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* NEWS: LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.
Short Talks About People, Politics, Enter
prises in the Live City of Bainbridge and
the Grand Old County of Decatur.
It is asserted that the T. and
Jeremiah business, as practiced by
Col. Eugene Blumenstein, has put
up the price ot Christmas hen*
fruit. But the boys will have their
T. and J. at Blume's instead of at
home, and hence these tears
There be only one Blumenstein!
Dear, delightful candidates—do
not hide your little light, but twin
kle, twinkle all the night in the
Search Light in the announce*
ment columns. Do not be a clam,
for you may rise and fall and not
be worth a cent in the white prima
ry coming. A word to the wise is
sufficient. How doth the kittle
busy bee, etc.
The report which has been pre-
valent to the effect that the G, F.
& A, had purchased the C. T. & G
thereby g’tting an outlet to the
Gulf at Carrabelle is without foun
dation in fact Btot the G. F. & A.
will reach the Gulf at no very dis
tant day in any event. That much
is as certain as death and the tax
collector. Need we say more?
The big “I” and little “u” is
about all the stock in trade the
average candidate in the white
primary has “to go upon”-as there
are no political issues to discuss
leaving the canvass purely perso
nal. But Col. whoop*em*up and
Mr. Button holer are getting in
their work. Yet the whole thing
savors muchly of monotony.
We are under obligations to Mr.
R. T. Smith, from near Whigham,
for a sample of his fine cane syrup.
Mr. Smith is one of the live farm
ers of East Decatur, who fully
appreciate the many adyantages of
farming in that delightful region.
He believes that proper develop*
ment of the sugar cane industry in
this county is the thing to do, and
we agree with him.
And we notice that the preach
ers, God bless ’em, don’t inveigh
so utterly utter against the “cir
cuitous" from their pulpits as they
were wont to do in days of yore.
This may subtract from the zest ot
this popular amusement, but it
adds considerably to the milk of
human kindness in their hearts.
Then, today,' “let joy be uncon
fined” in a pleasant, unselfish, love
one another manner.
Judge Bruce Kerr informs us
that he is going to embark once
more in the succulent bivalve bus
iness for the sake of Auld Lang
Syne; he just can’t help it. Now
we begin to feel as if the oyster
season has begun in earnest. For
a quarter of a century Judge Kerr
has been the very first to hang out
his bivalvular shingle to the peo
ple of Bainbridge. Then; every
body knew that oysters were ripe.
As the boys used to sing:
“There 1b a hasherie not far away,
Where Colonel Heppie keeps bash every
day—
Oh, we shall happy be,
With Judge Kerr to wait on me,
Then we’ll the oysters see—
Hash every day 1”
We heard a man say, and he
was none other than Col. Ricnzi
M. Johnston, the brilliant editor of
theat great Texas daily newspaper,
the Houston Post, that Bainbridge
was the most up to date town in
the United States for its size.
Said he: “You have the finest sit
uation to do business on account
of your natural position and your
SALE O
Profit Sharing Construction Bone
m ir.y transportation facilities.
You have two of the best hotels in
the country. You have the best
water and almost every modern
appointment to make a city. You
have the finest hor«es . and turn
outs, the prettiest and most stylish
women. In fact you have every
thing that goes to make up the
best young city I ever saw." Of
course we knew all this before, but
it is pleasant to hear visitors de
liver themselves thusly.
The Special Committee of the
Grand Jury adjourned ten days
ago to meet again on the second
Monday in January, from which
time their investigation of county
affairs will be continued and a
repoit prepared for submission to
the Superior Court in February.
In the meantime, we are author
ized to state, the Committee would
be glad to have advice of any and
all citizens interested in this inves
tigation, upon the momentous
question of tax equalization or of
any other public interest of the
county. There is a great discrep
ancy in the tax returns, as any
citizen who glances at the tax
digest will see. How to remedy
this state of things in the best and
swiftest way is what the Commit
tee are striving to find out. Every
tax payer should study the tax
digest, it is free of access to all.
Mrs. Wood, who recently passed
away, was the second lady to pre
side over the Ladies’ Confederate
Mefnorial Association of Decatur
county. She was president for
several years, haying succeeded
Mrs. James Dickenson in 1869.
Mrs. Wood was a noble woman,
and took great interest in the per
petuation of the memory of our
brave Confederate dead; and the
old heroes of the Lost Cause now
in life will never cease to regret her
death, and when Memorial Day
comes tneir hands which grasped
the sword and the musket in de
fense of their country, will gently
place memorial wreathes upon her
tomb. The women of the South
are known all over the world for
their loyalty to the cause for which
her soldiers fought, and their faith
fulness to the memory of those who
feH in battle, among the foremost
of whom was Mrs. John D. Wood,
one ot the noblest that ever lived.
One week more and the present
city government will have passed
into history, to be succeed by the
so-called “Reform administration
This designation has a goodly
smack, and much and multifarious
will be the demands made upon it.
As the old regime is passing away,
let us casually remark that we can
didly befieve that no admistralion
has done mofe for the prosperity
of the town than this. Its errors
have been small comparatively
speaking. True the town cow and
razor-back pig were, perhaps; al
lowed too frequent use of the
streets and sidewalks and the po
lice were not sufficiently stimulated
(we mean by the hope of reward.
Perish the though of anything else!)
to impound them. But, all in all,
the passing show has been up-to-
date-and we therefore, speed the
departing and give the glad hand
to the coming government-and as
Bainbridge has prospered under
the one, majeshe plume her wings
for a loftier flight under the other.
Bainbridge, Georgia.
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Capital $60,000; Paid up $25,000; Bands $35,001
CHARTERED UNDER THE LAW8 OF QEORQIa,
Bonds *100 each, bearing eight percent annual interest, payable May and NovemkJ
issue. Bonds bear date November 1st, 1903. Including the tight percent interest, bond*
earnings of the company, and bear the same dividends as the stock. Interest and’ divid
May and November 1st at First National Bank, Bainbridge, Ga. Life of bonds 20 years 1
interest of bonds secured by first mortgage upon the plant. Money arising from sale,
only be used for constructing plant. • ’ 1
M. D. POWELL,
Pres, and Gen. Manager,
Bainbridge, Ga.
B. F. HAVENS, F. 8. JONES
Vice President, Cashier 1st Nat 1
Bainbridge, Ga. Bainbrii
DR. C. W. BILFINQER, T. 8. HAWE8,
New York, Chemist and Supt. Sec’y & Att’y,
The Cypress Lumber
Shingles, Tanks, & House Fi
properly manufactured
APALACHICOLA, F LORI
PROFESSIONAL.
PHYSICIANS. .
H. H. CHEATHAM, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE.
Permanently located over Hicks’ Drugstore
Special Attention given to diseases
Eyo, Ear, Nose, and Tbroat.
Bainbridge,
Georgia.
DK. I. H. HUNTER,
Physician and Surgeon,
Chattahoochee, : Florida.
Office at Residence.
Sexual diseases.
.Urinary, Venerial and
DENTISTS.
DR. R. W. JACKSON,
DENTIST,
Office on Broad street, over Allen A
Company. Telephone 94.
DR. H. D. WILSON,
DENTIST.
Offioe over Mart Clothing Com*
pany’s store.
LAWYERS.
‘ JOHN R. WILSON, „
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Bainbridge, : Georgia.
Collections a Specialty,
H. B. SPOONER,
Attorney at Law, !
Office Opposite Democrat Building,
Bainbridge, : Georgia.
RUSSELL & FLEMING,
Attorneys at Law.
Office over Bainbridge State Bank,
Bainbridge, : Georgia.
HARRELL & HARTSFIELD,
Attorneys at Law,
Offioe oyer Bainbridge State Bank,
Bainbridge, : Georgia.
Atlantic Coast Line Railway!
Florida and Cuba.
Double Daily Passenger
-TO-
TROY, OZARK, DOTHAN, ELBA, BAINBRIDGE, THOJUj
VALDOSTA, WAYOROSS, SAVANNAH, CHALEL1
BRUNSWICK, JACKSONVILLE AND
ALL FLORIDA POINTS.
Through Pul man Sleepers Port Tampa to New York
Coast Line, also via Atlantio Coast Line and Southern R’y-
To St. Lonis, Cinoinati, Louisville,
Chicago, Kansis City, Birmingham,
Nashville, New Orleans, and all
points East and North
Leave Bainbridge going East—1:50 a. m., 5:00 a. m., 1:00 p.
Leave Bainbridge going West—2:20a. m., 11:55 a. m.
Connections at Savannah with Ocean Steamship Line and SL *
for New York, Boston and Baltimore.
Through Pullman Cars on all throngh trains and to
Philadelphia, Washington, Riohmond and and all “*
Quarantine Regulations between the United States a - '
Cuba was raised October 15th. therefore, there will be
hereafter on passengers traveling between Havana and the
For furtherjinformation, call on nearest Ticket Agent, or -
W J Craig, " W H Leahy,
Gen. Pass. Agent, Diveion Pm>- w
Wilmington, N. C. _ f
t HU Emei-on,
T J Bottoms, Trav. Pass. Agent. Thornasville,
i and the!
.TrafJ
Stuckey & Co:
Livery , Feed and Sale Sta&Jj
— wwst STREET, Bank*
FIRST-CLASS RIGS, GOOD SURRIES, POLITE
FOR OCCASIONS.
Transfer business
*Bns meets all Boats and Railway trains day
Wago n will tranfer baggage eitherway. ’Phone 11™ J
service
STITCH
BRACK1N & CO,
Livery, Feed,
Sale Stables,
AND
Broad Street,
Bn sees meetsall trains and transfer passengers promptly ^ ^
the city. First class teams and trusty drivers- —■
PHONE 56.