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BAINBRIDGE, DECATUR COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, I^BRUARY 9, 1912
$1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
[A CITIZEN” IS AIRSHIP WAS
FOR MR. BOWER HEREJUESDAY
dvocalc£ Plalfonn for Enforcing Wonderful Machine Made Pretty c light
the Law Against Vagrancy. I Tuesday Afternoon and Wednesday A-M
FIFTY FOUNTAIN PENS.
TO BE GIVEN AWAY
ROOMS FOR
BARACA CLASS
Young
Men Prepairing to
Much Needed Work
Hon. Byron B.
In this issue
lower Jr. announces his Candida- j ;L or l ''° weeR!
lv for Solicitor of the City Court, i Tuesday alter
The airship that v;fs looked;
for two weeks ago landed here;
•noon, and most of J
the population of Bainbridge v. it-
Bcginning Toiuoi row, Saturday, One of These Presents go With Each Dollar on j
Subscription till all Gone.
The Search Light has just ma&^Biingements with Mr. C. B.
The Baraca class of the Sun
day School at the Baptist church
has started the work of estab
lishing a reading room and also
■ i !■ .» r snlenrlirl vnnnff ule populationoi oamunuge wu- “““ — ■ i ° "— —
llr. i'"''er is a »r . * . r i nessecl the thrilling sight for the Scott, the hustling merchant on Bro^ rstreet by which fifty people a room to be used as a gymnas-
,VI ’ 1 ' ‘ " 1 eum. The work was launched
. - the Search Light and at the meeting of the Baraca
seeks with judgment and dis- I cas j on was t he f act t| la t on i v a Mr. Scott and only.fifty fountain pens will be given away. More class last Sunday.
Ittornev, full of vigor and activi-;
qualified to fill the office! tirst u ™ e
The only thing that i are to get a fountain pen free. ty
dthTudgment'and" dis- 1marred the Pleasure of the oc-1 This is a special arrangement between
from
the country
Two weeks
The principal plank in Mr. j fe%v people
Bower’s platform is the rigid!were in the city,
enforcement of .the vagrancy!ago when it was announced that
If this law was enforced the bird man would be in Bain
This has been a long felt need
by the young men of Bainbridge
and now that they have begun
llirms
ivould have all the hands
[they needed at reasonable prices.
| Nearly every family that has a
I negro cook is keeping up one to
j three idle negroes, while on a
|great many farms in Decatur
county the past year cotton' has
rotted in the fields for the want
| of labor to pick it out.
We think Mr. Bowerwill make
a strong race, as the vagrancy
plank in his platform will strongly
appeal to each citizen when he
goes to cast his ballot. Mr.
Bower certainly struck the key
note, and hit the “bull’s eye,”
when he champions the enforce
ment .of the vagrancy law,
which will be the solution of the
labor problem for the good old
county of Decatur.
A. Citizen.
Bird Dinner Last Night.
One of the most enjoyable oc
casions of the kind seen in Bain
bridge in a long time was the
bird dinner given in the Sunday
School room at the Presbyterian
church last night. The dinner
was given by the pastor, Rev.
J. E. Ward and members of his
church. None but men attend
ed, (there being thirty-five pres
ent) and they expressed them
selves as having spent one of the
most enjoyable evenings of their
lives.
The birds were cooked by the
Bainbridge expert in this great
est of arts, Mr. Geo. H. Fields.
The whole affair was perfect in
every respect.
The gathering resolved itself
into a sort of informal banquet
and a number of splendid talks
were made. Among those speak
ing were Dr. Carl W. Minor,
would have been given, but these were all Mr. Scott had. The
Search Light would have been glad'to have arranged for 500. The
plan is this: i
Beginning Saturday, the first fifty people who send in a cash the work it is believed
hp'farms ' milTs"and"turpentine! bridge hundreds of people turn-j subscription for the Search Light, or pay up their subscription
', i i i.. edout only to be disappointed j due, will receive one of these beautiful fountain pens for every
on account of an accident to the. ciollai' sent in.
machine in its start to fly at If V 011 subscribe for one year and pay a dollar you get one
Brantley, Ala. No definite an-i fountain pen.
nouncement was made as to! If you subscribe for two years and pay two dollars you get
when the machine would resume jtwo fountain pens.
its journey, and so the country If you owe a dollar on your subscription and send it in you get
people could not be notified. Thei one fountain pen.
people of Bainbridge did not 1 If you owe two dollars and send it in you get two fountain
know until Tuesday morning that J pens.
it would be here that day. ( I' 1 other words, for every dollar sent in on subscription to the
About twenty-five minutes be-'Search Light you will receive one of these beautiful fountain pens
FINE PLAY BY
LOCAL TALENT
Said to be the Best Ever
Seen by Bainbridge Players
What is pronounced by all who
attended to have been the best
amatuer play ever put on in
Bainbridge was seen at The
Grand last night. The play was
for charity and was given under
the auspices of the Elks Club of
the city.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Marks, of
Chicago, who trained and coach
ed the young actors, are away
fore the machine was sighted a!absolutely free until the fifty fountain pens are.exhausted. They
telephone message to the Search may all go in one, two or three days, or they may go in a week.
Light from Donalsonville an
nounced that the airship had
just left that place for Bain
bridge. The Search Light
man notified Mr. E. J. Willis,
who at once called for the fire
alarm whistle to blow as the sig
nal for the people to know the
flying man with his wonderful
machine would soon be seen.
The whistle at the oil mill was
also turned loose. These gave
the people notice in every part
of town and soon hundreds had
turned out to witness the strange
sight for the first time.
They had not many minutes to
wait, for
The retail price of these fountain pens a~e marked on the box
at $2.50. They are said to be 14 karat goto and are very pretty,
they will ahead of any who have been to
i/ush it to a speedy conclusion. I the city before. Mr. and
In the reading room it is pro- Mrs. Marks'have made many
posed to keep magazines, papers, friends in Bainbridge and should
and high-class literature for the .they come here again will have
young men to read, while the | all the co-operation they need,
gymnaseum will be fitted up. It is said almost every one of
with a complete outfit on the or-1 the young people made special
derof the gymnaseum of a Y. hits by acting their parts so well.
M. C. A. “Out of the Fold” is the name
In speaking of the movement of the play put on and Mr. and
one of the young men said:! Mrs. Marks could not have made
“There is no doubt about the' a more fortunate selection. The
perfecting of these plans. A play was the topic of the town
committee has been appointed to
secure rooms in the business part
of the city, and a subscription
list amounting already to a con
But if they were not worth but a dollar each, they are wortjh siderable sum has been secured.
We are asking everybody who
possibly can, to help us in a
financial way, so that our plans
may not be hindered in any way.
Any one can see these pens by call-1 Generous responses to these re
hurrying up to secure, as they will not cost you one cent.
Only fifty fountain pens to go in this way.
They cannot last but a few days at most.
Hurry up, and see if you can secure one. It is a gift fromthe
Search Light and Mr. Scott,
ing at Mr Scott’s store.
(continued on page 8)
this morning.
Honor Roll Faceville High School
Following is the. honor roll of
Faceville High School:
Ninth Grade, Lena Haire;
Eighth Grade, Pauline Kelley
and Daisy Carter.
Walter Brackin has had some
excellent pictures on at the Grand
of late. .
Mule Has Hydrophobia.
A mule belonging to Mr. J. L.
Dickenson of Donalsonville devel
oped hydrophobia first of this
week. The mule was on one of
Mr. Dickenson’s plantations near
soon voices began to I steam Mill. It has not been
cry out: Yonder it comes! Look,
its about the size of a hawk!
Watch how graceful she sails!
He is making a mile a minute!
Watch him as he makes his turn,
and many other like expressions.
There never was a prettier
learned whether or not the ani
mal has since died.
The mule was bitten by a mad
dog in December. The dog got
among the mules of the planta
tion and bit two besides the one
mentioned, but it was not known
sight, nor a sight more wonder- j a t the time that this one was
ful to those who had not seen bitten, although the dog was
the flight of an airship. When seen after it. The other two
were treated with the Pasteur
remedy for hydrophobia and it
is believed that they have escap
ed the ill effects of the mad dog’s
bite.
The dog was killed and it’s
head was sent to Atlanta to the
state chemist for examination.
the machine was first seen it ap
peared to be but little this side
of Brinson. In size it looked to
be about as large as a wild goose,
and must have been at least
1,500 feet in the air. It sailed
as graceful as an eagle and was
Dr. J. D. Chason and Col. John! coming at the rate of nearly a
R. Wilson. The speakers gave i mde a m ' n ute. It grew larger j The Chemist pronounced it hy-
many expressions of praise for j and larger as it neared the city | drophobia, and Mr. Dickertson
the pastor and his members fori u ptil both planes came in full, had Dr. Thos. Chason to treat
the unique and most enjoyable j v ’ ew ant I th® large propellers the other mules, and the treat-
occasion which will be long re- j cou, ld be plainly seen as the ma-
membered bv every one presen. I chine glided over the southwest-
* ■ ern part of the city to the end of
(West street where it landed
Two Fires Here Wednesday. 1 without a hitch.
j The machine is a Wright bi-
Two fires and an airship all in : plane and weighs 1,000 pounds,
one day is not so bad for Bain-;i t j s a two-cylinder thirty-five
bridge. That was the record, horse power and cost $5,000.
here Wednesdy. j Aviator Fowler in answer to
Tw j 1912 Model 21
HAYNES
\y 1 • ^ive Passenger
Automobiles
ment seems to have been entire
ly successful.
At St. John Church.
Rev. Wm .H. Wiggins of Thom-
asville, will hold services at St.
Johns church Thursday evening
:Feb. 15th, at eight o’clock.
! The public is cordially invited
One alarm was sent in from ’ some questions from the Search 1 to th >s service.
Mrs. Herrington's boarding house Light man said: “I have had al
near the Methodist church be-1 n j ce day all the way, though Ij Dainty little Louise Allen and
t ween ten and eleven o’clock in came down one time in a field j the handsome, stately tails Hall,
tr -morning. A spark had caus-i near Jakin on account of a little are prominent members of the
ed the blaze on the roof near one j trouble with a spark plug. My; big “Buster Brown” Company
of the ehimnevs. The damage to'j highest altitude today has been which is to appear here next
the building is said to have been ( about 2,200 feet.” j week.
sma *b , ! Since starting from the Pacificj : ;
The other alarm was sent in I Coast some months ago Mr. j he been seriously hurt, though
the afternoon from a residence Fowler has sailed nearly 2,500'receiving considerable
on West street. The damage,miles. It will be remembered and scratch
t ere was also very slight. that he met with an accident in
1 he J' ire Department made l., „ , , „
splendid runs on both occasions | the Rocky mountains a few da >’ s
and the quick work of Chief a H (?J ' h;s first start. He has met
Vaughn and his men saved two with various accidents since
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60 INCH^ TREAD
45 Horse Power
•rious conflagrations.
then.
rut in none of them
bruises
tes at times.
1 He spent Tuesday night in
Bainbridge. At about half past
ten o’clock Wednesday morning
he rose again and circled around
mc( ‘ the public square twice and sail-
has od away for Thomasville,
i fly : cJ 7x44 Tires all Four Wheels
> Electric^ Lights and Self Starter
h* i IF DESIRED
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