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Established January 15th, 1904.
Entered as second-class matter Jan
uary 14, 1904, at the Post Office at
Cairo, Ga., under the Act of March
3rd, 1879.
F. J. WIND, Editor from May 1st,
1904 to September, 1922.
H. H. WIND, Editor and Manager.
L. A. POWELL, Associate Editor.
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KEEP YOUR CREDIT
GOOD.
The second of a series of 12 page
ad trade messages sponsored by local
business concerns appears on page
eight of The Messenger this week and
is devoted to an interesting reminder
to everyone to “Keep Your CREDIT
GOOD .... Because It’s An Inval
uable Asset.”
There are instances, of course,
where credit is deliberately and in
tentionally abused, but credit abuse is
usually due to carelessness on the
part of the person to 'whom credit
has been extended. When the more
careless persons are brought facei to
face with the importance of maintain
ing good credit most of them will be
more careful.
Credit is about the most wonderful
thing in business life. Credit is involv
ed, in one way or another, in the vast
majority of business transactions.
But when credit is abused or not prop
erly preserved, the result is a ten
dency toward stagnation that saps
business life.
The person who abuses or fails to
properly preserve his credit standing
suffers directly to a greater extent
than he often thinks, and the business
life of his community suffers pro
portionately, as well.
This month’s trade message is es
pecially timely and interesting and
doubtless will be read closely.
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Easter Sunday comes on April 9th
this year—and that isn’t far ahead.
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The bill which seeks to impose east
ern time on the entire state, which hat,
passed the House of Representatives,
was reported out favorably last Mon
day by the Senate committee to which
it was referred. The Senate committee
is composed of twelve members, and,
according to press dispatches, only
six were present when the bill was
considered. Two of the six did not
vote and three voted for a favorable
report, with one opposed. One of
those voting for a favorable report
said that he opposed the bill. It is
just such procedure as this that un
dermines public confidence in the Leg
islature—and this is not the only in
stance of the kind. If this time mea
sure is finally enacted into laW, in
defiance of Federal authority over
establishment of time zones, endless
confusion will result, just as it did
when a similar measure was enacted
some years ago, until a repeal meas
ure can be enacted. We wonder some
times that we fare as well as we do
as to legislative measures when at
tending circumstances are considered.
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BIBLE VERSE
“Love your enemies, . . . and pray
for them that despitefully use you,
and persecute you.” Matt. 5:44. (Read
Matt. 6:14-15).
GAS TAX DIVERSION
INIQUITOUS.
If the Georgia Legislature noW
session resorts to additional diversion
of the state gas tax funds from high
way channels to aid in meeting the
pressing need for additional finances
for general government purposes it
will have failed in its high duty about
as completely as if it should fail to
provide needed finances altogether.
Gas tax diversion is iniquitous and ad
ditional diversion should not be tole
rated even under the guise of emerg
ency.
The exhorbitant sales tax now lev
ied on gasoline is borne only because
motorists who pay it feel that they
are getting some direct benefit there
from in improved highways. The sales
tax on gasoline is a special additional
tax specifically for construction of
improved highways. Taxing for roads
and then spending the money for
something else, is taxation ‘with the
grossest sort of misrepresentation.
It is quite interesting to note that
almost without exception the mem
bers of the House of Representatives
who took a lead in inducing the House
to restore the gas tax diversion bill
to a place on the calendar for re-con
after once disapproving it,
legislators from centers that al
ready have improved highways radi
from them in all directions.
Grady county and the vast major
of the other counties of the state
been having to eat at the second
as to highway modernization
all these years. It requires only
glance at the state highway map for
to ascertain that, aside from the
cities, eight or ten of the
smaller centers have been favored far
of just proportion as to improved
The present era of Geor
gia’s highway affairs is making pos
sible the righting of some of the
wrongs of the past—and the vast ma
jority of the counties are just now
getting ready to eat at the first table
along with the favored few.
These selfish legislators from the
counties that have had all of their
roads improved for years now seek to
shut off the other counties from their
just desserts by so crippling the High
way Department, financially, as to
make the progress of the hignway im
provement program throughout the
state impossible.
Georgia has just during the past
two or three years been permitted to
“come into her o'wn” as to highway
modernization. The Highway Depart
ment and its finances should by all
means be let alone until the highway
system has some appearance of being
near completion.
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The public library established here
some weeks ago appears to have very
bright promise of fulfilling a long
existing need. If you have a good
book that you no longer need, you can
by giving it to the library permit it
to serve countless others.
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The Cairo cemetery is at last under
going a worth-while beautification
program which has been under discus
sion for years. Why not include in
the program an opening for the sou
thern part into what is soon to become
a very important highway street?
-oOo
Judging from the numerous im
pressive tributes to Avery Powell,
late lamented paragrapher of the Flor
ida (Jacksonville) Times-Union, as
re-printed in The Times-Union, Mr.
Powell Was the most widely-appreciat
ed newspaperman in all of -Florida.
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The mass of warm air that engulfed
the southeastern area of 1 the nation for
several weeks was finally penetrated
when last week’s belated cold wave
came—-and the result was one of the
most protracted periods of unsettled
weather that this section has seen in
months. Tornadic winds inflicted some
scattered damage hut the attending
rainfall served to overcome somewhat
the deficiency of precipitation that
has existed for some time.
STRAWBERRY, LEMON and CHOC
OLATE SODAS and Root Beers AS
Lt)NG AS YOUR ARM, only a nickle,
at our fount. GRADY PHARMACY".
THE CAIRO MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 3RD, 1939.
WANT ADS
IMPORTANT—Want Ads are accepted for 10
cents per line for first insertion and 5 cents
a line for every insertion after the first, lines
averaging six words. There is a minimum
charge of 30 cents, and charges for all Want
Ads are payable strictly in advance except
where a person has a regular account.
MULE FOR SALE CHEAP! See Ash
ton Richter at Richter Bros. lt.2p
RAWLEIGH ROUTE available at
once. Good opportunity for man over
25 with car. Sales way up this year,
Write at once, Rawleigh’s Dept. GAC-
48-105, Memphis Tenn. 3-3-lt-p
COTTON SEED FOR SALE.—An as
sortment of government inspected
cotton seed 'will be on display at ROS
SER’S BARN near County Jail in
Cairo tomorrow, Saturday, March 3rd.
Get your planting seed there. 3-3-lt.
MULE FOR SALE CHEAP! See Ash
ton Richter at Richter Bros. lt.2p
LOST.—In Dollar or Peeble’s Still set
tlement, white and liver spotted
pointer bitch; crippled in right back
foot. Reward. See Clower Broome or
William Oliver. 3-3-lt.
RELIABLE LADY can make, excel
lent connection handling Watkins
p ro ducts in Cairo. Watkins lady deal-
1 ers average $15 to $20 a week. Steady
work Write J. R. Watkins Company,
70 w j oVa Ave-> Memphis, Tenn. It.
SAVE MONEY!—Here’s how to make
a pint of extra good CAMPHOR for
only 49c: bring this formula to us and
get two cakes of camphor gum and
one pint of Alkolave. GRADY PHAR
MACY. 3-3-4t.
WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS from
flocks that have been blood tested
and proved to be heavy producers of
large white eggs. These chicks are
not surpassed and are priced at only
$8.95 per 100 AAA grade. $7.95 AA
grade. Why pay more. Order now and
be assured of making your poultry
program profitable. Thrift Hatcher
ies, Albany, Georgia. 2-10-6t.
Roup and Colds in Chiokens stop Egg
production. W & W Ro-Co and
Poultry Spray quickly stop these dis
eases. Sold by Mixon’s Grocery.
11-4-tf.
FOR SALE.—See US for QUALITY
BABY CHICKS. Mixon’s Grocery,
Cairo. tf.
WANTED.—2 to 5 thousand stalks
C. P.-29-116 and C. 0.-290 seed
cane. Telfair County Chamber of
Commerce, McRae, Ga. 2-24-2tp
AUTO, FURNITURE and 1 i
CO-MAKER LOANS
UP to $300.00
MONTHLY REPAYMENTS
Consolidated Loan & Investment Co.
Brighton Bldg. Thomasville, Ga.
BICYCLES FOR SALE__Your credit
is good. Men’s re-built bikes, $12.50;
new bikes, $22.50 and up. Trade the
old bike on a new one. Largest bi
cycle dealer in Southwest Georgia.
HART’S BICYCLE SHOP, Bain
bridge, Ga. 2-24-4t-pd.
W. M. SEARCY, Dentist, Phone 51
Powell Building
H. L. CHENEY, Dentist, Phone 1
Roddenbery Building
BOTH OUT OF OFFICE ALL DAY
THURSDAYS.
W & W Min-Ton, the magic Poultry
Tonic hastens the Moult and keeps
HENS laying. Ask Mixon’s Grocery,
Cairo, how to feed in the mash. 11-4-tf.
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* COMMENTS. •
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Our Best Bow, T.-U.!
;.pi or i ( ja (Jacksonville) Times-Union:
The Times-Union paragrapher re
cently remarked that: “Georgia could
run Florida a close second in the mat
ter of odd names. For instance, Tired
Creek, near Cairo.”
We are indebted to the Cairo Mes
senger for further enlightenment on
this geographical designation, as note:
“Tired Creek (the State Highway De
parment of* Georgia seems to persist
in showing it erroneously as ‘Tide
Creek’ on its maps and signs) gets in
the limelight more frequently than one
might expect, ordinarily. Just how
The Times-Union paragrapher came
upon the name of the Grady county
stream might prove interesting. Le
gend has it that in the earliest days of
development in this section a group
of settlers from the North Carolina
section came this way, and becoming
tired of their travels about the time
they came upon this stream as a wat
ering place, stopped to rest. Some of
them remained to establish their
homes, after discovering more fully
the many latent resource here and
the creek came to be known as
Creek. Not so odd, after all, and the
above may have more basis in 'act
than, in legend, for that matter. Any
way, it’s Tired Creek and not Tide
Creek.
(Editor’s Note: Our recollection of
the matter is, that the paragrapher
noted the name in that interesting
Cairo newspaper—The Messenger).
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* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO *
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MARCH 5TH, 1909.
An aged and respected Cairo Negro,
Lewis Wright, “was killed when a
horse Became frightened at an auto
mobile hiorn on North Broad Street in
Cairo and “ran away.” The horse
was driven by Mrs. J. Q. Bryan and
the buggy was occupied by Mrs. Bry
an, her daughter, Mrs. K. M. Miller,
and a child, when the tragic “run
away” occurred.
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Judge Frank Park, of Sylvester, op
ened his first term of Grady Superior
Court, with comparatively heavy dock
ets of civil and criminal cases.
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Cairo kiddies ‘were all agog because
the real, live Buster Brown, and his
dog, Tige, were scheduled for a visit
to J. L. Oliver’s Son. A big reception
was planned for them.
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* CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO *
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MARCH 7TH, 1924.
Judge R. C. Bell, of Cairo, a jurist
on the State Court of Appeals, was
widely boomed for Governor of Geor
gia.
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William M. Gray, a Confederate vet
eran, who was killed when run-over by
an A. C. L. passenger train locomotive
near Pine Park. He was walking along
the tracks and fell into a cattle
it was' stated.
The first meeting on a petition be
fore the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to permit the junking of the
Pelham & Havana railroad, linking
Cairo and Havana, Was set for Thom
asville on April 15th.
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Two passengers in a motor car were
not so much as slightly hurt when the
car was struck by an A. C. L. freight
train locomotive at a street crossing
in Cairo.
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FOR SALE.—Used electric refriger
ators, $25; 60-day trade-in allow
ance on new refrigerator. Wight
Hardware Company. 2-24-3t.
W & W Poultry and Hog medicines
made by WALTER WIGHT are
sold and guaranteed by Mixon’s Gro
eery.
FOR SALE.—10,000 stalks POJ
cane. J. O. Williams, Whigham, Ga.
2-17-3t.
FOR SALE.—Heavy manila pamph
let open end envelopes, all sizes.
Messenger office. tf.
*• I. RUSSELL GRINER *
* Income, Estate and Processing *
* Tax Consultant *
* Thomasville, Georgia *
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NEW MATTRESSES!
Priced to suit everyone.
Old Ones Renovated.
Inner-spring Mattresses
Made To Order
Cairo Mattress Co.
125 2nd Ave., N. E.
Come To RUSHIN’S For
Mens Suits
New Spring and M
Summer Materials -..
Tropical and All=
Wool Worsteds, m
Gabardines, Etc.
$13-95
To £
$24*95
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See These Big Val=
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Del Monte Salmon
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PRUNES 3 it* 13c
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WAFERS 2 Bulk Lbs 25c 5'
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