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Bainbridge Search Light
NUMBER 48*
BAINBRIDGE DECATUR COUNTY, OEORQIA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1903.
$1.00 YEAR IN ADVANCE.
OFFICIAL ORG,A N DECATUR COUNTY AND CITY OK BAINBRIDGE.
,1 Book Selection.
been much discussion
oncerning the adoption
ooks for the common
Georgia under the Uni-
• t The question is
consideration by the
of Education and
difficult one to de-
subject is one of vital
. both to the parents
.children of Georgia,
nions acquired, the be-
into the mind of a
,rd to eradicate; his
formed by the influ-
youth. We must not
these are “Young
the boy makes the
the statesman makes the
the world. It is neces-
tshould have a sound
knowledge of all things,
the most thorough
:quiringsuch must be
jin his reach.
from educators through-
itehave been published
papers and popular
...to be in favor of
ooks by Southern au-
writer to the Atlanta
says:
children should be
everence the traditions,
truth, to see the good,
the beautiful in this
ours; but they will
p these things fully un-
i authors are appreci-
itronized by the south-
It is a notorious fact
books we have been
schools almost totally
hern authors, sout u '*rn
southern rights.”
that children si. _.d
true history. Yet a-
:t will teach the south-
love his land, to see
date all the good and
On the other hand a
judice an inherited dis-
arp his judgment of the
it hostile feeling be-
sorth and South should
tly forgotten; we are
and all sectional antip
it to be banished. This
be accomplished in our
and will never be unless
n of each section are
dew the former quar-
npartiality and learn to
entry as a whole. Had
wen been so taught
tno ,w be less hardfeel-
less and strife.
pans we, of course de
reference be given
■a writers, so far as pos-
have as brilliant writ-
learned and brave. At
lane men and women
°nservatism certainly
® tor the purpose of
story,
«»n should be careful-
’the text books well'
i the writers of the
found to be fair,
““impartial, as we be-
/‘then they ought to
J unhesitatingly. The
"'sa strong one and
" m ded upon to select a
ks Pa Tf lal code or s ys-
f 0un , . f , an ‘mpartial one
ndthen some of our
J ; unprejudiced im .
ID shn U We haVe nUm ‘
d Duhr U i dset t0 work '
Pnbhsh, for the bene-
S r s ’ theworks
0 und so much
havin 0VVn ev erlastmgly
luo-ht 1§ thr sout , hern boys
iat the r ° u ^ n nor thern
Cl cause of the
>f the £ c te °L S ’ that the
»; that °rh the , rn armies
rn f 0rc L the lead ers of
Ces W£ re incompe-
Citizen’s Meeting.
Pursuant to a call circulated
throughout town during Monday
and Tuesday, about one hundred
citizens met at the old court house
Wednesday night at 8:30 o’clock
and put out an aldermanic ticket
to be voted tor at the coming city
primary. The proceedings of the
meeting were as follows:
On motion of J. M. Brown, Col.
A. L. Townsend was made chair
man of the meeting, and Dr. Gor
don Chason was named secretary.
The chairman stated the object of
the meeting, which was to discuss
some needed reforms in the city
government, and to name an aider-
manic ticket.
On motion of J. M. Brown, a
committee was appointed to sug
gest a proper ticket, the commit
tee was composed of C. C. Cliett,
J. M. Brown, T. M. Battle, M. E.
O’Neal, J. S. Deverges and G B.
Toole. The committee retired and
after consultation returned the
following names for aldermen: J.
D. Harrell, Gordon Chason, J. M.
Tyler, J. C. McCaskill, C. H. Cald
well. C. W. Wimberley was also
named on the ticket but as he de
clined the place, his name was
dropped and the campaign com
mittee will name another in his
stead. The ticket as suggested
was then endorsed by a viva voce
vote.
The chairman then called atten
tion to the fact that in order for
the ticket to be elected it would
take the active work of a campaign
committee. Mr. J. M. Brown then
moved that a steering committee
be appointed to consist of the fol
lowing: G B. Toole, E. A. Wim
berley, M. B. Baggs, A. L. Town
send, Erie M. Donalson. The
motion carried.
Contrary to the expectations of
many present there were no
speeches made, and no outline
given of the work to be undertaken
further than the selection of the
aldermanic ticket. The meeting
was harmonious throughout, did
not consume more than thirty
minutes before the work was com
pleted and the meeting adjourned.
To Play Foot Ball.
Bainbridge is to have a first
class foot ball team this season
and one that will prove a winner
from the start. Several of the
prominent young men of the city
met last Monday night, organized
for the purpose and elected as
Manager, Ralph Graves, and Mr.
Ernest Piper as Coach. Regular
practice has begun and every night
sees eighteen or twenty contest
ants for places on the team, out
under the electric lights for prac
tice. The outlook is very hopeful
for a successful season.
Games have already been sched
uled with the Florida State College
at Tallahassee and Gordon Insti
tute at Barnesville. The manager
is in correspondence with several
other teams and hopes to announce
a complete schedule .very soon.
It is urgently requested by the
coach that every one interested
in athletics will come out and
make the Bainbridge foot ball team
of 1903 an assured success.
tent and misguided. Our patrio
tism towards the Sunny Southland
should be encouraged at every
opportunity. Boys and girls
should be taught to love their
homes; for men and women ac
complish great things for the sake
of the objects of their admiration.
Let us have the truth; the whole
truth; and thus armed we shall go
forth battling with greater zeal
for our section and shall attain
things that shall add to the glory
of her former days.
That Pure Syrup Law.
In view of a number of inquiries
from different sections of the
county relative to' the operations
of the new Syrup Law enacted
unanimously by the General As
sembly last fall, we deem it best
to state the facts in regard to the
law, in order that our farmer
friends may understand that no
requirement at all has been made
of them by the law.
Some persons tor reasons known
only to themselves have told far
mers that they would have to label
or stamp their syrup barrels,
cans, etc., whereas no such thing
is true. If the farmer should add
glucose or any other foreign sub
stance in the manufacture of his
syrup, he would have to stamp on
the package or barrel just what
adulteration he had made. As a
matter of fact there are very few
farmers who would'be able to put
in the necessary apparatus, for
blending and mixing the ingredi
ents with their cane syrup success
fully. The law is aimed at the
middle man who has been making
the profit out of the syrup business
by mining glucose and other sub
stances less expensive and less
nutritious, and selling the mixture
under the misleading name of Pure
Georgia Cane Syrup. No farmer
who manufactures his syrup in the
same old way, without adding any
substance to his syrup-is effected
by the law.
It has also been stated that the
farmers would have to put in large
and expensive machinery in order
to meet the requirements of the
bill. This is not true at all. How
ever syrup in the future ought to
sell more by grades that} it has in
the past, and it is therefore tp the
interest of farmers to employ the
best means possible to make a first
grade article of syrup. If modern
machinery helps to do this, then
so far as possible we believe that
farmers will employ modern ma
chinery. However the law does
not require any such thing and
thousands of farmers will go ahead
manufacturing their syrup in the
old time way, and when it is made
they will sell it as they have in the
past. The effects of the law in
this respect will be good. Since
syrup will be graded, the farmer
who makes the best grades will
secure the best prices and those
who take no pains will receive less;
and this is fair enough. Why
should the price of good syrup be
held down in order to secure a
better price for poor grades? If it
should, then why should not good
middling cotton be sold on the
market at a low price in order to
strike a medium tor the lower
grades of cotton; and why under
the same argument should not the
finest grades of tobacco be held
down to the prices of the lower
grades, which ara perhaps low for
the very reason that the producer
does not take the proper care of
it?
No gentle reader, the manipu
lator who has been mixing your
syrups with inferior goods will
continue to tell you perhaps that
the law works an injustice on the
farmer, but this is entirely untrue.
Everything should be sold under
its own colors and without fraud,
and if the new law is tracked, the
fell; w who mixes his syrup with
any foreign substance will have to
brand on the package the fact that
it contains a certain amount of
pure cane syrup and a certain
amount of adulteration; this will
be fair to the person who buys
syrup and to the farmer who man
ufactures pure syrup. If the new
law is tracked farmers will manu
facture their cane into syrup and
place the same on the market
without the least extra expense or
trouble, no testing and no brand-
Our Winter Travel.
As winter will soon drive south
ward an army of wanderexs in
search of sunny skies, the ques
tion as to how many tourists Bain
bridge will handle this year is an
important one. We have two of
the neatest hotels to be found in
the south; and they are both un
der good management- Already
Mr. O’Brien of the Wainman, in
forms us that inquiries for accom
modations during the winter
months have begun to come in!
The Wainman with its steam heat
and its retired and quiet location
is an ideal resort for those who are
driven from the frozen north.
Mr. Leahy, division passenger
agent of the Atlantic Coast Line
in spearing of the outlook is re
ported as saying that there is
every indication of a large tourist
season this winter. In almost
every hotel of ine more famous re
sorts there is evidence of the ap
proach of the winter season. Gen
eral repair work is going on rap
idly and all the tooms are being
renovated, and the general aspects
of the hotels themselves being im
proved.
The rush of vi-nors from north
during the cold m mins now irom
ises to exceed auv previous season
and the outlook indicates that
every one of the resort hotels will
be taxed to their utti most to ac
commodate the many who will
come to them foi th • winter. 'The
different proprietors are all elated
over the bright outlook for a good
winter season and every, line of
business is bound to feel some of
the good results.
As Music Charms.
It is said that the sound of a
horn was heard in the land Mon
day night last, and it reminded one
of the fact that once Bainbridge
had a first class brass band. The
fact is that the members of that
band still reside in this city but so
difficult has it been for the boys
to enlist the proper support from
the merchants and the public in
general, until they have been
threatened with a disastrous dis
banding; which would, we submit,
be a bad day for the town; not
that Bainbridge cannot get along
without a band, but for the rea
son that our citizens will be rob
bed of much pleasure, and the
town generally would very much
miss the pleasure of the band on
many occasions.
Some onj recently suggested
that they had not heard aught of
music for more than a month, save
the lowing of the wandering cow
upon the streets as she “made
night hideous.”
The Search Light has always
stood up to the Fourth Regiment
Band, and we hope sincerely that
as the short summer nights have
passed, that the boys will again
assemble for practice, that they
will receive the support they are
entitled to, and that Bainbridge
will again be the home of a real
live band.
Death Near Attapulgus.
A sad death occurred in the
lower section of the county Mon
day last, when Mrs. Will Branch,
who lived with her husband five
miles west of Attapulgus died.
Her remains were buried at Atta-
pulgus Tuesday and were followed
to their resting place by a host of
sorrowing ones. The death was
occasioned by an attack of typhoid
fever.
ing
No, the farmer is not a mixer of
syrups with other materials and
the law doesn’t touch him at all.
Please paste this in your hat.
A Bold Case Kidnapping.
One of the boldest attempts at
kidnapping ever perpetrated in
this county occurred last Sunday
in the Blowing Cave district this
county. The 10 years old daugh
ter of Mr. J. D. Andrews was, so
report comes, chased down put in
a buggy and hurriedly carried
away by James McRae, a citizen
of Thomas county. He was pur
sued by the father of the girl and
Mr. John Harrison, the buggy was
overtaken, the child recovered.
After giving McRae a severe flog
ging with a buggy whip the father
of the child took her back home
and early Monday morning ap
peared in Bainbridge where a war
rant was sworn out for the arrest
of the kidnapper, Sheriff Ford-
ham has made every effort to
secure his arrest but has thus far
been unable to locate him.
McRae is 58 or 60 years of age
and is said to have been infatuated
with the child for some tinge. On
Sunday last the little girl was vis
iting at the home of Howell Win
gate, a cousin of McRae, and it
was from his home that the child
was stolen. However before leav
ing with the child Mrs. Wingate
was given a note addressed to the
parents of the child announcing
that McRae and the child had
been married. This was to be sent
to the home as soon as the couple
had time to escape. However the
note was sent over too early, the
tather read it and hurried to the
pursuit. The result was that they
were soon overtaken and the rest
has been told.
It is claimed that the child did
not know anything of the plans
and was very much frightened
when they were made known to
her. She fled, but was pursued
forcibly placed in the buggy and
borne away. The affair has caused
great excitement throughout the
section in which it occurred.
These are the facts as best they
could be gathered, they were se
cured from the father of the child,
who was here Monday and took
out a warrant. Mr. Andrews
claims that he would have been
still more severe on McRae except
for the fact that in his opinion
McRae must have been of unsound
mind or he would not have made
the attempt.
Will Mitchell Run?
The Dawson News has recently
been discussing the next speaker-
ship race, and declares that Hon.
Fondren Mitchell of our neighbor
ing county of Thomas may be the
successful candidate. This raises
the question among Mr Mitchell’s
iriends as to whether he will enter
the race next term or not. He
was in the last race, and while cir
cumstances combined for his de
feat, yet it was by such a slight
margin that his friends throughout
the state believe that he woultl be
very sure to make a winning race
the next time,
Mr.Mitchell is considered one of
the ablest, and most conservative
men of the house and his influence
in shaping legislation during his
last service in the House, has been
great. Whether Mr. Mitchell runs
or not, he certainly holds the con
fidence of a large percentage of
the members of the present house.
His action in the matter will be
earnestly awaited by his admirers.
Farm For Sale.
Ninety acres of finest farm land
in Decatur County. It is part of
the W. E. Powell plantation. Con
tains, tenant houses, gin house and
stable. Thorn well Beach'
Columbia Ala.
