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BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY NOVEMBER Hi, 1916
$1.00 PER YEAR
| l p Monday Night
peek’s Engage-
fin the City. Good
Ids Attend.
letr.politan Shows ar-
Bainbr.'dire Monday
! and opened up their
the baseball park. It
i dean aggregation of
111 all their crowd look
I, They have a good
fractions and there lias
■thing shown on their
|that cauld offend any
1. have had good music
L hit of free amuse-
|deveryday their crowds
Twn fairly well each day.
Lnv has been in this
ire and they have a
lowing of local friends.
Ling is the list of their
Ins and they have beer.
mized as some of them
Ian educative turn.
Ihows are as following:
Ministrel, Merry-Go-
■10in 1, Athletic Show,
■ty Mysteria, 5 in 1,
■heel, Camp 49, Ocean
I'enitiaie Swing, Monco,
land the Baby, Snake
Barden of Alii.
SOFT DRINK WITH A
PONCHJJSES TALK
Has Taste and Smell of Pare
goric, And Officials Lay
Plans to Stop Sale.
Atlanta, Nov. 15.—A new bev
erage which is neither beer nor
whiskey nor wine, but yet con
tains a kick like an army mule,
has appeared in Atlanta simul
taneously with its appearance in
other towns and cities over the
State.
The police are puzzled. They
neither know where the drink
comes from, nor whether it comes
within the prohibited confines of
the Georgia liquor laws. One
thing they do know, however,
and that is that the drink meets
I all requirements of a person who
is looking for something that
| wili make him drunk.
The taste and smell resemble
paregoric, but the drink is a mil
ky, white in color. A little of it
goes a long way, according to
the description of its after-ef
fects which the police have se
cured from users of it.
With the appearance of the
drink both here and elsewhere,
it will doubtless not be long be
fore steps will be taken by the
authorities to have it analyzed.
JOHN MIDDLETON, HAND
RECRUITER BOUND OVER
PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO WAKE UP TO LABOR
SITUATION AS IT IS GETTING VERY
SERIOUS. A LEADER WANTED
COLD SPELL
LA1LQ HEREjftST NIGHT
Promised Change in Weather
Came Suddenly—More Cold
Expected During Day.
fiiarriage of Mr. Drane
Attepulgus and Miss
|ughtry of Allentown that
yesterday morning at
Idence of the bride in that
Jibe of interest to both of
|ng folks friends over the
| Mr. Smith is the oldest
n. W. E. Smith, one of
Iniinent citizens of the
land is a young man of
f qualities that have made
host of friends. Miss
Iry has taught school in
Inty for a few years and
W lady that is loved by
Jher acquaintances. Mr.
■Smith and wife and Mr.
Tbliaison accompanied Mr.
pith to Allentown. The
farchlighf as well as num-
friends extend to Mr.
land iiis bride their very
lishes and hope for them
■good things of this life.
Jer friend, a better citizen a
[honorable or high toned
man does not live than
I Smith and he deserves
Bendid girl that he brings
Pome with him as a his
pnd they both deserve the
[ 'vishes that their many
nave showered upon
Opened Monday morning with
Judge Cox presiding and Soli
citor Bell in charge of the state’s
interest. The court was immedi-
atediy organized, the Grand
Jury charged in a most able
manner by Judge Cox and the
work of the term went into. The
, dockett is well filled with busi-
' ness and it is the aim of the
! court to get as much of it off
' as possible. The first day of the
; court was taken up with di-
] vorce cases. It is expected that
j the Grand Jury will have a busy
time of it-
fITrugk hits ford
The fire truck had its first ac
cident this week. On Monday
morning the truck while going
down Water street hit a Ford
owned by Mr. Sawyer, of Vada
and knocked one wheel complete
ly off and scattered eggs all
over the street. A negro man
on the back ot the Ford was
thrown out and pretty badly
hurt. The gong on the engine
truck was not ringing as it
went down the street and the
driver of the Ford did not hear
it coming. Very fortunately Mr.
Sawyer escaped injury.
Paul Middleton, a negro was
tried here Tuesday afternoon
for violating, the immigration
laws. He was one of the negros
charged with recruiting hands
for the Northern cities. The
case was the first of the kind
tried in the county. The turpen
tine and mill interests of the
county have been hit hard by the
labor disturbances and it is a
difficult matter to get at the bot
tom of the wholesale exodus of
negoes into northern points.
There has been a disposition to
interfere with the matter but
there seems to be no concert of
action on the parts of those, in
terested. In the beginning of the
matter it was looked on lightly
by the folks, many of them
thinking that the negros were
being carried north for election
purposes but that idea has been
discarded. The extreme cost of
living, the high price of rations
made things look pretty bad for
the negro, the same high price
made it look pretty bad lor the
negro’s boss and the negro had
| to look around for chance to
[make enough to eat on. The
smooth tongue labor broker came
| to him with promise of doing bet
ter and he swallowed the line,
danger ahead of us in this mat
ter and it will net help matters
any by hard words. The best
way for us to do is find out the
truth of just what the negro is
going into and let him see and i
know it.
Send a man to these sections
and see whether or not he has
improved his condition and if he
lias not let the others know it.
The negro inis been our laborer
so long that we fear that some of
us have lost sight of the fact
that he really lias a right to leave
it he wants to and we have not
made an earnest effort to keep
him here. Abuse and calling
him a’D nigger is not going
to make much headway in re
lieving the labor situation as so
many folks are prone to do.
Every tiling in the animal king
dom will try to better iiis own
condition and you cant blame a
negro from wanting to do the
same thing. If he is misled, it is
the Recruiter that ought to lie
caught and punished for violat-
ingRhe law. We think that he is
misled but we have not gone to
any trouble to show him tiiat he
is. What are we going to do
about the matter? Are we going
The promised cold [spell struck
Bainbridge last night with a
vengeance. After a day of clou
dy sky and unsettled weather
rain began to fall late Tuesday
afternoon. The downpour was
slow but steady and
1 nearly all the night.
INC ALU1DUCE
Bainbridge Business Men
Are Making An Effort to
Buy Everything That a
Farmer Has to Sell.
The local markets are looking
better for the farmer when he
asted thro conies to Bainbridge than it has
Shortly af- looked for many years.
ter the rain started the weather: The Farmers Seed Company
began to grow cooler and by are buying corn, oats, peanuts",
morning there was a noticeable cotton seed, turkeys and chickens
drop in temperature. Today the .and nearly everything that a
mercury has been steadily going I farmer has to sell and giving
down. 1 them tip top cash prices. The
The rain and cold weather was I Flint River Milling Company is
badly needed, particularly the 1 offering a splendid cash market
rain. Farmers and gardeners I for corn. The Oil Mill is buying
report their crops badly injured (seed, peanuts and beans as fast
as the result of the prolonged I as they can get them and all the
dry weather, While the rain I way round it seems that our
last night was a great help it business men have woke up to
was not sufficient to meet all the | the tact that this is the only way
requirements. The drops tell in I for them to hold the trade of the
the way to do tile most good,
slowely and steadily hut did not
last long enougli to entirely fix
things. Road work, which has
been seriously interfered with on
account ot the lack ot rain, has
not yet had enough rain to do a
great deal of good. However,
that which fell last night helped
a great deal.
Clothing merchants and other
retail tradesmen are highly pleas
ed with the cooler weather.
They report their business at a
standstill so far as winter sup
plies were concerned for nearly
all this fall. The drop in the
to take any studied or reasonable
hook and all and it remains to be (step to keep him here or are we
seen whether he has bettered j just going to say “let the darned
himself or not. But in the mean-1 negro go’. Everybody’s concerned
time, the timber interests of this!as much as the turpentine, mill
section as well as the cotton | or cotton man. The merchant
farmer will feel the scarcity of j is deeply interested. Will a con-
labor very keenly. What can be centrated effort to stop recruiters 1 ni j n( j s of - j oca | re . ; j ( i en t s
done is now on the lips of every j be made or not? There is the
citizen? The situation seems'place to begin for a negro '
farmers in this section.
The wholesale grocers are buy
ing some classes of produce and
giving the best market prices
in money. This is a great step
forward and when our retail
grocers make a specialty of
handling the produce of the farm
er on a reasonable profit as some
of them are doing, it will be the
best local market in this part of
tile country. No one can fail to
see the importance “of these
firms taking the steps they have
without wondering why it has
not, been done before. The
strongest commercial moral that
temperature today however, was) we know anything about is “the
just what was needed to put tire | farmer buys iiis goods where he
thoughts of winted clothing and sells his produce,
other winter supplies in the
thus, the local man can not pay
any more wages for he is caught
by the increase in prices as much
so as the negro and the negro
thinks that he can do better. The
men of the section business men
of all classes will do well to or
ganize and take the matter up.
There is no legal way to keep a
negro here if he wants to leave
and he will surely leave if he
thinks that he can help himself
by doing so. There is a grave
human enough to want to get
more money if lie can and no
sensible man deep down in heart
blames him for wanting more
money, we all do. He may be
following a wil’o’ the wisp’ and
his chase may cost the labor ot
the county a lots of money but
what is to be done. Somebody
will have to take the matter up.
Who will lead? Middleton was
bound over.
y POLICE
ENDEAVOR 10 STOP
E
FROM THE WESLEYAN
F' Dn^ Company have
T;"ftisment in this issure to
I ec t that they are real dis-
T C J’ S of canned music.
| have all an d every kind.
F a nd, the flute, the ukeleie,
® ee ’ the banjo and even
iS'Mng low sweet chariot
I" h e y have the
’ tor the famous Victrola
Machine. If you can’t
F.tney will make you fiddle
foe other fellow fiddle for
-plete line ot machines
f'-o-.-ds are j- e p t at a jj
They are in the business
e tiie folks that can’t pull
1 nausic stand on the same
5 tnos e that can. A visit
' C: ”OP. is invited.
CHERB-GOLA SHOWS
HERE NOVEMBER V
Albany, Nov. 15.—Efforts of
Albany police to put stop to
wholesale deportations of negro
labor from this section are begin
ning to bear fruit. Yesterday a
negro, said to he from the north,
was arrested on a charge of en
ticing labor to depart from Geor-j
gia. He gave his name as Olenjw 1 ' 3 ™ says
WE RAISE THEM
The following telegram was
received by Major A. S. McBride
from his son D. B. McBride wko
lives in Charlotte N. C.
Maj. A. S. McBride,
Bainbiidge, Ga.
You have a grand son, a De
mocrat.
D. B. McBride.
The young Democrat’s father
is well remembered here in Bain
bridge, having been raised here
and raised a Democrat it is
natural that the strain will con
tinue in the family as this tele-
Major McBride is
Johnson. The officers claim to| rec » vin K the congratulations on
against 1 y° un ff man’s arrival but as
LUKEGETS SIX-YEAR TERM
Atlanta, Nov. 15 —At a con
ference here today between
Governor N. E. Harris, members
of the state court of appeals and
the three new appellate judges
elected last week, it was decided
that Judge Roscoe Luke should
serve six years; Judge W. F.
George four years, and Judge W .
Frank Jenkins two years. The
newly elected judges drew lots,
as provided by the law enlarging
the court, to determine the
length of their service.
| A Primitive Baptist church in
i Marion county this state, is be-
| ing divided into two hostile fac
tions. And it is all because one
I party desires to use an organ and
the other thinks it awfully sin
ful to have instrumental music
in divine worship. Strange as it
! may seem, we remember the day
i when organs in our Methodist
1 churches were not regarded by
isome of the best men that lived
las being the proper thing. It is
handed down as a tradition
among us that one of the
Georgia preachers entering the
church and seeing in the choir a
person with a violin said when
he announced his hymn;
us fiddle and sing.”.
John Drake and E. A.
&I " City were in the
- attending court this week.
COTTON EINNEO
There were 9117 bales of cotton
counting round as half bales,
ginned in Decatur county from
ihe crop of 1916 prior to Novem
ber 1, 1916 as compared with
11861 bales ginned to November
1, 1915.
Charlie Trulock of Climax was
over a short while Friday.
‘‘Let
PRIZE PANCAKE EATER OEfiO
East St. Lot is, III.—Ensh
Braatz, Illinois’ champion
pancake eater, is dead. He was
35 years old. His best record at
eating the flapjacks was sixty-
four at one sitting. His only
stipulation when signing for a
contest was that his wife pre
pare the batter.
On Monday November 27th,
the Chero-Coia Company here
for the week. The show carries
a good bunch of performers and
has been getting record break
ing crowds everywhere the com
pany has placed them. Our old
friend Searcy, the local mana
ger of the Chero Cola folks says
that he will have the very best
bunch of entertainers that have j ( | a y
ever been here to advertise his l^ose lea V ir»pr from this city came
drink. Not that the drink needs j from other C outies, hut now
it but he just feels like .the many Albany negroes are leaving,
hundreds of Chero Cola drink-
well because of his politics.
Joe Mayoof Camilla was in the
city this week looking after his
work in the Superior court.
have enougli evidence
the negro to convict him. j
Several other negroes recently I
arrested on the same charge
were dismissed for iack of evi-1
denee on which to hold them, j
Johnson is believed to be t,lie|
same negro who induced so| Mr. Al Hurst, a prominent
many negroes to leave Dothan, i farmer of Mitchell county spent
Ala., coming to this city after| Sunday in the city with his
his operations there. Negroes: daughter who is one of the
continue to leave Albany every j nurses at the Bainbridge Hos-
For some time most of j pital.
ers are entitled to a little real
amusement. Searcy is some en
tertainer himself and means to
give his old friends and patrons
a week of fun. Watch for their
announcement next week.
Hattie Nettles, a colored wo
man living on the edge of the
Hons. Robin Cox, Charlie Rey
nolds and will Cherry held down
the Donalsonville end the court
this week.
THANKSGI
Washington, Nov. 15.—The
formal Thanksgiving Dav procl-
city was found dead Monday | amution is to be issued from the
morning, having been shot dur- tr „ .... ...
ing the night by Frank Brown WIi |te House within the next few
They were heard in the night days. 1 resident Wilson told in:
quarreling, so it is said and
at a very late hour a pistol shot
was heard. The woman was
killed by the shot and the offic
ers immediately went after the
man Frank Brown.
quivers to-day that he would fol:
low tile usual custom and design
ate the last Thursday of the
month, November 30th. as the
nation’s Thanksgiving Day.
IS “T
Swainsbora, Nov. 15. — Seven
persons reported having their
pockets picked this week when
the circus came to town. The
smallest loss was $5 taken from
Franc Mangum, editor of the
Forest-Blade and the largest was
$55, sustained by Tom High, a
negro. Mr. Billy Warren lost a
purse containing $35. A white
man was caught in the act of
rifling a negro’s pocket. He gave
a fictitious name, furnished bond
in the sum of $100 and immedi
ately left the city.