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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
Entered ut theI’oHtofllccin Hnin-
brid^e, Oa., ns second cIuhh mail
matter under Act of Congress
March mb, 1887.
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OPKICUAI, OKOAN nf TIIK CITy
OP HAINHIttlKIH AND DBOATUB
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Telephone No. 239
The attack of Cyclone Davis
of Texas on the memory of Jeff
, uavis and Bob Toombs will cost
l his seat in Congress as sure as
'shooting. They call him Cyclone
out there, everywhere else they
call him Darnphool.
Speed limit on the streets of
Bainbridge 100 miles an hour.
“Now do your darnedest.”
Vol Williams of Wa.vcross says
that we shan’t sell the road and
Bud Anderson of the Macon
Telegraph says we shall and we
are in a h of a fix. Wish
these boys would hurry up and
give us their orders after settling
it between themselves.
The spring season has brought
out all the beauties of this section
and if it will just rain a bit we
would have the prettiest one on
earth. The Empire of Decatur
has no inter-county strife to hold
it back and for that we are duly
thankful.
Have you heard the whippor-
will yet? Do you know what it
means? Nor do we.
If a boy loses all his grand
mothers the first week of base
ball how will he get to the other
games scheduled later?
War with Germany and Mexi
co seems probable. Let's write
them another note and let them
tell us to go to the devil again.
Thomasville newspapermen
take heart: Picnic season and
blackberries will soon be here.
Just hold out a few more days
boys and all will be well.
Rev. Arthur Moore is having
a wonderful revival in Valdosta
this week. His friends here
watch his work with great in
terest wherever he goes.
And now things are going to
get lively down in the 11th, dis
trict of dear old Georgia for con
gress. We are putting our little
mazuma on one Bill Thomas as
the guy that will walk off with
the persimmon. Mark it Ferdin
and.
The police ought to arrest every
bicycle rider and auto owner that
starts down the street ahead of
the fire wagon when the alarms
are turned in for fire. Right here
is where another awful accident
is going to take place pn a very
short while.
Heard a man standing on the
corner abusing folks about speed
ing autos very tremendously a
few days ago and in the short
space of two hours saw him
speeding down West street forty
miles an hour. Consistency thou
art|still a jewel.
Fredie looked real cute Sunday
on the public square with his
palm beach suit and near pana
ma hat. But not quite as snippy
as he thought he did. If some of
the young sprouts knew just how
they did look arrayed out in their
regalia they would swap places
with a calf.
Did you ever see a man with
ragged breeches, no shoes or
socks on with a high collar and a
flaming neck-tie teasing the
breezes? Well, that’s your uncle
Nathaniel Harris looking for a
platform to base his claim for
the governor’s office on.
It is one painful memory that
we will always have. We were
not able to get over to Thomas
ville Sunday see Davis ofthe Press
arrayed in all his Easter regalia.
Friend told us that he had a
polkadotsuit, redtieand “yaller”
shoes on and we missed it all.
Duckworth says that he dont
want any of Tom Watson’s sup
port and he will not have it He
says that he wants Democrats to
back him up. Go to it Bub, a
poor democrat is worth more to
this earth than the best Republi
can, Bull Mooser, Populist or
Socialist and you are picking
mighty good.' company.
folks that are real anxious to go
to the war now because the wise
guys that know just how to run
that war has shoved them all off
of the hoards.
The President has given Germ
any a week to answer. If Germ
any is like us on this fighting
businss she would make up her
mind quicker than that to say
“let’s dont”. J —
i Bryan has gone to Washington
Very little room is lett for the >f° that he can bc close antl em ‘
bdrass the President as much as
possible. No wonder that the
Democrats of his home state
would not let him go as a dele
gate to the National Convention.
He has not been able to explain
his betrayal of Champ Clark and
It is cruel thing Irom every j lis f a j lure t0 t . arry 0 ut his in-
standpoint Gerald to have ail structed delegacy,
your arrangements made to go,
a-fishing and then have it rain. I « t T , , . , ,
m. ... • , . , ^ A Jersey Judge has ruled and
l he bait just wont keep at a , at t „ .. . fu .
jj * ’ been sustained that a man must
. not defend himself when attack-
“ o——— ed. That he has not tight to
'Thomasville ha9 cut out the j fight when he js hit. That may
sale of Pistols in that burg. If go very well in Jersey but we are
they will stop the sale of that sorry for the guy that figures on
cheap whiskey over there, they that when he hits a Georgia
will be in our class as a town of Cracker a wallop. It may bethat
spotless virtue. Get that Davis, .after a man is eaten up by these
spotless. | Jersey mosquitos that he has not
o 'energy enough to fight when he
; is hit though.
The Griffin News and Sun be
gins talk this week about open-
air courting. If that guy does
not call autoing open air courting
we hope he does not mean to
imply that only this spring
weather brings it about. The
most “openest” courting that we
have ever seen is the auto and
tango variety.
The Darien Gazette enters its
forty-third year this week and
may the Good God grant them,
both paper and Dick Grubbs
many more years to teach kind
ness and love as the highest es
sences of religious virtue to the
people of Georgia as be and his
paper have for the near half-
century passed.
An optimist is a man that can
look at three duces and imagine
they are as good as three kings
then have sense enough to not
bet on them, says an exchange-
Wonder if that guy ever sat in
with three deuces and pay them
down in any such way?
Volney Williams is rearing
about them not selling gasoline
on Sunday in Way cross. We
thought that he run his machin
ery in the office with electricity.
If that guy has an auto it ought
to be investigated and arrests
made. lie has heretofore been
posing as an honest man.
What is the cause of so much
quiet ness in Atlanta. Cant Marion |
Jackson get up another recall
Judge Fred Foster is dead, the
, ... state is sorrowful for this grand
election and give us another Mud .. . „
x . , , old man of the House of Repre-
BatnrThe town is going dead „ . ,• „ „ -... . ..
” sentatives was as full of the
with so much quietude.
I milk of human kindness as it
The hoys that have been beat
ing the air about the county
commissioners have succeeded in
demonstrating beyond all ques
tion that folks differ on matters
and that is about the sum and
substance of their argument. Tis
a little hard to work for two
dollars per day and get shot a-
settmg. Folks cant all agree on
any subject. Some more printers
ink will demonstrate that the
older we get, the longer we live.
DELAYED BUT AWFUL
WHEN IT CAME
Well, it happened. The long
expected automobile accident.
The good God has been kind to
this town hut on last Friday after
years of abuse of this kindness
this goodness ‘was withdrawn
from us and a young boy, the
only son of a family was run
down by a car. Many and various
excuses have been given for the
accident but if the simple town
ordinance that is in force but not
enforced had been observed that
a car must blow at a crossing
this young boy would not
haye been knocked down and
dragged like a log twenty or
thirty feet.
Oh yes, those concerned are
very sorry and would not have
run over the boy for anything in
the world, they are bowed in sor
row and pain over the accident
but the poor boy is in the hospi
tal all battered up.
For months this paper has
begged and implored the public
to back us up in the cry for the
enforcement of the protection
laws that the people have. We
have told time and again what
would happen and even almost
threatened. Some of the sneer
ing ones have said that it was
born of demagogery, because
forsooth we did not run a car.
But had our lamentations, be
they crocodile tears or otherwise
had they been heeded and looked
into, this boy would not have
been injured and these men
would not now be worried over
the accident. They are sorrow
ful and suffering almost as piuch
as the boy and all because the
general public has not been
taught that they most observe
the speed laws and traffic rights.
We don’t blame the drivers
for violations of the traffic law,
because they have been so Num
erous that they have not been
taken seriously. But the COM
MUNITY of Bainbridge is re
sponsible for this accident and it
ought to have to pay for it.
When the officials punish a
speeder, he goes out and gets
comfort from others. When the
citizens that walk complains, the
auto owner sneeringly remarks
that he is just sore because he
does not own an auto, and he
goes and gets comfort from the
other auto owner,
WHAT SHALL WE
DO WITH THEM.
In the event that this country
declares war against Germany
every un-naturalized German in
this country will be a public
enemy and the government will
have to take them in charge in-
stanter. They will be in the way
unless they are put on the public
roads and made to work just like
the Germans did the Belgians. If
war should come our suggestion
is that instead of feeding these
fellows for nothing put them to
work and let them build a high
way from New York to Miami
and one from Washington to San
Francisco. Serve to them a little
of the same medicine that was
served by them to the Belgians.
This Highway would serve as an
object lesson and a monument to
German millitarism and brutality
for ages to come. They and all
their sympathizers in this country
have wanted war and now if they
are going to have it let them feel
the weight of their own iniquity.
Perhaps it wont be so very funny
to them with about two million
of their fellow citizens at work
on our roads. ‘Once a German al
ways a German’ is a safe motto
and those that pretend fealty to
the American government only
do so until they can get some
fact they think will be worth
something to Germany.
A man can feel young again by
just watching the young folks
getting off to their summer
picnics now. Did you ever see a
bunch that looked like they were
going to a hanging. That’s the
way some of them look in their
high heel shoes. What is the use
of going to a picnic in any such
shape as that?
Governor Peck, the author of
"Peck’s Bad Boy” is dead and all
America is sorrowing over it
That man caused ye scribe to get
more whalings than did the ‘‘ole
swimming hole” or the neighbors
cane patch. As a moral preceptor
Peck was a bad partner but as a
fun-maker he was loved by all.
The Houston Post wants to
know if there is not too many
lawyers. Yea bo, there are too
many shysters in every clime but
only a very few lawyers any-
Lillian Russell says it
fortune to be beautiful \J
have long been wondering
whence came our hard wj
old girl we thank ^ J
that burden from us and 1
us see why we are so dad
lucky that if it wasraininl
we would not have a Jl
catch it in but a fork,
some body will just tell
Roy Powell over here at
ton butted into his hard luJ
will be satisfied. Roy jg
ed and it could not come]
his good looks.
The men of Bainbridoe •
very much on their good i‘
if you were to judge ft
way they hog all the seatel
park on Sunday afternoons]
the band concert is going (
is with a feeling of shai
we noticed five of these
last Sunday afternoon fl„ w
with men and the ladies
ing up. Getjup, you lazy d,
and show your manners wh
you want to or not The
girls gobble the benches
week and the men-folks on I
day and our ladies have [
little chance to use them at!
Our men dont mean to be sol
hoggish but they are a “|
fergitful” it seems.
Sooner or later it is goi
be shown that we have
much to fear from Eng]
we have from Germany
mercial ways. It seems
Hoke Smith is one of the
few southern senators that|
his eye on this end of the
and his position is not wii
solid basis either.
On and after May 1st it
be unlawful tor any man tod
a ear on West St that cant |
hi9 car sixty miles an hour,
beautiful race course
folks living on it think is a i
shall not be disgraced by |
plodding old slow car. He
be able to knock the feathers |
of a chicken without br
his neck, cut off a dog’s tail i
his fender and never bobblel
inch too high or too low,
will be denied entry on the i
course. A bunch of fool
nayers live on that street i
fear their wives will live I
long this is done to keeptheii
a state ot nervous terror I
provide business for the una
taker. None but the Aristocrj
of Disregard shall he allowed
use this street with their hi
powered cars. Another week]
Bill Thomas is in the race for
Congress from the Eleventh dis
trict and now “chillun” you are
going to see some lively doings
down in that section. Judge Bill
is some campaigner, a Cracker
with a smile and a handshake
that reaches in under a guy’s
shirt and takes hold on lum. We
are for him right now because
If every man in Bainbridge! was he that said there was only
will resolve himself into a com- fifty cents in actual money in
was possible for a man to be. It b * s heart is in in the right place
mittee of one to see that viola
tions ot the speed and traffic laws
are punished our women that are
mothers can breathe easy in the
future.
Atlanta and as every man in the
city had to have that four bits
each dav to get a meal so every
body there had to hustle. A great
and grand old character.
V
One gang says and swears the
L. & N. railroad wants the W.
& A. sold and then the other gang
rises up and swear that if you
dont sell it you are in the pay of
the L. & N. and there you are.
Did you ever see such a bunch of
patriots in all your life. We can
prove by every advocate each
way that the L. & N. is behind
the other way and it seems that
we are not able to get away from
ten.
Judge Fite must think that his
contempt rulings are as dreaded
as the ancient scourges of Asia.
How any man can get in his court
without feeling a contempt for
the man is more than one can
understand. He is a disgrace to
the judeiary of Georgia, a rotten
grand stand player and a stench
to our legal machinery. Perhaps
he would like to jail us for that.
And some fool has suggested
that thing for Governor of Geor
gia. |A judicial parasite that
ought to removed from the bench.
and because further we feel that
the 11th district is entitled to
real congressman.
Governor Harris appoints Bob
Hodges on the court of Appeals
bench and said Bob is a good
lawyer. How it happened that a
good lawyer got this job is some
thing that we dont understand.
As a matter of fact we cant see
how a good lawyer can afford to
hold it at the price it pays for if
he is qualified to fill it as it ought
to be filled, some corporation will
hire him for five times as much
pay. The job is a stepping stone
to private life and bankruptcy
and for that reason we have not
been able to learn in reality what
a man can expact out ef it.
where. A sure enough real law-
hut in theiy er > as contemplated by Black-
name of God where is this boy ! stone is an addition to any com- j
nd his parents going to get j munity but the modern, greedy, j
comfort. | grasping kind that is getting in J p asse d and no child killed on tl
Ilow long. Oh how long before ! tiie majority is a menace. One of I street, a mercy for which thef
the life of some child will be sac- these is just that much too many, j sidents are very thankful,
rificed to the Moloch of Gasoline
anu Speed Craze. People ofBain-
bridge, your officers con’t enforce
these laws until you are willing
to back them. You will curse
the police for not arresting the
other fellow for speeding and
curse him equally as fervently if
he arressts ycu for the same
offense. You will soon pay the
penalty for your negligence. Ted
O’donnell is painfully injured. It
may be that his injury will
call a halt and save the lives of
others, but it is awful hard to
demand the life or limb of a
mothers son to point a moral or
adorn a tale.
W ho are we blaming for this 1
accident? Every man in Bain- j
bridge whether he drives or
walks. If you see a man speed
ing, report him and see that he;
is punished. If you see a man j
fail to blow at a crossing report
him and have him fined. He!
may get mad and sore, but you |
may be the means of saving j
some life by so doing.
We have no unkind word to
say of any man connected with
the accident, for by their sadden
ed faces we can see how they
feel. Being good men, they are
suffering agonies. If all are sure
that they will be punished, then
all will be careful to observe the
law.
. Bicycles
have arrived
at the Motor-
Bicycle Co.
Hurry! Hurry!
Read Dress Talk No 41
Get under one of those Nobby Straw Hats |
we are selling at $1,50 to $4.00
You will find a straw hat a lot more comfort
able as well as decidedly more becoming than a|
stitf derby.
We have Panamas, too—the genuine hand
woven kind. Imported Bangkok’s and Leghorn’s j
PRICES
$4 to $6
(£p0. % Jftplfrs
The Fashionable Haberdasher.