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E XXXIII.
COMMISSIONERS SET-UP
CHANGES STILL INDEFINITE
ASSEMBLY
'ONVENE MONDAY
, p DOLLAR SAYS BILL
aS n0 t yet been
DRAFTED.
sentative Edmond F. (Dee)
, h0 last week published legAl
t his intention to introduce
ksor in the special session of
tslature which convenes Mon-
1 changing the set-up of the
! County Commissioners of
d Revenues for Grady coun
The Messenger Wednesday
bill has not yet been draft
lat he is still undecided as to
t provisions the measure will
tewed at the cane mill on his
the northern part of the
L said that he had practi
lided to abolish the present
[ Ft, five members, effective instead on
1939, and provide
|oi only three members. He
not his intention to simply
anyone out of office.
sent, he said, his plans are
two Commisisoner districts,
composed of all the territory
the A. C. L. railroad, and
ad composed of all of the
south of the railroad. One
oner would be chosen from
he people of each district,
f the voters of each district
r the candidate or candidates
k district. Under the plan, a
kmissioner, to be chairman
ty purchasing agent, would
from the Cairo district, the
to be voted on by all vot
i county. He said the plan
br the chairman to be a full
k ial, 'with a salary, stipulat-
1 bill, sufficient to attract a
tan.
lile, The Messenger learned
! that opposition to any
> the present set-up is al
y jnifesting itself being in circulated the form
rs that are
b by the voters. Some of
TE pns are said to be receiving
1 at a steady rate.
St Bar and Sentor Jeff A. Pope,
SO [are [tlanta planning to leave Sun
to attend the special
[r lessenger E. D. Rivers has request
to give
pt that his address to the
id k which will be delivered
eginning at 9:30 a. m., C.
|1 PSB. be broadcast over Radio
The people of
8> jerally, his will likely be the
pear address over
J —.ibery Hdwe. Co.
Bonn el ] s Changed
[ZE! in the store personnel
0 y (is Hardware week, of Co., much here, inter
are
H >hout this section.
L Freeman, who has been
lm ployee of the concern
Several years, has
effective December 1st,
Qj^B(*Mesale f ea gu- Hardware jobbing
til 1 j Co.,
L be '^ d a
1 , Prior to his removal
fl CD |B I pe and his wife plan to
oru gomery within a
1 [Mfe have made countless
I F e and throughout
I pry who regret to
I [ ai 'e leaving.
; man W 01 be succeeded
Hicks Worthington, who
! Hardware Co.,
‘‘ a ' -Hr. Northington, who
* ew days ago, is
Ia ' e a daughter about
re.
WsB Beale, , a native of
80 been a valued
rn for some time, has
a C C( P
_ a position as
ltut " in the Cairo post
Ms new P os t>
Se - the outcome of his
e , , b "' n succeeded by
[ '
2 ni ht , who
, comes
Ala. Mr.
and they have
a
f-
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ft £ csscnaer.
!
? The who wandereth •
man out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead. 2
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Cane Association Now
Prepared For Canning
Officials announced Thursday that
the Cane Growers Co-operative Asso
ciation now has everything in readi
ness to begin the canning of its 1987
syrup.
Operating ,. a , large warehouse here,
the Association has provided modern
canning facilities, and a carload of
cans arrived Wednesday. Two new
cypress dump tanks have been built
o receive the syrup that is in process
of being canned and facilities for the
steaming of the barrels have been
P rovlde “- The canning equipment,
which has not been used for a num
ber of years, has been made ready.
Screens have been provided so that
the handling of the syrup Will be kept
most sanitary. The Association some
t ’ me a £° adopted a policy of can
nin S its s y ru P- whereas it has been
selIm 2 a11 of * in barrels -
Adequate financing for the can
ning operations will permit of the
handling of the entire 1937 deliver
ies "by its members, it is said.
Officials point out that cane grow
ers still have an opportunity to join
the Association and dispose of their
1937 crop of syrup through it. Liberal
advances are being made.
THANKSGIVING WILL
BE A HOLIDAY HERE
EMPHASIS PLACED UPON THE
SERVICE WEDNESDAY
EVENING.
j MESSENGER DAY EARLY
NEXT WEEK.
Because of the holiday next
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, The
Messenger will be printed on
Wednesday, one day earlier than
usual.
News correspondents are in
structed to send in their items a
day earlier than usual. Adver
tisers are also advised that ad
copy must be in not later than
noon Tuesday.
Next Thursday, November 25th,
which is Thanksgiving Day, will be
observed as a full and general holi
day here, following a custom of long
standing. The observance of the day
will be marked by a complete sus
pension of business and a football
game in the afternoon between the
Cairo and Douglas high elevens.
The regular thanksgiving union
church serivce, which has been ro
tated regularly among the churches
here for a number of years, will be
held this year on Wednesday evening
at the Presbyterian Church, with Rev.
Leland Moore, pastor of the Method
ist Church, delivering the sermon.
The service will begin at 7 o’clock and
a union choir will lead the music.
All the people of the community are
not only invited bat urged to join in
this community thanksgiving service.
__ previous
The service has been held
ly some time during Thanksgiving
Day, but it has been decided to have
it this year on the evening before be
cause of the difficulty of finding an
hour during the day that would suit
the greater number of people.
Students , Fnter ,
Cairo
WQR’q WOOS Radio IVtiui
t , nf from the Cairo
g Entered n
l the School of the Air
q e°
which was broadcast over
Q° n ? S e Tuesday
8 ,0n WSB " in Atlanta on
" afternoon. The contest is sponsored
by the Atlanta Journal.
Those who entered from the Cairo
schools Misses Jeannette L
were
ley Roberta Richter, Margaret Big
do n and Anne Eskew, all piano con
testants, and Master Peyton Richter
j entered in voice. stu
Those who accompanied the
1 Mrs. C. A Curry,
dents were locally,
IF" sp0nS0 red the contest Mrs.
A. Richter, Jr., and Mr. and
Ira Higdon.
Mrs. Graham --has Ward, Sr., has been
I spending a few days in Cuthbei wi
■ relatives this Week.
The Official Organ of Grady County
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH,
GRADY COUNTY FAIR
IS A HUGE SUCCESS
total attendance holds up
WELL DESPITE BAD
WEATHER.
The 11937 Grady County Fair, the
third annual exposition here spon
sored by the American Legion, closed
last Saturday night, November 13th,
' n a “blaze of glory.” The managers,
H. F. Bearden and Angus Edwards,
declared the attraction a huge suc
cess, despite the fact that cold and
rainy weather throughout almost half
of the week cut the attendance some
what below last year’s record high
total.
Mr Edwards re p 0r ted after
ing up thia week that the paid admis .
sions this year were only 36 below
lhe total of last year> but otherwise
the attendance was off a few thous
and, mainly because the bad weather
on Friday, sharply reduced the attend
ance of school children. There Were
between 2,000 and 2,500 school chil
dren in the parade and approximate
ly 3,500, including Negroes, used their
gate passes, but this total was some
what below that of last year. The
Midway school won the loving cup
|for the largest perce ntage of enrolled
students in the parade. There were
nearly 20,000 admisions to the Fair
during the week.
Altogether, the Fair attracted the
widest attention and the most com
pliments of any exposition ever held
here. Visitors came from far and
near to marvel at the attractiveness
;and the diversity of the products dis
j played. The Albany Herald thought
' the -Fair outstanding enough to send
a photographer here and then feature
it With a page of pictures and descrip
tive matter. Charlie Morgan, state
supervisor of game protectors,
arranged a most interesting wild life
1 exhibit in co-operation with the
jty protector, Norwood Cassels,
i dared here Friday that it was
| finest county fair he had ever
anywhere.
Following is the list of winners as
announced by Manager EdWards
Miss Cornelia Daniels (special
Ihibits not included):
School Community Exhibits:
vary, first; Reno, second;
Creek, third; and Elpino,
Honorable mention for Live
Midway, New Home, Pawnee,
Wayside and Whigham.
4-H Boys Corn Club: Braxton
ant, first; Lloyd Williams, second;
Ross Langley, third; Braxton
wick, fourth.
4-H Boys Peanut Club:
Harrison, 1st; G. W. Reagan, Jr., 2nd;
Braxton Barwick, 3rd; George
chen, 4th.
Livestock Division.
(Purebred Pigs: Ladd Maxwel, 1st;
Carol Ulmer, 2nd; Waldo White,
Leonard Maxwell, 4th.
Individual Fat Hogs: Ermon
ler, 1st; H. M. Butler, 2nd;
Butler, 3rd; Leon Bryant, 4th.
Best Pen 3 Fat Hogs: Ross
ley, 1st; Ross Langley, 2nd;
Brothers, 3rd.
Baby Beef: GWendell Connell, 1st,
Ladd Maxwell, 2nd; J. M. Sasser, 3rd.
Women’s Division.
Mrs. J. D. Belcher, 14 entries, Mary
Lou Harrell, Rubye Hall, 2 entries,
Mrs. Lottie Levie, 3 entries, Mrs. R.
P. Ulmer, 2 entries, Mrs. Helen Coats,
9 entries, Hilda Maxwell, 4
Ruth Belcher, 4 entries, Mrs. Charles
Mobley, 5 entries, Mrs. Alex
5 entries, Mrs. C. Ulmer, 2
Mrs. Paul Pelham, 2 entries,
j j Byron ; White, entries, 6 entries, Mrs. j. l. singie
c nne n, 4
tary, 8 entries, Mrs. Joe Pearce, 3 en
j trieS) Alice Wilcox, 3 entries, Irene
Williams, 2 entries, Amy Brown, Irene
Hurst, Mrs. C. E. Williams, 3 entries
Mrs. C. E. Lacy, Mrs. Bill Hester, 3
j entries, Mrs. J. F. McCord, Mrs. P.
!c. Barkley, Mrs. B. -F. Williams, rs.
jNoah Stanfill, 7 entries, Miss ra
Jones, Mrs. Roy Dun ap, r '
Vkk 2 entr ^^ } p [
|Mra. J. i- Mvs
W. i ^ e 0 ' ^ H Co llins
• »
(Lan j, Mary g1qv _
’
^ S Ho pkins and Mrs. p.
A. r ray.
^ ^ clubs
Sa ™ f 2 entries,
c* WVntfiMd, Ul
d Garland, 2 entries, Sara
3 entries Marguerite Cassels, 2 en
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(Continued on last page.)
THAMES TRANSFERS
TO VALDOSTA PLACE
A. C. L. AGENT HERE PROMOTED
TO SUCEED LATE H. W.
LAWSON.
J. C. Thames, general agent for
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad in
Cairo for more than fourteen years,
was on last Tuesday promoted and
transferred to the position of freight
agent for the railroad at Valdosta.
His wife and two children did not ac
company him to Valdosta Tuesday
but will go later.
i i n his new Valdosta position, Mr.
| ! Thames Jon wL succeeds Z the late H W Law
suddenly of a heart at
at his home in Valdosta early
1 Monday night, October 25th, last. Mr.
Lawson had serve d as agent in Cairo
18 years before he was promoted and
transferred to Valdosta just prior to
the time Mr. Thames came here.
Mr. Thames is a native of Enter
prise, Ala., and succeeded Mr. Law
son as agent in Cairo on August 1st,
1923, coming here from Luverne, Ala.,
where he held the same position. In
a short while he became quite active
in the civic, church and business life
of the community and he has been a
most valuable asset to this section
in various ways. For several years
he has been either chairman of the
board of stewards of the Cairo Meth
odist Church or the church treasurer,
both positions that require a large
amount of special work. He has also
served with much credit as president
of the Chamber of Commerce and as
a member of the City Council and
has been an active member of the
board of directors of the Chamber of
Commerce since this agency was es
tablished except for the time he serv
, ed as president. He has always giv
e n liberally of his time and energy in
every community movement for pro
gress and in this work he has made
many friends who deeply regret to
know that he has been called else
where.
Discussing his transfer with a rep
resentative of The Messenger before
his departure this week, Mr. Thames
sa id he was notified last Friday that
his transfer had been approved.
“You know I cannot hope to find
a better place than Cairo to live and
work,” he said. “Naturally, I regret
very much to leave Cairo, 'where I
feel that I have a number of real
friends. In accepting the Valdosta
position, I feel that I am bettering
myself, however, and this is the only
reason I have been able to make up
my mind to leave Cairo. I have en
joyed my work here very much, and
you might tell everyone that I deep
i y appreciate the kind expressions
about my leaving. I appreciate every
thing that the people have done to
make our stay in Cairo
a nd I also am deeply grateful for the
splendid patronage and co-operation
that has been extended the railroad
company by the shippers and busi
ness interests here. It has certainly
been a delight to have had a part,
small though it might have been, in
(Continued on last page.)
NEW HIGHWAY TO
BE ADDED: MILLER
Cairo-Meigs-Moultrie Route Soon To
Be Included In State Highway
System.
£) e leg a tions representing Colquitt
and Grady counties and the people of
| Meigs were to]d by Chairman W. L.
Miller, of the Highway Board, last
Friday, in Atlanta, that a route link
ing Cairo, Spence, Meigs and Moul
trie will he made a part of the state
highway system “at an early date.”
The route was conditionally designat
ed some time ag0 .
^ ngw ]ink Would intersect Route
9g about 4 miles nQrth of Cairo and
wou ld extend through Spence and
Meigs into Moultrie.
The local delegation was composed
of CoU nty Commissioner W. E. Warn
ble, Clerk and Attorney Arthur Bell
and Editor H. H. Wind. Messrs,
^Messrs. Wamble and Bell attended a
Co. Commissioners’ conference with
Cov. E. D. Rivers m addition to that
with Chairman Miller.
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LMiss Vera Driver spent the
end as the guest of relatives and
friends in Adel.
GRADY COUNTY
Is Georgia’s Banner County
the hub of its sugar cane, collard seed
and tung oil industries, the original
diversified farming section.
TEN PAGES
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION BIDS
SOUGHT FOR DECEMBER 1ST
County Officers Kept
Busy Last Week-End
County officers were kept busy du
rin # the week-end making arrests and
handling alleged law violators, Dep
uty Sheriff Johnny Williams report
e£ b
Sunny Dees, who gives several al
iases, was arrested and placed in jail
late Sunday afternoon. Deputy Wil
liams said Dees became disorderly on
the highway east of Cairo and that
when be sought to arrest him the man
pulled a pistol. Deputy Williams said
be was forced to shoot him in the
right leg in self-defense. A woman
companion escaped. In jail here, Dees
was said Thursday to be in rather se
™us condition. He first gave his
residence as Atlanta and then said
bis borne is i n Miami.
German Huntley, a Negro, was ar
rested Sunday night on a charge of
assault With intent to murder, as a
re salt a cutting affray on the Al
bert Williams farm near Cairo. The
condition of his victim, Haywood Hay
nes > another Negro, is said to be crit
ical.
Officers are still searching hard for
a hit-and-run driver who almost de
molished a wagon just out of the ea
tern city limits Saturday night. Two
Negro women were seriously hurt in
the crash.
Several others were arrested during
the week-end for drunkenness and
on minor charges.
MARKETS, BUSINESS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
HEAVY FROST THURSDAY NOT
DAMAGING TO CANE, BUT
CAUTION ADVISED.
A fairly accurate estimate has
been made of the loss to farmers of
the 1936 crop of sugar cane syrup
because of the cane not being made
into syrup quick enough after the
freeze in late November, 1936. This
estimate of loss for Grady county
alone is $6,000 and $25,000 over this
syrup belt.
This loss was brought about by dif
ferent grades, reductions on yield,
and sourness developing in the cane
after freezing, and a considerable
amount of worthless syrup made as
well as some cane being abandoned
as worthless, it is said.
The heavy frost of Thursday morn
ing of this Week has not damaged the
cane for quality syrup-making, in
vestigation shows, but the next cold
may be a severe freeze, and as one
experienced cane grower expressed
it, “Why work the whole year and
then let a freeze cut out your income
from syrup?” The thing to do after
the fifteenth of November, by which
time the syrup is usually sweet, is to
lay aside everything else and make
syrup early and late, six days in the
week, growers here said Thursday.
The damaged syrup from a freeze
is caused by the souring of the juice
When the cane thaws out after the
freeze, and this does not occur until
several days after freezing, but each
farmer is advised to get his syrup
making so well in hand until there
will be no chance of loss. The sugar
cane stalk sours gradually and a
rough description of this damage is
that the first syrup is slightly frost
ed, then badly frosted, and next it is
flat in flavor and lacks sweetness,
and then it becomes slightly soured
and shortly thereafter very sour and
really worthless as a food.
Buyers here Thursday expressed
hope that every farmer with syrup to
make will now do a good job by mak
ing his crop fast and making a good
grade which brings the most money.
Pre-Christmas Sale Opens
At Warshaw’s Today.
WarshaW’s in Cairo opens a big
Pre-Christmas Sale this morning,
;day November 19th, and a large ad
,
j vertisement on page seven of The
Messenger lists a number of bargains
that are being offered.
Henry Fox, manager, and Miss Hil
da Gainous, assistant manager, state
th at J 13 the most ° U ^!
Warshaw’s m Cairo has ever had and
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NUMBER 45
GRADY'S PROJECT IS
SHOWING PROGRESS
RIGHT-OF-WAY EASEMENTS IN
INITIAL PROGRAM ARE
COMING IN.
The Grady County Electric Mem
bership Corporation, the agency that
is sponsoring the proposed rural
electrification development in this
section, this week released advertise
ments for construction bids on the
first part of the transmission lines to
be received locally on Wednesday,
December 1st. According to the ad
vertisement, published among the le
gal ads in The Messenger this Week,
bids must be filed with the Corpora
tion by 10 a. m., central standard
time, December 1st, at the Courthouse
in Cairo.
The bids will be on the construc
tion of approximately 75 miles of
transmission lines to serve approxi
mately 225 customers, and the REA
in Washington has already made
available a partial allotment of $75,
000 for this work. Then entire project
calls for 187 miles of lines to serve
597 customers and the REA in Wash
ington estimated some time ago that
the entire project will cost $171,000.
Money to finance the development is
being loaned the local Corporation by
the REA in Washington. The initial
allotment of funds was approved last
August 6th, after a determined effort
to obtain approval by local civic agen
cies" and county leaders.
Advertisements also call for sep
arate bids to be received here Decem
ber 1st on a contract to furnish all
of the watt-hour meters listed and
described in the “Proposal for Fur
nishing Wattfcour M n .ters v ’ required
for the construction of the distribu
tion system of the local project.
N. W. Stanfill, who was confirmed
last Week as project superintendent,
is opening temporary offices in the
grand jury room at the Courthouse
and he and the Corporation’s attorney,
S. P. Cain, are now busily engaged in
furthering the plans for the devel
opment. Meanwhile, the engineer, E.
P. McLean, in Moultrie, is supplying
prospective bidders with plans and
specifications for the project covered
in the first construction bids. J. H.
Collins (Cairo) is president of the
Corporation.
'Mr. Stanfill’s main task just now
is to procure right-of-way easements
to permit the construction of the lines.
Deeds are not required and the ease
ments only call for access to rights
of-way twenty feet in Width. Mr.
Stanfill has plenty of easement blanks
and will appreciate the full co-opera
tion of everyone whose property is in
volved toward a prompt sign-up of all
of the easements needed for the first
part of the development. Care is urg
ed in supplying the necessary inform
ation as to land titles, etc., so that
the necessary right-o-way easements
can all be executed in ample time not
to cause delay in construction.
The first two lines to be built Will
be to the west and southwest of Cairo
and to the northeast of Cairo. The
west-southwest line will extend thru
the Farm Security Administration de
velopment, Wolf Creek -Farms, and
then southward to the Calvary sec
tion, with connecting links. The north
east line will extend toward Spence
and will include two customers in
Mitchell county. Lines to be built lat
er will extend to the southeast and
to the northwest, with a few custom
ers in Decatur county.
Rev. W. S. Smith Goes
To Baptists’ Meeting
Rev. Wilburn S. Smith, pastor of
the Cairo Baptist Church, has been
representing his church at the annual
meeting of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention which has been in session in
Macon this'~week.
Dr _ Aqui n a Chamlee was elected ________
president 0 f the convention for anoth
er ^ erm one y ear .
Mrs. Harry Threlkeld, of Albany,
came Monday to visit her sister, Mrs,
Ira Carlisle for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs T. J. Arline, Jr., of
Lumpkin, spent the week-end here
with homefolks.