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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.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(Payable in Advance)
One Year...... $1.50
Six months ^
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Three Months .50
notifying of change , of , ad- ,
In us
dress, it is very important that you
give both the old and the new ad
dresses. Do not wait for the Post
Office to report changes to us, as this
puts extra expense on us.
Advertising rates reasonable and
made known on application.
Copy for advertisements must be in
the hands of the printer not later
than 9 a. m., Wednesday morning of
the week of publication.
CCC CAMPS OPEN ROLLS
TO 100,000.
The Civilian Conservation Corps is
now enrolling 100,000 more American
youths to bring the corps strength to
300,000 by April 20th.
Officials say they will get some
Strange fellows but that the average
boy received will be from 18 to 19
years old, who has been out of work
for seven months, and they will be
bread-winners for four persons back
home, who will receive $25 every
month.
Hundreds of the boys 'will learn
trades and get jobs and settle down
in communities, if the future is to be
judged by the past.
In six years the CCC boys have
planted 1,800,000,000 trees and have
saved millions of others through their
fire-fighting. They have construc f ed
4,000 fire towers and 132,000 miles of
road. Officials say they’ll keep on
doing this sort of work.
There is no official comment on the
value of the semi-military training
that the boys l’eceive, but this is a |
most valuable phase of the CCC work.;
Beyond all doubt, the CCC has 1
proved and will continue to be one
of the finest of all the many New
Deal undertakings, fine for the pres
ent as well as the future.
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CLEAN UP! PAINT UP!
BEAUTIFY!
A group of local merchants, pub
lishing a series of booster ads, de
votes this month’s space (page seven)
to emphasizing the appeal to make
Cairo a cleaner and more attractive
city.
Read the message of the merchants,
and if you have not already done so,
get busy and do your part in the
city’s annual clean up, paint up and
beautification campaign, no\v in pro- j
gress.
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Figures from the records- have been j
compiled showing that the City Court
of Cairo handles about three times
the number of cases handled in Grady
Superior Court at about the same ex
pense. Without intending any reflec
tion whatsoever upon the manner in
which the Superior Court is operated j
one observer, in defending the infer
ior court, said that if either should
be abolished it should be the higher
tribunal. Undoubtedly, the court ex
pense to the county would be much
greater Without the City Court, and
yet there is political agitation at times,
usually by ill-informed persons, to
abolish the lower tribunal. The whole
plan of operation for the higher court
is just necessarily more costly, that’s
all.
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BIBLE VERSE
“Behold, I stand at the door, and
knock.” Rev. 3:20 (Read John 10:1
9).
APPARENT BLUNDER
BY GOVERNOR.
No newspaper has praised Governor
E. D. Rivers more freely than The
Messenger for the many praiseworthy
things he has done for Georgia, both
before and since he became Governor.
We have always had—and still have
—keenly-felt hopes for his success in
public life because, among other rea
sons, he made Cairo his home ' l01
some time and entered the public life
of the state here.
We are constantly reminded of the
old familiar expression that “it is only
human to err”—and those in high
public office are not usually regard
ed. as being an exception to this so
called rule. It appears that Governor
Rivers has committed a serious blun
der, or that he has become a victim
of unsound advice or sinister influ
ences, in deciding, as announced a
few days ago, to follow a plan of pub
lishing all of the legal advertisement
no tices of the thirty-two proposed
cons hitutional amendments to be voted
on in the June 6th general election in
only one newspaper in each Congres
sional District rather than in several.
The new law, enacted at the 1939
session of the Legislature, limits the
advertisement of the full text of each
of the proposed amendments to one
newspaper in each Congressional Dis
trict and the Governor is understood
to have adopted the attitude that this
ne*w law required ALL of the ads to
be published in only one newspaper in
each district. These ads appear for two
months prior to the date of the gen
eral election, but the new law also
provides that brief summaries of each
proposed amendment be published in
each of the 159 official organs of the
state for two issues immediately prior
to the election.
Unquestionably, it was not the in
tent of the Legislature to require all
of the full text ads to be published
in a single newspaper in each district,
nor does the wording of the new law
imply such, necessarily. The laW says
“ ... it shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor to cause EVERY such amend- j
ment to be published in one news
paper in each Congressional District
...” Surely, if the intent or mean
ing was such as the Governor has con
strued it to be, the legislators could J
have easily worded the measure to i
specify that, and nothing else.
In his decision to dump all of this j
advertising in only ten newspapers in i
the state, and in his selection of news
papers without a general circulation
in the several districts, the Governor
is largely defeating the primary pur
pose of the advertising, namely, to 1
afford the voters adequate opportun
ity to inform themselves as to the
provisions of the various measures be
fore they vote on them.
Moreover, in crowding publication
of all of the full texts in a single
newspaper in each district, he will
doubtless cause most of the ten news
papers, through lack of facilities, to
have the proposals printed in a sep-;
arate section or insert in such a Way
that the voters will give little at
tention or study to them. Scattering
the ads more generally would have
given the voters in virtually every
on a commission-manager form of
government.
A new street paving program for
Cairo was agitated.
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* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO *
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APRIL 9TH, 1909.
Miss Lena Harris, of Union Springs,
Ala., wed Mr. Thomas Jefferson
BroWne, of Cairo, in an elaborate cere
mony at the Pressbyterian Church in
Union Springs that assembled fashion
able society of the two states.
Mr. Grady Collins, of this county.
suffered the loss of both feat in a
hap while engaged as flagman on a
train between Topeka, Kan., and
sas City, Mo.
Miss Jesna Gardner, of Kissimmee, I
Fla., became the bride of Mr. William
Crawford, of Cairo, in a fashionable
g e *^ et hodis,t Church m
Kissimmee. .
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An armed and drunken Negro caus
ed considerable excitement before he
was subdued by city and county offic
ers after creating a disturbance at the'
Cairo School. I
county a much better opportunity to
inform themselves fully on at least
a few of the proposals. The brief sum
maries in each of the official organs
that will appear for two weeks
the election will help to give the vo
ters information, of course, but it
seems that the purpose could have
been served much better by dividing
the full text ads more generally, and
that in such general division the
Governor would have kept well with
in the law, fairly and reasonably con
strued.
It just doesn't sound like Governor
Rivers.
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The Florida Legislature convened |
in biennial session at Tallahassee
Tuesday, with Governor .Fred Cone,
unable to deliver his address in per
son, calling for no new taxes, but
with some demand for added revenue
from the legislators themselves. Thus
is presented the most striking differ
ence possible between Florida and
Georgia.
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Go to church Sunday!
P RIDAY, APRIL 7TH, 1939.
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#* INTERESTING *41
* COMMENTS. *
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A New Georgia
Collard.
Atlanta Journal:
DEAN SWIFT’S often quoted trib
ute to the man who makes two ears of
corn grow where only one grew be
fore applies in full measure to Geor
gia’s Agricultural Experiment Station.
Among several new varieties of high
yielding crops recently developed at
the station is a cabbage-collard which
has twice as many succulent leaves as
the old “blue-stem” and which with
stands hard Winters. Another is a
wheat that produces an average of a
barrell of flour more to the acre than
do the common types. Still others are
a “Cherokee” sweet com and a variety
of oats that set a new pace for abun-
dant bearing and a soybean that
a superior quality of both grain and
hay. In the course of years such dis
coveries mean a great deal to the pros
perity of Georgia’s agriculture and
hence to the values of her land and the
opportunities of her farmers. Similar
results for her industries are brought
forth in the laboratories at Tech.
Scientific research, intent upon ex
ploring the state’s resources and im
proving the technique of their devel
opment is a wonderfully fruitful in
vestment.
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The stiffened attitude of Great
Britain against aggression by any na
tion, to be supported by a fight, if
necessary, has done more to ease war
tension in Europe than anything since
the World War.
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This county consolidation agitation
in Georgia is pure nonsense and it
simply calls for an absolute waste of
breath and valuable newspaper space.
All the dictators that .the world has
ever kn.o'vvn or ever will know could
not force the small counties of Geor
gia to go under the yoke of the coun
ties with the larger county seats and
thereby abandon most of their oppor
tunities for future growth and de
velopment. One consolidation plan,
proposed by the erratic Rep. “Hell
Bent” Edwards, of Valdosta, would
call for Lowndes to gobble up Cook,
which leads the esteemed Editor W.
T. Shytle, at Adel, to okeh the plan
with the condition that Adel and not
Valdosta be made the county seat.
The Edwards plan would call for the
union of Grady and Thomas and about
the only Way Grady countians would
approve of such a union would be with
the understanding that Cairo would be
the county seat of the consolidated
county. And so it would be all over
the state.
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* CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO *
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APRIL 11TH, 1924.
Citizens of the territory served by
the Pelham & Havana railroad plan
ned to file objections to a petition au
thorizing the receiver to junk the
road.
A charter was applied for by a
group of citizens for the newly form
ed hotel company.
A mass meeting of Cairo citizens
asked for an expression of 1 the people
NOTICE TO 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-lf.
Roup and Colds in Chiakens 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.
FOR SALE—Heavy manila pamph
let open end envelopes, all sizes.
Messenger office. tf.
WE WANT EGGS, Country Meat,
Syrup, Taters, Corn. We Pay More.
HARVEY’S and HARVEY’S STAR.
LOST.—Brindle bob-tailed bulldog 1
year-old called “Tige”. W. E. Van
landingham, Rt. 1, Cairo. 4-7-2t-pd.
FOR RENT—3 or 4 room apt., pri
vate bath, hot water, private front
and rear entrance, occupancy May 1.
Phone 63-R.
FOR SALE.—My personal 1936 Chev
rolet master to'wn sedan. Lannis
Poulk. 4-7-2t.
STRAYED white bull bitch, from my
place near Providence Church April
1st. Liberal reward for recovery or in
formation. Walter Elkins. 4-7-4t.
THE MILK We use in our milk shakes
is about half cream. No wonder
we sell so many of them. GRADY
PHARMACY. 3-25-tf
* I. RUSSELL GRINER *
* Income, Estate and Processing *
* Tax Consultant *
* Thomasville, Georgia *
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for men who have to shoulder the re
sponsibilities.
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CITY TAX BOOKS
NOW OPEN!
MAKE YOUR TAX RETURNS NOWl
AVOID BEING DOUBLE TAXED!
The tax books of the City of Cair oa
now open for the 1939 return of all c j
property as of April 1st.
If you have not already filed youn
turn, you are cautioned to do so AT 0N(
if you wish to avoid penalty of doublet;
as provided by law. Also, filing of retui
NOW will prevent confusion and extra;
pense to the city later.
PAY YOUR PAST DUE CITY
TAXES AT ONCE
I TO AVOID LEVY AND SALE!
1 By Order of Mayor and Council
CITY OF CAIRO -
MRS. WALTER L. WIGHT
Clerk and Treasurer
i RISER III
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WHAT
BARGAINS SAVES
For ton
Uolsum Macaroni or
XYZ Salad SPAGHETTI 3 ^ ll
DRESSING Double-Fresh Silver Label
COFFEE . 2 kbs.
8-Oz. Jai Pint Jar Quart Jar Double-Fresh Gold Label
10* 15* 29* Nu-Treat COFFEE . 2 Lb S
XYZ Salad MARGARINE Lb
Johnson’s Floor (1/3 Lb. Extrai
SPREAD WAX . . 1-Lb. Can 5
8-Oz. Jar Pint Jar Quart Jar Brillo Soap Pads or Brillo
10c 15c 29c CLEANER 3 Pkgs, \
Super Creamed
CRISCO . 1-Lb. Can 2!
XYZ 3-Lb. Can 53c
MAYONNAISE SPICES Durkee Pkj.ll
5J-Oz. Jar 8-Oz. Jar Pint Jar . .
9c 13c 25c Camay
SOAP . , 3 Bars 1
Soap Chips
CHIPSO 3 Small Pkgs
TitVT! Northern Paper
Southern Manor Tea NAPKINS . Pkg.
with Gauze
your purchase of TISSUE 3 R° lls 1
Gold .
Label FJ.OUR N. B. C. Premium
2-oz. Pkg. with 12 Lbs. FLAKES 1 -Lb. Pkg- 1
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M-lb. Pkg. and Glass Palmolive
with 24 Lbs. SOAP 3 Bars 1
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12-Lb. Bag 24-Lb. Bag Regular Super
47 * 92 * SUDS Large Pkg. 1!
Family Milk 1'
BREAD m Loaf
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Tt m s Time To Turn To Ten
This week your ROGERS is featuring all brands of Tea. !
your nearest ROGERS — see their big display — marvel at
Tea prices which save you so much, and BUY NO W.
SOUTHERN MANOR
2-Oz. Pkg. 10 * Kb. Pkg. 19 C Pkg. 2-Lb. 33 '
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Beautiful Glass free with Vi-lb. Pkg. — 2 Glasses with Vz’^'
HiLan £ 20 * £ 37
Lipton i-Lb. e
4-Lb
Pkg. .... __ Pkg. '
Tetley T s £ 25 * £ 47
Tenderleaf £' 18 * £ 35
BANANAS, dozen I Q j
ORANGES, dozen 10*1
POTATOES, 10 lbs.
WANT ADS
IMPORTANT—Want A dp 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.
“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__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.