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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. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR 11-00 HJX MONTHS 50c Advertising Rates Advertising rate defends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. 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. ■ ■ -O 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. O 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.