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THE F08T-SEARCH LIGHT
UlOIE 6, NUMBER 38.
BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1920.
$1.50 PER ANNUM
jjR. A. S. CARR IN
WRECK ON A. C. L.
, ... N( ) 22 FROM JACKSON-.
|T l i E R \N INTO TRAIN NO.
' NEAR SAVANNAH.
while train No.
Thursday Evening
At Methodist Church
A very bright and sparkling pro-
gram is arranged for presentation,
Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock at
the Methodist church. The entir
membership of this church is expect-
86,! C( ^ anc ^ urae d to come and bring their
little ones. A treat and a sur
. r L.’ from Jacksonville to I u ‘ ,ca - lrea t ana a surprise is
l‘" fce nl, was being delayed at Way- lnstore for tbd ” a >'<< for you. Com-
| s, ' a "" tion ‘ ig miles from Savannah mittees w,u be in char !to of the re-
1®"* 0 f n hot box, train No. 22 | »'emb«mces that will be delivered the
ital'jacks.nviHe to Savannah ran ” 0 * ayt ° | he ’^s fortunate.
I 1 " rear of No. 86, killing Engl- i The cburcb wlU be "arm, prettily
If FgrleV Crawford of train No I decorated and the exercises will make
■ft'His fireman claiming that they yoU B ' lad '
| iM , JeL . a flagman on No. 8G, but j
I „ ^ he saw the rear lights, he
L ped , though no bones were broken,
|i painfully bruised. The ex-
“ messenger was pinned under
ll si?
ejps of chickens and crates of goats,
j,j t0 be cut out through the end of
twextra car. No one else being hurt.
Mh of these trains were passen-
route for Savannah and be-
CLEAN-UP WEEK
FOR CHRISTMAS
Crawford, who had been
this one division for 39
■pis, (
1 Engineer
Inuring or
It®, gave his life in this—his first
He was a noble, likeable fel-
li» .always ready, willing to help and
jsad, tragic death will be mourned
r those not of his own family.
| Mr. A. S. Carr of this city, was on
strain. Mr. Carr states that when
* felt the first jar and falling with
Hie lay on the floor and saved him-
j by fast holding to the leg of a
H
Notice From President
Bessie Tift College
OUR CHRISTMAS SETTING IS
CLEAN STREETS AND HOLLY
WREATHS.
With the fast approaching days of
the Christmas season, it is with pride
and pleasure that we note the care
ful preparations that are uirder way
in the residential section of the city,
with both white and colored. Clean,
neat sidewalks, yards relieved of all
faggedness, windows shining and
doore cordial in holly wreaths makes
a very charming atmosphere for the
stranger, the visitor, to walk or to
ride in.
But what of the city’s housekeep
ing
Broad street has been anything but
clean lately. It is dirty! Banks of
leaves, “rags and puppy-dog tails”
are clinging affectionately to the
curbings. And what of the business
sidewalks?
How many will be swept and clean-
The Boy and Girl Scouts of the Town Will
Entertain the Boys and Girls From the
Country at the Community Sing Xmas
The nicest plans that Bainbridge has ever inaue, I do believe, are
the plans for the Community Sing on Christmas evening at 5:30 o’clock,
in the park.
The Boy and Girl Scouts are to help wait on and to give the boys
and girls, their fathers and mothers and friends from the county and
country a big, a happy time. The park will be lighted with pretty col
ored lights and the people will help the children sing the songs that
are printed in this paper for you, in case you do not happen to get one
of the 1060 copies that have been printed for you till ready. Then there
will bo a Norwegian, an English and an American Christmas. Real
Angels and Fairy Angels will come and Santa Claus will find gifts on
his beautiful tree for you, for everybody, for he has already scat 1060
packages to be hung for those who love him and each other enough to
come out on this occasion.
A Community Sing means everybody, Town and Country are ex
pected to come together in the spirit of little children, to sing, rejoice
and most of all, to have and to help somebody to have a good time.
Bainbridge most earnestly invites her neighbors, her county and its town
to join her in a real COMMUNITY spirit on Christmas day eve.
The Municipal Band will play for the Community Sing Christmas
afternoon. What can be prettier or more fitting than music and a feel
ing of good fellowship, expressing itself in song, in celebration of the
birth of our LORD, JESUS CHRIST. Please bring your little ones from
the country that they may enjoy the beauteous occasion.
The town and COUNTRY boys and girls must be on time—6:30,
Saturday afternoon, to help the grown-ups sing while old Santa gets
ready.
Be-sie Tift College closes Friday,
tember 17, at noon for the Christ-
isholidays. Work will be resumed i ed, how much trash burned and hauled
|gesday, January 4th. The students j away that our naturally beautiful lit-
! return on the 3rd of January. Ltle city can present its Smile, un-
|The State Baptist convention owns hampered, for the greatest of all sea-
id controls the schools and colleges
(that is known as the Mercer Sys-
Tliis consists of Mercer Univer-
, Bessie Tift College and seven
wndary schools.
iBessie Tift has the distinction of
Imp the largest number of stu-
son’s—The Christmas Season!
Norma Talmadge in
Bainbridge Christmas
The Select Pictures Corp., will send
Miss Norma Talmadge to Bainbridge
its of any school or college in the j f or one dayi Saturday Dec., 26th.
, Christmas day, afternoon and night, j j
M the beginning of the present Miss Talmadge America’s most popu-
ilastic year it was necessary to j ar screen actress has never produced
THE COMMUNITY OF TOWN AND COUNTRY WILL ALSO SING
fe about 300 girls for lack of
HI.
H teachers’ home is nearing comple-
After Christmas there will pos-
fly be room for a few more stu-
he Bird of Paradise”
BSeldom his it ever been known that
ltotoatic play is the actual cause
|to biggest musical fad known in
i but that is absolutely true in
#t ase, and is how it came about.
I
years ago, “The Bird of Para-
a better picture play than the “Isle
of Conquest,” which consumed seven
thousand feet of film in the finished
picture, and her appearance here in
this picture Christmas day certainly
should prove a great box office at
traction for the local theatre.
The Talmadge picture will be shown
both afternoon and night and those
who like Miss Talmadge will see her
at her best if in attendance at either
preformance.
Army of Occupation
Is Costing Germany
$2,280,000 a Month
Washington, Dec. 18.— If Ameri
can forces were withdrawn from the
Rhineland, as suggested at the finan
r Hawaiian drams? coming to
ffallahan Theatre on Thursday
p December 30th, for the first
* to Bainbridge, was produced at
1 Orosco Theatre, Los Angeles,
[fctM Walton Tully. The author
to five of the native singing boys j cial conference in Brussels, Germany
l, be islands and introduced them
I 1 * play. They were the atmos-
* of the story. Of course out in
. ® n ' la they were no remarkable
bas Hawaiian players had been
for years in the various cities
I ' Pa «fic coast, but when Tully
[to the play to New York, the
would save an average of $2,280,000
a month, according to figures com
piled by the war department today.
The proposal of Brussels was made
with a view of reducing Germany’s I
financial burden. From December |
1918, to June, 1920, Gel-many hasj
been charged with a bill of $257,065,-
P e °ple began to grow fond of] 084 for maintenance of the American .
languorous music of the. occupation forces. Under terms of
Then the boys sang for a I the armistice, Germany is obliged to j
tomograph company and from! reimburse the United States for the j
toe the fad began to grow. Now [ cost of these forces. Until June of,
F Y °rk there isn’t a high class : this year, Germany had paid the |
f /at hasn't from two to ten Ha- j United States $34,724,058, leaving a ,
AH the managers are suing 1 balance due of $222,340,425.
season in their new produc- j The peak of Germany’s bill for the
>t is safe to say that there j American army was reached in Jan-,
home of any well known ' uary, 1919, with a total cost of $39,- j
toiy
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
“Peace on the earth, good will to men,
From heaven’s all-gracious King;”
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o’er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world hath suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And a man, at war with man, hears not
The love song which they bring;
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing!
And ye, beneath life’s crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look Now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing;
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing!
For lo! the days arc hastening on
By prophet-bards foretold,
When with the ever-circling years
Comes round the age of gold;
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world send back the song
Which now the angels sing.
r toat hasn’t the “ukulele,” the 1 234,000. For the six months ending j
P" instrument of Hawaii, in the; in June) 1920, the cost has averaged
r fad will last until some-1 $2,280,000 a month. I
? “"usual turns up and then will There are about 14,000 American i
■T; whether it does or does' soldiers in Germany today, although ;
L T to Bird of Paradise” can go; the war department believes that ex-j
7-n record as havimr nut the Ha- piration of enlistments will reduce
Prays God to Rebuke
Governor S. J. Catts
Daytona. Fla., Dec. 20.—In his prin
cipal prayer offered here Sunday eve
ning, Dr. Robert S. McArthur, noted
New York pastor and president of the
World Alliance Baptists, asked that
God “rebuke Governor Sidney J.
Catts for his infamous conduct and
make him understand that he should
respect his high position and respon
sibility.”
Governor Catts was a Baptist min
ister before being elected to the gov
ernorship.
CELEBRATE THEIR
15TH ANNIVERSARY
AT THEIR HOME ON ACADEMY
STREET FRIDAY EVENING.
DECEMBER 17TH.
This Song Will Sung at the Sing
Xmas Day Evening On the Square
JOY TO THE WORLD! THE LORD IS COME.
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing.
2 Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.
3 No more let sin and sorrow grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found. «
4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love.
BULLETS FLY IN
SUBDUING HOBO
STRANGER STAGES PISTOL BAT
TLE WITH BARNESVILLE
POSSE.
Bartlesville, Dec. 18.—Police officers
and citizens yesterday staged a pitch
ed battle on the streets here with Tom
Lewis of Cincinnati, a hobo. For more
than ten minutes bullets flew thick
and the firing only came to a halt
when Lewis was shot down. He is
now receiving medical attention in the
local jail.
Officers were on the lookout for
Lewis, ns the result of reports re
ceived from Griffin and llnpeville thut
he was on his way with pistol in
hand. He arrived during the after
noon riding in a truck. A few min
utes after his arrival he'began to
fire his pistol in all directions.
Chief W. S. Revicre, Deputy Sher
iff Allen Arnold and a posse of citi
zens surrounded the man and after
giving him an opportunity to surren
der, they were forced to shoot him
down. Fortunately, bird shot were
used and his wounds will not prove
fatal.
Flees From Griffin Police.
Griffin, Dec. 18.—Police officers
here fired at Tom Lewis, a hobo, in
the railroad yards yesterday morning,
when he refused to disemburk from
a moving freight train. Lewis, aftei
the shots were fired, jumped off the
train and made good his escape.
Always Some
Smart Alec
Learn This and Bring With
You for the Community Sing
Last week some smart Alec sent an
advertisement into this office signed
or rather purported to be from Fred
O. Drake, that got by the manage
ment because of the fact that Mr.
Drake is well known in the office and
that no one would question any such
advertisement here. Mr. Drake did i
not send the advertisement nor did
the Alec that sent it in, pluy much of
a prank. Any fool can do such a
stunt, hut no sensible person notices
it.
Palm Beach Editor
Asserts He Is Not
Afraid of Gov. Catts
One of the most elegant and sump
tuous affairs of the closing year w*»
the celebration of Mr. and Mrs. Mer
cer B. Baggs’s Crystal Anniversary.
At their home on Academy street on
Friday evening, December the 17th,
in honor of their fifteenth wedding
anniversary.
Brilliant lights (throughout the en
tire house) gleaming through soft
colored draperies, lovely music some
where—presented a very charming
picture to the callers as they came and
went. Mrs. Charles Parker, in. her
always delightful manner, received
the guests at the door, directing them
to the second floor where a maid
and butler were in attendance.
The stairway and first floor were
tropical and beautiful in Southard
smilax; and the ladies in charming
frocks and the men in full dress were
noticeably effective as they descend
ed the stairway in its complete set
ting of the smilax, into the parlor
where Mr. and Mrs. Baggs and their
two lovely, worth-while children—
Mercer, Jr. and Anna Grace, formed
m wholesome, cordial and very inter
esting group. The parlor and dining
room, thrown together, redolent in the
spicy perfume of quantities of pink
and white carnations, with a back
ground of handsome ferns and feothr
cry smilax daintily falling over the
window draperies, made the right,
setting for the genial host and wifh
who wus a striking and very hand
some figure in the loveliest gown. «f
pink imported Panne velvet featuring
tile Moyen age. The softly draped
bodice, elegantly embroidered in sil
ver was caught on right shoulder with
filmy white tulle that fell gracefully
back, to a little, below the skirt. A
rope of exquisite pearls, dainty little
silver slippers and silver hosiery, com
pleted this gorgeous toilette.
The table with its cloth of old Ma-
leira and lace was effective and in
teresting with large vase of white
carnations and white tulle that sus-
pended from the centerpiece to the
chandelier, ending in large, fluffy
hows. Indicative of the occasion,
modestly stood, an adorably dressed
miniature bride and groom at the bass
of the vase of flowers.
Mesdames T. M. Battle, Linton
Baggs, H. S. Baggs, Glen Mathis,
Ruth JenningR, Hawes, Otis Bell,
Gray, King, Conger and Young, as
sisted Mrs. Baggs in entertaining and
serving the chicken salad course,,
while her neices, the dainty Mrs. Mar
tin and the picturesque Caroline Bat
tle served pink and white brick its
cream with little square cakes. Pink,
and white mints and candies were
passed by the graces—Misses Mar
garet Williams, Pearl Floyd and La
mar Coleman.
Three large tables filled with use
ful, artistic and elegant gifts testified
to the popularity of one of the most
liked couples of Bainbridge.
After the reception hours, nigs
Wpst Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 18.—
That when boiled down, the light was
one between good .government and
demagoguery, was the statement wcre removed and to the delightfhf
made today by Joe L. Earman, presi
dent of the state board of health, and
publisher of the Palm Beach Post,
in reply to the letter received last
night from Governor S. J. Catts,
threatening “to visit West Palm'
Beach with a shotgun loaded with
buckshot,” and to have a final settle
ment.”
“I am not afraid of Governor
music of the Municipal Band, dancing:
was enjoyed til eleven, when the old
friends gathered affectionately
around host and hostess, while Jse
McDuffie warm hcartedly gave the
toast “To you, my dear” and all with
wafted glases, drank grape juice to
their health and their prosperity.
Noticeably attractive toilette*
among those calling and serving
Catts,” Mr. Earman declared, “and were; Mrs - Gordon Chason, Linton
I had hoped that he would remove me R a KK s > Ruth Jennings, Glen Mathis,
from office in order that I might j Haddon and Caroline Battle,
demonstrate my record. I "
“The only reference I made to the Boy Fatally Burned
Falling Into Kettle
Of Boiling Syrup
> music
on the Eastern map.
Bicycle Hospital
211 water street
display of Bicycles for
tiion and women.
•'tr.d g e t our prices before
1 *ta i
(, ! < where. We are under
12-16-2t
this number 7.000 or 8,000 in May,;
which will be in accordance with the
new army reorganization plan.
BASKET BALL GAME NOT
PLAYED
On account of ari unavoidable delay;
with the visiting team from Albany,
the scheduled game of Basket Ball
vras not played Friday afternoon.
Silent night! Holy night!
All is calm, all is bright;
Round yon virgin mother and child!
Holy infjjnt, so tender and mild,
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
Silent night! Holy night!
Shepherd’s quake at the sight!
Glories stream from heaven a-far,
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluluia.
Christ, the Saviour, is born!
Christ, the Saviour, is born!
Catts family in my editorial was re
garding his son-in-law, K. R. Pade-I
rick, of Jacksonville,- tax collector of]
Duval county.”
Mr. Earman demands that Cover- 1 Donalsonville, Ga., Dec. I6.-Jose»fc’
nor Catts explain the resignation of' Pett .y> "^teen-year-old son of Rev.
Edgar Thompson as state’s attorney, ant * ^ rs - b>etty who live near
prior to the June primary and offers Donalsonville, fell into a kettle of
hi mspace in his paper for the ex- boilin K Wednesday afternoon,
planation I was rusbet * to a hospital at once
I and all possible aid rendered, but he
Miss Carter, one of the high school was burned so severely, medical aid
faculty, will spend the holidays in failed to do much good. He died
Climax. i about twelve o’clock last night.
Silent night! Holy night!
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face,
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.
