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he post-search light 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 ,nUn ^^r^— $1.00 PER YEAR at 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.