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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bslnbrldge, Georgia.
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OK HAINBR11XJK AM) llKI'A'i't'B
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
The Post-Search Light w ants the
support of every person in the
county. We are giving the folks
a paper that all agree has never
been equaled and we feel that
we are entitled to the patronage
of all.
The blind tiger is the re
sult of the disrespect lor law by
people who place their ism above
the law. Blind tiger liquor was
sold in Bainbridge when she had
eleven bar-rooms working over
time. This we know to be true.
Billy Sunday agrees to save
New York for $100,000 says an
exchange, Billy must want to
lease another Fifth Avenue Man
sion. Billy ought to baptise ail
of them a 75 cents per head fixe
they do on the ‘‘Geechee river.”
That pays a good marginal pro
fit.
A Marietta boy tried to com
mit suicide last week. This
seems a useless act on the part
of the boy. He ought to live
right on in Marrietta. He would
have died of dry rot pretty soon
anyway.
Bring along that ten-spot Mr.
Candidate, it will help you along
your way.
The boys are all stalling for
position in the county race. The
fun is on, the fastest man will
get the persimmon.
Eew, very few men have had
the chance to fill a job and fall
down on it like the present
governor. Think over it.
Very few men have had the
chanco that Hardman now has
to be governor of bis state. A
man of decision is that man
wanted by Georgia and she is
going to have them.
The first meeting of the Bain
bridge Buttermilk Brigade will
take place on the river bridge
next Saturday night and at mid
night. This bunch is a little
timid about getting off of cider
and on sour milk but they will
get over that.
Marion Jackson’s way does
not seem to suit the Atlanta
folks. His way was the way
of all strife-breeders and proved j^rT that' puts’on dog at' the
Some of the social high-flyers
will have to give up gasoline and
pay their butcher and grocery
bill in the future. The Credit
Association can’t hit the guy too
Ixits of weddings have been
pulled oil in this county lately.
If a fellow will look that bunch
of young lady school teachers
over that were here last week
he will wonder why there has
not been more. I honestly be
lieve that this county has more
beautiful school teachers in it
than any county on earth,
wonder they are trying to raise
the age limits on the boys at
school. No boy wants to finish
school in this section.
TO THE NON
MEMBER
The people of the Baptist
Church need a new' building,
the Jewish folks of the city need
a Synagogue very badly. Both
ccngregations are out of a corn-
home, and the Jews have no
place of worship at all. They
have a number of citizens that
have contributed liberally to all
the public movements that have
WITH THE EXCHANGES
A bank in Jacksonville ran a
page ad in a paper in that city
and increased the number of its
saving depositors by nearly 500
in one day. Still, many news
papers find it a very difficult
matter to get the banks to adver
tise.—Tifton Gazette. Yes, that
is true but let one get into troub
( le a little and the very first thing
been in Bainbridge for years.! they do is to call on the local pa-
The fact that Hardman will
make the race for governor did
put the campaign liars in the
Atlnnta crowd busy right off
the bat. Hardman has cause for
rejoicing though in the fact that
Tom Felder tried to read him
out of the race. The Hon.
Thomas can hardly influence
himself let alone a voter. If the
race is run out between Harris
and Hardman. Hardman will
be the next Governor as sure as
shooting.
to be the wrong way.
retailers expense.
Friends, that man on the cor
ner with that worried look is not
guilty of any crime, nor has He j composed of the best
lost his dog. He has just an
nounced for office. That’s all.
Everybody that feels an inter
est in Bainbridge will wake up
and take notice now and get
busy. The town wants con
certed action on everything.
The Athens Banner says that
better divorce laws ought to be
passed. What is the matter with
Rowe. The law is alright, it
does not make a man give up a
mate that suits him and they are
too tight for the guy that has
one he wants to shift. When
you look on the long tongued old
gossipy sisters that some fellows
are tied to, a feeling of sympathy
for the gink carries with it the
bunch of young ladies that have conv j ct j 0 n that the law is too
ever graced any gathering in this! drastic . go why meddle, friend
city and made a modern social; j^ owe
event look like thirty cents] '
The Decatur County Teachers
Institute that met last week is
looking
The Baptist helped other deno
minations get good houses of
worship and now they must
have one. Both congregations
are going about their work in
>vjo; a very quiet and unassuming
' way but they are going to have
these buildings.
The erection of the new church
and Synagogue will enhance the
value of properity of every non
church member in the city of
Bainbridge as well as the mem
bers of this very chuch. The
presence of these two buildings
will have a tendency to invite
immigration into the town. The
average Gentile home-seeker
inquires about your churches
and schools when he goes to
hunt a home. They prove the
greatest drawing card. The
average Jew in looking up a
place to live would prefer a
town with a good synagogue
where he can worship after his
own fashion
These buildings will not help
the members of their congre
gations only, but will be of
inestimable value to the town
at-large. The purpose of this
article is to get this matter be
fore the non-church member in
his cold-blooded business way of
looking at things. The church
will reach the church member.
We want these buildings here.
They must be built and the man
when it comes to good looks.
If you can't look on the new year
with promise, expectations of
better things. Go and jump
in Flint river, there is more room
for you there.
The wise office-seeker ‘‘totes
his own skillet” is a proverb
that that never fails to hold
good.
It is very "Amoosin” to watch
the antics of the papers that are
trying to hoist Harris on the
people of this state for another
administration of indecision.
This effort has made some of the
Most laughable bed-fellows that
politics have ever made.
"Where to look for the good
things" is easily told. If you
cant find it in the advertisements
of some of the patrons of the
Post-Search Light it ain't. That
is a fact.
The Jacksonville Times-Union
seems to have a well developed
case of political belly-ache.
Every time Woodrow Wilson’s
name is mentioned they throw a
! fit. Who owns the Times-Union
anyway? The tune of the paper
indicates that it is a Republican
owned corporation paper.
We have not enough offices to
go around, therefore the bullies
will have to scuffle for those that
we have on hand. Get in boys
and see what your luck is.
What has become of the
Blakely post-office. Has the
After all of Marion Jockson’s
Furor, old Jim Woodard rocks
along just the same. The people
of Atlanta will not turn down an
honest man at the behest of a
sensation monger and strife
breeder. What is more tvrani-
cal than the rule of a fanatic?
powers that be given it to some
good democrat or is it still held
by one of the enemy? Editor
Fleming has the support of the
press of his district for the job
and if he does not get it some
of the boys will began to wonder
why. The Senegambian in the
wood pile will not long be con
cealed.
The fanatical papers all over
the state that raised so much
disturbance about the demoting
of Beavers evidently are up
against it now. They tried to
run Atlanta’s business and the
people ot Atlanta repudiated the
entire gang. Atlanta has a right
to run her own affairs and they
did not want Beavers despite the
hysteriacal yell that went up
over certain quarters of the
state. When a town don’t want
a man—the outside has no right
to try and make her take him.
This vote ought to be an object
lesson to the strife makers in
the state.
There is a gink that owes
three years back subscription
and we dunned him and he said
he did not have the money
That very evening we saw him
buy a grass widow a box of
candy. We have been wonder
ing if we told his wife about that
transaction whether or not he
could scrape up those three hones
he owes us. We have this under
advisement.
It is funny. The harder work
that we do on this paper, the
better the appearance of the
paper, the fact that its single
circulation is far more than the
combined of the two former
papers that every once in a while
we butt into some boob that
wants us to sell space at the
same price that a paper with
one hundred circulation does
It is too laughable to count. If
we sent out 40 pages each week
for $1 per year some of the
brethern would kick. The rates
for advertising in this paper are
much cheaper than with any
paper in the state with half the
circulation and still we have
kickers. But these kickers are
never men that have tried other
papers, therefore we feel satis
fied.
per to help out.
Massachusetts is said to have
more female than male residents.
She ought to ship some of the
women out West where they are
needed.—Savannah Press. Huh;
the men out west want she-wo-
men not that he-kind that comes
out of Massachusetts, all culture
and no womanly attributes at all.
One of that kind that looks on
babies as iniquitous institutions.
Why wish them on the western
Or What Was In It.
A silk stocking has turned
many a man’s head.—Rome Trib
une. Now really what was i n
the stocking?—Brunswick News.
Neither, it was just the shape
thereof.
I
The hello girl is one person
that don’t tell everything she
knows and its just as well she
doesn’t. —Tomasville Times-En-
terprise. You mean some of
them. Talk with a friend about
a private matter over the phone
and see if you dont find this an
incorrect statement in many and
sundry ways. No Hello Girls are
devoid of all curiosity.
Editor Johnsen of the Black-
shear Times says quail are so
tame in Pierce county they come
into the back yard. That sounds
to us like a genuine appeal for
immigrants.—Savannah Press.
Yep we have drank some of
that same liquor. It enabled us
to get a personal acquaintance
after proper introduction to ev-
ery fish in Flint River.
Clifford Grubb says he has
credited his last legal advertise
ment, and he is demanding the
cash as all good newspapers
ought to do.—ThomasvilleTimes
Enterprise. Grubb has gotten
tired of donating free space to
litigants. This paper has enough
of that same dose. The strange
thing about this business is that
the most prompt paying business
man you have will stall over pay
ing for legal advertising after it
isran. The pay-in-advance prop-1 ” ot a ho»lmg wilOernM. ol v.ee.
osition on all legal ad. is a good 1 s C1 izens are
Seein’s Believin’.
Savannah’s new mayor says he I
will enforce prohibition in that I
city. Some of us want to seel
him do it.—Cuthbert Leader!
Well why cant he? Savannah is|
about as cleverl
usuiu" i") on'*«*»**- - | an d genial as any in the state.l
one and all the papers are aaop- , ,, ... , , ,
| Surely all this buncombe is un-'
fair to our seaport.
ting it. It is theirs justly.
They Coiild’nt Budge.
out of the church will from a
If “pay as you go” were uni
versally required, a lot of folks
would have to stay at home who
c o m rn er c i a ! standpoint reap
some of the benefits assuming
that he is interested in the pro
gress of the town and will bear
his part towards developing the
city.
Now, last year we received
hundreds of letters from pros
pective home-seekers and men
hunting locations and we have
one letter yet to receive that did
not make inquiry as to the
churches and schools. Aside
from their sacred uses, these
things must be had in every
town and they are the most
powerful advertisement that you
can send out. A man would
rather make less money and get
his family in a community with
good churches and schools. Let
this sink into yoor Mind Mr.
Non-member.
now are moving about most of
the time.-Albany Herald. If
the Retail Merchants Association
get in their work at this point
some of our brethren will not
only have to pay before they
move but will have to pay before
they eat.
Gentler Sex.
The lady who thinks the atm-fc^
cities of war are just too terribleai
for anything will soon go away
for the summer and leave the
cat with a jar of condensed milk
and no can-opener.—Washington
Times. Yep; and she will leave
hubby’s shirts in the bureau
drawer and carry off the key for
fear of burglars.
A man at Victor West Virgi
nia is said to be 115 years old
and has been a resident of that
place all his life. Nothing re
markable about a man living 115
years, but we can’t see what
in the devil he wanted to live
that long in West Virginia for.
He had nothing to leave in case
he left and it was an idle waste
of time to stay there all that
number of years. Now if he
had been in South Georgia they
would have been but a few days
in real living.
Every man should do his part
to see that prohibition laws are
enforced and kept everlastingly
at it. The disrespect shown this
law is to a marked degree re
sponsible for the mob law
that prevails in some section.
You cant obey some laws that
suit you’ and disobey those that
don’t suit you and expect to be
a citizen. The majority that re
present the laws on the statue
books are entitled to
the law. The whiskey forces
had about 125 years in which to
demonstrate the error of the sale
of liquor and they are loath to
grant the prohibition sentiment
thirty days trial of their idea.
BUY AT HOME
A sad-eyed gink, recntly re
surrected from the dark ages
came into this office a few days
ago with a toot of his own arid
said “if you want something to
fill up with, this will be good
as a story.” A personal adver
tisement that he wanted us to
fill up with. Aint it horrible that
“sech things” still infest the
earth. The next guy that comes
along with something to fill up
a trial of with is going to get shot. We
can get all the news we want
to fill up with without going in
to the free advertising business.
This paper needs no space killers.
“If you buy out of town, and
we buy out of town, and all our
neighbors buy out of town, what
in thunder will become of our
town?” asked a North Georgia
citizen the other day, discussing
the value of the keep money at |
home movement.
He argued that if a man lives
in a small town and gets his liv
ing there, he ought to patronize
the stores of that town rather
than go off to some larger town
or city every time he wants to
buy a new shirt. Probably there
isn’t a town, or city either, any
where which would deny the
truth of the comment.
Oak and Pine Wood cut any
length you desire. Phone 153
and get it quick.
Gotton-Stoeks—6 rain
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mission basis; also carried on
conservative terms. Direct
wires to all markets.
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New York correspondent, E. F.
Holton & Co.
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