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MR. JI.M. FORDHAM DP MONDAY After llliess of Loo* Sbs&f Prenatal Bainbndge Gtiaa Passed Awij Mr. A. W. Fordham, former Sheriff of Decatur county, and of the best known men in this section, died at his home, the Fordham Hotel, early Tues day morning. Mr. Fordham was 64 years of ag e, having been born February 16th 1848. He hid been in bad health for several years, a slight stroke ot paralysis having ren dered him quite feeble. He at tended the recent Confederate re-union at Macon and returned home feeling much worse. He was confined to his bed in a day or two after his return from Macon and continued to grow weaker until his spint took its flight Tuesday morning. A. W. Fcrdham was born and reared on a farm in Henry coun ty, Alabama. He was a son of S. M. Fordham, who moved from Wilkerson county, Georgia, to Alabama, where he was a pros perous farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Foraham moved to Bainbridge in 1881. He en tered business here and began to invest in Bainbridge and Deca tur county prperty. He owned several farms in the county, 'be- be for the sides the hotel and other proper ty in the city. Besides his prop erty in this state, he leaves con siderable possessions in the states of Florida and Alabama. He is survived by his wife, their only child having died in infancy. He is also survived by a brother, Mr. B. J. Fordham, who came over from his home in Abbeville, Ala., t) attend the funeral of his brother. Real Estate Talk. (By D. R„ Bower. There are many people who are' DIRT BROKEN FOR SCHOOL BUILDING asking the question, “Will the street paving, city hall, and new school have the effect to advance the value of city property?” To properly answer this question, one must study the situation and see whether the present values are real or artificial. It would seem on a whole that the values put on property by the holders is a trifle high, and it would hardly be possible for them to realize a very material advance in values; though the demand will undoubtedly be of a healthier and more consistent nature, after these improvements are well under way “The time to buy real estate is when it is cheap,, and the time to sell is when it is dear.” For tunately we are now passing through an era when both of these facts apply. There are a few real bargains for the careful buyer, and there are a few buy ers for the man whose property has reached its highest develop! ment. The demand is not so critical now as it will be when the Public Improvements are in full blast, and now is the time to offer your holdings which show a margin of, profit on the investment. College street and West street are the reigning favorites in the real estate market now, and will year. Of course ShdtweU street prop erty will always be in high favor and show excellent returns on the investment. Broughton street property will be favored by those who wish to be centrally located for business reasons, and there is going to be quite a material advance in this during this year, ss the building has about filled up the vacant lots close in. FtmfatiN MR. PITMAN 10 THE CLUB BOYS Tdb< is Iks CollhatMS sf Vanns Crept (Cnotinued on page 4) (Continued on page four) CALDWELL MOTOR CAR COMPANY DO YOU BELIEVE IN PATRONIZ ING BAINBRIDGE MERCHANTS? 0ince we entered the Automobile business three years ago we have had a good opportunity to study human nature, and we have learned a great many things we never knew before. At the same time our experience places us in sympathy with the merchant who is depending upon his friends, the people who live here, to make their purchases at home, instead of send ing away for their needs. We are writing this from what you may term a selfish motive, and to try to in duce people who need goods in our line to patronize us, or if it does not suit your pleasure to do this, give your order to our competitor. Keep the business at home. Understand that we are not so small that we do not wish him to prosper. We cannot expect everybody to trade with us, at the same time we are grateful for the patronage you give us, and we will make an earnest ef fort to merit it. We do not propose to try to put the other fellow out of business by cutting prices, for no body ever succeeded by adopting these tacties. No fair-minded customer objects to paying a price that will allow the merchan. :i reasonable profit, and he is en titled to this, otherwise he wiii soon find out that he cannot pay his rent, taxes. license and other things, and it will be only a short time until he is trying to dis cover where he is “at." There is a lack of reciprocity in Bainbridge that should not exist, and things happen with us often that make us wonder why. For example, we placed an order the other day with one of our home industries that will amount to at least $400.00 and has been filled. The man who got this order was at our store this morning and showed us a tire which he said cost him $14.00. m's tire is a “second” the name of the maker being effaced. It is not guaranteed, as are those of first quality the price of which would be $19.85. The man r • /p.jthe tire for $14.00 sent the order away from Cambridge to some cut-rate concern, thus causing us to [ose the sale, where we would have made a profit of at *^ft ?L30. We hope this man will realize that it is aot the best policy to send away from Bainbridge for ineir goods, because it may result in everybody doing likewise. Then where would we be? Bainbridge. May 30, 1912 Y ° U ” 1LCALDWELL. Caldwell Motor Car Company Dirt was broken Monday for the new High School building for Baindridge. The contract for excavating the grounds was let by the contractor to the ElL'jRr Transfer Co,, of this city. The handsome new school building will stand on the new plat of ground recently secured by the city and which is on the east side of Potter’^ street, and is opposite the grounds on which the present school buildings stand. Thewoik of grading and ex cavating will proceed rapidly from now on until it is complet ed. By that time material for the building is expected to be on the ground and the foundations will be laid at once. All the work will be carried on without a stop, according to present plans. It iB understood that the building is to be completed by December the 20th. In order to accomplish this, a large force of brick layers and carpenters will be engaged in the work. The new building will have the main frontage on Potter’s street, and it is understood that the main entrance will be mrde from this street. The grounds will include all that now occupi ed by the present school buidings, as well as the beautiful section recently secured by the city. Potter’s street divides these two sections and it is understood that this street will be inched in the grounds. While thlq^fs the case it has not been decided as yet to close up the street. Streets are being opened up on the west side and also on the south side of the old school grounds. This will give a beau tiful frontage to all the property lying on these new streets. There has been some discus sion as to closing up Potter’s street, as it will be included in the entire school grounds. Some contend that it will be better to keep this street open for direct travel south of the city. Others claim that it would be better to close up the street to vehicles, and put down a broad pavement for pedestrians. They claim that vehicles, especially autos, might be dangerous to the safe ty of the children, and contend that if they are premitted to use the street at all, very rigid rig id regulations should be made as to the speed. While the authorities have not made any decision on this ques tion, it will be fully discussed in due time, and definite arrange ments made. Work on the street paving will begin in a few days, according (to present plans When this is under full headway, together with the work on the school building, Bainbridge will have the appearance of a real live city, as indeed it is hoped she will continue to be from now on indefinitely. Besides this work, there are a number of other plans for dwellings to be improv ed, and new dwellings to be built, that will add much to the busy appearance of thingB. The fact is, Bainbridge will do about as much work in real improve ment in the next six months as any other place of its size in Georgia. Pkiic From AskfenL Let us see, now, if we can understand the reason why fre quent and shallow cultivation is better. We know that the soil is com posed of small grains arranged in a way to form minute capil lary tubes that connect the bot tom layers with the top layers. The water in the soil passes up through these little tubes to the surface where it is evaporated. Now, if we spread a soil piulch over the top of the ground, we can easily prevent the escape of the water. In other words, we can by shallow cultivation break off the little tubes through which the water in the soil escapes. However, a single cultivation is not efficient for the reason that as sopn as the soil settles again, thesf little tubes become re-es tablished and evaporation again commences. Cultivation should begin before the Crops come up. This may be done by running a weeder or harrow over the field, either across or along the rows. You see this helps to let the young plants through and at the same time millions of tiny weeds and grass plants are killed just they are coming up. This early cultivation also forms a dust mulch ail over *4he field, which holds the moisture in the ground, thus making the little plants come up more completely and quickly and causes the plants to grow more rapidly. The cult! vation with the weeder or har row across the rows can be kept up until thay^Nante are ten or twelve Icial ’►•pod dntil The Sunday School picnic crowd from Ashford. Ala., yes terday was one of the largest seen here in a long time. Over three hundred were from Ash ford alone, besides those from Dothan and other places. A ball game between the Iron City and Ashford teams was played in the afternoon. The picnic crowd brought full baskets and had one of the finest of spreads, on a table prepared tor them in the Jackson grove opposite the Methodist church. A more detailed account of the picnic will be given next week. Laoe-Salter Furntoue Co. SpfaM ClsjBf Scheil « Attention of the reapers is called to the page ad of the Lane- Salter Furniture Company in this issue. These men are entering into the furniture field in a man ner that will mean much for the trade in this territory. They have just bought the large stock of the Pierce FurnL tor* $ Cgi^et Co. This combi nation of tht two stores makes the largest stock of furniture ever seen in Bainbridge. They are offering some special induce- Dr. Carl W. Minor went o» to Donalsonville Monday and < livered the literary addreSk the commencement exercises 4 the Donalsonville High School. Prof Smith of Emiory Colt preached the commenceme mon at eleven o’clock Sunday. Both the sermon and liter! address are said to have be very fine and were enjoyed large audiences. The Donalsonville school ch one of the most successful in its history, and much of the faculty is heard op sides. A concert Monday night in the chapel marked the closing exer cises of the commecement Tltt concert was said to have bean splendid and was attest tgr % packed house, Search Light should visit the stores of this company during that time and inspect the goods and learn of their prices. ^ The Flint ftiver Store is ating fer one of the largest they have ever put on in great establishment. The force has been busy the ( wedk putting on the t displays and by the end The Search Lif ht regrets tha , week they will have touch matter of Interest Is crowd-, looking like a Fairy-land. the cotton 4 ' w 1441 ‘ This early cultivatj << ‘' *jb neces sary cu SpeQ stft-KfJRi hoe to the miKT_i. 'To inasmuch as hand vO.®|y iexpensive, the hoe should bj 1 1 very Jittle. •' •'^icn inv-cme-iAs asrhe one- £ or two-horse cuVTvators, ‘ arrows and heel 'Sweeps be used for all later culti- vat Is. It is not good practice to i ^ a turning plow in a cry unl^ji the crop becomes 'Vefy grassy or the soil is packed after heavy rains. This may be done when the crop is young, but avoid deep cultivation late in the season. Use harrows or cultiva tors a few days after using the turning plow 40 make a dust mulch. Deep cult vation. is not good practice when the land is thor oughly pulverized before plant ing and is full of humus. The first cultivation may be deep, but after this, shallow cultivation is preferable, ^Ho not forget that land full ty-numus does not run together, pack, bake or crust. And the value of 'he, '•ommercial fertilizers depends .„Vely or. >,he amount of humus in the soil, J. T. Pittman^ urv vuennv ovmc •|hkhu m n , _ n , menta to the trade for the month | FW RlVCf StOTR of June, and every reader of the ed out this week for want 0/ apace, These Included personals, If the readers will look •' their page ad-very carefully some business deals, and some will find some rare bargain* i DiHlA-iola fhaf thd editor wu < i > editorials that the editor was’fered. quite anxious to get In this j It is quite ipteresting to go issue. There are some things side of a building,and look we want to “touch up” just a'across an entire block atdl little bit. j and decorations. Such a Some of the editorials may now meets the eye at the FBi appear later. River Store. Card of Thanks We wish to thank the many friends who so kindly and lov ingly ministered to us in the sickness and death of our prec ious babe. ’ May the richest blessings of Heaven ever rest upon them all. Mr. and Mrs. R, G. Field*. NOW LISTEN!? Little Miss Carmen Slayton is spending some time in Valdosta ! with her grand-mother. Col R. G. Hartsfield is at Ty- bee this this week, attending a meeting of the Georgia Bar As sociation. We Want Every Man and Woman =in= Decatur County to Store Visit Our During THE MONTH OF JUNE We Have $20,000 of SHO and Gents Furnishings Which we intend to sell at some price. For we are positively going out of business. REAL