South Georgia and voting to
grant her relief from a condition of af
fairs resulting from its rapid develop
ment, by endorsing the amendment to
the constitution providing reads for with eight new
counties, the Gazette regret a
yawp from the Thomasville Times-Enter
prise, in which its editor seeks to decry
the much needed reform and thereby
displays a lamentable ignorance of exist
ing conditions.
The Times Enterprise appears actuated
in this editorial, which bears the ear
marks of some court house politician, will by
the faint probability that an effort be
made to disrupt a portion of Thomas
county; therefore, perforce, to hardship protecta
few it seeks to perpetuate a
upon thousands of its neighbors in South
Georgia. should base its
Our neighbor plane. If good argu
ments on a higher portion of Thomas reasons
exist why no form it
should be used to a new comity,
should advance them, and if they are
sound they will doubtless prevail, questions But
in attacking the amendment it
the united wisdom of every section of
the state that asked for its passage; the
state officials who advocated it, and al
most the unanimous voice of both branch
es of the state general assembly, which
passed With it. the argument against disiuption
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of Thomas, the Gazette hasnohting to do;
the people of that county and section are
able to decide for themselves. But when
the Times-Enterprise bases its opposition makes
on the grounds of expense, it an
appeal to ignorance that should not be
allowed to p2ss unchallenged.
As to public buildings, many sites of would the
cities aspiring to be county
be more than willing to provide all the
public buildings needed. So that argu
ment falls through. But suppose they
did not, where would the additional ex
pense come in?
Take the section around Tifton, as a
case in point, and we suppose it is a fair
average for every portion of the state af
fected bv the movement.
Wortli county is now making prepara- build
‘ions to expend $60,000 in public
ings. Would there be any more taxes
for those cut off into a new county to pay?
In Irwin, it is only a question of a short
time when public buildings will be need
ed, those now existing soon falling be
hind the needs of the cohnty. The Ga
zette will undertake to put up a substan
tial bond to the people of that county
liable to be included in a new one at lif
ton that, for ten years at least, their taxes
will be no higher in the new county than
the rate n<*w prevailing in Irwin.
Berrien has good public buildings, but
these will be to repair or replace in com
mg years. The citizen of the Tifton dis
THE INEW
'I he following from the Atlanta
Constitution • , w 1 11 P intoi-psr
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ing to the many readers of ie
Messenger ; the
“At the general election on
5th of October the people of Geor
• a w jji vo te on two new county
constitutional a m e n d m e 111 s ,
which are of considerable import
ance to various sections of the
state. alluded r, , , to so
The measures so
a mend the state constitution as to
empower the legislature to form
eight new counties out of the loi
now in existence. The simple
passage of the amendments will
not have the effect of creating the
new counties, merely placing that
nower in the hands of the general
assembly to be exercised at its dis
cretion. of county and coun
The status practically
ty seats has been un
changed since reconstruction days
In the interium, conditions have
radically altered. The arrange
ment of counties and county seats,
laid out principally on the
as railway systems and
then existing out of date.
census returns, is now
trict now attending to legal business at
Nashville pays out $3.56 for one day’s
time at the county capital. Taking into
account county, superior, ordinary’s and
commissioners’ courts, sheriff’s sales and
other legal business, it is a conservative
estimate to say that it costs the people of
this district over $3,000 per year to attend
to legal business at the county site,
twenty-six miles distant. And this
money does not go to Nashville, but is
distributed at sundry points.
Count the cost to the affected portions
of Worth and Irwin at half the amount
Tifton pays, and we have a total of $6,000
per be year incorporated expense now paid the by the people
to into new county.
Continue affairs as they stand, and in ten
years, with this expense increasing every
year as the section grows in population,
and they have paid out nearly $100,000,
and have not one thing left to show for
it. On the other hand, with a new coun
ty created here, they could take half the
amount and provide all necessary public
buildings and put the other half in their
pockets.
In other words, the money our people
now pay out in expense to and from the
county site would pay for all needed pub
lic buildings within five years’ tune.
From the standpoint of the old coun
ties, they will lose nothing. The amount
of taxable property taken from them
will be more than offset by the de
crease in expense of litigation, for it
is a well known fact that all proper
ty values represent a certain proportion
of cases at law. And with the rapid de
velopment they are now showing, accel
erated by the division into smaller areas,
the increase in tax returns in five years
will more than replace any loss by the
division.
Another item of expense mentioned by
the Thomasville paper is the salaries of
the Thomas county officers. This is ridic
ulous when we remember that all officers
are paid by the fee people system. Therefore,
it would cost the of the new and
old counties no more to levy and collect
taxes and administer justice than it does
now. Under the fee system, the officer
is paid for each item of Qusiness done,
and this fee is regulated by law, whether
it be paid in Sylvester, Irwinville, Nash
ville or Tifton.
On the other hand, a recital of the
benefits to the section affected would fill
volumes.
It has been thirty years since any
change was made in county lines. Dur
ing these three decades, South Georgia
lias grown from almost a wiregrass wil
derness to one of the wealthiest parts of
the state.
Railway lines, like net-works of steel,
have changed tlis bases of population
until now the centres are at points our
ancesters never dreamed of. That they
would have made these changes, their
history proves. Not a century ago the
counties of Irwin and Baker reached from
the Ocmulgee to the Florida line. As
population increased, these counties were
cut into smaller ones, leaving us, in 1876,
the present geographical lines.
It is in pursuance of this policy of our
forefathers, in making changes to keep
up with the growth and civilization of a
section, that the demand for new counties
grew so strong tliat the general assembly
was unanimous in its vote for relief.
All government governed. is, primarily, it for right the
good of the people Is
right or just to force districts remote
from their county seats to endure a con
ditions of affairs which entails upon them
a heavy expense and often defeats the
ends of justice? conservative people of Geor
The fair, believes
gia say not, and the Gazette
that, on mature deliberation, the Titnes
Enterprise will agree that it would be un
just and unfair to block the wheels of
progress in other sections, and to fight
out its local iss tes on lines of their own
merit.
NEEDED.
Some counties with few people
twenty years ago have become
thieklv settled, railroad facilities
j iave immeasurably increased, and
occasionally towns of greater 1m
portance than the original county
sites have come into existence.
As a result*- persons having legal
or other business at the county
seat are frequently forced to make
roundabout journeys to reach
their destination, consuming val
uable time, to the detriment of
their domestic interests.
When it is remembered that
thousands of people, farmers,
merchants, lawyers, laboring men
and others are inconvenienced in
this manner, the necessity for re
lief is apparent. This relief will
be afforded by running new coun
ty lines in the congested sections,
and designing new county seats,
which will be of easy access to the
inhabitants now put to serious in
convenience.
The formation of the new coun
ties will involve no expense to the
state. The amendments are im
portant ones and every voter
should give them his endorsement
on the 5 th of October.”
How about water work?
See notice of strayed cow.
Turn on the electric lights! * I i
Mr. Charles Maxwell was in
town Monday.
Mr. Gus Poulk visited Pinej
Park Sunday.
Thomasville Prof. F. C. Sunday. A. Kellam visited j
Mr. E. R. Pringle visited
Thomasville Sunday.
We can almost see electric
lights in Cairo.
Mr. W. B. Brown is erecting;
a dwelling on Arline street. I
B.F.Williams Ar Son soli Gram, .
Hay and Feed Stuff of aJl kinds.
Mr. E. M. Maxwell spent Sun
day last in the beautiful little
city, Whigham.
Mr. Tavlor soliciting for tD
T tomasville Press was a vi t
tor to the city Thursday.
Mr. T. J. Brown returned
Saturday last from St. Louis and
reports a very enjoyable trip.
Mrs. Walter Singletary of
Grand Ridge. Fla., is the guest
of Mrs. Ur. Walker this week.
Mr. Herbert Brandon paid
Cairo a visit since our last issue.
The name of the man .means
that he sells first class grocer
les.
Mr. Robert Forester returned
home Monday after spending
some timefln New York, buy
ing the fall and winter stock
for the firm of Forester Bros.
Lookout for change of adver
tisement of Mauldin Bros, ad
vertisers of facts. They will
have some rare bargains to offer
thecit izens of the county.
W. P. Sparks, Thomasville,
Ga., has one 25 horse boiler for
sale. Good as new. Terms
very reasonable. Write to him.
Messrs, W. T. Crawford, Joe
Poulk and B. O. Caldwell watch
ed the bobble of their cork on
the Ochlocknee Monday aiter
noon and Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Alderman ;
of Thomasville spent Sunday* in
the city the guest of Dr. Cooke I
and family. Mrs. Alderman!
will spend some time among
relatives here.
STRAYED—One small dark
brown or brindle cow—unmark
ed. Finder can receive suitable
reward by applying at the office
of the Messenger.
Mjr. J. L. Oliver, has some
thing to sav about shoes in his
change of advertisement in to
day’s paper. Read it.
Messrs. Faucett & Deas re
turned from St. Louis Thursday
with a car-load of - fine horses.
Their horses can be seen at Mr.
F. B. Walsh’s stable.
The Cairo Furniture Co. have a
change of advertisement in to
day’s Messenger to which the
readers attention is called. Read
the advertisement and when in
need of any kind of furniture
call on the Cairo Furniture Co.
We call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of
Mr. V. R. Davis, agent for the
Singer Sewing Machine, one of
the best sewing machines on
the market. When you are in
need of a good sewing ma- j
chine call on Mr. Davis, he will
treat you right.
B. F. Williams & Son have put;
on a dray line in connection with
their line of Grain, Hay and all
kinds of Feed Suff.
For Granite and Marble Monu
ment and Iron Fencing, write
R. A. Weldon. Thomasville
Marble Co.
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Dollars Do Double Duty
AT CUR PLACE OF BUSIINESS
BECAUSE
You get value received for every dollar you spend with us,
and you get a “heaped up and running over” measnre of
satisfaction besides. We are prompted by a
Determination to Do Things kight,
and we know our way of dcing business makes a strong
appeal to your better judgment, and makes it a pleasure
for 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,
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and give you goods Jin exchange at cash prices.
Come to see us and lets get up a trade.
Yours to Live and Let Live,
Jlfauldin S 3 ros.,
jtdverrisers of J* acts,
Sa. Ca
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