The Post-search light. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1915-current, January 06, 1916, Image 1

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rHE rPOST- SEARCH LIGHT BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY JANUARY 6, 1916 $1.00 PER YEAR IRDJFTBME iiinent Business Man ected to Fill Vacancy used by Resignation W, A. Wheeler. mil STAY THIBTY DAYS 10 RELIEVE BIO EYES Carter, manager of the ire Cotton Oil Company, was e J president of the Bain- , e and Decatur County Board ade to succeed Mr. W. A. eler, Mr. Wheeler resigned time ago but his resigna- ras not accepted until last iday night when he anncunc- t the last meeting that it id be impossible for him to i further. Carter-was elected unana- sly to head theorganization choice of this man assures success of the Board of Trade ng his regime. Ht* is a practi- iusiness man with the inter- f Bam bridge at heart. He booster from the word “go” will make an ideal man for face. rill the vacancy left by Mr. r when he was elevated second vice-paesident, to ident, Dr. Toole, was elected. E. C. Smith was elected missioner of agriculture to a vacancy on the board of missieners. be Board of Trade is plan n- a big “Dollar Dinner” for tary 21 at the Hotel Callahan, be members will be expected )rir,g their wives and sweet- rts [to this social session of organization. The committee^ harge of work is Fields, Gray i Blumenstein. , pl has betfn made by Dr. J. P. Parks, the optician and opto metrist! that he will extend his S’.ay in Quitman until the first of April to meet the demand of many patients who are seeking his services. Dr. (Parks came to Quitman several months ago to be here only alshort time. Since his ar rival, j his work in relieving sufferi/ng eyes has been so suc- cessfujl, that he has found it out of the question to get away for other engagements. Dr.! 1 Parks came to Quitman with j highest testimonials and man.if endorsements from other cities and believed after a few daysj he would be able to return home, but his personality and ex pert I work brought him new fnepds every day and, as he says, “I just staved on, busy ALL 0L0 ACCOUNTS UST 6E ‘ SETTLED BT JAM THE 20 Retail Merchants Association Sets This As Date For Turning Over All Accounts to the Credit Bureau With Instructions to Collect and Black List. Thursday, January twentieth is the day on which the lid will be clapped down good and tight. The Retail Merchants Associ ation has agreeded on this as the last day on which past due ac counts may be settled without having same turned over to the credit bureau. The merchants propose to elimininate the "‘dead beat from their books and to extend credit in the future, only to those who pay their bills promptly. this city to make some arrange ments for paying their past due accounts by Thursday January 20th. The credit bureau of the as sociation will serve the local merchants just as Bradstreet and Dunn serve the wholesale merchants. Every person in Bainbridge will be listed as to their credit. Three classes, good Day, slew pay, and bad risk, will be used in classifying. The Bainbridge merchants are Instead of working a hardship anxious to “Make Bainbridge all the time.” Tfie Free Press seldom goes out;of its way to personally en dorse, but in this finance it is a pleasure to recommend Dr. Parks, as a gentleman and an optician to the general public. The Free Press regrets Dr. Parks even contemplates going next month and earnestly hopes he may decide later on to return and make Quitman his perman ent home. In this expressed opinion it is believed the public will give unanimous endorse ment.-Quitman Free Free. on the good customers this will enable them to buy better goods for the same money. The mar gin ot profit can be cut down as the merchants will have eli minated all losses from bad ac counts and every customer will not be forced to contribute to a jack pot to cover this lose. Atter January 20th, it will be impossible to “sting” one mer chant and get credit from an other. For after that date the merchants will refuse to extend credit to anyone whose name appears on another merchants books with a past due account agains them. So it’s up to every person in TO m OF T e wish to take this method of fiding our thanks to the fri- and neighbors who were so and considerate of us during illness and the death of our her Mrs. James H. Colbert, generous spirit shown us ing this trying time will be remembered and apprecia- Respecttully, Mrs. J. C. Gowder. Mrs. C. A. Helton. J. T. Colbert. B. H. Colbert. BRUTON'S BIO SHE Four Page Advertisement in paper tells you that Henry ton has on his ANNUAL Jan- Clearanee Sale. The Sale be conducted by Mr. George r’ooten. All Decatur county cs know the immense stock ried by the Flint River Store 1 in this sale every article is uced to startling lowness, id this big advertisement and serve the paper. It will be "th semething to you and if i have to make any purchases ill before spring now is your e to do so. This will be the gest mercantile event, oi the if and the wise byyer can’t af- d to miss this. sic she iiTIhiii The Motor-Bicycle Co., wishes to thank their customers for their patronage during the past year, and all those who we will have the plealk re of serving this new year cart be assured of good ser vice. Oif course none of us are perfect, 1 - but anything we do is at the Trade Center of Southwest Georgia.” They want to put their stores in a position to offer attractive bargains, real values to the home folks and the out- of-town-shopper. By eliminat ing the “bad risk” from their books they will be able to do this. January 20th, has been set for handing in all past due accounts to the credit manager. Twenty- seven merchants compose this organization and will act in unison when it comes extending credit to a party. Remember the date Thursday Jan. 20th. and settle up before then. PITTMAN IKES AN EXCELLENCE REPORT J. T. Pittman, farm demon- staation agent for Decatur and Miller counties has made his annual report to the state de partment of agricultural exten sion. The report is a credit to Mr. Pittman, and ta the farmers of these two counties. A copy of the report was tor- warded the local Board of Trade by Prof. Soule, head of the work in this state. This report shows that Mr. Pittman was ‘ ‘on the job” all the while and that the work he did in this and the ad joining counties was better than 90 of the work done by other demonstration agents. A campaign to raise funds to provide an agent for Decatur county by herself is well, under way. Decatur county can use an expert like Mr. Pittman 52 weeks in the year. MO. WIMBEBLEY AN NOUNCES FOR CLERK Mr. C. W. Wimberley announ- VETERAN EDITOR OIES IN AMERICUS J. W. "Walt” Furlow, for over ces in this issue for re-election as thirty- years city editor of the Clerk of the Superior Court Mr. Wimberley needs no introduc tion to the voters of this county. For many years he has been known as the most efficient clerk any time unsatisfactory, all you j n the state, the many different have to do is report it to us and judges with whom he has served it will be a pleasure to make have all from the bench given things rjfcht at even our own ex- statements to that effect. He pense. weare handling the best knows his duties, he attends to line of tficycles and supplies we them. No higher praise can be can get,'and are selling bicycles offered an officer. He has been and supplies at “living” prices. 8 o often complimented that our Wishing you a prosperous new words can add nothing to his well year, we are, The Motor-Bicycle Company, J. Robert Haire, Proprietor, Americus Times-Recorder died Saturday morning at the Ameri cus hospital. He was well known throughout south Georgia and was the newspaper nestor of this section. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the first Methodist church of Americus. SOME GREETING ^ ^ The Goodrich Tire Company deserved econiums heretofore re- Bent ou * ^e following greetings n only n Theri were 23 ot them, only 23 and they were lined up before the Mayor Monday morning for the gentle offense of speeding their automobiles. A modern and exciting past time that can only be enjoyed at the price of 23 cents per gallon. For several months past these brethern have made, tie streets of Bainbridge a race-cJttt’se and the mayor merely jerked'them up to the snorting pole and extracted $5 per head for license. They stood the gaff very nicely and as some of them were very heinously guilty they did not expostulate much for they knew they should have been hit for abqut ten bucks apiece just to impress the lesson. Yea and we know some of the very worst ones at the game happened to the very good fortune of being too broke to buy gassoline or heifer & Ellinor jdompany of vana began one of their big -t-Holiday sales .yesterday at ivana and the people of the ^ ^ ibacco Belt are getting some of j their cars were broke or they “best bargains of the year. I vvould have! been among the band : company has issued a price. , , hlesAed 23 that charged ,letin that proved to be an eye 01 < - j T .; 0U slv. Mayor per to the good shoppers of I the tank do L. •t section and thi*y taking arl- Callahan itave them a tage of them i;* .many ways. | warning tbht the next close, >' will/cany iljcii H days; , e repea te|L would be very ex- • e and everybody! in ffeBelti . At any rate the 23 that gee -J r sha-e^f the bar- j will heed: ceived. PIG CLUB PICTDOERS SHOW TO AUDIENCE OF FULL 000 PEOPLE for the New Year to quite a num ber of papers that have been carrying their advertising mat ter in tbq past year. It is so unique and good in spirit that we reprint it and pass on the good wishes herein contained to every man that read their adver tisements in this pager. The Goodrich folks seem to know that newspapers appreciate the good wishes on their advertising The special feature picture, Pig Culture in Georgia” as'patrons, shown at the Callahan theatre] “1916 Monday afternoon by Prof. Jas. j no j only wish, but we be* A. Downing was a success from., lieve> that 1916 wiU ^ a H apoy every angle. Over 500 people, New Year for you> | sam the picture and listened to; want 1916 to be complete the lecture of the head of the pig f or y Q u. We want it to be built clubs of the state. j like ^Goodrich Tire. Many in the audience were. May its fabric be one of depen dably happy days, with never a DEATH OF MOO. COLBERT Mrs. J. H. Colbert, mother of Messrs. Jim and Ben Colbert and Mrs. Charlie: Helton died Satur day after a long illness and from the weakings of old age. Her death will be read with sorrow by her friends and the older cit izens of the city and county. Mrs. Colbert was for many years a resident of this county, her husband being one of the men that left this county tor the civil war with one of the very first companies, She was a real mother in Israel” one of the old fashioned type of mothers that made the nation great. She was very far advanced in years and had seen the town grow from a struggling village to its present size and importance. She was a good neighbor, a loving parent and a loyal friend. She was ever ready to attend the needs of the sick and the distressed and her tenderness had smoothed many a rough path for friends and neigh bors. She will be missed m the circle that she has been one for a number of years. Her type of woman is fast passing into the great beyond but their examples and lives live long after they have gone. The lives of these great and good women of the old school cannot well be chronicled for they never wearied of well doing and very little is known of the good they do Their modest lives and demeanor are an endur ing monument to their sex aad they live only to be loved,. She left two sons and two daughters, they are the recipients of the sympathy of all their acquain tances in their loss, She was buried in the presence of a large gathering of neighbors and old friends Sunday afternoon. members of the Decatur county Pig Club and the interest mani fested by the little fellows stands sponser for ttieir earnestness in work, The pig club work in this coun ty will be made a big feature of the demonstration agents work in 1916. The boys of the county will be given a greater oppor tunity to learn scientific pig rais ing during the coming year. Max Cohen returned Sunday night from Savannah where he has been spending the holidays with his brothers Messrs. Edwin and Fred Cohen. J broken thread, with the warp and woof of the hours woven firmly and smoothly. May its bead be one that holds good fortune tightly to the rim of your ambition. May its tread be one that gives you safety and “good going” al ways. And may it prove to be the “best in the long run” of your life so far, with the greatest mil eage of success you have ever known. S. D. Fletcher of Ciimax was among the visitors here Monday. EMANCIPATION EXERCISES The colored people of the town held a celebration cf the Eman cipation Saturday at the court house and had a very instructive program arranged. Quite a num ber of white people attended and heard the work. They had the services of Prof. John R. Scott of Jacksonville as their orator of the day and his speech was one of remarkable strength. He gave his people some of the very best and soundest advice that has been heard here in many years and altogether was a very pleas ing speaker. The balance of the program was arranged locally and did credit t,o those that got it up. Thomas W. Bell of Brir.son was ; n ihe-citf Wednesday. TEACHERS MEET Seventy-Five Pedagogues of This county Spend A Week Here Holding Daily Meetings. The Decatur county teachers institute has been in session all this week with over 75 teachers in attendance. Miss Celeste Parish, supervisor of the central district has been in charge of the work and the institute has been a pleasant success. The daily sessions have been held in the Sunday School room of the Presbyterian church. Two sessions a day have been held here. In addition to interesting talks bv Miss Parish and Prof. Brad- well, county superintendent, Mr. Jas. A. Downing, head of the pig club work m Georgia, de livered several interesting lec tures. One illustrated with mov ing pictures was especially en joyed. y. S. “COLUMBUS” HEBE Despite the croakings of cer tain river boat line men and oth ers who had rather see freight go up the Chattahoochee River than down it, the big rive boat “Columbus,” Capt. Lapham, managed to safely navigate St. Andrews Bay from the mouth of the Canal to Panama City with a tow 595 feet king, and this dur ing one of the nastiest storms of the season. The “Columbus” came in about 5:00 p. m. Monday with three barges and the dredge “Blackwater”. She anchored her tow in the stream end then docked at the Harrison avenue wharf, where she attracted num bers of visitors during her stay. The "Blackwater” goes from here to the Narrows in Santa Rosa Sound to remove some of the kinks in that waterway. Capt. Geo. S. Lapham, of the “Columbus,” is well pleased with St. Andrews Bay as a harbor for river boats or ocean going ves sels. There is, the captain ob serves, plenty of deep water for the latter, while the numerous bayous and coves would afford ample shelter for a light draft river vessel in any kind of a storm. Quite contrary to the statement of Mr. Collins, of Co lumbus, to the effect that the U. S. Engineer Department river boats would not be allowed to navigate the Bay on account of the rish. But chen Capt. Lap ham is probably not interested in any Georgia lailroads. One of the engineers stated that the Callahan boat now build ing in Appalachian for the Bainbridge-St. Andrews Bay run is nearly completed, which is. good news indeed, The "Columbus” left early this morning on her return trip up the river.—Panama Pilot. The regular services wiM be held in this Church next Sun day, Jan. 9th as follows: 10:00 a. m. Sunday school 11:00 a. M. Morning Prayer and sermon. 7:00 pj m.lEvening Prayer and sermon. ' Friday aftemeon Litany ser vice at 4:00 p. m. D, A. Shaw of Amsterdam was among the has ness men of that section in the c ty a short