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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. 1 "/ 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.