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/ THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bainbrldge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postofflce in Bain- bridge, On., tin second class mail matter under Act of Congress March 18th, 1897. Subscription Rates ONE YEAH *1.00 SIX MONTHS 60c Advsrtlslng Rates Advertising rntc depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. 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 Read Dress Talk No 22. Wait until you have inspected our line of Summer Weight Suits before making your selection elsewhere. PRICES $5.00 $7.50 to $12.50 They are marked by a distinction of style that appeals most strongly to good dressers. They are just the thing for this hot weather—light in weight, cool and comfortable in Palm Beach, Cool Cloth, Crashes and Summer Worsteds Nothing in Bainbridge that will compare with them either in style or price. Step in and Look Them Over Oko. If. The Fashionable Haberdasher.