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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. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR 11.00 SIX MONTHS 60c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. 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.