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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
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matter under Act of Congress
March IHth, 1897.
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OFFICIAL OltOAN OF TUB MTV
OF I1AINIIKIIKIK AND PKCATWB
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
Have you heard anything from
Funston Yet?
The Savannah Situation is be
coming about as vexatious as the
Mexican situation.
Georgia will not be very much
affected by the Mexican war.
We got plenty of hogs and
“Tatera”
Fashion says that the girl with
hips is in style again. What
puzzles us is what did she do
with them when they were not
in style. If she did without them
it accounts for the kangaroo
walk.
The mariners dream is nothing
compared to the dreams that are
being pulled off by the average
baseball fan. Man when their
pipes get to working good they
can pull some real heavy ones.
One of country exchanges had
an article last week headed “Lady
injured the back yard” and we
have been wondering what that
gink meant ever since we read
that thing.
We want it understood in the
beginning that we will strenously
object to the sending of “Blumey”
Quim Melton or Dobbs to Mexico.
These boys had nothing to do
with war and we cant spare
them in the summer season.
The citizens have been kind
enough to compliement last
week’s issue of the paper very
highly. We thank them all for
any kind word. They go a long
way and stimulate things all
around like old wine.
It is funny to see a big bull
necked man being brow-beat by
a little woman weighing less
than 100 pounds. There is no
need to ask who it was for we
will not tell but we saw him get
his’n.
Stock raising is taking on great
life in this county. It is the
surest guarantee against war and
famine. Our folks will be ready
for anything that the times may
bring forth. We are determined
not to go hungry.
Volney Williams of the Way-
cross Journal won out in his race
in Ware County for Representa
tive. We felt sure all along that
Vol would win until he exposed
his picture to the view of the
voters and then we got ‘scared’
stiff. It any guy could overcome
that handicap, well he must a-
run some. We gazed on that
photo and wondered if the Ware
County boys could see the good
fellow behind that mug and elect
him. Well they “tuk and done
it”.
What is the ‘‘Battle Cry of
Peace”? Why Hog and Hominy
of course. The well known slogan
of the Albny Herald. For twenty
years McIntosh has held that
banner up as a light to all south
Georgia. He is just now begin
ning to see full fruits of his work.
May his shadow never grow
less.
Have you read the ‘‘Revela
tions of a Wife” that is going
the rounds of the papers now?
Read them and just wonder what
Father could reveal if allowed to
do so in the way of fancy “cus
sing” when he gets that bill on
the first for that Easter hat.
Will mules go up or down now
since the Standard Oil Company
has adopted autos instead of
mules? Always did like to see
doctor take some of his own
medicine and now that gasoline
is high let the Standard pay the
price. We dont believe they can
do it and keep on in business.
Shame on our old friend Car-
anza. After we recognised the
gent and gave him all the honors,
the stinker went back on us.
Next thing you know he and
Villa will be holding a love feast
out in the cactus brush. But they
ought to stay there if they love
their skins.
Old John Herring of the Tifton
Gazette has issued another one
of his “Saturday poems in prose”
and the way that fellow plays on
the heartstrings of the folks with
those things is a caution. One in
his last paper was a perfect gem.
We love to read them.
Judge W. M. Harrell of Bain
bridge will be the next Judge
of Superior court of the Albany
circuit. That is a foregone con
clusion and we will all get ready
to greet him as such. Some pretty
nice fellows that have their eyes
to the windward but we are just
"bleeged” to have the Decatur
man.
— ' O
What has become of the kid
that you used to see with warts
all over his feet and toes? Surely
has not been transformed into a
sissy with all the passing of
years. Wart-footed kids always
made good ball players and could
locate readily the most carefully
concealed jar of blackberry jam
instanter.
Senator Eakes, candidate for
State Treasurer was in the city
a few days ago shaking hands
with the boys. The Senator is a
very genial gentlemen and will
make a strong bid for the job.
The present incumbent has had
about all the juice in the job that
one man can well want and the
people are receiving the can
didacy of the senator with favor.
The women we see are going
to wear socks this summer. This
has put us to wondering how the
devil our wife is going to fare on
this proposition as we both cant
wear the same pair and at the
last accounting of the he-end of
household ward-robe we managed
to scrap up two badly used and
mis-matchedones. It looks power
ful like somebody will have to
stay home or get out of style.
No other names were entered
in the preseidential primary but
Wilson. How is it that some
claim there is opposition to him
in the state when it is apparent
ly not strong enough to center
on some man that will oppose
him. The president may not
have pleased the folks in every
thing but he has come mighty
pleasing more people on many
things that any president we
have had. Bill Bryan, Teddy and
the whole pack to the contrary.
Of course any man that is not a
Democrat will find fault with
him. It is not expected that a
Republican or a Bull Moose ot
any opposing element to the
principles of Democracy will
agree with hun.
Blakely pulled off some big do
ings last week that gave her
folks and her neighbors some
thing to talk about for a while.
■ ' ———O — ■
Our time and our man is what
we mean in announcing Judge
Harrell as a candate for Superior
Court Judge and we will win.
Mark the prediction now.
Decatur county will show a
marked improvement this year
over any previous year. The
people have been at work down
in this direction.
We dont always meet the ap
proval of the other fellow but if
we meet with a ^satisfied feeling
from ; within we are on a safe
ground-
If Funston will do a good job
of catching Villa like he did
Aguinaldo he will be blessed by
every body. He got that Filiuno
on very short order.
■March is still cutting up a {bit.
IF we dont get by it pretty <iuick
some of the boys will have to go
furthersouth where their cloth
ing fits the climate.
Quim Melton went on the good
ro&cli? trip last week. It any body
could set that bunch of pathfind
ers a pace this local sport can pull
the stunt.
Havana burned up last Thurs
day night they had started the
construction of a new town down
there.' Live and progressive folks
do not sit down and mourn.
Fishing time is right here. If
you dont know where to find a
few certain Bainbridge mer
chants at |this time of the year,
try the river.
With Villa, the Boll weevil, the
itch and the state campaign go
ing on in the country our folks
will find enough to keep them
busy working and talking for the
next few months.
Senator Sherman has been en
dorsed by the Illinois Republi
cans for the Presidency and that
has set us to wondering what he
will do with it. It is a title
“full of sound and furv, signify
ing nothing”.
“Ladies with or without hips”
wanted for models read an adver
tisement that we have seen late
ly. It might prove embarassing
to a modest editor but we would
like to see how one looked with
out hips.
Bill “says as how he is getting
even with Rockefellow” for when
the price of gasoline went over
two-bits he lett his Ford in the
barn and .dug up old Dobbin’s
harness. This may suit Bill but
it is playing the devil with the
social aspirations of “niaand the
girls”
Villa shot Americans with
American made bullets. Now if
the government will do the wise
thing it will conscript the powder
and ammunition dealers first.
They are the bunch that profit
out of the little game called war.
The Dupont Powder Company
made fifty-one million dollars in
one year. Now we suggest in all
seriousness that they be required
to send the starving Belgians
and Serbians some of that
change.
The water situation in Bain
bridge is receiving careful con
sideration just now at the hands
of the city Dads. If they will
carry out their idea of making
all pay tor their water and their
wastage of water, the price will
go down in a very short while.
The Elbert County Grand Jury
has endorsed Solicitor-General
Tom Brown for Congress. No\v
if a guy cant win with the good
old-fashioned name of Tom
Brown tacked onto him he ought
to loose. We dont know a better
one unless it be John Smith for
campaign purposes.
News item in the Macon Tele
graph headed “Suffragetts to
Speak”. Wonder if they ever
quit long enough for it to be news
when they start again?
Ghosts of the past still haunt us
as of old. Sid Tapp has broke out
again into the lime-light. Put out
the fire and call the dogs.
David R. Francis of Missouri, 1
the Boss Kidder of America has I
been sent to Russia to handle the I
Czar. Dave is some foozy with I
that line of talk land will get I
away with it in a hurry.
The Lee County Journal in a
long editorial advises the voters
of that county to vote for the
best man. There is plenty of
him and such advise is super-
fulous. This we can prove by
every candidate in Lee County.
Florida politics are getting
very lively now. Some of the
boys are lining up strong at the
start. Here’s hoping that our
neighboring county of Gadsden
gets whatever she wants, what
she needs and whatever she feels
that she ought to have. Our in
terests lay {close with hers and
we wish her well in everything.
Old Gadsden has been pretty
hefty in Florida politics in past
years and we dont think that she
has iost any of her prominence.
Tut, Tut, Oh Me, Oh My. Sam
Hewlett charged Tom Felder
with doing nothing but parade
up and down Whitehall Street.
Well if Tommie hopes to catch
any of the girlies with that mug
of his’n they will have to be
blind-folded and backed up to
him. His rise to fame has been
fraught with more skinnings than
the one Tom Watson handed
him at the Underwood conven
tion.
Senator Eakes, one of the best
known and clean men of the
state is running for State Trea
surer and with good chances of
election. The Senator was in
Bainbridge last week and while
mixing with the voters made a
good impression. The people will
likely make a change in this
office as the present encumbent
has been connected with it for
30 years. Too long for one man
to hold a job of this kind. He is
bound to get negligent. Mr.
Eakes will run well in the county
of Decatur as has some very
warm friends here that will in
terest themselves in his behalf.
Is’nt pitiful to see some of the
women who are so anxious to at
tract the attention of the men
that they will invite their sneers
and derision. Bainbridge has a
few that will dress immodest
and loud as old Satan would
want them to just to get the men
to notice them. Poor little weak
minded things they dont know
that they are pitied by the men
rather than noticed. When that
kind ot a woman dies the world
is relieved on all sides. We have
some here and the pitiable thing
about is that everybody knows
who- they are so plainly and so
notorious have they become in
that method of trying to attract
the men.
Colds Quickly Relieved
Many people cough and cough—
from the beginning of Fall to
Spring. Others get cold after
cold. Take Dr. King’s New Dis
covery and you will get almost
immediate relief. It checks your
cold, stops the racking, rasping
tissue-tearing cough, heals the
inflammation, soothes the raw
tubes. Easy to take. Antisepic
and Healing. Get a 50c bottle
of Dr. King’s New Discovery and
keep it in the house. “It is cer
tainly a great medicine and I
keep a bottle of it continually on
hand.” writesW. C. Jesseman,
Franconia, N. H. Money back if
not satisfied but it nearly always
helps. (1)
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Better babies means betttr
men, remember that please.—
Rome Tribune Herald. Who are
you hitting at anyway? Talk
what you are talking about.
The Bainbridge Post-Search
Light comes to us this week in
the form of a twenty-eight page
Booster edition. It contains a
most complete write up of every
interesting subject and enterprise
in the city of Bainbridge and De
catur County with many hand
some illustrations. It is the most
complete extra and best arranged
booster edition we have ever seen
produced in this section. With a
wide circulation it will surely
prove to be the most valuable
advertising proposition ever
turned out in the interest of De
catur County. Bainbridge and
Decatur County will never be
able, no matter how well they
treat him, to compensate Editor
E. H. Griffin for the valuable
service he is rendering with his
splendid paper.-The Thomasville
Press.
O
What has become of the old
fashioned boy who spit on his
slate and wiped it out with the
elbow of his coat?—Macon
News. Out in the back yard
down on his knees trying to skin
the neighbor out of his white
alleys in a marble game. Where
did you think he had gone?
Mother Goozle to Date
Sing a song of vichy,
Leaving out the rye;
Four and twenty glasses wouldn’t
Make you bat an eye;
Fill yourself with soda-pop
Until you nearly burst;?
That’s the stuff to tie to
After Maythefirst.
—Savannah Press.
Why sing a SOng of vichy,
And leave out the rye?
Four and twenty missed
Will only make you cry;
Leave out the soda-pop
And try old dynamite,
Might be better might be worse
Anything will do after May 1st,
When the law-makers get to
prohibition of tne fithy weed,
right there we are going to split
with them, for there isn’t any
thing that is any better than a
good cigar at the right time,
and especially when you have
stopped smoking.— Thomasville
Times-Enterprise. You just wait
a little Bub; our friend and world
redeemer Tommie Felder will
get to that. It is just a question
of what the inducement will be,
that’s all.
Drinking beer, says the a
burg South Side Welfare
sociation, causes bow l e g s (
let us hasten to add, drink
the Grand Old Buttermilk J
cornfeds.-Macon News, i
don’t make you bowdegg*
will make your pocket book |
flim-flammed and lantem-j a ,
Wont Pay
The government of Colon
has appropriated a large sum
encourage silk production in t
country.—Macon News. Ti
this silk culture many tirr.es
it wont pay. The girl takes a
the old guy with the big Pl
after you give her the hose
Brave
Speaking of the man i
walks right up to the cann (
mouth, there is L. C. Ro sa
the Spearville News, r
writes:
“We are willing to lend w
assistance we can through
column for better babies,
have never seen one yet
what could be improved,
Kansas City Star. We dare 1
to come to Bainbridge and
it. He will soon find out wh
boss it he does.
A Sweet Disposition
A few seed escaped the eye
the neighbors’ chickens, bui
soon as they sprout they will
trampled down by the neighb
children. So It’s all the sa
in the end.---Macon Ne
Spring sure must be a nig
mare to a man with that si
grouch. 400 pounds of lead i
the Ocmulgee river is the o
remedy that we can offer
anything like him.
“I just hate for you ne’
papers to tell your true opin
about gossips for it happens
be my opinion and I fear v
much my wife is one of th
things.” said a prominent n
yesterday. He has determii
also to institue some reformat
ideas at once, and see how tl
work.—T h o m a s v i 11 e Tim
Enterprise. That husband n
have good cause to worry
he ought not to have to be
Solomon to know whether M<
is gabbing gossip or not. If
will keep still at meal time i
listen to her chatter he will so
find out. We have some o
here that will tear up a charac
in less time than a cat can sha
a rat anti enjoy it as much.
Are You Wasting The Price
Of a Titan Engine?
' | 'ITAN engines run on kerosene.
Average cost of gasoline so far this year,
16.9 cents per gallon.
Average cost of kerosene 7.7 cents per gallons
Gasoline costs over 100 per cent more than kero
sene. Gasoline is going up steadily. Kerosene i* not.
At present fuel prices Titan engines, using Vero*
sene, save their owners about 1.1 cents per horse p«jwer
per hour. 1
Are you running a gasoline engine ? What horse power is
it ? Figure what you’d be saving if you had a Titan keroa .o e (
engine. Rather surprising, isn’t it? How long would it take
that saving to pay for a Titan engine of the same size ?
International Harvester Company of America
(bewpanud)
Titan kerosene engine* ere told by