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THE SEARCH-LIGHT
8. RUSSELL BRINSON,
KDITOB AND PKOPBIKTOB.
Official Organ
Oecatur County and Bainbridge
Entered in the Post Office, at Hain bridge
as second-class matter.
Bainbridoe, Ga., Judy 17.1903
Atlanta’s baseball team has
struck a winning streak since the
present session of the Georgia
legislature opened.
Mr. Roosevelt seems to have
weakened considerably in his po
sition as to sending that petition
to the czar of Russia.
Of course the $50,000 for the
St. Louis expo, carries with it a
free pass to and from the show for
every member of the legislature.
The Georgia senate declines to
have county school commissioners
tlected by the people. And the
senate is not far wrong, if at all.
We see occasional evidences of
the fact that Willie Hearst has
loosed his purse strings in Geor
gia.—Valdosta Times.
Hanged it we have seen any of
it over this way.
A Georgia Solon of “doubtful
age" has introduced a measure to
relieve voters of registering their
ages along with their names.
This is considered generally as the
initiary step toward woman suf
frage in this state.
The “gilt edge” north has been
struck by a veritable avalanche of
of suicide, rape and mob violence.
The recent activity in lynching
circles of that section is quite
enough to give even old “Bosting"
a jolt under the ribs.
All the fools are not dead yet,
even in the Legislature of Geor
gia. One fellow has introduced a
bill to tax divorces, while yet an
other wants to tax bachelors. Ye
gods! of what kind of mud are
some statesmen(?) made?
If grand juries are representa
tive bodies, which is generally be
lieved, but erroneously, they
should be elected by the people.
Any 24 men indiscriminately se
lected from a promiscuous body
are just as representative as any of
our present grand juries.
Pope Leo’s tenacious hold upon
life has been something wonderful
to be sure. More than 90 years
of age, yet he fights against death
succesfully and long. There are a
number of eligibles and the Pope’s
successor will be named as soon as
possible after his death has been
announced.
Joe Hill Hall's announcement
that he will be a candidate for
governor of Georgia at a future
time not tar distant, seems to have
“mudd’ed the water” in some cer
tain districts. There is no dodg
ing the fact that Mr. Hall will be
a factor to be considered in case
he finally decides to enter the
race.
The Chicago Chronicle (Dem.)
says: “The sublime years of Leo
XIII testify that gentleness con
duces to longevity. The awe and
deference with which the entire
civilized world has contemplated
the death of the Pontiff bear wit
ness that his was a philosophy of
living which it were well for the
world that all reasoning human
beings should strive to follow as
best they may.”
The demociatic party is still
very wisely casting about for pres
idential timber for 1904. In the
meantime the “timber" is passing
around among the people either
for inspection or admiration, per
haps both. The sooner the senti
ment of the party settles on a
leader the better it will be, for the
reason that no matter who may be
selected, there is strong probabil
ity that a harmonizing process will
have to be instituted.
A bill passed the house of rep
resentatives Monday providing for
the election of railroad commis
sioners by the people and it will
no doubt receive the favorable
consideration of the senate. A
growing disposition is being mani
fested toward the selection of all
public officials by the direct vote
of the people; and with the white
primary on hand there can be
waged no serious objection to this
plan of making the official directly
responsible to the people whom he
serves.
The patent medicine man with
his sign is not often absent from a
community long, and the knack
with which he places his placards
to fit the occasion and suYround
ings is nothing short of “dazzling.”
At the entrance of Wesfview cem
etery in Atlanta, conspicuously
displayed is the sign, "Johnssn’s
Invigorating Cordial,” but in spite
of It all the painful reflection re
mains that the dead sleep on “un
invigorated,” and the mourners
pass sorrowing even under the
gaze of these brazen letters.
Judge Thomas G. Jones of the
United States district court of
Alabama, has gone to such unnec
essary extremities in charging
juries in peonage cases, and has
excoriated so severely juries who
have failed under oath to reach a
satisfactory conclusion, that many
have wondered it he really didn’t
have an eye upon the judgeship of
the Uuited States circuit court of
appeals. We are willing for Judge
Jones to have the office if he can
get it, but if the charges be true it
a sad commentary upon the
judiciary of the country and should
receive the public’s deepest frown
of disapproval.
Sheriff Sales.
GEORGIA—Decatur County:
Will be sold before the court
If there’s any one thing more in
the way of the Georgia legislator
than another, it is the bountiful
banquets and barbecues that fall
across his path, and he has adopt
ed a policy of mowing ’em down
as fast as they, appear upon the
scene. It s said that our local
representatives arc distinguishing
themselves upon every occasion
where their services are called for
in the good cause.
The entire faculty of the law
department of Mercer University
has resigned. Judge Emory
Speer was the dean of this faculty.
The resignation is caused by' a
faction in the state who are an
tagonistic to the Mercer law school
and who are attempting to pro
cure legislation to compel a two
years’ course at the school and
place the curriculum at the dicta
tion of a state board of examiners.
In the letter of resignation the
faculty denounce this attempt in
no undecided term i and say among
other things, that the proposed
legislation might be entitled, “An
act to deprive the poor but ambi-
house door in the city of Bainbridge,
Ga., during the legal hours of sale,
on the first Tuesday in August 1903,
the following desonbed property to-
wit:
All of twelve acres off of lot of
land No. 363 in the 20th district of
Decatur county, described as follows:
Commencing at the southwest cor
ner of a 20-acre tract in the north
west corner of said lot, owned by
Sandy Austin; thenoe east 385 yards
thence south 153 yards, thenoe west
385 yards, thence north 153 yards to
starting point, and 25 acres off of
lot No- 363 in 20th district of said
county bounded on north by lands
of Thomas Rioks, now owned by
said parties, east by lands of Lilia S.
Griffin, south by lands of Duke
Johnson, west by lot 338 in said dis
trict, containing in all 37 acres, and
levied upon as the property of Jacob
and Gabriel Winbusb, Sue Anthony
and Rebecca Smith, to satisfy
mortgage fi fa issued from the May
term of superior court 1903, in favor
of Bainbridge State' Bank, vs. Jacob
and Gabriel Winbush. Sue Anthony
and Rebeoca Smith.
Also at the same time and place,
one-fourth of an acre o f land de
scribed as follows: Lying in the
Parmalee extension of the city of
Bainbridge, said state , and county,
on the extension of Planters street
on the Bainbridge and Thomasville
road, fronting north on said street or
road 17$ yards and running back
from said street south 70 yards, con
taining one-fourth of an acre and
improvements thereon, being 105
yards east from the east side of Ross
street. Levied upon as the property
of Delphia Rushin to satisfy a mort
gage fi fa issued from the May term
superior court 1903, in favor of Mrs.
E. G. Bruce vs. Delphia Rushin.
Also at same time and place 33
aores land more or less bounded
north by Chattahoochee road, east
by lands of E. H. Ingram, south by
lands of Mrs. Callie Thomas, west by
land formerly owned by Franois
Houston, being part of lot 371 in
20th district of Decatur county, also
four acres off of land in northeast
corner of lot No. 371 commencing at
Chattahoochee road and running eaBt
four acres, thence south one acre,
thence back west to Chattahoochee
Road. Also ten acres lying between
lands of James Johnson and L. E,
Glisson, running two acres north and
south and five aores east and west,
being in south Bide of lot No. 243 in
20th district of Decatur county, Ga.
Levied upon as the property of E. H.
Ingram to satisfy a fi fa issued from
December term 1902 of city court of
Bainbridge, Ga., in favor of Grenada
Drug Co., vs. E. H, Ingram.
Also at same time and place all of
lot of land No. 93 in th6 21st dis
trict of Decatur county and levied
upon as the property of Holland.
Peel & Co., to satisfy a fi fa issued
from the May term superior court
190£, in favor of T. J. Rhodes vs.
Holland, Peel & Co.
Also at the same time and place
all of one hundred acres of land
across the north side of lot No. 86
in the 27th distriot of Decatur coun
ty, levied npou as the property of
Martha A Clarke to satisfy a mort
gage fi fa issued from the May term
superior oourt 1903, in favor ol A.
L. Townsend, surviving partner, vs.
Marina A Clark.
Also at the same time and place
all that certain city lot with all im- j
provements thereon in the city of
Bainbridge, Deoatur county Ga.,
bounded on the north by property of
Emiline Mitchell, east by property
of Primus Perkins, south by Ceme
tery street, formerly called Back
street, and west by property of J.
W. F. Johnson, containing one half
acre more or less, and levied upon as
tho propety of M. E. O’Neal to sat
isfy a mortgage fi fa issued from the
May term superior court 1903, in
favor of Mrs. E. G. Bruce vs. M. E.
O’Neal.
This July 9th, 1903.
A. W. Fordiiam, Sheriff.
Notice.
All persons are hereby warned not
tious youth of Georgia of access j 10 P l<J k up, sell or otherwise dispose
to legal profession, and to confer o{ our ^yP re88 on Flint river
its opportunities and amoluments
on the sons of the wealthy.” The
faculty consisted of Judge Emory
Speer, W. H. Felton, Jr., Olin J.
Wimberley and Clem P. S’eed.
nor to alter, change or deface Our
brand on same. All pel sous are al
so warned not to bay any of oar
logs.
The Cypress Lumber Co.
Apalachicola Fla.
MELTON & DUKES’
Edwin Clapp and
James A. Banister
SHOIEHS Hj
FOR MEN,
Are a little ahead of anything else in Kaiabrid
Ige.
The Dorothy Dodd
is the best wearing woman’s shoe in the
world and always gives satisfaction.
From Man to Child
we have the best fitting, n latest, easiest
wearing shoes for the least money.
4- -4 4*
You are invited to call at
Melton & Dukes,
Bainbridge, Ga,]
THOS. J. WILLIAMS, Manager.
J. T. LANE,
Iron City, Qa.
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Transtation-Gom iJ kincp'
MCCORMICK
VERTICAL.
CORN
binder
CORN B1NDEI
Ib the language of the Indian, after which our
great American crop was named, corn ie king. Tmc
grain value of the corn erop is »pproxiu*wJ
•1,000,000,000. It is estimated that the stalks end
fodder are worth as much more. Think, then, of tkc
amount you can make by saving all of your corn crop*
Sfee McCORMICK
corn hinder and h maker and akredder enaklea yon to
oavo tkia part of tke corn orop tkat kaa in paat year.
Call and aee a ample machine.
(one to nraate.
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