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THE SEARCH-LIGHT
S. RUSSELL BRIM
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Official Organ
Decatur County and Bainbridge
Entered in the Post Office, at Buinbridge
as second-class matter.
Bainbridge, Ga. ( July 24.1908
The Senate on Tuesday defeated
the bill passed by the house for
the election of county sc ool
commissioners by the people.
Macon is jubilant over the fact
that her river, the Ocmulgee, is
now open for navigation and she
will now have a water route to the
sea.
It is said that even strenuous
Teddy Roosevelt has been induced
to take the summer easy, and that
he is spending the long sultry days
at Oyster Bay. There are few
individuals that old Sol doesn’t
knock the ginger out of.
Judge Henry G. Turner has
been tendered the place on the su
preme court bench made vacant
by the death of Judge Samuel
Lumpkin. It is doubtful whether
he will accept. The appointment
seems to give general satisfaction.
Peaches are being rapidly moved
to market. Up to date 669 car
loads have gone forward. How
many loads did Decatur county
contribute? Yet we have as fine
peach growing soil as the Fort
Valley district, and there is a mint
of money in the business.
The American turfmen, espe
cially those who follow the run
ning course are said to be giving
more attention than ever to Eng
and Croker have
largely of late in
runners.
each
English
bred
P. M. Arthur, chief of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers,
is dead. He was a faithful and
conservative leader and steered his
organization clear of labor troubles
and complications, and was much
beloved by the thousands of engi
neers over the country.
There’s one way for South
Georgia to get office and that is
to have the governor fill a judge-
ship vacancy or something else by
appointing a South Georgian. Mr.
Terrell seems to have realized our
extremity and has come to our
rescue by elevating a worthy Sou’h
Georgia lawyer to the Supreme
Court bench.
UNIFORMITY OF TEXT BOOKS.
At last it begins to look like the
people of the state are to have
a unifority of te\t books, a meas
ure which they have been demand
ing for some time, but which the
enemies of fhe measure have hith
erto succeeded in defeating on the
ground that the attempt would be
an experiment, nd perhaps
costly one.
However it can no longer be
considered as such, since the plan
has been in successful operation in
several of the southern states for
some time, notably Texas where
the legislature have recently re
enacted the uniformity law after
five years trial.
The fact is that the people of
Georgia are bent on this re
form, as was evidenced by the de
feat of'Hon: G. R. Glen for State
Sohool Commissioner by an over
whelming vote at the last state
primary, in spite of the tact that
he had the public school machin
ery of the state at his back in the
fight.
One thing can very justly be
said, and that is, that if uniformity
of text books is a mistake the peo
ple are responsible and are now
ready to cheerfully shoulder the
blame; The senate has already
passed by a vote of 24 to 9 a -uni
form text book law, and the chan
ces are that it will be passed in
the House by a large majority, as
soon as it can be reached.
REPORTS NOT TRUE.
From the accounts given in the
average daily of the state readers
of those papers would naturally
come to suppose the legislature
in session scare half the
time, and then with a doubtful
quorum present.
The truth of the matter is that
lish bred horses. Whitney, Keene .. . ... . , ,.
, V , the reports are not lust, and should
each invested k .
Editor Raney, of the Dawson
News, is not only a good newspa
per man. but has won the confi
dence and esteem of the entire
membership of the legislature.
Mr. Raney is at all times conserv
ative and does credit to the South
Georgia delegation in the House.
He was elected from Terrell coun
ty to the legislature without opposi
tion which should be taken as an
evidence of his popularity at home.
be taken with a little discount
We are not inclined to
criticize any one daily for this
practice, but to illustrate our point
we call attention to an account in
the Atlanta Journal of last week
in which it published as absent
from the House something like
40 members, publishing the names
of the absentees. The fact of,the
matter was that a half dozen of
the members so published were
piesent in the House and took
part in the discussion of the ques
tion before the House. Two other
of the members had leave of ab
sence for the entire term because
of physical inability to attend.
The writer made a careful count
of the reported absentees, and to
his personal knowledge 31 of those
reported absent were present dur-
in the session.
It therefore appears that in jus
tice to the state and the legisla
ture something should be done to
call a halt on thoso publications
who give these reports with a view
of satisfying a public desire for
sensationalism. The average leg
islator does not like to be misrep
resented to his people; when
fact he has a rocky enough road to
travel when things are placed in
as favorable a light as possible.
A bill has been introduced in
the legislature to abolish the dis
pensary at Meigs, Ga., and the
bill has the support of the entire
Thomas county delegation. Meigs
is the only place in Thomas where
whiskey is sold and the people of
the county seem bent on driving
out the traffic entirely. Some
opposition to the bill has been filed
with the House, but there will
hardly be enough to cause the de
feat of the bill.
The Felder convict bill, which
provides that the convicts should
be worked on the public roads of
the county in which they were
convicted, was killed in the house
of representatives Wednesday, to
gether with all the substitutes and
amendments that had been offered.
Mr. Felder has moved to recon
sider andlt is probable that the
bill will again come before the
house for passage.
Sheriff Sales.
GEORGIA—Decatur Comity:
Will be sold before the court
house door in the city of Bainbridge,
Ga., daring the legal hours of sale,
on the first Tuesday in August 1903,
the following described property to-
wit:
All of twelve acres off of lot of
land No. 363 in the 20th district of
Decatur county, described aafollows:
< pL'ommenclug at the southwest cor
ner of a 20-acre tract in the north
west corner of said lot, owned by
Sandy Austin; thence east 385 yards
thence south 153 yards, thence west
385 yards, thence north 153 yards to
starting point, and 25 acres off of
lot No. 363 in 20tb distriot of said
eounty bqpnded on north by lands
of Thomas Rieks, 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 aa the property of’Jaoob
and Gabriel Winbusb, Sue, Anthony
and Rebecca Smith, to satisfy a
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 Rebeooa Smith.
Also at the same time and plaoe,
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 174 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 Rusbin to eatiefy a mort
gage fi fa issued from the May term
superior court 1903, in favor of Mrs.
K. G. Bruoe vs. Delpbia Rushin.
Also at same time and plaoe 33
acres land more or lest bounded on
north by Chattahoochee road, east
by lands of E. H. Ingram, south by
lands of Mrs. Callie Thomas, west by
land formerly owned by Franoia
Houston, being part of lot 371 in
20th distriot of Decatur county, aleo
four acres off .of land in northeast
oorner of lot No. 371 commencing at
Chattahoochee^-oad and running east
four aures, thence south one acre,
thenoe back west to Chattahoochee
Road. Also ten aores lying between
lands of James Johnson |and L. E,
GHsson, running two aures north and
south and five aores east and west,
being in south side of lot No. 243 in
20th distriot of Decatur oonnty, Ga.
Levied upon as the property of E. H.
Ingram to satisfy a fi fa issued from
December term 1902 of oity 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 Deoatur county and levied
upon as the property of Holland.
Peel & Co., to satisfy a fi fa issued
from the May term superior court
1908, in favor of T. J. Rhodes vs,
Holland, Peel & Co. '
Also at the same time and plaoe
all of one hundred acres of land
across the north side of lot No. 86
in the 27th distriot of Deoatur coun
ty, levied npon as the property of
Martha A Clarke to satisfy a mort
gage fi fa issued from the May term
superior court 1903, in favor of A
L. Townsend, surviving partner, vs.
Martda A Clark.
Also at the same time and plaoe
all that oertrin city lot with all im
provements thereon m the oity of
Bainbridge, Deoatur county Ga.,
bounded ou the north by property of
Emilme 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.
9’Neal.
This July 9tb, 1903.
A. W. Fobdiiam, Sheriff.
Notice.
MELTON & DUKES’!
Edwin Clapp and
James A. Banister
58 SHOES
FOR MEN,
Are a little ahead of anything else in BainbndJ
4* 4- 4-
The Dorothy Dodd
is the best wearing woman’s shoe in the
world and always gives satisfaction.
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From Man to Child)
we have the best fitting, neatest, easiest
wearing shoes for the least money.
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You are, invited to call”at
Melton & Dukes,
Bainbridge,
THOS. J. WILLIAMS, Manager.
J. T. LANE,
Iron City, Ga.
All persons are hereby warned not
to piok up, sell or otherwise dispose
of our Cypress logs on Flint river
nor to alter, change or deface our
brand on same. All pei sous are al
so warned not to buy any of our
logs.
The Cypress Lumber Co.
Apalachicola Fla.
Ia the Isamu of tko IadUa, after which •"
great America* crop was named, corn la Hag-
grata value of the eorn crop ia approximately
*1.000,000,000. It Is estimated that the ntalkennn
fodder are worth a> mnoh more. Thiak, then, afth*
amount you oaa make ^7 earing all of yonr com crop-
u/>e McCormick
corn hinder and hasher and shredder enables yon to
save this part of tho corn crop that has in p»*t I**”
gone to waste. Call aad see' sample machine.
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