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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia
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OFFICIAL OKOAM OK TUB Cl’l V
OF I1AINBRIDGB ANIl IJEfATl K
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
'When a woman speaks a dead j
langauge what are you going to i
do about it.
Georgia is saved, in fact gets j
saved every two years. She also;
gets redeemed every two years, i
o
Decatur county gave Roscoe!
Luke a splendid vote. A fine!
fellow that we appreciate over j
here.
We could not get all of “ourn” I
but we got the most of them so j
we are satisfied with what our
portion was.
Quite a number of useless ones
go into the discard this year.
Fite, Eichelberger and Bryan,
but we couldn’t get Newt.
The defeat of Jet Bowden in |
the 11th district was a distinct;
blow to jet. Jet admits himself
that he is a very smart man.
Uncle Nat .“fit” a good fight
but half that crowd that “sont
him word” that they were with
him got there too late.
See where a fellow bought his
marriage license on a credit. If
that gink has to run out ot it he
wont be out much money.
The friends of John Knight of
Berrien county and Jim Tipton
of Worth will regret to learn of
their defeats at the polls Tues-|
day.
T. R. Marshall has just found
out that he has been nominated
for Vice president on the Demo
cratic ticket. McLuke says that
he has known it for some time.
Candidates Hughes, whiskers
and all are doing good work right
now boosting president Wilson
from one end of the Union to the
other.
We would like to know when
Thomasville is going to give that
big feed this fall as we missed the
one last fall. Ai’nt you fellows
ready over there yet.
If Gussie Gardner still wants
war we are ready to give it to
him. Having just passed through
a state campaign we are ready
for any kind of a scrap.
Dick Russell resigned one job j
to run lor another and now all he i
has is those 14 children to feed
with meat 18 cents per pound.:
Dick has some job right on.
Notice where they wont let
divorcees marry again if the law
of the church is carried out.
Wonder what they think a|
divorce is for anyway?
The guy that wanted to stay
home from church that was mean
enough to suggest to his wile
that her hat was on crooked
lives in Bainbridge. He stayed
home too.
fact being drawn out all the
summer is over and the boys
can all go back to work. Mr.
“Darsey” is a runner and the
state is safe.
The election tnisyear promises
some very warm political fights
in the next few years as the
dynasty is liable to either be
changed or it will have to battle
to stay in the saddle.
Brother Barber of Grady was
beaten for re-election by Captain
Stone in a spirited race. Barbei
was a conscientious representa
tive but many good men are
beaten?
The tell us that all the Bull
Moosers are going to support Mr.
Dorsey, that will be alright if
they will just include Mr. Wilson
in that, their support of the Soli
citor will be welcomed.
The defeat of Jim Price for
Commissioner of Agriculture car
ried with it consternation to the
friends of that gentleman, as Jim
was supposed to be one of the
strong men of the state.
We would like to know some
thing about the popular vote for
the Judges of the Appeleate
Court. We wager that Roscoe
Luke and Henry Fullbright were
way up in the lists there.
How will the Atlanta Journal
stomach the sight of Albert
Howell directing and other wise
sitting at the first table of the
Macon Convention. Such a terri
ble sight will indeed afflict them.
Jet Bowden says that the folks
made a congressman out of him
Randall Walker and a Christian
out of him. Jet will find that a
lot of others were made Chris
tians at the same time.
The Valdosta Times dubbed
Hugh Dorsey the “Man of Des
tiny” while all the time we
thought that he was the “Man of
Votes*’ but we are willing to ad
mit that we are wrong.
The election of J. J. Brown as
Commissioner of Agriculture
verifies the old adage ot “if at
first you dont succeed try again’’.
He made three races against J.
D. Price and finally beat him.
Ex-senator Lorimer ot Illinois
was beaten for congress in the
primary of last week. Lorimer is
a big man regardless of the little
digs that have been made at him
for many years.
Mitchell county had a regular
rattling of dry bones last week,
beating out their old Ordinary,
Clerk of Court and Representa
tive. These three men having
been in office quite a long time.
The Southwest Georgia Fair
boosters were in Bainbridge
again Friday morning and they
sure have been putting out the
advertising matter. They have
carried the news to Mary alright.
Now who is be Dorsey’s chief
Vizier, Tom Watson, Albert
Howell or J. R. Smith? If you
ever hear of politics making
strange bed fellows will you tell
us how this mix-up will bunch.
The defeat of Jim Price and
Crawf Wheatley will remove
from the state capitol two very
lamilair faces that will be missed
by quite a number of folks.
Price’s defeat was a distinct sur
prise to his friends.
Ed Jerger of the Times Enter
prise says that he will be glad
when the day comes for women
to vote. Now Ed if you will keep
enough stove wood chopped and
kindling handly you wont to go
such extremes to square things.
Take an older head’s advice on
such matters.
a soldier recently says an ex
change when one next to him
wanted to know what on. Grub
mustbnean something over there
just as it does in dear old Geor
gia.
The millinery opening last
week came very eclipsing the ex
citement of the campaign as it
was pretty hard for Dad to get
hit twice in the same day. For
that reason the openings were
held over until Thursday.
In mentioning the alternates
that go to the convention at
Macon next week we made an
error and had D. R. Bower when
we should have had Judge D. R.
Bryan. This error was due to
the similarity of their initials.
It is now just a question of
getting down to it and giving
Wilson that big old fashioned
Democratic vote in this state. It
is a worthy custom that we must
keep up in spite of those that
trim and balk at democracy.
A prominent Bainbridge At
torney gives as his reason for
being very bitterly opposed to
Hughes is because he has “so D—
much whiskers” and we reckon
that is a far better reason than
any one could get up against Mr.
Wilson.
Decatur county seems pretty
well satisfied with her “gittin”
in the last primary. We went
into it without anything and
came out with the Superior Court
Judgeship just as this paper
predicted many months ago. We
just had to hve it.
We just cant help from making
love a little to those Grady
county fellows for the way they
supported the Decatur county
candidate for the judgeship.
Every precinct in the county
went for him. A fine thing on
their parts we think.
It is rumored that a certain
candidate in Florida hired a hall
to speak in and then had to hire
an audience to listen to him.
That is what you call rough sled
ding sure enough. That’s a sure
and safe way to go about it.
The election of Herschel Elders
to the senate from one of the
eastern districts of the state will
be news that will give pleasure
to that gentleman’s friends over
in this section. Mr. Elders has
a brother in Bainbridge, Mr. A.
A. Elders.
That old Mitchell boy over in
Thomas county is some runner
when you figure up all the step
pers. If we had lived there we
would have helped him along
with a big vote. Everybody
knows that an Irishman’s vote
counts more than the average
man. Fondren deserves every
thing the folks will do for him.
The streets are peaceful now
and one can walk two blocks
without being bantered for a bet
on a election. That is one of the
shameful things about an election.
Betting on them is prohibited
by law and should be enforced to
the letter.
The sides walks on West street
are in bad shape and the atten
tion of the city is invited to the
condition ot the prettiest street
in the city, one that all strangers
walk down and fall in holes or
else twist their ankles off in try
ing to keep out of them.
Marion Jackson, Tom Felder
and Eichelberger did great work
in this state campaign just pass
ed. Great work for Dorsev
though. If ever a man was beaten
by his fool friends it was that
dear old man Harris was butch-
| ered by this long faced set of
* buzzards. They crucified the old
man verily.
campaign was the re- election of
Newt Morris as judge of the
Blue Ridge circuit. Just as the
state got rid of old Fite in the
Cherokee circuit here Newt is
hoisted back on it. Verily Georgia
has a hard time.
Uncle Nat takes his defeat like
a man and shows another streak
of that old gameness that he
showed in his younger days. We
never voted for him but we ad
mire him and always will. A
game loser is as grand as a game
winner.
The boys will be leaving a few
days for the State Convention
and they are going to let a few
fellows go along but make them
sit in the gallery and eat at the
second table. Gonna get even for
not being invited to the sturgeon
supper.
Having received quite a large
number of letters about the
school book business and the
confusion resulting we must have
voiced the general complaint in
kicking on the confusion. This
confusion could be easily re
medied by just a little business
application to the situation.
In 12 months from today Wat
son will be trying just as hard to
destroy Hugh M. Dorsey as he
has tried to elect him Governor.
Mark the prediction. If Tommy
cant be the whole show, red
lemonade, peanuts and clown too
he will break up the performance
if he can.
Friends of Hon Lee Branch of
Brooks county in Bainbridge
were glad to see his name urged
for the vacancy on the Supreme
bench of the state. Mr. Branch
is one the real learned lawyers
of the state and he will fill any
judicial position with honor to
himself and credit to the state.
that they carried the county for
Dorsey. We are indeed glad that
they admit this for all the time
we have been thinking that it
was the tall boys from out in the
woods that did it. We always
want to keep the record straight
about these things. Sometimes
though the tali boys do such
things.
The election of some school
trustees comes off in a few days
and it will be good idea for the
citizens to begin to cast about
for some men with old ideas of
common business judgement.
They are the kind of men need
ed for this kind of a job. If we
get those kind of men backed up
by a good bunch of teachers it is
better than any combination that
can be gotten. Let us pick them
well.
One of the nicest things that
occurred during the recent cam
paign was the high and honorable
manner in which the campaign
of Judge Harrell was conducted
for the Judgeship of the Albany
circuit. Not a sore, not a hard
word, not an unkind expression
or unfair thought will have to be
lived down by either he or his
distinguished opponent, Judge
Johnson.
It is said and undisputed that
the head ot the “Guardians of
Liberty” the anti Catholic organ
ization is Nelson A. Miles, the
man that put shackles on Jeffer
son Davis. Now that is a pretty
kettle of fisn for the average
southerner to eat out of is’nt it?
You cant explain to an old Con
federate soldier that Nelson
Miles could be connected with
anything good. What you gonna
Ido about it? If that stench is not
removed we can see the final
wind-up of this organization in
Georgia.
A man ought to repect the
dead—politician and let him die
ir. peace. Requiescat in pace
Judge Fite, Nothing gives the
state more pleasure than your
end. Falling from your high
estate where you could jail every
man that did not agree with you,
you will now feel the sting of
public opinion like some foul,
unclean thing.
Two weeks from today and the
Southwest Georgia Fair will be
open and all Decatur county
must take time to see just what
our brethren are doing over there.
They are making a big things
for this county and every good
citizen of the county will do his
best to encourage them by his
presence at their displays if no
other way.
Several days ago we predicted
that Decatur county would give
Roscoe Luke as big vote as his
home county and dog gone our
buttons if we did not come mighty
near topping Thomas on the vote.
We gave him 1486 just off hand
like. If he had any contest on
over here we would have given
him more.
The face of John Knight of
Berrien will be sadly missed in
the next general assembly but
that of Uncle Joe Hall will once
again be in evidence. Uncle Joe
Hall will once again be in
evidence. Uncle Joe and Ben
Fowler, who said that the capitol
removal was dead?
The vicious attacks on Georgia
published in out of state papers
stirred the people into a frenzy
of resentment not many months
ago and the vicious attacks on
hei now by certain elements will
stir them up again. The only
thing that can prevent it is for
the local papers not to print any
of it. A paper from Louisian^,
the state that stands first in
illiterancy in the Union is having
quite a bit to say about ignorance
in Georgia. They should look well
into statistics ere they make such
untruthful statements.
Dont it make you mad to see a
a man beating a horse to make
him go into some place where he
could get down and lead him
without any trouble. Makes you
almost as mad as an overbearing
man who thinks that all men are
fools who differ with them and
whose God is a dollar. Such men
never do any community any
good and they have a streak of
yellow a yard wide down their
back bones. They abuse real men
to their backs but never [to their
faces.
Brother Marion Jackson whose
vindictive spirit is consistent with
his hatred of truth and facts
went down into Bill Burwell’s
county and assisted all he could
the effort to beat said William.
William snowed the entire crap
game Under so far that they wont
find themselves before Xmas.
Marion helped defeat Governor
Harris and like the blight he
hurt every man he wanted to
help and helped every man he
wanted to hurt.
The defeat of Governor Harris
is said to mean that it will re
open the prohibition fight. There
is one thing that is as true as the
stars and that is, this matter will
never be settled until the people
of Georgia vote on it at the bal
lot box. Theorists may rant and
rave and abuse the men that
think it ought to be settled that
way but that will never change
the stern fact that the citizens
will never be satisfied until it is
voted on by the people. Great
indignation brepks out every
time it is suggested but there is
no more reason for the prohibition
element to deny the people a vote
on so important a matter than
there was for the liquor element
to deny the legislature the right
to pass on it. So long as paid
agitators keep the matter alive
jusf that long will the desire to
pass on it by the people of the
state live. It is the people’s
right and when their rights are
abridged it has never been done
successfully and lived.
USEFULNESS
On Januarv Nr it, .
well wil i retire C nu
of county school S,r.- h
after many year, j P nn1
short appointment
well will leave the office,
best wishes of those Z
love the schools 0 f L
county, he has served thJ
long [and faithfully
words of appreciation?,,
of place just before he id
the office that hehasser!
in. Many of us may l
time to time differed -
on minor matters but
citizen of the county J
had any other idea that :
was a man who had the
of the county near his hi
was the old commissioner
haps not keeping time ym
more modern, or advance
sometimes very foolish
and ideas advanced as p,
sive educational ideas he
the same time rendered thj
pie splendid service by a tl
going more to common J
the conduct of the school!
than to theory and high soj
ethics brought cut by the
from college.
To say that the people
appreciate the service 0 f|
Brad well is putting it mild
his v> ork has been done ■
days of cramped educational
port and understanding. 1
he has, has carried with
education ot the people as
as the education of the chili
He has had to break awa
most through an educa
wilderness to accomplish
in the work but year aftei
he has steadily battled ft
cause of education and h
often times opposed by mi
ignorance at the same tin
his last few months of off
Lost-Search Light feels
good citizens oi the coun
join it in wishing Mr. B
the best of luck in vvhatei
ness he may see fit to (
retiring from the schoo
and wishing he and his
splendid health always
man’s earnestness in beha
work he was engaged in
his name and imprint
educational foundation
county that will live Ion
he has passed away.
They say according to the
annah Press that Britt Davis
a policeman found a wolf
Britt’s yard down in Savam
A great many years ago
and the writer used to see
elephants, ‘ ‘yaller tigers’’
etc. on that Mitchell county 1
lightning but we never saw
wolves. A fellow gets up
ideas when he gets to a city
way and we don’t know w
Britt can see now since he
moved to town and changed
brand. Britt seems to have
len on strange kinds here of li
Have your quilts and blank
laundried before thelcool nig
call for them, 25 cents
Dixie Steam Laundry.
For sale 125 acre far®
about 3 miles southeast of
Faceville—in good com
munity—65 acres in cu ti-
vation—six room -ra®
dwelling, nice stock bam,
3 room tenant dwelling
all built last winter.
good school and chine •
Improvements worth t e
price.
Good soil—Price S1L
J, B. L. BARBER
iS Office Hamii B ■ - ‘ n ^
Bainbridge