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THE POST-SEARCH LIGHT Published Every Thursday at Bainbridge, Georgia. E. H. GRIFFIN Editor and Proprietor Entered at the I’ostofflee in Bain bridge, Oa., as second class mail matter under Act of Congress March 18th, 1897. Subscription Rates ONE YEAR *100 BIX MONTHS &0c Advertising Rates Advertising rate depends on position, number of insertions and other requirements, and will be furnished at the business office. OFFICIAL OHOAN OF TUB CITV OF BAINiiRIDUB AM) DECATUR COUNTY. Telephone No. 239 We wish you all a Happy and a Prosperous New year. We wonder if Mutt got Jeff’s goat for a Christmas present? The Turkey tribe can get a rest now lor about eleven months. They will be here with us again. The usual amount of holiday weddings were pulled off. Have heard nothing as yet from Cuth- bert as to Howell along this line. It is a good thing that talk is cheap. If it was not we know some folks that would bankiupt themselves in a short while. We got our package and we sure do wish that some one else had gotten it instead of us. “Shore” wish we had “loant” our name out. This was a rotten Christmas for the Atlanta women. Kress’ Ten Cent Store being closed by fire. You could almost hear [their groans way down here. Buffalo Bill wants to interfere in Mexico. All of a sudden like BUI, suppose you go on and do the interfering. No objections at all Congressman Adamson is wor shiper of spring water so we learn but whether- it is Echo Spring or Deep Spring we have not been able to find out. Have you enjoyed your holi days. If not, look in side and see what is the trouble with you. Maybe there is where the trouble lays. Note where a magnificent Jack ass was destroyed in a fire at Cordele but the statement fails to show how many legs that Jack had. The size of the Christmas business done in Bainbridge was real tremendous when you figure tfeat the merchants had several days of rain to interfere with them. if ■' • ■ - — Everybody seems to have en joyed their frolic [time and now let's all get back to work on Bainbridge and Decatur county and see what we can do tor our communities. Tl\ere lias been some real spirit of Christmas generosity in Bainbridge this season as eviden ced on the faces of the children of the city that things are not well|with. Sometimes we*wonder that it Christ knew how some people celebrate his Birthday would he not prefer that it be passed up rather than be used a day for debauchery and drunkeness. The original purpose of the great oc casion seems to be lost in the melee bf gormandising in both eating and drinking. The death [of Judge Lambkin was a distinct shock to the friends of that gentleman all over the country. An able Judge that all men respected and ad mired. Death took a heavy toll from among our prominent Georgia citizens in the past ten days. Judge Lambkin and Solicitor Williams being both men of note in their respective circles. The Democratic papers of the state seem to be lining up in their purpose to slaughter any man that starts [out for a senatorial job that is or has been flirting with the bolters. So mote it*be. The President in common with the balance of the world would really like to know what the nations of Europe are fighting about. Switzerland is also desire- ous of the same information. The Kentucky troops have fired on the Mexicans. The M?x fellows must have poured water in the Christmas whiskey of the boys from the Blue Grass state and reaped their own reward. -O- Would like to know how one of Johnnie Spencer’s “cornfed” girls looks now after that round with turkey and cranberry sauce. We doubt their needing any weatherboarding” at any rate. Did you see the booze line in front of the express office all last week? It was some line and many in that line were sadly dis appointed when the roll call showed tjieir package shy. Charles M. Schwab says that the cost of steel is one third labor, one third material and one third transportation. We wonder now Charlie where you poverty stricken millionaires get your two thirds. The Statesboro News of last week was a corking good issue. If that fellow dont have a good holiday season it will not be be cause his folks have not patroniz ed him liberally with his Christ mas issue. A good way to end this war would be for an international re quirement to make every emper or and king in the war lead a charge or two. If the crown could smell a little gun-powder peace would be at hand. Now Mr. Planter is your time to give care, judgement and much thought to what is in front of you. Pick your seed for cotton, corn and peanuts very carefully and you will reap the reward when the harvest turns again. Our friends fed, us on Christ mas, some body fed Jim Williams and now we will be wanting to know if Camp’s neighbors over in Walton remembered the “Maine” thing that an editor needs is rations and grub, then giub and rations. Well one thing is certain, the man that said all the negros had gone to the North most certainly was not in Bainbridge Saturday nor did he cast his eye down Water Street. There was nine million and two here in this town alone. No and neither has Germany and theyAllies used up all the powder because 49 tons were shot up in this town in fireworks Saturday and Monday nights. Enough powder burned to equipp a regiment for a days fighting. Bainbridge has been quite and orderly this Xmas and the good results of the little 2 quart limit was in evinence. A fellow was afraid to pitch one on just 2 quart limit was in evidence. A fellow was afraid to pitch one on 2 quarts because of the next day after. Gordon Lee of the Rome dis trict is trying [very hard to get an aimor plate factory in his dis trict. That man seems to be a working'congressman and from all appearances that work of his has given him a copper-riveted hold on his job. Gardner wants the Republicans to form policies says an ex change. Well it is about time that they had some policies of some kind other than those that can be bought and sold by the boodle barons. Their old policies is now so worn out that they cant work ’em any more. The child looking for the tracks of the reindeeijdriven by Santa Claus on Sunday night was no more simple or credulous than the man that looked for fun and pleasure in the quart bottle ot juice, distilled from gun powder and lightning. Having had our fill of turkey and cranberry sauce we are pre pared to radiate and scintillate for another year and hope to do so faithfully at so much per radiate. If a man cant hand out glory after such a feed as our neighbors gave us, he is not much of man. a HaPPY NEW YEaR. Boys you have all misconstrued the remark of Bro Jim Williams of the Herald-Journal. He said that he lived so he could look every man in the face and tell him to go to H but he did not say that he was going to do it. On the same principle that a man can live so he can spit in a tiger’s face but he has’nt got to do it because he feels that way. TJie Apostle of Sunshine from Green County is anything else but a grouch. The gobbler was a little sparing with his gobble but some few of us heard his familair yelp. Of course now since a friend sent us that turkey, every ugly girl that marries a sorry boy from now on for another year will be beauti ful and the boy a “prominent young man” and every ugly hair lipped youngster that shows up will be the prettiest baby that ever was seen. Oh there io noth ing like a turkey to brighten up one’s vision. Say what you please about the New Prohibition law. Many a child got a few things for Christ mas that had not gotten them be- Spre as a result of the law and its operation. We have seen many men come to town, get drunk and loose or squander the money they brought with them to buy their children a few things and go back to a set ot poor little dissapointed chaps. It is a help to the kiddies whether you like the law or not. Dont it make you gag to send a gimp a paper on his say-so for a year or so and then send him a statement and have him get mad. It is a lunny thing that he will get mad at the little dun for one dollar when his old butcher or grocer duns him every time he sees him tor a ration bill that has been running about as long as his paper unpaid. That kind of a man is to draned mean or senseless to read a paper. He could not get an idea out of the Zenda Vesta let alone a news paper. The liquor men that are send ing their advertising to the country press under the guise of news are about the most simple set that we have ever seen. It is bad enough to carry the adver tisement for the actual money but for them to try and work the weeklies for tree advertising it is more than disgusting. The automobile [fellows that send great long art'cles of auto news with their particular car shining like a star in the write ups are | on a cold trail too. Why dont j these fellows learn sometime that j the country editor has cutTnis j wisdom teeth so tar as they are concerned. We wish to extend to the friends, patrons and readers of the Post-Searchlight our wishes, for % happy and prosperous New Year to all. The paper has made some strides in the past year and we hope with a continuance of the favor of its friends to make more this year. We have striven tc make it a newspaper and while we have not always pleased every reader we are willing to admit that we can not nor will we at tempt to do so. If we issue a paper that will please all we will have to send out a blank sheet and that is not what is paid for. However we have done as we thought best and we believe that we have pleased most of the people most of the time. We have had to sometimes be sharp to advertising shark but not any more so than any other business trying to take care of its only stock in trade. We are going to make a better publication in the year 191.7 because we will be bet ter equipped and feel that we owe the patrons every modern advance that we can make in a'ny department. Here is to a big and a prosperous Decatur in the bg year of 1917. The New Year is at hand and we hope that it is the dawning year for this town and county. There will be no politics to take the minds of the citizens off of their section and we believe that in the next twelve months we will see more improvements here than we ever have before. The city government has some work before it and it is thought that before the spring opens up this will be well under way. The town has enjoyed the best busi ness this fall that it has in ten years and the folks are all ready to get busy. Who leads off with a material improvement in the New Year? Our Christmas day reading was brightened up considerably by having the North Georgia Citizen, the Monroe Advertiser, The Walton Tribune and the Greensboro Herald-Journal and two quarts of Cognac and two dozen eggs. Eggs are mighty good fried soft and turned. With each succeeding egg these fel lows’ paragraphs would radiate and scintillate until they almost blinded the imagination. But a brighter set of weeklies could not be read. AND we are saying this the morning after when the world is usually dark and gloomy. Our best wishes to you boys, you helped out on our. Christmas wonderfully. The Savannah Press seem to think this paper unfriendly to Savannah. He never misjudged a man or a paper as badly in his life. We are more of a friend to that city than she is herself and would be proud of the fact did she occupy the place that she was destined to, the greatest port for all things in the south. A word was unfortunately left out that changed entire meaning of the paragraph that gave our friend this impression. The lack of that same bridge keeps many visitors from this section away from Savannah and we would get more pleasure than any one we kno#of out of %hose visits. If we were going to pick out a Georgia city to pull for we could pull for Savannah with more feeling of working for home folks than any of them. You have us wrong brother, we have no grouch at all against your city or anything or any body. CHICHESTER SPILLS >XD TILLS in Red and Gold metallic bexea. scaled with B! Ribbon. T/.&B NO oinsn Ribbon. T/.KB no ornm. Bay *f y•mpV/ Drigglit and ask fop CHI-CHlIft-TER 9 V DIAMOND BRAXD PILLS, for twente-five years regarded a* Best,Safest, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS iSES. • EYFRYWHFRE JESS In fact we wish everybody a happy New Year except those that are more than a year behind with their paper. They cant have one until they pay up for their conscience sake. No use to wish them any happiness at all. They cant enjoy it when they are behind with their home paper, can they? hole for rat'pur^ses”^ to send an arch light : ' crossing the line li quor 2 and see if we cant kill tha liquor purposes. Then,? into Florida did a bL k ° last week and a little 8 i? the matter might destroy*)® After Christmas You Will Nee Some of These For Your Bicyc School Baskets soc and 7 Bells 25c and Wild Cat Whistle Claxon, for bicycle SlV™ Don’t let your wheel be stolen, get a lock for.. lOcand 1 Lock and chain g Can full of oil j Can of cup grease j Graphite and tire tape " Tool Bag Wrenches .... oe * 20 to 5 Hand pump -. ... 25 Frame pump Foot pump 3q ELECTRIC LIGHT outfit j 7 Rubber pedals 1.50 to 1.7 Rubbers tor small pedals, gS Luggage carriage .' 73 Mud guards j 5< Rim Cements lOc, or 3 for 23 We lace dress guards for, 30 We Sell Sporting Goods; SKATES Plain steel roller $1,0( Rubber cushion roller ! [.. ; l.gi Ball bearing 2.7 Basket Balls Full size $2.0( Large size 2.5( Grain leather “Official” sizes, from ...... 3,00 to 5.0i Foot Balls Boys size $l,7i Official size 2.7i Genuine rubber bladders for foot balls and basket balls, from 50c to l.OC Overland Juvenile Bicycles Boys or girls 20 inch S17.5 1 Boys or girls 24 inch 20.0 1 Boys or girls 26ineh -r 22.S' Coaster brake extra 1 SO 1 Oxford boys wheels with coaster, 28” wheels, 20” frame 30.0 1 READING STANDARD 32.5 Royal RACER, we can furnish these from (according to equipment 27.50 to 35.0 Tires of Every Kind Firestone Tires red tread, each., $3.0< Firestone Tires blue tread 4.0< Goodrich White safety tread 3.0( Overland and GIANT tires each . 3.0( Nobby tread tires . 2 5< Empire pebble tread red each ... 2.21 Dixie itires 2.0( Hunter tirss ... 181 Juvenile tires 150 to 2.5( We have some second hand wheels that took in exchange for new ones that we have enambled and put in good condition, some «'it' new tires from $7.50 to $1S.5< Don’t forget, we are the only exclusive bicy cle store in the city. We carry the largest stock of repair parts and bicy cles ever kept in Bain bridge, and we can make any repairs your bicycle may need. The Motor-Bicycle Company J. ROBERT HAIRE, Manager and Prep. In the Shingler Block BAINBRIDGE, GA. 0° Erold H