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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
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March 1 Si Jr, ]S!i7.
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OFFICIAL OIKiAN
OF UAINJIKI1MIK
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
Fellow in an adjourning county
tried to run for an office without
announcing in his home paper. He
got two votes, he and his broth
er’s. Moral; you can not skin the
printer and get by.
Lady, turn down that peddler
that comes to your door and you
will not make a mistake. It does
not make any difference what
you need, try your home mer
chant and you will get it at bet
ter rates.
The guy that goes to Europe
on a pleasure trip is like the fel
low that patronises a Mail Order
House. He gets His’n but gets
it in the neck. The wise man
will trade at home all the time.
The state and congressional
politics will now take the front
and the boys will get busy.
The campaign closed in Bain
bridge very quietly and no one
had their feelings hurt except
the men who got defeated and
they did not show it very much.
A game and gentlemanly set of
loosers.
This week marks the end of
the greatest subscription contest
that any weekly paper has ever
had on in this section. The
prizes have been {worth working
for and their value will live long
after the contest is over and for
gotten.
The old Macon Telegraph is
handing out some mighty wise
dope on the lynching business
and has about convinced its
readers that lynching is a mighty
poor business policy for a state
to follow. It is a dangerous thing
for a state to get a reputation as
a murderous section from,a com
mercial standpoint.
Is it fair for a woman with
short skirts to wear these striped
Bilk hose? That’s what we want
to know.
Great guns; they say that the
skirts will be worn shorter this
year than they were last year.
It cant be did. Fear of pneumonia
will prevent.
Never sass a grass widow
young man. Play safe for if she
takes a notion to get you she will
do it. Did you ever see one fail.
If it gives Valdosta the big
head to have the Atlanta Base
ball Team to begin spring practic
there what would she have if Ty
Cobb were to pass through the
town?
Judge Harrell’s candidacy for
the Judgeship of the Superior
Court has been receiving very
flattering comment all over the
state as well as the circuit in
question.
The very best line ot stuff that
we have now for the paragrar.hers
is the Spring Garden and Springs
Poets.
The wise man of this clay and
time looks well at any subject be
fore he juumps to conclusions.
Do our voters do this often?
F* ther 18 ' n close line for his n. Teddy wants war, Bryan wants
Millinery openings are on the peace and they are both against
ist now for the next few weeks. Wilson. That about shows them
Everybody works father. up as well as anything. They
both want Wilson’s job and dont
And now will come the state | know how to get it. They are at
campaign. Who will and who [are at a loss as to an issue.
wont is about the most important i
question that will confront the
boys in the next few weeks.
The Quitman folks are going to
erect a hospital and they are
making an effort to get it ready
in time to take care of the lame
ducks that will accrue as a result
of their county and city primary.
If our meat will just hold out
until black-berry time we will
spit in the very face of the boll-
weevils. The average man faces
one grave danger in black-berry
season. He has to sleep with all
his clothes on or his wife will
swap them for the first bucket of
black-berries she sees.
An exchange says that lawyers
think better when they smoke.
We dont doubt it all for while
the smoking proposition is going
on they will think of all the stunts
they pulled off in the flesh. They
will think sadly of a few of them
we hope.
Georgia will soon be shook
from one end to the other over
the coining state primary. Let
the Democrats get together and
see just what kind of set of state
officials that will best serve old
Georgia.
The city of Bainbridge can
take some very valuable lessons
from the west side of the county
in their solidarity of purpose on
anything?
No Pauline we are never ask
ed for free advertising and then
slighted when a little printing
comes that follows as a result of
that free advertising. Nope we
never are.
The way that some of the
boys have {accepted the verdict
ot the people at the polls last
Wednesday reflects credit
them. It takes a good man to
accept defeat in a broad spirit
and some of the boys here have
come up very broad.
Some men are never satisfied
with what the people give them.
They will gobble up everything
sight and then want more.
Selfish ambition isj a trait that
marks its own for the slanghter.
It may be long delayed but will
come in the end.
SETTING FORTH
THE COUNTY
The Big Booster edition of
the Post-Searchlight will be is
sued next week and they will be
moiled free all over the section.
It has been our purpose to get
everybody interested in this
edition but it seems that those
that will get most benefit from
it are a little slow about getting
in their matter. We hope that
people will appreciate this effort
on our part to issue one of the
largest editions of Decatur
county matters that has ever
been sent out, We believe that
the outside world is hunting good
towns and sections and our
county represents just what they
are looking for.
He have the schools, the
churches and the transportation
facilities that is needed by every
man hunting a home. We are
anxious to send these out to the
world for it’s inspection. Watch
for your edition and keep it, for
there will be some facts in it
that will be hard to gether again.
Bring in your advertising if you
want to get into something that
will give you results. Help us
make this issue what it ought to
Tommie Thompson of Quincy,
the broad and genial is seems
has shied his hat into the race
for the senate from that section.
Tommie is some old warm cam
paigner and wish him well. He
will make that district a mighty
good senator. He has the dignity
that is neccessary to maintain
the job.
See where 0. M. Tillis, a
Havana citizen and business
man, one of our next door neigh
bors is in the race for Senator
from his district down there.
Tillis is a good business man and
will make a splendid official if he
is elected. His experience in busi
ness and commercial affairs of
his section fit him for the posi
tion to which he aspires. His
friends Jin Bainbridge and De
catur county wish him well
his undertakings.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Baptist Lakes
Lowndes county has a set of
lakes that disappear and reap-
very mysteriously. We might
doubt this, but we see a Baptist
be, a panoramic review of De-1 preacher vouches for the story
catur county and Bainbridge. and Baptist preachers are author
ity on deep Waters.—Savannah
Press. Yep; we have had ‘em
too, but ours took the shape of
monkeys and elephants.
Come on now boys and let’s
put that Decatur county man
over for the Judgeship. The
other men are very nice men,
good lawyers, splendid gentle
men but it is just our time. We
have the candidate with the
ability, the friends and the record
that will ,re-dound to his favor.
The old county must have some
Calomel Salivates
and Makes You
Sick
Acts like dynamite on a
sluggish liver and you
loose a day’s work
There’s no reason why a per
son should take sickening, sali
vating calomel when 50 cents in this country, but we don’t see
You every now and then hear
the modern girl sigh for the
H. M. T. Buggy. — Times-Enter-
prise. Now when a guy gets
that sentimental is time to
look into his condition. Old men
live in the past and we have
had some doubts about this
fellow’s age for a long time.
A scarcity of goats is reported
It was a man i n pu:.,,
who became very rich
to his own business And*
inclined to think that th
had many relatives
came immensely rich b v t
promises and and always
prompt at all appoi ntm J
pays.-Darien Gazette. ^
Tending to your own
has always been very
but few folks will ever
The Boosters are p] anili
mimstrel show as a bene 1
the local Basebnil Assn-i
The show will be p U; .
shortly and every loya) {■
be expected to help' ma ^
financial success.
There is plenty of talent
Booster club and those in c
of the minstrel believe ih ey
stage a home talent show
will compare favorably win
minstrel shows that have i
Bainbridge this season.
From beginning to end
Boosters Minstrel will be
Nothing that has been si
here by road companies wj
copied. From the time
tain raises till the last ni
the Boosters Minstrel wii
original.
Bainbridge is planning to ha
team that will cope wit
comers this season. Re@i
to whether we land a ben
the Ga. State League or not
city will have a corking
team to represent her. All
several good players have
lined up and when the
yells “Plav Bawl” Bainhi
Krill be ready with bells on.
Practice for the minstrel
begin shortly and the show
be staged as quickly as pa
In addition to being for a
cause the show will be wort
support on it’s merits alone.
buys a large bottle of Donson’s
Liver Tone—a perfect substitute
for calomel.
It is a pleasant, vegetable
liquid which will start your liver
just as surely as calomel, but it
of these honors and Judge Bill does not make you sick and can
Harrell will wear them wrjth due I not salivate,
dignity and responsibility. Let’s ! Children and grown folks can
put him over folks. jtake Dodson’s Liver Tone be-j
cause it is perfectly harmless.
The county primary demon-L Ca,omel is a dan £ erous drug. |
strated the power and influence i “ !S mercury and att acks your
The spring fishermen are all
belivers in preparedness and it
you dont think so just look in
the back of the next buggy or
car you see bound on a fishing
trip.
Henry James, the expatriated
author is dead. All America con
demned his expatriation and
would never forgive him. He
lost half of his effect when he
pulled that stunt.
The report of the State Tax
Commissioner says that the
policy of the state state should
be to reduce taxes. This we
thought was it policy all the time
but that they merely shelved it
for the time being.
A woman suffers more for her
ideas than any human being on
earth. We know a girl with a
six foot has an idea that she can
get it in a three shoe and she is
paying dear for that same idea
Notice her Sunday when she
came down in front of the Post
Office.-
The latest diagnosis of the
marriage evils lias demonstrated
that divorce runs in families.
Kind of a disease like and one
with a taking effect. This must
be a fact as the divorces usually
takes the other woman’s hus
band.
and Blind
The excitement of county
politics has blown over and we
will now get at the work in front
of us of getting the very best
spring business headed this way
that we possibly can. Shall the
folks sleep over their opportunity
for Spring tiade.
Business is dull indeed when
they cant get up a new revolu-
The Pistol "Toter”
Tiger” have gotten on rough ! f' on in that dear country of Mexi-
roads now and they can hardly U’°- If they cant fight they are
travel in any community. The! miserable. Old man Diaz, the
day of the boot-legger is fast I iron-handed was the man to
coming to an end. There will j govern that country and when
soon be a final wind up. Their I he was overthrown a bad blunder
existence and business have
placed human life too cheap for
the folks to stand.
was made. Mexico will not obey
other than a .man of blood and
iron.
of the second term precedent in
this county. It has been a lasting
custom almost to give any man
that tries to do his duty a second
term in this section. The custom
is an old one and one with virtue
in it.
Mayor Pierpont of Savannah
says that he will enforce the
liquor laws in Savannah after
May 1st and that the council is
behind them. The Mayor and
Council of Macon took a notion
to do that stunt instanter and
they did it. Why does Pierpont
wait? His position is silly and
only taken to clog state legisla
tion. If he claims he can enforce
these laws right NOW just as
easily as after May 1st. If he
had done that December 1st he
would have found himself sus
tained by the legislature but as
he sees fit to take issue \yith them
as to the dat? of the effect of the
present liquor laws how can he
expect them to back him up?
banes. Take a dose of nasty
calomel today and you will feel
weak sick, and nauseated to
morrow.
Dont loose a day’s work. Take
a spoonful of Dodson’s Liver
Tone instead and you will wake
up feeling gaeat. No more
ousness, constipation, slugglish-
ness, headaches, coated tongue
or sour stomach. Your druggist
says if you don’t find Dodson’s
Liver Tone acts better than the
horrible calomel your money
waiting for you.
how it can be true when men are
getting married every day.—
Macon News. No goats eh? You
have no such thing as a country
editor in your section?
Pretty little mule
Round as a ring.
Was 8 years old
In the spring;
Three white feet and
The other brass.
One eye out and
The other glass;
Head bulged out
And ribs caved in,
A darn good mule
The State Executive
mittee of Florida saw!
change some of its recent!
ranged primary rules. The
lowing was inserted by then
recent meeting that sounds
old Democratic doctrine.
The democratic executive
mittee of the state of Florid
making up the rules for the
primary, incorporated thefd
ing provisions;
“No voter shall be a mei
of any secret organization*
attempts in any way to infill
political action and purpose
which organization will jn
him in refusing to support
of the
The Post-Searehlight never
likes to roast anybody’s way of
making a living without just
cause but we want to prove by
Walter Brackin himself that the
production Peck’s Bad Boy at
the Callahan Theater was about
the punkest of theatrical exhibi
tions that ever came down the
pike. The man that poked that
thing off on Walter Brackin
must have been some hot-air
merchant in deed and in truth
for Walter can hold his own with
the best of them in the distribu
tion of warm atmosphere. He
will be forgiven because of his
getting something real good here
in his last? “The Twin Beds”
■ otherwise we would advise his
I enlistment with Caranza.
Watch Child’s Cough
Cold’s ruuning of nose, conti
nued irritation of the mucous
membrane if neglected may-
mean Catarrh later. Don’t take
the chances—do something for
your child! Children will not
take every medicine, but they
Dr. King’s New Discovery and
without bribing or teasing. It’s
a sweet pleasant Tar Syrup and
so effective. Just laxative enough
to eliminate the waste poisons.
Almost the first dose helps. Al
ways prepared, no mixing or
fussing. Just ask your druggist
for Dr. King’s New Discovery.
It will safeguard your child
against serious ailments result
ing from colds. (2)
Hard Luck
We’d like to meet
John Henry Short;
‘Tis rumored that
He has a quart.
—Macon Telegraph.
We fear that you;
Will have to thrist;
You see, we met
John Henry first.
—Columbia State.
Now John Henrys’
A wise gink,
Told us that he
Did not drink;
Never did nor
Never would, but
Liars will knock
On wood.
For the fix he’s in.
Hoisted on us by Roy Powell,
bjlj j of the Arlington Courier. Wond- i nom * nee °f the party.
' er if they ever heard of any such |“ No voter sha11 beintluena
thing up there as shooting a man > voting for or against [any c
cold off the bat for downright dat ? on account or any re ! 1 . 1
cussedness. test or on account of any re!i|
belief, denomination or sect
which the candidate is affilial
The adoption of these
caused a great furore and nat
ly so, for they constitut
radical • departure from
honored customs. The resu!
that the state committee
again and rescinded the
action. This was a wise
The adoption of the rules i
first instance was a mistake
would have led to serious ei
glements. They were sue
could not have been justifa
even if justified would have
beyond the power of the
to enforce.
The further religious
are kept from politic the fe
lt is true the rules them-"
were aimed at keeping this
thing out of politics, but the
suit would have put it intou
all the more strongly. - * 1 ’
Banner.
HOLLY CAMP NO. 28.
Woodmen ojje World
Meets Second and Fourth
Monday Nights.
VisitinffSovereigns Always
■ Welcome.
[U. E. O’ neil council commander.
i. h. Hancock, clerk.
The Hon. Potipher Peagre
becoming disgusted with
She was young, she was pretty
and she wore pink stockings. A
fitful gust of March wind hit her
squarely as she passed the Demp
sey corner, lifting her skirts in
the manner of an umbrella being
turned inside out. And every political situation. He kno«i
.man within tw-o blocks turned is a great man but try, 2 s
his back, closed his eyes and as he will, he can not con*
wished he had never been born! anyone else to his way 1°* ^
—Macon |News. ing.—Darien Gazette.
What’s the use of lying. You it is an awful hard thirt
know that every cuss in two convince a fickle public of!
blocks got h‘s eyes fun of sand, “sability” says the negro P*
The Devil sends the wicked wind er
that blows our skirts knee high
A better power send the sand | Subscribe for The Post-S* 1
that goes in the bad man’s eye. Light.