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,U'ME xxxvi.
i ■[ GRADY SCHOOLS
FORCED i TO CLOSE
L LjbU T V B04RD OF EDUCATION
f TRANSPORTATION
GUARANTEED.
kg Eoai ^ of Education of Grady
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bt.v met in regular monthly ses
last Tuesday, with Chair
here presiding and with
” s p Cain
".s'*- nf the four other members pres
* Maxwell, vice
\y. G‘. Bullock and G. is.
jrman Stringer Jr., was ab
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k county school financial crisis
e about the only mat
the chief and
j of business discussed and acted
" statement to The
promised in a
ssenger last week, the board, after
siderbale discussion, voted to .gua r
he costs of bus transportation to
various school districts of the
Ly for the eighth and where ninth schools mon
of the 1939-40 term
[tinue L to operate.
hoard some time ago agreed to
L bus transportation costs for the
L three weeks of the seventh month
L last Friday. The state has fi¬
tted [term, operations for six months of
and some time ago promis
[such | financing for latest one Week advices of
seventh month, but
Ir ,i Atlanta are to the effect that
ids to finance this week of opeia
are not now available. Aside
jm transportation costs, the schools
the county have been operating
ice March 11th on local funds or tu
Ion charge?.
■The county’s two senior high schools
■ Cairo and Whig-ham continued to
liifwle along this week on a tuition
Isis, officials reported, with com
Ition of the normal term of nine
laths dependent entirely upon eon
lued adequate support by the pa¬
ins on the tuition basis.
■County School Supt. W. R. Eskew
ported that the Central, Live Oak,
lew Home, Turkey Creek and Union
tammar schools and the grammar
■tool department of the Elpino ju
lor high school failed to continue op
[ations I this week toward completion
normal terms.
The Spence junior high school trus¬
ts, [tided at a meeting last '-Friday night,
to continue to operate both
pmmar and junior high depart¬
eds for the eighth month ending on
bril 26th.
■The Calvary junior high school, it
| *ntlis understood, plans to complete nine
on a normal basis.
[Tiie pded Reno last junior high school sus
londay Friday but re-opened on
and is expected to operate
L grammar and junior high school
rPaitments for the eighth month.
ITht Elpino junior high school de
irtmeirt will continue to operate at
fst for the eighth month in charge
I lames L. Sharpe, who has been
Iwted principal for next term, with
r s Connie Edge taking over the
ptiing duties of Principal Wh Mug
rdge, who, with his family, left last
Nay for Collegeboro, Where he will
Nlete his work for a degree during
r summ er from the Georgia State
Refers College. Mr. Muggridge is
f ^ er fiocratic nominee for County
f ° 0 ' | u P ei 'intendent for Grady
P : ' N The quadrennium begin
P Midway gn «xt Jan. 1st.
I grammar school is expect
continue to completion of a nor
‘ em of nine months and Pawnee
n ayside
grammar schools are un¬
fstdod to be operating for the 8th
°nth. at least.
-J "“Motion 16 0ard s action in guaranteeing
1 fun,In for the eighth
"»th months i 5 said to bo
cont respon
,i of . mued operation of seve
the schools.
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The Official Organ of Grady County
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McManeus Honored
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Marking the completion of twenty
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15 ENUMERATORS AT
WORK ON ’40 CENSUS
MOST OF CONFUSION CLEARED
UP AS WORK STARTS AS
SCHEDULED.
Uncle Sam’s regular ten-year
“counting of human noses” got un¬
derway here as scheduled on Tuesday
Ap- il 2nd, after considerable confu¬
sion that developed over boundary
lines of the county’s'enumeration dis¬
tricts was mostly cleared up.
A. V. Piickren, of Decatur county,
completed the field work for the 1940
business and manufacturers’ census
in this county last Saturday, March
30th, just before the decennial popu¬
lation, farm and housing census was
undertaken.
The confusion developed Saturday
when enumerators were issued their
supplies from the local post office.
Maps of most, if not all of the rural
enumeration districts, sent out from
Washington, were found to be much
out-of-date, probably about twenty
years old, and would have brought
about untold inaccuracies had the
enumerators been left to follow them
implicitly. Some of the rural maps,
for instance, show the Cairo city lim¬
its as they were before the 1927 ex¬
tension, and it was first thought that
the maps for the two City of Cairo
enumeration districts were just
as out-of-date, but these were found
to include the 1927 extension, altho
quite incomplete as to detail of seve¬
ral residential subdivisions developed
during the past several years.
A meeting of enumerators for the
county was held at The Messenger
office Monday night and boundary
lines of the different enumeration dis¬
tricts were clarified somewhat, but
considerable undue effort still awaits
most of the enumerators, it is said,
because of the out-of-date maps.
There are nineteen enumeration
districts in Grady county. Only eight
een enumerators were tentatively as¬
signed to them last week by Judge D.
R. Bryan, District Enumerator, and
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FLORIDA ARROW TO GO OFF
APRIL 19. 22.
Richard Sawyer, local agent of the
A. C. L. railroad, said this week
April 19th and 22nd have been set
as the dates for the discontinuance of
the seasonal service of the Florida
Arrow, crack Chicago-Miami passen¬
ger train, operated via ‘Cairo. The
1 above dates call for the last south¬
bound trip April April 19th 22nd. and the last
| northbound trip
The service is being continued long
this season than ever before be
er travel
of the heavy tourist to
cause reported
and from Florida. Officials
! the Jacksonville terminal cleared
j more passenger trains last week-end
j than for anv oth pv c in-lb-!’’ ncr'o.l in
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CAIRO, GRADY COUNTY, GA., F III DAY, APRIL 5TH, 1940.
BUSINESS, MARKETS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
LOCAL MERCHANTS’ SALES OF
INTEREST; AI)S DRAW
ATTENTION.
Special sales in progress at local
business houses or announced to be¬
gin today are of interest to the peo¬
ple of this trade territory. Messen¬
ger ads this week list many special
values offered.
Sanders, the local jewelry and
watch-repair concern, has an ad on
diamonds and watches that will
doubtless be read with unusual inter¬
est. Edtwards’ announces a special
sale covering this concern’s entire
stock and an ad lists a number of bar¬
gains for the sale, which begins this
morning. Harry Goldstein, closing
out Levy’s stock preparatory to op¬
ening of a new business on North
Broad street, announces a number
of new and more drastic mark-downs
in men’s and ladies’ wear.
In the grocery and meat market
line, special week-end sales are ad¬
vertised in this issue for Gandy Bro¬
thers, Rogers, Mixon’s and A. & P.
Other ads in this issue contain im¬
portant messages from other con
cerns; you are invited to read them
all.
EXTENSIVE RE MODELING
UNDERWAY.
Remodeling and repairing have hit
a high peak for early spring here,
with a number of residences and bu¬
siness houses included.
Probably most notable in the busi¬
ness line are the Improvements at
Harevy’s Grocery & Market, on North
Broad street, which is being trans¬
formed into one of the most attract¬
ive and most modernly-arramred gro¬
cery strres and meat markets in this
entire section. The remodeling work
has been underway for about three
weeks and will be finished soon.
'Considerable new equipment is
being added jand chief among the new
items Will be the fruit and vegetable
refrigerated display case, where fruits
and vegetables will be kept at the
peak of condition at all times, All
display cases have been removed from
the front plate glass windows because
of much faster deterioration of stocks
from excessive heat and sunlight
there—and Venetian blinds provide a
most attractive front appearance. The
entire arrangement of the interior of
the store has been greatly changed to
make displays more attractive and
provide greater convenience.
Watch for the formal opening an¬
nouncement and sale.
Another notable remodeling job
here is that at the Cairo Fire Depart¬
ment, where the building has been
completely remodeled and refinished,
affording a much more attractive ap¬
pearance.
HEREFORD BULL WILL BE
GIVEN AWAY TUESDAY.
The regular weekly livestock auc
tion at the pens of the Cairo Live
stock Auction Co., Ine., here, next
Tuesday at 1:30 p. m., will be fca
tured by the last of a series of three
scrub bull sales; and a pure-bred
Hereford bull, valued at $75, will be
given away, absolutely free, in con¬
nection therewith, to some one of the
patrons of either of the three scrub
bull sales.
Much interest is indicated in the
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Grady Countians, Pay Your Poll Taxes
By May 4th.
TIME LIMIT: Saturday, May 4th, last day for pay¬
ment of poll taxes for 1939 and prior years for registered
person to be eligible to vote later this year, and for new
voters to register.
PLACE: Office of Tax Commissioner T. Frank Proc¬
tor at Courthouse in Cairo.
POLL TAXES: Pol) taxes, $1 a year, required of all
male persons between ages of 21 and 60. Women voters are
subject to poll taxes each year after registering. Blind
persons exempt.
NEW Y r OTERS: Persons who become 21 before gen¬
eral election next Nov. 5th may register by May 4th and
i vote in elections later this year; poll taxes assessed for
i 1940 will not be due until just before tax books close Dec.
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GRADY CLUB WOMEN
ENJOY ANNUAL TOUR
MORE THAN 150 .JOIN ANNUAL
OUTING; THOMAS COUNTY
IS. VISITED.
More than 150 Grady county wo¬
men, members of the various Home
Demonstration Clulbs, Thursday en¬
joyed the annual tour sponsored by
the Grady County Home Demonstra¬
tion Council.
The plans for the tour have been
underway for several weeks, in charge
of Mrs. Noah W. Stanfill, council
president; Miss Lettie Cowart, Coun¬
ty Home Demonstration Agent; and
various committees.
Chief of Police J. W. Thomas, of
the City Court of Cairo, was the of¬
ficial escort for the motorcade, which
left Cairo early Thursday morning
and returned here late in the after¬
noon. Miss Rosa McGee, District
Home Demonstration Agent, and
County Agnt H. L. Trussed, Jr., of
this county, were special guests.
The tour this year included visits
to points of interest in Tliomasville
and Thomas county. At Thomasville,
Secretary Dewey Norwood, of the
Chamber of Commerce, conducted the
tour of points of interest in Thomas
ville, and later L. S. Crosby, super¬
intendent of several of the large and
attractive estates south of Thomas¬
ville, took charge.
In Thomasville, visits Were paid the
Vashti Home, the Georgia Packing
Co. meat packing plaint, Hjort’s Azal¬
ea Woodland and Nursery, the John
D. Archbold Hospital, the ice and cold
storage plant of the Thomasville Ice
& Mfg. Co., and other places.
Lunch was served picnic style at
Sinkola Lake, on the Sinkola estate,
and the tour continued with a well
planmed inspection of the Sinkola,
Melrose, Millpond, Pebble Hill and
Winnstead estates, where the azaleas,
dogwood, etc., are at the height of
their glorious spring beauty.
The 1940 t^ur was well-planned and
I was carried out without serious mis
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i hap. The tourists were given every¬
where a most cordial reception, which
was greatly appreciated.
Game, Fish Club Will
Meet, Eat Fish Today
The G'rady County Hunting and
Fishing Club Will hold its regular
meeting at Davis Park here today,
Friday, April 5th, beginning at 6 p.
m., with President John Wight pre¬
siding.
A fish supper will be served be¬
ginning promptly at 6:15 and a busi¬
ness session will follow-. The meeting
will ibe over in time for any who de¬
sire to see the Bainbridge-Cairo foot¬
ball game beginning at 7:30.
Membership in the club is open to
any person interested in improvement
of local hunting and fishing, All
members, and others interested in the
objectives of the organization, are
ul1 g en tly requested to enjoy the fish
SU pp er a(ld attend the meeting at
; £) j Park. ‘
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Mrs. George W. Lee returned to ter
home in Parrott Monday after spend¬
ing several days here with her sister,
Mrs. A. C. Dickey, Sr.
Miss Beulah Zant has as her guest,
her sister, Mrs. Kate Outlaw, of Lake
| Park, who expects to spend several
! w-eeks here.
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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Washington, D. C.—Sumner Welles,
sent to Europe on an exhaustive fact¬
finding tour by President Roosevelt,
returned to Wahington last week to
report in person to the Chief Execu¬
tive on conditions in that war-torn
continent. Photo shows Mr. Welles,
(right), as he arrived at the White
House accompanied by Secretary of
State Cordell Hull.
CITY COURT /tAITIVT li/l TO flffnrnn MELT
r\l AT U.JV AN iTlVlli/ril IViliNnA Y
FEW CASES PENDING; SHORT
SESSION IN PROSPECT,
IT IS SAID.
The regular April, 1940, term of
the City Coui’t of Cairo will convene
as regularly scheduled at 8:30 a. m.
next Monday, April 8th,-. official? an¬
nounced this week. Judge G. L. Wor
thy will preside and Solicitor G. May
nai '■ Smith will represent the state.
Jurors drawn to serve at the term i
are listed elsewhere.
The session may prove to be the
shortest in some time, it is said.
Only a few criminal cases are pend¬
ing, because of the large number of
these cases that continue to be dis¬
posed of at the weekly non-jury ses¬
sions on Mondays. Members of the
local bar and court officials met a
few days ago and arranged a calendar
of the civil cases set for trial at the
term. All of the civil cases are set
for Tuesday. Criminal cases will
be called Monday. None is said to
be of unusual importance. The ses¬
sion may not continue beyond Wed¬
nesday.
THREE CASES DISPOSED OF 1 I
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Three criminal • • i cases were dispos- j- I
ed of at last Monday's weekly non
jury session of „ City Court . here, , With , ...
Judge G. L. Worthy presiding i- and i
0 Solicitor ,. .. G. n Maynard Smith 0 ... repre
senting the .... state.
Laii Muikerson, Jr., on a plea of
guilty to a charge of driving a mo
tor vehicle without a driver’s license,
was sentenced to pay a fine of $5 or
seive thirty days in jail.
J. D. Johnson, pleading guilty to a
charge of driving while under the
influence of liquor, was sentenced to
pay a fine of S50 or serve six months
on the public works.
Tom Cain, on a plea of guilty to a
charge of having liquor, was sentenc¬
ed to serve twelve months on the
l public works, to be served on proba- j
tion upon payment of a fine of $100.
FOOTBALL HERE
I Cairo To Play Bainbridge At Syrup
Bowl Tonight, 7:30.
The football squads of the Bain- ;
I bridge and Cairo schools, now termi
j nating an intensive period of spring
1 practice, will be pitted against each J
| other at the Syrup Bowl field here j
! tonight, beginning at 7:30 o’clock, in
! the first of such encounter ever staged |
I here.
These teams are old rivals and the |
jspiing contest here tonight is expect- I
ed to stir unusual interest. Fans are
jurged to be there. !
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XI.rs. Miss Lannis Marguerite Nicholson Matthews spent last and j
week-end visiting in Atlanta. |
NUMBER 13.
CO. COMMISSIONERS
IN MONTHLY SESSION
CONDEMNATION AUTHORIZED
ON RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR
MEIGS HIGHWAY.
The Board of County Commission
ers met last Tuesday in regular mon¬
thly session for April and almost the
entire day was spent considering va¬
rious matters. Chairman Walter
Davis presided, with all of the other
Commissioners present, as follows:
T. W. Aldredge, G'. W. Connell, L. 0.
Maxwell, Sr., and W. E. Wamble.
Highway modernization matters
claimed a good part of the day. A
delegation of citizens reported on a
recent conference with state officials
in Atlanta, and, after considerable
discussion, a resolution was adopted
authorizing condemnation of tracts
of the right-of-way for the Cairo
Meigs highway, which is now being
cleared and grubbed. Only a very
few of the nearly thirty deeds re¬
main to be executed, it is said.
The Commissioners also voted to
grant a fifteen-foot strip alongside
the south end of the Courthouse'
square for the widening by the City
of Cairo of 2nd Ave., N. E., provided
arrangements are perfected for the
street to be widened the same extent
further east. Efforts are being made
t0 °P en this street all the way to the
new 0Ver P ass street
The Commissioners also authorized
mov ' n S’ a residence partially in the
1 ight-of-way of the neW overpass
street, in the northeastern section of
the city, in co-operation with the City
of Cairo.
A delegation of about twenty-five
men and women appeared to urge the
Commissioners to provide some limit¬
ed, temporary relief for the public li
ki'arjf operated in the City Hall he-.e
with City of Cairo and WPA aid, in
v ’ t>vv withdrawal of the WPA
aid, effective May 1st. The Commb
sioners voted to P a F $ 35 a month for
^ 1,ee months to keep the library
open, if necessary. Resumption of
WPA aid later in the summer is fore
seen. The library has enjoyed a very
steady increase in circulation of
books since it was established early
last year.
Miss Mary Louise Maxwell, the
county welfare director, appeared to
seek the county’s co-operation in in¬
creasing the personnel of the local
WPA sewing room from fifteen to
twenty-five women, and the Commis¬
sioners pledged co-operation to this
end. However, it is understood that
a subsequent reduction in WPA act¬
ivities has eliminated the local sew¬
ing room entirely, although the sus¬
pension may be only temporary.
Th ^ Commissioners heard com
plaints , about the operation of an
amusement place which was recently
g . ?, , * P< T"? an<l , uest tor „
a re ?
cancellation of the permit, Plans
were made , to t , have a formal hearing
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today, , but , it ., is . reported r . , that , the
complaints , . . . have . been withdrawn, ,
The Commissioners, „ after discus
? j on> to Sheriff Odus Al
ligood 60c per day ingtead of 55c per
each as lboard for jail inmates>
A permit was grante d to Russell T.
Jones for the operation of an amuse _
ment p]ace two miles north of Whig .
EDITOR CAYCE TO
PREACH IN GRADY
Primitive Baptist Elder Will Come
Here For Sermon Series April
fith Through 11th.
Elder C. H. Cayce, Editor, The
Primitive Baptist, published at Thorn¬
ton, Ark., is appointed to preach as
follows:
Piedmont Church, April 6 and 7th.
Tired Creek, April 8th, 11 a. m.
Pisgah Church, April 9th, 11 a. m.
Cairo Presbyterian Church, April
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Trinity Church, Apiil 10, 11 a. m.
Whigham Missionary Baptist
Church, April 11th, 7 p. m.
The general public is cordially in
vited to h eai ' Elder Cayce at either or
ad these appointments.
He was heard at the old Presbyter
ian Church here and at other chur
ches in this section a number of years
ago with unusual interest and many
arc looking forward to hearing him
during the next week.