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CO-OPERATION Here
Is The Watch-Word marketing
m0 Zr.U re co-operative county than n.
in Crady
other county in Georgia.
VOLUME XXIII.
RUN-OFF PRIMARY
TO BE HELD OCT. 6
VERY FEW PRECINCTS WILL BE
OPEN UNLESS VOLUNTEERS
ARE SECURED.
With no funds in sight for the hold
ing of the gubernatorial run-off pri
mary, on "Wednesday, October 6th, it
i;very doubtful if but very few of
je precincts in Grady county will be
open. Some few have volunteered
their services, three in the Cairo dis
trict two in two other districts in the
county, three precincts are therefore
assured of holding the primary.
There are fen precincts in the coun
ty, and for all to open, it is necessary
that there be at least forty volun
teers. Unless there are sufficient vol
unteers to hold the election in a pre
cinct, and there is no election held
iu said precinct, those registered in
that particular voting precinct, will
be barred from casting his ballot. Un
der the law, a voter can only vote in
the precinct in which he or she is reg
istered.
The run-off primary must be held
in conformity with the same rules that
govern all primaries, which means
that the Australian ballot system will
again be used as was the case on Sep
tember 8th.
With only two names on the ticket,
those volunteering their services for
the day, will not have a very big job
on their hands, and it will only take
a short while in which to count the
ballots, which is the disagreeable fea
ture to those holding elections. With
the greatly reduced registration, and
•with interest in the run-off at low
ebb.it is hardly thought that many
more, if as many, will vote as voted in
the first primary. However, as big a
vote as possible, should be polled, in
order that the vote would reflect the
true sentiment of the people.
Those who feel that they can vol
unteer their services on that day,
should at once notify Judge T. J.
Mills, at Whigham, or H. H. Wind, at
Cairo. Or they may notify the ex
ecutive committeeman from their re
spective district. It is also the wish
of the Secretary, H. H. Wind, that
those who can volunteer for the day,
regardless of the district in which they
can serve, to please notify him at
orce. This also applies to the com
mitteeman from each district in the
county, as he is very anxious to learn
a. once just what districts expect to
be open, in order to prepare ballots
and the papers necessary for holding
the election.
MEETING CALLED OF
HARDMAN’S FRIENDS
MEDICAL SOCIETY HEARTILY
ENDORSES HIM FOR
GOVERNOR.
Spurred by the unanimous endorse
ment of Dr. L. G. Hardman for go\
ernor by the Grady County Medical
Society, in session September 16th,
the friends here of the Commerce man
have called a meeting of all of his sup
porters, to be held at the Court house
at 4:30 o’clock this, Friday after
noon.
The purpose of the meeting will bo
organize a strong Hardman club
ar -d to lay plans for a campaign in his
behalf in Grady county. All Hardman
supporters are urged to bear in mind
lfse time and place of the meeting
an d be on hand.
Eight doctors of medicine signed
the formal resolution approving Dr.
Haraman for governor, and a copy
°t it was forwarded to his campaign
E- headquarters at Atlanta immediate
Those signing it were Drs. T. J.
Arline, J. A. Lindsay, C. H. Maxwell,
Rogers. ^ • R- Moore, W r A. A. B. Reynolds. J. B. J. War- V.
. Walker and
‘ h. Dr. Warnell is president of the
society and Dr. Rogers is secretary.
h>r. and Mrs. O. T. Malone, and
children, of Atlanta, and Mrs. G. W.
Hurst, of Jacksonville, spent Thurs
(,J y of last week in Cairo with rel
ives and friends. Mrs. Malone,
'jho will be remembered here as Miss
ima Hurst, and Mrs. Hurst, are for
mer residents of Cairo.
r - an d Mrs. W. J. Akridge, and
, j
i, 11 J al ren <* ’ City, have after returned to their home
— spending the week
e with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Cook.
®)e Cairo t ♦
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COTTON GINNED
Approximately 1.100 Bales Ginned To
Date, It Is Said.
Approximately 1,100 Bales of cot
ton have been ginned in Grady county
to date, according to figures compiled
by The Messenger Thursday.
While the gins in the county have
been operating steadily during the
past few days, except for the period of
the rainstorm Monday and Tuesday,
the ginnings are still considerably be
hind the figures for the same date
last year. The Cairo gin has been op
erating at night to care for the cot
ton brought to it.
Present indications are that there
will not be more than 2,000 bales gin
ned in the county. This will not be
the total production, however, as much
of the cotton grown here is ginned el
sewhere.
1927 TOBACCO CROP
NOW BEING PLANNED
BIG INCREASE IN ACREAGE IS
INDICATED BY RESULTS
OF CANVASS.
Profiting by the lessons gained in
previous years, local, civic and farm
leaders are already making plans for
the 1927 bright-leaf tobacco crop in
Grady county.
A canvass to get a line-up on the
acreage that will be planted next year
has been in progress for several days,
and indications are that there will be
quite an increase in acreage next sea
son, with a number of new growers.
The information on the acreage is
being collected with a view of making
arrangements immediately for suffi
cient demonstrators, so that they be
able to come here in time to get the
crop started correctly. The tobacco
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce, of which Dr. W. A. Walker
i? chairman, is already in touch with
a corps of demonstrators from the
Carolinas, who have been demonstrat
ing in Georgia long enough to be fully
acquainted with the conditions sur
rounding the cultivation of bright
leaf tobacco in Georgia. They have
been given the very best of recom
mendations, and though they have al
ready made tentative plans to dem
onstrate elsewhere in Georgia next
season, they have expressed a pref
erence to Grady county. They are
planning to come here at an early
date for a conference with local
growers and civic leaders and it is
probable that a definite agreement
will be signed with them at that time
to demonstrate the 1927 crop in this
county.
While some of the farmers who
are planning rather big acreages in
tobacco next season have not definite
ly decided on the exact acreage they
expect to plant, a large number of
growers have already made up their
minds. Secretary Hughes of the
Chamber of Commerce, and County
Agent England, who are working in
conjunction with the tobacco com
mittee, are desirous of getting the
acreage each grower expects to plant
just as soon as possible, so that ar
ra ngeir.ents might be made for suffi
cient demonstrators.
The Fenner organization furnished
the demonstrator this year, but there
was rather a general complaint be
cause he arrived too late, and because
more than one was needed. Every
effort will be made to make all of the
arrangements for the next crop in
sufficient time. Moreover, the in
creased acreage is expected to mater
ially add to the prestige of the local
market.
Conference For Cairo
Circuit September 25
The fourth Quarterly Conference of
the Cairo Methodist Circuit will be
held at the Bold Springs church, Sat
urday September 25th.
Dr. Bascom Anthony, Presiding
Elder of the Thomasville District, will
preach at 11 o’clock, Lunch will he
served at the social hour and in the
afternoon the conference will be held.
This is an important meeting as of
fleers will be elected for the year of
1927. All the members of the circuit
are urged to be on hand at this con
ference.
Mr. Warren C. Wight, of Round
Lake, Fla., spent the week-end here
with relatives and friends.
The Official Organ of Grady County.
The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead."
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1926.
EX-GRADY COUNTIANS IN STORM AREA ARE
SAFE, BUT THEY SUFFERED GREAT LOSSES
Investigation Made By The Messenger; lO^-Inch
Rainfall Here, Caused By Storm, Does
Considerable Damage.
All former Grady countians and all
close relatives and friends of the peo
ple of this county who were in the
storm-swept area in Florida during
the two week-end hurricanes are safe,
so far as The Messenger had been
able to learn Thursday afternoon, but
practically all of them suffered prop
erty losses ranging upward into thous
ands of dollars.
Mr. N. J. Harrison, of Cairo, whose
parents reside in the devastated sec
tion, found names in the lists of dead
which he thought were intended as
those of his mother and father, and he
left Tuesday to make a personal in
vestigation. A message from him on
Thursday, however,, stated that his
people are among the survivors.
The first news of the storm was re
ceived here Sunday by radio and other
methods, but not until Monday night
did definite news of the safety of most
of the Grady county people reach Cai
ro. Arthur Bell, Esq., a Miami law
yer', who lay ill in Miami during the
storm, arrived in Cairo by train early
Monday night to recuperate at the
home of his mother, and he brought
authentic information that practically
all of the Grady county colony in Mi
ami were safe. Mr. Bell had an office
in the new Meyer-Kiser building, or.e
of the skyscrapers that was ruined,
and he lost practically all his Belong
ings there. He told of extensive dam
age to the homes of other former
Grady countians in Miami and describ
ed the scenes of horror which attend
ed the catastrophe. Those from this
section who had moved to Miami were
fortunate in escaping without loss of
life, as several of them were openly
exposed to the elements after their
homes were unroofed and made un
safe.
The Messenger’s investigation has
established the fact that virtually ev
ery former Cairoite in the stricken
territory suffered extensive property
damage. Several of them owned nice
homes, which were in most instances
almost ruined, along with their per
sonal effects. It is understood that
Mr. S. A. Pierce, formerly of Cairo,
has been unable to find any trace
whatsoever of his paint shop, which
was situated near his residence.
Few people who formerly resided
in this county were living in Fort Lau
derdale, Hollywood, Miami Beach and
the northwestern part of Miami, where
the gale apparently did the greatest
damage. Miss Leta Bell, daughter
of Mrs. A. E. Bell, of Cairo, resided
in Miami Beach, but she was at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Bell in
southwest Miami during the storm.
She is said to have lost all her person
a! effects.
No accurate or definite check can be
made at this time on the property
losses of the former Grady countians
since messages from them thus far
have only referred to the disaster in
a general way. Air mail and tele
grams after the Greater Miami area
Baptist Women Called
to Meet Here Sept. 30
Below is the call for the annual
meeting of the Baptist women of the
Taylor Association:
“The Baptist Woman’s Missionary
Union of the Taylor Association will
hold its Annual meeting next Thurs
day, Sept. 30th, with the Cairo church.
Reports from all associational officers
will be made of the work done during
the year, and plans and aims for the
coming year will be made.
“We will have with us at least one
State Worker and our Divisional Vice
President, Mrs. C. F. Cater, who will
add greatly to the helpfulness and in
spiration of the meeting.
“Each society in the Association is
expected to send delegates and the
churches, where they have no society,
are invited to send representatives
from their women and young people.”
Mrs. W. H. Robinson, Supt.
Dr and Mrs. A. W. Rehberg, whose
r marriaere was an interesting event
;f wreturned Sunday from I
a 3i , r 0 points P of interest in Florida. j
*
They are now at home on Decatur
street. j
Cairo Raises Funds
For Fla. Sufferers
A fund of approximately $500
was dispatched Wednesday after
noon to the National Red Cross
headquarters by the local chap
ter, through Chairman R. R. Van
Landingham, for Florida storm
sufferers.
A mass meeting was held at
the Courthouse here Tuesday
morning and a committee was ap
pointed to make a canvass imme
diately. With a few exceptions,
the people responded willingly to
the call.
It was decided that the Red
Cross provides the best channel
for the funds to be distributed
and the Cairo fund will soon be
“doing its bit” toward affording
relief in the stricken areas.
The municipality was a gene
rous contributor to the fund rais
ed here.
emerged from the storm brought most
of the messages to loved ones here.
DAMAGE IN THIS COUNTY
CAUSED MOSTLY BY RAIN
The two West Indian hurricanes
which swept across Southern Florida
and the Gulf of Mexico into north
western Florida and southern Mississ
ippi Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
brought the heaviest rainfall recorded
here in sometime and inflicted eonsid
erable damage to crops and property.
The greatest rainfall came during
Monday night. The government rain
gauge at the sugar cane experiment
station just north of the city recorded
a rainfall of nearly six inches from
4:30 o’clock Monday afternoon to 7
o’clock Tuesday morning, and a total
of ten and a quarter inches were re
corded for the entire storm period.
This is said to be the heaviest rain
fall for such a period in several years.
Some wind accompanied the rain,
but it was not of sufficient force to do
much damage within itself.
The rainfall inundated a large area
just east of the city, where the aque
ducts under the railroad are not suf
ficient to carry off the water in a
storm, and State Route No. 38 was im
passable almost all the day Tuesday.
The school truck from beyond the
flooded area did not operate that day.
Hundreds of autoists were forced to
make a long detour.
Bridges on many roads were wash
ed away and washouts on the Atlant
ic Coast Line crippled through service
until Wednesday.
The damage to crops was consider
able, since quantities of pecans were
blown from the trees and much open
cotton was washed away, Other
crops in some instances were almost
washed away and badly damaged.
TO,PLAY QUINCY
Cairo High Football Team To Face
Florida Eleven In Opener.
The Cairo high football team is
scheduled to open the 1926 season on
Friday, October 1st, when it plays the
Quincy, Fla., high eleven, in Quincy.
The local team has been undergoing
rather intensive training for about
three weeks, and while few of last
year’s stars were left, the outfit this
year is expected to show up credit
ably.
However, the opening game is with
an institution that usually puts out a
strong team, and the entire schedule
this season is the heaviest in the his
tory of the local school.
Misses Estelle Blackman and Mary
Frank Mauldin have returned from
Valdosta, where they spent several
days as the guests of Mrs. F. B.
Powell.
Arthur Bell, Esq., arrived from Mi
ami Monday night and has been ill
at the home of his mother, Mrs. R. A. |
Bell. He was ill at his home in Mi
ami during the recent storm and he
came home to recuperate.
GRADY COUNTY
Is Georgia’s Banner County,
the hub of its sugar cane and collard
seed industries, the home of diversified
farming.
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““Si
The season’s second carload of hogs
will be shipped from Cairo either
next Wednesday or Thursday by the
West Live Stock Company.
The first car was shipped on Thurs
day of last week, the price paid being
11% cents, There were 75 hogs in
the car.
Indications are that the prices will
be good throughout the season, and
that it will not be necessary to hold
hogs until next spring for the best
prices.
The West Live Stock Company has
just completed rather extensive im
provements to its stock pens on Cen
tral Avenue. The pens are now the
most modern to be found in this sec
tion, and in connection therewith is
ar, up-to-date steam slaughter house.
TO PLANT HUNDRED
ACRES TO CABBAGE
ACREAGE IS PRACTICALLY ALL
,TAKEN; PLANTS WILL BE
SET NEXT WEEK.
At least a hundred acres in Grady
county will be planted to cabbage im
mediately, for marketing late in Jan
uary.
This new winter money crop is as
sured as a result of the co-ordinated
efforts of County Agent England and
Secretary Hughes, of the Chamber of
Commerce, who are making the ar
rangements, A number of farmers
had expressed a desire to plant a con
siderable acreage to cabbage this year,
and due to the fact that it will be ad
vantageous to have a sufficient acre
age to attract buyers, the hundred
acre goal was set.
There will be approximately twenty
acres in the Whigham section, ten
acres around Pine Park, ten acres in
the Chason community and the re
mainder will be around Cairo and Cal
vary.
A sufficient quantity of plants can
be obtained conveniently, and the set
ting of the plants will likely begin
next week. The Early Jersey Wake
field and Copenhagen Market varie
ties will be used. A hundred acres
will likely yield about thirty-five car
loads, at a normal yield.
Both County Agent England and
Secretary Hughes believe it will be
possible to get track buyers for the
crop. Since the marketing season
will come at a time when there will
be very few other green crops mar
keted, little difficulty is anticipated
in obtaining sufficient buyers on the
ground to provide competitive buying.
It is understoood that good prices
are usually paid for this vegetable
during the mid-winter season, and a
successful crop is promised.
Okra Crop Certain; Others
In Doubt.
A letter this week to Secretary
Hughes, of the Chamber of Commer
ce, from R. V. Crine, representative
of the Campbell Soup Company, state
that he is still planning to contract
for approximately 500 acres in okra
in this county next year.
He is still hopeful of effecting an
appreciable reduction in the freight
rates on carrots and pepper. The rate
on carrots has been reduced from $1.09
to 75c, through the efforts pf Secre
tary Hughes, but this still does not
make the rate low enough to assure
profitable production and marketing.
Both Mr. Crine and Secretary Hughes
are still busy trying to bring the rates
on these products to a point that will
allow them to be grown and shipped
to the eastern markets at a profit.
Bob’s Filling Station
Here Opens Saturday
Bob’s Filling Station, Cairo’s new
est, will be formally thrown open for
business tomorrow, Saturday, Sept.
25th.
The station is quite a neat and at
tractive one, and is situated on Bryan
street, just across from the Nicholson
Live Stock Company. It was cora
pleted this week.
Mr. R. L. (Bob) Forester, Jr., is
manager, and he announces in the ad
vertising columns of this issue that a
half-gallon of motor oil will be given
free with every five gallons of gaso
line sold on the opening day. All of
the usual services will be provided at
the new station.
HIGHWAY WORK TO
BEGIN IN FEW DAYS
LAST OBSTACLE IS NOW OUT OF
THE WAY, OFFICIALS
BELIEVE.
A letter from the district head
quarters of the State Highway
Board to Clerk J. J. Gainey, of the
Board of County Commissioners,
received Thursday, stated that
construction ( work on the Grady
county project has been author
ixed and that it should begin “in
a short period of time.”
Once more it appears that the grad
ing and surfacing of State Route No.
38 between Cairo and Whigham will
soon begin, after nearly a year of ef
fort.
The last obstacle, the deeds to the
new property that will be used in
widening and straightening the high
way, has at last been removed, offi
cials believe.
The State Highway Department an
nounced July 20th that a contract
was let on that date for the work,
but it has since become known that
the contract was subject to the abil
ity of the highway officials to secure
deeds to the property that would be
needed.
The task of securing these deeds
has fallen chiefly on Clerk J. J. Gain
ey, of the Board of County Commis
sioners, and he has encountered con
siderably difficulty in getting some of
deeds signed. Moreover, ascertaining
the owners of the property in some in
stances has taken considerable time.
Particularly as to the “Triangle
Acres” subdivision property, it was a
difficult matter to get in touch with all
of the owners.
The last of these deeds were turned
over to the district highway officials a
few days ago and the right-of-way
easement pertaining to the route of
the highway though Cairo, presented
to the City Council at the .aonfcL.y
meeting last week, was approved at
a special session this week, and for
warded to the district headquarters
at Thomasville. The proposed ease
ment was not approved last week be
cause members of the Council desired
that City Attorney J. A. Pope invest
igate it thoroughly. It was modified
slightly before it was approved, but
the modification is not expected to as
sume any further hitch.
It is understood that the district
highway officials will notify the con
tractor to begin work just as soon as
the last deeds and the city’s right-of
way easement are approved at the of
fice of the State Highway Board at
East Point, and this routine should
require only a few days, it is said.
The grading and surfacing work on
this project will include North Broad
street in Cairo, and the work may
tend to improve the condition of this
street. * $ £.
-tit
Vaccination Offered Hf.
to Younger Children
Arrangements have been mdde to
have a clinic at the Cairo school
building on Tuesday morning, Octo
ber 5th, beginning at 9:30 o’clock, to
vaccinate children under ten years of
age against diphtheria. The toxin
antitoxin which will be given will im
mune them for life.
Dr. M. A. Fort, of Bainbridge, com
missioner of the Tri-County Health
Unit, will bg here to do the work.
The toxin-antitoxin will be furnished
free of charge to all children under
seven years of age. Those above sev
en years will be asked to pay 15c for
the three doses, 5c per dose. Dr.
Fort especially urges that the chil
dren from six months to seven years
take this vaccination, as statistics
show that most cases of diphtheria
are among these children.
Toxin-antitoxin, as stated above,
immunes children for life, It has
been proven to be harmless and ef
fective in preventing diphtheria. More
than 300,0000 children in New York
city alone have received this treat
ment without a single bad result be
ing obtained. It is injected into the
arm with scarcely no pain. No sick
ness whatsoever or pain follows the
treatment.
The public welfare department of
the Cairo Woman’s Club, Mrs. R. R.
VanLandingham, chairman, and su
perintendent J. H. Morrison, of the
Cairo school, will assist Dr. Fort in
this undertaking.
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