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BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY JANUARY 25. 1917
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BANY lawyers
FIGHTING PARK
gherty County Attorneys Oppose the Wishes of
the Second Congressional District.
be durned”. That is a
expression, it don’t look
in print, but it looks better
what the writer really
would look and as the
profanity we let it go. To
about that bunch * of Al-
lawyers filing any kind of a
t against Judge Park’s ap-
iient as United States Judge
i this expression as about
ly one that expresses just
we think about it. We all
what is the cause of that
trying to keep this ap-
mentfrom coming to our
let and why, but we did not
they would take away the
:efrom South Georgia on
a little grounds,
have never voted for Park
,e is not any sweetheart of
iper, but we do think that
qualified to hold this job
is a home man, a South
rjan, we are for him, teeth
toe nail, and it makes us
;r how in the name of com-
lense any gang of lawyers
district could so tar loose
ome pride and fight him.
aw the list of names that
signed to the protest to the
■ney General, protest saying
he was not competent. In
list of names we failed to
iny Warners, Bleckleys, Ful-
Stories, or Lamars, and we
ered how the devil that
1 could get up enough nerve
y some other lawyer was
ig enough to fill a job, and
the least of it, none of the
h are so big that the thing
heme pride would not
them to shut up and let
ome man get this big honor
can.
hate to say a mean thing
his move has compelled us
' that, when any man has
indorsement of that same
d for a job in this circuit or
ct he has the devil beat out
n to start with, if the fight
ore the voters. Will some
indly hand that information
Attorney General. Will
one kindly let the Attorney
'al know that Dougherty
loven to be the vampire of
:S down this way, and that
tipport of a winner is a
of ancient history.
: thing is so preposterous
fair minded man that is a
of his section can’t discuss
olite language and we will
to quit to keep out of trou
gh the mail authorities,
iecond District of Georgia
■nd Park and wants to see
?ot the appointment to a
‘nd the only rift in the lute
t Dougherty bunch and we
believe that many of them
1 bereft of patriotism and
pride as to oppose him. If
purity had a man to offer it
be different but they are
none and fighting the
wan. That line of pro-
«insures their future politi-
phanage just as sure as the
and sets.
CITIZENS DAI MOVES
INTO NEW QUARTERS
Kntleman came down from
h Carolina a few weeks ago
|Pent a few days in Bain-
& and on his return to the
“d snow of that state he
.». r *°ng for this section
tre es were yet green
i„ ’dence ot summer was
_ the air. In a letter to Dr.
S,. he states that he will
^ke his home here in
The Citizens Bank moved this
week into their new bank build
ing just next door to where they
have been and it is one of
the prettiest bank homes in the
city. It has been fixed up with
every modern convenience for
an up-to-date banking business.
The Citizens Bank has grown
very rapidly and is now one of
the solid institutions ot the city.
Its growth being both a credit
to themselves and a boost to the
town as a banking town. The
officers of the bank have worked
hard to fill a place in the
financial needs of the city their
increased business is testimony
to how well they have done
this. They have pleanty of room
in their new home for any
growth and every kind of a
convenience for their patrons.
The officers this year are W.
G. Powell, President, R. H.
May, Cashier and vice Presi
dent, and E. F. Vickers Asst.
Cashier. They extend an in
vitation to all to visit them in
the new building and make
themselves at home.
BAPTIST TO RAISE MONEY
Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 25—The en
thusiasm with which Baptists
throughout the state have re
ceived the announcement of
plans for the campaign to raise
$500,000 for the principal Baptist
institutions in Georgia encour
ages the executives committee
in charge of the campaign to
believes that it will be a notable
success.
The three institutions for
which the fund is to be raised
are Mercpr University for young
men at Macon, Bessie Tift
College for young women at
Forsyth and the Georgia Bap
tist Hospital in Atlanta.
It has been determined by the
executive committee that none
of the money secured in the
campaign shall be paid out until
the full amount has been sub
scribed.
The campaign is the largest
that was ever undertaken by the
Baptist of Georgia and the plans
have been worked out by a care
fully selected committee of the
leading laymen and ministers of
the denomination.
An interesting marnage oc
curred at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Swicord of the
Fowlstown neighborhood, Sun
day afternoon at two thirty
o’clock.
The contracting parties were
Miss Nellie Swicord. a lovely
young woman who will be great
ly missed by those to whom she
has endeared herself and Mr.
James T. Stanley, a popular
busiiess man of middle Georgia.
The bride and groom were at
tended during the ceremony by
Mr. Luther Swicord, brother of
the bride and Miss Evelyn Don-
alson of Mariola. Rev. Stokes
of Climax in a very impressive
manner, pronounced the words
that made lhis happy couple
man and wife.
„ At three thirty Mr. and Mrs.
, ent that he can get some • Stanley left in a shower ot nee
Ration. When they tiy'fortheirfuturehomenearlrwm-
“®ate they usually go away (ton. Their many friends wish
AND BUSINESS MEN
MEET HERE FEB. 1ST
A party of bankers and busi
ness men of Mississippi will be
in Bainbridge Thursday February
1st and will address the farmers
of the county on the boll weevil
and other matters of business
incident to the boll weevil at
the court house at 10 o’clock.
The meeting will be in the
interest of those that have the
weevil to contend with and
these business men of the state
that has to a marked degree
overcome the ravages of the
weevil. Our people will get
many good ideas by attending
this meeting. Let every citizen
that can attend and get the bene
fit of the experience "of these
men in handling the weevil.
Don’t overlook the date, Thurs
day February 1st at the court
house at 10:00 a. m.
LAUNCHING OF THE SYBIL
Mr. M. L. Martin after years
of hard work on his boat the
Sybil, launched it Saturday in
the presence of a large number
of old friends who have been
Interested in the boat from the
time he started it several years
ago. It is beauty and when it
it was pulled through the city
by a long team of oxen on the
way to the river and it excited
many favorable comments. Mr.
Martin has built the boat by
his own hands and it will be
used to haul excursion parties
up and down the river from
here to Apalachicola and return.
Dead Lakes will be in their in-
tinerary.
The boat is a thing of beauty
and it has set fisherman wild
over the community. The work
is all local nature, everything
on the boat being home made
except the engine. Some of
the best kinds of frolics have
been scheduled since the boat
kissed the river.
THE FARMERS ARE
TO
FERTILIZER EARLY
The shortage of freight cars
may seriously delay the fertilizer
movement and defeat the ‘plant
early’ idea that is being advocat
ed by everyone engaged in the
anti-boll weevii campaign. As a
rule, the average farmer does
not concern himself over railway
problems, car shortages, etc.,
bteause relatively few of them
ship in carload quantities, but if
the present car shortage exists
at the time the farmer usually
orders out their fertilizer, no
matter whether the quantity is
one ton or a carload, it the cars
cannot be had in greater num
ber than the present supply,
many farmers will be disappoint
ed by not receiving his fertilizer
in time to plant his cotton and
other crops early and thus take
the first practical step to get
ahead of the boll weevil.
From the present indications
farmers should be induced to or
der out their fertilizer immedi
ately in order that they may not
be disappointed owing to c,ar
shortage, congestion at terminal
points, etc., which would cause
serious loss to them. Next to
early plowing and preparation,
probably there is no more im
portant thing for the farmer to
do than to order out his fertilizer
in advance of the time he needs
it.
BOLL WEEVIL CAMPAIGN
QUINCY BANKER
KILLED BY AUTO
Prominent Quincy Man Meets Tragic Death Near
Bainbridge—Was Well Known Here.
LOSSES CAUSED
BY NEGLECT
Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 25.—Less
than 25 per-cent of the cultivat-
able land in Georgia is under
cultivation and the percentage
in other southeastern states is
relatively low and it is for the
purpose ot attracting desirable
farmers to this section that the
great Southeastern Land Show
is to be held in this city from
February 1 to 15 inclusive.
The railroads, which are great
ly interested in the objects and
purposes of the show, have given
the cheapest rates that are ever
made except for great national
events like the Panama-Pacific
exposition, and thousands of
visitors are expected.
Exploiting California lands by
means of land shows has been
that state’s most effective met
hod of luring desirale farmers to
the Pacific Coast and the South
eastern Lane Show in Atlanta is
to be modeled on similar lines.
There will be exhibits of farms
from a large number of south
eastern states, consisting of the
samples analvses of soils, andj
samples of crops; figures show-j
ing altitude, average tempera-;
ture and average rainfall: prices, I
etc. The accuracy of exhibits;
will be guaranteed by the Land.
Show and all lands of exhibition j
will be listed for sfile with the I
Burdett Realty Company of this;
city, so that visitor to the show
can make immedia te purchases |
on the assurance m getting ex- i
Atlanta, Ga. January 25—Plans
have been perfected to provide
the bankers and business men
of Georgia, and particulary of
those in the boll weevil belt,
with ammunition for more ef
fective combatting the onward
march of the plague by means
of a campaign of twenty-five
meetings which will be held at
convenient points throughout
the state so as to make them
accessible to every banker and
business man.
One of the principal speakers
will be J. N. Taylor, vice presi
dent and manager of the Miss
issippi Southern Bank at Port
Gibson, Miss., a practical man
who has lived through a boll
weevil plague in the days when
scientific methods had not reach
ed their present degree of ef
ficiency. Mr. Taylor and his
bank not only weathered those
parlous times in Mississippi, but
he and others like him have
brought that state into a new
era of wealth and prosperity.
Mr. Taylor will visit Georgia
as the result of arrangements
made by the Georgia Bankers’
Association. His expenses will
be defrayed jointly by the clear
ing houses of Atlanta, Agusta,
Macon and Savannah, which pay
one-half and the United States
Department of Agriculture, the
other half.
The meetings will begin on
January 29 and the dates during
that month are as follows:
Macon, 29; Albany and Ameri-
cus, 30; Cuthbert and Dawson,
31.
The meetings during Febru-
rary will be held as follows:
Bainbridge and Cairo, 1;
Thomasvi lie and Quitman, 2;
Waycross and Valdosta, 3; Cord-
ele and Tifton, 5; Atlanta, 6 and
6; Columbus, 8; Moultrie, 9; Fitz
gerald and Douglas, 10; Reids-
ville and Swainsboro, 12; States
boro, 14 and Dublin, 14.
‘ ‘One of the most encouraging
things about the Express’ plan of
stopping all papers at expira
tion of time for is that so many
subscribers are enthusiastically
for it,” says the Express of
Knoxville, la.
“When you come to think
about it you will like better one
that stops at the time that one
that runs on indefinitely and
and piles up a bill against you.
“With the new plan you know
that no mistakes will arise and
that your paper is always paid
for. If you pay your subscrip
tion and do not receive the
paper you know at. once that
something is wrong; it is looked
into and corrected while all the
circumstances are fresh in mind.
Under the old flan it an advance
paying subscriber’s remittance
was not credited it might run
on for years and not be noticed;
he would be paying (according
to the books) at the end instead
of the beginning ot the year,
and finally he would feel that he
had lost a year’s subscription—
and maybe he had.
On the outer hand, we have
credited many a subscriber who
honestly got it into his head
that he had paid a year more
than he really had. The new
plan will be free from these
disadvantages. Losses on sub
scription accounts are caused
not so much by those who neg
lect it and overlook it.”
BANK REAL SATURDAY
C. V. McBrian of Atlanta is
spending the week the guest of
spending the
iiii
There was quite a change in
the First National Bank matters
last Saturday. Messrs. Chason,
Nussbaum and Jones buying out
the interests of Messrs Cumm
ings, Shingler and Smith. The
stock brought a good price as
the institution is one of the
most prosperous and solid in the
section. There will be an elec
tion of officers in a short while
or in the usual time allowed by
ISw. Just what brought about
the change has not been given
out, while the matter has been
the source of much discussion
for several days. The policy of
the bank will be the same old
progressive ‘ one and the new
officials will be installed for the
carrying out of that well known
line of progressive banking. It
was one of the largest deals of
the kind ever made in Bain
bridge and very naturally creat
ed interest in commercial circles.
Possibly there will be a state
ment issued as to the matter by
those interested at the proper
time. In the meantime the bank
will go on as it always has, on
a conservative and careful bank
ing system.
Messrs. P. S. Cummings and
John T. McClendon having sold
their stock in the First National
Bank have retired as officers.
The bank under vice-president
M. E. Nussbaum and Cashier
Frank S. Jones will continue the
same liberal treatment to its cus
tomers in this and neighboring
counties as in the past
George Monroe, banker and
prominent citizen of Quincy,
Cashier of the Quincy State
Bank, was killed in an auto
mobile accident just outside of
the city limits of Bainbridge
Friday afternoon about 3:45.
Mr. Monroe had left Bain
bridge on the way to Tbomas-
ville and just on the other side
j of the home of Mr. J. C. Mc-
Caskill the accident occurred.
He had been in conversation
with Mr. Brooks of the Brooks
Garage and insisted that Mr.
Brooks go with him to Thomas-
ville. Mr. Brooks not being able
to go he started on off with his
car and in some manner threw
the car in low gear and put on
all the juice, he ran the car a
short distance and it stopped.
Mr. Brooks started to where it
was to see what he could do and
just before he got there the car
started again in the same
manner and bolted off the road
into a water hole on the side of
the road and turned turtle with
Mr. Monroe under the car. Mr.
Brooks ran to the car but not
being able to lift it off, ran for
aid and by the time he got aid
Mr. Monroe was drowned as his
head was under water all the
time. On examination after
wards by the embalmer it was
found that his neck was broken.
The body was brought to the
undertaking parlors of the Park-
er-McCaskill Company where it
was dressed. Mr. Monroe was
well known in this section and a
good man, a man that had a
vast number of friends and his
death is a distinct loss to his
town and county. He was often
a visitor to Bainbridge and had
a number of good and true
friends here that were shocked
by his tragic death. In a few
hours after his death many auto
mobiles loaded with Quincy folks
were in Bainbridge and their ex
pressions of regret were such
that one could readily see that
all had lost a personal and valu
able friend in the man just
killed. The Monroe family is an
influential family in the affairs
of Gadsden county and they are
a set of people that make friends
fast. Honest and fair in all
their dealings with fellow men
and are well liked. Mr. Charlie
Monroe, with the Friedman To
bacco Company of this city, is a
nephew of the deceased and his
friends here were very deeply
in sympathy with him Friday
when the news of his favorite
uncle’s tragic death was broken
to him. He, too is a man that
numbers his friends by the
number of people that know
him.
The body of Mr. Monroe was
carried to Quincy and buried
there in the famiiy burial
gound. The people of Bain
bridge extend to their sister city
their profoundest sympathy in
the loss of their valuable citizen
and to his family their hearts
go out.
Dr. J. P. Parks, registered
optometrist is now located at C.
C. Norris' Jewelry store. Don’t
fail to read his ad on back page
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The regular services will be
held in this church next Sunday
as follows:
10:00 a. m. Sunday School and
Men’s Bible Class.
11:00 a. m. Morning Prayer
and Sermon.
7:30 p. m. Evening Prayer
and Sermon.
Wednesday at 4:00 p.