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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Balnbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
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matter under Act of Congress
March lHth, 1HS7.
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OKKICIAI, OltdAN OK THE <TTV
OK HAINBRIDUK AND DECATUR
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
• It looks like as fast as Tanlac
cures them up, the Autos kill ’em
out.
The chautauqua took on a very
political aspect this week. Both
Hardman and Harris on the pro
gram.
Georgia will fare well under a
business Governor, she needs
and must have one as soon as she
can get him.
Blackberry season is drawing
nigh and our sense of independ
ence is rising high. That is a
poetical fact.
The wrinkle in Dad’s brow be
gins to lengthen out as Easter
draws nigh. Poor Dad, his is a
few days and full of Millinery
Bills.
Senator Vardaman, the Idol of
Mississippi has proven to be one
of clay since he shown such an
attitude towards the administra
tion.
These pretty days a man can
enjoy himself easily. Drink a
cold bottle of Chero Cola, get the
fish bait ready and whistle for
BilJ. That’s ail.
The actual thing of making
money has long since gone by.
If you get a good living you old
kicker you will do well until this
over.
The scarcity of copper seems
to have reached Bainbridge. We
have not been able to collect a
penny lately on old advertising
advertising account. Come across
Bub;
Flint River got another victim
last week. That old river takes a
terrible toll for the many favors
that it renderes this community.
Those'things will happen how
ever.
Pauline speared one of those
new creations last Wednesday at
the Ladies shop and broke out
down the street just as the bliz
zard came down from the North.
Did Pauline go back to the fire?
Nary a bit of it. She stayed on
that parade until the sun went
down on “tother side of Flint
River”.
How a man can snarl at Tom
Watson and jump in the political
bed with Tom Felder is more
than we can understand. We
dont love Watson but can trot in
his company with a more content
ed feeling anyway.
The people had a chance to
hear Dr. Hardman, the business
man talk last Saturday here. He
is a bt siness man, it is time that
business cut some figure in state
sff i?rs and the Doctor made a
8,11- ndid impression. He is not
id"‘ 'i of a word slinger, a man
o' deeds never is. The folks like
hi ?■ ' r - ; 11 take care
o. him handsomely.
| The folks here have had a big
time for the last week chautau
qua around. It at least got the
baby question worked up when
the contest on babies took place
last week.
The recent show down of Wil
son has exposed all the political
buzzards in the city of Washing
ton. Noticeable was the fact
that all the real big Republicans
and Democrate lined up behind
Wilson while the pollywogs drift
ed off in hopes of an issue. Give
us the man that loves his country
first and then his party.
Gardner, the Big Gink from
Massachusetts that has caused
considerable comment by his war
antics’showed himself a man
when it came to a show down.
He has the reputation of honesty.
When you get a petition from
the New York folks wanting
money for the Belgians and
Serbians dont you feel like re
ferring them to the ammunition
factories and powder companies.
They ought to contribute liberal
ly to them.
Governor Harris came, Doctor
Hardman came, They were both
heard by our people and now
they are both gone. If any body
wants to know who will get this
county and will ask us we will
tell them.
Legislators all over the state
are declaring themselves on the
state capitol removal bill. The
action of the bill will not be final
for the people will have to pass
on it. Their ratification ot the
bill would mean that the central
city would get the plum.
President Wilson has about
placed his back to the wall now
and will go to scrapping in dead
earnest. It is about time to lick
those greasers anyway. They are
a nation like some folks you
know. Cant stand good treat
ment.
Randloph County has raised up
at the legislative '(investigating
committee that looked over their
county convict system. ‘‘Scused
them” of getting drunk before
the investigated. Better be glad
they were brethren for they
might have seen more to con
demn.
The friends of Hon. Joe Hall
are reading of his accident with
great regret and many of them
have been wishing that the old
man was back in Atlanta with
his eye on the state treasury. He
did good service in that capacity
and also killed more fool bills
than any man ever serving
there.
A little snap and ginger is be
ginning to creep into the editorial
page of the Quitman Advertiser.
It is beginning to have opinions
and express them. The paper is
improving and it is an addition
in its new form to any exchange
table. Somebody on it has been
converted evidently.
Bulloch county had thirty four
candidates electioneering in 40
Ford cars says the Statesboro
News last week for county offices.
Wonder what they had in those
extra six Fords. Persuasion or
pot-licker?
The Empire of Decatur, the
Kingdom of Thomas and the
Principality of Grady is the way
it has been expressed recently
owing to which ever county you
are running for office in. But the
statement just about covers the
possibilities in the three best
counties that are now populated.
Read of the stunts and strife in
other sections and then see what
the folks in these counties are
doing and you will be glad that
you are living in the big trio
anyway. Wouldn’t swap them
for any similar amount of terri
tory on earth.
The job of county Warden has JUDGE HARRELL’S
become to be about the most im
portant one in the county. The
legislature ought to pass an act
making their term of office long
enough for one to finish a bridge
or a road if they start it. It is
too big a job to be changing every
year or dependent on the whim
ot a county commissioner that
wants to play politicis. Such an
important place should be made
more permanent.
This edition is presented mere
ly to show some of the possibilites
that this town and county offer
the outside world. The lack of
time and the co-operation that
we expected has cut its size
somewhat but we feel that we
will send out a commercial mes
sage that will be read with inter
est by the homseeker all over
the union. The moral of the issue
is ‘‘Come to Decatur county” we
need you, we want you, and will
welcome you.
The people up in North Georgia,
the territory traveled by the
state road dont like the idea of
being bottled up and no other
road allowed to penetrate their
territory. Can you blame them.
Ought all competition be denied
them just to keep the state road
in the hands of the politicians?
As now confronting them, as long
as the state owns the roads they
are bottled up. Will they have to
be sacrificed to the balance of the
state. That remains to seen.
Notice were Shelby Davis of
the Thomasville Press has given
up the Chairmanship of the
Democratic executive Committee
of Thomas County. Davis has
served his folks in many capaci
ties but we are sorry to note that
few of them ever paid him any
thing for his services. He really
deserves something at the hands
of his folks that will buy a few
old-fashioned country dinners.
He would rather have that than
all the mazuma.
The lecture on Better babies
was well attended by those that
did not have any babies. Just as
the lectures on how to raise
children are attended by old
maids in large numbers. The
average mother with babies, not
poodles is usually too busy to go
and listen at a man gab about
how to raise babies. When said
man can tell a real mother one
thing about how to raise babies,
said man is going some. Said
man cant convince any one that
he knows much about it either.
The spring season is opening,
the music of the birds getting
more cheerful and the songs of
the crickets more tuneful. Makes
a fellow think of the day back
yonder when he hitched up his
daddy’s horse in the spring time
and went out to take her driving
on a bright springtime Sunday
alternoon. You can see her now
as she came down the steps,
white dress with that blue sash
about her waist, never was vision
more rare and beautiful. White
dress pleated like with enough
cloth in it to hide her neck and
ankles, nothing modem but just
old-fashioned sweetness. A
couple of miles drive to the old
church yard, vou with Her, have
Her all to yourself and that
devilish kid-brother cant watch
and tease after you are gone. Oh
Lord, how the voung folks of
today have missed the best there
ever was in life. Picking a few
violets along to help you out
while you are trying to tell her
about it. Why does a fellow
have to get old anyway? Started
out to write on the joys of spring
but decided to quit for fear that
old Davis over at Thomasville or
Powell at Arlington would quit
work when they got to thinking
about those [old days. Boys can
you get your mind off of that
white dress with blue sash onto (
one of these no-wasted proposi
tions of this day and time? J
TIME NOW.
There is a time in the life of
every man that he can receive
consideration of his fellow man
if he will just ask for it. His time
comes and he must take advant
age of it, orlelse it is gone for
ever. This is the time that Judge
Harrell must run for the Superior
Court Judgeship and bring that
honor to old Decatur county.
The people of the circuit want to
give the man the honor and his
old friends are very anxious to
have him ask for it and get it.
While the position does not pay
much, it is a place that carries
with it dignity and considera
tion and any County is proud to
have the Judge as a resident.
Few men are closer to the
average citizen than Judge Har
rell. few have as much of the
milk of human kindness in them
as this same man. He is affable
and approachable and every man
can reach him. He will make an
admirable official and we want
him to get into the race and win.
He will win before the people of
the circuit because of these
virtues and that fact that he is
well known.
The city is trying to stop the
water leakage of the city. Not a
bad idea and when they find that
they have done that, they should
then see to it that all parties pay
alike for their water. They shoud
also inaugerate a system where
by that when a man finds that he
has a leak, that he can notifiy
city [superintendent, who will
send him a plumber and they
should also see to it that the
plumber will not have abslouie
control of the price he is to charge
for the work, a scale of prices
to protect all, both citizen and
plumber. There is no great need
to kick on the effort they are
making to stop the waste of
water for any one knows that
when that is done all will get
their water cheaper. The new
law is alright and a few months
will demonstrate that to the
satisfaction of every one but
they should amend the law by
giving the citizen protection
when he tries to obey that law.
If he find to his leak, tries to get
a plumber, he should not be pen
alized for trying to obey the law.
An amendment would be very
much in order. It would carry
out the plans of the council and at
the same time aid be of much ser
vice to the citizen. Our plumbers
are not clipping bonds for past
time it is true but they are only
human and can take advantage
of the fact that the present
ordinance throws all on the
mercy of the plumbers.
CAPITAL REMOVAL.
The removal of the capital from
Atlanta to Macon has become a
living issue that will not down.
Years ago the Atlanta papers
would cartoon the country leg
islator with bills bulging out of
his pocket but now instead of
making fun of him they wine and
dine him to the limit, The burden
of population and taxation being
more tributary to Macon the peo
ple want it moved to that place.
That is, they want a chance to
pass on it. Atlanta influence
having become in a way adverse
to the general welfare of the
state such a movement is gaining
momentum. If Atlanta is not
adverse to the balance of the
state, it had just as well be for
every body thinks that it is. The
rube is no longer kow-towing to
the Atlanta capitalist and the
more closely this matter is look
ed into.by the unbiased citizen
the more he desires that the
voters pass on it. The capital was
put in Atlanta by a former gener
ation, fifty years ago, the present
generation that is now bearing
the burdens want the right to
have something to say about it.
The Post-Searchlight does not
mean to say that the majority of
the people want it changed but
we do say that a great majority
of the burden bearing element
want to see it put before the
people. This is a fact, the At
lanta papers can hoot as much as
they desire. If the matter is put
up to the people Atlanta will
have to cut loose an awful big
barrell Or else she will loose it
sure. We have nothing against
Atlanta, but we do think that
her mortgage has about expired
and our interests lay in South
Georgia and therefore we sym
pathise with the movement. Geor
gians want the right to oc
casionally say who or what city
shall get the great benefits that
are to be derived from being the
capital and as well how many
folks will be convenienced by
the change. It will be some scrap
that will follow when the issue is
put up to the people.
Cuthbert seems to have a
plentiful dose of the Carnivals.
Cuthbert is not by herself in this
matter. When you see one of
these companies on the road for
the purpose of improving the
morals of any town or leaving
any money there jay-birds will
sing in moonlight.
A very noticeable thing about
a man’s serving the county as a
Commissioner and that is, if he
makes a careful commissioner
he will get beat for a second
term. That very custom seems
to be standing in the way of men
offering for the place. It is a
very commonly said that this is
the case.
Without any intention to dis
cuss local matters it does seem
that man who will serve his
county for the pitiable sum of
two dollars per day ought to get
a little more consideration at the
hands of the people.
Rheumatic Pain Stopped
The drawing of muscles, the
soreness, stiffness and agonizing
pain of R'peumatism quickly
yield to Sloan’s Liniment. It
stimulates circulation to the
painful part. Just apply as
directed to the sore spots. In
a short while the pain gives way
to a tingling sensation of com
fort and warmth. Here’s proof
—“I have had wonderful relief
since I used your Liniment on
my knee. To think one applica
tion gave me relief. Sorry I
haven’t space to tell you the
history. Thanking you for what
your remedy has done for me.”—
James S. Ferguson. Philada, Pa.
Slaon’s Liniment kills pain. 25c
at druggists. f3)
WITH THE EXCHtt
A wife dosen’t need
machine. She can see thJ
her husband without!
trouble at all.— Macon 11
Yep and if she is dressed,
the latest style he r '
through her just as easy
old gal has nothing on
that game.
With gasoline at forty *
the dealers will certainly!
to make the purchase of it,
transaction, to save th-’m
from ruin.—Thomasville \ u
Eenterprise. Why so much!
cern old friend. Don’t
Flivver burn lightwood-h
Let’er go on to four doll
she wants to. I will bri.
Dobbin over and give you
Ride a hobby anyway it is]
cheaper.
Seems like somebody’s j
slate got smashed at the
state executive committee g
ing in Atlanta. Those dei
lanta papers didn’t breatL
word of it, either, and the!
faithful Albany Herald nevj
much as whispered it to i
Early County News. Yepl
a few more are liable to hitf
umbilicus and the vest pod
The genial countenana
Editor E. LI. Griffin of the!
bridge Post-Searchlight ligj
up the dark corners of j
sanctum last Friday aftei
The Editor regrets having |
out when he called. The
of such an editorial page as |
carried by the Post-Searcn
carries the inspiration with]
and we should liked to ija«
our share while he was hei
Thomasville Press. Many tin
old man. We called to did
a few new ideas in peas, a
pone and jowl, blue stem colli
and ‘‘sich like.” Knowing!
we • do that no man is so f
up on these matters as you I
Other editors we notice di*
women’s wear while yourj
suit seems to be mens eats
Brooks county birth-mark j
never wears off, eh?
He Had, Duns Also!
An exchange says that a|
scriber once receiver
through the Post office, aid
made him mad. He went to |
the editor about it, and thee
showed him a few duns
own—one for paper, one for (
and one for fuel, and sed
others. “Now”, said theedij
“I didn’t get mad when
came, because I knew than
had to do was ask reliable ge^
men like you to come and
me out, and then I could
us all of them.” When the i
scriber saw how it was he rel
ed, paid up and renewed |
another year.
MONEY TOJ-ENP
On improved Farm Lands in Decatur and Gadsden I
Counties. On five or ten years time. Can be paid back |
in annual installments if desired.
Address for terms and particulars
R. G. HARTSFIELD, Attorney At Law,
Balnbridge, Ga.
LOST—One snuff colored mare
mule, weight about 900 lbs.
branded S on left shoulder.
Left my house about March
4th. Finder will return to J.
C. Grimsley, Iron City, Ga.,
ond receive reward.
DR. E. C. SMITH
DENTIST
Gold Bridge
Crown Work I
$3.50 ' $4.00j
Set of Teeth $5.50
Teeth Extracted Without Pain. Office Belcher'Block