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CO-OPERATION
Is The Watch-Word Here—
more co-operative marketing agencies
operate in Grady county than in any
other county in Georgia.
VOLUME XXIII.
1927 TOBACCO CROP
OUTLOOK REVIEWED
COMMITTEE FULLY DISCUSSES
PROSPECTS FOR THE
NEXT YEAR.
The special tobacco sub-committee
, f the general agricultural committee
c f the local Chamber of Commerce,
imposed of farmers, this week pre
pared the following review of the
p)27 tobacco crop outlook here:
We have been seriously consider
ing what we shall plant another yea 1 ,
as doubtless has been the case with
most of the farmers of Grady county.
We cannot longer afford to plant
cotton and take chances with bod
weevil, cotton fleas and the present
low price. Syrup has already been
over-produced and we are also fast
exhausting our wood supply making
syrup; therefore, we must of neces
sity reduce our cane acreage.
A few of our farmers have for the
past two or three years been grow
ing bright-leaf tobacco, and they find
that they can grow a pound of toba
to with less effort and expense than
they can grow a pound of lint cotton,
for the reasons, first: the enemies
of tobacco are more easily controlled
than the enemies of cotton; and sec
ond : lands in this section will pro
duce from 800 to 1,200 pounds of to
bacco per acre. This year 150 to
175 pounds of lint cotton per acre has
ten a liberal average. The same
wood that will cure $250 worth of
tobacco will only cook about $50 worth
of syrup at the present price. Our
honest conviction is with our efforts
devoted to a good quality of tobacco
one year with another will average 20
cent? per pound. Next season may
average only 16 cents to 18 cents but
stated above a man can grow a
pound of tobacco for 15 cents with
more profit than he can grow a
pound of lint cotton for 15 cents.
Our opinion is that if we will make
a good quality of tobacco, which can
be made, on our soil, we can count on
an average price of above 20 cents.
Sweet potatoes are one of our best
money crops, and it is impossible to
have potatoes for the spring market
when prices are the best, unless we
have suitable curing houses. There
ii no better curing house for pota
toes than a tobacco barn.
We would not advise our fellow
farmers to go too extensively into to
bacco, but feel that two acres to the
plow can be made very profitably.
The farmers whose names are list
ed sold their tobacco for the follow
ing average this season:
•I. M. Sasser—7 acres, average $25?
per acre.
W. C. Gainey—4 acres, average
$183.
P. D. Elarbee—43 acres, average
$149.
Byron Butler —6 acres, average
$ 200 .
J. H. Collins (Whigham)—4 acres,
average $287.
J. W. Burroughs—11 acres, average
$ 221 .
J. A. Ausburn—4 acres, average
$125 per acre, year 1926. These same
four acres produced $225 average in
1925; shortage due to planting on
same land.
W. A. Shiver—14 acres, average
$204.
Guy Vanlandingham —8 acres, aver
age $212.
Bob Brown—14 acres, average $150
Per acre at Calvary.
J. H. Strickland —8 acres, average
£222 per acre at Reno.
E. J. Cook—4 acres, average $300
W. C. Ham —12 acres, average $ 210 .
L. G. Ham —6 acres, average $266.
■L H. Cillins (Cairo )—6 acres, aver
age $275.
Pope Estate—16 acres, average
$257.
Pope Estate—16 acres, average j
$248.
W, R. Miller—4 acres, average $250.
D. L. Watson— -3 acres, average
$280.
H. L. Watson—2 acres, average
$281.
E. F. Dollar—3 acres, average $201.
We realize that these averages are
rather high, and probably could not
1 e maintained each year. We believe
at tobacco will eventually be one
m our chief agricultural products and
fhe sooner our farmeA acquaint
themselves with the careful handling.
Proper mode of culture and curing
tobacco, the better it will be for them.
(Continued on last page.)
®lie Cairo J c *1 .sen i tr
12 PAGES.
B0ND election
Woodland Consolidated School Dis
trict lo Vote On Issue.
The trustees of the Woodland Con
solidated School 'District of Grady
county last week called an election ni
the district for November 17th, to pass
or. the proposed issuance of $ 8,000
in bonds to build and equip a school
house or school houses. More than
one-fourth of the qualified voters of
the district petitioned for the elect
ion, in accordance with law.
The question of a bond issue was
submitted to the voters of this dis
trict several weeks ago, and though
practically all of the votes cast were
favorable, the required number did
not vote. It is understood that the
light vote was attributed to some dif
ference as to the building plans. How
ever, this difference has been adjusted,
and authorization of the issue on
November 17th is foreseen.
The call for the election is adver
tised in this issue, signed by the
trustees, Messrs. S. P. Vanlanding
ham, Obie Wade and I. B. Perkins.
OCTOBER TERM CITY
COURT ENDS FRIDAY
JUDGE L. W. RIGSBY LEAVES
DOCKETS ALMOST CLEAR
OF CASES.
The regular October term of the
City Court of Cairo closed last Fri
day afternoon, and with the adjourn
ment Judge L. W. Rigsby completed
his present term of office, so far as
regular terms of court are concerned.
The dockets, both civil and criminal,
were left almost clear of cases, thougn
the trial of several was, of necessity,
deferred.
The cases disposed of Friday are:
State vs. Gordon Bell; having sti'l
on premises. Nol prossed.
State vs. H. J. Parrish; trespassing.
Verdict of not guilty. Directed.
State vs. Will Hill; gambling. Ver
dict of not guilty, directed.
State vs. George Weatherspoon;
assault and battery. Verdict of not
guilty, directed.
State vs. George Weatherspoon;
driving car with foreign tag. Verdict
of guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of
$1 and all costs or serve 3 months
on chaingang.
State vs. George Strickland; public
drunkenness. Verdict of not guilty,
directed.
State vs. Emma Kelley; cruelty co
animals. Verdict of guilty. Sentenc
ed to pay a fine of $1 and all costs
or serve 45 days in jail.
State vs. Emma Kelley; trespass
ing. Verdict of guilty. Sentenced to
pay a fine of $1 and all costs or serve
45 days in jail.
State vs. Jim Ratler; simple lar
ceny. Verdict of guilty. Sentenced
to pay a fine of $10 and all costs or
serve 3 months on chaingang.
ALDRIDGE IS CHOSEN
POLICE CHIEF AGAIN
COUNCILMEN-ELECT NAME NEW
CITY OFFICIALS HERE
THURSDAY.
The councilmen-elect of the city,
in a special meeting Thursday night,
nominated J. A. (Sandy) Aldridge
as chief of police again for 1927. He
is now serving his first year.
E. E. Vann was nominated for the
position as night policeman, to suc
ceed W. H. Hudson.
J. M. Strange was named street
foreman and sanitary inspector to
succeed H. G. Willis.
These men will be formally elected
on January 1st.
GIRLS’ EXHIBIT
Grady County Club Girls To Have A
Display Here Oct. 30.
The Grady county club girls, under
Miss Dora Marshall, Home Demon
stration Agent, will have their exhibit
on display at the City Hall here Sat
urday, October 30th.
Every club girl is urged to bear in j
mind that exhibits must be in by nocn .
Friday, The exhibit will be thrown
open to the public and a cordial in
vitation is extended to all to attend.
The Official Organ of Grady County.
“The man who wandereth out of the way of advertising shall remain in the of the
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA ., OCTOBER 1926.
GENERAL ELECTION
SET TUESDAY WEEK
INTEREST LIKELY TO CENTER IN
PROPOSALS TO AMEND
CONSTITUTION.
The general state election is now
only a few days off, since the con
stitution provides for it to be held
on the first Tuesday in November,
which is the second day.
Ordinary J. R. Singletary has al
ready ordered ballots for use in this
county and plans are being made for
the voting places in all precincts to
be opened for the day.
The ballots to be used are among
the largest on record, measuring 8 1-2
x26 inches. The Democratic ticket
will likely be the only one offered
here.
Since approval of the Democratic
nominees will be little more than a
mere legal formality, interest will
likely center in the nine proposals
to amend the constitution, though
only three or four of them are are
of state-wide concern.
A full sketch of each amendment
proposal will be given in these col
umns next week.
mcintosh coming
Albany Herald Editor To Be Speaker
At Banquet Thursday.
Final plans are being made for the
banquet next Thursday evening, Oc
tober 28th, for the directors of the
local Chamber of Commerce, and the
coming of Editor H. T. McIntosh, of
the Albany Herald, who will be the
principal speaker.
The banquet will be served begin
ning at 7 o’clock, in the main audi
torium of the Cairoga Club, by the
local Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union. It will be an elaborate af
fair, according to plans.
There are thirty directors and each
is asked to bring his wife or lady
friend. Approximately twenty-five
couples will be present, it is though*.
PLAYS QUITMAN
Cairo High Eleven To Battle Brooks
Countians Here Today.
The Cairo high football team .'s
scheduled to play the Quitman high
eleven on the local gridiron this after
noon, beginning at 3 o’clock sharp.
While Cairo defeated the Brooks
countians last season by a 26 to 9
score, the local gridsters will have a
difficult task in gaining a victory at
all this year, as the Quitman outfit
is said to be considerably stronger.
Quitman recently defeated Quincy 6
to 3, while Cairo played Quincy tc
a scoreless tie. This indicates that
the two teams are about even, though
Quitman has the edge.
Cairo plays Pelham here next Fri
day and then goes into foreign ter
ritory for two games.
Mrs. M. Poller left this week for
Savannah, where she will spend some
time with relatives and friends. She
was accompanied by her son, Mr.
Barnett Poller.
SUPERIOR COURT TO
RUN BUT FEW DAYS
DEFERRED SEPTEMBER TERM IS
TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY
MORNING.
The deferred September term of
the Superior Court of Grady county,
which will open here next Monday
morning at ten o’clock, with Judge
W. V. Custer presiding, will be in
session only a few days, as there are
comparatively few cases set for trial.
While the Grand Jury may remain
ii session until about Thursday, the
trial court will hardly operate longer
than Thursday or Friday, according
to present indications.
Grand And Petit Jurors Drawn.
Below is a list of the Grand Jurors
drawn to serve at the deferred Sep
tember term, Superior Court:
J. S. Wight, W. B. Roddenbery, A.
C. Dickey, J. H. Jeffares, F. A. Rich
ter, Jr., W. T. Broom, J. H. Mitchell,
G. W. Taylor, Henry Hester, M. C. T.
Collins, J. H. Collins, Whigham, C. II.
Stewart.
J. H. Collins, Cairo, H. L. Rehberg,
W. E. Vanlandingham, J. M. Herring,
D. F. Oliver, E. J. Poulk, L. C. Powel',
G. W. Knight, Eugene Pipkin, J. C.
Matthews, B. F. Cook, J. A. Davis.
R. B. Belcher, C. H. Mize, A. E.
Whigham, W. L. Whigham, T._ P.
Harrison, F.O. Oats.
Below is a list of the petit jurors
drawn to serve at the deferred Sep
tember term, Superior Court:
A. C. Carter, J. J. Sizemore, C. D.
Hinson, R. Y. Hurst, B. R. Harrison,
W. R. Harrison, R. L. Forester, Sr.,
Ira Higdon, C. E. Stringer, J. N.
Barineau, B. H. Belcher, R. L. Wil
Barrineau, B. H. Belcher, R. L. Wil
liams.
Geo. T. Hardy, O. L. Chester, J. M.
Bentley, Will H. Collins, J. P. Faulk
ner, C. E. Mauldin, J. O. Darsey, T.
W. Vanlandingham, J. D. Hair, Bry
ant McCall, S. P. Vanlandingham,
William 4 A. Lee.
Cuy Harrell, J. O. Harrell, Charlie
Williams, R. S. Kennemur, T. B. Bag
gett, F. E. Crutchfield, J. H. Autry,
W. H. Ulm, I. P. Chapman, B. N.
Stanaland, J. H. Bryant, W. R. Con
nell.
J. S. Faircloth, W. H. Faircloth, W.
R. Shirey, Tom Jones.
Hallowe’en Carnival
Here on October 29
The evening of revelry, novelties
and surprises will be oered the public
in a big Hallowe’en carnival that will
be staged at the school house here
next Friday evening, October 29th.
The attraction will be given under
the auspices of the Woman’s Club and
local school faculty and will be for
playground and library benefit.
Real fortune-telling by a real for
tune teller and numerous other fea
tures appropriate to the Hallowe’en
season are being provided. The car
nival will be one of the most unique
attractions ever offered here, it is said.
Dr. Eugene Clower has returned
from a business trip to Florida points.
GRADY COUNTY AND COTTON.
(From Wednesday's Issue Savannah News.) |
Grady county—except as it sympathizes with the greater area ;
of the cotton belt and as it is affected by some measure by the gen
eral conditions resultant from the low price of cotton—is in position
to worry as little as any other county in Georgia about the price of
cotton.
Grady county’s 1926 cotton crop will be around two thousand j
bales. j
The cotton crops of a dozen counties of South and Middle Georgia
will run from fifteen to thirty-odd thousand bales. There’s the dif- !
ference between Grady and the rest. And Grady is a county named |
after the Southern statesman who deplored the conditions of the !
once
one-crop tyranny and pictured a future in which the Southern farmer
would get away from that self-imposed oppression and find his way to
independence. j
Grady’s crops amount to more than the average county of South
Georgia—in the aggregate. But th ere are several of them, diversifi
cation is native to Grady county; farmers are there who have not in
forty years bought a pound of bread stuff nor an ounce of western
hog meat nor a bushel of corn, nor a bale of hay. Grady has many
acres in tobacco, many more in corn, many in pastures; has thousands
of acres in cane and claims the world center for the manufacture of
pure cane syrup; has scores of acres in cabbages and many acres in
collards for the purpose of supplying world needs in eollard seed; and
has many acres in tomatoes and in okra and has contracted for a hund- j
red acres in cabbage for the next season. Grady grows watermelons
and its pecan orchards and nurseries are known over the world. It
lives at home and boards at the same place and has a surplus of a
of cash to sell—for cash. It is independent and rejoices— ;
score crops
actually feasts—in independence. It does not bow to King Cotton.
’
GRADY COUNTY
Is Georgia’s Banner County,
the hub of its sugar cane and eollard
seed industries, the home of diversified
farming.
12 PAGES.
OKRA FREIGHT RATE
t REDUCTION SECURED
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i SECRETARY HUGHES IS ADVISED
THURSDAY MORNING BY
MR. CRINE.
Mr. R. V. Crine, representative of
the Campbell Soup Company, for
whom a 500-acre production of okra
in this county next year is planned,
Thursday morning advised Secretaiy
J. M. Hughes, of the Chamber of Com
merce, by wire, that a satisfactory re
duction had been secured in the freight
rate on pickled okra from Cairo to
Camden, N. J.
This removes the last obstacle in th j
way of the proposed increased pro
duction of okra here next year, under
contract for the soup concern. Ap
proximately 65 acres were produced
here this year and pickled for ship
ment in Cairo, and tentative plans
have been made for the 500 acres next
year, dependent upon securing a low
er transportation cost. Civic leaders
are of the impression that the increas
ed acreage will be easy to obtain, as
the farmers who produced okra this
year are well pleased with the results.
Secretary Hughes is mainly respon
sible for the cut in the freight rate.
Following a conference with railroad
officials here, he has taken advantage
of every opportunity to impress R. J.
Doss, general freight agent of the At
lantic Coast Line, with the need for
and the justice of a rate cut.
Secretary Hughes plans to confer
with Mr. Crine in Waycross next
week, at which time final plans will
be made for the signing of the acre
age.
Contract For Cucumber Crop
Here May Be Offered.
A salting station for cucumbers,
with contracts for two or three hund
red acres of cucumbers to be grown in
Grady county, may be offered by a
large pickle concern, as a result of a
recent conference here, it became
known this week.
Secretary Hughes is sounding the
sentiment of the farmers on the pro
posed crop and a number have already
signified their intention of planting
two or three acres apiece, if present
plans are executed.
J. S. Wight is Elected
Head of;Cairoga Club
Mr. J. Slater Wight was elected
president of the Cairoga Club for the
club year beginning in November, at
the regular monthly luncheon and
meeting held last Tuesday evening.
Mr. Wight, who has been vice-presi
dent during the past year, succeeds
Mr. W. B. Rodenbery, who declined
to be nominated again for the place in
view of the fact that he is absent
from the city a good portion of the
time.
J. S. Weathers, Esq., was named
vice-president; G. T. Hardy was re
chosen director-treasurer; and L. A.
Powell was re-elected as secretary.
The new Board of Governors con
sists of H. H. Wind, chairman; Wh
Searcy, U. A. Clifford, J. V. Rogers
and E. L. England.
The new membership committee is
composed of J. B. Roddenbery, chair
man; L. C. Powell, J. A. Pope, W. A.
Lundy and A. B. Wight.
The meeting, presided over by Pres
ident W. B. Roddenbery, was favored
with an interesting talk by Mr. A. B.
Goodenow, of Colon, Panama Canal
Zone, who is spending some time here
on a visit. He spoke in quite an en
lightening manner of conditions in the
Canal Zone and answered a number of
questions. The canal, which cost 366
million dollars, gets 2 millions month •
ly in tolls, according to Mr. Goodenow,
who said that it accomodated an ave
rage of 24 ships a day.
Mr. Goodenow, who owns a fine pe
can grove and farm near Cairo, pro
fessed great faith in this section, ag*
ricuturally, and declared that the peo
ple here should have a greater appro
ciati,,n f, the Ka
1S agent for the Panama railroad in
Colon, a city of about 65,000 inhabi
tants, and he plans to locate in Cairo
j n a j ew y earSj h e states.
^ t, L ev j Cj Esq., brother of Dr. T.
Levie here, was a guest and he
responded with a short, humorous
talk. He is an attorney in West Palm
Beach.
Congrossman E. E. Cox, who was
invited, was unable to attend because
G f illness.
_____
Mr. T. M. Red. of Pine Park, trans
acted business here Tuesday.
PI0NEEB passes
Mr. J. K. Godwin, A Highly Esteemed
Citizen, Dies Friday.
Mr. John K. Godwin, a pioneer
Grady countian and a highly esteemed
citizen, passed away at his home 12
miles north of Cairo about 9 o’clock
last Friday morning.
Mr. Godwin was very active in be
half of the movement to create Grady
county and he was present when the
act creating the county was signed by
Governor Joseph M. Terrell. He was
an influential and substantial leader
in his section.
His death was due to a complication
of troubles. He had been in failing
health for the past few years, but was
confined for only two days immediate
ly previous to his death. He was 71
years of age.
Funeral and interment were at the
Mizpah Primitive Baptist Church, .14
miles north of Cairo, Sunday morning
at 11 o’clock. Elder Gardner, of
Mitchell county, officiated.
He is survived by one son and four
daughters: Mr. E. J. Godwin, Mrs.
G. G. Prince, Mrs. Richard Johnson
and Mrs. Ida Cogland.
FREE HEALTH TALKS
AND PICTURES, PLAN
FEDERAL OFFICIAL WILL VISIT
WHIGHAM AND CAIRO
NEXT WEEK.
Two free public health lectures, il
lustrated with moving pictures, will
be presented in Grady county under
the auspices of the Tri-County Health
Unit next week.
The first will be given at the City
Hall in Whigham on Monday night,
beginning at 7:30 o’clock, and all of
the people of that territory are urged
to attend.
The second will be given at Cairo
on Wednesday night, beginning at
7:30 o’clock, and those who are near
est Cairo are invited to come here.
The management of the Victory The
atre here has kindly given permission
for the local picture house to be used
for the attraction, and the lecture and
pictures will be presented there.
The presentations will be in charge
of Major E. C. Stoy, of the U. S.
Public Health Service, who is located
at Washington, D. C. Major Stoy has
been in public health work for a num
ber of years, and his lectures, vividly
illustrated by moving pictures, will
doubtless prove very interesting.
Such problems as the improvement
of conditions of sanitation, the pre
vention of disease and improved
health will be discussed.
It has been indicated that a large
number will be present for both the
Whigham and Cairo presentations, as
local public health officials are consid
ered fortunate in securing the at
tractions.
60 CENTS PAID FOR
FIRST NEW SYRUP
COLORED FARMER MARKETS
THE SEASON S FIRST
BARREL IN CAIRO.
The season’s first syrup was sold
here last Friday for 60 cents a gal—
Ion, thus indicating a good opening
so far as price is concerned.
The syrup, one barrel, was produc
ed by Lucius Lewis, a colored farm
er, who resides six miles south of
Cairo. The syrup w-as bought by W.
B. Roddenbery. It was graded A-l.
A number of farmers are now mak
ing syrup and several barrels will be
sold during the next few days, it i:
thought.
The dry weather is hurting the late
growth of the cane and will likely
cut the yield.
Goes Fishing; Catches
II Baby i « Alligators in. a
—7 - :
Mr. George Lewis, who resides neai
Calvary, went fishing a tew days ago .
on the Oc.i.oCK.we l.ver, out when ho >
went home he had, instead c>f a -
string of fish, a sack of baby alii- ■
gators—eleven in all. |
Such a large bunch is rather uneom
mon on the Ochlocknee, and it was |
probably for this reason that Mr.;
Lewis became so interested in them. ;
.*» mv rot**, ho now has a nice
bunch of pets. i
NUMBER 41 .