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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge. Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
Editor and Proprietor
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March mil, 1H!17.
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OFXtCIAI. ORtlAN OF TIIK CITV
OF BAINDKIOOK A Nil IlKCATUB
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
How soon we forget iolks and
what they do. How many of re
call that the late C. H. Caldwell
and some of the good turns he
did in a charitable way around
this place.
Fellow down in Vaidosta'claims
to have found a muskless pole
cat and we rise in our seats to
remark that we dont believe a
darn word of it and wont believe
it if we see it, so there.
It some of these fellows that
are buying autos as a result of
the high price of cotton would
invest in a few seven passenger
plows they would get better re
sults says Abe Martin land it is
pretty near true.
We told you so. 1 ' This little ex
pression covers many sides of
many subjects.
One good thing and that is we
wont have to read any more
about Catts and Knott in the
Florida papers.
Pastor Russellis dead and with
out being unkind we would like to
know where he went, if he fol
lowed some of his own teachings.
Did you hear the old song Tues
day night “Bringing in the
sheaves”? It sounded like an old
time rally for a while did’nt it?.
Notice the way that some of
our tellows are walking now,
strutting as it were. They are
eating meat, not drinking
whiskey.
The price of liquor has gone
lip in Savannah an exchange
says. We rise to ask is that
caused by under-production or
over-consumption? Either of both,
which?
There will be no joy in Thomp
son this week. The great Dis
gruntled did not have the ex
treme pleasure of seeing Georgia
turn down an old fashioned Dem
ocratic administration.
65 automobiles in front of the
Callahan Theater Thursday night
indicated that there was some in
terest in the affair pulled off by
the out of city folks.
Well we got a carnival any
how and there may be an eleph
ant in that carnival after all.
if there is not we have a tiger
to loan them anyway.
There will be more folks re
penting around here over wasting
money from 20 cent cotton than
you can count before another
crop is made.
Georgia in every way is the
most fortunate state in the union
but we have more grouches it
seems than those states that
really have a right to kick.
The community smart Aleck
will always bob up at the very
wrong time. Did you ever notice
that? He is getting busy again in
this city.
Some of the Democratic papers
over the state allowed their
columns used as channels ot at
tack on the Democratic nominees
for pay and very small pay at
that. Nothing doing around here.
Well you can look for that auto
accident here in a very few days.
It is just as sure to come as the
sun rises unless some fools we
know hold down the speed of
their cars. Bound to happen.
We thought that the Elberton
Star was a Democratic paper
but its last issue makes it look
very much like, that if not a
Republican paper it is allowing
them to hog the columns of the
paper under the guise of Progres-
Can you play a ukulele? If you
cant your social standing is in as
bad fix as the woman who does
her own house work. You cant
shine without this particular
kind of a distinction in “cee-
ciety”.
Tom Dixon wants to build a
monument to perpetuate the Ku
Klux Klan and we are of the
opinion that such a thing is not
needed as the Klan will live
in the minds ot the Southern
people.
We hope that Watson, the
daddy of truthless journalism got
his 30 pieces out of this cam
paign. It would be terrible to
think that after going back on
his people that he did not get the
pay for his perfidy.
Valdosta is to have a cleaning
up to judge from the looks of the
papers out of the city. Valdosta
has lost a generation or so of
good boys by the fact that she
has ignored certain things in her
government and we believe that
she is to wake up now.
Thomasville pulled off a big
thing of it last week and every
body that went over seemed to
have enjoyed their day to the
uttermost. That Thomasville
bunch can give you a good time
when they set out to do that
thing.
Why is it that a thin skinned
man loves to see others ragged
and joke all his friends but when
you joke him it is time for a
row. We have some ginks here
that delight in deviling other
folks but when you get after
them you hurt their feelings
something terrible.
It’s Judge Strickland now, the
tall good looking slender gentle
man with that imposing look.
Fred will make a good justice
and the boys say that it is writ
for him to have the honor. It
could not go to a more worthy
young man in all the section.
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If our styled leaders could find
as much pleasure in seeking out
the great advantages thi9 country
has over any other under the sun
and the many great privileges
that we are enjoying in this re
public as they do in hunting
things to curse about and abuse
.he country about they would be
far more busy at the latter work
than the former.
Did you ever feel sorry for the
human misfit? The fellow that
seems born to do the wrong
thing every time and a fellow
that no body at all likes. When
you know of a fellow like that in
your community and if you want
a real friend, throw that kind of
a fellow a kind word occasionally
and you have a friend that will
die by you almost. Kind words
to him are so scare that he prizes
them above everything. Hand
him a few kind words and you
make a life long friend out of
him even if he is a misfit.
The Lone Hater, the Sage of
McDuffie has gotten all the glory
that he can get and the next
time that he wants Georgia to go
against a man it will be good
political judgement for him to
favor that man and his native
county and state will sure turn
him down.
Those Georgia Democrats and
voters that went into the white
primaries of the past summer
and than voted the Republican
Ticket are welcome to all the
glory they can get. Their treason
may benefit them whatsoever
they can find.
Editor Camp of the Walton
Tribune has an attack of Con
gestion of the uniform multiplex.
We knew that something was
wrong but thought it was the old
fashioned printers colic. Wonder
if a man suffers much with that
disease as he does a wore out
drunk.
There has been some consider
able comment on the fact that a
Bainbridge man has found a
panacea for the boll weevil and
we believe that when it is fully
tested out that it will prove a
great aid to the farmers.
The Lee County Journal still
clings to the proud habit of send
ing out her single copies wrapped
in the leaves from the Congres
sional record, this brings to one
a breath of weekly journalism a
few years agone sure as you live.
The most useful thing that a
Record was ever made for.
We note that Mrs. Henry M.
Flagler is to wed again and we
are also as glad to note that the
old gal will not have to buy up a
a Florida legislature to pull off a
divorce as old Henry did when
he got her. A disgrace that the
state of Florida repukiated as
quickly as she could.
In the throng you can sort out
the man who voted the straight
democratic ticket because he will
look you straight in the eye with
a clear conscience behind that
same eye. He does not lower his
eyes in recollection of broken
primary obligations and sad
memories of a violated gentle
man’s agreement.
Fellow said to us the other
day ‘ ‘if you were to publish all
you know you would have to
leave town” and whereupon we
informed the gent that if we did
that half the folks that were
here would have to leave and
leave a darn sight faster than we
would.
Presented a fellow a bill a few
days ago and he got mad but not
mad enough to pay the bill and
then we got mad. Now if that
gink had paid spot cash for that
work there would not have been
so many folks getting mad,
while we would have been better
satisfied had said gink got mad
enough to pay that bill.
The friends of Rev. Arthur
Moore were glad co see him in
the city Saturday afternoon on
his way to Tallahassee where he
will be leading a revival this
week. Quite a number of his
Bainbridge friends have been
preparing to go down and attend
as much of his service as they
can.
The first thing anybody knows
we are line up all the kids in
town in a row and march through
town with big banners inscribed
thereon ‘‘we dont want bread,
we want a circus with a big
elephant in it” and down with
prohibitory city ordinances. See
if we dont.
The only way that Bainbridge
can ever hope to fill the place
that it was intended that she
should is Dy concentrated effort
through a trade body and one
not established to advance any
particular interest to the detri
ment of another but to aid all of
them. Such a body can be or
ganized and put through.
The Federal Trade Commis
sion has exposed the fact that
the publishers all over the
country are being gouged by the
paper manufacturers but what
is the remedy for us now? How
will their exposure help the
poor devil that has to pay the
price or else miss publishing
his paper?
A good old fashioned horse
race hasjnever lost its poyer to
thrill the native born southerner
and it will continue to thrill him
regardless of how may laws
may be passed. Any man would
rather see a horse race than an
automobile race. The auto race
lost its prestigs in a few years
but the good old horse race still
makes folks sit up and take
notice.
It is so edifying to hear a
woman growl about the high
cost of living when you know
almost that she has not swept
her own floor or made up a bed
in her home in forty months and
is wearing out a pair of high
priced shoes every month on the
pavements up town. Did you
ever hear that?
If a local newspaper spoke as
disparagingly of others peoples
business as they do of the local
paper at times because they
cant boss it there would be war
in the camp all the time. But
when we find a man big enough
fool not to know that the paper
is worth more to the community
than he is we just hold our
noses and pass on. He is dead
and dont know it.
A Poughkeepsie preacher was
unfrocked a few days ago because
he had the small sum of 8 wives
concealed about over the country
and it seems thatfgink had been
marrying them for the money
there was in the business. As a
punishment we suggest that he
be made to buy ’em all a new
fall hat at one time and a beef
steak. Put him in bankruptcy all
at once.
‘‘You failed to publish my
wife’s social in behalf of the
Belgain suffers, stop my paper”
is one of the things that we all
heEr as set out by puklishers
journal. When the fool folks
that think themselves society
folks wake up to the fact that
no one takes them serious out
of their own set they will find
out just how much a paper
regards them as an asset to the
business. We have had just
such darn foolishness as this to
contend with.
Honest now dont you feel like
reaching for a club when you
hear a woman gabbing about the
cost of keeping house when she
never stays off the streets an
hour a day and only uses her
house to sleep and eat? Dont you
want a billet when you hear one
like this kicking on the grocery
bill and she has not known for
twelve months what the cook is
buying or who she is buying for?
Enough to make anybody dis
gusted.
The Gadsden County Times of
Quincy, one of the best weeklies
in North Florida has had to raise
their subscription prices. With
paper ranging as it is the people
can not expect a first class paper
at the price they have been pay
ing. A farmer a few days ago
sold cotton at 18 1-2 cents per
pound and then had the gall to
kick on advanced price of paper.
It dont seem to have occurred to
him that cotton consumers are
paying that price for his cotton
but he does’nt want to pay any
advance on anything himself.
The good countv paper at noth
ing per year is a thing of the
, past.
The rip-rearing, hell-bust : ng
Mad Mullah of McDuffie did the
democratic party one favor this
time that he did not intend to do.
His dirty act in drawing a dead
woman’s name into a campaign
roused the white men of the
state and they turned out good
and hard and showed that he
could not make dogs out of his
fellow citizens even if he was
willing to wallow in the mire.
Quite a lot of discussion is go
ing the rounds about banks ad
vertising and we do sincerely
hope that some of the Bainbridge
banks will read that discussion
for they need it. The first con
sideration that a paper renders
in a community is to the banks,
the men that they induce to
come into a town are first bank
patrons but we find it like pulling
eye teeth to get this bunch here
to realize that. Yea, and in
squally times when the banks
get into trouble the very first
person they call on for publicity
that will tend to soothe excite
ment and keep their doors open
is the editor of the town paper
but as patrons for a paper they
are slow, very slow in this part
of the the moral vineyard.
That lean hungry looking fel
low you see with patched britch
es on and that furtive look dodg
ing around, the fellow that never
made a success out of anything
and who sat on the dry goods box
talking ‘agin’ the government
and let the grass eat up his crop,
who tries to lay at the door of
the administration all responsi
bility for his laziness and lack of
energy, that is the guy Jthat fol
lowed ‘‘the gutless wretch” of
Thompson in to treason against
his own people. If cotton was a
dollar a pound and corn five dol
lars per bushel he would have
neither to sell because he wont
work and make some and wants
a living without staining his
hands. We have too many of
that kind now. If they were
made to work they would find
less to growl about.
The Jeffersonian arrived in
Bainbridge Sunday morning and
its front gage was again smeared
with a dirty reference to the
grave ot Mrs. Wilson and the
president. The Dog ot McDuffie
has bayed again and every de
cent man in the state is ashamed
that he calls himself a Georgian.
In the days of carpet-bagging
and scalawagism there was
never one of those that went so
low that he would drag the name
of a dead woman in a political
campaign and it is nauseating to
think that at this late day it was
the misfortune of this state to
produce such a thing. A man
with the first pretensions to de
cency and manhood would not
do such a thing and self-respect
ing person will not uphold such
conduct. Mr. Watson may be a
tin-jesus in the eyes of some but
he looks just like any other
ruffian that would rob a grave to
us. No man, not one on earth
could stoop this low and retain
his own self respect to say noth-
oi any one respecting him.
People can be fair if they want
to. If a negro with a large family
thinks that he can get enough to
feed them on in the north who
can blame his move. He most
certainly cant work for $1 per
day and feed them in this country
now. We may need his labor
ever so much and object! to his
going but the fact still remains
that he cant live at present
prices of rations on the pay that
he receives and after all the
average farmer cant give any
more. THIS QUESTION NEEDS
STUDY more than it does feel
ing or abuse. What can you do?
You surely would not blame a
negro for wanting to eat, even
an animal has that right but can
he eat if he has a family on one
dollar per day at the price he has
to pay now for groceries?
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Found ation'’
Hundred” and all
classics What bec am |
organist?
Bishop Keiley 9ays
Veazy bill will not hold
2!f““ rt8 - Bish ought.
But the right of sea ,
man s private home f or
has been held good and
see how the Supreme 8
do a somersault turn
right of search of a
home is legal we will be
to a doughnut that the
search of a public ma ,
be sustained now. \y
bill was first agitated
had invited its passage
have never passed but h
made all the people thinn
had something to conceal
its passage. When a m j
like he is hiding someth!
inviting criticism that
may not be warranted,
hop and the Disgruntled
McDuffie will keep stirrii
thing until they maketroi
of it yet. Neither of th
doing any good.
A lot ot somethings
themselves socialists havj
speaking in this county at!
the democratic administid
affairs. We have not
to learn which branchl
cialism they belong to, Tli
so many breeds, some that)
work iand envy and abJ
man that has thirty cen|
an extra clean shirt, Son
believe in free love and!
that dont love anybody of
thing, not even themselvesf
that think a man ought to b
daily honored because he |
gets up any higher in life!
hod-carrier. We have all I
and they follow every kind!
ism but when you cast upl
tax list you will find as f(
the lists as you will fiddler;
casionally some real servl
man will get led off inti
vague shadow of an ism bij
often.
Ever Salivated
Calomel? Horril
Calomel is quicksilven
acts like dynamitq
on your liver
Calomel loses youja day
know what calomel is. It's
cury; quicksilver. Caloro
dangerous. It crashes into
bile like dynamite, crampinj
sickening you, Calomel al
the bones and should nev
taken ii^to your system
When you feel bilious, slu;
constipated and all knock
and believe you need a <3
dangerous calomel just remel
that your druggist sells f"
cents a large bottle of D (
Liver Tone, which is ent
vegetable and plesant to
and is a perfect substitut
calomel. It is gauranteed to
your liver without stirring
up inside, and can not sail
Don’t take calomel! It
you sick the next day: it
you a day,s work. D°“
Liver Tone straightens :•
and you feel great, Gi ye 1
the children because it 15
fectly harmless and d<* s
gripe.
The registration books ° ^
city of Bainbridge are no*
in the office of the Cler ’■
qualified voters are given m
that the books will remain
during the month of Novt •
W. 0. Flemw