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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
Entererl at IhePostofllcein Hain-
bridpe, Oa., as second class mail
matter under Act ol Congress
March 18th, 1897.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THK CITV
OF HAINBKIDGR AND DECATUR
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
Dont look like we are going to
have any show of any kind at
tall.
If the Georgia boys take Mexi
co will it be straight or with
water in it?
According to some there was
bull a plenty at the Southwest
Georgia Fair last week. Several
thousand dollars worth.
It has turned out to be one of
those real good falls that you
have often heard the older fel
lows talk about.
We are going to have a circus
yet and no school exmainations
that week at all. Talk about be
ing a kid.
Fellow in the local cafe a few
days ago wanted to know if you
ate spaghetti with a fork or a
lake. Who knows?
Did the thin shanked woman
or the bow-legged one cause the
change heralded in the short
skirts of women is the querys in
minds of most men.
You dont appreciate that band
concert on Sunday afternoon
sure qnough until you get to
where you don’t have it. Then
is liadly missed.
Kipling well puts it that when
a man takes a job that other
shuck and makes a success that
the same fellows that shucked
call it luck. But if he fall down
he called a fool by the shuckers.
From the I way Bank deposits
have been growing around Bain
bridge in the past few months
quite a lot of folks as well as the
banks must be taking Tanlac
too. It will fatten a bank account
as well as a person it is claimed.
If you will notice the number
of advertisements in the different
papers by the long loan companies
of plantations garnered in you
will get a good idea of the so-
called cheap money means.
Harry Garfield, son of former
President Garfield is supporting
Wilson for president. Seems that
Harry got most of the brains of
his sire and pushed Jeems off
into the comer. Harry seems to
give mighty good reasons in his
letter to Theodore Burton.
The last three days of the Fair
at Donalsonville it is said were
the biggest in the history of the
city. Visitors from all over this
section of the country taking in
the displays. Donalsonville did
herself proud on this occasion.
The newspaper’ that meddles
with a man’s religion, his pointer
dog, land line or his wife is tread
ing on dangerous grounds. Those
are four things that the freedom
of the press must let alone.
Brother Jeems Price got a job
any how so what does he care
about which way the river flows.
A gentleman from a neighbor
ing city passed through town
Friday on his way back home
and in speaking of the Donalson
ville Fair that he had just visited
‘‘it is a mighty big show for a
small town” Well, that small old
town will pull off a few more
just a bit bigger as time grows
on.
Might as well go on over and
see what that Thomasville bunch
are going to have at their fair.
They will give you a good time
over there, be a glad to see you
and make you feel at home. All
the old maids ought to be sure
and attend this fair. There is a
reason as well as a chance.
We knew what our old friend
John D. was coming along right
nicely but did not have any idea
that she had a billion. Well he
cant eat spare ribs and backbone
so what in the name of common
sense does he want with? Has to
backoff of blue stem collards
too. What use is a billion any
way?
The wise editor studies just as
hard on what not to put in the
paper as he does what to put in it.
The first proposition seems to be
constantly over looked by the in
experienced in the business. But
as time goes on they soon begin
to look well into that end of the
game.
Others can do as they like but
we are going up to Lumpkin to
that Stewart county Fair. Going
by Richland and get Brown of
the News and see if we can get
afeed of Tanlac and Taters over
there.
If a man could deceive other
folks as easily as he can deceive
himself this world would be easy
pickings sure as you live.
They say now that you can’t
put a bottle of snake bite in your
buggy or car and carry same fish
ing with you without violating
the law. Poor old law she is go
ing to get many jolts.
Circus in Albany, Fair in Donal
sonville, Barbecue in Thomasville
and not a thing stirring in Bain
bridge. The folks here want a
little amusement and we are go
ing to msurge of we dont see an
elephant soon. Seen all the
monkeys we want to but no
elephant.
The Orlando Reporter Star
gives an interesting oberservance
of what Your Uncle Thomas
Jefferson stood for. Did the Star
see him stand tor it or hear him
say it? Both Bill Bryan and Tom
Watson say they know what old
Jeff stood for but neither of
them agree.
An exchange says fat men
keep good natured. They certain
ly do. Did you ever have one to
step on your corn. Such good
nature as you display then is
magnificent.
Mr. Knott has been declared
the democratic nominee for
Governor of Florida and Mr.
Catts is liable to run independent.
If all the folks in Florida talk
like those we have met lately Mr.
Catts will win sure as shooting
as most of them believe that he
has been euchered out of his
election.
If some of the boys but knew
it there is a smoldering element
of insurgancy in this old town
that is going to flame up first
thing you know.
The Democratic party needs a
few dollars now just as they will
need votes. Give them a few
dollars along with your vote and
you are doing with your hands
cheerfully what your.heart finds
ought to be done.
They say that there is three
little baby tigers in thatRingling
circus. ’’Taint no use to talk
about it we kids aint got a
chance to see it”.
W. J. Wingate over at Meigs
is being advanced by his friends
for the place of State Game
Warden under the new admini
stration. Mr. Wingate is well
qualified for the place and will
be in the running.
The {Florida Record wants a
convention in that state. Oh me,
oh my, Bud you had better re
construct your wants unless you
want all power taken from the
people.
Thewaylthat some men will
knock the place place they live in
is a caution but it you tell them
they are doing it, they get high
ly insulted. The desire to protect
the town from knocks has de
terred us from exposing many
things that ought to be exposed.
Arthur Moore will preach here
on the 15th. We never have
legged for a parson in this column
in our lives but if you go out and
hear Arthur Moore you will be
mighty glad you want. You will
a little gospel, a little loving and
a good bit of human understand
ing, you will get warm as if you
were by the fireside of tender
sympathy. Besides the fellow
really wants you to be there.
See that two Bainbridge lawy
ers according to the press dis
patches have been allowed the
amount of 200 dollars each as a
fee in a bankruptcy case. What
will a Bainbridge lawyer do with
two hundred dollars? They will
get high ideas now sure enough,
This town is so peaceful that
most of them dont eat any meat
at all.
EVERYBODY'S
DOING IT
Every town all over the coun
try is having a fair, a barbecue,
or something of the kind but us.
Every town is bringing their
county people together for one
or two days social intercourse
but us. It must be a good plan
to get all together and have a
good time, shake hands and swap
good wishes or all the progres
sive towns in the section would
not do so, It is a good plan and
Bainbridge folks do well to fol
low suit. Of course we have
some public purse guardians who
growl and say that it takes mon
ey trom the town but it never
takes any from that kind and
they ought not to growl. The
people are better off for mixing
and mingling on a gala occasion
of some kind every year and it
does more good than the few
dollars that it might take away
from some penurious merchant
that begrudges even the dollar
that is spent with the other fel
low on the corner.
The council as a body knows
that the loosening up of the
stringent laws they have for an
occasional house warming makes
the people more willing to ob
serve those stringent laws the
balance of the year. We have
some who oppose the people
having any pleasure because they
spend money, but these same
men will spend thousands for
automobiles or bird dogs, or their
line of pleasure, but they want
such laws enforced that will keep
the people from having cheaper
and lighter pleasure.
We need a get-to-gether day,
and need it now as soon as it
can be gotten up. It does the
town good, it makes the folks
more social and lets them forget
the temporary ills of trade and
commerce. They want a little
out-let for pleasure. They ap
preciate their purse guardians
very much, but want an occas
ional holiday. Occasionally you
will hear a man that drives an
expensive auto and owns bird
dogs and guns, growls about a 15
cent show in town. He has his
fun but don’t want Bill and John
to have any at all. He will send
more money out of town for a
car than one day’s fun will carry
off from here for the entire pop
ulace. Let’s have a day of fun
before another year’s hard grind
sets in on the people. They de
serve the recreation and the hand
shaking. Bainbridge does not
have enough of this kind of do
ings to cement the farmers to us
and we all admit it privately.
With The Excha
n<
If Governor Hanis hadn’t ve
toed the Neill Primary Bill, Col
Bloodworth, as the choice oi
the people, would have been
one of the nominees for the
Court of Appeals. —Monroe Ad
vertiser. And by the way Bub
didn’t you favor that action ot
Governor Harris and did we not
see a defense of him and his
veto act in your paper. It seems
that we did. It was to prevent
the votes of the people from be
ing discounted or thrown into
the discard that we called on
the governor to put his John
Hancock to that bill and make it
a law. Failing in this the men \
who truly belived in the people
tried to pass it over his signa
ture but the weak-kneed would
not stiffen up their backs. How
ever you are eminently correct in
your surmise.
What’s become of the cpurtly
old gentleman who used to hang
out at the saloons, relate past his
tory of daring deeds and pretty
woman, and finally talk you out
of a drink.—Quitman Advertiser.
Why he is around the corner
waiting for you to come out of
the drug store to hit you for a
two bit losn. He hasn’t gone
very far off.
Judging from the foilwing
from Editor Griffin’s Bain
bridge Post-Searchlight, we
don’t that gentleman is especi
ally partial to the new “Slim
Silhouette type of a girl.
Listen at him: ‘‘They claim that
thin girls will be all the rage
this winter. Enough to make
a man rave when he gets a half
Nelson on a bean pole that
needs weather-boarding as bad
as some of the sisters we have
seen with this new rigging on.”
Walton Tribune. Fact is bub
we don’t like the shadow of any
thing. We like the simon-pure
real article. These ‘‘Silhoutte
Slims” look yery well on paper
but don’t amount to much when
you start to hug a women.
There’s going to be a bunch
of newspaper men in the next
Georgia legislature and we home
2? wil1 ««b«„,
than some of their J
P? * iseoisg
F. Stone 0 f r,
John N. Holder^
county; W. Trox' RJ
troupe county; a
of Jenkins county- d
rat Griffin, of Dec-l
Volney Williams. of
an NT L L Q ’ Stubb *. oj
-Nashville Herald
second look and m \
more brains them th a J
anywhere and why 1
they save the countj
is not a single one i n 1
that has not done mid
county than any rmJ
in. any legislature. {J
thinly settled countryi
of that bunch began
the people to come in |
build it up. Surely thj
as much as any other
agreeing to~disa,
Somebody has steppe
friend, Griffin’s < 0 f tl,
bridge Post-SearcniigJ
had his paper stopped
he did not vote like
scriber wanted him to
a little piffle headed
scriber ought to be
the insane asylum for
ing.—Richland News. St]
are a good many people
come personally offend!
are ready to stop theii
when they see some itei
they do not endorse, win
do not like the politics
editor, does not see fit
as they vote. Entirely
sight of his hundreds of
which they could cheei
dorse and regardless
good work the paper m.
done for the county an
munity, the subscriber so.
ed first thinks of puni
of the editor by stoppt
paper. Happily such ]
are few and becoming
It is impossible for a net
to please everybody a
editor is entitled to his
on any matter just so m
anyone else. Our exj
covering nearly twenty
is that a majority of peo
mire an editor who has i
even though his views n
times be at variance wil
own.—Walton Tribune.
When you come to think about
it the Thomasville Live Stock
Company are doing a good work
in this section by bringing in the
very high grade cattle they can
and selling them at reasonable
prices to the people of the section.
Of course they hope to realise
something on their efforts but it
is a big undertaking and the men
behind it deserve some consider
ation for the touch of sectional
pride displayed in their business
methods.
Now some of our people have
gotten comfortable in selling cot
ton at 16 and 17 cents per pound
and some of them have gotten
excited and are spending money
for luxuries that they cant afford.
It looks like a wise farmer would
keep the proceeds of this 17 cent
crop in the bank until he gathers
in the fruits of another 17 cent
crop and if he does not do this
he will soon be growling and
“agin the goverment” again.
It is getting nearly cane-grind
ing time. The time when all the
young boys and girls lose their
appetities and .look lonely. Cane
grindings bring on Jthe calender
more weddings than June.
It is a glorious privilege to
spend fifty or a hundred dollars
in money and many hours of
labor on getting a nice front
yard of lawn and then let a two-
dollar hog destroy it all in one
night. So decidedly conducivejto
a good disposition. Then some
fellow wants to leave the word
“damn” out of the dictionary.
But he had not thought of this
matter.
Bainbridge is going to have
another _ 10 cent store. All the
printers are very happy as this
will make two that does business
in their figures. The editor is
waiting for the 5 cent store to
come in ere his time comes. We
all have a day you know.
Everybody that can will visit
Cairo during the Grady Day they
are to have over there shortly.
They are our children over there
and home folks are all due to
pay them a visit. If Dave Wil
liams will lead us to that fried
chicken native to Grady county
we will be there in person and
appetite.
Notice where the Miller County
Liberal desires our services and
that of Roy Powell of Arlington
-in a Punch and Judy Convention
or something on that order. If
we cant show them more interest
ing stunts than that in the event
they furnish the neccessities we
will call off the dogs. With a few
blue stem collards and a hog jowl
of the right proportion we will
pull off of a few new ones that
the Miller County writer never
saw.
The Bloodworth boys of Forsy
the ought to keep in mind the
names of the delegates that be
trayed their father at the con
vention. Good waiting on their
parts will enable them hand
back with interest and at the
same time do the party some
good. If they are not sore they
are better boys that the writer
would be under the same deal.
Now let Bainbridge see if she
cant give the people a little whole
some amusement of some kind.
All work and no play makes
Jack a mighty dull boy. The
floods and weevil have depressed
the people and a little meriment
will act as a tonic to them. Let
them have some thing that will
take their minds off the calamities
of the country for a while.
Kansas girls have orgainzed
into a club that will refuse to
spoon in the automobiles. They
are wise, in fact the wisest thing
that has yet come outjon Kansas.
When the girls all refuse to
spoon in them their condition
and chance |for safety will rise
one thousand per cent. Some
girls are foolish enough to take
auto rides with a man they would
not let see them in their own
homes.
Mayor Pierpont of Savannah
seems to maintain his political
integrity and sublime honesty by
exacting fifteen per cent of the
city officials for his slush fund
If he is not guilty Sheftall ought
to go to the penitentiary. The
Mayor had better take his slush
fund from the dives and bawdy
houses than to extort by fear of
dismissal the wage of an honest
laborer. This is the saint that
many fell down and worshipped
last summer.
Last year and the year previ
ous the socio-populistic element
in this section blamed Wilson for
low priced cotton because he
was in office. We want these
bellyachers to be fair now and
give him credit for 17 cents cot
ton as he is still in office. In try-
to discuss the matter with them
2 years ago they blamed him
with it all, now you old skinflint
come across and be a man and
give him credit for the high price.
As a matter of fact his being in
office had nothing to do with
either but you made the proposi
tion and you ought to be men
enough to live up to your own
yard stick. j
Calomel Saliv
and Makes Y(
Sick
Acts like dynamite
sluggish liver and
loose a day’s worl
There’s no reason why
son should take sickening
vating calomel when 50
buys a large bottle of Doi
Liver Tone—a perfect sub!
for calomel.
It is a pleasant, vegi
liquid which will start your
just as surely as calomel,
does not make you sick and
not salivate.
Children and grown folks
take Dodson’s Liver To®
cause it is perfectly harrow
Calomel is a dangerous
It is mercury and attacks
banes. Tj&ke a dose of
calomel today and you *'■
weak sick, and nausea
morrow. _ ,
Dont loose a day s worn
a spoonful of Dodson s
Tone instead and you will
up feeling gaeat. N°®® •
ousness, constipation,
ness, headaches, coated *■
or sour stomach. Your
says if you don’t find
Liver Tone acts better
horrible calomel your mo-
waiting for you.
Call 237 and give me aH
all I ask. I only do one e .
Cleaning, Pressing and AW
and that is the best. r p,
preciate your work. r> - ,
ton. Always at the sa 1
157 Broad St.