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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Official Organ
Decatur County and Bainbridge
Entered in the Pont Office, st Hainiii :<ltfe
as second-class |matter.
Bainbridoe, Ga., May 20.1603
Washington’s postoffice scan-
dais are still scandalizing Wash
ington. •
The Southern Railway is about
to absorb the Mobile & Ohio Ry.,
the merger to take effect July 15.
This is the season of the ice
man, and he is in the center of
many a sun-parched community.
Pensacola, Fla., has been vigor
ously enforcing her Sunday laws,
and the town is locked as tight as
a brick wall on that day.
The whole country is discussing
the agricultural possibilities of
south Georgia and the develop
ment of the sugar cane industry.
Work is soon to begin on At
lanta's new depot and the copy
hooks of the great dailies of that
great city will again be replenished
for a season.
A great cyclone has swept por
tions of the west, Nebraska in
particular, leaving devastation and
human death in its path. All of
which is wrong in Mr. Bryan, of
course.
The Georgia sugar cane like
the Georgia peach, the Georgia
watermelon and that other excel
lent Georgia vegetable, the Geor
gia o’possum, is bound to take po
sition on the agricultural band
wagon.
The commencement season is
upon the country and the sweet
girl graduate arrayed with i di
ploma and a couple of shirt waists,
wends her way into the world.
Thus arrayed she should find
the world lying conquered at her
feet
An exchange discussing the
race question declares that the
principal difference between the
north and south is that in the
south the negro is not allowed to
vote, but he can work; while the
north allows him to vote but re
fuses him the right to work.
The Savannah Press thinks that
Jim Griggs is too intelligent a
man to run for governor of Geor
gia with a $3,000 salary, when he
might as well remain in Washing
ton at a public wage of $6,325 per
annum. This knocks out the idea
that newspaper men never have an
eye to business.
The acquittal of Mrs. Effie L.
Carson charged with the murder
of Robt. L. Rigsby in Macon, Ga.,
some time last spring, should
prove a lesson to those male indi
viduals of almost every community
who stand ever ready to cast re
flections upon the good name of
some woman of their acquaint
ance.
It is evidenc that Senator Han
na does not propose that Mr.
Roosevelt shall have the republi
can- nomination for president in
1904 if he can help it. However
Mark may withdraw his opposition
it the pressure becomes too great.
He usually possesses the happy
faculty of falling on the winning
side of the question when the
show down comes.
MR. WHEELER’S MISTAKE.
The appearance of Joe Wheeler
I at the Confederate Re-Union at
j New Orleans recently in a Union
; Army uniform, seems to have
caused a bit of unfavorable com
ment, it it did not actually lead to
his less hearty reception. While
no one doubts the loyalty of Gen.
Wheeli r to the cause for which he
one fought, yet it might have
been more in taste had he appear
ed in tne uniform of grey, or in
citizens dress. Every one realizes
that the war is over, we are not
again hghting the battles which
once we waged, but at this great
re union it is supposed to uncover
for a season the past in memory
of the deeds of valour, the suffer
ings, the sorrows in which the
South took part in those great
days of battle. With this end in
view, it was but proper that every
thing should have been as propi
tious as possible to the re-call.
Certainly the appearance of an ex-
Confederate general wearing the
uniform of the toe of the past,
could not add to the joyousness of
the occasion, nor to the fitness and
harmony of the scene.
It is unfortunate that Mr.
Wheeler did not appear in his old
time uniform of tattered grey, one
that would be readily recognized
by those who were his comrades.
To their dim eyes he would have
appeared more natural. We would
have preferred seeing him once
more adorned in his fighting
clothes of the sixties—those that
have fitted him best, and certainly
thoss whose richness of Jiistory
would have addressed itself more
to Southern sympathies. - We
should have delighted to have seen
him again at the head of Wheel
er’s cavalry, the same fearless
leader, the same unconquered
fighter that he was of old. What
treasured memories he would thus
have called up; and with such an
other hurrah his name would have
been shouted to the skies, and in
memory at least the Confederate
hosts would have been triumphant
for the moment. However the
incident has been closed, and the
re-union was the brightest and
best in the history of the organi
zation. For this cause every true
Southern heart rejoices, and there
is every evidence that with the
passing of the years we shall
gather into the treasure house of
t(ie memory mose lasting recollec
tions of the privations and tears
which entitle all faithful veterans
to wear the Confederate Cross of
Honor.
We bury the past so far as
hatred goes, but the daring deeds
of the outnumbered hosts of the
civil war shall live forever. We
furl the banner with the confidence
that it shall remain safe in the
keeping of the sons of the bravest
of earth’s battlers. One by one
the veterans themselves, seek that
unknown shore from which no
wandering warrior returns. The
light of their eyes have faded but
the brightness of their lives and
the glamour of their deeds shall
add luster afresh to the history of
our Southern land. May they
rest secure in the dawn of one
bright day that shall never end.
beyond the battlement of the
skies.
The advanced price in raw cot
ton has caused many of the cotton
mills of the south to close down
temporarily and sell their cotton.
Just how long this state of affairs
will continue is hard to say, but
the probability is that by the time
the farmers harvest their crops
the price will have dropped to
where it will again prove profitable
for the mills to resume operations.
Professional.
R. A- GRAVES & CO
Insure against loss by fire and
tornadoes.
Search Light Building.
DR. R. W. JACKSON,
DLNT1ST..
Office on Broad St., over Allen & Co
Telephone 94.
BYRON BOWER, (JORDON BOWER.
BOWER & BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Practice in State Courts, Federal
and Justioe Courts.
Offiice- Old Search-Light Building,
Bainbridge, Georgia.
Reference: First National Bank.
A. L. TOWNSKND, G. F. WESTMORELAND
TOWNSEND &
WESTMORELAND,
ATTOTNRYS-AT-LA W.
Bainbridge. - - Georgia.
dr. hi d. Wilson,
DENTIST.
Office over Mart Clothing Go’s Store
Bainbridge, Georgia.
JOE. H. GILPIN
ATTORNEY—AT—LAW,
Will practice in all courts,
Bainbridge - Georgia.
DR. MATHER M. MoCORD,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Whighatn, - Georgia.
Office: Trulook Building.
Calls answered promptly day and night.
ALBERT H. RtJSSELL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
OFFICE: Over Bainbridge State Bank
Bainbridge. - - Georgi
R. G. HARTSFIELD,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
' Bainbridgd, - - Georgia.
Office Over Bainbridge State Bank.
W. I. GEER,
ATTORNEY- AT-LA W
Office in Court House.
Colquitt. Georgia.
E. A. WIMBEIiLEY,
COMMISSIONER Of’dEEDS FOR FLORIDA
Superior Court Commissioner, No
tary Public (with Seal.)
Office With Clerk Superior Court.
Baiubridge, Georgia.
H. B, SPOONER.
ATTORNEY - AT - LAW
Office Oppposite Hawes & Hawes
Bainbridge, - - - Georgia.
M. V. MILLER,
Physican and Surgeon,
TYPHOID FEVER SPECIALIST.
Office: Broad St., Whigham, Ga.
JOHN R. WILSON,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
AT LAW,
Bainbridge, - - Georgia.
Collections a Specialty.
A FULL LINE OF
Harness, Collars, Bridles,
and anything in the Harness Line
can be tound at
C. H. GRIFFIN’S
HARNESS STORE,
On North Broad Street,
BAINBRIDOE, -- q Eos
Also carry Harness Oil, Soap
and Axel Oil, Heavy Team Collars.
Repairing: Done Neat and Prompt at
Reasonable Prices.
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DFI-A-ILTOS
Prices and Terms to Suit Everybody.
CALL ON OR WRITE TO
CAPERS KING, Bainbridge, qj
Representing the old Reliable firm of
LTTXDZDEIjT cSc B-A.TBS
S. M. H., Savannah,!
cottoint see
We will pay 25 cents per bushel of 30 poi
for sound dry seed delivered at our Mi
West Bainbridge, Ga.
WILL EXCHANGE
100 poua
75 pounds Cotton Seed Meal for
Cotton Seed.
BAINBRIDGE OIL MILL.
J. M. DIFFEE, Manager.
Wanted '• At once, 10,000 pounds
of good fodder. Will pay $1.25 ppr
hundred pounds.
H. B. Brockx.tt,
Bainbridge, Ga.
BRIDGES & THOMPSC
BRINSON, OA.
BAKERY. - - RESTAURA!
MEAT MARKET
Sandwiches, Lunches. Hot Chocolate and
Bons at a* 1 Hours.
Stab fed Beef on foot or by the quarter.
GIVE US A TRIAL.
BRIDGES & THOMPSON,
BR ,VC 9%'. GA.
MY PICTURES
stn.d.
VIEWS—►
Give satisfaction to all. For the next 15
will be in Brinson, and will he glad to server
* Respectfully.
F. J. GREENE, Brinson, ®
The Cypress Lumber C
Shingles, TanKs, & House Fid
properly manufactured
APALACHICOLA, FLORlJ