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BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1917.
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ONALSONVILLE IS READY FOR HER BIG CELEBRATION WEEK
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.ihine Money And Science
ve Produced Will Be Found
New Institution. — Free
tractions Will Be Given
, For The Poor.—Trus-
and Committee Named.
»ly
V Bainbridge Hospital,
the corner of West and
streets, will be ready for
(y within the next few days,
building Bainbridge and this
of the stae have an institu-
which they can well afford to
Dr. A. E. B. Alford, the
and proprietory, has spared
pains nor expense to make it
to the best.
Alford came to Bainbridge a
stranger about three years ago
led a small frame building on
ill street. In this time he has
p for himself a reputation for
so great that he reecives
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA FAIR WILL
OPEN THIRD ANNUAL PAGEANT
TUESDAY MORNING WITH BEST
PROSPECTS OF ANY YEAR YET
^StockWiS'Z,™ ^H»S V w^ n nH inSr , S ,? en i n . The Big Fairs in Macon and Atlanta. Live
btock Will Be b iom Heids Which Have Won Prizes From The Lakes To The Gulf An Extra
“/Has Been Erected To Take Care Of The increasedErfShta From Ladts. Midway
ThP Mfdwnv AtWH 101 * 6 A tt J a NT tlV cJ han r> Ever * George T - Reynolds Shows Will Form The
The Midway Attractions And No Shows But Clean Ones Will Be Given. Football Games May
Be Arranged, and Aeroplane Flights are Planned. Baloon If Airship Can Not Be Secured.
Everything is ready, and when the
gates are thrown open next Tuesday
morning at 8:00 o’clock, the South
west Georgia Fair will reveal the
greatest example of preparedness
ever seen in this section.
The Donalsonville people have
made preparations on a larger scale
than ever before this year, adopting
as their slogan “Bigger and Better,”
and that they will have lived up to it
in ample style can be demonstrated
to the thousand who will throng- the
grounds and buildings each day.
The people of Donalsonville have
from all over this territory,,| established for themselves throughout
more than 100 miles away, and j ^his section an enviable record in
gnificent new building is the| mattera of progress and enterprise.
Iiwth of his greatly enlarged The keynote to thejr achievements is
one that other communities could well
afford to sound—co-operation. Those
people, like all other humans, have
their difference, be it politics, religion
or whatnot, but when it come to Don
alsonville and the community’s wel
fare ever shoulder is instantly
against the wheel of progress. Civic
pride is strong and slackers in the
cause cannot flourish over there.
This very Southwest Georgia Fair
ring.
irew building, which Dr. Al-
mnounced to a Post-Search
reporter has already cost more
110,000.00, will be one of the
rest hospital or sanitarium
in the state. It will have 62
and will be capable of taking
more than 100 patients,
building is of concrete affair,
after the Italian style of archi
with the Italian pagoias at
of the walks leading down to
and Evans streets. Malaga,
keetwater grape vines will be
over these, and the lawns will
iled in Kentucky blue grass,
ridding itself will be fire-proof,
■proof anil dust proof. Floors are
and not a particle of noise
as one walks from room to
* through the halls. There
1110 brooms or dusters in the
A vacuum system of sweep-
11 dusting will be installed.
* brtt floor, as you enter from
■beet, there is a drinking foun-
the left and a United States
°n the right. Just off the
“ e left is a physicions’ writ-
-equipped with tables, chairs
* s - On the right is the hos-
■ 7 oonnecting with which is
“for the nurses.
4ce
In the hos-
ago. The European war had juht be-[alsonville owns its own grounds and
gun and business was staggering building. The grounds are large and
along the uncertain brink of chaos, commodious, embracing about thirty
Those people decided the best fogm of I acres. There arc ample building
advertising would come to them this year for all the exhibits which
is regulated by different color- through an agricultural fair each fall, will be greatly increased in number,
h* which flash as patient rihgs showing the wonderful agricultural A new building has just been com-
Jrirte, and registers the second resourees of that favored and pro-1 pleted for ladies’ work and arts.
'* ma,le When the nurse an- gressive section,
“ e eall she turns out the light I The conce Ption was herioc in
is a switch board for the
etetrie call sys tem.
This
wealth these people had made the
first year. The result was that the
second year brought the fair up to a
self-sustaining basis, as much as has
ever been expected of it. Those who
put their money into it never ex
pected to make a profit for them
selves being satisfied if the fair paid
expenses and advertised Donalson
ville sufficiently for the general pros
perity of the community to increase.
Third in The State
It is the claim of the promoters
this year that the Donalsonville fair
will be the third largest agricultural
show in the state, and will yield to
none in excellence. This is a board
assertion, when one takes into con
sideration the many excellent agri
cultural fairs to be seen in Georgia
from year to year, but seeing is be
lieving. If you doubt it go over this
fall and see the wonderful wealth of
that marvelous section as it will be
displayed in this jam-up little show.
The premium list of the Southwest
Georgia Fair is larger than that offer-
ered at fairs in places of 10,000 peo
ple. Think of a town of 1200 peo
ple putting on a fair that offers cash
is a mammoth monument to the pro-1 prizes to the amount of $2,500. There
gressive and enterprising spirit of j are many places in Georgia where
Donalsonville. There will not be ajyou couldn’t raise $2,500 in cash to
better agricultural fair in the South get the biggest trunk line railroad on
this year than this same Southwest the capital of the United States, yet
Georgia Fair. Trtiere may be, and no'those people lok on this as no' un
doubt will be, larger ones, but for the I usual achievement,
quality of its exhibits there will be j As a matter of comparison, if Don-
none to surpass our hustling neigh- alsonville’s ratio of $2.00 in premium
bor.
Three Years Old
for every member of her population
were followed, Atlanta would have to
The Southwest Georgia Fair is just offer P rem > um to the amount of
three years old; in fact this year’s i to mabe ber Southeastern
exhibition will be the third annual j *'. air 8<laa * relatively to^ Donalson
event. The fair association has been ' 1 ’ “ r ’~ "
in existence less than three years.
The idea of the Donalsonville fair
grew out of a board of trade in ex
istence at Donalsonville a few years
ville. Macon’s State Fair would
have to come across with premiums
to the amount of about $150.00.
Ample Space Provided
The fair association over at Don-
rounding Donalsonville is one of the
richest farming sections of the world
and the crops of the counties of De
catur, Early, Grady, and Miller are
better this year than in many years
past. The highest prices the present
generation have ever known are be
ing paid, and money is flowing like
water in this territory. People will
fee! like going to the fair, and they
will go with plenty of money and be
ready to make merry and enjoy the
sights spread before their vision.
Peanuts A New Crop
An interesting display at the
Southwest eGorgia Fair this year will
be the booth devoted to “The Pea
nut and its Products.” Peanuts cul
ture is a new departure in this sec
tion of the South, and with character
istic enterprise and progress the
farmers have made it a money pro
ducer from the start. Of course,
there is much they can still learn
about the peanut, its culture and
uses, and the demonstration is ex
pected to be one o fthe leading educa
tional features of the fair.
Pewiuts were introduced into this
section as a means of crop diversi
fication and as a relief to Partners
who had theri money crop jeopar
dized by the advent of the Mexican
boll weevil. The cotton seed oil mill
of this section puickly rallied-to the
cause and established a cash market
for peanuts. In order for the mills
to do this they had to install ma-
will those of Walter L Wight, of
Cairo. This herd won over the fam
ous Peacock Durocs last year. J. W.
Hodge, of Elco, Ga., is also expected
to exhibit his prize winning Durocs,
and W. B. Roddenbery, of Cairo, his
Shorthorn cattle and Hampshire
hogs and cattle of every kind from all
over the state.
Plenty of Amusements
The fair association, realizing that
no fair is complete without a sub
stantial line of amusements, has con
tracted with the George Reynolds
Greater Shows, one of the best carni
val companies on the road, and there
will be no dearth of midway attract
ions for the fair and its visitors. They
will have the famous Royal Italian
Band, cabaret shows, and all the
other' attractions going with a high
class carnival. There will be plenty
of free attractions each day. The
fair association is trying to arrange
for an aeroplane flight each day from
the fair grounds, and failing in this,
they will have a baloon ascention
each day. A college foot ball game
is being sought for the last day of
the fair, Saturday, Oct. (ith. There
will be other attractions each day too
numerous to mention.
Community Exhibits
In the past the Donalsonville peo
ple have sought only individual ex
hibits for their fair, but this year
they widened the scope and will have
DECATUR COUNTY
HAS MILLION AND
HALF DOLLARS IN
HER NINE BANKS
BAINBRIDGE BANKS
CONTAIN $1,073,523.32
Donalsonville Has Over $300,000
and Shows Per Capita Wealth
Of Nearly $300. — County
Prosperous Beyond Anything
Known in Past.—Farmers In
Splendid Shape Financially.
, . community exhibits. Each com-
chinery for crushmg peanuts, and munity> or distri ct, Decatur( Ear iy,
the
second is
# answered
•■ogistered at which
extreme when the unstable conditons
Electric Elevator
0 most improved features
•lectri
at the time of its inception are taken
into consideration. Cotton was al
most without a market, and every
thing else was selling at starvation
This will leave the main building to
be used entirely for farm products.
There is one building especially for
poultry, with cages for at least 500
chickens and half that number of
turkeys and guineas. Another build
ing is devoted to cattle and horses,
U- , 11 e l f!Va tor, large enough,
“"Mate a bed. All the doors I Prices. The Donalsonville people ] and another to hogs. On the grounds
|tJ tet wide and a bed, with
pnt on it,
Pic rw, 4 an k e rolled from
I car, ? the elevator - and the
r, i<l from one floor to an
te £7 diSt , Urbed - '
. especially advanta-
of the fact that the
three 0 ', ° n the top floor
on tt, ry build ing, and a
(Trip hrst floor would have
%,, y Uvo lights of stairs
for ‘He elevator.
(tot-,- ~ room ’ s in the form
™ end in<r out over the
Pfc, anii h ® S natural light on
■ from above, and the
lows are so formed
injus, , 18 cast The lights
Pfodu S ° tbat tbe same
rnight when
a " nte-ied
piitg Wl , *
te r ; n tbe operating
‘ Ulng ro °m for the in-
this is to be found
And
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never despaired,, however, but went are buildings for lunch rooms, rest
ahead with their plans for a fair in'rooms for ladies and every other con
the fall of 1915.
Lost Money First Year
The first year of the Donalsonville
fair was far from a profitable one.
Those who knew little or nothing of
Donalsonville naturally thought a
venience which will enable those at
tending the fair to spend the day in
the grounds.
Fine Farm Products
The greatest show, not even except
ing the wonders o fthe midway, will
fair in a town of that size wohld offer have the wealth of agricultural
but little inducement to visitors. But products on display. Those who have
those who did go went away attended the Southwest Georgia Fair
telling a different tale, and in the past know how their mouths
the best advertising that the have watered at the sights of the
second year’s exhibition had was great heaps of home-made and home-
from those who attended the first cured hams and bacon in the agricul-
year. The loss was pretty heavy the turai building. These will be there
first year, but the promoters are a again again in larger numbers this
game lot and they never thought of year. Other things good to eat and
giving up, but went ahead with a do- good to look at from the field and the
or-die spirit to make the second garden will be there, and those who
year’s effort an improvement over the do not see them will miss an oppor-
wonderful record of the first year. |tunity of first knowledge of the agri-
The second year saw thousands cultural greatness of the section in
crowd into the grounds of the South- which the Donalsonville fair is locat-
west Georgia Fair, having heard of ed.
separate tanks for peanut oil. Some
claim that this production is superior
to cotton seed oil, and that the pea
nut meal is almost equal to cotton
meal as a stock food and for fertiliza
tion purposes. Thousands of bushels
of peanuts are used for making pea
nut butter, salted peanuts, candies
and other confectionaries but these
latter uses are confined to-other parts
of the country. The peanut booth at
Donalsonville is expected to open the
eyes of the visitors as to many uses
the unpretentious peanuts has.
Fine Live Stock
The premium list of the Donalson
ville fair carries more prizes for live
stock than any fair of its size in the
South, and the display of blooded ani
mals will be as good as can be seen
anywhere. Of course, there will not
he as many as you could see at Ma
con or Atlanta, but there will be the
advatntage of compactness. You can
see them in all varieties, and of the
highest quality, in a short while and
Grady and Miller counties is asked
to get up an exhibit of its resources
to be shown at the fair. While no
prescribed lines are laid down for the
size of the communities, the school
district is suggested as a basis. A
number of the school districts in this
county have already arranged to
make displays at this fair, and the
rivalry between them is expected to
be keen.
An interesting feature is the won
derful display from the ladies in this
section. The fancy work is of the
highest order, and the cakes, jams,
The nine chartered banks in De
catur county has issued their third
quarterly statements, and the aqiount
of money on deposit in these is as
tounding to one who has not investi
gated. The total deposits for the
nine banks show a total of more than
a million and a half dollars, or to be
exact $1,667,100.12. The different
banks and their deposits are as fol
lows:
Bainbridge State Bank $502,686.26.
First National Bank Bainbridge
$231,448.13.
Bank of Donalsonville 280,019.87
Citizens Bank, Bainbridge 161,668.-
96.
Decatur County Bank, Bainbridge,
87,719.97
Farmers Bank, Climax, 61,451.92
Planters Bank, Donalsonville, $66,-
789.12
Citizens Bank, Iron City, $48,509.66
Citizens Bank, Brinson $45,806.23
Of this total the four Bainbridge
banks show deposits to the amount of
$1,073,628.82, and the two banka in
Donalsonville show a total of $355,-
808.99. Thus it will be seen that con
siderably more than three-fourtha of
the county’s money is deposited in the
bunks of Bainbridge and Donalson
ville. Of course, the three-fourths of
the county’s weath is not centered in
these two places, as many of the most
prosperous citizens of the county
living in other parts, do their banking
business in Bainbridge and Donat-
sonville. (
If the money on deposit in these
banks should bo divided equally
among the people, there would ’ be
more than $52 for every man woman
and child in Decatur county. If the
money in Bainbridge were divided
equally, each would receive $214,71,
and if the Donalsonville deposits
should be equally cut up among the
1200 people they claim, there would be
enough for man, woman and child to
receive $279.85. Of course some of
us are short on our pro rata amount,
but still it is here and may drift our
way in time.
These figures show something of
the general prosperity which is being
felt in this section of the world. The
preserves, pickles and other products-farming class is in the most pros-
of woman’s ingenuity will be v*U per ous condtion since the civil war.
worth seeing this year Everything they have touched this
Remember dates. The fair opens ' year turned into money, and the
Tuesday, October 2nd, and last 5 bankg ara overflowing. In most
days, the remainder of next week.'pi ace s the banks have more money
There will be plenty to see and to than they know what to do with
study each minute. If you want plea-j Most people are so well fixed that
sure, it will be there; if you want I they don’t need to borrow money, and
knowledge of the agricultural great- ( j n some cases banks are offering to
not tire of looking in the meantime.
Donalsonville is the center of one of
South’s greatest breeding section for
blooded stock. The Pecan Farm, own
ed by the Shinglers over at DonalBon-
ille, is one of the best in the coun
try. They specialize on registered
Hereford cattle and Duroc Jersey
hogs, and these animals compete suc
cessfully with those of the big west
ern stock men. Only last week they
were displayed at Memphis, Tenn., in
competition with the best the West
ofTers, and won more prizes perhaps
than any single herd in the country.
These will be seen at the Southwest
Georgia Fair in Donalsonville, be
ginning next Tuesday, and lasting
the rest of the week.
The Cummings herdr at Lela, near
Bonalsonville, will likely be shown
again. These animals won many
prizes all over the country last fall.
It is expected too that the famous
Peacock herd ef Dutec Jerseys from
the wonderful display of agriculturalj The territory immediately sur- j Cochran, Ga., will be on exhibition as
ness of Southwest Georgia, you can | en d farmers money at lower
find it in ample abundance at Don
alsonville next week.
oG, see and enjoy -/ourself.
Ladies Take Notice
After this week all the ladies with
social items and matters of interest
of that nature will phone them to
Miss Merle Robinson at 175W -who
will handle all such matters for the
paper. The ladies organizations of
the several churches will also send
their items to her either by mail or
phone. Any news courtesies shown
her will be appreciated by the paper.
than banks have ever charged.
Things are looking good in the land
that was once the land of cotton.
Prosperity seems to be hjre to stay,
and the farmers is leading vanguard
of the procession of prosperity.
Blumenstein, Willis & Company
announce their Man Millinery open
ing this week in time to reach every
body over this section in this issue of
the Post-Search Light. With a few
thousand extra copies going over the
section to interest the folks in the
Fair they will reach every good
dresser in trading proximity to Bain
bridge.
We call attention especially to the
advertisement of Mr. Tom Roberts
of Donalsonville, in this issue. Mr.
Roberts has enlarged his already big
business and has put in a big Gent’s
Furnishing business next door to his
present place of business. Tom served
as a salesman in Bainbridge for a
number of years and has a lots of
warm friends over there that will see
him prosper with great pleasure. A
better salesman, a more perfect gent
leman never went behind the counter
than this Same Decatur county boy
who is fast making good, making
good because he deserves to do so.
* * * * *
Mr. M. C. Williams, of Attapulgos,
was a Tuesday visitor to the city.