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7 QRADY COUNTY F AIR WILL OPE N ON M ON DAY
)ERS PREDICT GREATEST
PLAYS EVER SEEN HERE
crowds ARE
ted each day
E day AND FRIDAY
[ELV TO be THE
big days.
j G ra dy County Fair, the
native annual attraction of
be sponsored by the Amer
. ^re, will open next Mon
jitinue through Saturday,
j3th__and leaders this
icted that the displays will
st ever seen here. The at
is year will be on the same
I last two expositions, just
Ave., N. E., near the
Club and adjoining Davis
a free parking lot in the
south of the fair
[ there program, this given in shows some
[will on page,
be two big days—
L Friday—although thous
Lpected (and to attend each day.
the year before, the
was upwards of 25,000,
1st records may be bettered
t, which is Armistice Day,
business holiday in Cairo,
lervance of the day will be
■otic nature in connection
lir. A parade will form at
Bist Church at 9:45 a. m.,
I ex-service men marching
[other organizations in the
invited to have units in the
I. “Gold Star mothers”
pled cars auu w it-7 otFnmi
I exercises that will follow
ark, where Hon. Abe Con
Inbridge, will be the prin¬
ter. After the Davis Park
:pienic dinner will be served
[ice men and their families
land all ex-service men are
■tend, with basket lunches.
ridge-Cairo football game
eyed at Legion -Field be
L p. m.
l.v, which will be a county
[l holiday, there will be
trade, of school children,
[ form at the high school
I 9:45 a. m. A loving cup
tided the school having the
preentage of enrolled stu
k parade.
| k bih hli ? . f , . . ,‘p
pssiDje from fire and a Will
Pde range of products, with
hnng more emphasis this
r community exhibits are
attract most interest. Big
I a cb are to be. presented
I management extends a
ptation to visit to the people of
p the fair.
pall team here
s PLANNED.
r n S er has been requested
f that there will be a meet
f xt Wednesday night, No
P, of all non-school boys
l nien who arei desirous of
f a Lbletic club to promote
basketball team for the
f 011. The meeting will be
Cairo btsketball shell and
at 8:30 o’clock.
r n? ' s called by Carlos
Ul Wood, Bob Graham and
high school basketball
ill interested are urged to
r ING conference
V i DUBLIN.
P Georgia Annual Confer
pthodists convened at Dub
day m °rning, to continue
Cairo are
lodist . pastor of the
u ,r of Church; R,ev. John
the Cairo Methodist j
• M. Bliteh, conference
a " d J ^ater Wight,
- con
» lea <ler.
le! Blanton -
spent the first
m Atlanta, on busi-
a
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Red Cross Roll Call
To Start November 12
It was announced that the Red
Cross annual roll call will begin lo¬
cally on Friday, November 12th, to
continue through Thanksgiving Day,
November 25th.
Mrs. Gussie Singletary McManeus,
Ordinary of Grady county, has ac
cepted the chairmanship of the roll
call campaign committee this year
and she plans to prepare her commit¬
tees for announcement next week.
The Red Cross locally continues ac
tive, operating to assist in numer¬
ous cases of relief with funds that
are retained here from the roll call
drive each year.
j MARKETS, BUSINESS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
SYRUP-MAKING, SALE TAKING
SPOTLIGHT IN COUNTY
THIS WEEK.
MESSENGER DAY EARLY
NEXT WEEK.
Because of the holiday next
Thursday, Armistice Day, The
Messenger will be printed on
Wednseday, one day earlier than
usual.
| j News correspondents are in¬
structed to send in their items a
i day earlier than usual. Adver¬
tisers are also advised that ad
copy must De in not lacer than
noon Tuesday.
The manufacture and sale of pure
| Georgia cane syrup took the spotlight
j n f arm i ng and business circles this
week as syrup-making became general
on the farms of this section.
The cane in the fields narrowly es¬
caped serious frost damage by an
early frost two weeks ago and another
frost sufficient to inflict greater dam¬
j age is to be normally expected with¬
in a week or ten days, now.
Some 150 cane growers from
eight counties of Southwest Georgia
and Northwest Florida assembled at
the Courthouse here last Saturday
afternoon to discuss syrup crop pros
the " r "« r,,m °*
G,WCt4 Co -“ perat,T ' Ass “' at,0n
w hi c h proposes to can a portion
its syrup this season and offer it dir
ect]y to t h e wholesale trade, in cans.
rp h j s f eature of the program was
approved by the ,
whole-heartedly ^
grov ers w ho attended the meeting.
The open market for barrel syrup
here continues firm, with prevailing
prices above the average of the past
several seasons—about the same or
slightly above those prevailing at the
close of last season.
Prices Using Paid For
Produce.
Following are the prices being paid
here Thursday for various items of
produce—the prices being given as
information, subject to quick change, j
and not guaranteed: e/j
Peanuts, Span. No. 1, ton .
Runners, No. 1, ton . ■oo
Cotton, middling, lb. • 8c
- •
Cotton Seed, ton...... $18
(Eggs, yard run, doz. .... 28c
No. 1 infertile, White, doz. ole
Fryers, colored, lb 23c
Hens, colored, lb. 14c
Cured Meat— tO
Hams, lb..........
Sides, lb........... tO
Country Lard, lb. M
Chevrolet Agency Stressing
Value. t
Grady County Motor Company, e j
local Chevrolet campaign agency, to particularly has inau ^™ stress " I
ed a onsideration, in tht
value as a first c j
of both ne" car ' and used!
purchase
cars. prospective
The company assures
of its desire to arrange
customers especially, on a ) |
terms on used cars, reminds y
reasonable basis, but it
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The Official Organ of Grady County
“The man who wandereth out of the
"a> of advertising shall remain in (he congregation of the dead.”
t AIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH,
88 H- 1 ®* TO GET
PW0BS HE8E NOW
36 PLACED ON ROLL DURING
PAS.T MONTH; PAYMENTS
TOTAL $908.
The Messenger learned this week at
the office of the Grady County Wel¬
fare Department that 88 persons are
now eligible to receive social security
aid in this county.
Thirty-six persons have been add¬
ed to the pension rolls during the
Past month, it was pointed out, and
the 88 persons will receive aid later
this month. There have been more
than 900 applications for assistance
in this county and the cases are be¬
ing investigated as rapidly as pos¬
sible. It is expected that the
fare Department will soon take over
all eligible persons 'who have been
receiving direct aid from the County
Commissioners. The county has an
allotment of $2,339 for this aid, but
the total now being paid out is a little
less than half that figure.
The 88 now on the eligible list
will receive payments totalling $908.
Old age pensions call for $722.50;
blind persons will receive $41; and
dependent children will be paid $144.-
50.
DIES SUNDAY
Mrs. Mahalie Glover, 78, Passes On
After Illness.
__
j 'the Mrs. late Mahalie Elisha Glover, Glover who 78, widow died
! years ago, passed to eternal rest at
! her home in the extreme northwes
tern part of Grady county last Sun
day morning at 7 o’clock. She had
been ill several months.
Mrs. Glover was a member of the
Union Primitive Baptist Church
Mitchell county and was greatly ad
mired by a wide circle of friends for
her Christian virtues.
Funeral and interment were at Mt.
Pleasant Church on Monday at 10
o’clock, in charge of Elder Ralph
Williams.
She leaves three sons, C. C. Giover,
Pelham, J. M. Glover and Lawrence
Glover; and six daughters, Mrs. Lena
Horne, Mrs. Maurice Pollock, 'Mrs.
Ivy Horne, Mrs. Tom Porter, Mrs.
Nat Adkins and Mrs. Tommie Gaddis,
j all of near Vada.
j NEW HIGHWAY MAPS
i
j HERE.
The Messenger has a supply of
new Georgia highway maps which
are for free distribution for those
who desire one of them.
The maps, just made, show the
! latest improvements to Georgia’s
state highways, by classification, and
will be interesting to those who travel,
They were sent to The Messenger
through courtesy of the State High¬
way Department.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rogers, Jr., and
three young daughters of Blakely,
were guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. A.
Walker Wednesday.
Program For Fair Next Week
MONDAY, OPENING DAY. All exhibits must be in
exhibit tents not later than 2 p. m., to remain throughout
Fair. Gates will formally open late Monday afternoon or
early in the evening. Big free circus acts in the evening.
TUESDAY, FARMERS’ DAY. Big free circus acts.
WEDNESDAY, LADIES’ DAY. Big free circus acts.
THURSDAY, EX-SERVICE MEN’S DAY. Armistice
Day parade, led by band, will form at Methodist Church at
9:45 a. m. Parade will end at Davis Park, adjoining fair
grounds, where Hon. Abe Conger, of Bainbridge, will deliv¬
er a patriotic address. “Gold Star Mothers” will be honor
guests, with cars provided for them. Old-time basket din¬
ner for all ex-service men and their families will follow at
Davis Park. All ex-service men and their families are urg¬
ed to attend, with basket dinners. Big free circus acts on
fair grounds. Cairo-Bainbridge football game at 7 p. m.
FRIDAY, SCHOOL DAY. County-wide school holiday.
Parade of school children will form at high school grounds
at 9:45 a. m. Loving cup awarded to school having great¬
est percentage of enrolled students in parade.
SATURDAY, EVERYBODY’S DAY. Big free circus
acts.
CO. COMMISSIONERS
IN MONTHLY SESSION
ROUTE 111 DEEDS discussed
TUESDAY; SAM COLLINS
RE-ELECTED.
The Board of County Commission¬
ers of Grady county held its regular
monthly meeting here Tuesday—and
the session was the longest in a num¬
ber of months. Chairman Walter
Davis presided, with Commissioners
G'. W. Connell, W. E. Wamble, L. O.
Maxwell, Sr., and T. W. Aldridge all
present.
Most of the day was given to con¬
sideration of a mass of routine busi
ness > with the county’s finances one
of the main topics for the discussions,
A Chamber of Commerce committee,
composed of J. A. Collins, Henry Hes
ter, W. B. Roddenbery, Sr., and Sec
retary M. L. Mayes, appeared and
urged immediate completion of the
sign-up of the right-of-'way deeds on
Route 111, linking Cairo, Reno, Cal
vary and the Florida line. It was
suggested that December 1st be fix¬
ed as a deadline for execution of the
deeds to avoid condemnation proceed¬
ings. After much discussion, during
which the dangers of further delay
were emphasized, it was decided not
to fix the deadline, but that the sign¬
up campaign will be pressed to com¬
pletion with all of the speed possible.
The survey on Route 111 was finish
ed several weeks ago and the survey
on the Cairo-Beachton link of Route
j 93 is now almost complete.
j Some two hours was devoted to a
discussion of county affairs with a
committee from the October term
I grand jury of Grady Superior Court.
1 The Commissioners were in executive
for the conference and no
[ announcement was made as to what
1 was done. The grand jury is in re¬
cess until January 10th, but is under
j stood to have a committee or corn
j mittees at work,
j Toward the close of the lengthy
j i meeting, the Commissioners unani
m0 usly re-elected Sam Collins as
warden for the year 1938. Mr. Col¬
lins has served in the capacity of
warden here for several years, With
general satisfaction, but the election
of a warden was deferred when other
county employees elected by the
Board were elected at the October
meeting. All of the old employees
were named last month for another
term of one year.
[ KIWANIS MEETING HELD
TUESDAY.
The Cairo Kiwanis Club held its
regular luncheon meeting at Hotel
,
Grady Tuesday at noon with the pres
ident, G. Maynard Smith, in the chair.
Interesting reports from the State
Kiwanis Convention Which was held
in Augusta during the past week were
given by Dr. J. V. Rogers and Mr. L.
H. Nelson.
Justice R. C. Bell was a local guest.
Twenty-three were in attendance.
Highway Chairman Is
Visitor Here Sunday
Hon. W. L. (Lint) Miller, chairman
of the State Highway Board, and his
son, spent last Sunday visiting rel¬
atives and friends irf Grady county.
The chairman’s sister, Miss Bessie
Miller, a rural missionary worker, ac¬
companied them from Macon for the
the day’s visit, also.
Mr. Miller is a native of Grady
county, the son of Mr. F. J. Miller,
and the late Mrs. Miller, but has re¬
sided in Lakeland for several years.
His many friends here are genuine¬
ly proud of the splendid record he is
making for the Highway Depart¬
ment as chairman of the board.
AUTO MISHAP FATAL
FOR 9-YR.-0LD GIRL
ALLINE MORRIS, OF CAIRO, IS
KILLED FRIDAY NEAR
TIIOMASVILLE.
Alline Morris, a 9-year-old Cairo
girl, and a student in the fifth grad
at the north side grammar school,
was instantly killed about noon last
•Friday in a motor mishap near Thom
asville, on the Pavo-Thomasville road.
She was en route to Pavo to visit her
parents for the week-end in a car
driven by R. L. Mathews, of Pavo,
and this car collided with a school
and this car collided with a school bus
that was being driven into the road.
Wade Johnson was listed as the driver
of the bus.
rp, The cmld’s , grandmother, Mrs. Wal- , ir ,
ter . Pate, tj . of f Cairo, n ■ another ,i little ,...,
granddaughter, Carolyn Pate, 6, „t
Cairo, and Mr. Mathews, occupants of
the latter s car, were all „ , badly „ . .
ed, i , but , M Mr. Johnson , , was not , , badly ,,
, hurt. , m The Mathews „ almost
car was
demolished
The Morris child lived here with her
grandmother and was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Morris, of Pavo.
Funeral and interment were at Quit
man Saturday.
Pecan Thief Is Given
12 Months or $200.00
Kite Jones, a Negro, and a confess¬
ed pecan thief, was given a sentence
of 12 months on the chaingang or a
fine of $200 by Judge Ira Carlisle at
Monday’s non-jury session of City
.Court here. The Negro plead guilty
j and his rather stiff sentence was
imposed as a part of an announced
determination on the part of Judge
Carlisle to deal sternly with defend
ants brought before him for pecan
theft.
The alertness of Night Policemen
Howard Elkins and W. J. Davis prov¬
ed the undoing of the Negro’s rather
bold theft scheme. The officers dis¬
covered him easing through Cairo i
about 1 o’clock last Saturday mom
ing with a heavily loaded Model A
-Ford car and their investigation dis
closed that the load was several
dred pounds of pecans which ti ie j
Negro later confessed to stealing!
from a barn on the Wight farm south- j
west of Cairo. The splendid work
of the officers drew many favorable
comments.
Pecan Buyers Cautioned
On Purchases.
Local officials this week, recogniz¬
ing reports of numerous petty thefts
of pecans, especially by Negro child¬
ren, suggested that The Messenger
remind buyers that they themselves
are subject to indictment or prosecu¬
tion for buying pecans that they feel
have been stolen.
A buyer makes himself liable . to
indictment or prosecution for re¬
ceiving stolen property When he buys
pecans, or other property, for that
matter, “under circumstances suffi¬
cient to arouse the suspicion of a rea¬
sonable, prudent man,” to use the
legal phrase. Full co-operation of all
buyers is being sought to the end that
pecan stealing can be minimized.
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GRADY COUNTY
Is Georgia’s Banner County
the hub of its sugar cane, collard seed
and tung oil industries, the original
diversified farming section.
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34 CASES ARE DISPOSED OF AT
SESSION OF SUPERIOR COURT
RECESS IS ORDERED
UNTIL JANUARY 10
TRIAL COURT QUITS FRIDAY
AFTERNOON; LIST OF
CASES GIVEN.
The trial division of Grady Super¬
ior Court was ordered last -Friday af¬
ternoon to take a recess until Monday,
January 10th, at 9 a. m., after dis¬
posing of thirty-four cases, most of
them civil proceedings. The recess
was ordered by Judge B. C, Gardner,
of Camilla, presiding, who expressed
his intention to dispose of all of the
cases that can be tried, in an effort to
completely clear away an accumula¬
tion of both civil and criminal cases
that has piled up during the past
eighteen months. A number of cas¬
es were carried over to the adjourn¬
ed term in January and court offi¬
cials estimate that four or five days
will be required then. Judge Gard¬
ner could not return here this week,
he said, because of an important
special session in Dougherty county
at Albany.
The October term grand jury, after
three days of deliberation, recessed
on Wednesday of last week until
Monday, January 10th, at 9 a. m., and
the presentments will be returned af¬
ter the adjourned session in Janu¬
ary.
A few criminal cases were dispos
ed of Friday, with Solicitor-General
, ^' row ’ Camilla, represent
^ ie s *' a ^ e- J. B. a ’ nd J* D. Colley,
brothers, entered pleas of guilty to a
number of counts in indictments
charging . forgery but Judge Gardner
®
ff'™’ ” ,he ‘"‘““I' 8 E : sentence ™“" , HaH.ofCatro, on ,, them im
also charged ® with forgery, is dispos
'
ed , of „ at the January adjourned term,
J
The Colley _ „ , brothers, , said , to be
’ na
tives . of „ „ South east Georgia, are still
being held in jail. Hall is free under
j, on( j
These three, and S. K. Smith, are
charged With the forgery of more
than fifty checks drawn against West
Packing Co., of this city. The checks,
all totalling about $1,450, were sign¬
ed with a forged signature of Alton
Hall, at the time a livestock buyer
for the packing company, and a num¬
ber of them also bore forged endorse¬
ments, it is alleged. The defendants
were arrested early this year and of¬
ficers say they signed a written con¬
fession, listing specific checks, soon
after their arrest. Smith was later
convicted in Thomas Superior Court
at Thomasville on two checks, al¬
legedly forged by him, that he is said
to have cashed in Thomasville, and
he is now serving a sentence there
J. D. Corley, Who is said by of¬
ficers to be only about 25 years of
age, served two years of a murder
sentence in Tattnall county before he
was pardoned by Former Governor
Eugene Talmadge, it is said.
A. J. Jones, a Negro, charged with
the murder of Charlie Morris, anoth
er Ne ^°> in the northern part of the
several months ago, entered
a plea of guilty, and a life sentence
was automatically imposed. They were
attending a Negro frolic and officer
said the two became embroiled in a
fight over a debt of twenty cents.
Jones is alleged to have flashed a
large pocket knife and slashed the
other Negro’s throat. Morris, badly
frightened when he found that he was
cut, ran about a quarter of a mile
in the darkness, but was found in a
few minutes by other members of the
party. He died, however, in a short
time, investigating officers reported.
Following are the cases disposed of
thus far at the October term:
State of Georgia vs Elpino Consol¬
idated School District; bond valida¬
tion. Issue of $2,500 ordered validat¬
ed as of October 25th, 1937.
Joseph D. Wilson, et al vs W. B.
Roddenbery, Sr., Henry Hester and H.
T. LeGette; appeal from Court of
Ordinary on caveat to will of the late
Mrs. Alice Davis. Verdict for de
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