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/ THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bainbridge, Georgia E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postofllcein Bain- bridge, <ia., as second class mail matter under Act of Congress March lHth, 1KH7. Subscription Rates ONE YEAH. 1100 81X MONTHS 50c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL OKIIA.N OF TIIB CI'I'V OF HA1NHKIIHIK AND DKCATT'K COPNTV. Telephone No. 239 Election day plays the very mischief with figures and plans does’nt it Bub? Peace be with you, If you won, :you need it and if you lost, you flawed it right on. Well Caspar it was a glorious victory. For those that won but bitter pilling for those that lost. The days of B. V. 1). are num bered and the main question is now what are you going to do. Once more Savannah was al lowed to elect representatives to the general assembly. What for? Why does a woman act that way when she sees a mouse?— Enquirer Sun. What way? We wonder if the cold weather will lengthen out the short skirts either at the top or the bottom. Hughes is campaigning right along lor Wilson andmaking him votes every old time he opens his mouth., Savannah only used 13000 quarts of liquor since May 1st. Not a very thirsty gang after all. Put a little Pep into your fall hustle for business. Twill do a lot of good as encourage every body around you. If any of the charges and counter charges against the can didates are to be given credence it is time to purify polites. They are trying the Texas man for killing an army otlicer this week. If it was visa-versy there would have been no trial. When a man goes to carrying liquor in his wooden leg things are getting pretty tight. Wooden legs can be used for almost as many things as a hat or hairpin. Glory be, the Tax rate has been lowered in Laurens county. Wonder if thev spoilt all the good effect by raising the land values? They usually do that. There is not near so much doubt in the minds of the people this Thursday as there was last Thursday. The agony is over and the boys know who is who. The worth of many men is not measured by the good they do but the cursing they get at the hands of men who do not under stand them. If you want a real and just cause for amusement watch a thin old maid grabbing at these short skirts when she hits a gale amidships. It is enough to make a monkey laugh and keeps you wondering what she is [trying to do. The genus home is never armed with a spy-glass. When the "fiddler sulls” the dance is off, the lights go out and the fun is all over. It is now to that time. The fiddler ; lias sulled, the campaign is over. — ■ O And now, Mr. Political Liar you may return to your hole of Iniquity and stay there for an other two years, -unwept and hated worse than the devil. Good bye. The wise guy, the fellow that you never know who he is going to vote for until you find out who is elected is having his inning now. He is on the usual corner saying,” I told you so”. The Hon. Potiphar Peagreen, who was urged to run for office by his "many friends” was snowed under and he now won ders whether they wanted to vote for him or just get ajchance to snow him under. Some of the boys had courage of their convictions, some of them plenty of good friends and some of them money but on last “Chuesday” they sadly Idiscover- ed that they needed mostly votes. A Russellville, Ark., woman has just married her sixth hus band. Now is that giving one woman too many prizes in the matrimonial market or should these favors be viewed as the multitudinous tribulations of Job?. The question that is hardest to decide now is which lis the meanest road hog, the man with the team that wont give any of the road or the Fordist who takes it all and then some. Which? There is a bunch of fellows now that we would like to see go to work. They have seemed to think that if they could get some [men elected to office they could live without work. Georgia has never seen as in teresting campaign as the one just closed and it is to be hoped that there will be never lie one with as much bitterness in it as evidenced this time. Charles Hughes does not even make a good jockey. Jockeying with the hand full of Wyoming voters he has imperiled New York. Go to it Charlie old boy you are doing real good work for Woodrow. The council discussed the mat ter of having the fire truck in sured. Now if that bunch can not put out fire in their own ap paratus better let the whole busi ness burn up. Whoever heard of fire burning up a fire depart ment?. We have been unable to find out just why so many things were promised during the cam paign and why also that it is go ing to be so hard to deliver any of them that have been promised. Very lew politicians are liars. There could have been no such thing as an election this year if the wheels of progress had been moving with their usual re gularity. It is a very noticeable thing that when the people get restless over unexplained dull times they dig up a hot political campaign. How illusive is fame. Gover nor Pennybacher of Pennsylvania is dead and few noticed it. He was theman that tried kill the liberties of the press because they did not fall over themselves supporting him for office. We have some in this county that would like to crucify every editor that dent take their political cue from them. Such is • native vain-giory of a fool. Women have got to dressing like men so that they can hobo from one town to another accord ing to some our exchanges. Women clothes have got so scant we believe they do it to keep from freezing. Just a short while now and the possum and persimmon diet will be on the bill of fare, then who cares what about the boll weevil or any other of the recent in iquities that have befallen the “ninted” of the section. We wish to remark that we are satisfied with the [results of the election and have just as good bunch of officers as any other fellow. We might have made a change or so but we bow to the wishes of the majority. Our head is not sore one bit, is yours?. See where a preacher advocates the churches advertising pro vided the press will do it for nothing. How generous cf him. The press has enough dead beats on its list now without this sanctimonious brother adding any more to it. The promise is made that dancing will be reformed. They must be “gwine” to quit entire ly. Dancing is a wholesome amusement if you have a good looking partner that can stay off your toes but tangoing is not dancing sister. It is man and maid mimicing a pair of fools. The merchants of Bainbridge are now ready to get down to business and the people of the section will find that they can get just what they want in this city at the very lowest and pre- vialing prices. Trade in Bain bridge and help build up your own town is a good slogan to follow. The marriage license records show plainly that the women are evidently not taking advan tage of the Leap Year chance or that they cant hem the men up long enough to discuss the mat ter with them. Fellows get very leary of this matter now for fear they will get a “ceeciety” woman woman that will keep their noses to the grind stone the balance of their lives. One of the esteemed Atlanta papers sent us a bill for their sheet for the coming year. We ought to pay the poor daily for their paper but having in mind the usual concern which the dailies have for the weeklies we can only say Bub, if you can get along without us we can you. If the dear fatherly dailies can run without imbibing the wis dom of the weekly press all we have to say is go to it and die in ignorance if they want to. The time for mullet-suppers is drawing nigh and happiness adorns the face of every country negro that has been in town for the past week. The average citi zen that has no idea of what a mullet supper means has missed the closest and the most acute observations ot his section. It is an institution that brings forth much merriment and plenty of razors. Some corn | liquor and a lot of cussedness. The state road and the Ellen N. seemed to have been twin sisters of iniquity in the cam paign just closed. For the in formation of a few that were terribly upset we wish to observe that a law passed at the last ses sion of the legislature makes the disposition of the state road a matter for the people to decide at the ballot box. Hence none of the candidates could do any good or damage there- We have had enough of the state campaign. Let’s get to gether now and get out that big vote for Wilson. Let’s at least assure the democrats of other states that while we let bolters meddle with the state democratic party we do not let them inter fere with the great Georgia majority in the Nationl elections. The Pelham Journal says that the banks are bursting with money up there and we expect that is about right from the amount of cotton we saw there Saturday but we thought that banks usually bursted for the lack ot money. However that is Pelham and they can do as they please without any objections from this quarter. Now is a pretty good time to indict some of the fefipws that offered so much money on the election. Notice last week where two banks were using or being used as depositories for mcney to bet on elections. Ttys i9 against the law and the grand jury of each county should immdiately investigate. Quincy wants paved streets. Good idea, get them boys and you wont be with out them again for anything. Put some Pep into your town as you say and get the pleasure of these things while you can. There is nothing that every citizen will appreciate so much. If you cant get paved streets get a [ball team and we will come down and give you a little Pep. There can be no mistake now. We want to watch lots of the fellows that voted in the primary Tuesday and see where they will be when the first Tuesday in November* roll around. See if they will follow Watson’s advice and butcher the only real great Democrat of the day, Wilson. Watson delights in cursing and abusing him and would lead us the Republican. Will any true born southern man swallow that? The rotteness of politics, was thoroughly exemplified here Mon day afternoon by the 11th, hour canards being circulated that no one believed. The last hour yarns are usually about the most damn able that can be gotten up and the reason they are not circulat ed before is because the authors of them know that 4hey can not stand the light oi investigation. Some day maybe this method of politics will be changed. It is at least hoped that they will. Our man Judge Harrell fought a good clean fight, a hard fight and an honorable one and his friends are proud of his work. No man ever had a set of better friends or any that worked hard er and more unselfishly for the man than his did for him. High above it all, the loyalty and un shaken faith of his law partner Judge John R. Willson shine like a banner of good shriven especial- ly^for the faithful. Such men keep a permanent place on earth for real true frendship. David had Jonathan and Bill had John. We got a letter from a poor fool last week telling us to stop his paper as he had heard that we did not vote for a certain man for governor. Why the poor ignorant fool, it does not seem to have occurred to him that we have as much right to vote as he has and like him to vote for who we darn please. A fool like that has’nt sense enough tc lead a paper no way so we suppose he is better left to his ignorance and intoleiance. If that same fool brought a bale of cotton to town and the buyer would tell him that he could not buy it because he did not vote his way he would want to get up a mob and lynch the buyer and he would yell like a panther. Such men make us disgusted with them. Have your quilts and blankets laundried before the“cocl nights call for them, 25 cents each. Dixie Steam Laundry. NOW TO WORK. The campaign has passed into history, the sores are |healing al ready and the good citizen will forget the sting and heat of bat tle and get down to business right away and help make this fall the best from a commercial stand point, that we have ever had. It is time Jto devote your attention to sterner matters. Get in be hind developing the advantages of this section now and push for all you are worth. If your man got beat, why that is al right, it just means that more folks did not want him and you were in minority. If your man got elected, why it is alright. He will know you until Saturday night and you will only need an occasional introduction to keep on his visiting list. Politics will do to kill time with but Decatur county and Bainbridge want to get down to advertising their re sources and get something that sticks long after the campaigns are all over and the growling hushed. We may win a man or two and lose a man or two in an election but we have with us all the time one of the best sections on earth that only needs our activity to boost her to top notch. Quit growling now and go to work. This is a funny old world. Some of us curse and abuse the negro with almost fanatical hatred at times but the minute that some agency from other sections comes in to carry him off we raise the devil like we had lost a brother. It does seem that folks would wake up to the tact that we cai’t get the negros labor and not have him in the country. The wise men of the white race regard this matter with due thought but the very element that takes a delight in cuffing him around is the one that kicks up most when he is carried off. The Conneciticutt agencies that have been here after him have one dickens of a time getting him because of the interference of some lof the very men we have heard advocate that they be colonised. We dont seem to want him until a yankee can find use for [him. If we would open our eyes to the fact that he is useful and help to make him more so |by setting a good ex ample as a race we would make him a far more profitable laborer. int BAIR. Everybody now t Urn j tention to the South wS FairatDonalsonville Th of battle has cleared 'a?/ " political and other fields is now time to get down * i ness. This Fair means m°J Southwest Georgia and nl county most especially Tsl best in the section out for the inspection 0 fl visitors and it now tj every citizen of the county J a- 3 , nd put hls best e] both individual and collectivJI the wheel and push this Fal a glorious success The J nothing now to take theatJl of the people off of the Fair! its work and we wish to see el man in the county that f ee ]J interest in its developementl down to hard work f or county. Everybody take a 1 strong pull and altogether J for the Southwest Georgia pj Stop using this dangero drug before it salivate] you! It’s horrible! You’re bilious, sluggish' coni pated and believe you need vi| dangerous calomel to start yJ liver and clean bowles. Here’s my guarantee! Askyoi druggist for a fifty cent bottle! Dodson’s Liver Tone and take! spoonfull to-night. If it dosed start your liver and straight! you up better than calomel _ without griping or making )3 sick I want you to go back totlj store and get your money. Take calomel to day and tl morrow you will feel weak an| sick and nauseated. Don’t a days work, lake a spoonful (j harmless Dodson’s Liver Toni tonight and wake un feelml great. It’s perfectlv harmless so give it to your children anj time. It can’t salivate, so them eat anything afterwards Let us do your Palm Bead Suit, at 50 cents. The Dixi SteamJJLaundry. ATLANTA HAMPTON SPRINGS PULLMAN LIKI CHANGED TO ATLANTA-ALBANY LINE After April 29th present Atlanta-Hampton Springs Pullmai sleeping car line will be changed to Atlanta-Albany sleeping ca line on the following schedule: SOUTHBOUND Lv. Atlanta A. B. & A 10:301’. M Lv. Cordele G. S. W. & G 5:30 A. M Ar. Albany G. S. W.&G . 6:50 a. y NORTHBOUND Lv. Albany G. S. W. & G .... 10:15 r. N Lv. Cordele A. B. & A 11:55 p. > Ar. Atlanta A. B. & A ... 6:10 A. > Passengers leaving Atlanta at 10:30 P. M. and Albany at 10:1 may occupy sleeping cars as early as 9:00 P. M. Passengers ar ariving Atlanta at 6:10 A. M. and Albany at 6:50 a. m. may rema. in sleeping cars as late as 7:30 A. M. Secure further information from W. W. Croxton, Genrral Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga. ...THE... Bainbridge Hospital \ Well Equipped Prices Moderate \ ^527 E. Shotwell Street (NON-SECTARIAN > 7