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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
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OFFICIAL OttOAN OK TIIK <Tl V
OF .BAINIilUDOK AND DKCATt R
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
Well, we “aint not got no
fair” nor a circus but we got a
lire truck to look at any way.
It is said that every time an old
maid strokes a cat on the back
she imagines that she is getting
a kiss. Kitty, poor kitty.
When a man writes a story of
his own death by suicide, then
goes out and kills himself it is
carrying the joke too far.
Say bob; do you know of any
man that will trade an overcoat
for a well worn B. V. D. outfit.
•Just asking for a friend of mine.
They say that Hughes wanfs a
good man elected president. Well
why dont he vote for Wilson and
insure the election of the best in
the batch.
Mother England gets a hunch
in the ribs every once in a while
that wakes her up and makes
her take notice of Germany’s
navy.
Sixteen cents cotton seems to
be a big booster for Ford Cars.
One Ford means two good mules
less on the farm. Will it work
well?
‘‘Whilom in Albion” there
dwelt a youth named Randolph
Rose. Oh what’s the use now of
going any further, he is selling
buttermilk.
Say bi/b; has the pig eaten up
your yard ? is the way our citizens
greet each other every morning
now. A salutation used in meet
ing each other at the Post Office.
Of course Cliff Walker being a
trained lawyer cant render as
good an opinion on a legal ques
tion as Bishop Keiley but we can
manage to get along with Cliff
on the job as attorney General.
There is always something
pathetic about a spindle shanked
woman in a short skirt on {a
windy day. They seem as it they
have just found out that tney are
in the wrong pew.
A goat in cold storage in
Savannah last week was one of
tne novelties of the time. Our
goat has been in a pickle several
times and we did not blow up
with pride about it at all.
The more one thinks about the
deal that Col. Bloodworth got in
that state convention, the more
disgusted one gets with the con
vention method of nominations.
The convention is doomed.
Lady got as mad as a wet hen
with us last week and said that
she never would read our old
paper again. How thankful her
neighbor must be for ihe old hen
had never subscribed for it or
spent one nickle with it Maybe
the lady across the street can
read hers in peace now. She has
been paying for it but never had
much chance to read it.
Governor Harris’ threat to tell
the people about Dorsey if made
will be love’s labor lost. The
people evidently know Dorsey
well, well enough to have elected
him governor over said uncle
Nat.
The whiskers of Sir Charles
Hughes are Ipretty close to the
first and the most comprehensive
trimming the will ever get on the
First Tuesday in November.
Woodrow’s razor will be in fine
working order.
If you have not sent that dollar
do so instanter. It might get
one of the purchaseable and un
sullied votes of some doubtful
district in Indianapolis. If we
cant outbid the republicans there
we are lost.
Luther Rosser has been engag
ed to help prosecute Vason for
sticking a pin into Tom Felder.
If Luth does as well prosecuting
Vason as he did defending Frank,
Vason has a whole lot to worry
about.
One thing that we have been
unable to find out is where the
gink wants to lead us to when he
leads us away from Wilson.
What better is promised us.
Hughes himself says that Wilson
did .wrong but cant make him
say what he would do with a
bolt of lightning.
Some of our friends have re
sponded promptly to our request
for their subscription for the
coming year. Every one that
knows what economy mean^ will
take this opportunity to save
money by paying for their paper
now.
There is according to the ex
change a scarcity in gas in Ger
many. Let’s be kind and charit
able and loan them two or three
of our local gas-bags until they
can do better. Want us to name
’em?
A lady in Macon broke up her
sister’s wedding with an axe and
the preacher lit a rag. The girl
must have been going to marry
one of these tennis dudes. Dont
blame the woman, she ought to
have used a lariat.
The Donalsonville Fair and the
World’s series of baseball game
are all over and we will halve to
return to the well used custom of
talking about our neighbors
again.
We have never been able to
locate the man that smote Billy
Patterson, nor have we divined
the age of Ann but we do know
that unless you follow out the
government plan of fighting the
boll weevil vou are not going to
raise any cotton Seborn.
Every citizen can get space in
this paper at the same rate. Every
man out of the section can get it
at the same rate. The Post-
Searchlight has one rate for all
and we dont carry foreign matter
for nothing and charge the man
at home a price but it we give
an advantage it is to the home
man.
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The friends 61 prosperity will
be careful to observe the govern
ment regulations as to how to
plant cotton to avoid the boll
weevil. If every man will act as
advised the weevil can be handled
very easy. Non-attention to ex
pert advice is often a costly
vitrue.
The most despicable skunk in
the world is a man or woman
that will mail an unsigned com
munication to a paper attacking
some other person and have not
the nerve to sign their name. We
have often told folks that we
would not publish any such rot
hut some seem to think that it
will be done.
One of the largest advertisers |
in the country picked this paper
as one of the best six weeklies in
the state to place a contract with.
The compliment was highly ap
preciated as was the contract.
One of the largest, in fact the
largest advertising contract that
we have ever had.
The Evans who fleeced several
dozens of Grady county farmers
out of money on the fake Indian
claim business has gotten fifteen
yeras. We know some guys that
if he could fleece he would de
serve a crown and two harps.
Brown of the Richland News
has figured it out thusly. Ac
cording to the price that Dr.
Hardman pays for a campaign in
490 years, 11 months and 29 days
more he will be financially able
to run for coroner. When the
time comes to run we “shore are
gwine to vote for him”.
Local merchant hailed us a few
days ago and asked us to open
up a campaign againsc the mail
order business and while engag
ed in the conversation with him
saw a bunch of out of town
stationery laying on his desk.
With this inspiration everybody
knows that we ought to just for
his special benefit.
We got so mad a few days ago
watching a man trying to drive
a pair of mules into a place that
he could lead them that we had
to just leave and go around
and get E. J. to play the grafo-
nola for us a short time to get
back together. Music soothes a
mad man as well as a mule.
The Farmer that fails to ob
serve the ruling of the govern
ment on the boll weevil proposi
tion is going to find it hard to
get credit this spring and he
ought to begin right now to tear
down and destroy his stalks.
Roscoe Luke is going to have
500 good looking Thomas county
girls serve that Barbecue over
there. Why the thunder did’nt
the fellow run for Governor or
President or some big job sure
enough it he had this up his
sleeve.
The Scare has been taken out
of the boll weevil talk and turned
into of the saddest realities this
county ever «aw. Our triends
over in east Georgia that still
think it talk wNl spend good
money and get good sound ad
vice to come over here and see
what he means.
They triedVason for sticking
a knife under the fifth rib of T.
Bosh Felder and made a big
booger over it. If that puncture
let some of the dirty rascality
out of T. Bosh’s hide they ought
to pay the man something in
stead of try him. Doing the
country a service as well as
Bosh.
Now in the event that we do
get a circus here we wish to ask
permission to let the city’s
elephant (the fire Truck) parade
along side of the circus elephant
and lead the parade. [Twould be
so edifying. A true and living
example of municipal economy
that will handed down to future
generations.
Every smart guy in the para
graph business tries to marry
Jack Howell ot the Cuthbert
Leader off. Leave him alone boys,
leave him alone. Meat is too high
and cotton getting scarce. Ease
up on him and let him build his
own fires this winter anyway.
The Hon. T. Watson ought to
run for President with the Bull
Moosers and let all see just what
he will do in his native state. He
ran once in the interest of the
Republicans and might as well do
it again if they will come on with
the same per. Everybody will be
pleased if he will just bring the
( per this way.
Colonel Orville Hall, Atlanta
handsomest officer on dress
parade occasions seems to be
some pretty tyrant. When he
can cast the vote of the entire re
giment for a new officer he jugs
the majors that oppose him.
Hall is asparently a flop-eared
dandy rather than a soldier. If
a man went out to shoot a soldier
and met Hall he would never
cock his gun.
A college prfessor jam full of
new and “progressive isms” has
just found out that Alcohol is the
best fuel. Bill Sikes contended
that a hundred years ago. These
highfaluting professors do give
you the bellyache when they are
trying to play smart and get up
something new. They get so
afraid that you will not know
they have been “eddicated” that
they must blow off or bust.
The Post-Searchlight is all home
print paper. It puts one thousand
dollars per month into the chan-
nells of trade in Bainbridge by
pay-roll and expense. Is it a
help to the merchants or not? Is
it worthy of your strongest sup
port or not? You are giving it your
strongest support and we only
mention this to let you know that
every cent you spend with it goes
right back into the channels of
trade.
Fellow from Schley county
named J. B. Smith embezelled a
whole lot of money and went off
with another woman after being
the Tax Collector of the county.
We knew this gink when he was
school teacher and class leader
and it did not look right then but
it could pray so darn loud that
our advice to the community
could not be heard. Now he gets
two years in the pen for stealing
everything in sight.
There is no question at all bub,
this feei-ball business dont pan
out well for the Bainbridge bunch.
They did not do much in their
last outing. A boy has got to eat
hog jowl and collard greens to
muster up the muscle up the
muscle necessary to perform
well in a foot ball game. A little
corn bread goes a sight further
in a game like that than a Pied
mont cigarette.
The Hon. Jonathan Doolittle
will soon ‘‘nounce for the Jestis
of the peace” at the urgent re
quest of many friends. This very
important and much maligned
job will soon be filled and our
very habit of not taking the job
serious is responsible for inferior
men getting in the job and using
it to oppress others. That is one
of the reasons that so little in
the way of fair [results ever ac
crues from the existence of the
office.
Moultrie is blowing around
about her new fame. A barn
yard full of hens got drunk and
cut up. That’s no big thing, we
have seen several old hens with
dresses on with a load aboard
that would sink a sub marine
right here in Bainbridge but we
made no blowing horn of it.
Some people are mighty easy
when it comes to fame anyway.
These hens we mention spoke
plain English and could ask for
another drink with human in
telligence.
We have seen newspaper fight
a man, seen them oppese a man
but never have we seen such
time, space, vituperation and
abuse used by any paper to fight
a man as has the Tallahassee Re
cord used in fighting Catts. Men
as experienced in the game as the
editors of the Record ought to
know that they aie making a
martyr out of the man and doing
him far more good than they are
harm and making votes for him
every day and every time they
use such bitter and vieious bil-
lingsate in referring to him. A
campaign of abuse in this state
once elected the man abused by
an overwhelming majority.
Doctor Ainsworth of Macon is
trying to stick his finger in the'
eyes of the editor of the Tele
graph by setting out this kind of
a doctrine. It dont make any dif
ference what kind of a bull a
parson makes, he must not be at
all criticised but same parson can
lambast everything under the
sun that he sees and wants to.
Doc ought not try to come that
game on the public for it wont
stick.
The eight wonders ot Georgia.
Dick Russell out of a job, Bain-
bridge’s fire truck at a fair in
Thomasville, Rosco Luke bossing
five hundred girls at a barbecue,
A Donalsonville man praising
Bainbridge, A Bainbridge man
praising Donalsonville, Perry
Rich and his long tailed coat at a
singing convention, Cebe Scott
too busy to rag the boys on
politics, Home made Decatur
county liquor, These eight are
enough to make any one wonder.
This paper went deep into debt
buying reserve stock of paper to
keep from having to raise the
price of subscription. Loading
itself with a heavy and hard
burden to take care ot the read
ers and it begins to look like that
bit of foresight will not avail for
the scarcity gets more evident
and the paper panic seems longer
lived than we thought. Pay for
your paper this fall while you
can and save the difference in
the advance that is coming as
sure as shooting.
out Mr. Rambler.
preaches his far^l
and he wi)l shoot yo f 1
holes and dont care mil
how close he stick; to rt
and then leave
ing and you are left lookinl
In spite otahtftj
medicine he gives you, yo ]
like him though for he nJ
be a lovable fellow. ™
A town school teacher!
wonderful limitation
Their lordly air and Won l
conceit completely 0 v e ,avJ
bulldozes an humble tax H
They are the masters J
people and not servants!
most folks that draw J
money. Any citizen that!
see all virtue in their i sm l
foolish ideas of progressij
guilty of lese maieste,
going to be a rattling 0 I
bones in this school busine]
fore many moons that will!
some ol the towns we know!
center to circumference. 1
ago educational teaching |i
and walked hand in hand |
common sense but our new L
have no patience with tha
of common sense. They
and jeer at the old fash!
ideas that made the men!
made this country, hoot al
traditions of the country, anl
together they have about g<|
ire of the old fashioned taxp
aroused to the point tha
wants to know why he canll
something besides theory:
money.
They said that the Governor
was and he said he was not ‘‘sore
with Mr. Dorsey” the governor
elect. Well if a man had beat the
very filling out of us like Hugh
did uncle Nat we know darn well
we would not send him any love
ditties or chocolate drops. Turn
ing the other cheek reads mighty
fine on paper but we find the
practice looks a little foolish to
the off ox. A soft answer may
turn away wrath but it is too late
to talk sugar when the eye has
been knocked out.
Oh yea doubters and scoffers
at the boll weevil [you will soon
be on the anxious bench. You
will soon wish to gently shoot
with a 16 inch cannon the gink
that told you that the Boll weevil
was a scare or a game gotten up
to sell special cotton seed. You
will want to wallop with a fence
rail the man that preached that
he was’nt coming and when he
did come he would do no harm.
People of Georgia, harken unto
advice and prepare to take care
of yourselves against his coming
for he is as sure to come as
washerwomen come on Saturday
afternoon for her money, yea as
sure as death or taxes. This
paper wishes that it had some
way to let our fellow citizens in
other counties that have not been
visited yet see and know of the
havoc that he wrought in this
county. We hope that every ex
change we have will repeat our
warning to the people of the
state so that they might be saved
dire distress and great loss. We
want every paper to tell their
people to listen to no man that
makes light of his destruction
but get ready as best they can
for him. We have met; him face
to face and we know whereof
we speak.
Thank Goodness we are safe at
last. The Rey. Walter Anthony
is at it again and in a volcanic
eruption in [Cordele recently he
charged that town with being
the most immoral in the world.
When said gent was here he
called us by the same name and
we are relived to find that some
other city meets hisjdisapproval.
He set out to clean us up and
left us with a two rotten factions
that we have just loved and lived
down. That was the sum of his
doings in Bainbridge. Anthony
is a good man but has two sad
faults, one his love of notoriety
and the other bis lack of judge
ment. Seems to have been quot-
Attorney General Walker!
that the school laws of the
have been violated by the s
authorities in Savannah and|
the Catholics have been
considerations denied tothej
denominations and that an i
on their parts to join church)
state is apparent. The factfl
put out Mr. Walker are
different from those that
advanced by the authoritid
the schools. Well watch bil
Keiley, the notorious blaitherl
who blackgaurds every one [
does not agree with him a|
Walker and charge him
ignorance. This old hellionj
propriates to himself all
brains of this state and wheij
governing bodies disregard |
you can hear him yell from
to.Beersheba. This matter bij
out only another reason why|
institutions should be subje
inspection. Keiley and his
have no more right to violate]
law than a bunch of race
and the sooner he learns it |
better.
Ever Salivated b|
Calomel? Horrib|
Calomel is quicksilver i
acts like dynamite
on your liver
Calomel loses youja day!
know what calomel is. It s
cury; quicksilver. Calome
dangerous. It crashes into
bile like dynamite, cramping
sickening you. Calomel at
the bones and should neve
taken into your system.
When you feel bilicus, slug
constipated and all knocked
and believe you need a dose
dangerous calomel just remen
that your druggist sells fo
cents a large bottle ot bods
Liver Tone, which is c ntl
vegetable and plesant to 1
and is a perfect substitute
calomel. It is gauranteed tos
your liver without stirring
up inside, and can not sain
Don’t take calomel! It nm
you sick the next day: it
you a day,s work. Dod*
Liver Tone straightens you
and you feel great. Gi ve 1
the children because it i ?
fectly harmless and does
gripe.
Harvard’s pressing cluo . f?
antees all work to satisfy
Phone 373.