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’llE POST-SEARCH LIGHT NO. '• BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY MAY 11, 1916 $1.00 PER YEAR LEAGUE OPENS MONDAY WITH CAME IN BAINBRIDGE m Eye View of Gigan- -Spectale to Be Played { Monday. Tuesday fj Wednesday. »siier performance March lit the Liberty Theatre r y 0 rk. Some of the sub 'll productions were: Tre- .Theatre. Boston, Mass., Ung April 10: Illinois ... Chicago, 111., starting 5; Brighton Beach Music INA'. July 3; Nixon Theatre, intic City. N. J., July 18. All ■ were long runs of many ftbs.the five separate com- i aggregating a total at- Idaacsof 10,000 patrons week- |Never before has a play run rsimultaneously in so |nj’cities, including also seven- n weeks in Los Angeles and i weeks in San Francisco, me of the greatest battles War re-enacted. A Auction of Atlanta as it was , built up to be destroyed |fire, in the picture of Sher i's march to the sea. Lee and int shown at Appomattox; d’sTheatre, Washington, re- NOWJ SESSION The May term of Superior Court opened Monday morning with Judge Eugene Cox presid ing and Solicitor Ball looking alter the interests of the state. The Judge’s charge to the Grand Jury was one of the usual able and brilliant charges that he makes to them and excited much complimentary interest. The court got right down to work and will turn off considerable business this week. The observ ance of the prohibition law was one of the matters interest that was touched on by the judge in his charge. OEGATURlEFORE THE CONVENTION P. S, Cummings, Delegate from the State at Large- , John W. Callahan, Dis trict Delegate Two of Decatur county’s citi zens edged on the political map in mighty fine trim last week in Macon. Hon. P. S. Cummings, of Lela, was elected as a dele gate to the National Convention from the state at large and Hon. iced to the smallest details i J. W. Callahan was elected as iKIux te Lincoln tragedy. Recon- ition pictorialized in the South Carolina scenes, xing with a series of wild Klan rides that com- indeered a county for a day cost $10,000. of depending solely on the I musicians, a complete iphonic orchestra is carried. score is synchroniz- tothe several thousand thous- distinct and individual MS. The spectacle has met strong 'Position at various times but been approved by every d °f Censors with one ex- •tion in the United States and scores and scores of the most iinent United States Senators Representatives, Governors States, Judges, Publicists, '®ats, educators and clergy- It has been viewed and tended by a larger number P>iests and ministers than had {r .Obviously approved a 'trie entertainment. -ceipts and attendance have wise ma de a new page of Ft’-'-al history. Within the one of the second district dele-, gates, The boys from Decatur reach ed out and got recognition in everyway they sought. The con vention was a quiet and orderly affair and steered by the most able helmsman in the state, the Hon. W. J. Harris who came down from Washington with a very large and constructive Olive Branch in his hand. first eight months the gross at tendance was approximately 1,500,000. Receipts have dwarfed those of “Ben Hur” and every other great spectacle hitherto presented. Artistically, “The Birth of a Nation” combines exquisite domestic comedy and romance with the grandeur and thrill of History greatest moments, in culcating the lesson of patriotism that springs from the “nation re born” as the result “of War be tween the States and Reconstruc tion. Charlie Truloek was in the city Sunday afternoon a short while. HELP BAINBRIDGE KOP THE KUP SLOGAN ADOPTED FOR OPENING DAY OF THE NEW DIXIE LEAGUE Bainbridge After Attendance Trophy Offered for Largest Paid Attendance on Opening Day. Moul trie will Face Bainbridge in Initial Game of the Season. j I 3,000 PAID ADMISSIONS 1 WILL WIN TROPHY OFFERED FOR BEST CROWD Special Train From Moultrie with Team, Fans and Moultrie Band will Bring Large Crowd to Game. Railroads put on Reduced Ratps for the Day. Feature Picture will Help as Drawing Card. Bainbridge is out to “Kop the Kup”. A campaign to round up 3,000 baseball fans on Monday next and corral them in the Bain bridge ball park, has been in augurated and will be pushed to a successful climax. Moultrie opens the Dixie league schedule, on Monday, May 15th. in this city. This marks the initial appearance of professional basball in both cities. A large loving cup has been offered by the Chero-Cola people for the largest paid attendance in any park in the league on opening day. Every one of the six clubs will be fighting lor this trophy. But Bainbridge is out to “Kop the Kup”. She has called on her friends to help and with the as ststanCe of the towns near here expects to turn out a large“crowd for the opening stanza. Moultrie has signified her in tention of helping all that is pos sible. A special train will be run from Moultrie here. The Moultrie club, fans, and brass band will be brought here on this special. Fully 500 people are expected from the packing house city. Both the G. F. & A. and the Coast Line R. R.s have put on reduced rates tor Monday the fifteenth on account of the open ing game. This in itself will re sult in many out of town visitors. The stores of Bainbridge will be asked to close their doors Monday afternoon for the big opening game, so that every clerk and proprietor in town can attend and help swell the at tendance. Bainbridge wants every loyal citizen in town to be on hand for the opening. The ball park located on the site of the old fair grounds has been out in first class shape. A grandstand and bleechers have been erected large enough to care for the crowds that are ex pected. Everything is ready for the big event. News from Moultrie indicates that Manager Winges lof the Packers has lined up a good club and will give Bainbridge and the other clubs in the circuit a run for their money. Moultrie has a way of lining up good things and their dub this season Will be no exception of the rule. But when the umps yells “play bawl” Baifibridge is going to have a club of her own that will bear watching. Manager Glass has been working the boys at a pretty stiff gait since the train ing season opened: He will have a club that must be beaten out if any other club expects to carry home the bacon. In addition to the opening of the baseball season here a large crowd will-be brought here by the feature picture “The of a Nation. VISITS BAINBRIDGE Judge A. S. Johnson of Mitchell county, candidate for Judge of the Superior Court of the Albany circuit, whose announcement is on another page in this paper spent Tuesday in the city meeting the voters and the people of the circuit. Johnson is a splendid gentleman a good|lawyer. He is worthy of the honor that he seeks. For a number of years he served his county in the halls of the General Assembly and was also county judge for a term or so. Judge Johnson is basing his campaign on high and manly plans and the people who know him admire him. SC?DULE OUT Oil LEAGUE Bainbridge DrawsOpening • and Closing Series at Home. Season Closes July 22. BIG SUCCESS 01) T Annual Boosters Minstrel Show Makes. Big Hit With Crowded House. Best Local Black Face Yet. The Boosters minstrel was pulled off Tuesday night at the Callahan Theatre in great style. From the first to the last drop of the curtain the show was high class, clean cut and a scream. The boys who took part in the production handled their parts like veterans. Had no one known that the minstrel was a home talent production, it would have been an easy matter to have mistakened it for a seasoned road show. The music was tuneful, the jokes were submarines for every situation was a laugh producer. Especially good was the opening of the show. YYith twenty-one men in the circle," backed up by a large orchestra the boys looked like "a million.” A good house turned out to President Ward of the Dixie League has forwarded 4 copy of the official schedule of the league j to the presidents of the six clubs.[encourage the boys and every The season opens May 15, and^ ^pson there enjoyed the show, runs for the sixty one garnet, A good sum was cleared for the ending July 22. Looking at the schedule hurriedly it seems as though Bainbridge fared well at the hands of the dopester who drew up the paper, We draw the opening game on Monday next and also the closing series of the season. Moultrie opens the season here on the 15 and preperations are being made to handle a record breaking crowd on that day. Birth ! Low rates have been given by The Monday after-(the railroads and at least one noon matinee has been called off ; special will be run on that date, by manager Brackin on account j The complete schedule for the of the opening game. The out of entire sixty games is as follows: town fans can see the big game and attend the picture that night. If Bainbridge gets a good start next week and puts a majority of the games in their won column she will be ready for all comers. Bainbridge fans be lieve that this city will be strict ly in the running from the start to the finish. MAY0R ISSUES proclamation for OPENING GAME OF THE DIXIE BASE BALL LEAGUE IN BAINBRIDGE i, rJ f n W. Callahan has (ailing fol,owing Proclamation t nd ^ 0n th<? People of Bain- &5*5 this city “Kop the "ie/o Tvi f ? F the largest M mil, 0 P d admis sions at the fifteenth m ° Pening da >- Ma V OB that rt ^ 0ultrie will open here ate with the local clubs. Proclamation. >^ ere , as: bainbridge has se- S b r enh in the newl >' Gr and 1 Ll '' le Base ‘hall league, ••tre as: The president of the cup f Qr . n ,^ s °^f re d a silver loving Uielaro-e'f Clty that turns out ^ns ItT lber ° f paid 3d ‘ ind c the opening game, Whereas: Bainbridge is accus-; tomed to leading in every respect, j and now has a chance to demon strate her superiority as the lead ing city of south west Georgia, | Therefore I hereby issue this proclamation calling on the good people ot Bainbridge to do every thing in their power to help the locals “Kop the Kup” on Mon day, May fifteenth. Let us lay aside all business on Monday afternoon and give a few hours to Bainbridge. Let every loyal citizen help swell the attendance. Three thousand has been set as the mark to shoot at. Issued this the tenth day of May, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Signed. ^J.W. Callahan, mayor. ATTENTION CON FEDERATE VERTERANS I have made arrangements) with Manager W T . J. Brackin of, the Bainbridge Moving Picture' Show, whereby all Confederate! Veterans will be admitted to see the Birth of a Nation either Tues day or Wednesday afternoon May 16th. or 17th. for the price of $1.00. The regular price is $2.00. This picture is considered to be the greatest war picture ever shown and all veterans who can possibly do so are urged to see it. Before going to the opera house please call at my office and see me in order that 1 may ar range for you to obtain the re duced price. Major A. S. McBride, Adjt. Decatur Camp 1043 UCV. TB Mr. N. J. Smith went down to Suwanee Springs Monday to spend several days teasing the bream and trout in that section. Miss Annie Forrest, of this district, had a narrow escape from being bitten by a snake while out picking berries with her mother, Mrs. J. M. Forrest. She stepped in the coil of a large rattlesnake, but seeing her danger in time she managed to jump out of the way, calling to her mother to help her. With the pluck of a motner Mrs. Forrest killed the repttle, which measured 6 feet and 10 inches. DOMESTIC ART EXHIBIT The members of the Domestic Art Class of the Bainbridge High School will have an exhi bit of their work in the school auditorium on Tuesday morn ing from nine to twelve o’clock All who are interested in handi-craft are cordially invited to attend. AT HOME. Moultrie, May 15,16, 17. Dothan, May 22, 23, 24. Valdosta, May 25, 26, 27. Eufaula, June 5, 6, 7. Quitman, June 15,16, 17. Eufaula, June 26, 27, 28. Moultrie, July 3, 4, 5. Dothan, July 10. 11, 12. Valdosta, July 17, 18, 19. Quitman, July 20, 21, 22. ON THE ROAD. At Quitman, May 18, 19, 20. At Dothan, May 29, 30, 31. At Eufaula, June 1, 2, 3. At Valdosta, June 8, 9, 10. booster treasury. The Annual May Ball and summer opening of Lanark will take place May 19th and every body all over the section will take it in. Low rates will be offered by the railroad and every kind of amusement will be on the grounds for the occasion. Splendid preparations are being made for the fun of everybody that goes and no one will regret taking taking this day off to at tend. Special trains will be run on this day and everybody can ride to and from Lanark most comfortably. T. B. Oliver of above Climax was among the visitors here this week. At Moultrie, June 12, 13, 14. At Quitman, June 19, 20, 21, At Eufaula, June 22, 23, 24. At Valdosta June 29, 30, July 1 At Moultrie, July 4 (afternoon game). At Dothan, July 6, 7, 8. At Moultrie, July 13, 14, 15. MERCHANTS WILL CLOSE THEIR STORES FOR GAME THAT USHERS IN PRFESSIONAL BASEBALL HERE The merchant of Bainbridge have to a man agreed to close their stores on next Monday from 2:30 o’clock till after the opening ball game. This will allow the proprietors and their clerks to) attend and “Kop The Kup”. Chairman Geo. H. Fields of the Bainbridge Retail Merchants Association has issued a pro clamation calling on every mer chant to close his doors for the game and urging them to turn out and help bring the crowd to 3,000. Tickets for the opening game will be placed on sale at the up town drug stores Monday morn ing so as to facilitate handling the crowds Everyone that can possible do so is urged to buy their tickets up town so as to make it easier to handle the crowd at the park. The game will be called prompt ly at 3:30 o’clock. Moultrie with Per strong club will be the first team to meet the 1/cals. Manager Glass has rounded up agpod club and the fans who have been watching his bunch work out are hopeful of getting a flying start. Mrs. E. G. Brooks will enter tain in honor of Mrs. R. G. Morgan of Montgomery, Ala. with a motor ride and fish fry at Spring Cr-ek. The mem bers of the Crochet Club wili be entertained,