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of March 3rd, 1879.
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1st, 1904 to September, 1922.
H. H. WIND, Editor and Manager
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* CAIRO 15 YEARS AGO. * I
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August 31, 1934
Have You Had Two
Turkeys Stolen?
Have you missed two turkeys
(tame) from your flock during ;
the past few days? I
It might pay you to check up
and see, for Sheriff E. O. Alligood
nabbed a Negro this week who
was trying to dispose of two turk¬
eys at a ridiculously low price,
and he is convinced that the turk¬
eys are stolen property, but he
can’t get the Negro to tell where
he got them.
If you know of anyone who has
missed two turkeys, Sheriff Alli¬
good would like to know.
Cairo Motor Company has a
full page ad listing a new ton-and
a-half Ford V-8 truck at $485 F.
O. B.
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* CAIRO 30 YEARS AGO. *
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Sept. 5, 1919
Negro Soldiers Of Grady
County Welcomed
Wednesday, August 27th., will
be remembered as Negro Day in
Cairo. Fully 2,500 from Grady
and adjoining counties, gathered
at Cairo to do honor to the re¬
turned Negro Soldiers who enter¬
ed the service from Grady to help
make the world safe for demo¬
cracy.
At 1:00 p. m. the boys in uni¬
form, 84 in number, formed a line
and marched from A. M. E. church
to the Court House square and
thence to Copeland’s Park, where
the following program was ren¬
dered:
H. H. Holder stated the object
of the meeting. Audience sang
America. Prayer by Rev. N. A.
Lester.
H. H. Holder introduced Hon.
A. W. Miller, Mayor; declaring
him to be Mayor of all the people;
the best Mayor of the best town,
in the best state, in the best coun¬
try of the world.
In brief, but well-chosen words,
His Honor assured us that the
town was ours to do as we pleased
as long as we pleased to do right.
He said the town paid someone to
(jo its talking and introduced E D.
Rivers, Es., City Attorney.
BIBLE VERSE
"And whosoever will be chief
among you, let him be your ser¬
vant: Even as the Son of man
came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister, and to give his
life a ransom for many."
St. Matthew 20:27.28.
GRADY COUNTY'S UNIQUE
FARM TOUR.
Grady County's annual Farm
Tour, originated and sponsored
by the Agricultural
of the Kiwanis Club, is unique in
that it is the largest in the coun¬
try and brings more interested
farmers together than any other
such tour.
The idea of the tour is not new
or unique in itself, other counties
stage a similar event, but with
much less interest and co-opera¬
tion on the part of the
themselves. State Extension
ficials who went on the recent
tour were surprised at the num
ber of farmers who came along
to view new pastures and im
proved methods on the more pro
gressive farms. These officials
said that on the other tours they
had seen, 50 to 75 farmers was
considered . , ,__, a good turn-out. , „ .
The first of such tours here in
1948, brought out about 125 farm
ers. The ’49 tour, a few weeks
ago, saw between 350 and 370
farmers attend. This deirvon
strates most commendable , , , spirit .
a
of interest and progressiveness
on the part of Grady County farm
ers. It shows they are eager to
see new farm practices and meth
ods, and to learn at first hand
what may be taken back to their
ow nfarms and put into practice,
‘'Seeing is believing”, is an old
saying which the tour proves
true. The evidence is all
around us showing that these
farmers do go back home and put
new ideas into reality, which re¬
sult in better farms and more
farm income for the county.
As a result of the ’48 tour,
5,000 additional acres of hybrid
corn was planted this year, and
many pastures seeded. Since the
recent tour, many more inquiries
have come in about new and im
proved pastures.
All of this activity has brought
Grady County to the top in the
percentage of hybrid com grown.
Some estimates say the crop is
90 per cent hybrid corn already,
and the goal has been set to make
Grady the first county in the
whole nation to plant 100 per
cent hybrid corn. Ed Komarek,
head of the Greenwood Farms,
production and distribution cen¬
ter for Hybrid seed corn, says
Grady is far ahead of any other
county in the United States.
Since so much interest has been
shown by the farmers, a winter
pasture tour is now being plan¬
ned for next March, in addition
to the annual farm tour.
These accomplishments thus
far, which are outstanding and
praiseworthy, could not have
been achieved without able lead¬
ership and unusual interest and
co-operation from the farmers
themselves.
The Kiwanis Club of Cairo, in
one of the most notable projects
civic organization I
any ever under
took, is furnishing the able leader
ship, with the full co-operation;
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and assistance of the Chamber of
Commerce, County Agents, Soil
Conservation Department, and
Vocational Agriculture teachers.
In this effort, Agnew Smith, i
Chairman of the Kiwanis Agri- !
culture Committee, deserves
special recognition.
For this notable Annual farm
tour, we salute the leadership of
the Cairo Kiwanis Club, the pro-1
:
gressive spirit of the Grady
County i
farmers, and all others
who have had a part in this
worthy project. ]
May the next tour be bigger ;
and better, and may they con- 1
tinue to their dividends j
pay in
more prosperous and progressive
farms for Grady County.
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HARMFUL
Beverages form an appetizing j
part of every meal and, in mosit 1
act as an aid to digestion, j
large quantities of iced
beverages slow down digestion I
should be taken with caution.
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THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1949.
GA. GEN. ASSEMBLY
RANKS FIRST IN NUMBER
OF DOORKEEPERS.
We see now why the Georgia
General Assembly, in its regular
and S p ec j a i session, did not do
anything except raise taxes: they
were forced to find some extra
money somewhere to pay all the
doorkeepers, With 114 door
keepers, there was not any room
left to do anything except look
after the doors.
M. E. Thompson reported this
week in his newspaper, The
Georgia Democrat that the Gen
era * Assembly used 35 extra door¬
keepers for each door of the Sen
ate > arK * 26 for each door in the
House.
Mr. Thompson’s interesting re¬
port follows:
1949 regular session of the
Georgia legislature ® is a fine ex
ample , of . the extravagance of „ the
present Talmadge administration
with the people’s money,
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher,
J r - reports that the 1949 session,
^steci only 48 cJays, cost
taxpayers $418,317, which is
$8715 per day . Thi9 compared
w ith a total cost of $440,640, or
$6,295 per day for the regular
session in 1947 which ran the full
70 days.
When the 1949 legislature comes
back next year for its other 22
da y Si the total csot will far ex
ceed a half millon dollars. To
this must also be added the cost
of the recent extra session.
Much of the added expense this
year was to pay off the promises
Q f the Talmadge administration,
There were 114 assistant door¬
keepers for the General Assembly,
or 35 for each door to the Senate
chamber and 26 for each door of
the House of Representatives.
These 114 doorkeepers were paid
$6,256. Their duties were to sit
in the back row and sleep most
of the time.
The Senate had 25 assistant
managers and thl house had 61,
making a total of 86. They were
paid $7,539 of the people’s money.
The House had 197 pages and
the Senate had 79, a total of 276.
Those pages, some of them babies,
were paid $3,269 by the taxpayers
of Georgia.
There are 205 members of the
House and 54 Senators, making a
M a l of 259 lawmakers, There
were 480 employees, or almost two
for each member of the General
Assembly. Many of the assistant
doorkeepers, assistant messengers
and pages were members of the
families of the legislators, who
were nut satisfied with drawing
$15 per day for an average of
two hours work.”
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TWO GRADY COUNTIANS
GRADUATE AT G. S. C. W.—
Two Grady County students
received their degrees from G. S.
C. W.C. W. Milledgeville Satur¬
day, August 27th.
Miss Louise Thomas of Whig
ham received the degree of Bache¬
lor of Science (in Education. Miss
Amanda Wheeler of Cairo re¬
ceived the degree of Bachelor of
Science in Home Economics.
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Deaths And ! |
Funerals |
MRS. C. L. CANNON, 73.
(Beulah Garris Perritl)
The friends of Mrs. C. L. Can- j
non were saddened to hear of
her death which occurred at her
home on route 3, Cairo, Saturday |
afternoon, August 27. She had;
been in declining health for fif¬
teen years; for two weeks she
was critically ill.
The funeral service was held
at Pine Hill Primitive Baptist
Church at 3 o’clock Monday after
noon with Elder L. Z. Folmar of¬
ficiating. Interment Mowed in
the Pine Hill cemetery.
Active as pallbearers were six
of her grandsons and grand sons
in-law.
Mrs. Cannon was born in Chip
ley Fla., on October 21, 1875, the
daughter of the late Samuel and
Lizzie Connell Perritt. She was
married on December 22, 1896,
and had lived in Grady County
about fifty years.
Surviving are her husband, Mr.
C. L. Cannon, Cairo; five daught¬
ers, Mrs. H. B. Griner, Mrs. Alma
Lee Willis, Mrs. Garris Brown,
Cairo, Mrs. Vinnie Kelley, Cli¬
max, and Mrs. Ethel Jones, Al¬
bany; four sons, Coy, Delma and
Alonzo Cannon, of Largo, Fla.,
and Roy Cannon, of Whigham;
twenty-two grandchildren and
ten great grandchildren.
Arrangements by Forsyth
Bearden Funeral Home.
J. I. GARRETT. SR.. 68.
Montgomery, Ala.
The many friends of Miss Sue
Garrett were saddened to hear of
the sudden death of her father,
Mr. J. I. Garrett, Sr., which of
curred at his home in Montgom¬
ery, Ala., on Wednesday, August
24, following a heart attack. Mr.
Garrett had undergone a major
operation at the Fundation Hos¬
pital in New Orleans, La., on
August 8, from which he had re¬
covered; other complications, his
physicians thought brought on
the heart attack.
The funeral service was held
in Tallassee, Ala., on Thursday
afternoon, August 25; interment
followed in Rose Hill cemetery
there.
Mr. Garrett was born in Elmo
County, Alabama; for the past
thirty years he had made his
home in Montgomery.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
J. I. Garrett, Sr., of Montgomery;
two sons, James Garrett, of Mont¬
gomery, and J. I. Garrett, Jr., of
Meridian, Miss.; two daughters,
Miss Sue Garrett, of Cairo, and
Mrs. Clyde Chapman, of Sarasota,
Fla.; and one sister, Mrs. L. W.
Wilkenson, of Tuskegee, Ala.
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