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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday a* Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the I’ostofHce in Bain- bridRe, (la., as MOOnd class mail matter under Act o( Congress March 18th, 1897. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR.. 11-00 SIX MONTHS 50c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, nuinlier of insertions and other requirements, and will he furnished at the business oflice. OFFICIAL OR! IAN OF TIIK CITV OF BAINBRIIH1B AN1) DECATUR 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. ■ - O - ■ ■- 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. 0 . u 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. — - —- 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. o ■■ ■ 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.