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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Evory Thursday a*
Bainbridge, Georgia.
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The cold snap which shot here
Saturday and Sunday not only
put a crimp in the fishing: but it
helped dad out a little Saturday
on Easter buying. Only prolong
ed the agony howevet
If this vain and sinful world
had never been punished, col
lectors for Collier’s weekly would
have filled the job. The flood was
a maiden’s tear compared with
their aggravating tendencies.
Taxes, washer women and
death are the only three certain
things that we have ary record
of. Can you dodge them?
When Johnnie gets whaled out
now dont know whether he has
been run away to the ball game
or lost the old man’s bait can.
The moving game is beginning
to get interesting now. It is
funny how man folks will move
before they will pay rent-
A grisley hear could not make
any more racket than a bunch of
school hoys at the opening game
of the baseball season.
When a man lies to his wife
about being out late he is laying
the mines for trouble for every
other one of the brethren that
has to pull the same stunt.
“Money troubles worry the
Germans” says an exchange and
it must be so. Bub have you
thought about that same worry
ing the Americans a little bit
aiong about Easter?
The Cuthbert Leader says that
we ought to raise more and bet
ter cattle. Well we are doing it
and if our brother will come
clown in Decatur we will show
him things that will meet his ap
proval. This is no bull either.
The Waycross Journal-Herald
says that a country lawyer took
northern Mexico fifty years ago.
That’s not news, they will take
anything that is not nailed down
except the Christian religion. The
average shyster has taking ways.
If senator Bankhead succeeds
in removing some very obnoxious
laws that have been thrown about
the press of the country by a
bunch of fool so-called reformers
he will have done a day’s work
that will net him mlich. Mark it
closely.
A warning has been sent out
by the weather forecasting de
partment of the govenment about
fake forecasters. Now that warn
ing may serve a purpose but we
always thought that all of ’em
were fakes, government and all.
Who the devil knov r s that it is
going to rain until it starts?
Notice where a fellow has suc
ceeded in raising a strain of blue
hogs, that is the story as appear-
in last week’s Cuthbert Leader.
Some guys will make a blunder
and give themselves away in
spite of the devil. We had the
same load once but ours was blue
monkeys and yellow elephants,
we got more liquor before we
got the blue-hog stage.
Old Brown over at Richland is
still worrying about that Blind
Tiger that keeps the boys on
jump. What in the world is the
matter Brownie, cant you depend
on that tiger on rainy days? If
you cant, let us know old fellow
and we will send you a reliable
beast, one that will even anti
cipate your fishing trip and have
the bait ready.
The friends of the aspiring
politicians have backed off the
race for the Governorship and it
looks a straight race between the
Doctor and Governor Harris.
The Georgia Mormons seem to
be pretty active judging from
the news reports in the various
papers. Nearly every time you
pick up a paper you see where
some guy has been playing double
in the state. Is that playing safe
or bucking the luck?
Poor old Florida, her senators
and congressmen have all quit
their jobs and are at home cam
paigning. Their State house has
about gone out ol busin ss as all
A (latent medicine vender, a'of those bullies are out in the
back districts cavorting around
with the native voter and alto
gether they are “up again it”.
woman book agent a phonograph
and a hen party in cohoots have
solved the proposition of per
petual motion.
With Spring comes the red-bug
and they are nasty little creatures
says the Grady County Progress.
Now we always did hate to hear
a man kick and knock about any
thing. If they are nasty little
things they do keep you company
and keep you busy. What’s the
use of complaining? You dont
have to go out and sit on an old
log, you can set on the creek
bank if you want to.
EVIDENTLY
AN ERROR.
Some of these old broke down
ginks are discussing whether a
kiss tastes as good now as it did
twenty years ago. What’s the
dif, just an extra coat or two of
varnish between the kisses? If
one of them that we are too polite
to mention did not look any bet
ter twenty years ago than he
does now we will wager that he
can only guess how one did taste
20 years ago. Dont believe that
he experienced it.
If
you see a fellow moping
Ha ve you bought your Easter l about, looking like he lias lost all
—id ye\ ■ There may be a man or I he had in the world. Dont get
two -anx'Hd that has not yet pitiful and sympathise with him.
bought thv’ lrs hut there is no The gink just wants to go fishing
woman on Hh that has not. and cant think up any lie that
-o- will get him off from his work
The Macon Ne» s uses a column ‘ for a day or two.
editorial on the subject what
"“will Bryan do” w.hen three
worua would answer the .question,
‘‘Do the Democrats”.
The High Price of Gasoline.' is
giving some of the boys some
thing to worry about sure enough.
Even the mule is beginning to
give the traction engine the ha-
ha.
One of local attorneys received
a fee this past week that was a
corker. He defended a fellow on
a charge of vagrancy and was
paid off in cat-fish.
There is some talk of getting
Tom Watson to deliver the
Memorial Oration in this city on
the 26th. If they get him, it will
be something worth hearing as
no man is better posted on the
traditions of the South than Sir
Thomas and his ability Las an
orator is unquestioned.
The Bainbridge girls with their
reputations for beauty have about
edged everything else off the
platform. Honest now, we have
The verdict of the general
public is that booze is going to
be so hard to get after May 1st,
that the moderate drinker, the
man that does not care for it, the
fellow that can take it or let it
alone will give it up. The man in
the most danger from it is the
guy that keeps letting it alone.
•Judge Harrell went out over
the circuit last week to see the
boys, taking with him that genial
smile, old cracker handshake and
the good wishes of his folks be
hind hint and with these he met
a very warm reception all over
the circuit. If a man ever went
out with solid backing of his
homo-folks Judge Harrell is go
ing before the people of the Al
bany Circuit thus armed and we
believe that it will be a powerful
lever to him when asking the
men of the other counties to come
to his banner.
See where Arthur Moore is go
ing to preach at Thomasville.
Now you Thomas county sinners
you are going to near a man talk
that knows you, knows how to
reach you and one that will LOVE
you into going out to his meet
ings. You will find no club there
to meet you, but a hearty hand
shake, a smile and a ‘‘come
again” atmosphere that will make
you go again the first chance.
Arthur will do you good fellows,
and here and now we ask the
Thomasville papers, to meet this
gospel peddler half-way and you
will have the biggest meeting in
the best looking set in the world. | s j r that our mint beds are still
I budding but that will in no way
We want you to know, be gad j Thomasville that you ever had
A fellow named Jim Tom Ginn I interfere with our observance of
o? Bowman, Ga. is a candidate
for Roads Commissioner of
Elbert County. That guy’s op
ponent better go him one better
and take the name Tom and Jerry
or else he is a beat man.
the prohibition law. A little mint
bed in the corner of the year is
no sign of anything like intern
perance in the house beyond, is
it?
We are positively not going to
comment on women’s clothes any
more in this paper. We dont
think it good taste and besides
there i3 not enough of them to
discuss. And the shadowy sub
stance of female garb is growing
less each day and why need dis
cuss something that is passing
out of existence anyway.
The Atlanta women are mad
because the merchants have put
a stop to their carrying goods
home and keeping them several
weeks and then sending them
back. What on earth that bunch
of old hens could want is hard
to see. If they cant tell in a few
hours whether a garment pleases
them or not they need a guardian
instead of clothes.
and one that will do more good,
leave a better feeling in your city
than you ever enjoyed before.
All this comes too, from the
righteous spirit dnd the loving of
Arthur Moore. You better give
him a big building over there for
when he gets tnac ‘‘hallelujah
lick” to working it takes some
room to hold the folks that want
to hear him. Brilliant? no, Espe
cially learned? no splendid de
livery? not especially. But the
out-lovingest man that ever went
into a pulpit and the foiks just
naturally cotton to him and the
message of love and cheer that
he brings. Give him space and he
will fill it with hungry folks from
I all classes.
It is inconceivable on any other
basis than that of error or over
sight that the railroads of Georgia
which are petitioning the state
railroad commission for a revision
of the Georgia rates should have
put into their petition j|a request
for rates which would undermine
some of the foremost of Georgia’s
growing industries.
For instance, it must have been
through some oversight that the
railroads asked forrateson meat
trom Moultrie to Atlanta, which
are higher than those charged on
similar shipments from Chicago
to this city; or that they are
seeking rates on apples by the
carload from Habersham county
to Thomasville, Ga., which are in
excess of those charged from
New York state to the same
point, some three times the dis
tance.
Certainly careful discrimina
tion and a desire to assist and
help build new and growing
Georgia industries could not have
dictated such proposals as this.
Discussing the problem that con
fronts the railroads and some of
the requests submitted in their
petition to the railroad commis
sion, The Savannah Mcming
News says:
Two things maybe said about the
proposed revision of the railroad
rales in Georgia. One is that the
railroads have to live in the face of
increasing cost of niateriulsof many
kinds and increasing wages paid
employees. The other is that it
would be rank folly to fix such
rates upon many farm products
that Georgia is just beginning to
produce in considerable quantity,
in a policy of diversified farming,
as to interfere with that policy.
The railroad commission is going
to endeavor, if it does its duty as
it surely will, to reach such a con
clusion as to rates as will both en
able the railroads to make a living
and enable Georgia farmers to con
tinue to raise,increasing quantities
of crops other than cotton, to put
more of their efforts into the cuttle
industry especially. . . . The
The whole thing is a matter of bus
iness, and it is the commission’s
business to find out what rate
changes would be fair to railroads
and to public.
The News is certainly right in
its conclusion. The whole thing
is, purely, a business proposition.
The astonishing part of it is
that the zailroads themselves
should have exhibited such scant
business acumen as to have in
cluded in their petition request
for rates which they must know
cannot stand, and the effect of
which must be to discredit, in a
measure at least, the whole peti
tion for revision.
Wouldn’t it pay the railroads to
revise their revision petition be
fore it comes to hearing, elimin
ating such rates as would un
questionably hamper and injure
young and growing Georgia in
dustries and which violate rather
than conform to the “long and
short haul clause” upon which,
to a large extent, the petition is
said to be based?
fortunately, whatever the rail
roads may do about it, the whole
matter is in the hands of the rail
road commission, a sound busi
ness organization, and final solu
tion of the problem will no doubt
be reached, as The News sug
gests, upon a basis of fairness
both to railroads and the public.
i he commission, of course, in
its dealings with the problem
will look carefully to the proper
protection of Georgia’s agricul
tural and other industries.
It may be said, however, that
the railroads might come nearer
to getting what they want in the
matter ot reasonable rate revision
if they were not, either by ac
cident or design, unreasonable in
their request.—Atlanta Consti
tution.
Laying all jokes down, It dont
make any difference whether you
agree with him or not Tom Wat
son is handing out some good
stuff to think about on the foreign
Mission business. If all the money
that is sent to wild-eyed pagans
were put into hospitals and the
sick and maimed in this country
taken care of things would be
great deal better.
Everybody get ready now, get
off to that Music Festival and
spend a lot of money to hear a
bunch of high-priced dagoes sing
foreign stuff. Sphagetti-jugglers
as an actress recently remarked
Bainbridge. An apt term and
just a Crackers idea about such
music. Folks go just to be seen
for not one out of forty know
any more about that music than
a goat.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
This is a great old world. No
matter how dark the night, you
can always know that the light
will come with the morning.—
Monroe Advertiser. Oh most
wonderful perception and while
expounding this great doctrine
why not advance that wonderful
fact that the longer we live the
older we get, that we will
live until we die unless some
fool kills us. Nothing like
knowledge. Who would have
ever thought that daylight fol
lowed darkness. “The needle,
Watson.”
Mr. Fullbright’s friends are
now seeing visions of his bulky
form presiding in the attorney
generals office at the capital after
the next election. Strikes down
this way that Cliff Walker is
doing fairly well in that office,
thank you,—Thomasyille Press,
Henry Fullbright is one of the
strongest and best men in this
state and the idle chatter of Tom
Felder and Echilberger will in
the end make Henry’s worth to
the state more visible Henry’s
manhood, courage and strength
of character would not allow him
to bow to these two peanutters
and hence they would destroy
him. Time will show the
measure and the shadow of the
men more accurately than poli
tical gossip for purpose.
Watson says that Bryan of
Florida tried to throttle the Pro
testant voters of certain organiza
tions in that state. If Tommie
produces the goods and lays the
facts before the Florida voters
he will make Mr. Bryan do
around right lively to hold his
job.
The political dopsters who
make their daily bread by hang
ing around the Associated Press
headquarters in Atlanta and her
ambitions would be favored sons
at so much per, filled the colums
of the helpless dailies about the
state, a few days ago with the
startling announcement the
Walter Andrews of Atlanta, is
to be elected to the senate from
Fulton and has kindly consented
(or words to that effect) to ac
cept the presidency of the next
senate(?) The dispatches would
have you believe that there is
nothing between Mr. Andrews
and Fthe senate and presidency
except those insigneficent (?)
honors. It would be real inter-
ing to the masses of Georgia to
know just how much that boost
cost Mr. Andrews. But the
still more interesting part of the
farce would be for Mr. Andrews
and the Atlanta dopsters who
daddied the job to know just
what the Masses thought of Mr.
Andrews and his spot light
bubble.—Thomasville Press. We
dont know whether Walter will
get the job or not but we will
bet a million that if he does he
will reflect credit on himself, his
county and his state. There is
nothing supercilious about the
man, a plain, simple Georgia
gentleman that has done good
work for his county and city.
An earnest genial gentleman
and sincere. The state could
go farther and do worse than
have him president of the senate
While it is South Georgia s time
for the honor and we must and
will get it, still we must not be
little as worthy a man as Walter
Andrews to get it.
Women serve as coc
souri cities of over 5 (J
tion. Now, how woulj
to have the strong ar „"
law reaching out f or y !
shape of a woman 5 )
Tribue. Pitch anothe
instanter and get pulled
she was good looking an.
was ugly as a suffrage!
run like the devil. Tha
doctrine ain’t it bub?
In a speech at Cuthl
Hardman declared fori
sessions of the legislate
doctor will find it one ofl
popular planks of his *
other candidates couldl
their popularity with th|
by speaking out on tl
line. —Dawson News!
worry. Uncle Nat wi|
priate this plank as so«
car, ‘‘make up his mind”,
is popular.—Early Count]
Certainly, and if you
other platforms that y<j
installed just make him .
they are liable to be col
and he will straddle
vengeance.
FAIR EXGHAI
A New Back for an Old l)d
Bainbridge Resident Made j
Back Strong.
The back aches at tin
a dull indescridable
making you weary and i
piercing pains shoot acr|
region of the kidneys, an
the lions are so lame that!
is agony. No use to rub i
a plaster 10 the back
kidneys are weak. You ]
reach the cause. Follow
ample of this Bainbridge
Mrs. A. B. Cliett, 527
Street., Bainbridge, sayl
kidneys weie weak and I
trouble with the kidney I
ions. 1 noticed dropsical!
ing in my feet and my baij
sore and lane. I kept
worse all the ime. Donl
ney Pills, procued at the
Drug Co,, gave me great!
fit and I have never had s<[
trouble since.”
Price 5oc at all dealers,
simply ask for a kidney
—get Doan’s Kidney Pill]
same that Mrs. Clietl
Foster-Milburn Co., Bu|
N. Y.
IN BANKRUPTCY
District Court of the United I
Southwestern (Division, Soul
Districtof Georgia. InBankrul
Notice oi Application for Pi^
In Bankruptcy.
In the matter .’of Sheldon Hi
Bankrupt. County of Decatur, II
To the creditors of the above f
bankrupt: You are hereby
that the above mentioned bal
has fil"d his application foradii
from all the debts provable ini
ruptcy against the said Sheldon!
son. j
The said application will be I
by the Hon. Emory Speer, dul
tlie United States District Col
said division and district, at the f
States Court House, at ValdosJ
the 8th, day of May 1916.
All creditors of said bankrul
notified to appear at the tinif
place stated, and show cause, I
they can. why tlie prayer coniuil
said petition .should not be grant!
Dated at Valdosta, Georgia|
til, day of April 1910.
Cook Clayton. CJ
By D. B. Small, Deputy.
Colds Quickly Relieve
Many people cough and cou
from the beginning of Fa
Spring. Others get cold
cold. Take Dr. King’s New
covery and you will get al
immediate relief. It checks
cold, stops the racking, ta J
tissue-tearing cough, heals
inflammation, soothes the
tubes. Easy to take, Anti
and Healing. Get a 50c I
of Dr. King’s New Discover:
keep it in the house. “It 15
tainly a great medicine
keep a bottle of it continual!
hand,” writes W. C. Je^ eI
Franconia. N. H. Money bar
not satisfied but it nearly al'
helps.