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The Official Organ of Grady County
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VOLUME xxxv.
EnTY’S SCHOOLS MAY YET
be ABLE TO FINISH TERM
c/a
J S
OOLS’ MONEY OUTLOOK MAY
BE a little BRIGHTER,
IT IS SAID.
financial outlook of the schools
e brighter Thursday al
( ared a bit
■h there ’was no official action,
1! he threat of a shut
to change *
iiy, 'March thereafter,
tt 1st, or soon
| has been unofficially reported.
e improved outlook was brought
t largely by action of Rep. R. A.
of this county, and others, who
overwhelming approval of the
i Tuesday for
of Representatives that
Solution definitely pledging adjournment
J to provide before
ly [hs for financing planned. of the The Senate seven
Led term as
to adopt a similar resolution,
(expressed regret that the teach- the
pnay go unpaid. However,
be pledge is regarded as highly im
ant since all revenue measures
originate there.
Beil also introduced Tuesday
|ll to authorize an increase in the
e’s stabilization fund from 10 to
ler cent. This measure, if adopted,
Id broaden the power of the Gov
ir to provide immediate relief to
it:
■lave received great number letters
■ng me to assist in relieving school.
Incial situation. Impossib 1 ® to ans
I all and will appreciate your giv
I this telegram space in this week’s
ler in order that it may serve as a
ly to the many good folks that have
■ten me. I am doing my utmost to
I keep the schools open. On yester
|, [ch I would introduced relieve House situation Bill No. tempo- 528
lly. I was co-author this morning
resolution to pledge membership of
pe to principle of adequate funds
schools before adjournment. I will
tinue my efforts for our schools
| school children.”
“R. A. BELL.”
[n the absence of official action, an
mediate shut-down of' the G'rady
inty schools did not appear immi
it Thursday.
DIES TUESDAY
1 • ^°hn William Harrington, 81,
este «med citizen, died of a heart
30 * at *-he home of his son, Guss
Manington. in the northwestern
4 of Gra dy county, at 11:50 p. m.
^sday He had been ill only a
bours but was in declining health
SOme months prior to the fatal
c ' 5,
Ir ' Gan i n gt°n was born Jan. 24th,
in Thomas county, and had been
auhful member of the Missionary
Tist Church .since early in life. A
n of nugged honesty and unim
chable character, he was Widely
mied. His devotion to his family
l ‘ n< ^ s a l?e commended itself to
knew him.
is wife, Mrs. Virginia Holland
n™ gton ’ died Oct. 2nd, 1928, but
e late survivors include
L 8 u one
L er and sons, as follows:
.'. W r - Cameron, Valdosta; J. W.
lmgton > Jr -. Perry, Fla., Otis Har
^ K on on, - Gi-aceviUe, St. Marks, Fla., Noah Har
ington, Fla., Roy and Gib
ai, Memphis, Tenn. and
We y M., md Guss L. Harrington,
s county
M Mames R. s. Jones,
Guy Nichol
H S'" lnd h *'°l 5es > L- H. Barnes and
Tr s P« nt Thursday in Valdos
L g n represerit6d the Cairo Wo
,
L j. ,[ u " at the annual mid-winter
"l tUL c arr anged by the Univer
; y of Ceorgia.
®ije Cairo Messenger
** the man who wanderet)
out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
TEN PAGES
508 Baby Chicks Are
Burned In Local Fire
Five hundred and eight baby chicks
were burned to death in a brooder fire
at the Bell House last Monday night.
Firemen were called at 11:50 p. m. and
protected adjoining property, Thte
chicks were the property of Mrs.
Clara Hayes, who operates the Bell
House, and her loss was uninsured.
Firemen were also called to the E.
Woody residence, in the southeastern
part of the city, at 3 o’clock last Sat
urday afternoon, to extingush a small
roof blaze. The damage was negli
gible.
BUSINESS, MARKETS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
LEVY’S, POWELL’S PHARMACY TO
OPEN FOR BUSINESS HERE
THIS MORNING.
Two new Cairo retail concerns for
mally open for business this, Friday
morning, according to advertising
messages in this issue of The Messen
ger.
Levy’s, owned and operated by Jake
Levy, a popular former resident of
Cairo, opens at 109 North Broad St.,
next door to the A. & P. store. With
new and complete lines of men’s and
ladies' ready-to-wear, this new firm
invites a visit by the people of this
territory and promises a more detailed
announcement later. The opening an
nouncement appears on page four.
Just one door to north of Levy’s at
No. Ill, PoVell’s Pharmacy will open
for business in the former location of
Ebe Drug & Seed Co. This business is
owned and operated by Lawrence V.
Powell, of Havana, a native of Cairo,
with Walter L. Wight, a well-known
Cairo druggist and licensed pharma
cist, as resident manager. He will have
associated with him here Ralph Sap
pington, an experienced drug store
man.
Powell’s Pharmacy 'will have a
brand-new soda fountain and will of
fer complete fountain .service, in addi
tion to a fresh and complete line of
drugs, patent medicines, toilet articles,
school supplies, tobaccos, kodaks and
films, and rubber goods. Colonial
Dairies ice cream will be featured. The
phone is 44. The people of this terri
tory are invited to visit this store,
with its new and attractive interior
finishing. The ad is on page six.
New Crine Plant Here Is
i Completed.
The new and modern food process
ing plant for the Concord Corporation,
here, was completed this Week, and
installation of the equipment is now
underway. A formal opening is plan
ned a little later.
The plant, 168x200 feet, is of steel
and concrete construction and it situ
ated on First Ave., S. W., west of the
city light and water plant, with A. C.
L. railroad frontage. The building has
three floor levels. Construction has
been under the personal direction of
R. V. Crine, with W. M. Tyson Lum
ber Co., Inc., as the contractor.
Prices Being Paid For
Produce Here.
Following are the prices being paid
here Thursday for various items of
produce—the prices being given as
information, subject to quick change
and not guaranteed:
Eggs, yard run, doz 12c
No. 1, infert. white, doz. . . 15c
iFryers colored, lb....... . 14c
Hens, colored, lb.........12c
Cotton, middling, lb 8Mc
Cotton Seed, ton, . . $20
Peanuts, Span. No. I, ton . . $65
Peanuts, Runners, No. 1. ton $57
Avery Demonstration At
I Wight Hardware Co.
Wight Hardware Co., the local Avery
farm implement agency, announces a
big two-day Avery demonstration for
today and tomorrow, Friday and Sat
urday, in charge of two factory rep
resentatives.
An ad on page ten invites all of the
farmers of this territory, and mem-.
bers of their families to attend the:
demonstration Those present will be
, , ft that wi n be given
away Saturday at 4 p. m.
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24TI1, 1939.
CONTRACTS ARE LET
ON REA EXTENSIONS
TAMPA CONCERN IS AWARDED
LINE CONTRACT FRIDAY
NIGHT.
Bigby Electric Co., of Tampa, Fla., 1
was awarded the contract for 117!
miles of extensions to the rural elec-!
trification system in this section last
Friday night by officials of the Grady
County Electric Membership Corpo
ration, here. The approved bid was
for aluminum conductors and self
protected transformers and was for
construction of the lines at a cost of
$69,311.01. The new extensions 'will
serve about 353 additional customers,
General Electric Supply Corpora
tion, of Atlanta, was given the meter
contract on the new project on a bid
$3,417.75.
Both contracts are subject to ap
proval of REA officials at Washing
ton, but approval there shortly is an
ticipated.
Th? new line extensions are mostly
in Thomas county with the exception'
of a few miles in Colquitt
The Tampa concern was not the
bidder, but two concerns submitting
bids slightly under the approved bid
did not comply satisfactorily with re
quirements of the co-op as to equip
ment on hand and REA work done
previously, officials explained. The
bidders gathered here Friday morn
ing and remained until the contracts
were finally awarded early -Friday
night. The contracts were awarded o.n
an allotment of $100,000 made by the
local co-op by the REA at Washington
several weeks ago.
Gibson & Robinson, a Dtonalson
ville, Ga., concern began Work early in
January on the construction of 116
miles of new lines in various parts of
Grady and in Decatur and Mitchell
counties to serve approximately
856 twiditionSil customers and this
work is proceeding rather slowly be
cause of a number of delays made nec
essary mostly by failure to obtain
right-of-way easements and failure of
pirospective users to co-operate fully
in properly executing membership
agreements and having their houses
wired, officials of the co-op say.
The Gibson & Robinson contract may
be curtailed by failure to obtain right
of-w.ay easements and the required
number of customers per mile in some
areas. However, a 35-mile extension
is being planned in the southeastern
part of Grady county, and other tap
lines may be built, as additions to the
Donalsonville concern’s contract, to
make up for the losses.
The entire local system as is now
planned calls for about 320.6 miles to
serve appi’oximately 1,174 users, with
still other extensions in the southern
party of Decatur county under con
sideration.
(All Who wish to get service from the
system as now planned are advised to
make the necessary arrangements as
soon as possible, as the line contract
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Lake Iamonia Mystery Sink Hole
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Cairo, Ga. (Spl. C-FI Picture to Cairo
Messenger, Photo by P. H. Blackman),
-Above is shown a “sink hole" thru
which practically all of the waters of
Lake Iamonia, at the Georgia-Florida
line, near here, ran out recently into
a subterranean passage to no one
knows where. The lake is normally
thirteen miles long and about a mile
The above picture and news
as shown, are being published in
eral hundred newspapers throughout
the country this week through the
SCHOOLS’ TRUSTEES
TO BE NAMED TODAY
ELECTIONS. CALLED IN ALL 14
DISTRICTS; OPPOSITION
IN ONLY 3.
The annual school district trus
tee elections will be held in all
fourteen school districts of Grady
county today, Friday, Feb. 24th,
but spirited voting will likely de
velop in only the three districts
where opposition developed to en
tries, the names of whom were
submitted to County School Supt.
Water R. Eskew prior to the en
try limit, which was noon last
Saturday, Feb. 18th.
The opposition developed in the
Live Oak, Union and Wayside
districts. In Live Oak, one trus
tee is to be elected from the two
entries, H. J. Horton and Tom
Oates. A lively election is in pros
pect in the Union district, where
S. H. Sutton and E. A. (Buster)
Singletary, incumbents, are oppos
ed by J. P. Faulkner and L. H.
Peacock, farmer trustee. Mr. Pea
cock was recently removed from
office and replaced by Mr. Single
tary, because, it was alleged, he
refused to perform an official act
that was imposed upon him by
law. In the Wayside district, H.
L. Davis is opposed by J. E. Hall.
The polls will be open between the
hours of 10 a. m. and 12, noon, ex
cept in the Cairo district, where the
polls will be open from 9 a. m. to 1
p. m. In most of the districts, the
voting will be at the school house, but
at Cairo the voting trill be at the cus
tomary place in the Courthouse. Only
registered, qualified voters will be en
titled to vote and those qualified will
be determined by the committee in
charge of the election in each district.
Supt. Eskew will be in general
charge of* the elections and will fur
nish printed ballots for the election in
each district.
Below is the status of the trustee
situation in each of the fourteen dis
tricts, as reported by Supt. Eskew:
CAIRO: H. T. LeGette and J. B.
Roddenbevy to bo re-elected without op
| position. Other trustees, Dr. J. V.
j Rogers, chairman, Dr. A. W. Rehberg
and J. Slater Wight.
CALVARY: E. P. Jones to be re
elected without opposition. Other
trustees, J. T. Stephens and E. T. Wil
liams.
CENTRAL: L. P. Johnson to be
elected without opposition to succeed
T. E. Miller, "who Ls not offering for
re-election. Other trustees, Eugene
Moore and D. E. Vickers.
ELPINO: Anderson Hester to be
elected and J. J. Dollar and C. W.
Prince to be re-elected without oppo
sition. Other trustees, R. M. Brinson
and Spence Shiver.
LIVE OAK: One to be elected from
among H. J. Horton and Tom Oates
to succeed Gordon Horton, who is not
offering for re-election. Other trus
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wide in most places. It disappears
through the “sink hole” every five to
*» by overflow »«*“ and waters rf Us from month, che afterward Ochlock
nee river. Only a feW days are re
quired for it to do its disappearing
act. The disappearance phenomenon
is one of nature’s greatest mysteries,
unexplained by geologists, to be found
anywhere in this section.
of Co-Operative Features, Inc.,
Chicago, which supplies The Messen
ger with timely news-pictures each
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THE MESSENGER
Prints All The News It Can Get
that is of interest to the people of
Grady county, and choice bits of news
are often found in the advertisements.
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CLEARING CREW IS AT WORK
ON CAIRO-BEACHTON ROUTE
25-DEGREE LOW
Second Most Severe Weather Of This
Winter Recorded Thursday.
Thermometers took an unexpectedly
big dip in this section Wednesday and
the local voluntary weather observer
recorded an official 25-degree mini
mum Thursday morning. Steady cold
was felt thruout the day Wednesday
and again Thursday.
The cold weather followed three
weeks of balmy weather and scatter
ed damage was done to shrubs and
vegetable crops. The low of the cur
rent winter was 22 degrees, and cold
weather this Week was the second most
severe of the winter. The winter, how
ever, has been comparatively mild.
LEGISLATURE PASSES
3RD LOCAL MEASURE
CO. COMMISSIONER, TREASURER
BILLS DUE TO BE SIGNED
THfS WEEK-END.
Rep. R. A. Bell, of this county, ad
vised The Messenger from Atlanta
this week that his County Commis
sioner and County Treasury local bills
passed the State Senate Tuesday, af
ter previous approval in the House,
and that they would likely be signed
by Governor E?. D. Rivers this week
end.
One re-creates the Board of County
Commissioners of Grady county with
five instead of three members and re
stores to office T. W. Aldredge and
G. W. Connell, former Commissioners.
The other authorizes the County Com?
missioners to make the clerk of the
board ex-offcio County Treasurer. The
local hanks now rotate in handling the
treasury work.
The complete text of the measures
will be published in The Messenger
next week.
Drive February 22-25
for Books for Library
The committee in charge of the
Cairo Library, which serves all of
Grady county, last week announced a
drive to obtain books for the library
which began Wednesday, Feb. 22nd,
and will continue through Saturday,
Feb. 25th. The library was opened at
the City Hall several weeks ago thru
the co-operation of the WPA, the City
of Cairo, the Cairo Woman's Club,
the Georgia Library Commission, the
Chamber of Commerce and other local
organizations. Miss Wessie Connell is
librarian.
Everyone is urged to investigate im
mediately to determine if they have
uitable books, in good condition, Which
they might donate to the library.
Anyone having such books is urged to
advise Mrs. H. T. LeGette at once so
that the books can be collected.
KIWANIANS HAVE MUSICAL
PROGRAM TUESDAY.
A musical program under the direc
tion of Mrs. Temperance Lear, direct
or of music in the Cairo Schools, fea
tured the interesting and delightful
weekly luncheon meeting of the Cairo
Kiwanis Club last Tuesday at noon.
The meeting was at the Legion Homo
and a delicous luncheon Was served
the large group of members and their
guests by the American Legion Aux
iliary.
Mrs. Lear gave an inspiring talk on
music and how it can be utilized for
the pleasure of a community, Two
enjoyable numbers were given by the
Cairo Woman’s Club Chorus and
Misses Evelyn Pope, Anne Eskew and
Clifton Wight delighted the group
with piano selections.
Harris Jefferson, vice-president, of
ficiated, in the absence of President
John Wight.
GOLF TOURNAMENT STARTS
THIS MORNING.
Golf enthusiasts of this territory,
and sportsmen in general, will gather
at Thomasville this week-end, begin
ning today, Friday, for the annual
Thomasville Open golf tournament at
the G'len Arven Club which will attract
a number of the nation’s leading stars.
The competition will end Sunday.
NUMBER 7.
GRADY CO. HIGHWAY
WORK PROGRESSING
FOURTEEN YEARS OF EFFORTS
FINALLY REWARDED THIS
WEEK HERE.
Fourteen years of civic effort here
brought tangiible evidence of eventual
reward and success Wednesday morn
ing when a “clearing and grubbing”
crew from the state highway camp
near here began clearing the right
of-way of the Cairo-Beachton link of
Route 93.
The long-awaited beginning of the
modernization of this road, since 1925
one of the county’s major civic ob
jectives, became a reality without cere
mony; with pjeople, generally, una
ware of the start. Now' that actual
work has at last been started, how
ever, steady progress is anticipated.
The fact that all of Route 93, linking
Pelham, Cairo and Beachton, was re
cently added to the Federal-aid sys
tem lends much strength to the belief
that the modernization work will not
be seriously interrupted until the
Cairo-Beachton portion is graded and
hard-surfaced, with a magnificent
bridge spanning the Ochlocknee river.
Warden R. L. Killian, of the state
highway camp, started his right-of
way clearing creW to work early Wed
nesdy morning in the creek swamp
nearly a mile southeast of the city
limits. Complete plans for the entire
route were received early thi" week
from the State Highway Department.
The local Chamber of Commerce, co
operating with city and county offic
ials on all highway projects, only last
week requested the Highway Depart
ment to hasten the completion of the
plans and the request Was promptly
complied with.
Chairman Walter Davis, of .the Go.
Commisioners, has labored for weeks
to procure all of the right-of-way
deeds and his efforts have met with
such success that only two or three
tracts now face condemnation proceed
ings.
Meanwhile, steady progress is re
ported on other projects of the coun
ty's state highway modernization pro
gram. The A. C. L. overhead bridge
in Cairo has been finished during the
past week by the J. G. Atta'way Con
struction Co., of Statesboro, and a
sub-contractor is expected to begin
work in a few days on building the
approaches. The sub-contract work
will extend about 1,300 feet in each
direction from the bridge, and the re
mainder of the new north-and-south
street to serve the overpass will be
opened and graded a little later by
state highway camp labor, it' is under
stood. It will be necessary for the
fills and graded street to settle before
hard-surfacing can be laid.
Local leaders ‘were advised a few
weeks ago that the 5-mile unpaved
link on the Cairo-Pelham part of Route
,
93, on which the local pebble soil base
has already been laid, will be covered
in a paving contract either in March or
April and nothing to the contrary re
garding this early letting has been
learned.
The grading on Route 111, linking
Cairo, Reno, Calvary and Route 1 at
the Georgia-Florida line, north of Ha
vana, continues to progress rather
steadily, although long detours are
still necessary because plans for the
Big Tired Creek bridges are still held
up and work on the bridges cannot be
carried forward until the plans are
sent here. But for the bridges, much
of the road already graded could be
used by travellers to and from the
Calvary area, and long detours would
not be necessary.
An additional drag line is expected
here shortly to grade that portion of
Route 111 within the southwestern
city limits. It will then be shifted to
the grading job near Reno. The clear
ing and grubbing and the culvert
“work on Route 111 was finished a few
weeks ago.
Bryant Co., of Pine Park, is proceed
ing steadily with the grading and
surface treatment rural post road pro
ject on the Hadley -Ferry road south
ward from Cairo about 8% miles. In
formation was received here this
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