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WSSES SENATE BY
VOTE OF 82 TO 6
, E4DERS URGE VIGOROUS WARE-
InP AGAINST GERMANY—HOUSE
COMMITTEE HAS PASSED RES
OLUTION DECLARING WAR
Washington. April 5—Congress is now at work on the
solution, with prospects of remaining in session con-
until it is disposed of.
The senate. by unanimous consent, took up the resolution
clock, with administration leaders determined to per-
other business to interfere.
Senator Hitchcock in his opening statement, said that
kthe time for “action, not discussion.”
He briefly discussed the resolution, which he said places
visibility for the war on the German Government... He
that it is unquestionably a declaration of war. He said
he was not filled with joy at the prospect of war, but that
nited States, desiring no territory, was going into the
to vindicate its honor and independence.
Senator Hitchcock said that he begged the President, if
ble. to remain under a policy of armed neutrality, but
the President had information Which made such a course
ssible.
Senator Lodge said that the United States should seize
inn ships in United States ports and use them to replace
hips which German submarines have sunk... He said the
td States is entering the war to help preserve human
democracy and civilization.
Chairman Stone, of the foreign relations committee, in a
spech. opposed the resolution, but pledged himself to do
vthing in his power to help wage the war successfully.
BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1917.
1.50 PER YEAR
CHAUTAUQUA
ADVERTISING
MEN ARE HERE
THIS HAS BEEN SELECTED AS
THE TEMPORARY ADVERTIS
ING HEADQUARTERS FOR
THIS SECTION
Four Lincoln Chautauqua Adver
tising Men made Bainbridge their
head quarters the first half of the
week. Messrs. G. C. Rheinfrank, J.
T. Hughes, A. H. Paisley and 0. O.
Bottorf.
Mi's. Rheinfrank came from Chi
cago and joined her husband here.
They will visit all the towns booked
along the rounting of the Five Day
Lincoln Chautauqua circuit.
Mr. Hughes went to Tallahassee,
Mr. Paisley to Ozark, Mr. 0. 0. Bot
torf will finish advertising our town.
The dates, banners and pennants
are already in evidence, and more
material will be put out by the five
j day man, who comes five days before
the opening of the assembly.
Another conference of seven or
eight advance men will be held here
in three weeks. This makes Bain-
bridge the temporary headquarters
for Hie Lincoln Advertising forces.
They say they selected our town be-
(cause of its attractiveness and good
hotel accommodations
Mr. Rheinfrank is delighted with
the outlook.
BASE BALL
DIRECTORS HELD
MEETING MONDAY
THOMASON
HASRESIGNED
OF LOCAL SCHOOLS RE
RE-ELECTION AFTER
AND EFF1CENT SERVICE
iCESSOIt NOT NAMED
F. Thomason of the local
stem will leave Bainbridge
ipiration of his present trem.
tion was refused by Prof,
for another year, and he is
making his plans for other
he board of education bought
on Academy street, and will
use it as a home for future
indents.
understood from those close
tiring superintendent that he
ingage in teaching for some
future, that his time will
to further preparation at
the big universities,
lomson came to Bainbridge
ago, succeeding Supt. Cald-
"tring that time the schools
iperienced wonderful growth
grade of the school has
ised. His superintendency
the erection of the splen-
’ ouilding now in use and has
school almost double its
force. Only two teachers
i ln t ' le High school when he
■te, notv there are five or six.
00 then stood very low
tfle “"edited High Schools of
t rju ^ ranks with the best.
„ ar education has not an-
successor to Prof. Thom-
are
in the
rat k wwa. u
■ a batch of applications
some men high
GOOD FRIDAY AND
EASTER SERVICES
SPECIAL OFFERINGS AVILL BE
TAKEN DURING THE MORN-
HOUR OF WORSHIP TO FINISH
PAYING FOR ORGAN.
St. John’s Episcopal Church will
observe Good Friday with Morning
Prayer and Sermon at 10:30 A. M.,
Litany Service at 6:00 P. M.
Easter Sunday Celebration of the
Holy Communion at 7:30 A. M., Sun
day School at 10:00 A. M., Children’s
Easter Service at 4:30. P. M.
No night service.
The Easter offering at the mid-day
service at the Episcopal church will
be for the Organ fund, and it is hop
ed that a liberal offering will be
made.
The new organ was placed in the
church just one year ago at a cost
of $460.00 and up to the present
time the congregation has paid $340.
leaving a balance of $110.00 still due.
We are anxious to get this amount
paid off as soon as possible and for
that reason a special appeal is made
for a liberal Easter Offering.
The people of Bainbridge are most
cordially invited to attend the ser
vices on Easter Sunday as well as on
Good Friday.
The next meeting of St. Mary’s
Guild of the Episcopal Church will be
held Monday afternoon at the resi-
denc of Mrs. W. H. Russell at 4:30
p.m. and every member of the Guild
is urged to be present.
*1 education are seeking the
!0 REGIMENT
ANSWER CALL
bv l ' ' -April 5—In case of
,v 6Siderit W '* 30n for voiuri-
of this , army ’ C ' L ' S - Taylor,
u v i 7 V ’ who or «tanized and
fcrs nf v nei;ro re Kiment of
J , ' “T 1 Carolina during
ri%' : , rican war - wi!i offer
rtct 3n or; ’ an ’ ze a regiment
*£d .7".' taat h* 8 people are
fcitrv's . if ^ rom Pt to answer
ai 7 ' 0ther negro lead-
D x;i f have expressed them-
n? t0 13 ke up arms.
f AttamT'f', 3 charmin B yoftng
’ Mis - v ^ Js the city
stelle Darsey.
P H. *7* *
he, ho tlan retu med to-
■* !ev e , m f J n Columbus, after
• »: : A'.' with her par-
3 - T. M. Christian.
COUNCIL MET IN
REGULAR SESSION
Council met in regular session Mon
day, April 2, 1917.
Those present were Mayor Calla
han, Aldermen, Lain*?, Lane Carter,
Field, and Nussbaum.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
Upon motion of Alderman Nuss
baum seconded by Alderman Carter,
it was moved and carried that the
street committee look in the matter
of securing sewage outlets for the
stores between Broutrhton and Troupe
streets and Broad and West Streets,
the connections desiring to be made
coming from the alley running east
and west between the above block.
H. B. Rich, chief of the fire depart
ment sent in his resignation as chief
of the department and it was upon
motion of Alderman Lane seconded
by Alderman Carter, accepted.
License for the year 1917 were fix
ed, same being published in the Post-
Search Light.
There being no further business
council adjourned.
FANNIE WARD AT
CALLAHAN THEATRE
THIS POPULAR STAR OF THF.
SCREEN WILL BE SEEN HERE
AT HER BEST IN “BETTY TO
THE RESCUE.’’
Henry Sherwin has every cent in
vested in a mine which is apparently
valueless. James Fleming, a mine
expert, discovers a rich vein of gold
in the mine but keeps it secret. Mr.
Sherwin dies suddenly and leaves
Betty, his daughter, in the care of
John Kenwood and his sister, Con
stance who, finding the estate worth
less, allows Betty to believe she has
an incime. She goeB to boarding
school, lives luxuriously, and whan
she returns she is shocked to find
John and Constance working, so she
hires two servants.
A frost wipes out the orange crop,
their last hope. Fleming proposes to
Betty and is refused. Betty tells
Johnhe may have all her money, and
although heartbroken and discourag
ed, he is greatly amused. Fleming
finally tells Betty her mine is worth
less, again asks her to marry him and
is again refused. Betty dreams she
sees gold pouring from her mine and
runs away.
Going to the mine she finds Big
Jim, and together they search for
gold. The boys “salt” the mine and
Betty is delighted at her supposed
find of gold. She learns of the joke
and decides to try her luck at gamb
ling. She stakes hor nuggets in a
roulette game and loses. Fleming
finds her share and takse her in his
arms, announcing she is to become
his wife just as Kenwood enters.
As Jim and the proprietor of the
gambling house are looking over the
nuggets Jim notices a strange one—
asks Betty where she found it. She
leads him to the mine and he dis
covers a rich vein—worth a million.
Flemming’s conspiracy is discovered
and he is invited to leave. John
takes Betty in his arms and tells her
he has always loved her, and is in
formed ofthe discovery of the gold.
Monday Night, April 9th.
OFFICERS ELECTED FOR BASE
BALL ASSICIATION—CHARTER
ACCEPTED—MORE FUNDS TO
BE RAISED
At a meeting held in the office of
Mayor Callahan Monday afternoon
directors and officers and directors
were named for the local baseball
club for this year.
It was decided to accept the chart
er from President Ward, and to go
forward with raising the additional
funds required for operation this
year. Messrs. J. B. Ehrlich, P. T.
Rich and M. E. Nussbaum were nam
ed as a committee to receive sub
scriptions.
The directors of the club are
Messrs E. J. Perry, H. L. Cans, D. L.
Schakleford, F. A. Cohen, P. T. RicH,
Max Kwilecki, C. S. Haddon, J. B.
Ehrlich, .T. W. Callahan, I.. A. Fried
man, H. S. Richardson, S. II. Brant
ley, M. E. Nussbaum and A. B. Belch
er.
The officers of the club are Messrs.
J. W. Callahan, President; L. A.
Friedman, Vice-President; D. L. Gib
son, Secretary; and E. S. Varner,
Treasurer.
BIG INDUSTRIAL AND
HOME TRADE EDITION
WILL BE ISSUED SOON
DR. CARL MINOR
HEAD COX COLLEGE
FORMER PASTOR OF BAINBRIDE
BAPTIST CHURCH NAMED
PRESIDENT OF IMPORTANT
DEMONINATIONAL SCHOOL.
Help Little Merchant
Be a Big Merchant
The man or woman who patronizes
a store in some larger town or city
when it comes to important purchas
es, end runs to the local stores to buy
some trifling order in an emergency,
should not be surprised to find that
the local merchant hasn’t a stock as
complete as a ten-story department
store.
The following story appearing in
Sunday's issue of the Atlanta Con
stitution will prove of interest to Dr.
Minor’s many Bainbridge friends.
Dr. Minor served for several years
as pastor of the First Baptist Church
of this city, and holds a warm place
in the hearts of Bainbridge people,
regardles of denomination affiiliation.
Cox college is one of the leading'
educational institutions of the Bap
tist people, and the election of Mr.
Minor to the presidency is a wise
move.
Cox college is to be a greater in
stitution for young women. Plans
have been devised by which it is to
be placed in the hands of a self-per
petuating board of trustees, and a
number of prominent men have al
ready ben selected.
The plans include raising a large
endowment and enlarging the field to
make it a great all-southern insti
tution.
Rev. Carl W. Minor, D. D., of Madi
son, Ga., has been chosen to head the
college. Dr. Minor is a bachelor of
arts of Merger university. The uni
versity conferred also the degree of
D. D. At the Southern Baptist Theo
logical seminary he received the de
gree of Th. G. He spent one year in
study in Berlin, Germany.
Upon Mr. Minor will fall largely
the responsibility of carrying out the
plans for development. The college
may be regarded as fortunate in se
curing his service. He is a man of
exceptional qualifications for the im
portant work. He is well-known in
Georgia, where he has successfully
held several important pastorates,
and he is esteemed as one of the lead
ing minister- in the state'. He has
been closely identified with denomina
tional work for many years, and is
now president of the Georgia Baptist
board of missions. It would have
been difficult to find a man so well
adapted to this great work.
After June 1 the college will be un
der the management of Dr. Minor
and Professor Cox as associate presi
dents and Dr. E. C. James as dean.
WORK ON THE BIG TRADE EDITION
WITH A BOOM— SPECIAL WRITER
AND PHOTOGRAPHER NOW
ON THE JOB.
ON
As was confidently expected the Big Industrial and Home
Trade Edition of The Post-Search Light bids fair to exceed
in size and scope of any edition of its kind ever issued in
South Georgia.
Already many of our most prominent manufacturers
and business men have subscribed for space liberally and
Photographer South is busy taking th>e pictures with which
to illustrate the edition.
. This big booster issue in adition to going into every home
in Decatur County, will be circulated in every State in the
Union under the plan worked out by th«e management and
should be of incalculable good to the city and county at large.
Every line of business in the county should be represent
ed and those who have not already taken space are urged to
get in at once so that the writers may have time to do them
justice.
We want the outside world to know what we are accom
plishing down here in God’s country and the only way to do
this successfully is to “show” them in pictures and story.
If our solicitors have not called upon you as yet, call us
up and make an appointment.
Your aid and co-operation is desired, in this the biggest
effort ever made by a newspaper in Decatur County.
MITCHELL ADDS
TO FOOD CROPS
COTTON ACREAGE, ALREADY
OUT 40 PER CENT IS STILL
FURTHER REDUCED BY PLOW
ING UP PLANTED CROP.
Camilla, Ga., April 6—Mitchell
county will have more acreage this
year in foodstuffs and less in cotton
than there has been in good many
years.
The cotton acreage, which was cut
around forty per cent, to begin with,
is being further reduced daily, a good
many farmers are plowing up what
has been planted, and this acreage
placed in corn, velvet beans and pea
nuts.
The acreage in cantaloupes and
melons is about the same as former
ly, also some few acreB in potatoes
for market.
Most of the decrease in the cotton i
acreage has been placed in peanuts,
which has never been grown in this
section extensively for the market i
until the present yeur.
This city has in operation now u ]
velvet bean mill, and the oil mill is
preparing to handle the peanut pro!
duction. There ure a good many corn I
buyers, so from the present outlook, |
competition among the business hous
es here will see to it that the market
for the different crops are kept up to
the standard, if not over.
JUDGE WADE POURS
OUT HIS BOOZE
THIS IS THE.ONLY REAL. BONA-
FIDE SACRIFICE OF SPIRITS
WE HAVE HEARD FROM SO
FOR SINCE THE BONE DRY.
Atlanta, Ga. April!)—Ladies and
getlemen, rise and give the Chautau
qua salute to the only Georgian who
sacrificed his liquor when the legis
lature passed the bone-dry prohibi
tion law. ’*
His name is Peyton L. Wade and
he is the chief justice of the state
court of appeals.
Yes, yes, It’s true and the news
papers have been printing stories
about the scores of sorrowful citizens
who poured their whiskey into kitch
en sinks on the morning when the law
went into effect, but that was all bur
lesque.
The only real, bona-fire, hones-to-
goodness outpouring of the spirits
was in the case of Judge Wade. He
had two quarts of whiskey unopened
in his medicine chest, and when the
law went into effect he did not feel
that he could keep it any longer, oc
cupying the position which he does,
where he will very likely be called
upon to decide certain questions in
volving the constitutionality of the
bone dry law.
DEATH OF MR. JONES
Savannah, Ga., April 5—Mr. A. P.
Jones, 46 years of age and a resi
dent of Faceville, died this morning
at a local hospital after an illness of
long duration. Messrs. Fox & Weeks
undertakers, who have charge of the
body are in communication with the
relatives of the deceased, who reside
»t River Junction, Fla.
WORK PROGRESSING
ON NEW HOSPITAL
The Bainbridge Hospital Building,
on West and Evans Streets, is begin
ning to assume proportion very pro
portions very rapidly. All of the
frame work is practically complete,
and the stucco is being put on.
The building will be a three story
structure, and in architectural ap
pointment and utilitarian complete
ness, will be one of the foremost in
the state. Dr. Alford is giving the
community a real asset in this splen
did new structure.
EASTER SERVICE AT
METHODIST CHURCH
DR. CHRISTIAN PREACHES AN
EASTER SERMON AT THIS
CHURCH DURING THE MORN
ING WORSHIP.
Sunday morning at the First Meth
odist church, Easter will be observed.
The pastor, Dr. Christian will preach
an Easter sermon, using as his sub
ject, “The Nature of the Resurrec
tion Body.” The choir will render
, fine music, oppropriate to the occas-
' sion, and the church will be beautiful-
I ly decorated.
! Dr. Christian announces that at 6
; o’clock Sunday afternoon at the
! church, he will meet all the parents
who wish their babies consecrated to
j God and administer the rite of Bap-
| tism to the little ones. The larger
; children and adults who wish to be
! received into church membership,
j will meet him at the parsonage Sat-
1 urday afternoon at three o’clock that
he may instruct them before rcceiv-
, ing them ineruchth ETAOI E EEE
, ing them in the church on Easter
Sunday.
WEEKLY PROGRAM
CALLAHAN THEATRE
With the fifth Episode of “Patria”
the big serial play presenting Mrs.
Vernon Castle at The Callahan Thea
tre tomorrow, Friday, manager Brac-
kin offers as an added attraction a
good two reel Keystone Comedy “The
Best of Eenemies,” featuring the
famous comedians, Weber and Fields
Saturday the offering will be ifiss
Bessie Barryscale in “The Golden
Claw”
Monday of next week brings to us
little Fannie Ward in the Jesse L.
Lasky production of “Betty ta the
Rescue” a paramount picture far
above the average. Miss Ward' will
be remembered for her excellent work
in “The Cheat” and other paramount
pictures.
Tuesday brings to us the Big Star
of “The Birth of A Nation," Henry
Walthal in the big Triangle offering
“The Pillars of Society,” Mr. Wal
thall will have assistance of a splen
did cast and the directors of Thomas
H. Ince. |
Wednesday's sno A
Paramount pictu
That” with owe’
Fenwick feature.