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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
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Bainbrldge, Georgia.
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March 18th, 1897.
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OFFICIAl. OIWIAN Of TilK CITV
Of I1AIN1IKIIH1K AND DKCATUB
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
Gideon got smote so did Moul-
trie.
Well, as a young lady re
marked ‘‘it is as hot as summer
time.
The farther along the campaign
gets, the least interest seems to
be shown in it.
Baseball and black-berries is
a pretty thin diet for this time of
the year but we will try to get
along on it.
The Ford family still seem to
be prosperous in this section,
more cotton and corn gone for
them.
Germany admits that she sunk
the Sussex and before this car
nage is over it is going to be
found out that she tried to scuttle
humanity.
uecatur county will not miss
the chance to get that Albany
Circuit judgeship and Judge
Harrell is growing fast on the
voters of section. Very Few men
have had a more promising start
into a campaign than the Decatur
county man.
Cairo Messenger announce that
they are not running a cut-price
job shop. You cant cut a melon
Bub that has already been cut
can you? If the high cost of
paper has not cut worse than the
job-cutting business we would
like to know it.
Why so much silence up aiound
Thompson, Ga. about that Dorsey
gubernatorial announcem e n t.
The solitude is stifling. Surely
Sir Thomas would coach Hugh
into the melee and not stand by
him under the glare ot publicity.
The Calhoun Courier came
down here last week sans an
editorial page. If we had sent
that kind of a paper up there
that old Roy Powell would have
az id ‘ ‘shucks he told us that he
had quit”. Deny it if you can
young man.
Spencer of the Macon Tele
graph is worrying over whether
or not Nick Longworth will go
to war. Does Spencer think that
a regiment of Mexicans would
be as hard to handle as a Wash
ington society woman and Teddy’s
daughter at that?
Dr. Loeb of the Rockefeller
Institute says that he can manu
facture he-frogs. This may be a
fact but plainly we think that
Dr. Loeb is a liar and that is as
near as we can get to it because
of the mail laws. That’s all.
Who takes himself more
seriously than a candidate any
way? Not even the woman with
the loudest dress on in the throng
does that.
The entry of Judge Eugene
Cox into the race for Congress
will start the ball to rolling in
dead earnest. Thins will pick up
from now on the Second.
: it* — - 0
The Pelham and Havana Rail
road has opened up some splendid
territory that will soon beagreat
asset to this section. The road is
A short one but should pan out as
as a good proposition.
Hobson dug in after Bankhead
dynasty again and it seems that
he got the worst of the deal.
Hobson cant run rough shod
over everybody in Alabama be
cause he happened to help some
American sailors scuttle a collier.
Macon is after a Packing
Plant. Wonder if that is the
same one that we had headed
this way, but got wrecked on
the reef of etiquette. We don’t
want to play Gaston to Macon’s
Alponse do we?
i Give the seventh grade of the
i Bainbridge High school enough
brick bats and they can route
any foreign army that will land
on our shores in the next fifty
years.
Cuthbert ought to be hilarious
ly happy. She has a tennis
champion and we would like to
know what she will realise on
him. Now is he as valuable to a
community as a ping-pong
specialist?
Noticeable among the men
mentioned for Speaker of the next
House is the name of Turner of
Brooks Co. Few better men are
inth? house and he would fill the
bill acceptably to South Georgia.
Plant a Pig in Decatur County
and see a Bank Account grow.
A piece of sage advice offered
by the Bainbridge State Bank
recently and it looks like some
of the live children of the county
are following that advice.
The local Chero-Cola Com
pany a tew weeks back had us
print them 1,000 order cards and
this week the order was dupli
cated. This is merely mentioned
to demonstrate the growth of
the local business and the popu
larity of the drink.
It is said that there is nothing
new under the sun. What about
Brannew, the latest Savannah
drink. Wonder if that thing has
any kick init? If not why patent
it at all. just go along and drink
Chero-cola.
Henry Ford has a two page
advertisement in all the papers
last Sunday against the prepared
ness ^proposition. He says that
the Battle Cry Jof Peace i3 an
advertising scheme of Maxim to
raise the price of his stocks. If
any man agitate war for financial
reasons he ought to be ham
strung and shot to boot. Talk
about Barbarians but tha* if is
pure and simple. %
There is as per the news
paper reports a food shortage in
Britian now. There is not any
thing to brag on as we can see.
There has been one for 10 * years
at the corner of West and College
streets in Bainbridge, Ga., every
since the editor moved there.
It is said that woman’s suffrage
will come before the next legisla
ture of the state. If it does it will
get a stiff jolt in the solar plexus.
Georgia is not ready for the
species known as the he-woman
yet. Only the socialistic east can
find any room for such a drag
ging down of our women.
The Lord must be smiling on
Darien, Ga.. a3 we got our copy
of their last weeks’ Gazette and
it was rainging wet with rain
water. Lucky fellows down
there to get an especial rain
while the rest of us are parch
ing. Obliged to have rain water
as they use nothing esle down
there except water.
The work of the liquor dealers
association in trying to under
mine the prohibition law is as
hard to conceal as it is for a
jackass to conceal his ears. Yet
they are shrewd enough to get
it over some ot the country
papers under guise of news dis
patches.
The way some of the boys cling
to their little change in baseball
season would make a fellow think
that Ben Hardage had welded
them to it with that electric
welding machine he has just put
it. That fellow could weld a
peck of whiskey so tight that a
Water street wanter could not
get into it.
Judge Eugene Cox made his
announcement for Congress last
week and the favorable comment
of the papers over the district
indicate that there is to be some
old fashioned campiagning done
in the Second. Judge Cox israttl
ing good stump-speaker and will
make things lively during the
going.
In looking over the state house
candidates dont forget to keep
your eye on that man Eakes that
is running for State Treasurer.
He is making a race that will
land him sure as his statements
are all clear cut and to the point.
We need a change in this depart
ment bad.
Dorsey has shied his straw lid
in the race and it will be now
very interesting to watch the
smoke as it lifts. Dorsey is a live
man and while his candidacy is
going to raise difficult issues in
the state he will get some con
siderable vote. His hope of suc
cess depends on his line-up and
that is an interesting study.
With Quim Melton in Atlanta
sporting around some of the
local ladies are going to have a
sad rather than a glad summer
time. That boy is some heavy
hitter among the ladies, batting
right up around a thousand. (The
girls will not be the only ones
that will miss Quim however as
some of the balance of us hate to
see that smiling face depart into
unknown fields.
The operation of the new pro
hibition law makes liquor hard to
get beyond all question of a
doubt. Only on rare occasions do
you find a man who objects to
the entire elimination ot liquor,
all agreeing that it ought to be
done but only differing on how
to get at it. The blind tiger is
losing his sense ot touch as well
as of sight.
What is it that a feeling of
relief goes over the home crowd
at a ball game when a bow-leg
ged local player goes to the bat?
Did you ever see bow-legged
guy that was not some heaver
with a club?. Referred to Oscar
Groover of Thomasville, the
oldest living exponent of the
game of baseball. If he dont
know the whys of this, why it
aint.
We refustscared about
this war hui|^>s. Germany or
anybody elsi^ tan land all the
troops they care to on our shores
and they will melt away like the
snow. We have fifteen millions
men and nearly as many women
that stand ready to repel any
foreign invader while we "would
have trouble sending a million
out of our native land for war
purpose.
The Atlanta Papers were the
most powerful aids to Dorsey in
convicting Frank and afterwards
changed fronts over night. We
wonder if they are going to aid
him in his race for governor.
Dorsey is going to get a big vote
and the man who doubts it is go
ing to be badly tooled. His candid
acy at this time will throw
the state into a turmoil of strife
we fear but he is going to be
reckoned with before the race is
over. His race will help Ha.dman
and insure his election, is the
judgement of the wise old heads
as far as we can learn.
MELTON TO LEAVE.
We are very glad to see that
H. H. Merry of Pelham has an
nounced for the State Senate
and as he will represent our dis
trict we are more than pleased
for we know that our sister
county of Mitchell is going to
give us the best she has in her
shop as a senator. Merry is a
solid man, a solid citizen and no
district will have a more depend
able senator than this one with
him on the job. The district is
to be very ably represented and
Mitchell county is to be com
mended on picking jusc such a
citizen as this one to work for
the entire district.
The women now want legisla
tion on cigarrettes with the
books full of unenforced legisla
tion of the same kind. A little
wedding of the birch by overly-
fond mamas would have a
tendency to keep Willie straight
without hurling him into the
arms of the General Assembly
for the purpose of teaching him
manners and not to smoke. Mama
dont want to be told that Willie
smokes but she wants him sub
jected to a ten dollar fine in the
event that he does and mama
will have it to pay and then pro
ceed to lambast those horrid
men that said Willie was naughty-
enough to smoke a cigarrette.
Nope Willie has enough legisla
tion on his cigarrette and mama
will have to do the balance.
We have a bread a line that we
are obliged to abolish. The bunch
that wont buy the paper but take
advantage of courtesy and a
stream of them begin to drop in
the office every week alter the
paper comes out ar.d ask for a
free copy. We have some that
make that a practice until we
are compelled to ask them not to
make such requests as paper
costs too much to be giving tree
papers to a gink that it too stingy
and non-progressive to take his
county paper. No more tree
papers except to advertisers and
regular subscribers. It is always
a pleasure to give a regular sub
scriber a few extra papers when
they have something they want
to send a friend but the paper
dead beat is too cheap to dignify
with high priced paper.
Quim Melton, our genial secre
tary of the Board of Trade has
resigned his position to accept a
place on the AtlanlaConstitution.
Bainbridge is right here going to
loose a live man, one that has
kept her in the lime light and
done all in his power to advance
the town’s interest. Some ot us
have differed with Melton on
some of his work but none have
worked as hard as he to push the
town And this section on the
commercial map.
The Constitution has got a
good man, a genial friend- making
HAVANA OUT OF
THE ASHES.
The little town of Havana
below herejthat was comok
wiped out by fire several wi
ago has risen from the ashes
is doing business at the same
stand with new buildings,
stocks and live folks waking
to their privileges and opp or
ities. They have a big fc
election slated for a week oi
off, with the new Railroad,
Pelham and Havana justente
m that place the town has pror.
of a resurection in every li ne
The fire was a blow to t
man and while we.dont begrudge , .. , ^
them their man we do hate to down there but they set to *
see Bainbridge loose him right . f 3 se , ° g<X) d men
now. The job of Secretary of the citizens and brought their fc
Board of Trade in any town is a ? u 0 e 38 63 mor ® cre dit
hard one. Every man thinks that I 3 ev ® ry way tban lb bas
he knows better than the secre- 1 e ® n ?. or .®’
tary what is best to do and how , rac ica y ® very . merc i
to do it and that is one of the \ hat got ba f n ® d . ° ut 1S bacl <
reasons that a good man is hard busines , s w,th bnght « r - better
to keep but none can but feel jn blggf ? hnes of goods , and
loosing Melton that we lose a are 3 1 anxloas that L the gen
man that feels and lives more P^.c learn that they are 1
like a native of the town than i'° n ?°J°‘ Havana has lot:
any man we have had or will get.
well wishers in this city and
is being compliemented on
sides by the folks here that h
We dont like to be construed watched with interest the
as knocking but would it not be' C ome of their fire
better for the school to assess
each parent enough to pay for
the things needed there that
they have to give public per
formances to raise money for
rather than to have the parents
of the children spend much more
than their share in buying
GO NO FARTHEF
! The Evidence is at Your Own D<
Bainbridge proof is what
costumes as well as having the i want and the statement of
little folks all excited over an
entertainment during school. We
know that it is considered old-
fashionedjto question any customs
of a modern school authority but
it seems that as a question of
parental economy this would be
better. It strikes the average
man that the practicing and get
ting ready for such an entertain
ment keeps the minds of the
children off the serious work of
the school to a marked degree
and the excitement does not
wear off in just one day.
resident
Good luck attends those
wait patiently and now the folks i sa m e that
highly respected
banish all doubt:
Mrs. J. W. Harrison,
Planter St., Bainbridge, says:
had a dull, heavy pain in
small of my back all the tin
I had headaches and dizzy spe
and black specks floated befo
my eyes. I also had rheuma
pains in my limbs. My ba
was so stiff and sore, that
could bend or lift anything,
was gradually getting won
Doan’s Kidney Pills greatly
heyed.”
Price 50c at all dealers. Dor
simply ask for a kidney reme<
that!—g e t Doan’s Kidney Pills t
Mrs. Harrison ha
of that circuit have somebody to
beat old Judge Fite out. Having
disgraced his circuit and his
circuit and his state in the role
of Judicial Monster he should
not be hard to trim at all. If the
folks of his circuit have any
pride they will elevate him to the
most private of lives.
Foster-Milburn
N. Y.
Co., B u ff a
Rheumatism.
If you are troubled with chr<
nic of muscular rheumatism giv
Chamberlain’s Liniment a tria
The reliet from pain which
affords is alone worth man
times its cost. Obtainable ever;
where.
How long before we are going
to have that bunch of guber
natorial candidates lined out.
They got uncle Nat in a hole.
Begging the 97 not to adjourn
(see house Journal) to force the
liquor issue, he now claims that
he passed the prohibition law.
‘‘I Implore you gentlemen not to
do this” says his message to the
prohicaucus and now behold it is
a case of ”1 did it”. Nothing
doing for the man from Bibb as
he mounted the wagon too late.
The [fellows that would belittle
the entry of old Jim Woodward
in the race for governor would
do well to think twice before
they laugh at old Jeems. Any
man that can lick that Atlanta
bunch of grafters is no novice at
the game and many folks all over
the state have more faith in old
Jims judgement than they do in
his religion. And said “Jeems”
has been forty years on the front
line and no man has yet attacked
his honesty. Honesty of purpose,
despite sumptuary times is a
mighty strong limb to hang your
political coat on. We bet a dollar
that if the old gink does run, he
wont be the slowest man in the
race by a?jug-full. It looks mighty
good to see a man with back
bone offer, and old Woodward
can lay claim to Honesty and!
backbone. This paper hopes and
feels that Dr. Hardman will be
the next governor but we are
not discounting the strength of
Woodward over the state. When
people think a man is honest like
all admit old Jim, they take
plenty of time to consider his
claims most any time. Woodward
will mean the death of Dorsey’s
chances entirely.
IT’S GOOD POLICY TO
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