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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
Kntercil nt Ihc l’ostofficein Hain-
bridRe. Ga., as second cluss mail
matter under Act of Congress
March lhth, 1WI7.
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OKKIL'IAJ. LUKIAN OK TUB <T1'V
OK BA1NHKIIKIK ANI) DKCATtiK
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
If you are real anxious to make
a fellow mad, tell him the truth.
Never saw one yet that could
face it without yelling.
A womans mother can and
often does make a hard bed for
another woman’s son to lie on.
Most of them keep on lying.
The boys of Decatur county
are taking interest in the corn
and pig proposition and they
have it in their hands to knock
Mr. Boll Weevil into the head.
If you dont believe that the
Bainbridge ladies and girls have
real histrionic talent you should
have been out to the Story Book
Land attraction Friday night.
The Post-Search Light has
bought some newjjob presses and
will take care of all work that is
offered it and do it promptly.
Let us make you prices when you
are in need of anything.
Mr. Advertiser, we want your
business but we cant give you
the same rate in a paper with
three thousand subscribers that
you got in one with l()i>0. Please
keep the difference in mind.
Did you ever know why some
folks dont like you? Well you
just wont do as they want you
to do. Let them run your affairs
as they wnnt to and they will
like you for a fewjjdays and then
despise you.
Well there is about as many
folks that think they know how
to run a newspaper as there is
that know just exactly how to
iun the government. Did you
ever take any notice of that.
Is’nt it funny that the woman
with that “perfectly angel child’’
can find so blamed many things
wrong that kid’s sire? The kid
may be perfection but the old
man is something awful.
The boys are lining up now to
come under the wire. There
will be some to win and some to
loose in this county campaign.
Is’nt it a pity that all of them
cant win. The whole bunch are
good fellows.
Have you reserved your space
i i the Bainbridge Booster Edi
tion. It is only a few days now
until it will be published and vou
wnnt to get in on it. Let us call
and explain what it means to
everybody.
The town council has bought
a lire truck, cneof the latest and
most up-to-date kind. Hope it
will run into some ot the auto
s >eeders that- start under full
speed the minute they hear the
alarm ring. Some day when the
fir • alarm rings we are going to
hive an nwfnl accident. Watch
the prediction.
When the machinery of the
Democratic party runs the party
to the good of the members of
it and not curry favors with dis
gruntled elements, then the
party will exercise that power
which belongs to it.
The way of the transgressor is
hard. See where a fellow went
to poison his neighbor’s chickens
and got his own pointer pup.
The guy that gets too lavish with
his poison is liable to run into
some himself.
Georgia had a few more troub
les this and last year along mob
lines than she deserved or rel
ished but at the same time she
made more material progress
than any other southern state.
The short skirt situation has
releived the women of taking
any unnecessary exertions now
when a rat gets in the room.
They used to yell and jump on a
chair or table, but the rat now
looks and falls dead. Necessity is
the mother of invention.
This will be a splendid state
to live in when the politicians
tell the truth, the woman quit
frilling and the teachers get
their pay promptly, the men quit
—well, you can’t stop them from
lying.
Soon will be the time for some
of the athletic events of the
county schools to be pulled off.
We will look for some pretty
stiff competition between the
county boys when this time
conies. The boys and girls are
taking great interest in this work.
Dont you get tired of the
spring poet holding forth on the
joys of the country boy down on
the farm. The poor boy has
nothing to do between the hours
of ten at night and 4 the next
morning. What a world of lei
sure the country boy has. What,
does he do with all of it?
We would like to know the
names of the bunch that told the
Attorney General that Watson
could not get a fair trial in Geor
gia. All we got to say is that it
Tom cant get a fair one he will
take one so what is the difference.
If your neighbor’s dog annoys
you, tell him so and give him a
chance to keep him from being a
bother to you. Dont poison him
or feed him glass as some have
done recently here. Dont slip
around under the cover of night
and poison him because that
looks like a very mean way to
act.
Did you eves see such a mess?
The Thomasville Times-Enter-
prise refers to an anteluvian an-
tiflagistinated an i m a)cu 1 at-
ed paragrapher. If the Alphabet
had held out that fellow would
have “cussed” him plum out. A
man must be mad to man-handle
the English language in any
such brutal way.
If the charge of the Grady
County Executive Committee be
true, that the boys over there are
traflicing with their votes we
wonder what will become of our
old friend Barber, the Represen
tative. He spent all he had last
summer in Atlanta and cant in
dulge m much of that luxury so
feared by their county chairman.
If the statecommitte will send
delegates to the St. Louis Con
vention pledged to Wilson and
save the state the trouble and
expense of a primary they will
do us all a favor. Georgia is be
hind the administration and there
is no need for the committee to
take up any time about the
matter. Ordinarily this might
not be a wise precedent, but
Deniocr.itieall/ sneaking it is
political economy just at this
time.
The way that some of the
folks are coming into the told
and becoming readers of the
Post-Search Light is indeed grat
ifying to the paper. We are
doing our best to give you the
money’s worth. Several hundred
new readers have been put on in
the last month and you will see
results of this encouragement in
the improvement of the paper.
Most of the members of the
present house of representatives
it seems from the reports will
stand for re-election. Their ac
tion on some of the most import
ant matters meeting the approv
al of the people in the main.
The weeklies from the different
counties they represent standing
by them judging from their edi
torial utterances.
We did not know anything
about Judge Brandeis. We did
not know whether we were for
or “agin” him until we found
Wall street fighting his confir
mation ana now “bejabers” we
are with him teeth and toe-nail.
That fellow Wilson is a wise man
in his appointments. He never
suits Wall street or Teddy Roose
velt in anything that he does.
Mr. Auto Owner it is about time
that you bought that tag. The
new law is very binding on the
Sheriff and if you fail to attend
to it you will naturally bring on
yourself an unpleasant situation.
You know the law, you know
that the officer has no authority
show you any special favors and
you ought to attend to it and not
try to abuse somebody later on
because you are careless and get
your hook hung. It will save vou
embarassment to look after it
NOW.
They have passed a law in
Tenneessee that a woman can’t
wear a dress more than four
inches above the ground nor ex
pose more than three inches of
her neck. That is a good law.
We never did have any idea of
moving to Tennessee and we
know that now we never will.
Don’t like the state anyway but
j might have made a mistake and
stumbled there on a visit, Let
the ladies dress as they want.
The Chairman of the Grady
Democratic Executive Commit
tee has a long and interesting
explanation of the law against
vote selling and from the full
ness of that explanation any one
would infer that the boys over
there were selling their vote,
That guy ought to be ashamed
of himself to cast any such in
sinuation. It is a reflection on
this great American Republic for
a man to accuse the citizens of
selling his vote. A terrible ac
cusation. How much do they
pay for them over there anyway
Bill.
Well Garrison quit. He could
not have it exactly as he wanted
it and he threw up the job, de
serting his chief at a most serious
time. Wilson is responsible to
the people for the policy of his
administration and the people
will back him if the entire cabi
net leaves the work. If a few
more resign we will feel like
quoting the saying of a former
prominent Republican that the
Democrats could be depended on
to act the fool at the right time
for Republican interests.
What has the Frank case to do
with the National Campaign for
delegates to the Convention? If
Watson wants to hoist that mat
ter into politics why dont he be
gin at home and try Hugh Dorsey
for governor? Dorsey has had
his ear to the ground but soon
found out that while he has been
regarded as a man doing his
duty, that act did not entitle him
to the governor-ship. As a liter
ary man and Lawyer Watson has
no superior but as a buster of
the old Democracy he has proven
a failure and will always fail.
The party has done too much for
the people since the civil war for
one man’s animosities to disrupt
it.
Bainbridge has become the
most decent town to live in that
we know of. And did you know
Bub that it was made so by a
bunch of old rounders. Old
rounders that knew the dangers
of the things they were fighting
fiom actual personal experience.
Did you know that? Thoughts
of higher things put the senti
ment into action and the old
rounders with the nerve made
the sentiment a living and
breathing reality. The bunch of
loafers that used to infest this
town and disgust every citizen
have sought other fields of action.
The vampires of society that
will knock a man in the head for
two-bits are not here now.
DOVE BAITING
Complaints have been coming
into the city about Dove Baiting,
a violation of the game law go
ing on. Considerable agitation in
parts of the county of this
matter will undoubtedly result in
some of the boys getting in
dutch before many more weeks.
From the information that we
gather the men violating these
laws are the very men who
favored the game laws of the
state and call for their enforce'
ment in loud terms on other
game. It is about time that each
man read a law as applied to
himself.
The game laws were passed to
apply to everyone and from all
we can gather the dove baiting
is being done by men who know
the laws and understand their
provisions. An ignorant man
may violate a law not knowingly
but there is not a man in the
county indulging in this dove
baiting business that does not
know that he is laying himself
liable to prosecution.
We have been asked to call
attention of the people to this
lawlessness and we are doing
so. The slaughter of doves is
against the law, it is going on
and complaints are being made
about it. Let whoever this ap
plies to read, and govern himself
accordingly.
The Jewish citizens of the
town have been out recently to
The north Georgia counties
that have been having race
troubles ought to come down in
the Empire counties of South
Georgia, Grady, Thomas and
Decatur and see how the races
get along down here. They both
attend to their own business and
a difficulty between a white man
and a negro is a raritv. You
seldom hear of any inclination
of any trouble among them. It
is easy to read why. Because
both are satisfied that they can’t
do any better anywhere and con
sequently the leading element of
both races are determined to get
along. Had you ever thought of
it in that light? It is true and a
little observation will prove it
to you. The discontened ele-
Tom Watson launched his cam
paign against President Wilson
last week at Thompson, Ga. Wil
son wont kick out Tumulty,
hence Thomas is against him.
The sage of McDuffie has bit of a
big job to undertake to swing the
old state of Georgia against Wil
son on such a bunch of issues as
he outlined on this occasion. If
the President or any other of
ficial hires or fires a man because
of his religious convictions he
violates the constitution of the
nation and nobody knows this
better than Watson. This open
ing of Watson will go like all his
other efforts to break the solidity
of the Democratic party in
Georgia, in words, abuse and
slander and fail as quickly as his
oth«r efforts. It is so strong in
old Georgia that Watson cant
keep himself out of their pri
maries. He and his friends will
vote in those primaries under a
pledge to support the nominees
they will bol: as quickly as if
they had no moral obligation to
support the action of the primary
hanging over them.
ask their friends to assist therajj^gj,!- j p races breed the
in the erection of their Syna- j troubles you read about and in
gogue. They met with a very | this section both races are satis-
nice encouragement, borne of fi e d with their counties and its
the citizens liberally and gladly | pr0S p ec t s , hence the peace that
joining in then movement. This prevails among them,
is nothing but what is just and j
right as the Jews living in this;
city have all been very liberal in Sa V friend; did you know that
aiding other denominations to some rev ival is going on in Bain-
build their places of worship.; bridge and they have one of the
Yet a goodly number of citizens * 1 most remarkable preachers that
that should respond to their ap
peal have not done so as yet. The
building of this Synagogue will
add quite a bit to the progress of
the town and the spirit displayed
up to now has been such that
will help. While there are not a
great many Jews living in Bain
bridge and the church will of
necessity have to be small, still
it will be an attraction to the
city in many ways. The work
is under way and any progressive
citizen that feels like assisting
them will find his interest very
we have ever seen engaged in
the evangelical work. He knows
when he has finishes his sermon
and stops right then instanter.
He does not particularly love to
hear himself talk. He says what
he has to say to the sinner and
saint on that particular occasion
and sits down. Result; more
hard-headed business men go out
to hear him than any man that
has been here on the same mis
sion in ten years. He knows
that many a good and inspiring
sermon has been ruined by too
much appreciated by those for- much after trimmings and that
warding the work.
The Post-Search Light wishes
to thank its old subscribers for
the way they have responded to
our efforts to collect up back
subscriptions and get our list in
shape to comply with the mail I
laws. A very few have allowed
their feelings to get ruffled over
receiving statements but all ot
them know that there was no in
tention on the part of the paper
to hurt any one’s feelings. We
felt that the paper was worth
the price and if an account was
correct we only wanted to collect
it and if it was wrong we were
just as anxious to get that ac
count corrected as we were to
collect it. We found some that
had not been credited as they
should have been and their ac
counts have been properly cred
ited now. If any felt ruffled we
feel sure that they will see the
business side of the matter, which
they will when they think over it
many audiences enjoy a discus
sion that don’t enjoy repetition.
Go hear him and see for yourself.
He will get under that shirt
bosom and talk to where you
live if you do go.
Money to Loan
and Farms to Sell
I will assist you in securing
money on your farm land or
city property, 6 percent, inter
est. I have listed several big
bargains in small farms that
must be sold at a sacrifice in
price on account of past due
mortgages. I shall be pleased
to quote prices and descriptions
and take you out to see these
farms. I am also Special Agent
for the Penn Mutual Life In
surance Company.
J. B. L. BARBER
First National Bank Building
Bainbridge. Ga
THE REVIVAL
The Bainbridge folks are ha
ing about the best revival th
have ever had here and it i s t
kind of a revival that read
out afer the fellow that they
truly after getting. Coma
sense, every day talk, the ki
that soothes and draws a fell,
and makes him feel like he
really wanted seems to bet
burden of the work.
The preacher that they ha
knows just exactly what he
talking about from experien
he knows how a man feels tl
is out of the church and
knows how to stir that feeling
the way to do the most good.
Most evangelists lose sight
the fact that the average m
out of the church knows in
own heart that he is not whi
he ought to be and they (
a bull whip on him fromt
very beginning, driving hi
furher away, but this j
Moore still believes him to be
some service to the country j
endeavors in a nice way to
him know it and know that it
expected that he does mi
himself as useful to his fell
man and the community as p
sible.
The singing, it is good, it
tenderness and love. Chai
Tillman leads it, none is bet
qualified in the state to lead
He has sung his way into
hearts ot the people of t
state, he has sung sinners i
light out of the valley of
spondence for Imany years,
he is still singing to them of
beauties of the Cross and
great and good traditions,
verse and in song he picture
them the story of the Babe
Bethlehem, the brow ot Cai
ry and the splendor of the
surrection morning. His singi
is the battle cry of decent i
high-minded living and it rii
true through every verse,
love Tillman in this county,
man as well as the song,
has been working for the peo
of this state for this wage
years, our love. He has b
paid and is paid [full wages
every man loves his name!
his spirit.
Great good is coming fi
this revival, even the man wli
permission was not sought
hold it has been impressed
he is many, The street cot
critic who knows just hov
should be conducted has all
concluded that Rev. Moore
“confidence in his job” and h
not ashamed of the Gospel
Christ. He believes that he
something you need, that
want when you are honest v
yourself and he is trying his 1
to impress on you some of
earnestness and faith.
Columns of copy can be got
up on this revival. It is not i
cessary. The interest of
people and the attendance u
the meeting tell a stronger si
than can these columns. All
can say is to the fellow who
not been and to him we i
“Go” and you will hear so
thing that you need to hear
that benefit you. If you d<
go you are standing in your <
light. The congregations
large but you go and you will
a seat. They want you up th
In fact they are waiting for j
want you and if you, go t
will make that very plain io J
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