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J THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bslnbrldge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the I’ostofTleein Bain- brulpp, Oil.. as second class mail matter under Act of ('impress March lstli, !H!l7. Subscription Rates ONE YEAH -I!- 00 HIX MONTHH ROC Advertising Rates Adverlislnp rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and ail be furnished at the business office. OKKtl'IAl, ORGAN OK T1IK I'fl'V 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 Bought and sold on a com mission basis; also carried on conservative terms. 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