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Established January 15th, 1904.
Entered as second-class matter Jan
uary 14, 1904, at the Post Office at
Cairo, Gu., 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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OUR SENATOR AND
REPRESENTATIVE.
Senator Wallace Harrell, of
Quitman, did a most satisfactory
job representing the Seventh dis
trict in the 1939 regular session.
(He is an exceptionally brilliant
young gentleman with a promis
ing future, and there is a useful
place in the administration of
Georgia affairs for such men as
Wallace Harrell seems to be.—
Shelby Davis in Thomasville
Press.
Yes, and Grady’s own Reprensen
tative, R. A. Bell, at least on general
legislation, rendered quite generally
satisfactory service, although some of
his local legislation has controversial
features.
Apparently, neither Senator Har
rell nor Rep. Bell contributed to the
political maelstrom that will, beyond
all doubt, force an extra session soon,
to do the work of clearing up the
confusion that could have and should
have been done at the regular ses
sion.
And if and when the extra session
convenes, there should be a concerted
movement to ostracize any legislator
who wilfully puts his state and its
needs in the existing emergency sec
ondary to personal ambition or the
political welfare of anyone.
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It is difficult to understand why so
many people are so slow to learn the
folly of permitting fire to destroy so
much potential timber in the woods
each year. The woods burners have
had a big time this season.
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Are you ready for Easter, on Sun
day, April 9th?
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How’s your spring garden?
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* CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO 4
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APRIL 4TH, 1924.
A modern, 33-room hotel for Cairo
became virtually a certainty when
plans were made to utilize the old
"Walker Hospital property in a $50,
000 improvement project with thirty
minority stockholders as boosters.
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The A. C. L. passenger trains, known
as the “short,” operated between
Thomasville and Abbeville, Ala., via
Cairo, restored several months pre
viously after service was discontinued
during the 1920-22 depression, were to
be operated only between Thomasville
and Dothan, it was announced.
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The County Commissioners, with
several steel and concrete bridges
built 'with bond funds, decided to build
the approaches with free labor as an
economy move.
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Civic agencies began a movement to
nave the high school auditorium stage
equipped.
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BIBLE VERSE
“Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof.” Matt. 6:34. (Read Matt. 6:19
-34).
GEORGIA’S HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT.
The statement of Chairman W. L.
(Lint) Miller, for the State Highway
Board, made public this week, and
released for publication in The Mes
senger and the other newspapers of
the state, is quite reassuring, to say
the least.
The statement, which appears else
where in The Messenger this Week,
was issued soon after Governor E. D.
Rivers slashed the Highway Depart
ment budget about $2,000,000 and cut
about 300 employees from the depart
ment’s payroll, and, whether intended
as such or not, is a most effective ans
wer to any claim that might be made
of waste or extravagance in the de
partment. Moreover, it can by no
means be implied tjhat the 300 em
ployees who have been stricken from
the payroll by the drastic cut of' Gov
ernor Rivers are useless employees or
that they are not needed to maintain
the department's service in a satis
factory manner.
Chairman Miller’s statement points
out, first, that the number of employ
in the department has been in
by only 97 since the present
board took office, and that this slight
increase is due to the fact that con
mileage has been added to
highway system, thereby making
necessary to add some employees
maintenance, etc.
The report also emphasizes that the
general salary schedule in the Geor
gia department is from five to ten
per cent under that in ALL the other
seven southeastern states.
Cited, also, is the fact, supported
by official reports, that the average
cost of administration of the Georgia
Highway Department for 1937 and
1938 was LOWER THAN FOR ANY
PREVIOUS YEAR SINCE THE OR
GANIZATION OF THE HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT!
Such facts as these certainly speak
for themselves and the conditions they
reflect are most encouraging in these
days When there are so many charges
and counter charges about waste and
extravagance in government.
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CLEANUP! PAINT UP!
BEAUTIFY!
The City of Cairo is just wow in the
midst of the annual clean up, paint
up and beautification campaign—
and every resident should enlist in the
movement to make our city a prettier
and a healthier place to live in.
Nothing stirs our civic pride like
having some visitor tell us: that we
have an attractive little city, or some-
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Newspaper Cost Of Living
Is High.
Albany Herald:
News subscribers who are in
arrears are asked to send in their
renewals. “Believe it or not,”
revenue is essential to the opera
tion of a paper, just as in any
other business.—Early County
News.
Here is a brief statement in which
the editor of the Blakely paper, one
of the oldest weeklies in the south,
speaks a very important truth. Jour
nalism is an interesting profession,
but the business end of a newspaper—
daily, weekly or semi-weekly—is its
most important end. It can get along
after a fashion with scissored editor
ials. Its local pages may be uninter
esting and its features below par—
all without disaster. But if revenue
ceases to flow in—if there is no cash
for paper, ink, labor, fuel, taxes and
a hundred or so other items of 1 ex
pense—the Sheriff will soon be com
ing along to nail a notice of sale on
the door. is The higher cost of today getting than out it news- j
papers ever
was, and the top of the ladder has not
been reached. Newspaper mortality
has been unusually high during the
last decade. I
The Legislature’s
Failure.
Albany Herald:
We do not doubt that Governor
Rivers has made mistakes since he
took office a little more than two
years ago, and we have no idea that
he imagines for a moment he has not
made mistakes. As a matter of fact,
we have heard him say publicly that
he never hoped to avoid the blunders
which all men in public life inevitably
make.
We do not doubt that the Gover
nor has employed men and women
Whose services might have been dis
peoised With without serious impair
ment of public services which the
state undertakes to perform. He
might have effected other helpful
economies.
But several very stubborn facts
stick out in the present orgy of crit
icism and buck passing. One is that
public education in Georgia faces a
supremely critical situation which the
Legislature took no steps to prevent
or avoid during the seventy days of
its regular session. It was fully ap
prised of the crisis facing the schools,
but did nothing whatever to help
them. What they needed and had a
right to expect was not something
over and above what they had been
promised, but what they had been
solemnly assured would be provided.
IThe people are not deceived. They
are perfectly willing—yea, more than
willing—to make allowances for poli
tics and buck-passing, but they are
not going to be happy over the plight
thing to that general effect. Outside
lobservars cannot be expected to pass
such compliments unless they find
justification therefor. We cannot pro
vide that justification unless each
and every resident does his and her
part. The city forces are busily en
gaged in assisting, but-they cannot do
the job alone. The FULL CO-OPE
RATION of EVERY resident is essen
tial, if the campaign is to succeed.
Are you doing your part?
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* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO *
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APRIL 2ND, 1909.
Will Mills, a Negro, was convicted
of the murder of another Negro in
Grady Superior Court and was sen
tenced by Judge Frank Park, presid
ing, to be hanged May 21st. It was the
be Grady county’s first banging and
the execution was planned to take
place in the County Jail 'which neared
completion. (Note: The execution
never took place and Grady has never
had a hanging. Law now provides for
legal executions by electrocution at the
State Prison at Reidsville).
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L. iL. Barwick and E. Mize petition
ed for a charter for the Barwick-Mize
Naval Stores Co.
Mink Morris, a Negro who killed
Sheriff Langston at Tallahassee, was
captured near Coolidge, Ga., after a
thorourgh search by Georgia and
Florida officers, including Sheriff E.
•F. Dollar, of Grady county.
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The new Greenwood Methodist
Church, a few miles west of Cairo,
was dedicated with a large cro“wd in
were in charge. Rev. W. C. Jones, an- I
nounced as a participating minister,!
was unable to attend because of ill
ness.
THE CAIRO MESSENGER, FRIDAY. MARCH 31ST, 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.
SWIM! Hart’s Playground opens on|
April 1st. Swimming and boat rides
free all next week. lt-pd.
“WAYSIDE INN”.—Rooms, meals, by
day, Week, or month. Call 214. It
NOTICE TO FARMERS.—Cow Peas
for sale; Brabham’s, Whips, Irons,
Clays and Mixed. See us before you
buy. Sam A. Pierce. 3-24-6t.
FOR SALE—1 kitchen cabinet; 1 din
ing table; 6 chairs. In good condi
tion. See J. N. Harvey at Harvey’s
Store.
FOR SALE.—Specially selected Per
kins Long Green Okra Seed, 10c
pound. W. H. Strickland, Cairo. 24-2t
STRAYED.-—Black female fox terrier
named Midnight. Reward for re
turn to C. F. Richter. 3-24-lt-pd.
FOR SALE: Stoneville 2B cotton seed
at $1.00 per bu. Lannis Poulk. 24-2t
WANTED.—To rent house in desir
able location. P. O. Box 216, Cairo.
3-24-2tpd.
NOTICE TU FARMERS. _____ I am
ready to shell peanuts; 10c per
bu. and No. 2s. A. H. Vanland
ingham, on Ochlocknee road near
Woodland Church. 3-10-4t.plt
CALL US FOR MILK or whipping
cream. We deliver anywhere in the
city. Grady Pharmacy. 3-10-tf.
Roup and Colds in Chickens stop Egg
production. W & W Ro-Co and
Poultry Spray quickly stop these dis
eases. Sold by Mixon’s Grocery.
11-4-tf.
AUTO, FURNITURE and
CO-MAKER LOANS
UP to $300.00
MONTHLY REPAYMENTS
Consolidated Loan & Investment Co.
Brighton Bldg. Thomasville, Ga.
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.
STRAWBERRY, LEMON and CHOC
OLATE SODAS and Root Beers AS
LONG AS YOUR ARM, only a nickle,
at our fount. GRADY PHARMACY.
TYPEWRITER FOR RENT. •Rem
ington, No. 12, just re-built. Rates
$1 per week or $2.50 per month, pay
able in advance. Cairo Messenger, tf.
W & W Poultry and Hog medicines
made by WALTER WIGHT are
sold and guaranteed by Mixon’s Gro
eery. 11-4-tf.
WE WANT EGGS, Country Meat,
Syrup, Taters, Corn. We Pay More.
HARVEY’S and HARVEY’S STAR.
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* ALL CORRESPONDENTS, *
* TAKE NOTICE! *
* All community correspondents *
* must get their news letters in ..
* The Messenger office not later *
* than Tuesday of each week. An- *
* nouncements and news notes of *
* all organizations must be in by *
* Tuesday, also. *
* Personal items may be phoned *
* to 212-W up to noon Wednes- *
* days. *
* Important general news is *
* 'welcomed until noon on Thurs- *
* days. *
4 WE THANK YOU! *
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* I. RUSSELL GRINER *
* Income, Estate and Processing *
* Tax Consultant *
* Thomasville, Georgia *
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1 DEPENDABLE
1 SERVICE
On All Makes Of
Automobiles, Trucks,
Tractors and Power
m = Units at Reasonable
: Prices.
Day Phone No. 208
= Night Phone No. 277
= CAIRO, GA.
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of their common schools. All over
Georgia boards of education are
straining their resources.—borrowing
money if they can and creating def
icits certain to embarrass them here
after—because the state is failing to
meet its obligations.
The state of Georgia—not the
counties or cities—fixed minimum sal
aries for teachers and guaranteed
payment. Now local boards are left
with the hag to hold. If they cannot
secure funds to keep the schools open
(and many of them cannot) an ir
reparable wrong will have been done.
It is ridiculous to attempt to hold
Governor Rivers responsible for the
Legislature’s failure to do anything
whatsoever to meet a situation which
is nothing short of calamitous. Some
thing could have been done, and some
thing should have been done.
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Providing flor orderly, economical
retirement of Grady county’s floating
debt, and for conducting the county’s
business hereafter on a strictly cash
basis, appears to be the wisest, most
practical and most comprehensive so
lution yet advanced for the county’s
governmental problems.
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Tomorrow, Saturday, will be the
last day for making 1939 property re
turns for state, county and school
taxation—and for filing homestead
and personal property exemptions for
1939. There’ll be many who will find
all too late that they have neglected
to perform this duty and get the sav
ing afforded thereby—but no one can
say that they have not had ample
notice.
MeSSeilgeP Want Ads
Are Little But Loud
FOR SALE.—Heavy manila pamph
let open end envelopes, all sizes.
Messenger office. tf.
ADDING MACHINE
AND
CASH REGISTER ROLLS
Carried in stock for your convenience
in best quality paper. Also MIMEOGRApJ
paper in both letter and legal cap sizes, J
different weight stock.
LET US SUPPLY YOUR NEEDS AT
THE RIGHT PRICE!
Cairo Messenger
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PHONE 203
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