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THE 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. Subscription Rates ONE YEAH f'' 00 HIX MONTHS BOC Advertising Rate* Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertionH and other reauirementH, and will be furnisheci at the business office. 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. For Rheumatism As soon as an attack of Rheu matism begins apply Sloan’s Lin iment. Don’t waste the time and suffer unnecessary agony. A few drops of Sloan’s Liniment on the affected parts is all you need. The pain goes at once A grateful sufferer writes; “I was suffering for three 'weeks with Chronic Rheumatism and Stiff Neck,, although I tried many medicines, they failed, and I was under the care of a doctor. For tunately I heard of Sloan’s Lini ment and after using it three or four days am up and well. I am employed at the biggest depart ment stores in S. F. where they employ from six to eight hun dred hands, and they surely will hear all about Sloan’s Liniment. H. B. Smith, San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 1915. At all Druggists. (2) Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Effectual. “I have taken a great mi bottles ef Chamberlian’s Coi Remedy and every timj it cured me. I have found it in effectual for a hacking coi and for colds. After taking a cough always disappear writes J. R. Moore, Lost Va Ga. Obtainable everywhere. D. H. Andrews, the Fish Man. You know him, his phone num ber is 254 and if you want them fresh and want them quick all you have to do is to say so. Phone him an order and your fish are on the way. Try him. Cotton-Stocks-Grair Bought and sold on a com mission basis; also carried on conservative terms. Direc wires to all markets. Members: New York Cotton Exchange Chicago Board ol Trade C. D. Cates & Company Jacksonville, Fla. Augusta. Fla. 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