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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
Entered at the Postoftlee in Bain
bridge, Oa., as seeoml class mail
matter under Act of Congress
March 18th, 1897.
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OFFICIAL OltOAN OK TIIK CITV
OF BAINBK1DOU AND DKCATUK |
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
The tax man is after us all.
Will lie get you?
After May 1st, the average
man that lives in Savannah will
wonder why Tybee?
The spring is at last on and
every fellow can [stay where he
is. He wont have to go south to
make his clothes applicable.
Were you April Fooled? If you
are out of jail and getting three
meals per day that fools lots of
folks. Had you ever thought of
it?
It is not generally known that
Bainbridge has the only ice plant
of its kind in all this section and
one that is a veritable eye-opener
to ice folks all over the country.
Quite a number of our towns
have put on their clean-up
clothes this week and old Bain
bridge leads them all. It is truly
the clean town.
Villa is always on the job of
running through that NET they
are setting for him and has
proven that it will take an old
fashioned mosquito net, that will
hold him.
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The nervy man now is the guy
that will walk home, face one of
those abbreviated skirts that have
been shortened at both ends and
prophesy a cold spell. Would you
do it?
Low cut-dress, high cut-skirt,
poor eye-glasses and defective
vision will be responsible for
many an accident before the
summer is over. Just mark it
down and keep account.
You can hear the pigs squeal
ing that are going to be packed
in that Bainbridge Packing House
that is bound to come here in a
very short while. You can hear
them squeal and see the hair on
the door way.
Judgeing from the color of the
hose that we see now the com
mercial tale about the'dyes being
scarce is fishy. In fact just
sling your eye about kind of
careless like and you will wond
er .
The boys in Macon are kicking
because their inalienable right to
celebrate St Patrick’s Day was
interfered with. They have one
more shot at it and then otf goes
their head.
The Georgia Republicans are
having a cat and dog fight of it
now but they need not worry as
Woodrow will hold the job an
other four years, so that they
may take it easy.
Can you feel him nibbling on
the hook? If you cant you ought
to be shot any way. He that
hath not felt the gentle tugging
of the bream at his old hook this
time the year i« not fit for (honor
or trust. Aint It So?
The gay and festive [cat-fish is
beginning to hop around in Flint
River and it is a devil of a job to
keep a bunch of printers on the
job when they are being daily
insulted by the kitty-fishes.
The rain Sunday has set every
thing or. the go and the gardens
show great improvements. The
good garden means that editors
stand a chance and it is almost
pitiful to see how some of them
coax the weather along.
Near Beer goes out May 1st.
and the price of soda-pop will be
advanced on that date. All ex
pected that and we will bet a
dollar to a doughnut that the
price of Coco cola will be material
ly advanced in less than sixty
days.
Gasoline continues to rise in
price and the poor grocer and
butcher that has to pay for the
riding ot the populace are in
sadness and despair. The higher
goes the price the harder it is to
collect for the eats.
Lillian Russel says that all men
are fools. Now Lil ought to know
as she was boss of five in her
day. Perhaps Lil, though has
lost sight of the old story about
the five foolish virgins, and she
grabbed all of the he-variety in
that particular line and is not
qualified to discuss the others.
The last day of April is Sunday
and the news prohibition law!
goes into effect on May 1st.
There \vill be some activity along
the line about April 29th in some
quarters sure as you live. The
seducive high ball will soon be a
thing of history and mystery.
Mysterious will be the ways that
many will use to get one.
A Bainbridge lady won The
beauty contest in Atlanta Satur
day night. Shucks, we can send
forty up there that will take the
rag off the bush if that Atlanta
crowd is all they have to compete
with. Course they have to go
some if there sould be a bunch of
wire-grass beauties in the field.
They grow ’em down here in
bunches.
The time is at hand, the boys
are ready and the people will
soon be able to get biennial ses
sions of the legislature. They
are needed badly and the fact
that Dr. Hardman one of the
candidates for governor has in
jected it in the campaign will
bring it closer to the public than
ever before.
The wise local merchant will
not let all the business go out on
the mail order line but will get
busy, advertise in his home paper
and hold that business here. The
local paper is a business matter
and while it fights the mail order
proposition it can’t do so with
success unless the home mer
chants uses its columns snd tells
the folks what they have.
The Fish liar, you know him.
It is his time now to hold forth
and you no more stop him than
you can hold back Niagra. We
know a guy that can hang more
fish and pull less of them out ot
the water than any other
man in the state. If he could just
land all lie hooks he would be
able to supply the city with fresh
bream, but alas {they get away.
He gets just as much fun telling
about them though.
Look in the back of his buggy
or car. If he has corn whiskey
therein he is going fishing but if
it just beer he is going out to try
a fancy kind of a new reel that
he bought out of some picture
book and he will come back just
minus the beer. If that is genuine
old corn in the back of that buggy
and he dont forget to spit on his
hook at proper intervals, after
sampling the corn he will bring
back a buggy load of fish. You
cant fool the little fishes bub;
Governor Harris has a rocky
road to travel, his platform is
full of platitudes and phrases but
mean nothing. They all point to
the only thoroughly understood
feature of it and that is the
sentence between the lines which
reads “I want the job”. A virtue
that several of the brethren admit
and an impeachment that is most
too soft to weigh much.
Noting the advertisement of a
Cafe in one of our neighboring
cities thus, “A meal a minute”
We have been wondering if it
took a minute to get it or a minute
to eat it. That advertisement is
a two-edged proposition, if it
means the first all well and good,
it it means the last they had
better let it off their board.
Some iool has set out the theory
now that a knock on the coco
will loosen up the brains of the
insane and get them right again.
That accounts for so many Bain
bridge women trying out with a
stick of wood every morning.
Some of them are of the opinion
that Hubby needs that heroic
treatment. A rolling pm is much
nicer ladies and makes a cleaner
hit.
The Adama Express Company
has bought out the Southern
Express Company. We knew it,
knew that after May 1st the
Express Company would not be
needed at all in our commercial
affairs and dont blame them for
selling out. The heads of the
Southern are wise. Next move
will be for the railroad companies
running into Jacksonville to
liquidate.
Every once in awhile some little
gab-squirt takes a shot at Speak- i
er Burwell of the House of Rep- j
resentatives and when they do
they are reviling one of the best
and safest men in the state. It is
ridiculous that the people of this
state will let a foreigner like
that fellow Echelberger ot whom
nothing good is known belittle a
man like Burwell and give him
any hearing. Just so long as we
permit these outside meddlers to
interfere in our matters here just
that long will they be unsatis
factory. When Eichelberger and
Tom Felder began to bed up to
gether all thinking men knew
that from their association they
were both rotten and very few
have any faith in either of them.
The Macon Telegraph does not
seem to object to the use of their
street for Race Track purposes
by the auto folks in that city.
Well, they have nothing on us
for if any one outside of the tew
boobs that live on West Street
ever objected to the use of it
for the same purpose we have
not heard of it. Of course the
objections of the home-owners
and tax payers on West Street
dont amount to anything at all.
Some day when it is too late
some citizen is going to step out
of his door on West Street with
a Winchester rifle and stop some
of that speeding down there.
Then he will be classed as an
out-law. If he does not wait until
a child or two is killed his ob
jection is untimely. This is just
what will happen on that street
yet. Some child will get killed
by one of the racers and some
father that has objected time
and again to it is just going to
lose his head when he sees his
child injured by a reckless per
son will take the law in his own
hands. A desperate remedy it is
true but about the only one that
will work with some folks that
have no regards for the rights
of others when they get their
hands on the steering geer of an
automobile. Some fathers on that
street have already said that they
will not wait for any investiga
tion if their children are injured
by the speeder but will take im
mediate action with the most
available weapon. It is about
time that some of those that de
light to test their engine down
that street and others in the city
would take this matter into con
sideration. We have been ex
tremely lucky in this town but
it cant last always.
LAX AND LOOSE.
We have a law in this state
that requires any insurance com
pany that comes into the state to
do business to deposit $25000
with the Comptroller General as
evidence of good faith. A few
years ago an investment com
pany sailing under the name of
the American Loan & Investment
Company came into this section
and began operations. They stat
ed and had on their literature
that they had complied with the
law. Parties writing the Comp
troller General ascertained the
fact that this deposit require
ment had been complied with.
The company gathers in the
shekels in the land, they explode
and burst and on investigation
that $25000 does not show up.
Now what we want to know is
who is responsible for that money,
who is the judge of the value of
the collateral. If collateral in
stead of cash is put up is not the
official that accepts that collateral
in lieu of the cash responsible to
the investors in that company
for the 825000. The statement of
the Comptroller-General that this
company had complied with this
law induced a number of folks to
invest in it and that statement
has cost the folks here some
money. What we want to know
is. How long will such matters
be allowed to go on.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Pat Griffin’s recent special
edition of the Bainbridge Post-
Search Light was a hummer.
His many friends over here are
glad to note his growing success.
He never knew how to do get
out anything less tnan a paper
that commands the attention of
his readers. - Pelham Journal.
Ought to do pretty well as I cut
my eye teeth in the good town
of Pelham some fifteen years
ago. This editorial itch was con
tracted on the Pelham Free
Lance.
The Bainbridge Post-Learch
Light has recently gotton out a
28-page special edition. It was
indeed a splendid paper in every
way and Bainbridge and Decatur
county have reason to feel proud
of their enterprising editor and
publisher.—Lee County Journal.
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What has become of the old
mother who began pouring sas
safras tea into the whole family
on the first of April?—Albany
Herald. She is still on the job
right out in the back yard argu
ing the question of preparedness
with Johnie. He overlooked the
stove wood.
The Editor’s Busy Day
Editor Sim R. Wilson of the
Saline Observed is a lucky man.
The other day he picked up a
Winchester rifle and started up
the street to deliver the weapon
to its owner. Somehow the de
linquent subscribers got it into
their heads that he was on the
war-path and everyone he met
insisted on paying him in full,
one fellow going so far as to
wipe out ten years of linquency.
And that was not all. When he
got back to the office he found a
load of hay, fifteen bushels of
corn, ten bushels ot potatoes,
two cords of wood, a barrel of
turnips and seven muskrat hides.
Back out the machine gun,
Hiram, we,re going to try it, too.
—Pewamo News. Now What
is the use of lying like that and
getting some fool hungry editor
knocked in the head with a
brick-bat. Trouble about living
in this world any wav for a dunce
is always starting things to cause
doctor bills.
The Dalton Citizen says
“the more alcohol a medicine
contains the faster it gains in
popularity. Even a ripsnorting
prohibitionist can drink Tanlac
and Peruna and still get ap
plause for cussing old demon
rum. Now what is the use ot
intimating that Tanlac is such
a thing. From the advetisements
it is a very useful thing for if
people can fatten off of it as it
said why not try it on pigs?
When men and women gain so
much weight in a few days, it
does seem the very trick to use
about a week before killing an
old porker that has chased his
fat off in the piney woods.
Judge W. M. Harrell, ot Bain
bridge, is a probable candidate
far Judge of the Superior Court
of the Albany circuit. That
circuit could hardly do better
than elect him.—Adel News.
We thank you Bub. We knew
this, but it is mighty kind of you
to approve of our choice and
speak well of our man. You can
put your little pin money on him
winning alright.
The Bainbridge Post-Search
Light complains that Bainbridge
has a few women who will dress
“as loud as old Satan would
want them, just to get men
to notice them, ’i Did somebody
tell you or did you look?—The
Cordele 'Sentinel. |You modern
Solomon you know that we did
not look. Ain’t you a cracker
newspaper man yourself? Then
why ask such foolish questions
when you will risk one eye your
self at it.
NOTICE TO COUNTRY
We must ask the country cor
respondent to be more careful in
the items they send in. Be sure
and do not send anything in that
is personal and liable to injure
any citizens feelings as we will
be obliged to blue pencil them.
The purpose of printing your
news must not be misunderstood
and used to embarass any one.
Don’t take advantage of the oc
casion of sending in items to get
too personal and bear in mind
that things look different in cold
print from the way they look in
handwriting. We must ask that
the matter be closely read after
being written to see that there
are no items that will embarass
any one in the neighborhood.
Embarassment is not news at
all.
YE EDITOR
A LOVE LET!
Tender Missive t 0 |
Dear Darling Deli nQ
(From The Hickville I
“Dear darling delinqJ
precious subscriber i n a
You are so shy! Do you th™
have sold out and gone? Nd
sugar plum, we couldn’t
away if we wanted to.
still at the same old p] nce |
ing out the sweet prorniJ
bright expectations. Theyl
an excellent diet, darling)
a little pudding flavored to j
as desserc. We are waitinj
watching for thee, our]
turtle dove. We long to hej
gentle footsteps on the step
side and listen to the ring c
happy dollars in our office,
one, we feel unusually sadl
lonely without you, dear,
little pie crust, will you
Do we hear your answer!
voice so sweet and begu
“I’m coming,” or is it
and bleak winds that arounl
office roar? We pause for f u ]
development.”
Rheumatic Pain Stoppe
The drawing of muscles)
soreness, stiffness and agonl
pain of Rheumatism quj
yield to Sloan’s Liniment.]
stimulates circulation to f
painful part. Just apply
directed to the sore i.
a short while the pain gives |
to a tingling sensation of
fort and warmth. Here’s
—“I have had wonderful
since I used your Linimen|
my knee. To think one appl
tion gave me relief, horrj
haven’t space to tell you]
history. Thanking you for'
your remedy has done for ma
James S. Ferguson. Philada, ]
Slaon’s Liniment kills pain,
at druggists.
Indigestion nearly always
turbs the sleep more or less, i
is the cause of insomnia,
light supper with little
meat and no milk; also take
of Chamberlain’s Tablets imraJ
ately after supper, and see if f
do not rest much better,
tainable everywhere.
Fifty Homes For Small Farmers
The Bainbridge Farm Company oilers for sale fifty unimproved
of fifty aeres each. Fronting on fine public roads, in goixl neighborly
close to schools, churches, railroad depots, telephones and rural mail routes!
These lands are very level about two hundred feet higher above the I
level than the City of Bainbridge. Highly productive of all farm prodj
plenty of good water and healthful and will make ideal homes for small I
ers. These lands are guaranteed to be of the very best in this county,
timber on them now is estimated worth five dollars per acre and the tiilesl
perfect.
Why not buy your farm instead of renting? We allow you ten yearl
pay for it. The difference between buying and renting is this: To illuBtil
say that you buy a farm unimproved for one thousand dollars, you improve!
farm the first year with your own means sufficiently to occupy and open
it. You pay for the farm as follows: You give ten notes of One Hundred II
lars each with interest at 8 percent, from the date of the purchase. You
one note each year witli the interest only on the note you pay. Your rl
ments will be as follows: At end of first year $108.00: Second year ril'd
Third year $124.00; Fourth year $102.00; Fifth year $110.00; Sixth year $H S |
Seventh year $156.00; Eighth year $161.00; Ninth year $172.00; Tend]
$180.00; Total $1110.00.
If you should rent a like farm instead of buying you would pay at
nual rent of $160.00.
And in ten years the principal sum of
The interest on your first rental payment would be $10.10 per annum
for nine years amounting to
For second rental payment interest for eight years f* 1,
For third rental payment interest for seven years
For fourth year rental payment interest for six years F?
For fifth year rental payment interest for five years
For sixth year rental payment interest for four years.. Ml
For seventh year rental payment interest for three years - ;; 1
For eighth year rental payment interest for two years
For ninth year rental payment interest for one. MO.
The total amount paid by you in ten years principal and interest being $1”0
Three hundred and twenty-eight more for rent than you would pay f" f "
purchase of the farm. And the result at the end of ten years would bed'® 1
you bought the farm it would be paid for in full with $1410.00 and .you wou
own it with all the improvement you put on it. But if you rented it instead
buying it you at the end of ten vears would have paid out $1768.00 in rent a®
you would own nothing. The above figures seem to be indisputable.
We will also sell large tract* of land, from 1,C00 to 10.0QO acres, imi ,;tv
or unimproved on Liberal Terms, for colonizing purposes. Rut will no' I IJ
tieipate in any colonizing organization or plan. Also will sell iifty unic !’ r0 '
ed City Lots in the city of Bainbridge on six years time. One sixth cac'
the balance in five equal annual installments with interest from date of «i
B. B. BOWER, Sr., President.
Bainbridge, Georgia.