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OFFICIAL O ltd AN OK TUB CI'l V
OF HAINBBlDflK AM) IlBCATCR
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
Published Every Thursday
Bainbridge, Georgia.
What makes the wild cat wild?
Well, if we cant have a circus
we ought to have a game of
marbles anyway.
“Carrying coal to Newcastle”
was not as an expensive past time
when that adage was coined as it
is now to carry coal anywhere.
Radium cost one hundred thous
and dollars a gram. We cant get
along with less than a pound so
why figure on it?
Snow in Illinois this week,
Just a forerunner of the storm of
Wilson ballots that are to fall in
less than a month in that state.
Have not been able to trade
off the summer underwear for an
overcoat it means that the ten
cent stores are in line for a
customer.
Had a drum and bugle corps
here last week but that dont take
the place of a brass band and an
elephant. Just got to have them,
that’s all.
It is freely predicted that we
to have some warm politics two
years from now. The last dose
was so expensive that we thought
the boys would desist a little bit.
If the folks would stop and
figure on just what joy there was
in a real old fashioned possum
and tater dinner they would quit
wanting high powered automo
biles.
Not meaning to cast any reflec
tions on any one but we would
like to why the sale of soap so
sadly decrease right after the
first cold snap. It is not a sug
gestion either but a fact.
Sometimes a call down does a
public servant good, it lets them
know that they are not all the
cheese. It has to be done often
with some that we know that are
not elective.
Well now it is not long before
wc will know what Wilson’s
majority is and what states he
did not carry. It is safe to as
sume that he carried most of
them but he might miss a few.
John Boifeuillet, Macon’s Own,
left this week for London to be
gone until next summer. England
may have her royal bloods and
all that but in all her blue book
she dont list a prince of John’s
class. They dont grow 'em.
The rains descended but too
late to do the “taters” and cane
much good this time, although
the garden proposition is looking
up now. Our neighbor has a
good one and while we dont know
how much good that will do us,
still we are glad he has one. We
can live out of tin cans and paper
bags but we are not pop-eyed
about it. Kind of a case of being
used to it
Watson intimates that the Pro
gressives nominated him first in
stead of Teddy that he would
have accepted. We sure are
sorry that they did not do it for
we would like to see Tom allied
with somebody long enough for
him to get a torch.
Paper has gotten so costly that
we learri that the government is
not going to make any more
money out of paper, They are
going to use something very
much cheaper, frankincense and
myrrh and “sich” as that.
It is a funny thing that some
people will never forgive you if
you make a success out of your
business. They get real sore be
cause you have robbed them of
the chance to abuse you for a
failure. That’s our experience
with some that we know.
Luck is a funny thing after all.
Know a fellow that would not
hire an office boy because they
made too much noise. Got a girl
and by jinks she was a “whistl
ing gal” and now he abuses his
luck. Well, the fellow did have
a righteous kick.
There was a bunch of new
things to happen last week. Big
lot of liquor poured out in the
streets in Savannah was one of
newest recorded. The boys down
there must all be dead or that
boose would not have been so
carelessly handled. No printers
there all is our only conclusion.
Man in Racine Wisconsin worth
fifty Thousand Dollars cuts
woods says the enormous head
lines of the dailies this week. If
there is any glory in that we
got ours for we have been cut
ting wood every since we were
ten years old never had a dime.
Dont it make you mad as the
very dickens to get your monthly
bills paid and then look up at the
calendar and see it is again about
the 25th, and only a few more
days until another first. Bub dont
it keep you busy dodging them
things, them bill collectors?
Bub says that when you get a
couple of drinks of the stuff the
tigers are selling around Bain
bridge that if you cant kill your
neighbors baby or get a preacher
to shoot you will hunt the town
over after a chance to cut the
choir leaders throats. Some stuff
that works on a fellow that way.
The Valdosta Times lias gone
to rhapsodising about sunsets.
Bud did you ever see a sun rise?
That’s much more soul-inspiring.
Try it. You can hear the birdies
sing and learn the value of labor.
Some job to get your rags on in
the early morning.
It is right funny to see some
certain fellows here in town that
have only girl babies looking in
show windows at baseballs and
footballs and such as that trying
to carry on a bluff. If they dont
quit stalling during business
hours with that kind of stuff we
are going to tell who they are.
Howell of the Cuthbert Leader
says that Fleming of the Early
county News has gone into the
millinery business. Thought he
had been in that business all the
time. Howell will find his rations
more regular if he got into it but
nobody loves a bachelor or a .fat
man.
Uncle Nat wont talk to the
Newspaper men in their official
capacity any more it is give out.
Well he cant tell Ithem anything
they dont know’ any more than
he could the folks. He did not
succeed in keeping them from
finding him out well enough to
keep 'him from being re-elected.
When a man gets to where he
dont w’ant to see the newspaper
men his political funeral is on the
program for immediate occur
rence.
South Georgia lost the place on
the W. &. A. Commission just as
we expected but Bub it was not
because we did’nt have the
material. Seems like uncle Nat
would have recalled just how
many counties he carried above
Macon when he made that ap
pointment.
Fair in Atlanta that had lived
and fought together for 28 years
tried to get a divorce a few days
ago. That old guy was getting
pretty frisky on that buttermilk
they are selling in Atlanta now
to try and break in the divorce
Court at this stage of the game.
Bub went to Albany to that
circus and not only saw the cir
cus elephant but the day after he
came home he had .a menagerie
of his own. “Them old Albany
boys" sure do handle a bum brand
of stuff on circus stays sure as
you live. Never again.
Well, there is one thing about
this women suffrage business, it
will do away w'ith the old saw
about a poor man’s luck being
“male calves and girl babies”.
The girls can sell their vote and
the demand for beef is in keep
ing with the demand for milk.
Times change and adages dont
fit long.
A bank bought a church in At
lanta. Sorry to see that many
churches are bossed by bankers
now that delight in charging
high rates of interest so they
will be able contribute liberally
to the churches. This is only
done in foreign countries though.
Bainbridge has one of the most
valuable things on earth in her
little park, and it does a fellow
good to see work being done on
it. Looks like it would be a
magnificent idea for the paths
through it to be paved through.
It is the only thing in the city
that seems to be given to the
kiddies.
■ ■ ■ -O —
Just another little snap and
then back bones and spare
ribs. The only time of the year
that we are sorry for Rocke
feller, the guy that offered a
million dollars for a new
stomach. What good will all his
money do when he has no
stomach that can take such as
this and a few blue stemcollards
along on a Saturday night.
The Greeks have about sewed
up the restaurant business, the
Irish all the police jobs, the Jews
all the clothing and what little
is left of the liquor business, the
Dutch the baker business, the
Italians the banana business and
we want to know what is left for
the Cracker to do except run the
politics of the country.
"Liquor in Autos worrying At
lanta police” says an exchange.
We thought all the time that it
was liquor in folks that gave
most of the trouble. Our first
intimation that an auto ever got
lit and killed his wife or child or
indulged in any of those little
murderous past times that a man
does lit.
Something like forty of the
best weeklies in this state and
Florida have had to put their
folks on notice that they would
be compelled to raise the subscrip
tion prices of their paper one that
sends out anything at all now is
obliged to keep in touch with the
excessivly high prices of the
stock at this time.
Several little private fights
were staged last week but no
damage was done to any of the
scrappers. The signs are right
for it and we see no reason why
any one should want to interfere
with a little private fight. Of
course if one gets public and
more than two take a hand in it,
it is time to interfere or invoke
'the ordnance against scrapping
1 without license.
Some folks despise peace and
they are never happy unless they
are ripping scabs off of old sores
and keeping the people generally
stirred up. We have some he-
gossips in Bainbridge that could
make some old hens we are ac
quainted with sit up and take
notice.
John Sharp Williams of Miss
issippi has done the party more
good than any man in it by his
wonderful speeches and marve
lous grasp of the subject matter
of the campaign. Williams is by
far the greatest statesman that
is in public life today. A mental
giant that reflects glory on the
south in every way. Some of his
speeches are literary classics.
Eating beefsteak makes men
immoral it is now. claimed and
we have at the same time learned
why we have been short in our
allowance. Rather a funny law
for right at the same table with
us sits a nine year old boy that if
his morals are to be judged by
the amount of steak he eats, he
is “sure some Don Juan”. Place
a juicy steak in front of a man
and a law on morals and see how
he will hesitate in making his
choice and how quick that beef
steak will be “et”.
The fastest man in the race
for the poor house is the poor
boob who is trying to make a
living and his wife gets social
bug in her bean. It has sent
many a poor devil to the grind
rock and we could point out a
few in this dear old town. Not a
roof over their heads and their
entire mind and soul set on play
ing at “ceeciety”. It is enough to
make the angles weep to watch
some of them.
Never did like to be a fly in
the milk but this way the Demo
crats have of asking Georgia to
put up money to spend in the
doubtful states and then after
the election they are forced to
see all the big honors and offices
go to the doubtful states to keep
them in line. It just makes us
wonder and wonder sadly, what
is our loyalty worth to us after
all. We give the doubting Thomas
all the money and all the honor
and all the job and the darn fool
keeps on doubting and no wonder
folks are beginning to think that
the doubter is the best remem
bered at the pie pot.
There are more poor crackers
in Bainbridge that try to act rich
than there is in any town in the
world. We have some folks here
that dont even own the home
they live in, nor have one months
living ahead that wont carry a
package to their own homes if it
isogiven to them. We have some
that try to do society that have
not paid their grocery bill in 3
months and the poor boobs think
that every body dont know they
are frauds and pretenses. Oc
casionally you will find a mother
that goes almost naked to let a
gum-chewing little daughter put
on pretence. The first thing any
body knows we are going to
break loose here and tell the
truth.
Alderman Laing stopped over
in Albany to see the circus Fri
day, Alderman Lane went up to
see one in the same town. Quite
a number of promienent citizens
went up but we poor devils had
to stay at home. That is just
what we are growling about now.
These fellows that can go off
and see them dont seem to care
whether us school boys see one
or not. Not exactly trying to
point a moral but there is many
a poor little school kid in town
and the county that could have
gotten as much but hardly more
pleasure out of seeing that show
than either one of the fellows
that went in a car.” Us boys”
are literally going to “hant”
these fellows until they let us see
a show too and that is all there
is to it.
warns. UP MISTER.
Mr. Citizen did you know that
more papers are suspending over
the country now than has ever
been before and that for lack of
stock? Did you know that your
county will stay in the back
ground without a paper to push
the advantages of the section and
you cant afford to ignore this
situation. But did you know that
if sit down and expect that paper
in your county to run without
subscription money that it cant
do it. The Post-Searchlight is
regarded as one of the best
weeklies in the state and it has a
large circulation but it cant keep
these just on your best wishes.
It takes a bit of your long green.
Friends in and out of the pro
fession have placed it high among
the weeklies but you must do
your part to keep it there. Mr.
Advertiser you can not reach
your trade nor keep up a paper
by running just one little adver
tisement eacn year or just when
the spirit moves you. If the
people here want a good weekly
they will have to wake up and
bear in mind that it takes money
to run a good paper and it cant
be done [on good wishes alone.
This paper now has about 2000
unpaid subscriptions expiring in
the next three months and un
less they are reneweded in ad
vance a big portion of them will
be cut off because the cost of
paper is so high and tnat we will
not be able to carry them twelve
months without the money. Just
a simple business proposition. It
paid after January 1st. they will
have to pay $1.50 but if paid now
they will be carried for the usual
$1.00. WILL YOU PAY your
subscription now and save that
extra fifty cents or are you going
to neglect it and have your paper
cut off or have to pay that $1.50?
Do you want a county paper of
this standard or not.
WITH theIm
Sometimes we soliloquise in
these columns and hit some man
or woman right betwixt the eyes
when we are only generalizing.
When we get ready to go on the
war path in dead earnest we
name the game we are after. But
otherwise when we [hear a yelp
we know that a random shot has
hit some body. For this class of
game we have only to say live in
peace with your own conscience
and it wont hit you so hard. It is
the knowledge that that the cap
fits you and you feel that you
ought to wear it, hence the howl.
We dreamed a tew nights ago
that a long legged farmer came
walking linto the office with a
fresh country ham for our use.
Just as well dreamed that we
had an automobile but it is no
harm to dream. We dreamed
about the collards the night be
fore. All that dream stuff dont
amount to any thing though.
Blumey said that he dreamed
well he did not ihave money
enough to get to Jacksonville on
nohow so what good did it do
him to dream?
BUYING US
I will buy all the hogs that you
have for sale and will pay as
good prices as you can get. Any
farmer with a bunch, small or
large that wants the best cash
price can get same by notifying
me.
G. A. Perkins. R. F. D.
Bainbridge, Ga.
boro should have 1
t0 try to prevent
auhorities keeping J
away from the
are not surprised thal
ed. Negative resultj
be expected in connj
any movement con c J
movies.—Savannah pJ
KW a K en0 u SUrpns edal
that bunch will do 0 |
ihats where that col
tor lives that said hi
know what to do J
of liquor, Such gross]
on the part of an A
cates that they W jll 1
with anything.
Somebody told^thl
that this paper wasn’J
the one published i n 1
city. That may be, J
theless the same erstwlj
flint has been beggj ng |
ing ever since we starf
ness.-Valdosta Times]
We thought that darr"
lived here. When did
to Valdosta?
An anonymous subsciL
the editor a quart bottle)
made whiskey. We do|
what to do with the
put it on the shelf
machine oil and gasoil
we can think where ell
longs. —Svvainsboro Fori
No wonder the Chrisl
ligion has such a hard til
a man will lie like that]
provocation, gain or hop]
ward in sight. As tend
we are we would not ...
such a thing at a long--
public.
HOW IT HAPPENS
Where was the exploa
why, is the big mysterj
bany just now. About!
in the morning Albania:]
awakened by a loud ex[
which is said to have]
the houses in some seen
the city, but where was]
plosion? The police imml
gave the banks and jl
stores the “once over,” b|
were all O. K. People aj
that hour said it sounds
boiler explosion or an ur|
heavy blasting charge,
one knows where or
was.
The same explosion mul
frightened off that majon
the boys up there assu
the Decatur county man}
get for Judge. Bet a nil
was one of those rusty olf
that has been buried
there for safe keeping.
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Pat Griffin deserves a
tor his love for childre
heart is just bleeding
days because the circus
slow in getting into
so that the children can s
animals. Hope he will n<
to wait much much Ion
see this boon come to the
his loved town.—Grady
Progress.
Did you ever get up
4 o’clock in the morning,
the depot and find a soft
brick bats to sit down (
watch! them unload a circ 1
you did not you are not a
of Georgia and have no i
vote. Any fellow that h
had that joyful pastime
early days won’t do to tr
high places. Now when
misses that part of his k
he has been robbed and t
all there is to it.
A Lawrenceville boy
open a post office box an
a newspaper to read,
pharetta Free Press doesn
he is much worse than
lows who refuse to subsen
their county paper but ? u
neighbor’s paper and iea
-Walton Tribune.