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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday a*
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
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bridRe, (la., as MOOnd class mail
matter under Act o( Congress
March 18th, 1897.
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COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
There e.an be nothing more de
lightful than an Easter millinery
bill that is marked paid to father.
Is Savannah Beer real stuff or
ruff stuff? This issue is now be
ing threshed out in the trial of
a Greek down there.
If a man would persist, in busi
ness likea (ly will pester a fellow’s
nose he would succeed beyond
all doubt.
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Augusta’s fire was all futitle,
useless and will not be famous.
Atlantia did not have any citizen
burned up in the holocaust.
The busy bee improves each
shining hour by buzzing around
meddling intoother folks business
and we have some folks that do
the same way.
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Macon is beginning to make
sure enough eyes at that state
capitol. It being an equal distance
from Macon to anywhere it is the
logical point and the folks are
looking that way.
1
It a man owes as many folks
as he dont owe, is he even, is the
latest mathematical problem, if
that be true most of the publish
ers have gotten even since the
war business started.
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Nay Pauline, a girl with a
terrible loud dress on does not
mean that she is hold and fast.
It just means that she has no
taste and loves notoiiety too well.
The reason that some men get
si^id in their eye is—Well, it
was not fair f 0 begin with to mix
these short skirts, big striped
Stpckings and March winds no
how.
Many of the out oi tovlm papers
have been kind, enough to com
pliment us on our trade edition
of last week. We wish to thank
them all most sincerely for every
kind word.
The Ware county Sheriff and
Chief of Police of Waycross had
a scrap last week and we sincere
ly hope that the boys were not
scrapping over evidence gathered
in from the tigers or from the
effects thereof.
Tennessee is holding an extra
session of the legislature to try a
judge or two tor unbecoming con
duct. Why need the calling of
all the boys to apply the white
wash to said judges. Cheaper to
let one guy smear it on.
A moving picture of Bainbridge
on Easter,Sunday would not be
a bad picture if you are looking
for well dressed women. Bain
bridge can get them up quicker
and more of them than any place
you ever saw.
Honest now, if everybody was
good as they should be how could
you teach anything by precept
and example. Some of the breth
ren that are hunting the short
comings of the world haa better
go slow or they will work them
selves out of a job.
From the numerous fires that
are hitting the towns all over the
country it looks like war would
be a rest from it. Some of the
most damaging fires have oc
curred in the past month that
we have noted in the past years.
Now when we get that through
passenger boat service to Albany,
which is not so very far off we
are going to make the first trip
with war paint on and drink up
all the Artesian water in Albany.
That will be the limit of their
locker at that time.
The School meet at Donalson-
ville in April is attiacting great
attention from the children of
the county schools. It can be and
will be made a red-letter event
if the patrons of each school
will take a bit of interest in it.
The supply merchants are get
ting a little tight on letting out
much stuff on credit this year.
I This may seem hard to some ot
I the brethren but every body will
be better off this fall. Credit has
been too cheap lately anyway.
The baseball season will soon
begin to cron out and business
will have to stand still until that
part is over. The game is great
one but when folks get too wild
it is time to get back to business.
Then besides it cost too much.
Augusta will rise trom her
ashes bigger, and brighter and
better. That is the usual history
of any Georgia city that is strick
en and Augusta will prove no
exception to the rule.
The “Fust man" that brings
a watermelon this season will
find us at the same place he did
last year and with taste still un
changed and in good working
order.
Secretary McAdoo has gone to
South America, Funston has gone
into Mexico and some of these
boys are going to give William
Jay several bad nights if they
4ont quit being so spry.
The dawn of prosperity will
break in this country with the
increased 'stock raising that is
going on all around. The boll
weevil is not causing much fright
in this seetioa.
Hie Court Appeals has turned
down the appeal ot Turner Cox
for a new trial and it looks like
the Mitchell county man will
have to pay the penalty of his
wrong doing.
The friends of Dr. Hardman
over the state are very much en
couraged over the way the people
have been receiving him. He will
be the next governor of Georgia
in spite of the opinions of certain
well known politicians.
March has about gone and the
loud stockings with short skirts
attached will not attract as much
attention. Some old bachelors
we know will quit standing on
the corners getting their eyes
full of sand.
Some years ago a congressman
wanted to buy some of Mexico to
colonise the negros of the south
on. Now we would like to know
it it means that we are to go
down in there and take that
country for that purpose.’ Will
not some wise one Jwise up now
quickly and say that it is the
scheme.
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Is’nt it a funny thing about
how our foreign born folks
criticise the U. S. but we dont
notice any of them falling over
each other in their mad desire to
go back and fight for their father-
land. Talk is cheap, very, very
cheap.
All the men that have been
adversely criticising President
Wilson about not being blood
thirsty will please step forward
and enlist now. Put on the way
of practising what you preach.
They are indeed anxious for the
President to go to scrapping but
powerful slow about doing any
of it themselves.
Tift county sends out the latest
and biggest snako story and here
it is close on to the first of May.
Every drink of low bush lighting
adds a foot to the lenght of any
old snake. Any experienced man
will tell you that. The snake in
Tift was just seven feet. Seven
feet of renegade whiskey is get
ting on the outside of it.
The man that has a good and
dependable bait mine now can
be elected to any office from the
President down just as soon as
the river goes down. Talk about
your old gold mines if you want
to but they dont even get a look
in with a bait mine. You cant
catch fish with gold nchow.
The statements of the Decatur
county banks last week showed
that our banking facilities are
about as good as can be found
any where. We have plenty of
money in this country. If you
have not looked over this com
pare the statements with those
of other banks.
If they dont quit talking so
much about better babies some
of these old hens that nurse cats,
dogs and parrots are going to
get indignant about it. Dont it
make you mad to see a woman in
five thousand dollar car nursing
a ‘‘durned Cur” when the country
is lull of needy and pretty babies
wanting good homes. Such
women ought to be hamstrung.
Tom Taggart has been appoint
ed senator from“Indiana despite
the many charges that have been
made against him. A democratic
leader in a rank republican state
like Tom is oblige to be abused
and sad to say some of the demo
cratic papers joined in the man
hunt. We bet that Taggart is far
superior to the fanatics that pur
sued him.
The niuving pictures taken of
the town last week were very
realistic indeed as they had Quim
Melton coming out ot the bank
with a wad of money big enough
to choke a dog to death. Twenty
minutes after the pictures were
over Quim borrowed two-bits
from the devil in this office to set
the ladies up to a soda-pop.
The genial secretary blowed all
his stage money too soon.
Eichelbergers Common ivealth
does not want to be confused
with Marion Jackson’s Way. Now
the wonder of the matter is,
which one of these fellows would
get their feelings hurt by the
confusion. Both of them want
notoriety and if they thought
that confusion would get them
that very much desired article
they would bid the confusion a
welcome.
The brethren are gathering
around now on the corners and
criticising the President about
the war situation while the re
cruiting office reminds you of the
store of a man that does not ad
vertise in his local paper. They
are both cob-webby and the
sound of a patron coming would
cause nervous prostration.
The boys will meet tonigh at
the City Hall and will launch
Judge Harrell’s candidacy for the
Superior Court Judgeship of the
Albany Circuit, If you are for
the home man be there and it
you are “again” him be there
also and you will learn some
thing that you ought to know. •
A good chance to meet the new
Judge if you are out.
Things we must work on? the
packing house, the Fair, civic
improvements, and some kind of
summer recreation place for the
children. Our young folks have
no real sensible place to play in
and hence they have to get into
devilmeqt. If we had a good
little Y. M. C. A. in this town,
we could find the young men in
there reading books instead of
standing on the corner telling
smutty tales and making im
pertinent remarks about every
lady that passes. It is worth a
trial anyway.
Tom Felder is writting letters
all over the state trying to inter
fere with the county committees
and in this letter Tommie says
that he is not in politics. If he
is not he is the most prenicious
outside meddler that we have
ever read of. The impudence of
the man in trying to dictate to
the counties what they ought to
do is appalling. We can get all
the wisdom that we want locally
without any interference from
Fulton’s modern Solomon.
The Caucasian race stands slim
chance for supremacy in these
parts where so many of ouri
women delegate the rearing of
their children to snuff-eating,
beer-drinking loud-cursing negro
nurse girls. God pity a poor white
child that is exposed all day long
to the cares and surroundings of
this nature. When he or she be
comes larger their devoted????
mother will wonder how it learn
ed such bad habits. If our
mothers, a great portion of them
we are sorry to say do not wake
up to the danger ther are expos
ing their babies this country will
not last very long.
What we want to know is this.
If an insurance company comes
in here and advertises that they
have complied with the law, de
posited collateral with the Comp
troller General as required by
law and does business, breaks
and it is shown that their col
lateral on deposit was not there
or valueless when found, who is
responsible to the citizen that
got stuck by virtue of the state
ment of the Comptroller General
that said law has been complied
with. Who is responsible and
who is direlict?
The Savannah Press of last
Thursday was one of the best is
sues, one of the most instructive
that we have ever seen. Its
"Makers of Georgia’’ edition was
an inspiration to the “Lovers of
Georgia” and the press deserves
to be praised on all sides for that
work. For a Trade Edition it
took a different track from those
of former times and a more
worthy one if we are permitted
to observe. The information was
very valuable, the illustrations
object lessons and all praise well
bestowed. We thank the press
for the information we got out of
their Edition.
Judge Johnson of Mitchell
county has announced for Judge
of Superior court ot the Albany
circuit. Judge Johnson is a I
mighty nice man, a good citizen
and we are very sorry to observe J
that it is just not his time. Thej
people of the circuit are very
anxious to treat all fair and they
know it is the time now to
honor the old Democratic War-
horse Bill Harrell and they are
going to give him this honor to
round out a well studied and
long career in the bar of the Al
bany circuit. Every cou ity has
used Bill Harrell when the darts
were being flung at the democra
tic banner and they cant well
withold from him this fitting
tribute that the younger men of
the circuit want to pay him. If
the other boys will just wait a
little bit, they will get theirs in
time but this time they will have
to let the Decatur man get wha ‘
the folks want him to have.
Carl Vinson, congressman from
the Tenth district of Georgia re
fused as Chairman of a committee
to give some Boston negros a
hearing on the proposition of In
ter marriage of the races. This
is the first time that we ever
heard a negro advocating such a
thing and we will bet a dollar to
a doughnut that this same com
mittee was not made up a negros
but of Half-breeds. We have
never seen a genuine negro yet
that was not satisfied with his
race. At any rate these down
here are not only satisfied with
their race but with their section.
These Boston or Yankees negroes
if they really wanted to aid the
negro as a race will do well to
let such fool stunts as this alone.
They dont respresent the race,
they represent the call of the
white blood that is in their vains,
For Plumbing and Repairs—
See J. B. Sedgewick. Phone
402-J
WE WANT ONE.
The state at large send
delegates to the Nat'onsL
vention. The National
mitteeman is from Atl an |
these four, delegates are j
to be selected from ,jl
parts of the state. l n th e |
tions of these places they [
hunt for a man that is t U
ly in accord with the admj
tion and one that has beej
tilled with that particular!
Southwest Georgia j s (
to one of these places ,
several sections the name I
S. Cummings of this cou n |
been mentioned, Mr. Cun
was one of the original
men in this section, i n J
accord with the Wilson
istration and it would be a
thing for him to be select!
that honor. Decatur woul
to have the place and M r |
mings is qualified in eveil
pect. His friends have bed
active in his behalf.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
THANKSTO ALL OF YOU
The Bainbridge Post-Search
Light issued a booster edition
last week that reflected credit
upon itself, city and county.—
Cordele Sentinel.
The Bainbridge Post-Search
Light came to us last week with
28 pages of booster news. She
was indeed a Booster Edition
and was a credit to its editor
as well as Bainbridge.—Cairo
Messenger.
The Bainbridge Post-Search
Light came to us last week in
the shape of a special edition
and it was certainly creditable
to the town and county it repre
sents. Editor Pat Griffin is giv
ing Bainbridge a good paper and
is deserving of the very liberal
support he is receiving from the
business men.—Camilla Enter
prise.
The Bainbridge Post-Search
Light came to us in the form of
a handsome 28 page Booster
Edition last week. The paper
was a bright and newsy one, and
set forth the resources of Bain
bridge and Decatur couniy in
most attractive matter.--Early
County News.
YOU’VE SEEN MORE THAN US
We want the Macon News to
understand we have at last
been allowed the blessed pri
vilege of viewing a perfectly
beautiful pair of lampshade
stockings, and further we can’t
understand why they have in
spired about 18,000 perfectly
well balanced paragraphs in the
Macon paper.—Dalton Citizen.
Oh well, you don’t know what
it takes to inspire one of those
paragraphs and we can’t tell you
while school is in session.
Outside newspapers will quit
misrepresenting Georgia when
Georgia quits doing the bad
things which local liars around
Atlanta sent out over the country
People who act badly are nearly
always given a worse name than
they deserve. Some Georgia
counties have furnished the
ground for much of the hard
criticism the states receives on
the outside.—Valdosta Times.
Local liars always add to every
thing that is started on a com
munity or folks for that matter.
A strawberry short-cake, with
real cream, is one of those de
lightful things that you can’t
fully realize, until it is set before
you. It is not allowed to set
long either.—Thomasville Times-
Enterprise. What is the use of
tantalizing folks in any such
references. It you have the old
strawberries say so and eat 'em
and hush about it. Always
bringing up something you ought
not to unless you can liquidate
on it.
Down with the blind]
the pistol toter, the
and the rowdy, and more]
to the juror to do his]
though the heavens fall. -\i
News. Dawggone, if til
ain’t riled up. Must havJ
drinking Tanlac to get]
much ginger.
Somebody in NebraskJ
protested naming W. J.
as a delegate to the n|
Democratic Convention
ground that he is not a
crat. Does Mr. Bryan clal
be democrat ? Yes, that isl
we we want to know. Wl
he? Mugwump, chump, or]
employ of Germany and th|
publicans.
Three questions that ro|
men [often hear: Is myl
straight? Have I too much]
er on mv nose? Does myl
coat show.—Macon NewsJ
you left out a tew more,
you locked the door. Wil
be late? Did you turn ou
lights in the back rooms?]
It is reported that Baintj
is seeking admittance ta
Georgia-Alabama ball lef
Knew they would do some!
to keep from meeting defel
the hands of Quincy. —Gaq
County Times. Well, just
at “dem chillun” down
in Quincy. That is vvhatl
can expect when they gel
their heads that they can|
ball. We let that bunch
game or two to keep up ini]
in the sport and here they j
with sich talk’ as that,
just for that we will play
seven games and not let
win a single one.
THIS FROM THE BAINBRl|
POST-SEARCH LIGH
“Bulloch county had t]
four candidates electioneer!
40 Ford cars says the State:
News last week for county
Wonder what they had in
extra six Fords, persuasio|
pot-licker?”
THIS IS WHAT WE DID S.
Bulloch county’s thirty
politician got their Fords ti
to such a high speed
whirl wind finish before
primary that they start
regular tornado blowing,
a forty-mile gale blew
Statesboro Tuesday and Wi
day loosening roofs and w
a mournful melody down
chimneys and around con
Thursday’s barometer wil
course change the weather
ditions considerably. B r<
Griffin is a litte mixed on
49 autos. We excuse him
ever for we suspect he was
joyed and dipped too deep -
pot-licker pot himself v. ith
“Glad Hand’’ issue of
Post-Search Light he got cut
week.