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fHE POST -SEABCH light ?Li’''= : " 2. NO. 28. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY OCTOBER 5. 1916 $1.00 PER YEAR ■ople from all -Over the Section are Attending in Great Numbers. Inter est in Exhibits Keen. rue Southwest Georgia Fair eff open its gates to an im- ,„se crowd of folks that had thered in from every quarter the three tributary states, orgja. Alabama and Florida, iple were interested in this and have been for many foand they found all they , e d to find, they found more they expected. The band istc, the carnival, the' exhi- the crowds, the merry- leers have made a great week the West Decatur Metropolis and experienced fair goers us that this agricultural dis- has never been surpassed at of the fairs held in the big ies. Every interest in _J:he cultural field of endeavor is 11 represented. Every amuse- nt that the young could wish there for their pleasure, ery kind of an animal is -there mi the very best down to med- n. lainbridge folks have been Ing over in scores, all taking irest in the event and all ;hly pleased with what they Automobiles from almost rywhere have been passing iugh the town on thier way he lair. For a week the sec- has been centered on the n of Donalsonville and there no doubt that Donalsonville measured up to expectations ill of us. This Fair will long remembered as one of the it comprehensive ever held •he state and its good re ts will be felt for many years come. A special sermon will be de livered by the pastor next Sun day morning to the SENSIBLE MEN AND WOMEN ot the city. All members of the cohgregation are urged to be present. A most cordial invitation is extended to all friends. AUTO FULL OF WHISKEY Mr. Ed Farnell and Henry Ed wards of Whigham were arrest' ed in Bainbridge Saturday night charged with selling whiskey and it is alleged that their car had quite a load of pint bottles of whiskey in it. The men gave bond and for a while there quite a little gossip about the matter. The arrest of Mr. Ed Farnell on such a charge caused quite a surprise among the friends of that gentleman as he was an officer of the law having, been both one the police force cf this city and of Whigham. The case created quite a lot of interest and will be watched as to the out come. DECATUR BOY IS KILLED BY FULL FRJM HORSE Well Known Young Man Found Severely Injured. Facts Seem very Vague as to Accident. An auto collision was averted yesterday afternoon on Belchers corner by smashing into the buggy of old uncle Harp, a well esteemed old colored man living just out of town. Mr. Gunn in trying .to dodge a driver of a Ford who was looking in another direction when turning the corner smash ed into the buggy and the Ford. The Ford man backed out of the wreck and beat it, leaving Mr. Gunn to covqr all damages. That the accident was not more seri ous is a miracle. The 12-year-old son of Greene Murkerson, a farmer living west of here, in this county, was found in a dying condition in the woods near his father’s house yester day afternoon. The boy was car ried home and diedwithout ever regaining consciousness. It was at first thought that perhaps foul play might have caused his death, his head bear ing a great bruise, apparently caused by a heavy blow. Going back to where he was found it was seen that he had fallen from the horse which he rode and that his head] had struck a stump, leaving hair and blood. The little fellow had been in poor Health and was just get ting strong enough to get about when his father sent him on horseback to Reynoldsville, a nearby trading point, ior medi cine. At dark he had not return ed and searchers were sent to lo cate him. The horfie was found SLAYER CAUGHT, MOTHER OF KILLEDJY MOB Sam Coneliy, Alleged Mur derer of E. M. Melvin, of Calhoun County Is Brought to Macon. The slayer of E. M. Melvin, a well known Calhoun county farmer, residing at Leary, was Next Sunday being the Second Sunday in the month, Mr. Sams will be in Cuthbert and there will be no services i n this Church. The Sunday School at 10:00 A.M. Friday afternoon, Litany Services at 4:30 P. M. SOUTH’S COTTON TO BE IN GREAT DEMAND The South’s cotton after the close of the European war will captured yesterday afternoon at be in greater demand than ever TO CONSIDER' SCHDDL- BJOK BILL State Board of Education Will Hold Meeting Sat urday to Study Meas ure’s Provisions. Pretoria in Dougherty county, when he went to a store there to get something to eat. The pro prietor of the store recognized before since the cotton famine following the Civil War, accord ing to United States Senator Hoke Smith, who predicts that the young negro whose name is! this section of the cohntrv is Sam Connelly and phoned to bound to enjoy a continuance of Albany for officers to go to'prosperity when hostilities have Pretoria to make the arrest. I ceased. Everything the South The officers arrived just as the, raises "will be in demand, as the k. T. C. Funderburk has ac ted the agency for the fam- Cha'.mers automobiles and H carry a line of them for the |Ple of this section, he Chalmers is a well known of splendid make and with a °rd that stands the test of ex- ts - Mr. hinderburk has some eriencc in the auto business will make a successful sales- 1 ot this car. 1 SPECTACLE COMING Jooias Dixon and Victor oert s dramatic spectacle music, ‘-The Fall of a on ' will be shown here L ASSOCIATION TO MEET IN ATLANTA negro finishing eating and carri ed him to jail at Albany, but up on order of Judge E. E. Cox, of the superior court he, was immediately carried to the Bibb county jailatMacon to avoid an effort ot a posse of citizens whom it is said had been search ing for him since the crime. Carrie Connelly, mother of the young negro, who took the boys part in the difficulty with Mr. Melvin, was taken from the lock up at Leary Monday senator points out, while nothing the south needs will necessarily be scarce, and this condition will naturally and inevitably produce prosperity. The Senator leaves this week on a speaking tour for president Wilson under the direction of the Democratic national committee. grazing in the woods and the night by parties unknown and boy’s body was lying nearby. It is thought that he either tried to dismount at the stump, and slip ped, or that he became Weak and fainted. The largest attendance on re cord is the aim of committees in charge of plans for the next an nual meeting of the Southern Medical Association, wnich con venes in Atlanta on November 23 to 26. The association em braces fourteen or more southern states and its annual meetings are the biggest medical events of the year in this section of the cauntry. The officers are Dr. Robert Wilson, Jr., Charleston, president; Dr. Holman Taylor, Forth Worth, Tex., first vice president; Dr. Guy L. Hunner. Baltimore, second vice president; Dr. Seale Harris, Birmingham, secretary-treasurer. 8 Peculiar distinction among great ' var films is in its im- ''aUve prophecy of America’s gainst the background 6 European struggle and fu 'l view ot all the _^ ln g national problems. The fanes the welter of all °rces working in our na ‘‘fe — liberty, foreign ,peac <± propaganda, militar- 5U:; agism, imperialism— Pictures their combination ^orldshaking cataclysm. J * >me forms a surprising im ment ’ * n w hich women Jr , a fading part in the j, - 5 emancipation. ® ten reels were filmed in r i„ n ~ at an expense of u a trillion dollars and with e model equipment of the NO LIMELIGHT FOR HIM "No limelight for me until I’m inaugurated” is the policy just announced by Hugh M. Dorsey, governor-elect of Georgia, who has received so many invitations to speak at various gatherings, and to make other public ap pearances, that he was forced to make a choice between devoting practically all his time to these invitations on the one hand, or to his private affairs on the other. Mr. Dorsey takes the position that Governor Harris is still the head ot the state government and therefore the state’s official representative, and he does not care to assume a conspicuous GOOD COTTON SEED MARKET AT BAINGRIDGE It is not generally thought of but Brinbridge'has one ot the livest cotton seed markets that she has ever had and far better than most of the neighboring towns. The seed went up to $50 per ton today and the Bainbridge buyers are right on the market. This makes cotton seed nearly as valuable as corn and the farmers are all taking advantage of the good prices paid. Every buyer here is paying the top of the market for them. JOHN STANFORD KILLED IN G. E. & A. Yi her dead body riddled with bullets was found in the road a short distance from Leary Tuesday morning by passersby. —Macon Telegraph. CITIZEN BANK TO MOVE IN NEW QUARTERS The Citizens Bank will move to the building next door to them in the Bon Air Block where they are having a magnificent front prepared and When it is finished it will be one of the swellest bank buildings in the city. Work is being done by the Richardson Engineering and Construction Company. The bank will faee the court house and Water street too, and every modern banking convenience will be in the new building. PRESBYTERY MEETS AT ATTAPULGOS John Standford, Colored an em ployee of the G. F. & A. railroad was killed late Monday afternoon by a train in the yards of the company. The man was in some manner knocked off of a car and his head was cut plum off from j Macon and ^Dublin his body by the moving car. The j Cordele to Quitman west, negro was a workman in thej Interesting it will be with shops and not one of the trans-! addresses and sermons by dis- The Presbytery of Macon meets in the Presbyterian Church at Attapulgus Friday night, Oct. 17. There will be ministers and representatives of churches in Southwest Georgia, Columbus, south and tinguished speakers, both mini sters and laymen. The meeting will continue through Thursday night and probably till Friday noon. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED A NIFTYJISPLJY H. W. South, proprietor of the Oak City Stuido has a booth this week a the Fair in Donal sonville that is one of the most attractive teatures ot the dis play. Mr. South has placed on exhibit photos of very well known folks, things and scenes that have attracted the eye of every person passing by the booth. As a photographer Mr. South is head and shoulders above any that has ever been in this section and his work gives great satisfaction where- ever placed. SCRAPE LAST SUNDAY Mr. will Littlefield shot and seriously wounded Gaston Mock Sunday afternoon in the Fowl- town district ot this county. The wound was with a shot gun and a very serious one. The trouble between the men being the triangle with the usual dis astrous results. Both of the young men are well known in their respective districts and have lots of friends and the episode is sincerely regreted by the friends of both. The chance for the recovery of Mr. Mock is very scant as his brains were oozing out of the wound in his head. Very meager details of the shooting have reached town and of course nothing is know as to the real cause of the shooting. The regular meeting of the state board of education to be held Saturday of this week will be important as well as an inter esting session. The board is composed of the governor, Sup erintendent m. L Brittain, Prof. E. J. Woofter of Athens, A. H. Moon of Baxley, G. R. Glenn of Dahlonega and Walter E. Steed of Butler. All the • members will attend, with the probable excep tion of Mr. Steed, who may be detained. At this meeting the board will take up for analysis the Yeo mans school book bill, under which the county boards are au thorized, so soon as they have sufficient funds, to begin the distribution of free books to cer tain grades of the public schools. The bill has been printed in cir cular form by the state- depart ment, and the Saturday meeting will go over its provisions, decide on a working plan for carrying into effect the new law, and will give such information to the county boards as is necessary in that respect.—Macon Telegraph. THE GEORGIA MULE Hats off, gentleman, to the festive mull Who would have thought that the meek and lowly hard tail, butt on innum erable jokes, yet indispesable all of the southern farmer, would be riding in a mule train de luxe from St, Louis to At lanta. So great in the volumn of mule traffic moving from that city, which is the concent ration point of mules in the southwest, that the Southern railway has just inaugurated a Special through train leaving St. Louis at six o’clock p. m. and arriving in Atlanta at 3 o’clock a. m, ot the second day, thereby eliminating the necess ity for a stop over to feed. The high price of cotton and other conditions of general prosper ity in the South have greatly stimulated the mule trade.—Ex. poration crew. He was know as a pretty faithful worker. LITTLEFIELD GIVES UP AT FATHERS’S HOME. Following is a list of the new The sheriff came in Yesterday books received and- the Public’by a number of his Screven county about noon with Mr. Will Little- Library: ' supporters of a large and luscions field, the young man that shot 1 ‘‘From the Housetops” by Me-1 yellow pumpkin weighing sixty and seriously wounded Mr. Gas- Cutherson; In Another Girl’s pounds. It so happened that (Mr. ton Mock. Mr. Littlefield was at Shoes” by Ruck; “Prudence 1 Dorsey received sixty votes in his fathers home as he phoned Says So” by Hueston; “The[the militia district of Screven the sheriff to be there and his Chief Legate” by Green; “When j county where the pumpkin was son would meet him there yester- a Mans a Man” by Harold Bell J grown, and thus the pumpkin re- one pound for each DORSEY PUMPKINS They are naming pumpkins in honor of Hugh M, Dorsey, Geor gia’s governor-elect, down in Screven county, as the result of the presentation to Mr. Dorsey Council met in regular session Monday, Oct. 2, 1916. Those present wete Mayor Callahan, Aldermen Carter, Fields, Wheel er and Lane. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved, A resolutions author izing the mayor to execute a renewal note at the Decatur County Bank was read and pas sed, a copy being attached mark ed exhtbit “A”. An ordinance prohibiting the concealing of in toxicating liquors was read and passed, a copy being inscribed in the book of Ordinances. C. B. Brockett and E. Rich appeared before council to discuss the matter of installing an abbatoir, and a committee consisting of Aldermen Carter and Lane was appointed to confer with the city attorney in regard to getting up a suitable ordinance and submit same to council either at a call meeting or any regular meetipg.