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BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8. 1917
$1.50 PER YEAR
„„ e the negroes that went
„ the early fall, was one
'ell known here as a very
fan named VV. G. Battle,
lter He is a hit above the
L in intelligence and a
observer. He writes the
below for the information
e people of his race and
[or same out of bis own
Trenton, N. J.
Feb. 4, 1917
rPost-Searchlight.
abridge, Ga.
gi r: -A triend of mine
8 by mail a recent copy of
iper, dated January 25th,
I enjoyed 1 reading very
as I am a colored man,
[ er of the home paper and
„ southerner I enjoy read-
ver line of the Post-Search
lam from and love Bain-
and Decatur County. I
id that they were on a cer-
late to hold a mass meeting
unilla, Ga., to discuss the
sale exodus of the negroes
the south.
»Mr. Griffin, in my weak
ation the only way to stop
movement is to stop the
they have such
h tongues and are so smart
most of the officers can’t
them. When they get
|gh making promises to the
people they will agree
i them and will not give
away,and once they are up
they must work for they
[not got money to return on.
[officers of Bainbridge are
well on the job so far as
the labor agents get
to some towns down there
ve in broad daylight and
cers could not catch a
1 the tail if he was hog
The thing to do is to get
iding colored men to take
d in this matter, better
man that has really been
in the last two months
could state to them the
Conditions of the colored
the north. It is true
y Pay good wages here
jy you promptly, but the
is too hard for most of
«weather too cold for
ide, most of the work
and the roughest kind,
mometer registered
a little below zero and
how a southern man
the face of that. Lots
wished themselves back
3ll th. Provisions are so
^ it takes all the high
^ '' Ve ’ Huy coal and pay
think of paying 72
P ec k for sweet pota-
■ ^ many of them are so
as myself, as I am used
weather and to cold cli-
besides I have a job
t *at pays well and I am
I* outside work. But the
° has a family to sup-
, w b° does not know
Cut C(J >nmon labor had
ln the south. Some
'.ored ceo Ple from the
of which I was talk-
the ear last week,
* hard for 15 years
,L ?,t a sm all plantation
^ month of December
0r half p r i ce or i ess
now about spent the
• J he c an’t stand the
just as well might
. out of doors. What
‘ Jave wrote lots of my
- true conditions of
J 8 . the n arth, but it is
ii„ ? r me to write them
°na doing nicely
arc many snfferirig.
. ‘ tiffin, to stay in
OR. COOPER ARRESTED
Dr. Cooper, the woll known
colored physician who operates a
drug store on Water street was
arrested Saturday afternoon,
charged with selling intoxicants.
A drunken negro was arrested
and on being released he went
to find him another drink. The
Sheriff followed and watched him
go into Cooper’s drug store. The
negro was just about to take the
drink when the Sheriff arrested
him and found that the drink he
was buying was alcohol and
sweet syrup. Dr. Cooper has
been under suspicion for some
time and this case will be a con
viction.
WEEVIL DESTROYER
Mr. L. F. Patterson, former
! Sheriff and State Senator from
this county and a well known
citizen of this section has per
fected the patent, Patterson’s
Boll Weevil Destroyer and has
it on sale now. Mr. Patterson
has given the matter serious and
careful thought and has suceed-
ed in getting the Destroyer to
where it is cheap, effective and
in the reach of everybody.
The implement is now on exhi
bition at the Southeastern Land
Show in Atlanta now with good
results. The friends of Mr.
Patterson here will be glad to
learn that he has contributed
a valuable implement to fight the
boll weevil.
IT SPRING CREEK CHURCH
The Union meeting of the South
western Association will con
vene with Spring Creek church
on the 27, 28 and 29 of April.
Everybody idvited to come and
bring well filled baskets.
NEGRO BOY IS
KILLEO BY MULE
John Davis, a negro boy that
worked on the place of Mr. Bob
Blount near Chattahoochee was
killed Saturday evening by a
mule in a very peculiar way.
John had been plowing the mule,
which was blind, and after start
ing in after knocking off the
mule got frightened and threw
him. The boy was tangled up,in
the gear in some manner and
killed outright. The boy was
said to be a pretty good worker
and the accident was regreted
by the tolks interested.
IT BROKEN FOR
BAINBRIDGE
Mr. F. P. Golucke left Tues
day for Milledgeville where he
will make his future home, hav
ing accepted a position as mana
ger of the Fowler Lumber Co.,
of that city. Mr. Golucke is an
experienced variety workman
ana will make good in his new
place.
The Mayor is going to enforce
the cut-out law against the auto
owners. It has got to where you
can hardly carry on a conver
sation on the side walks because
of the noise ot the cut out and
nothing seems to be good for
it except a good dose munici
pal viglance.
Work began Monday morning
on the New Hospital to be erect
ed on the Cummings property at
the intersection of West and
Evans streets. This issue of the
paper carries an application for
a charter of Ludlam Construct
ing Company who will have
charge of the work.
The site is a pretty one and
che building we are informed
will be a magnificent modern
hospital building. Dr. Alford has
been in the city tor two years
past and has during that time
made a number of friends who
will learn with pleasure that this
woik on the hospital has begun.
More information will be given
out later.
FREE IIR IT THE
RICH AUTO SUPPLY CO
The following from the Motor
Age will show the need of the
auto driver being careful to
have his tires always blown up.
The Rich Auto Supply puts this
before you for thought.
Philadelphia, Jan. 25 — Two-
thirds of the power lost between
your engine and the rear wheels
of your car is caused directly by
the tire3. If you run your car
with the tires inflatted to 30 lb.
when they ought to have 80 lb.
in them, it takes 25 per cent
more power to drive the car
along the roads.
THIS “GODMOTHER"
GETS SEVERE
citizens and try to gain the
confidence of the people down
there and keep it. If I ever buy
any property it will be Georgia
Soil and not on a little 2x4
crowded street in the north.
Publish this letter for the
benefit of the colored people
who are preparing to comej
north in the spring and send me;
bill for the charges. There is a
great number of Southern negros
now in the hospitals with pneu
monia, contracted by trying to
work out doors without the prop
er clothing which they did not
bring and are not able to buy t
after they get there. I truly feel
sorry for them when I see them j
shivering in the cold. If I could
give all of them work inside with |
me I would do so. But I am
helpness towards them. I feel
that the Post Searchlight could
tell more of them than I am able
to write to. The thermometer
hangs around zero nearly all the
time, while the sun in Bainbridge
is bright and warm. Please send
bill for publishing this letter to
my people.
Respectfully,
W. G. Battle,
274 Courtland St.,
Beginning with tomorrow
Manager BracKin of the Calla
han Threatre announces an ex
ceptionally good offering of pic
ture plays. For tomorrow Mr.
Frank Keenan in the Phantom
a five reel Triangle will be the
feature, following the Phatom
there will be shown on Saturday
the David Griffith Star, Miss Mae
Marsh (famous for her work in
Birth of a Nation) in The Wild
Girl of the Sierras, a Fine Arts
Play in five parts. Monday, Feb.
13th there will be shown a Para
mount picture with The Jesse
L. Lasky’s Paramount favorite
Marguerite Clark in her very
best picture play, “Miss George
Washington,” a most beautiful
photoplay comedy. Tuesday Feb.
14th will bring to us a Keystone
Comedy and on Wednesday Feb.
15th we have in Fainbndge Cleo
Ridgley and Wallace Reid, in
“The Yellow Pawn,” a picture
drama exposing the merciless
method of the third degree.
Thursday Feb. 16th the Tri
angle Film Corporation, offers
De Wolf Hopper in “Casey at
the Bat” Triangle Comedy in
parts, this is a fine arts and
picture and will please every-
* HOW TO BANISH HAIRS
(From Beauty Secrets)
Ugly hairy growths can be
removed in the privacy of your
own home if you get a small
original package ot medol and
mix into a paste enough of the
powder and water to cover the
hairy surface. This should be
left on the skin about two
minutes, then removed and the
skin washed, and every trace of
hair will have vanished. No
ham or inconvenience can re
sult Tom this treatment, but be
sure you buy real medol, which
is inexpensive. Mail orders fill-
ed by > American Propri ‘
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 8.—One
little American “Godmother”
whose notes and socks to soldi
ers in the trenches have been
her method of showing her ad
miration for the brave fighters,
has had the romance knocked
out of her efforts.
In sending a pair of nice warm
socks to a British soldier, the
charming young lady pinned her
visiting card inside, hoping she
might get a letter in turn from
the unknown recipient of the
socks. It came and she looked
at the envelope, and pictrured
a tall handsome khaki-clad
Adonis, carefully penning a mis
sive of thanks which might lead
to—who knows what?
She quickly tore off the “open
ed by the censors” label, and
this is what she found inside:
Socks received, Lady;
They almost fit.
I wear one lor a helmet
AnU one for a mit,
I hope to meet you when I’ve
done my bit—
But where in hell
Did you learn to knit?
AS USUAL
Saturday and Sunday were two
days that everybody wanted
their daily papers to enable them
to know what government was
doing in the critical minutes that
confronted it and as usual those
two days we had no mail ser
vice because of delayed trains
and mis-connections. This will
happen everytime the people have
any real intense desire to know
what is going on. If there is a
public matter pending that good
citizens are naturally interested
in, the inevitable thing is that
we have no mails for two or
three days. It has got to the
point where it is disgusting and
it does seem that unless there
is real rank neglect and careless,
it is rotten service. The people
are tiring ot such work. Yet the
railroads are wanting more
money to handle the mails. The
more negligent the service seems,
the more money they ask.
BANK OF ATTAPULCIIS
We call attentiou to the ad
vertisement of the bank of
Attapulgus in this issue. This
institution has made marvelous
progress in the past few years
as its statement will show. It is
located in a good' section and is
well on the road to prosperity.
Read their advertisement closely
and you will be interested very
much. Careful banking methods
mark their every transaction.
COMPANY GETS CONTRACT
The Ludlam Construction Co.,
formerly of Jacksonville, Fla.,
has been awarded the contract
for the erection of the Bainbridge
Hospital. Ground has already
been broken. Mr. Ludlam is
well known in Florida where he
has been in the construction
business for over fifteen years,
and is a graduate of the Drexel
Institute of Philadelphia. The
building is to be three stones,
cement stucco and to be of the
most modern type with electric
elevators.
This hospital when completed
will be the most completely
equipped and appointed in this
section of the south. The Lud
lam Construction Co., is a per
manent business in Bainbridge.
About Constipation.
Certain articles of diet tend to
check movements of the bowels.
The most common of these are
i cheese, tea and boiled milk. On
i the steet hand raw fruits, es
pecially apples and bananas, also
! graham bread and whole wheat
i bread promote a movement of
1 the bowels. When the bowels
are badly constipated, however,
the sure way is to take one or
two of Chamberlain’s Tablets
immediately after supper.
FOR SALE—Three good brood
A RIG ADVERTISER
Atlanta, Ga., February 8.—The
amount expended annually by
Asa. G. Candler, mayor of At
lanta, in advertising his well-
known soda fount drink would
make a fortune sufficient to jus
tify any individual of reasonable
requirements in retiring from
business to live on his income.
There may be other ways to
achieve success in business, but
there is none in the world like
advertising, as pointed out by
Mr. Candler in an interesting
sketch of his life contained in
“The Keystone,” published by
the Southern States Life Insur
ance Company, of which Mr.
Candler is a director.
It was advertising that built
Mr. Candler’s great business-
advertising coupled with tremen
dous amount of energy and abil
ity it is true, but advertising
nevertheless, tor without it lfis
product would never have been
known beyond the limits of a
narrow area. And in the build
ing of his great success Mr.
Candler has been one of the
largest users of newspaper ad
vertising space of any advertiser
in the country.
W. C. T. 0..MEETING
The Bainbridge W. C. T. U.
will hold their annual Frances
Willard Memorial Meeting at the
home of Mrs. W. C. Cox on
Thursday Feb. 15th. Following
is the program:
A Dreamer and a Doer—Mrs.
Mathews.
The memorial Fund—Mrs. C.
B. Scott.
Symposium — “Organized
Mother Love, a Factor in Cam
paigns,” participated in by mem
bers of Union.
Prohibitions Onward March.
Mr. Leon Manning returned
Sunday from Atlanta where he
had been several days on busi
ness. The extreme cold weather
hindering traveling very much
THE CALLAHAN THEATRE
It is with much interest that
the amusement loving public of
Bainbridge and surrounding'
territory should view the possi
bility of there being secured for
the Callahan Theatre the very
best attraction that has been
sent south this season.
The Albany Herald of Feb.
3rd, sa^p: “Attraction last night
was best of season, while some
excellent attractions have been
at the new auditorium since its
opening in October it would not
be casting any reflections on
those that came before to say
that the one of last night Mr.
Robert Edesonin“His Brothers
Keeper” was the most thouro-
uglily enjoyed production of the
season for there was not a
moment during the entire four
acts that the audiance was not
held at the highest tension.”
The Company is billed as “Mr.
Robert Edeson and an exception
al strong company” and such it
is for there is not a single flaw
in the cast. Each character looks
as if the actor was moulded for
the part and it is the best balan
ced cast ever seen on the local
stage.
After reading the above as well
as the daily press of Savannah,
Macon and Atlanta and the large
cities of the south that give Mr.
Edeson credit for having the best
offering of the season it is to be
hoped that everyone will enthus
iastically support local Manager
Brac.kin in his effort to bring this
steller attraction to Bainbridge.
FLOYO-HARRELL
Cordial interest centers in the
marriage of MiSs Hortence
Marie Floyd and Mr. Irving
Jackson Harrell, which was
baeutifully solemnized Wednes
day morning at 10o’clock at the
home of the bride's parents.
The Rev. James E. Ward officat-
ing.
The front living room where
the ceremony was performed
was elaborately decorated with
stately palms and ferns. Quanti
ties of Carnations and Narcissis
were used to adorn the reception
hall and the rooms where the
guests assembled.
Before the bridal party enter
ed, Mr. Richard -Hart sang,
“Somewhere a Voice is calling.”
Mrs. W. R. Latham, a sister of
the bride, played the wedding
march. Standing with the bride
groom were Miss Emmie Fioyd
and Mr. Randall Harrell of Sand-
ersyille, a brother of the groom.
The bride was dressed in a
traveling suit of blue chiffon
broadcloth trimmed in moleskin
and her flowers were a corsage
of white roses and valley lillies.
Immediately following the
ceremony an informal reception
was held and refreshments were
served carrying out the color
scheme of white and Green.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrell left for
Anderson, S, C., for their future
home.
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND
THROAT SPECIALIST
Dr. P. M. Lewis announces
that he has opened offices in Bain
bridge for the purpose of treat
ing Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Diseases exclusively. Your at
tention is called to his card in
this paper.
good brood