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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Balnbrldgo, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the I’cwtofTIce in llain- bridge, Ou., hh Heo.nntl cIukk mail matter under Act of CongreaH March 1 Hill, 1897. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR.. *1.00 8JX MONTHS 00c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL OitriAN OF TIIB CITV OK IIAINIIKIDOE AND DBCATI H COUNTY, Telephone No. 239 The Dothan Eagle Screams, says an exchange. Ours would too if we had any to test out. And the Atlanta bunch tried to frame up the meeting of the last state committee but they ■lipped a cog. Georgia mav have room for the foreigner to live but not to boss her. If a few of them would bear this in mind things might be better. - — Just think about that bunch of Macon cops with 7000 gallons of renegade whiskey. Whoopee wont they have a time until the evidence is used up? Big doings in Appalachicola this week. Are you going down to take it in. The oyster folks will give you one royal welcome if you spend the week with them. Savannah is going to keep on until she has a big mess out of her local affairs and will convince the state that neither Pierpont or any of the bunch down there are to be tried very far. There is always the man with you that knows more about your affairs than you do yourself and giving himself the airs of a know- all he swells with the importance of his own ignorance. Well, if your man was not elected he ran in good company anyway for a nice set of fellows are now listed among the de feated candidates. I — g i .. The Poet-Searchlight special edition will show the prettiest set of scenes that has been shown in any paper in this part of the country and the advertiser that has anything to sell is foolish to not have his advertisement in this edition. it is said that old father Time heals many wounds. Do you suppose he can do anything with old running wound that Wilson put in Teddy *8 hide about four years ago? i ■ —— Well the war is over for the present and the boys will settle down to wait for another four years before they will ask for county offices. The county has a good set of men to serve them. Mr. Reader whether you voted for all the winners or not. Judge W. M. Harrell of this city is being urged to enter the race for the Superior Court Judge ship in the event of the vacancy. We are with the Decatur county man from start to finish. We only turn out the best down this way and it about time that jje- catur got her Jshare of these honors. Judge Harrell is a most conscientious God-fearing man and will fill the place, and would be a fitting round up of his career as an attorney to serve in this capacity. | The Will of the People of Macon seems to have been as- Iserted and the “Jints” will have | to go. It cost a terrible price to arouse the people of the Central city but they are aroused indeed. The Blind Tiger must go. The ancient menagerie that contained Teddy Bears, Bull Moose, Billy Possum and various other ante-deluvian animals is trying very hard to get in the circus once more but their age and previous usefulness works against them. Moved and seconded that muf flers be provided for the mouths of Teddy and of Bryan for the next 12 months at the expense of tne public. We feel that a public subscription could be raised instanter for such a purpose. The Battle Cry of Peace has nothing to do with the row that a man and his wife may have over those enormous Easter Bills that will come later. This is merely a picture show that is coming along. Volney Williams of the Way- cross Journal Herald has an nounced for Representative from Ware County. Volney will learn things now that he never dream ed of with his best pipe in work- in order. The Merchants are preparing for a bigJSpring Trade and are gathering in the stock that will catch and hold the business on every turn this time. Just look in the windows and you will see some magnificent offerings to the people in this city and county. The friends of progress are wondering just how long it will be before some concerted action takes place among the folks in this county to combat the cotton evil. That is the evil of planting too much cotton when there is a number of other great agricul tural opportunities. The school teachers have been caught in the maelstrom of poli tics, are being held out of their money by an injunction that works a hardship on them. They have no concern Sin the political game and it hard on them to be put to such inconvenience as they have nothing to do with the game of politics at all for any cause. Weoften wonder if Bainbridge has more than her share of meddlers, folks that dip their mouths in things that dont con cern them than any other town or not. We love the liars and critics that meddle in our bus iness however as they keep us advertised very nicely. And they are many. Grady, ^Decatur and Miller county have had their primaries and the boys can all get down to business for the coining year. Those that won can make prep arations to hold the job an those that lost may gee in the years work. The early primary being more satisfactory in this respect at least. The revival closed Sunday night after a three weeks run and everybody seemed to enjoy the work of the evangelist and the singers. It will be many days before Bainbridge will show such an attendance of people at a revival as gathered at this one. The revival that closed last Sunday night was one of the most interesting that has ever been held in Bainbridge. There may not have been as many ac quisitions to the churches of the town as formerly but the interest was more keen and the solid men and women of the town more deeply interested than they have even been before. Rev. Arthur Moore will always be appreciat ed in Bainbridge. Duval Countv Florida has been carrying insurance on county property that was void from the very start. How often does a city pay for things that she dont get. Female gambling came in for a share of the evils that the evange list tried to break up in Bain bridge and it is hoped that he did som? good along the line. In the past some of our women have boasted of how many card parties they attended and what they won. Showing conclusively that it was taking a big hold on them. The date of the Donalsonville Fair has been set for October 3 to 6 inclusive and the West Siders are determined to make this Fair ®the biggest and most instructive that has ever been held in this section. They are a plucky people over there and they will pull off something that will pull off something that will reflect credit on the town and county. Watch them progress. A legislative committee in spected the Decatur county stockade and roads and pro nounced them the best they had seen. The committee was here last week and they gave the county matters a thorough look ing into and were very profuse in the good things they had to say of the roads and county farm and all other matters that came under their eyes. Notice where a big corporation in the Pan-American shipping in terests has opened an Advice Bureau. Whole lot of trouble for nothing. We have quite a large number in full operation on the streets of Bainbridge that can advise you as to anything under the sun and they are going without much patronage. We will loan anybody several that can use them or put up with them for that matter. Yesterday was thinning out day. The boys that lost, lost game and those that won fare to be congratulated. Taken as a whole the campaign just closed has been about the cleanest cam paign that we have ever known. There will be less hard feeling from this campaign than there has ever existed after one that has been as hard contested as this one. City Attorney William D. Mc Neill of Macon has taken Police Power of that city and will root out the tigers and whiskey blockaders. Right now we wish to observe that Macon has put the job in the bands of the man that has got the nerve to do the work alright. McNeill is a wire- grass !cracker that will do his duty as he see it at any and all times. We invited all the churches and lodges to have an article in our special Edition land some of them have got them in. Others have not and when the Edition comes out others interested will wonder why their organization was not represented. This is the reason. We cant run folks down to do them a favor. We extend ed the invitation, they accepted and have not given us the copy. This all we can do. Occasionally we hear from some reader that is sore over re ceiving a statement of their sub scription due this paper. How- the great majority responded nicely to our first request. It is funny that a man will get sore at a home institution over send ing them a statement of a small amount when they know that the home man means no offense while they will smile at a dun that comes from away fiom home. There is not now 75 sub scribers out of ovep two thousand that owe the paper any back dues and for this we are very grateful. The Executive Committee of Randolph County has called a primary in this wise. “Any WHITE DEMOCRAT of said county who intends to abide the result of the result of the party primary and support the nomi nees” is qualified to vote. That will be an old fashioned Demo cratic primary. If that yard stick is put to good use, a primary will result that will do the pary good. Marion Jackson’s way does not seem to suit the Thomasville JUDGE HARRELL FOR JUDGESHIP. The most interesting political item of the week is the ann^uce- ment of the possible candidacy for the Judgeship of the Superior Court of Judge Harrell. The item is interesting to the many friends of Judge Harrell all over the circuit as well as in De catur county. He is capable of ‘filling the place in every respect and it is about time that Decatur had a look in on some of Superior Times-Enterprise and they have ?? urt honore - Judge Harrell is handled that gent a bunch to ; the simon-pure Decatur county dream over. Jackson’s Way has prodact \ b T andra, ! ed ln tbe not nor does not suit anybody but !“ unty ’ . he has made his county a gang of professional lime-light! * he , one . ove ° f h,s llf *’ to seekers and those who make it a' hls f amdy ' 11 Koes ™ th ° ut sa f business to knock their townsj ln e that ™ man m the old county and cities because they can not of Decatur has watched her pro- boas them. Tbe Way did »ri«ualy ^ misrepresent ThomasVille and we will bet a dollar to a ginger- cake that they will never correct WITH THE EXGHAN Reports come from Baini that an evangelist has on its knees, but th« u ones find it hard to beU Gadsden County Times seems a little unfair Bub- should one not think » Bainbridge folks without fort? We might retaliate J ingthatif you had seen-' your brethern up this „ short while ago you would.] thought Quincy needed „ vival and needed it bad, J are too polite to say any] thing as that. their false impression sent out after they know the real facts. The fool, adulterated with whiskey, abetted by the cheap pistol has removed from the state of existence such a thing as a conservative position on the whiskey business. There may have been a time when there was such conservatism but it cost too much. Note the price that Macon paid to get rid of that conserva. tive position. The state Committee has call ed the presidential primary and left the state one off for the present. If they would call the primary before the house and senate meets in June they would get better service. The average We have no evidence to it but we are of the opinion somebody is selling whii or about our city again, old Georgia Cracker pride as hasi warning fellow, unless thL, Bill Harrell watched his native : P ess ceas ^ s the penitentiary county come to the front and to b< j„X r your home .^Ri' Richl that point where she is consider ed the banner county of all the state. Judge has friends in every county in the circuit that will be only too glad to honor him for the love that he has shown the people of the this, the Albany Circuit. In times gone by, the judge and his friends have help ed into their ambitions many sons of other counties that will be glad to aid him in his candi dacy. He is a good lawyer, an - able man that will reflect credit i to1 the rascals build a „ i_- , .around them.—Thomas on his county in eveiy under-1 Press . Y ep and that taking. He has given unselfishly’hog proof. Not even a v of his jftime and energy to the i grass rooter can get through other counties of the section ' ess squeals like the chief. News. Get the evidence! boy and hold same till there and we will give y^i pert testimony. They never sleep—Rail interests, the whiskey trusl the Fertilizer Manufacture: far as state politics are < ed. Their representatives the capital are the bes and most conspicuous fig. in every meeting or conveni held in Georgia, regardless of| the lobby laws. While the mi fed vil fencel A Georgia boy led the when they needed help to advance any moral cause or to help keep the Democratic banner trium- . . pliant in each of them. Decatur ^ ain when 6 It ’comeTu, ™ county will give her favorite son j things the Georgia boy is ri| representative has a hard time i three thousand votes without a there.—Savannah Press. Yes serving and at the same time I dissent to start him off to this we have a guy right here keeping an eye out at home. He high honor and we believe that l® a <Iing all in the consumpl thatl may be a splendid representative j Grady, Mitchell and all other but the folks want him to come counties will give him fair and see them during the race and at I high consideration. It would be the same time they want him to a pretty honor to give perhaps stay on the job- He cant well do j the last of the old time jurists of both unless the primary was held ( the section. Let old Decatur send before he went away for the her son well into the front to summer session. atart with and he will easily get the place. • of com. The president dont want war, he is fighting hard to keep out and if he is drawn into it, it will be because his weak-kneed in h : s own party is throwing him into trouble. We are behind the Presi dent, more so when we read of the horrible sufferings of the women and children in Europe. If he can by any method just keep his country from this troublesome war he will be blessed more than any man of the century. We dont care how he does, or what his policies are, if they mean that he means no war we are with him. Subscribe for The Post-Search Light, From the New Orleans Tin Democrat comes this without! word of intimation or comn from us: “Mr. and Mrs. Van Tuyl, of 4264 Tthlone avi are receiving congratulations i the arrival of twin infants,! boy and a girl. Mr. Vau Tar is an artist.—St. Louis Glol Democrat. Yes, you can betj money he is. ’ ’—Americus Recorder. You tell ‘em, th what we call a —. Virginia is passing a law to let a man vote by registered mail. Now there is no use to rub a thing in. If a man can vote by parcel post it does look like a > woman conld vote in person. No! wonder the old maids that ad-| vocate she-suffrage raise harry 1 at times. They got a right to when such a things as this come up. Maria and Priscilla are en titled to more consideration than that. They have got to find some way lor the State Sanitarium to be able to get the whiskey that is needed for the patients there after May 1st. This item wa9 one that appeared in the papers last week. Why on earth they would let this be known with that asylum already taxed to over flowing with patients. Have known ,a man to go ten miles further than crazy after a drink. A guy wanting one the morning after would not mind a little thing like going off in the belfry to get a good snip and it this is advertised they cant cant take care of the patients they will have there. For Plumbing and Repairs— See J. B. Sedgewick. Phone 402-J Hundreds of Customers ...Waiting For You... Do you know that’in this town and farming community there are hundreds of families who buy a majority of' their goods in your city, from local merchants? Do you know that you might just as well have a large percentage of this business? And do you know that this business is SPOT CASH because the people HAVE THE MONEY and are not afraid to spend it? Do you know’that to get this business you must first reach the people and let them know what you have? Do you know that we are to publish a BOOSTER EDITION seperate from our regular edition, soon? The buyers in this community are an intelligent class of people, and they insist on knowing something about the goods before they part with their money. » Your advertisement in this Booster Edition wiil appeal to them because it is their own paper, and because they know that we do not accept questionable advertisements at any price. Because we feel that you are keen onl getting a goodly slice of this business it will pay you to call 239 and ask for Griffin to explain the proposition more fully. All classes of business will find it to their interest to in vestigate if they are not investigated. The. Post-Search Light Bainbridge, Georgia.