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Established January, 1904.
Entered as second-class matter
January T ..it 14, iJU-i, loot at (k. >nc. x t.i Office *
at Cairo, Ga., under the Act of March
3rd, 1879.
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F. J. WIND, Editor from April,
1904, to September, 1922.
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H. H. WIND, Editor and Manager.
L. A. POWELL, City^Editor.
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Copy for advertisements must be
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than Wednesday morning of the week
of publication.
Another season will pass without a j
fair in Grady county. i
There is a rising tide of sentiment
favoring the re-organization of a band
in Cairo.
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Out of it all, Georgia should get a
system of paved highways at some
not far distant date in the future.
The weather has been cutting some
unusual capers recently—and it will
continue to do so, occasionally.
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The reckless driver is sui'e to suffer,
eventually. Often the innocent suf
fer, too.
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Mine blasts and cave-ins are run
ning automobiles a close race for fa
talaties.
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Now we’ll have another political
lull until November, for which we
should be thankful.
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Plenty of quail await the hunter?,
it is said, Not every section offers
the excellent hunting that is found
here.
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If practically all of the cotton grow
ers had agreed to market their c xtton
co-operatively, the present low j>rice
would cause little concern.
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If you didn’t vote Wednesday, then
you’ll have little basis to complain
about your state government during
the next two years.
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Residences are still in great de
mand in Cairo, if, as Johnny Sp»ncer
would say, anybody drives up to in
quire. ;
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Cairo is developing just as fast as j
any town in this part of the country,;
size considered. If anyone doubts this |
statement, we’re in position to prove
it.
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If'a few more observers express the
opinion that Grady is “one of the best,
if not the best county in the state,”
their opinion would be strongly con
vincing.
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Grady county has taken the lead
again—this time in the adoption of the
county-wide sanitary regulations as
prescribed by the federal and state
health officials, And we’ll reap ur.
told benefits therefrom.
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Many farmers here are now turning
their hogs into money—and it is good,
spendable money, too*, Those who
fed out pigs for the early marker
are convinced of their wisdom in doing
SO.
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The Cane Growers Co-operative As
sociation has served the members nier
itoriously, in spite of the fact that
fights _ , on it . ana .... in it have , been made.
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Towering above all else are the prin
ciples of co-operative marketing—
untarnished and as worthy as ever.
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Georgia Pecan Exchange official?
urge the growers to market only their
best product. Many nuts last year
were not filled out well and the in
dustry suffered somewhat, therefrom,
The quality standard can and should
Lo maintained.
) THE RUN-OFF.
Another run-off primary has been
'held in Georgia and the state ha
again suffered all of the ill effects
f ,olu , vrane K i e
, first nrimarv was held on Sep
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8th, but no candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination received a
majority of the county unit votes, and
so a second contest was held October
6th, under the rules laid down by the
state Democratic Executive
tee. The candidates themselves had
to bear the expense of having all oi
the ballots and election papers print
and their friends were called upon
in many places to meet other expen
holding the second .
ses incident to
mary. Altogether, the second primary
appears to have caused a lot of extra
trouble and expense and political
squabbling.
The Albany Herald believes second
primaries should be held only two
weeks after the first contests, rather
than a month afterward. “Political
cara p a igr.s are necessary evils” it says
“but there is no reason for prolonging
them beyond reasonable periods.
These are busy inns in Georgia, and
a month is too long a period to add to
a campaign in which there has been ,
ample opportunity to thresh out the
issues.”
All of which is true, but wouldn’t
the second choice system, which
eliminate the second primaries
altogether, be still better ?
One of the big faults of the second
choice system is that it is cumber
some and that it necessarily delays
somewhat the tabulation of the votes.
But even with all the delay occasioned
in determining the results,wouldn’t the
second choice method be just as fair
and just as democratic—without nil
ill effects of the second primaries ?
The Messenger would like to see the
second choice system tried out in
Georgia. It has given satisfactory
in other states and we believe
will work well here.
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SALESMANSHIP FOR
CROPS.
Atlanta Journal: Members of the
South Georgia Cane Growers’ associ
ation, who meet next Saturday at Ca
iro to plan for more effective work,
will give particular attention to mat
ters of salesmanship. They have an
excellent product, and they have done
well in marketing it. But marketing
in its broader import, implies much
more than merely getting goods to
points of distribution. The major end
of marketing, from the ■ producers
is selling, and not until
sales are consummated are his inter
ests fully served. Nor can any co-op
erative system of growers be counted
a success until the crops with which
it has to do, have been profitably sold.
The cane growers are to be congratu
lated on emphasizing this essential.
Given a product of high merit, the
opportunities of salesmanship in a
country like America are well-nigh un
bounded. For true salesmanship does
not rest content with simply supplying
present demands; it discovers or de
velops new demands. At a critical
stage in the maketing of Georgia’s
lavish peach crop during the past
summer, when thousands of bushels
of delicious fruit were spoiling on
the trees for want of buyers and fox
lack of facilities to utilize the surplus.
it was suggested, under the pressure
of the moment, that before another
sea on numbers of orchards would be
cut down to pi-event excess of pro
duction. Think of destroying so rich,
so marvelous a creation as a peach
orchard while any means of turning
its bounty to profit remains untried;
and when the possibilities of selling
(not merely marketing) Georgia pea
ches have been duly canvassed, wise
orchardmen will be more inclined to
increase their holdings rather than to
blot them out.
Salesmanship, be it understood, :s
neither a dragging routine nor a
heady adventure; it is a science and an
art, calling for the highest order of
! talent. It has paid the merchant, it
\ will pay the farmer. It has paid Cal
j ifornia, it will pay Georgia. It has
been applied, we are told, with re
markable results to the better grade
of sweet potatoes and to certain other
food * , crops. The it •, is . , brought ____, „
sooner
!tc fi ear 0 n every aposite case the more
prosperous will be our commonwealth,
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! Grady county farmers once again
j should be thankful that theirs is not
!a cotton county. When many sections
ai- c actually suffering from the low
P™es of cotton, Grady county farm
ers are growing closer to the crop di
versification plan that has Been in
force here for a number of years.
THE CAIRO MESSENGER FRIDAY. OCTOBER STH, 1926.
WANT ADS
:
r 1^ in V e e r tro^ e «nd d /cenu,
^ryj^n^ur u h *. Minimum
charge of 30 cents, and charges for all want
ads are payable strictly in advance except
where a person has a regular account,
FOR SALE—I have full supply
first-class Fulghum Seed Oats,
p i er Seed Oats, Hastings Hundred
Bushel Seed Oats; also Genuine Ab
ruzzi Seed Rye; also regular Georgia
Tall Growing. See us for first-class
extra good stock and close prices.
ROBINSON’S SEED WAREHOUSE,
Cairo, Ga. 10-8-tf
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TAKEN l P At my farm 1 mile from
( air0 > 1 sandy sow, right ear staple
fork , and underbit; left, crop and uti
derbit 0vvner can get same by paying
all costs. DR. W. A. WALKER. 10-8-4:
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FOR SALE—Pony, for light buggy
or saddle—good school pony—gentle
and priced very low. J. C .Waldron,
B, Cairo. It
I STOLEN—From my auto while on
j Broad street last Monday night
Uoyce universal size motometer. Re
j ward for evidence leading to recovery.
| C. L. BROWNE. It.
| FOR SALE—1 No. 27 and 1 No. 45
j Golden Power Cane Mills. L. O.
^ ERRITT ’ Calvary ’ Ga> 10-8-2t
FOR SALE—To keep from carrying
over will sell 20 barrels fine salt at
cost. Also GO vegetable hampers. Call
at okra factory Saturday or Monday.
’OR SALE—One 3-roller Chattanooga
cane mill, good shape, roller fresh
pulled. N. KILLINS, Cairo. L-f
F. G. BROWN— Will appreciate the
return of his wire stretcher by the
last person who borrowed it. 10-l-2tp
LOST—On streets of Cairo, between
Sept. 21 and 24, pair glasses with
black rims. Liberal reward for return
to Messenger office. 10-l-2t.
WANTED—Position as bookkeeper or
assistant bookkeeeper. Age 18, just
out of Business College. B. L. HIN
SON. 10-l-4t. pd.
FOR SALE— Tw t o good power cane
mills. One No. 27 and one No. 45.
See L. P. MERRITT. 10-l-2t.
FOR SALE—126-acre farm, 80 acres
in cultivation, balance in timber;
land stumped, and good and <jry! good
buildings: price 86,000, one-fourth
down, balance on terms. Farm situ
ated 2 miles north of Whigham. A.
T. ATKINS, Cairo. 9-10-4tp.
FOR SALE—Nice 100 acre farm, 3
miles east of Cairo; at a bargain. J
I.. GANDY, Rt. 2, Cairo. 9-3-6tp
WANTED—The whole fire company
to see “Outside the Law,” Oct. 7 or
8 at Victory Theatre.
Bad Color
(liver trouble)
0 CCASIONALLY I am trou
bled with spells of consti
pation and inactive liver,” says
Mrs. John L. Pence, Broadway,
Va. "I always use Thedford’s
Black-Draught when I feel a spell
of this kind coming on, for it
saves me a bad headache. My
color gets sallow at times. I get
real yellow, showing that the tro
uble comes from the liver.
"I have found Black-Draught to
■J- be the finest kind of a remedy
for this. I take Black-Draught
and make a tea out of it, and take
it, along in small doses for sever
al days. I have never found any
thing that served me so well.
"Since I have known about
Black-Draught, I have not suffer
ed nearly so much with head
ache, caused from indigestion. If
I find my tongue is coated, and
I wake up with a bad taste in
my mouth, I know I have been
eating indiscreetly, and I imme
diately resort to Black-Draught
to straighten me out”
i AIR MAIL.
A few months ago air mail service
was a dream, and while the
skeptical realized that some day
would probably become a reality, few
ventured to predict that it would come
into practice ,. soon.
j Air mail service was established
between some of the larger northern
critics several months ago and now
j the
ami service has been inaugurated.
j What does this mean to Cairo and
Grady county? you might ask.
j In reality it affects us very little,
j comparatively speaking, because about
the only way in which it improves our
, regular mail mail to and
service is m
from Miami.
Jacksonville is really the only
i worth-while connection we have on
the route and trains make a direct
connection with the planes there only
in one instance. The southbound plane
touches at Jacksonville soon after the
arrival of the St. Louis-JacksonviPe
Express train, which passes Cairo at
1:55 a. m. Suppose, then, you mail a
Miami letter on this night train just
as it stops in Cairo. If you put 10c
extra postage on the letter and mark
it “Air Mail,” it will go to
ville and make a' direct connection
with the plane, arriving in Miami at
p. m., whereas it would not reach
there until sometime the next day, un
dex- ordinary circumstances. A similar
saving might be effected in mail from
Miami to Cairo.
The air mail service we have now is
only the beginning of what we are to
have in a few years, but it gives
promise of almost revolutionizing the
dispatch on long-distance mail.
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HERE AND THERE.
By “Dad.”
Which are you building, a stumb
ling block or a stepping stone?
The milch cow that gets the most
petting nearly always gives the most
milk.
If you must show off your silk
stockings, hang them on the clothes
line. It is nicer.
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The person who spits ^ on the floor
sidewalk may have a cold in his head,
but it is a certain fact that he has
little else.
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It is a “sorry” dog that wont fight
in his own yard.
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Shall we cancel our war debts o.
just not get the money?
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Prohibition should not be a political
question.
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The man who never told a lie would
be foolish to announce for public of
fice.
There are two kinds of failures in
the world-thinkers who will not work,
and workers who will not think.
The skunk meets his fate through
the publicity he gives himself.
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Are j'ou living on what you have
already earned, or upon what you ex
pect to earn? The one makes a wise
man; the other a fool.
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Women not only want to be
looking, but they want to be told
about it!
The men of the earth build houses
Halls, chambers, l-oofs and domes,
But the women of earth-God knows
The women build the homes!
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* CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO
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October 6th, 1911.
Marching forward as a unit,
people of Grady county made
first County Fair a wonderful
from every standpoint. Good
ship was evidenced on every hand and
the ties of friendship between the
rious elements were made
strongeix The exhibits and the
thusiasm displayed in every
provided excelled even the fondest
pectations.
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A holding movement was begu l
among the cotton growers because
the low price of cotton.
Prof. F. P. Harlowe resigned a?
director of the Cairo Concex-t Band.
j One of our kind contemporaries says
we believe in saying nice things about
peo ple before they die, and we
tainly do. The world would certainly
' be a better place in which to live if
such could be universally practiced.
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The Messenger took no stock in the
personal features of the recent gubev
natorial campaign. Our attitude in
volved only the defense of a principle.
We did not get wrought up about it,
tut sought to calmly express our j
views. Consequently, we have no
statements to explain and no apolo
gies to make.
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NOTICE
Let us repair your Cane Mill, Gas Engine
or Steam Engine and Boiler.
j We rebuild Magnetos —and guarantee
j them.
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1 | All kinds of machine work and welding.
j Every Job Guaranteed: Come To See Us.
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j MANRY IRON
| WORKS
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Phones 992-J and 260
Thomasville, Georgia
500808
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Have Your Eyes Examined s
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from Our 8 Cairo to office 6 is open If each Tuesday § 1
a. m. p. m. your eyes trouble
you, you should not delay giving them at- f
tentlon.
Get glasses that are correctly fitted, that are Com
fortable and that look well.
Lawhead Rackley
Optometrists
£6t 0«KK8»K»S»:
GIN NOTICE
After Saturday, October 2nd, we will ope
rate only on Friday and Saturday,
of each week.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS.
D. W. Whaley
PINE PARK, GA.
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