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1 — - . HE POST - 8EABCH LIGHT 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