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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bslnbrtdge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor end Proprietor
Entered at the Poatofflcein Hain-
briiljte, On., an second clans mail
matter under Act of Congress
March lHth, 1H97.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THK CI'I'V
OF BAINRHIDGK AND DKCATUH
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
The entire force of city officials
were re-elected by the council
last week which goes to show
that the people are pretty well
satisfied with official Bainbridge.
The candidates are counting
i noses and quite a number of the
noses are being counted twice.
This will develop more plainly
about March 2nd. At sundown
where were they?
It is to be hoped that none of
our county candidates will get
over into Florida while they are
electioneerig. Florida has
troubles of her own.
Lillian Russell says that she
does not mind getting fat. Now
if Lil don’t worry over it, why
should we care a darn?
Few, If anv of us realize that
it is time to lay all little isms
aside and get to work boosting
this town the place where we all
make our living.
The Atlanta Recall matter
having gone up in smoke that
city has been quiet for almost a
whole week. Wonder what her
next scandal will be.
Tile members of a Savannali
Congregation recently had the
gall to give their paster a Ford
car last week. Wonder how
long it it will be now before they
give him the can.
The Mayor soaked 23 speeders
here a few weeks ago and the
time seems to be ripe for him to
soak some more. The lesson'
seems easily forgotten.
Before George Washington
made that sublime reputation as
a truthful guy there had been no
county elections in his time, If
George had gone through a pair
of those he would have butted
Ananias into the ditch.
The government ought not to
spend so much for battleships.
Put it in good roads as it more
economical and safer. A gink
can run better on a well worked
road when he is scared.
The guv with the grouch and
the axe to grind now has his
inning. He will knock the can
didate that he has a grouch
against when lie well knows
his grouch does not effect that
candidate’s competency.
It is reported that Mayor
Mitchell of Thomas ville will likely
make the race for state senator
from that district. Here is hop
ing that Fondren gets in for the
good old county of Thomas is
entitled to a real senator and
Fondren carries the goods right
under his hat.
If you really want to get on
the commercial map of this sec
tion you must place your adver
tisement in the Post-Search Light
for the people of this section
read this paper for what is in it.
Betty Nansen, Mary Pickford
and Pauline White have been
all backed off the boards by re
cent discoveries of beauty. Have
you seen the Decatur county
young ledy school teachers. We
can find you some among them
that make the above look like
patent medicine advertisements.
Willie does not see so much
in these bare-foot dances. He
intimates that he has been danc
ing around bare-footed for a long
time but has never even made
impression enough on dad to get
him to skip a drink or two to get
him a pair of shoes.
Bring down the old possum
dog, Hiram, the time is right
and the sullen birds are fat. The
taters are a little “skace” but
can be gotten up. The most
ignorant man on earth is the
man that never had any ‘‘possum
and tater.”
our columns were crowded
last week and this and we must
ask that the people get in their
stuff early in the week. This is
a newspaper that everybody
reads and if you want to use it
you will have to come early. The
other man will if you dont.
The Decatur County Booster
Edition of this paper that is be
ing worked up at this time will
be the best thing of its kind that
the merchants and business men
have ever had a change at. Get
in on it. When the man calls
on you with the proposition give
him your attention for you will
be the beneficiary in the end.
The Dawson News has an
article headed “Down with mince
pie,” alright old top. What we
fail to down we have a 15 year
old boy that can down it to a
finish. A man that would as
sail that old and reliable pie pro
position even by reproducing an
article ought to be hamstrung.
These do be awful times we are
now on.
The peanut industy is coming
into its own now in very short
order. If Mr. Weevil wants to
rear much he will find that he j We ll it is settled. The Brook-
can’t cut much figure it Bill and; j yn g ag ] e jj a8 tried the Watson
John will take a peep at tbej^g an< j f oun d the jury guilty
goober proposition.
of allowing politics to settle the
verdict. Brooklyn, it seems that
we have heard of that place. It
was the town that hatched Leo
Frank. After forcing him on an
Notice where a widow is travel
ing to the Philipmes tc marry a
fellow. Lord that guy could
have gotton further than that j an innocent universe now they
could’nt he? Willie they will get ; want to run Georgia.
you regardless of how much o
territory you cover, these) Every time vou wont i et a
widows will.
Albany seems to be having
some court now as the City Court
had to unhitch last week to let
the Superior Court get busy. The
session of the Superior Court
was held however to dispose of
business from another county.
The Post-Search Light wants
to raise its circulation to 5,000.
It has the ambition to be the
most widely circulated weekly
paper in Georgia as well as the
best and most readable one. It
is rated very high and you can
get in on this by taking the
paper.
The pert paragrapher about
woman’s wear on the Thomas-
ville Times-Enterprise we have
been informed, has discussed the
petticoat proposition about his
last time. He is to get one of
his own in a short while and
when he discusses petticoats in
the future it will bean individual
one.
It is rumored over here that
Ed Jerger of the Thomasville
Times-Enterpi ise will soon go
into goat culture, Ed ought to
make a good one, he has been
elected high priest of the local
lodge of Masons over there and
handled several other honors.
"They do say” that like Gaul,
he will soon be divided in three
parts.
politician run your paper, fill it
full of stuff boosting his candid
acy for nothing, right off he
goes to knocking and wants to
knock you in the head with a
club. Did you ever notice too,
that kind of a guy never gets
elected.
The government requires us to
keep our subscription list up
close and if you get notices.
Don’t get mad we feel that we
are doing you a favor to let you
know this. Our little bills of
$i for subscription may look
little but when you have several
thousand dollars tied up in small
amounts you have to do every
thing that is reasonable to get
them in. Don’t get mad, unless
you get mad enough to pay it.
It you pay it, it will be thank
fully received and you wont get
dunned agaih soon.
There is some talk of the Hon.
Bob Blackburn of Fulton getting
into the race for Congress in the
fifth district. Now the Hon.
Bob is no novice at the game and
although some of the boys don’t
like the prohibition position of
the gentlemen from Fulton, no
one has ever had out a such
warrent to find out how he
stands on any matter before the
public. Blackburn has the
courage of his convictions and
his private life will stand any
attack that the ultra can make on
him and he will be a mighty
dangerous man in any race.
The Decatur County Forward
Edition of the Post-Search Light
will be your chance Mr. Land
Owner to get before the country
at large with what you have.
The real estate man that does
not get in on that Edition de
serves to lose. See the mana
ger when he calls on you and
talk it over. T’will be a hum
mer from way back.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
All the men that have been
offered for the Supreme court
Justiceship up to now do not
fill the bill. If the President
wants to do some particular stunt,
why don’t he name Roosevelt
or Tom Watson and be sure
enough sensational. Be about
as fitting as naming Taft and
you must admit that either are
more able.
Get your advertisement in not
[ater than Wednesday morning
if you want it handled nicely.
The man that rushes in the last
minute with his copy must re
member that he can’t get the
best service. Some of our ad
vertisers are very careless about
this. They wait until press time
and then come running in with
an advertisement and then get
sore because they can’t pick out
their position. Get it in early
so that it can be handled as it
ought to be if you want results.
The boys are all lined up now
for the final count in the country
primary. And by the way the
people have a splendid bunch ot
men to select their officers from.
A more genteel set of candidates
have never offered themselves
in the county and the voters will
make no blunders in the election
of any of those that have an
nounced. We look for a clean
and high-tonned primary and one
that will reflect credit on the
party. They will all come to the
snorting pole on March 1st.
1
Ever try to eat soup with a I “Your paper hasn’t come
coffee spoon? It’s almost as bad j over two weeks, now,” say 8
“Your five dollars hasn’t c
for two years,” says we. i
tinued in our next. — Thoi
viile Times-Enterprise. :
and it will be continued is se ,
nexts. The cost of paper is
that this kind of a bully will]
to be cutout.
Everybody prizes the columns
of this paper and patronizes
them freely except those whom
they most benefit. The banks,
the wholesale and retail mer
chants. They take all theirs out
in criticising and telling us how
to run the business. The most
liberal set that we have ever
found with their advice is the
wholesaler He can finds lots to
grouchabout, that we don’t do
but has very little time to send in
a little advertising, that he can
make the manufacturer pay for.
It would not cost him a penny to
patronize the paper that is build
ing up his business but seeing
our moat he cant see his.
It is noted that Henry Full-
bright of Burke county will re
tire from politics. Here is
where the state looses one of its
ablest men, an honest man with
strong aiid honorable convictions.
Such a man like him will be sacri-
ficed to make room for things like
| Tom Felder of Fulton. The ef-
I fort made by Felder’s gang to
slaughter Fullbright will always
) be resented by the people that
know Fullbright. It is always the
case. Fullbright began to look
look like gubernational timber
and the gang had to get busy to
counteract his growing strenght.
Georgia needs this man and will
call for him yet. Mark the pre
diction.
as trying to dish up peas with
a knife. - Thomasville Times-
Enterprise. And this from a
gink that is threatened with
matrimony, from a man that
holds several jobs as Highcock-
alorurn of several lodges in his
native city. Eat a meal at
that railroad restaurant you over
there and learn some table
manners. You don’t eat soup
with a spoon man, but eat it
with a fork.
Why is it that when a woman
beautifies the home and makes it
attractive that her husuband
will begin to strut around and
talk of what we have got? Did
you ever notice that?—Bain
bridge Post-Search Light. If
Friend Husband furnishes the
money he is a sort of partner
in the good work, isn’t he?—
Quitman Free Press. Nope;
friend husband never furnishes
anything but a first class belly
ache when asked for four bits
to buy some seed with. He has
to be shown the beauty thereof
before he furnishes anything but
the strutting and the heavy
standing around.
What has become of the old
fashioned boy who stuck his
chewing gum on the bed post
upon retiring for the night?—
Macon News. Right here at the
Editors home forking down
collards with his accustomed
regularity.
Fitzgerald is advertising
“More than one thousand chick
ens on display,” but, man alive,
you ought to see Cherry street
here on a busy day.—Macon
News. Why you impudent dog
aint you ashamed to make such
shocking observations? Say bub;
did they have on them non-
deceiving-like transparent skirts.
Gosh, wouldn’t it be a
thing to discover one of t
old-fashioned girls who r
would rather wash dishes
set around while mother dj (
—Thomasville Times-Enterp
There is no such thing.
The Mayor and six aldermen
of Thomasville own automobiles
and they use them judiciously
and without excessive speed.—
Times Enterprise. Gee whiz;
picking must sure be good over
there if the whole gang can ride
in automobiles. Why not elect
a new bunch if that set has
gotten fat as all that.
The ability of the boll w
to destroy has increased
year to year. In 1912, the
year in which the pest inv
certain counties in the south’
ern part of the state, cotton
duction decreased 25 per c
In 1913 and 1914 the pest cut
yield of the territory in w
it had established itself 33
per cent, and in 1915 the
crease in yield reached 50
cent.—Albany Herald.
The Worth County Local pi
a tribute to the “Hello g
that is timely and quite
More frequently than not
trouble with the telephone
change is not with the girls
with the equipment, long h
and cross subscribers.—Tho
ville Times-Enterprise.
Many advertisers are like
minor who left his prospect
before he struck pay dirt—t
quit to soon. Do not take in
for granted and think that
public knows your store alrei
One-tenth the people in Gr
don’t know one-third the thi
you carry in you store, and
balance of the population kn
even less. Tell them, and k
telling them, through The N
and Sun. The printed wi
find new readers every da]
Griffin News.
Many cherished institut
have disappeared, but we
glad to say that the old-fashio
citizen who “writes pieces
the papers” is still with u
Americus Times-Recorder.
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