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/ HE POST-SEARCH LIGHT UME. 2. N0 - 39 BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY DECEMBER 21, 1916 $1.00 PER YEAR III SID WILSON law firm of Harrell & on will dissolve this week. e Harre il will go on the rior Court bench on January Indue Wilson will continue practice in the offices. This has enjoyed a splendid tice and their many friends read of their dissolution for reasons with interest, dge Wilson has for years enjoyed a very high reputa- as a lawyer and counselor is regarded by many as the t careful and painstaking rney at the local Bar. As al adviser Judge Wilson has anding that very few attor- enjoy and his practice is along those lines, dge Harrell will hold his court in Mitchell county, second week in January and a number of his friends signlied their intentions eing present to hear his first •ge to the grand jury and al court. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS he Citizens Bank held their uai stock holders meeting nday and elected Mr. W. G. 'ell, President; R. H. May, •president and cashier. Mr. retiring. A dividend of 8 cent was declaied and a stantial sum left in the un- ided profits. his has been a good season h youngest Bainbridge finan- Institution. Mr. Ball has n president of the Bank ce its founding and Mr. well has been one of the ectors. he marriage of Mr. Julian ilecki and Mrs. Pearl G. yers Sunday morniug was a riiage of much interest to the ends of the contracting parties. Mr, Kwilecki is a son of Mr, Kw leeki, the oldest merchant Bainbridge and a young man sterling character and lots of lends. The bride is a young lady t has a number of friends in inbridge, having visited here >>’ times and is one of the yabie young ladies of her city. Immediately after the marri- e t’ne couple left for Havana, 'ba and on their return will ake their home in this city. ; e young couple have the best ishes of many friends for a , n g and happy life. That the spirit of Christmas is upon us one need but walk through the shops these days and be convinced. Visit the toy department of any store and learn that Christmas, with its kind old Santa Claus, and, in fact, Ithe whole Yuletide spirit lie deep in the hearts of the children. Perhaps there are among the growups some who haven’t notic ed that Christmas dolls ahd rock ing horses and skates and such delectable things are ever so different from the common or garden variety of the year round. Miss Bessie, the Christmas doll, for instance, is not to have her silk clad body and waxen curls swathed in brown jiaper and de livered by an ordinary delivery wagon. Most emphatically not! The spirit of Christmas is abroad, and he whispers of Santa Claus and reindeers that pull the jolly old man and his sleigh over the snow covered roof tops and stand prancing and pawing at each home while Santa slips down the chimney. For it is in just this way that the Christmas dolly, the Irish mail, the lacking horse and even the big toy automobile are trans ported from the show cases and windows of the department stores to a place benath the Christmas trees of eager little girls and boys on Christmas eve. If any one doubts this let him ask even the first little girl or boy he meets in the toylands. — Washing ton Star. HOLIDAY SHOPPERS CROWD THE STREETS Bainbridge Stores Are Thronged With Buyers And Merchants Are Doing the Best Business They Have Enjoyed In Many Years. The stores are crowded this j but that of every one else. The week with the shoppers from every section of the county and the outside towns. The Bain bridge merchants have stocks that are supplying the needs ot the folks and .they are now en joying the fruits of their careful buying. The streets this week remind one of the days of 1906 when you had to get in the road to go a block with any speed at all. The stores are enjoying their very best patronage. A good clean trade, many are buying now with clear heads that used to come in the city and load up on liquor and squander money for booze that would have made many a little heart happy. The streets do not present their usual appearance every morning with the bottles all over town. The business is more satisfactory all the way around. The stores can order that he is keeping silent. wait on their customers and not be annoyed with the usual drunk that not only spoils his shopping trade, the class of stuff being bought now is not that shoddy make shift line that used to at tract. The automobile and the rural route have raised the trade to a higher standard. This is the one banner fall of this section. While not a great amount of cotton was grown, what was grown brought a splendid price and everybody seems to have money. Turkeys, chickens, corn, peanuts and everything that man could raise to eat has found a ready cash market here and there is none that have been un able to have spending money if they half way tried. A great Christmas trade, a joyous Christ mas crowd and everybody feel ing cheerful. The growler is very conspicuous by his absence. He is here but so badly out of TEMPLE BETH-EL SLEAO One of the very interesting and solemn things of the week was the dedication of the Jewish Temple here last night. The exercises were very interesting and quite a number of the mem bers of that faith and order as well as lots of their friends were present to witness the ser vices. The services were con ducted Dr. Landau of Albany and Rabbi Solomon, of Savannah, both men very high in the councils of their religion. This Temple is one of the things that our Jewish citizens can well be proud of, located in the very prettiest part of the city and one of the neatest and most attractive building in town. They have taken great pride in the work from the laying of the foundation stone to its dedica tion. All the citizens and well wishers of the Temple were cordially invited to attend and many of them availed them selves of the invitation. TO CORO TOWNS” Many, many homes are enjoy ing this season that did not get much out ot last years holidays. MORAL FILMPLAY COMING TO CALLAHAN THEATRE The picture that has taken the country by storm "The Little Girl Next Door”, will be present ed as an exclusive attraction at the Callahan Saturday of this week. The innocence of youth is so that too much The boll weevil is here and no one can tell now to what extent it will cut next year’s cotton crop. Therefore everyone should make his money go as far asj great an asse t possible by buying their horses, | cannot be done to protect it. mules and brood mares from Joe i However, ignorance is not in- It is said that the state of ilordia has a law on its statute ks that prohibits the shipp- 8 . ,JI oranges or any citrus u ' ts from this state into that <1 that it a man receives a ship- , en f °t that kind of fruit from °n'Ja and does not want it can t ship it back to where it me from. This strikes . as room for a large sized lc '■ It this state were to re- 1 la te with a law that prohibit- the receiving of this fruit 0 tit* 5 state it would present ' et 7 peculiar state, of affairs, ^rgia will hardly put up with 3 kind of treatment at the an os of her sister state. J. Battle, Moultrie, Ga. The price is from fifty to seventy-five dollars a head cheaper than others get for the same class animals A big selection al ways on hand. The Rt Hon. Emmett Cooper, now sojourning at Donalsonville was in the city Sunday with old friends andacquaitances. Coop is always a welcomed guest in this city and while he may ramble aronnd in other towns here is where his heart lays and he has an especially reserved seat on the public park. The Steamer T. C. Drake’s name will be changed and the name of. Conrad Buchanan will be given it by the Thronatesska Navigation Company as a fitting tesitomial to the work of this old riverman, the last of this kind. Captain Buchanan was one of the most lovable men that ever plied this river and his fiiends will learn with much pleasure that the boat will bear his name in the future. Mr. J. H. Loughbridge, pres, andtreas., of the Weaver-Lough- bridge Lumber Company of Boyd. Fla., was in the city a few days this week with Mr. J. |K. Farrar. Mr. Loughbridge is ! an old Murry county boy and has ! made good in Florida as his company holds many ana ex pensive timber holdings. Their mill at Boyd has a capacity of one hundred thousand feet per day and runs a day shift on pine and a night shift on Cypress. ""re will be a hanging here e 2s<th of this month if the 8,er c °urts do not interfere in ^me manner. Charlie Willi- 13 ,v o° was convicted at the 0v *mber term of court, will j ' oe penality his crime. nocence, and in the modern day of progress and uplift, sermons are being preached, magazines and the press are filled with theories of how to safeguard the children. About three years ago Lieuten ant Governor O’Hara of Illinois began an investigation of vice conditions throughout the state, the Legislature voting $100,000 for the expense of the inquiry and a committee of state senators being appointed to carry out the work. Motion pictures illustrat ing the main features of the re port were authorized upon the completeion of the investigation. The production of the story was placed in the care of the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, and the lieutenant Governor, Senators, and other officials were all brought into the scenario. The first showing of "The gator of the senate committee, by the secretary of the meeting which discussed the film after viewing it at the Essanay plant, The letter in part, follows: "If the moving pictures of the report of the senate vice com mittee for revealing what was uncovered by that committee are considered by their value in exposing the evils referred to, then they should be credited as being of great value, and they should be of great help in arous ing condemnation of the evils and securing the launching ot plans for their supression.” The picture has the fascination of a great play and the sledge hammer power of truth. It will do more good for the cause of morality than all the reports ever filed. "The Little Girl Next Door” has been secured by the Callahan for the one day. No children will be admitted unless accompanied by parents. This however does not indicate that children should not see the production, tor the moral lesson is a strong one, as should be shown every vetTfig man an woman durjng’its en gagement here^ The fajt+hat "The Little Girl Little Girl Next Door” (which Next-Door,” has been praised by was the name selected for the the press, the pulpit and leading MARGUERITE CLARK HERE NEXT WEDNESDAY IN “THE GOOSE GIRL" Count-Von Herbeck, the chan cellor to the Grand Duke of Fhrenstein, is married but keeps the fact secret on account of his high ambitions. His wife, dying, writes him '& letter urging him to make their little child a great lady. With this purpose in view, he arranges with Torpete, a gypsy, to abduct the daughter of the Grand Duke. He takes the coat, hat and locket belonging to the little Princess and sends his own child away. During the ab duction of the little Prineess she is wounded on the shoulder by a bullet. Fifteen years later Von Her beck tells the Grand Duke that he has found the Princess, and produces the locket and coat in proof of the identity of the child. Meanwhile, the real Princess, after being abandoned by the gypsies, has been adopted by peasants and has grown up as a “Goose Girl.” At the same period, the young King Frederick of Judgendheit is This terse saying that is going the rounds of the press has no more true application than the roads leading to this town, the best town in this part of the country. The county towns that have good roads leading into them are all on the up move and there is no doubt that Decatur leads all the state now m mileage and grade of her public roads. Our people have no real idea what they have in their roads, what marvelous progress has been made in their roads or their bridges worth in the past three years. Of course much has been said in recommendations by the Grand Juries of the county meet ing at different times but those that go over them, have to use them regularly as the grocery drummers know and say that Decatur county is far ahead of anything or county. Because of the fact that our county com missioners work for very little, we have the habit of criticising them on every little thing and with as much freedom as if they were really drawing pay com mensurate with their service and it is rare that we look for any thing about their work to com mend that we really have very little idea as to just how much has been accomplished in the roads. It is amusing to hear a man who has no spirit of patriot ism stand on the corners and gab about the work of commis sioners when he knows that he would not do their work for the little money that they get and these kind of men never find anything but the d^rk side to look on. If our folks will just sit down and look over the past four years and see just what has been done along county lines and look for the good as earnestly as the/ do something to criticise some in dividual commissioner, or the clerk, or the Warden they would find much that they could derive consierable stimulation from so far as county pride is concerned. This article is brought about by a trip over the roads of an ad joining county and one at that we have heard the growlers hold up as an example. Good roads lead to good towns and it takes officially betrothed to the Princess good men to build them, and ot Ehrenstein but does not wish good men to back the builder to marry a woman he has never [UpUl-the work is done, seen, or to put diplomatjc sity above lov§^H6" disguises himselfas-a'Vmtner, meets the GposeTlirl, rescues her from the Insulting attentions of a vicious Count and longs to marry her. TRAWICK- Quite a surprise to their many friends was the marriage of Mr. T. A. Cowart, of Fowlstown When it seems impossible for| andMiss Lillie Trawick of At- the story to come to a happy! tapulgus on Dec. 17th. conclusion the 1 real identity of the Goose Girl is revealed through the bullet mark received when men and women of prominence , . . . , , . , in this country, and that Vice the gypsy stole her, and she takes film) was made at a private ex hibition in the Essanay plant, m,n wuhuj, anu mai ?«*!, . ... . , which was attended by a select President Marshall Champ Clark riR , u J? ace on . ' ror ? e ‘ ,, . . „ u , Ai i , , „ , ■ : This makes the marriage to the gathering, including the Rev. | and others actually take part in PrinceS8 o{ Ehrenstein the one places the picture upon a high plane that is demonstrative of its merit and worth as a power for good. Dr. Brushingham pastor of the th& presentationi South Park Methodist Episcopal church of Chicago. The pictures were declared excellent in a let ter written to the chief investi- LOVETT- Judge W. R. Brown of Brinson and Mrs. Lula Lovett of Fowl- town were married on December 7th, at the home of the bride. The friends of both of the parties The famous, Pietum. Davy with Crockett has at last been secured .. . .. frianAa nf the children ought to see th.s picture. It is one of the real valuable historical pictures that the Judge all over the county will wish him a long and happy life. Judge Brown is well know i in the county and numbers his is being shown and eve y r i friends in every walk of life and of this section and its traditions, jjjg estimable wife will be will be wise too when they see an addition to the community I life of Brinson. DISSOLUTION NOTICE Owing to his election as’Judge of the Superior Courts of the Albany Circuit, Mr. W. M. I appears as the star through the Harrell will retire from the law courtesy of the Famous Players. thing in the world most to be desired by the King of Jugend- heit, and everything ends happily after all. “The Goose Girl” is found on Harold McGrath’s famous novel of the same name and is offered by arrangement with the pub lishers, the Bobbs-Merrlll Com pany. Miss Marguerite Clark firm of Harrell and Wilson on Jan. 1,1917. Mr. John R. Wilson will con tinue the practice and will sue We begged them all to shop early and now some of those ceecf to the" business of Harrell j Jacksonville shoppers are sorry and Wilson, occupying the offices of the old firm. Ba : nbridge, Ga., Dec. 20th 1916. it. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes cjLQuincy spent Sunday in the city with friends. that they did not take the advice, It is not time for us to use only one-armed men in taking up collections but is a safer proposi tion to trust your pint to an one armed blether. Mr. Cowart is an employee of A. C. L. Railroad. He has the faculty of holding his friends. Miss Trawick has been teach ing in this county for about four years with much success. She is now teaching near Donal sonville. She is a young lady o£ a lovable character. They will enjoy all the good wishes of many friends for a long and happy life. Only a few friends of the contracting parties were aware that the marriage was to take place. COMING TO SUNBBIBSE Dr. Parks will be at - the Jewelry Store of C. C. Norris from January 17th. It you want your eyes scietincly examined and fitted with glasses be sure to see him. This means expert service at reasonable prices. Mr. J. D. Bower of C’arrabeile was in the city Sunday and Monday on a business 1 : . ■