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4 YEAR IN ADVANCE.
OJME XXXV.
SSION OF SUPERIOR COURT
% 5 RECESSED UNTIL TUESDAY
GOLAR MARCH, ’39
riM I TO RE CONVENE
it SECTION IN THREE-DAY
E «siON AND RECESSES
THURSDAY.
regular March, 1939, Term of
► Superior Court, which conven
jre last Monday morning with
1 B. C. Gardner, of Camilla, pre
and with Solicitor-General
, of Camilla,
fc, Crow, also prosecutions repre
the state in the
e g rand jury’s criminal invest
s. iate Thursday was ordererd
ed \ until next Tuesday morning,
14th, at 8:30 o’clock,
brief recess Was necessary be
Judge Gardner has a State Su
| Court assignment in Atlanta to
i’riday. All jurors serving this
and not excused, and all other
ised witnesses, etc., are expect
[report when court re-convenes
Fuesday.
kn the trial section began its
Tuesday morning, several di
cases were disposed of and
pocket was taken up. The first
(ailed was that of Vester
tor versus Mrs. I. J. Edwards
l L. Bohannon, a suit for ejec
The case involved the Cairo
place of the late W. W.
fe, father of the plaintiff
llrs. Edwards, The entire day
ay was consumed in the submis
Lf evidence and the case went to
t Wednesday morning. The jury
Ld a vrediet for the plaintiff.
I was given of a motion for a
rial. Judge Ira Carlisle and
Carlisle represented the plain
hd S. P. Cain and G. L. Worthy
lented the defendants.
next case taken up was that of
Daisy Parker versus G. C.
i) Harrell, a suit for damages as
It of a land deal. A mint rial re
at a former trial of this case,
e jury about 7:30 o.’clock Wed
r night returned a verdict for
aintiff for $835. Notice was
of a motion for a new trial. Abe
r, of Bainbridge, represented
aintiff and Vance Custer, also
ridge, represented the defepd
i criminal docket was taken
pay morning and the first
was that of the State
Matthews, charged with
n connection with the theft
ge quantity of cigarettes
! \. Kell Co. wholesale
louse here last Sept. 7th.
M ied Smith and Abe Conger
the defendant and S. P.
pd Solicitor-General Crow
ate. The trial was not
The Messenger went to press.
[MNSEND SATURDAY. MEETING HERE
local To'wnsend Old Age
1 ut> l 13 '- arranged a meeting
- at the Courthouse here
laturday afternoon, March
at 2 o’clock, at which
Foster, E sq ., 0 f Cairo, will
Idress. All members and
5ted arc requested to attend.
(oncement is made that J F
-> r i of Detroit, Mich Will
th e business men of this
! [here Townsend plan at the Court
1 „ ext
(bounced at Saturday’s
1 d ‘ ca! loads of local
tended a rally in Tallahassee
[n <a \ n l ght last week
L pncipal r : F • Townsend himself
speaker.
1111 SCOUT iMOVEMENT
launched.
Gul Scout organization in
finite sh a Pe at a meeting
Thursday. Troops are
tro °P committees are
* ,, rs Carl Godwin
lls of ' I is the
the local
oiade public later.
ocif rf \f I0Wne SOriS attendeb and a S rou P
th a
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tinn 2? n ln • Thomasvill
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ssenger THE MESSENGER
a Prints AJ1 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.
The Official Organ of Grady County
“The man who wanderetl out of the way of advertising shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”
TEN PAGES
Christ Life Picture Is
To Be Shown Tonight,
First Baptist Church
“The Passion Play”, or “Life of
Christ”, is veritably a treasured her
itage of the ages, to all Christian peo
pie, whose faith is anchored in the
resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
The dramatic versions, given period
ically in Europe, at Oberammergau,
and Frieburg, are visited by hundreds
of thousands of Christian people, from
all sections of the world, at enormous
expense.
The people of Cairo and this com
munity are to be given the rare oppor
tunity of seeing the world-famous
“Passion Play” motion picture, based
upon and patterned after, both Frei
burg and Oberammergau productions,
and actually produced in Europe, the
Holy Land, and Egypt, with special
organ and choral music, on sound
equipment, depicting many famous
scenes in the life, crucifixion, and
resurrection of Jesus, at the First
Baptist Church, here tonight, Friday
Mar. 10 at 7:30 p. m. Everybody is in
vited and admission tickets are not
j necessary. A silver offering will be
taken, to assist in paying expenses.
A very gratifying departure from
the usual movie presentation in chur
ches is the high spiritual level and at
mosphere and meditation and prayer
established and maintained through
ut the entire program which has been
one of the fundamental objectives of
(Continued on Back Page.)
MARCH GRAND JURY
SUSPENDS THURSDAY
ENTIRE JURY COMMITTEE ON
LAW ENFORCEMENT; HEALTH
WORK ENDORSED.
When Grady Superior Court was
opened here for the regular March,
1939, Term at 10 o’clock last Monday
morning, the grand jurors retired and
organized themselves by electing W.
H. Robinson as foreman, Noah W.
StanfiH as clerk and T. J. Carter as
bailiff.
The grand jury continued in session
until Thursday morning, when it re
cessed, after submitting its present
ments, which will be published in full
in The Messenger next week.
Recess and not adjournment was de
cided on when the body named every
member as on a committee on contin
uance of criminal law violation in
vestigations until the next grand
jury meets. The grand jury now 7 em
panelled can meet of its own violition
at any time as a committee of the
whole, under the action taken. Clerk
Stanfill was .specifically designated
to check on violations of the
laws during the recess, particularly as
to operation of slot machines and the
like.
A hard fight was made to
the grand jury to recommend
away with the Ellis public health
work which has been carried on ln thls
count y for several years, but the body
indirectly, at least, approved
ance beabdl work in voting not
' to recommend discontinuance, ond
unanimously re-appointing Dr. A. W.
Rehberg as chairman of the
Board of Public Health. ,
The S'and jury late Monday wired
Rep. R. A. Bell, of this county, in At
lanta, appealing to legislators to “op
pose any diversion of highway
and to “vote against any increase
taxes.”
Extremely few criminal
tions were asked of the grand jury
at its session this week.
Judge B. C. Gardner, presiding,
(Continued on back page.)
TWO “FATHER AND SON”
PAIRS ON GRAND JURY.
An unusual feature of the March,
1939, Term Grady Superior Court
grand jury, which convened here on
Monday, is that two “father and son
pairs 'were empanelled thereon.
Sworn in were E. L. Maxwell and
his son, Frank Maxwell, both of the
Calvary community, and T. J. Bras
well and his son, Perry Braswell, both
of Cairo.
CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 10TH, 1939.
GRADY BASKETBALL
TOURNEY NEXT WEEK
ANNUAL CONTESTS OF SCHOOLS
WILL BE HELD IN CAIRO
MARCH 15-18.
The annual Grady County Basket
ball Tournament will be played at the
Cairo basketball shell beginning next
Wednesday, March 15th, and continu
ing through Saturday, March 18th, it
was announced this week by Supt.
John S. Herndon, of' Cairo, who is in
general charge of arrangements.
The New Home and Wayside gram
mar school girls will open the com
petition at 3 o’clock Wednesday af
ternoon. In the grammar school girls’
division, other first round pairings
announced this week by Supt.
Herndon are: Calvary, first round
bye; Cairo north side and Tuikey
Creek, Wednesday at 8:20 p. m.; Whig
ham, first round bye; Spence and Un
ion, Wednesday, 7 p. m.; Cairo south
side and Reno, Wednesday, 4:20 p. m.;
Midway, first round bye; Elpino, first
round bye. In the second round, the
winner of the New Home and Wayside
game will meet Calvary Thursday at
1 p. m.; the winner of the Cairo north
side and Turkey Creek game will meet
Whigham Thursday at 6 p. m.; the
winner of the Spence and 1 Union game
will meet the winner of the Cairo
south side and Reno game Thursday
at 2:20 p. m.; and Midway and Elpino,
both With first round byes, will meet
Thursday at 3:40 p. m. The semi-fin
als in this division will be played at
3 and 4:20 p. m., Friday, and the fin
als will be played at 7 p. m., Saturday.
In the grammar school boys’ divis
ion, the first round pairings are as fol
lows: Spence and Turkey Creek, Wed
nesday 3:40 p. m.; Cairo south side
and Midway, Wednesday, 9 p. m.; Un
ion, first round bye; Whigham, first
round bye; Cairo north side, first round
bye; New Home and Wayside, Wed
nesday, 7:40 p. m.; Reno, first
bye; and Calvary and Elpino, Wed
nesday, 5 p. m. In the second round,
the winners of the Spence and Tur
key Creek and the Cairo south side
and Midway games will meet Thurs
day at 6:40 p. m.; Union and Whig
ham, both with byes, will meet
i winner of the NeW Home and
side game Thursday at 3 p. m.;
Reno, with a bye, will meet the
ner of the Calvary and Elpino
Thursday at 4:20 p. m. The
als will be played at 3:40 p. nt.
5 p. m., -Friday, and the finals
be played at 7:50 p. m., Saturday.
'In the high school boys’
the first round pairings, are as
lows: Spence, first round bye;
and Cairo, Thursday at 7:20 p.
Elpino, first round bye; and
and Whigham, Thursday at 9 p.
In the second or semi-final
Spence, with a bye, will play the
ner of the Reno and Cairo game
day at 7:20 p. m. and Elpino, with
bye, Will meet the winner of the
vaiy and Whigham game Friday
9 p. m. The finals will be played
urday at 9:30 p. m.
In the high school girls’
the first round pairings are as
lows: Whigham, first round
Spence and Cairo, Thursday at
p. m.; Calvary and Elpino, first
byes. In the second or
round, Whigham, with a bye,
meet the winner of the Spence
Cairo game Friday at 6:30 p. m.
Calvary and Elpino, both with
will meet Friday at 8:10 p. m.
finals will be played Saturday at
p. m.
In the seventh annual
held last year, with large and
crowds on hand to cheer the
ists, as well as the other
teams, Reno won both high school
isions and the New 7 Home girls
the Elpino boys won the
ships in the grammar school
Banners were awarded the winners
Chairman S. P. Cain, of the
Board of 1 Education.
Large crowds are expected to
low the various teams through
tournament next week, since this
nual attraction arouses great
among the school children as well
the patrons.
Mrs. L. S. Rentz, of Miami,
has been visitng her daughter,
Edwin Carlisle, for several days,
Wednesday to visit relatives in
City. She will return here next
to continue her visit for a few
before returning to her home in
ami.
[BUSINESS, MARKETS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
POSTAL RECEIPTS IN STEADY
GAIN HERE, FIGURES
SHOW.
Postmaster J. S. Weathers this
week announced figures showing a
steady increase in postal receipts at
the Cairo post office.
The steady increase, it is pointed
out, reflects a healthy, substantial in
crease in business, generally, and
supports a number of other factors
pointing to a rather marked general
development here.
Figures announced this week were
for January and February, 1939, com
pared with those for the same months
last year. The increase for the two
months together over the same months
last year was 9.74 per cent. The re
ceipts for the two months last year
w 7 ere $2,888.16 and for the same
months this year were $3,182.71, the
increase being $294.65.
Figures announced in January
showed the 1938 receipts here were
the largest in history, with one excep
tion. A percentage gain of more than
30 per cent in the four-year period
ending the first of this year was
shown, also.
Livestock Meeting Planned
For March 18th.
Another hog growing contest which
will end with another fat hog show
and sale during hte latter part of
July will be sponsored this year by
the livestock committee of the Grady
County Chamber of Commerce, in co
operation With County Agent H. L.
Trussell, Jr., Prof. T. D. Brown, Jr.,
vocational agriculture teacher, and
others interested.
The committee, which met at the of
fice of the Chamber of Commerce last
Monday afternoon, made plans for a
big livestock meeting to be held at
the Courthouse here tomorrow week,
Saturday afternoon, March 18th, be
ginning at 2:30 o’clock, at which time
rules and detailed plans for the contest
w j]j Ee ma( j e known. It is planned to
have at this meeting some expert on
raising, feeding and sanitation,
More details about hte meeting will be
announced next Week.
The contest last year proved a big
success, with much interest manifest
ed. Prizes of $150 in cash were given
by Cairo merchants to the winners and
representatives of all the big packing
companies came here for the 3ale.
Those who have fine litters of pigs
farrowed since Jan. 1st are asked to
enter the contest, which will open on
April 1st. Entries can be made with
either Secretary M. L. Mayes or Coun
ty Agent Trussell.
Roddenbery’s Has Plumbing
Display Room.
Roddenbery Hardware Co. this week
! opened an attractive plumbing display
room where modern bath room fix
tunes may be seen in your favorite
color combinations.
The main purpose of the display
to show the modern trends fn interior
bath room finishing, as well as the
new style fixtures, etc., and everyone
is invited to visit this store and
this new display feature.
■ Prices Being 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,
and not guaranteed:
Eggs, yard run, doz 10c
No. 1, infert. white, doz. . 13c
Fryers, colored, lb 16c
Hens, colored, lb.........12c
Cotton, middling, lb 8%c
Cotton Seed, ton, . , . $20
Peanuts, Span. No. 1, ton . . $65
Peanuts, Runners, No. 1, ton $57
| TREASURY ACT PUBLISHED
i ON PAGE THREE.
The act, sponsored by Rep. R. A.
Bell and recently enacted by the
islature, which affects the
treasury of Grady county, is
in full on page three of The
ger this week.
Considerable opposition has
oped to the measure as to
The opposition is not to Clerk of
Commissioners W. B. Fincher,
personally, but to the act itself,
does not mention Mr. Fincher
name.
TEN PAGES
$21,761 LOW BID SUBMITTED
ON CAIRO SEWERAGE LINES
Bishop Moore to Speak
At Cairo’s Methodist
Church This Evening
Bishop John M. Moore, of Dallas,
Texas, will speak in the Cairo Meth
odist Church at 7 p. m. tonight, Fri
day, March 10th, according to an an
announcement made by the pastor,
Rev. Leland Moore.
The people of Grady county, Cairo,
and the adjoining counties and near
by toWns, irrespective of religious de
nominations, are most cordially invit
ed to attend this service, and it is cer
tain that there will be a large attend
ance.
No bishop in the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South is more prominent,
more active and more universally be
loved than Bishop Moore. For a full
quadrennium, only a few years ago,
he was the bishop in charge of the
South Ga. Annual Conference. His
administration was unusually con
structive and successful, causing him
to be esteemed most highly by minis
ters and laymen generally.
This is one of the very few times
Bishop Moore has been back in Geor
gi since he transferred to another
episcopal area, and Methodists of this
section are honored and most fortu
nate in having an opportunity to hear
him once more.
His message Friday evening will be
of a very high order. All Cairo Meth
odists especially are urged to be pres
ent.
CO. COMMISSIONERS
IN MONTHLY SESSION
ALDREDGE AND CONNELL JOIN
BOARD AT TUESDAY’S
SESSION.
The Board of County Commission
ers of Grady county met in regular
monthly session here Tuesday and the
meeting ended after virtually the en
tire day Was devoted to consideration
of various matters.
Commissioners T. W. Aldredge and
G. W. Connell met with the Board for
the first time since their recent re
instatement by legislative act of Rep.
R. A. Bell. Their reinstatement by
law Was in a measure changing the
set-up back to a five-member Board
following their defeat early last year
when the set-up was changed to a
three-member Board by act of former
Rep. Edmond F. Dollar. Chairman
Walter Davis and Commissioners L.
O. Maxwell, Sr., and W. E. Wamble,
who were retained in the three-mem
ber set-up, were all present Tuesday,
also. Commissions for Commissioners
(Continued on Page Four.)
New Through Bus Line
Now Definite Prospect
Announcement by the Georgia Pub
lic Service Commission a few days ago
of' approval of the transfer of
baggage and passenger
tion certificates covering service
tween Camilla and the Alabama-Geor
gia state line and between Edison and
the Florida-G'eorgia line, via Cairo,
from James Frank Murray, doing bu
siness as Georgia-Alabama Coach
Line to Tamiami Trail Tours,
with headquarters in Tampa, .Fla., is
regarded as making the
of a new north-and-south through bus
line serving Cairo a more definite
prospect. Through east-and-west ser
vice locally has been established for
several years.
It is understood that the Tamiami
Trail Tours, Inc., has definite plans
for the establishment of direct
service linking Miami, Tampa,
hassee, Cairo, Pelham, Camilla, Edi
son, Eufaula and Birmingham,
through service south of Cairo is
to be awaiting only the
of the Cairo-Beachton link of
Route 93 and the building of a
over the Ochlocknee river on
route that will permit interstate
portation service, which Will
several months.
The new service, it is said, would
form the basis of plans for greatly
improved terminal facilities in Cairo,
also.
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS
NUMBER 9.
BRYANT COMPANY IS
LIKELY TO GET JOB
PINE PARK CONCERN SUBMITS
LOW BID, WHICH PWA
MUST APPROVE.
Bryant Company, of Pine Park, sub
mitted the low bid for Cairo’s new
sewerage extensions and sewage
pumping station last Monday after
noon when the Mayor and Council op
ened the bids, seven in number.
The low bid was for $21,761.65 for
the sewerage lines and the pumping
station and this figure was consider
ed to be in line With or below the en
gineering estimates, it was said.
Dr. J. B. Warnell, Mayor, and Coun
cilmen A. B. Wight, A. A. McNeill,
T. W. Jones, A. L. Thompson and R.
R. Van Landingham were present for
the letting, in addition to W. R. Galt,
resident engineer; other city officials;
and M. T. Singleton, of the Atlanta
engineering firm of Wiedeman &
Singleton, the firm that is in charge
of the $60,000 sewage disposal plant
and sewerage extension project.
The construction of the big sewage
disposal plant lin the southwestern
edge of the city is well advanced, in
charge of Coggin & Deermont, of
Chipley, Fla.
Funds for the construction of the
entire project have been provided by
a $33,000 bond issue and a PWA grant
of $27,000. This means that the PWA
must approve the Bryant Company
bid, which has already been approved
by the Mayor and Council.
The new sewerage lines as tenta
tively planned Would total almost ive
miles, but the exact extent of the ad
ditions cannot be determined, pending
approval of the low bid by the PWA.
State RFC Place Not
Taken By Mr. Forsyth
It was learned here authoritatively
this week that J. E. Forsyth, of
Cairo, will not accept appointment as
Georgia manager of the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation.
Press dispatches from Washington
on Wednesday and Thursday of last
week said Mr. Forsyth was slated for
appointment to the position and that
he was in Washington conferring with.
RFC officials relative to the salary,
duties, etc.
Mr. Forsyth, and his wife, return
ed home early this week from a visit
of several days to points in Virginia
and Washington. He declined com
ment in regard to not accepting the
position, but friends quoted him as
saying that his decision was made
after mature> consideration, with deep
appreciation of all efforts of 1 friends
in his behalf, because he did not want
to leave Cairo.
The position would require his res
idence in Atlanta, it is understood.
The salary of the position is said to be
$6,000 a year and not $10,000 a year
as has been reported locally. More
over, the RFC may be liquidated ia
1941, it is said.
The many local friends of Mr. For
syth have been gratified that he was
recognized in consideration of a suc
cessor to Scott Candler in this im
portant position and they are like
wise gratified that he will continue to
reside in Cairo.
RAINS PLACE RIVER AT
FLOOD STAGE.
The heavy rains in this section last
week placed the Ochlocknee river at
flood stage during the Week-end for
the first time in a number of month®.
The flood waters lacked only a few
inches of overflowing State Route 93
at the Walden bridge crossing south
east of Cairo.
River flood waters also flowed into
Lake Iamonia and raised the level of
the water in the lake proper consider
ably. A dam built near the lake basin
recently prevented the lake from
completing its recurrent “disappear
ing act.”
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dunn, Sr., re
turned Wednesday from a visit of a
few days with Mr. R. H. Dunn, and
family, in Camilla.