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BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY APRIL 20, 1916
mtCounty Candidate
- eive s Encouraging
ports From Every
"ioo of the Albany
cuit.
e W M. Harrell, candidate
-e of the Albany circuit
Superior court, has re-
encouraginp reports from
ily every county in the
That Judge Harrell will
candidate is without
a certainty.
ids of the Decatur county
lining up behind him as
paign committee. They
wage a campaign that
inmate in the election of
larrell.
Judge Harrell possesses
neccessary Qualifications
a successful judge is the
ief of those w'ho know
,t and who have followed
ier from the time he first
iut his shingle” to the
time, The Decatur county
aid grace the bench with
i the entire circuit and
i impartial, efficient of-
spapers all over the cir-
ave hailed the announce-
f judge Harrell as “good
or the voter’’. They are
highly complimentary in
mment on the judge and
didacy.
PELHAM JOURNAL.
Pelham Journal has the
jig to say anent the De-
' unty man.
~e Harrell is well known
hell county, having been
ed as counsel in some of
"t important cases tried
county during the past
years. So far he is the
ndidate who has officially
need for the place”.
EDISON NEWS.
Edison News is eomment-
the Decatur county man’s
'ey say:
dge Harrell is an able judge
had considerable expert
m presiding over courts,
been judge over the city
dhis home county for a
e - He has the unanimous
®entof the bar of De-
county and will run a
race”.
Wss farmer and stock-
man.
^Turner county organ says:
W. M. Harrell, is a
“® Wn and prominent mem-
" e bar of Decatur county.
|eas,| y one of the leading
e Jb of the Albany circuit.
,° een given a nice send off
° me folks and will run a
race”,
H0LX COUNTY COURIER.
Calhoun County Courier
* Harrell is quite well
throughout the circuit
f aS 311 a kl e ex *
? e aw - He is an af-
gentlemen, conscientious
a deep regard for
hj„ h] !a ‘ rness to everyone.
“ g r f ly esteemed in home
all H^- Ur ’ wkere He has
edit . 1!< V We know this
th- 0r ot " tfi e Courier has
111~ ana kas known Judge
re L- man - v fears. And we
im horne section will
«Tnent-’ JUSlng ’ unanimous
GRADY tOUN'TY SOLID.
Ai rrj ~- Prominent men
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$1.00 PER YEAR
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The commencement services
of the Attapulgus High School
will be held tonight and tomor
row night. Judge W. M. Harrell
will deliver the address and the
school issues a general invitation
to all that will go down and take
in the exercises. The Attapulgus
school is one of the best ones in
the state of its kind and the
people take great pride in their
school work. Prof Wood and his
able assistants have worked that
school up to where it is now and
no school in the county will have
a better years work than this
one. Everybody is cordially in
vited to attend.
ELEVEN TALENTED
YOUNG LADIES TO
Eleven “Sweet Girl Grad
uates” Will be Given
Certificates From Bain-
bridge High School.
Eleven of the prettiest and
most talented young ladies that
ever attended the Bainbridge
High School will be awarded
their diplomas this year at the
commencement exercises. The
High School Commencement lasts
two days beginning Sunday May
28th.
An attractive program has
been prepared for the graduating
exercises of this heavy of Bain
bridge beauties. Reverend Per-
cival Campbell Morgan of the
Tattnall Square Presbyterian
church, of Macon, will deliver
the commencement sermon, Sun
day night.
The graduating exercises will
be held Monday night at the
school auditorium. Stephen
Pace, of Americus will be the
commencement orator.
The “Class of 1916” is made
up of the following young ladies:
Eunice Griffin, Jean Dickenson,
Miriam McLellam, Alma Scott,
Agne§ Green, Katherine Ches-
nut, Orian McLellan, Ruth
Breinerd, Cleo Glover, Frances
Scott, Blanch Thompson.
OF
RESPECT BY WOODMEN
OF THE
Whereas; Death has invaded
our Camp and taken from our
ranks Sovereign David Mathews,
who answered the summons on
the 28th day of February 1916
and Whereas; Mr. Mathews was
a true and loyal woodman, a man
with many friendly traits of
character and will be missed by
the members of his Camp there
fore be it; Resolved, that Holly
Camp No 28 extend to the
bereaved wife and children of
the deceased their most tender
sympathies and invoke the care
of an all wise Providence that
has always looked after the
widows and orphans of our land
and country and be it further;
Resolved further, that a copy
of these resolutions of respect
to the lamented Sovereign be
sent to the widow and children,
one copy spread on the minutes
of the camp and another sent to
the local paper for publication.
This Aprill 15th, 1916.
W. J • Catledge,
V/. M. Griffiin,
E. S. Varner,
Committee.
BOM TIDE
Progressive Citizens of
Thriving Little City Or
ganize to Work for
Town and County.
The progressive citizens of
Donalsonville have organized a
Board of Trade. At a meeting
held last week the Boosters of
that city got together and decid
ed to form an organization to
work for Donalsonville and De
catur county.
The officers of the new organ
ization are, Dr. N. L. Spengler,
Pres., V. S. Parker. 1st. V-Pres.,
E. G. Ray, 2nd. V-Pres. J. L.
Haralson, Treas. and Glover
Garwood, Sec’y. A committee
of five was appointed to draw up
a set of by-laws and constitution
for the organization and to report
back at a later date.
The new association was or
ganized with a charter roll thirty-
five members. This bespeaks
an active organization for Don
alsonville. In addition to the
Board of Trade a live Womans
Auxiliary has been organized by
the members of the Womans
Club.
The Bainbridge and Decatur
county Board of Trade has adopt
ed a series of resolutions at its
meeting Tuesday night pledging
it’s support to the Donalsonville
organization in it’s work for De
catur county. With two live or
ganizations of this nature in the
county Decatur will have valu
able agencies working for her
development.
WILL GO TO MEET
WITH MD TEAM
A Strong aggregation of
Athletes and Students to
Compete in the District
Meet at Sylvester.
CHINA WANTS COTTON
FROM HELDS OF DIXIE
American cotton manufactur
ers have a great opportunity
now to increase the sales of
goods in China, according to
special agent Ralph M. Odell,
who has spent six months in
China investigating the market
for cotton goods for the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce of the Department of Com
merce.
In normal times China is the
largest market in the world for
cotton yarns and the second
largest for cotton piece goods.
The value of the yarn brought
into the country average about
$45,000,000 annually and of piece
goods about $75,000,000 and it
is estimated that the domestic
production of piece goods equals
the quantity imported, so that
the total consumption of cotton
piece goods may be stated as
$150,000,000. Ten years ago
American cotton goods had a
large sale in China; in fact,
China was the largest foreign
market for such goods. Some
some ground has been lost, how
ever, by reason of competition
from Japanese and very recently,
from Chinese mills.
The necessity for a thorough
understanding of the situation
led the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce to send a
special agent to make an in
vestigation on the ground along
the sames lines that the Bureau
has followed in studying the
cotton-goods markets in practi
cally every country in the world.
The results of the exhaustive
investigation are set forth in a
242-page monograph entitled
“Cotton Goods in China.” The
report, officially designated the
Special - Agents Series No. 107,
may be obtained from the Super
intendent of Documents, Govern
ment Printing Office, at Wash
ington.
Decatur county is going to
send a strong team to Sylvester
to compete with other counties
in the district school meet there.
The winner in every event at
the county meet in Donalsonville
will be selected to represent De
catur county.
This old county has a rattling
good chance to land the laurels
at Sylvester. Already several
different schools have shown
promise in the preliminary meets
being held over the county. It
is believed that the winners of
the differeut events in Donalson
ville on the 21st will make up a
strong team to send to Sylves
ter, Ga'
It is hard to tell whether De
catur county will rank best in
the athletic, the music, or the
literary events. So far the en
tries in the different events
have just about shown up on a
par.
Quite a number of people are
planning to visit Sylvester with
the boys and girls who will re
present the county. Decatur
wants to bring home the bacon
and the people of the county are
going to help their entries by
going along to encourage them.
Bainbridge, Donalsonville, Le-
la, Climax, Attapulgus, all will
be working hard for Decatur
county to win the meet. All to
gether for the old county. Let
petty jealousies be forgotton at
Sylvester and lets win for Decatur
county.
BAINBRIDGE BOYS HAND
Y R TO I DEFEAT
Bainbridge High opened her
baseball season with Quincy last
week by handing the Gadsden
county bunch a 6 to 4 defeat. The
Bainbridge boys were at their
best and played big league ball.
But Quincy was also there with
the punch and the game closely
resembled that immortal Labor
Day game of last fall, when Baby
Wilder worked his way into the
hearts of Bainbridge people. The
game last week was just as close
and exciting.
Bainbridge High has a good
bunch of ball tossers and are ex
pecting a brilliant season. They
play Tallahassee here this week.
The fans of the city should turn
out and encourage the boys.
AT THE LADIES SHOP
The arrivals at the Laidies
Shop this last two or three days
have [been very interesting to
the ladies for the reason that
some of the ideas were jnst out
the last ten days prior to the
closing of the season called
Easter.
Miss Story and her helpers
have been very busy for the
past week making every woman
glad that went in their store.
These last arrivals are the cream
of the Easter trade and all the
ladies are invited down to take
a peep at them. Throngs of the
ladies from all over the county
have been taking advantage of
the marvelous showings ot the
shop this season and they are all
of the same opinion that, if it is
new, neat and nobby you will
have to- find it at the Ladies
Shop.
MEMORIAL DAY TO
BE OBSERVED BY
8AINBRIDGE VETS
Col. A. B. Conger Will
Deliver Memorial Day
Address, Music by Bain
bridge Band.
Bainbridge will celebrate Me
morial Day next Wednesday.
The exercises will be held in the
city park and will be in charge
of the local camp of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Col. A. B. Conger will deliver
the Memorial Day Address. The
exercises begin promptly at 4
o’clock, everyone is invited to
attend. Special music will be
furnished by the Bainbridge
band and by a chorus of school
LOCAL SHIPPERS
WILL FIGHT THE
PROPOSED RATES
Railroads Would Discrim-
minate Against Georgia
in Their New Schedule
of Rates.
Bainbridge shippers through
the Board of Trade and Retail
Merchants Association are plann
ing to fight the proposed raise
in freight rates the railroads are
now trying to wish across the
railroad commission. The pro-
prosed raise will increase the
rates of incoming and outgoing
freight until they will become
unbearable.
A meeting has been called in
Atlanta during June to take the
matter up with the railroad com
mission. The cities of Georgia
that want to fight the raise in
rates will have a chance to- air
their views at this meeting.
But Bainbridge and her shopp
ers do not intend to wait until
this date to register a vote. The
Board of Trade is preparing a
petition to be presented immedi-
atley to the commissioners. In
dividual shippers from this point
are also preparing exhibits to
submit to the Board of com
missioners .
In many instances Georgia is
already discriminated against by
the railroads which seem to be
bent on aiding the manufactur
ing industries of the north and
middle west. If this is the case
now it will be even worse when
the new rate goes into effect.
The following letter from the
head of a large Bainbridge manu-
| facturing concern to the Editor
children.
The Daughters of the Con-1 ^the* AUante^ConsHtut^fol-
federacy ask that as many as
can bring wreaths to the park
with them so that the [graves of
the boys who wore the gray can
be decorated as a tribute to their
valor.
60-FORWARD CLASS
HELD THEIR REGULAR
BUSINESS AAEETING
The regular monthly business
and social meeting of the Go- lanta on meats and apples
Forwad Class was held at the
home of Mrs. G. H. Cliett, with
28 members present. The Visi
tation Committee reportod 57
visits to the sick, 62 telephone stands on
lowing an editorial in that paper
on the proposed rate, gives a fair
example of the way Georgia
cities are being imposed on by
the nation. And yet they propose
to even increase the present
rates.
“Editor Constitution: Your
editorial headed. Evidently an
Error” in your morning paper of
April 6 certainly hits the nail
on the head in regard to the pro
posed advance rate by the rail
roads of Georgia. You mentioned
the difference in rate from Chica
go to Atlanta and Moultrie to At-
in
north Georgia to Thomasville
and New York to Thomasville,
and we want to add with a few
figures how our present rate
fruit baskets from
calls in regard to class interest,
flowers to sick 7, trays to sick
10, magazines 67. The commit
tee from the Rummage Sale
given since the last meeting re
ported a very successful sale the
amount cleared being $40.50. It
was decided that next Sunday a
special Easter offering be made
MALCOLM GRIFFIN DEATH , b „ y , thecl “ 8 anilthata "' ,thers
News reached Bainbridge of
the death of Mr. Malcolm Griffin
at Jewel, Fla. reached Bainbridge
Tuesday afternoon. He has been
sick for some time and his death
was not unexpected. Mr. Griffin
was born and reared in this county
and has been in the railroad work
for a number of years. His boy
hood home was in Attapulgus
and he lived there until his man
hood. He was a brother of Mr.
Mataw Griffin, a well known
Turpentine man of Jewel, also a
Decatur county man and of Mrs.
Livingston and Mrs. Haygood of
this city and Mrs. Williams of
Cuthbert. He was a member of
one of the oldest families in the
county, pioneers into Decatur.
He was buried at Lake City, Fla.
Wednesday.
interested in the church debt be
given an opportunity to contri-
dute. Envelopes were passed to
the classes of the Sunday school
and to the congregation, and it is
hoped a liberal offering will be
given. With the hearty co-oper-
otion of the members of the
church and others interested id
the paying ot this debt it is ex
pected a good part of it will be
raised this vear. After the busi
ness a delightful salad course
was served, and the meeting ad
journed to meet next month, the
2nd Wednesday in May with
Mrs. Jacques on College street.
Hon. Sam Cain and a party of
ladies from Whigham were in
the city Friday afternoon for a
short while.
I
Bainbridge to Atlanta compared
with other manufacturing cities
three to four times farther off in
distance. The rate on a carload
of fruit baskets from Bainbridge
to Atlanta is $60 per car. Cairo
and Evansville, Ind., can ship
the same baskets to At lanta tor
$48 per car; Norfolk, Va., $49.50
per car; Nashville, Tenn., $40.50
per car, and yet our Georgia rail
roads are proposing to advance
the high rate already in effect.
We do not believe that our com
mission will allow the railroads
to put over the people of our
state any such advanced rates as
proposed and allow other states
to walk in and secure the business
that rightfully should go to home
manufacturers. Yours truly,
ELBERTA CRATE CO.
By J. M. Simmons.
Bainbridge, Ga., April 10,1916.
Miss Annie Mae Buchanan, left
Monday for [Albany, there Mrs.
M. A. Buckner, will join her,
and together they will leave for
New Orleans, La., and later to
Texas and other points in the
West.