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A /f; 7 HE POST - SEAECH LIGHT ■MR 2. NO. 30. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY OCTOBER 19. 1916 $1.00 PER YEAR L. ES III HTIANT1 taken to Sanitarium L e re from Home in [ham for Treatment- [ e of Georgia’s Wealth- |t Citizens. OF FIFTH Y MEETING HT The Following is a program of the meeting to be held at Pil grim’s Rest Church Oct. 27, 28 and 29, 1916. |n.~ ham, Ga., Oct. 16.—The of Mr. J. L. Hand in Atlanta ay night came as a great , Pelham and this entire of country, in the up- of which he has been prominent. None of the rises with which Mr. Hand connected was opened tor jss this morning, and all business houses in the city at S:30 this morning for tire day. tically every citizen of Pel- ,nd several hundred from iuntry were ac the station orning when the body ar- from Atlanta at 9 o’clock, as accompanied by Mrs. Dr. T. P. Hinman and of Atlanta; [Mr. and Mrs. Corrigan, of Atlanta and nd Mrs. J. L. Hand, Jr., of rnia. Mrs. Hinman and Corrigan are daughters r. J. L. Hand, Jr. is a son, the first wife of the deceas- sides these nine children second wife, all of Pelham, e him. honorary escort of Pelham who went to Atlanta FRIDAY MORNING. 11:30 Devotional Service—B. F. Phillips. 11:00 Sermon—Rev. W. F. Cato. FRIDAY AFTERNOON 2:00 The duty of the pastor to the church—P. D. Rich and N. L. Stapleton. SATURDAY MORNING 9:00 Devotional Services—T. L. Steadham. 10:00 Evangelism—Rev. Ira Martin. 11:00 Sermon— Rev. H. H. Shell. AFTERNOON 2:00 “Ministers Devotional Life”—W. C. Underwood and A. J. McLeod. SUNDAY MORNIMG 9:40 Devotional S e r v i c e s— Rev. T. A. Cumbie 11:00 Church members and the Sunday School—H. B. Har rell. 11:00 Sermon — Rev. N. G. Christopher and singing Sunday afternoon. day also accompanied the home. This party included . M. Hurst, Sr., manager of j and Trading Co.; Messrs. McDonald, J. W. Parker,: Twitty, C. J. Hurst, B. U. j and Dr. D. A. Spence, of Pelham. | body was carried to the nee, where it lay in state ighout the day. The white viewed the remains dur- ie hours from 10:30 to 1, which the colored citizens, al hundred of whom con- ted about the home were an opportunity to take a >ok upon thk face of their ted friend. r dray loads of floral tributes ? which was one from the A. Releasing Commission, ich Mr. Hand was a mem- accompanied the. body from ta. T. Hand came to Pelham in land was 66 years of age at pme of his death. It was due pt entirely to his activities pis keen business ability that was built to its present Jrtance. At the time of his 1 he was president of the f Trading Co., the Farmers’ of Pelham, the Pelham facturing Co., (cotton mill); Pelham Phosphate Co., the lam Oil an( ] Fertilizer Co., fhe 1 hnt River & Northestern F°ad Co. He was also largely jested in a number of outside Irprises. |t- Hand was the first mayor felham, and was [a member of I c >ty council continuously last February, when his Mr. Thomas Dixon has arrang ed with the lacal theatre present ing “The Fall of a Nation” in this city to extend to all scholars of the public schools the courtesy of attending the afternoon per formance at fifty per cent of the regular price for best seats. This means that any student may at tend the Matmee performance, securing choice reserved $1.00 seats for 50c. At the school there will be distributed orders on the local manager for seats on these terms. Owing to the tremendeous crowds that attend the two performances ot 1 ‘The Fall of a Nation”, the school children are requested to reserve seats for Matinee a t which time the rebate orders will be honored. CITV. TAX BOOHS OPEN The city tax books are now open and the citizens can come and pay their taxes. Attention is called to this important matter. T. J. Morris, Treasurer. Mrs. Hagerman and son of Appalachicola are in the city, the guests of Mrs. Will Russell. 1 Spired and he decided to l0r re-election. Upon his 1 m ent he was presented a l0me loving cup by the 1 ° ers of the council. •p department store of the “Trading Co., recently com-; ■ ■ is one of the many monu- that stand to his memory. 1 ,ne °f the largest stores and "' omes t buildings of its kind I Mrgia. f funeral will be held at the! etlce this afternoon at 3' followed by interment in ! L . will be conducted by Rev. J. P. Lee, pastor of the Firat Baptist church, and Rev. C. M. Weeks, pastor | of the First Methodist chutch. The services will be held on the spacious front porch of the residence, those attending be ing congregated on the lawn. The pall-bearers will be as fol lows: Messrs. W. C. Twitty, J. M. Hurst, Sr., H. McDonald, J. W. Parker, B. U. Curry and R. L. Goodson. An honorary escort will consist of the followings: Messrs. J. N. Carter of Meigs; S. B. Brown, of Albany: F. M. Smith and James Watt, of Thomasville; F. R. Pid- cock, of Moultrie and S. S. Ben- net, of Albany. A second honorary'escort will be composed of Mr. Hand’s office force the superintendents of the cotton mill, oil mill, Pelham Phosphate Co., and Mr. Hand’s Mr. Subscriber If you have not paid your subscription for next year we wish to warn you that you will save money by doing so now. The excessive cost of paper is familair to all readers of news papers and on January 1st. we will be compelled to raise the price of Subscription to $1.50 per year if not before then as paper continues to rise. If your subscription is paid now in advance for another year you just save that much but if not you will have to pay the advance. The Post-Searchlight does not wish to raise the price unexpectedly and we are giving this warn ing so that you can protect yourself for the coming year. On January 1st. the subscription to all standard weeklies of the state will ad vance. NOW is the time to guard againt the increase in rates. Pay one year in advance, save 50 cents or perhaps one dollar. Do it NOW. “THE FALL OF A NATION” HERE OCTOBER 27 Thomas Dixon, author of “The Birth of a Nation,” just released to the entire United States his sequel to the former work which he calls “The Fall of A Nation.” On the music side he has had the collaboration of Victor Herbert is the first of the the prominent composers to write a complete original score for a picture spectacle. The musical accompani ment will be performed by a large orchestra. In writing and staging “The Fall of a Nation,” Thomas Dixon has kept particularly in view the world struggle between Demo cracy and Imperialism as it af fects the United States. After a prologue exemplifying the for eign immigrants’ debt of grati tude to the Union, the play pro per opens with the scenes of political conflict preceding the great conspiracy against the life of the Republic. John Varsar’s National Defense Bill is defeated in Congress. Virgina Holland, though admiring his pluck, spurns his principles and en courages Charles Waldron, the professed friend of Peace. Practically without warning the storm breaks over New York when 20,000 aliens of European military training rise at Wal dron’s signal, capture the Nation al Guard armories overnight, and train the big guns on New York’s unarmed citizenry. A wild exodus ensues to Long Island where an American army is hastily raised. But while this is taking place the powerful fleet of the Confedera- ot Northern Europe has met and defeated the Atlantic squadron. The convoyed Imperial army, 150,000 strong, effects a landing ana in a three days battle routs the Americans utterly. Waldron puts on regal uniform and is hailed viceroy of the “Provinces of North America.” The well-populated part of the country is captured by the foreign legions. Vassar is a fugitive in the West. Waldron sends forth Virginia on the mission ot enrol ling her American sisters in the “Woman’s Imperial Legion of Honor.” The final scenes of the play show Virginia as of the stuff of Joan of Arc. Professing to fulfill the viceroy’s mission, she or ganizes a giganic counterplot to free the enslaved Union. Allied with John Vassar, General Hood and the other American leaders, she atones for her former folly by risking life and honor for the cause of Freedom. Here are IE TO BE IE NEXT SUM The following telegram from Mr. Henry Maddox will explain | itselt. Rev. Arthur Moore was expected here last Sunday and failing to come because of rea sons that he could not help. Mr. ; Maddox sends the editor this I telegram for he well knows that most all the people of this county that can will here to hear Mr. Moore if they know he is to be here. Jesup, Ga., Oct. 1916. E. H. Griffin, Bainbridge, Ga. Have had personal interview with Arthur Moore he will sure ly preach at Methodist church in Bainbridge, next Sunday morn ing. Give prominenceJto this in this weeks issue sure. H. J. Maddox PASSES BAD TRADE IS CHARGE AGAINST ARLINGTON Whighnm, Oct 16—George Arl ington has been arrested by Deputy Sheriff J. F. Knight for passing counterfeit trade checks on the Boyd Lumber Company. When arrested $35 worth of the bogus checks were found under the seat of the buggy in which Arlington was leaving the mill quarters. They are aluminum checks good only for merchan dise at the store of the company and are such good imitations of the original that they have been on the store and also on out siders at a discount, amounting to several hundred dollars. The counterfeiting has been going on for several weeks, but was not until Saturday night that officers had sufficieut proof to actually justify the arrest. Jim Swain, a negro, with some of the bogus checks in his pro session, was also arrested. Swain disclaims any knowledge other than the checks were per fectly good. Arlington refuses to discuss the matter. Com mitment trial is set for Monday morning. Arlington is an itinerant watch anp clock repairer and claims to have traveled all over the United States and Mexico. Macon Telegraph. JAPANESE NOVELTIES T Local Board of Trustees Will Put Into Yeomans School Book Provisions as Soon as Possible. CLASS ENTERTAINAAENT The Philathea Class will give a Birthday entertainment at the First Baptist Church Friday evening, Oct. 20th, at 7:45. Af ter a short program will be a social hour. Everyone, and especially the adult classes of all the Sunday Schools, is in vited. A free will offering will be taken at the close of the program. The many friends in the city of the Rt. Rev. F. F. Reese, D. D., Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Georgia will be glad to know that the Bishop will be here for I the meeting of the Archdeaconry I of Albany on Nov. 14-16th and will also preach and administer ' the Rite of Confirmation, Sun day night, Nov. 19th. The Bis hop has many friends in this city who are always glad of the opportunity to hear him. The Ladies Guild of the Epis copal Church will have a large assortment of Japanese Articles and Novelties on sale at Mills’ Pharmacy next Friday after noon, October 20th. This sale is for the benefit of the Organ Fund and it is hoped that the patronage will be large. These goods are imported direct from Japan by the Japanese Art Company of Chicago, and the Ladies Guild will have quite a large assort ment on display this week. This will afford a splendid opportunity to the people of Bainbridge to get many of their Christmas Presents at reasonable prices. Come and see the Display even if you don’t want to purchase anything. GHOLSON-STAGY ■fat Vespers, where an entire popula tion rises to exterminate foreign usurpers. Conspicuous in the dreadful yet glorious day are the Daughters of Jael, an oath-bound band of women-patriots. The story as a whole brings in many extradordinary types of the polyglot, nationalities of which America is composed. Besides the big army of super numeraries, a very large cast of principals was employed, some of the more important be ing Arthur Shirley, Lorraine, Huling, Percy Standing, C. E. Geldert, Philip Gastrock, Paul Willis, Flora MacDonald, Leila Frost, Edna Mae Wilson, Mild red Bracken, Clarence G. Barr, The marriage of Miss Mary Elizabeth Gholson of Savannah I and Mr. Henry Grady Stacy of j Flemmington, Ga., Sunday after- |noon was an item of much interest to their many friends. The happy young couple left for St. Ausustine and other points in Florida after which they will return to their future home in Flemmington. Mr. Stacy is a young business man of that place. The bride is the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Gholson and has made many friends in Savannah who wish them much happiness. NEW LAW FIRM IN ATLANTA The friends of Mr. Jim Wade Talbert of Atlanta, but formerly of Bainbridge will learn with pleasure of the formation of the law firm as below announc ed this past week. James W. Austin, John- A. Boykin and James W. -Talbert announce the formation of a partership for- the general prac tice of law under the firm name Prof. Thomason states to the Post-Searchlight that the school trustees will immediately take into investigation the proposition of the trustees buying and fur nishing the school books as per the law just passed known as the Yeomans bill. There is grave dissatisfaction over the way the book proposition has been manag ed this year and if the trustees do this it will do away with a lot of unneccesary confusion about the book business. Under the new law books will be furnished free to the smaller grades as far money goes and arrangements will be perfected whereby the other books can be handled bet ter. We dont propose to charge any one with the fault but if the citizens of Bainbridge have to go through with any more such con fusion on the book business as has been this fall there will be open rebellion as well as much profanity. We know that the folks have kicked until they have been sore enough to mail quite a number of communications to this paper which we held up simply because we did not want the outside world know that we had such a racket going on in our school affairs. This move ment on the part of the trustees if carried out as suggested by the superintendent will better mat ters wonderfully and we hone to see that day [at hand and that quick. OF THE COUNTY AT FAIR The following colored people of this county were winners of prizes at the Southwest Georgia Colored Fair at Albany last week. Quite a number of them carried stuff up to Albany and these were the lucky winners. Agent, Mabel Cox. Ada Emanuel — Embroidered dress, second prize. $1. Phillis Emanual—Embroidered dress, first prize, $2. Ellen Williamson— embroider ed child’s dress, first prize, $1.50. Ruby Patterson — crocheted slippers, first prize $1; drawn work centerpiece, second prize, $1. Gladys Harp— “A. B. C.” quilt first prize $2. Mellissa Cullen— one jar pre served pears, first prize, 75c; 1 quart canned blackberries, fust prize 75c. S. Mitchell— 1 quart canned peaches, second prize, 50c; one quart canned pears, first prize, 75c. EPISCOPAL CHURCH The regular services will be conducted in this Church next Sunday as follows: 10:00 A. M. Sunday School. 11:00 A. M. morning prayer and sermon. 7:30 P. M. evening prayer and sermon. The people of the community are cordially invited to attend all services. Seats for “Fall of a Nation" 1