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THE CAiRO SSENGhR.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13 . 19°5
F. J. WIND, Editor and Proprietor.
PnKished every Friday at Cairo. Thomas
county. Georei*.
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SUBSCRIPTION KATES,
ONE YEAR *i-oo!
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SIX SOUTHS . ;>»*C
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THREE MONTHS. ■£>
Entered as second-cla : matter Junuuary
21st, I sol at the post ollie t Cairo. (la., under
the Act of Congress of M'-ich 3rd. ISiSt.
Advertising rates reasonable, and furnished
upon application.
T he man or woman who don t
like children ought not. to want
to go to heaven, The place is
running over with babies.
Whiskev is a good thing in
its place —and its place is in a
barrel. In fact the longer it
stays there the'better it gets.
To Bill Osborne: Dear Bill—
You can't make the railroads
tell.all they know, and the peo
ple who work for them wan t to
hold their jobs.
The rich man who owes a bill
never sees a collector. The
• poor man who owes a bill sees
no one else. Drop in and pay
your subscription.
The Messenger is one year old
today. We don’t claim to be
the best paper in the state, but
with your help we will rank
with the best.
The man who has average
health and strength and cannot
make a living 111 Cairo would
have died of thirst during o the
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deluge.
We have got a lot of people
owing us for- subscription, If
we owed everybody that owes
us we could see our finish. Pay
up, put up and we will shut up.
What is the truest test of
friendship? Ask your friend
to lend vou money. If he “comes
across,” stick to him like a cot
ton-tail rabbit to a rock fence,
for he is the genuine article.
Teethadore Roosevelt has at
last had his appointment of
Crum confirmed bv a procrasti
nating Senate. As President
of these United State, Teetha
dore is going to be IT. Shades
of Andrew Jackson, let us weep.
As the price of cotton goes
down the price of the mule goes
up. We are thinking of selling
our farm. We refuse to .sell 6
cent cotton raised by a two hun
dred dollar mule and then we
are ' ' vo ’ r -fb something ourselves.
If you really need a drink, go
and take it, but for heaven’s
sake don’t make matters worse i
by eating a handful of coffee, a
dozen cloves, and a sack of
parched peanuts before going;
home. 1 ou can t fool your wife,
and the whiskey smell is bad
enough without adding to it.
.How would you like to sleep all
night with a scavenger cart ?
Some people are opposed to
everything, but the man who is
opposed to our new county
movement might as well buy
his tombstone, for his political
death is nigh, If we didn't de
serve and need this new county
it wouldu t be so bad, but we do.
A' Stick together. We have draw n
our swords in this fight and
thrown away the scabbard. We
are for the new county first,
last and all the time, if we have
to eat ink the “balance of our
days.
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With t his issue the Messenger
enters upon its second year at
Cairo, and desires to return many
thanks for the patronage extended
and the support it has thus far
elicited. We have tried to pub
lish a paper just as good as its in
come would permit of, and we I
bavt^ done SO ♦wen to the last ,
penny thereof, \i V> t 6 are not readv
to retire from business of our own
free will.
The Messenger has not received
the support we believ* tins imme
diate section justifies, and while
doubtless there 111 av have ieen
some reason to at first with hold ,
the home support usually accorded of the a |
paper, publications on account preceding[ j
temporary demonstrated!
it, yet as we have
for the past rii’ty-two weeks that- 1
we are not “quitters,” we and believe) that
that we should receive,
we do merit, more patronage than
we are at this’t ime receiving.
We have always believed that
there is at least a certain amount
of etiquette and dignity attached
to the management of any decent
public journal, and the men who
bring discredit upon the profes
sion ought not to be recognized.
We are doing our be«t to publish
paper that will rellect credit upon
and this section of the state.
paper may be nothing better
an humble, small weekly
in a modest little city,
but we try to make it an honor
the people who support it, and
in no instance will it fail to come
the rescue when the welfare of
patrons are at stake. Country
nev* r make large fortunes
it cannot be denied that they
a lot of good, honest work, for
they get no credit. Isn’t
true?
We believe, and always have
that the best means for
trade to a merchant or
business man is to patron
their local publications—the
that are printed at home
circulated among the people
whom the trade is expected
come. Sporadic or spasmodic
does very little good
a rule. Looking at the propo
of advertising from a news
man’s side of the question,
we very unhesitatingly assert that
there is no ordinary business that
upon public patronage
support that cannot be made
more profitable by judicious ad
One great mistake
map 1 by small dealers is the idea,
that because they cannot afford
to place a large amount of adver
tising they won’t advertise at all.
This idea has its extreme in the
large dealer who decides that he is
already doing a fine business, and
too well known to need any fur
ther effort oii his part to bring
One is just as far off
the secret of success as the other,
though the small dealer can least
afford to do without it. We al
ways like to secure an advertiser,
hut if we have to do it in the same
manner in which one gets juice
from a lemon, we would never do
so.
It is absurd to say that Cairo
dees not need a paper. We do not
believe that it will he denied, but
a paper cannot live without pat
ronage, and the character of anv
paper depends entirely on the
patronage extended.
We will do our best for vou, will
U JU ^ le same ^ or 119 !>
We are waiting for the Sav
na p News and Constitution to
open up the coming fight-be
tween their respective editors,
They will both hold out longer
than Port Arthur, but one of
thern is going to drap with a
that will be neaid from
stnmd T ,^ Messenger ns usn
a j will be on the winning side,
Don’t speak all at once, gentle
men.
Dear people of the east side
of Decatur, do not weep at your
prospective parting with your
good county. You have been
voting, voting, voting since you
were twenty-one,^biit no offices
have you held. Congressman,
Senator, Judge, Solictor, Clerk,
Sheriff, Tax Collector and Re
ceiver, Treasurer, et cetera, but
no office getteth you. Good and
faithful voters how you will
hate to go. Is it not enough to
make you weep. You are the
workers, WORKED.
II. B. Russell, don’t forget the
name, is the real estate medium
whereby the bmerand seller, the
j desire and satisfaction may come
1 together.
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To sell, or not to sell, that is the question; suffer j
Whether ’tis nobler and for the a crank taurus to fi'A xt j
Ths bruin victory millions, -
Or to take fright at the report of
And with our best confirm it, To skulk.
to sell,
And by that sale to say will end
The duns, the statements, and the hun
dred bills
Afoul of us. That were a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To shirk, to sell;
To sell; perchance to gain; ay, there s the
rub;
For in ^that final slide what gam may
come,
When we have shuffled off our bottom
bale,
can’t forecast, There is the reason.
then;
doubtful venture is so long delayed,
who could bear the winks and guys
of folks.
wag’s remark, the longer-bolder s
punch, might
we our needed fortune
have furthered
waiting a w rhile longer. Who would
chafe
growl and grumble in a grim sus
pense,
that the idea of a huge advance
surely come, with ours beyond the
bourn,
us incline to dodge the bills we
have
tackle others that we hnow not of.
—Home and Farm.
subscribe, or not subscribe; that is
the question;
’tis better to leave the world in
darkness as to what Jwe are doing
and how we are progressing.
to herald our prosperity among ai[
mankind;
let them know we are on the map and
forging ahead of all the rest;
shall we be content to live alone un
known, and suffer to go down
Messenger.
the thought! ’Tis hut the idle
drea#nings of a hermit,
shall and will
DO1 lit
That Cairo is a growing town?
That it is the center of the
farming country in South
That it has a population of
eleven hundred?
That it is the largest syrup
market in the world except New
Orleans?
That it is larger than thirty
eight towns in Georgia that are
county sites?
That it will become a county
site itself when the new county
is formed? , •
That its business doubles that
of any town in Georgia of its
size?
That Cairo is just becoming
widely j known?
That its going to have the
best weekly paper in South
Georgia if you will patronize it?
That this paper deserves your
patronage?
Will you be one of its pat
rons?
Will you advertise, thereby
helping our business as well as
yours?
Think it over and tell us
it.
Have You Any
Real Estate
to sell? Do you wan’t to buy
real estate? Have you a
house you wan’u to rent, or a
farm? Do you wan’t to rent
a house or a farm? If you
have I will sell it, buy it for
you or rent it.
I will negotiate a loan for
you on short or long time at
a small per cent.
List your property with me.
Will rent it for you. pay th * *
taxes, keep up insurance at
no trouble to you.
Call on me.
R. B. Russell J
Attorney at Law And
Real tS-state Agent,
Cairo, Georgia.
Office m Dr. Walker’s Building.
Boardin House.
Broad St., Cairo, Ga.
Ratea*.$I.OO F^er Day.
Fare and Service Excellent.
Mrs. Jennie Beu,,
Proprietress.
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fering them to you at as big bargains, as we got. It will
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mm m call one day real soon and get a grab at the Goods we
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osition, but cold facts; we do not promise you a thousand
things and give you none, but we do insist that you
* and get prices before buying. You wont be
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0 St 1 sorry By-the-way, and it will when be time you are well in spent. town or at home, don’t
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Lives of many people remind us
CD That we can make life what we choose,
And in departing leave behind
Footprints of BROWN’S STAR-FIVE-STAR SHOES.
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C/3- TO THE FACT THAT THERE IS NOTHING QUITE SO GOOD FOR COUGHS,
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