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THE BAINBRIDGE POST-SEARCH LIGHT
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POST-SEARCH LIGHT
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
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E. H, GRIFFIN
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uriter Act of March 3, 1879.
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P lore
L THE/
A man’s head isn’t above water
simply because he floats a debt.
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Tty the east window of every heart
grow the thorns.
Bid defiance to old age—hold the
spirit of your youthful days.
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T)reud only the self-made hull; ther
is«one other.
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There are but few who are not e>
pells at weeping when found out.
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The truest heroism is the conquest
of -fear.
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Events may discover the man but
they can never create him.
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After all, the world stands for one
*>f two creeds—either “Down with
(everything that’s up" or “Up with
•everything that’s down.”
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Cheerfulness is a coinage good in
suiy realm, and will puss at par
»'wry land.
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Don’t bother so much about wearing
a crown. Be sure that your head is
worthy of one.
What you can't use you lose. At
least, we are going to shuffle off the
stage just like a penniless man.
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A man’s life must fall in one of
three classes: the pure and uplift
ing, the bad and destroying, the burn
ed out and withered.
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Because a man is in a happy mood
is no sign of sainthood A fellow
can be happy when he has done no
wrong; and again, a fellow can be
happy because he wasn’t caught in
the act.
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Evcry act completes its circuit,
Eifrh one that goes forth must re
turn to us again. You are youi* own
fate. Destiny is self-determined. We
create our hells and we maks our
heavens.
Quit dreaming about so many sweet
things and do a few of them. Do
them often. Get used to it. Stop
this eternally drifting. Don’t long
er dream—but do awhile.
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There are just three classes—the
man who thinks work is a curse, the
man who thinks work is a necessary
evil, and the man who thinks work
is a privilege. Only the latter is
worthy of the name.
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Because of- some men’s rapid pro
motion we call them creatures of op
portunity—lucky, we say. It is much
nearer the truth to say that they
were men ready for the opportunity.
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The mystery of the great soul is
to be found in that dramatic crisis—
the moment when the action of brain
and heart would be a torment to the
common rabble.
o
At some of the elite parties the
women are like spring salad with very
little dressing. To see them or.e
would think Mother Eve was slightly
overdressed.
If you want the clearer vision when
looking through the telescope first,
put out all the lights. And in the
night of sorrow don’t complain. It
brings out the stars.
o
A whole lot of people plead might
ily for the two-edged law. The side
toward them must be blunt; the sh:e
toward their neighbor must have a
razor finish.
o
Anything that is necesary is right.
To others it may not so appear. But
you are- responsible for your own
acts and must therefore move within
the range of your own individual
motives.
Lo
No worthy enterprise is ever too
great a venture. No commendable
effort is ever too daring. Risk any
thing one time. Others have landed.
Whv not you?
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Progress is life’s unchanging pro
gram. Like the polar star that guides
the captain on the highway of the
seas, progress is guided by some con
suming purpose. To have no purpose
is to reverse tile order. It is but to
begin a defeat that has no messenger.
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We have dismal fancies of things
that never come to pass. Most of our
troubles are nothing more than night
mares that are gone with the waking
hours. It’s a bad disease we’ve got—
this distemper of the imagination.
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Love can never deepen when dis
tance lies between. Not that we for
get, but we stand in silent amazement.
Love will not endure an eternal in
terrogation point. It thrives best on
a trust that is blind to every incrim
inating question.
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History is but tiie record of a few
Masterful spirits working in the
midst of a mass of incompetent peo
ple.
IT a merchant church member uses
a 36-inch yardstick he is none the less
a. thief.
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Keep the upward gaze. It turns
prixon* into places and transforms
hovels into castles.
A train detoured over another road
takes on a “pilot” engineer—a man
who knows the road. So are silvery
hairs to youth—they're our pilots.
To ignore them makes wreckage,
O
A whole bunch of these vegetarians
and humans society folk are having
their literary effusions bound in calf,
and with the coin gained therefrom
they buy a feather to adorn their va
cant pates.
O
A man lives only when he measures
life by its intensity. The one who
keeps his eye on the crawling hands
of the clock never finds out the real
secret of a happy and contented life.
Read this! Love transmutes every
difference into hate. Right here is
the reef on which tip; stateliest ships
go down. Would to God we all pos
sessed the higher power of love—the
love that’s blind to every solitary
fault!
o
Appoint yourself a pioneer in in
dependent thought. Try intellectual
scouting for a while. It is like breath
ing the tonic of the upper zones. Try
it just once. For once know the lux
ury of belonging to the aristocracy of
brains.
LEAVE TO SELL LAND
Georgia, Decatur County. j
Notice is hereby given that the un-;
dersigned has applied to the Ordi-|
nary of said county for leave to sell
land belonging to the estate of Felix i
Flanders for the payment of debts. 1
Said application will be heard at the
regular term of the Court of Ordi
nary for said county to be held on the
first Monday in January, 1921.
This Dec. 8, 1920.
W. E. SMITH, Administrator,
on estate of Felix Flanders.
PETITION FOR CHARTER
Georgia, Decsftur Coqnty.
To the Superior Court of said County;
The petition of Bainbridge Grocery
Company respectfully shows:
1. That is was incorporated under
an order of the Judge of the Superior
Court of said county on the 11th day
of November, 1912,/for twenty (20)
years, with the rights and privileges
conferred thereunder, and was duly 1
organized as a corporation under ^aid
order. I
2. Your petitioner desires to
amend its charter by having conferred
upon it the following additional rights
and ' privileges: (a) It desires the
right to carry on the business of for
profit to itself, a bonded public ware
houseman, under the terms and pro
visions of Secti*iy 2910, etc., seq., of
J;he Code of Georgia of 1910. and
thereunder to qualify as such and car
ry on such business; (b) It desires the
further right to deal in for profit to
itself, stocks, bonds, securities, real
estate and all other things of value.
3. Petitioner desires its charter
xtended for the additional period of
twenty years, with all the rights, priv
ileges and immunities given it under
the original order and this amend
ment, said twenty years to date from
the date of the order granting this
amendment.
WHEREFORE, Petitioner prays
that an order be passed conferring
upon petitioner the additional rights
and privileges as stated hereinbefore.
HARTSFIELD and CONGER,
Petitioner’s Attorneys.
Filed in office this, the 24th day of
November, 1920.
E. A. WIMBERLEY,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court.
Georgia, Decatur County,
I, E. A. Wimberley, Deputy Clerk
of the Superior Court of said county,
hereby certify that the foregoing is
a true and correct copy of the applica
tion for charter as the same appears
of file in this office. This Nov. 24,
1920.
E. A. WIMBERLEY,
Deputy Clerk Superior Court.
Love has hut one native atmos
phere. It forgets the differences and
ewels in its affinities.
Many n woman who keeps the ket-
llr from boiling over fails to work
the same racket on her temper.
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Our best vintage, though it may not
;ap]>car so then, is gathered from our
misfortunes.
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Quality counts in men just like it
•kies in glassware. You have got to
have the proper ring.
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No apologies are needed when a
man is striking straight from the
shoulders.
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Our “ups- and downs” are only the
hills and the valleys we cross in our
•eternal quest for happiness.
Some are so deluded as to believ
that they have mastered a situation
when it only amounts to abject sub
mission.
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The trouble with this country is
thnl there are more chances than
there are real men.
Somebody
-and hoping
failure.
said that wishing
the twin sisters of
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VYosperity has about it a golden
hoe that softens outlines and blurs
the finer distinctions of life. Adver
t'll!.'—those dark days that come to
nil el us with mory or less |Hiwer—
makes every outline hoy and clear.
. AV Wit; ym> cannot mistake where
Tu" the horizon.
After all, hysteria is nothing more
than a head-on collision between sor
row and a sense of humor. Under
such circumstances, self-control just
can’t help blowing up.
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A man had better die poor if his
hoarded wealth comes by piracy and
pillage, even though it be gotten un
der the guise of progress and the
commercial policy of the age.
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There are some things money can
not buy. It won’t buy the rich after
glow that comes to him whose life’s
sun is going down in glory behind the
western hills.
O
The brilliancy of a sudden rise to
fame and fortune frequently blinds a
careless public to the generations of
high breeding and unremitting self
preparation which made that career a
possibility.
O
So mysteriously are we linked with
each other in this world that we can
not fail to do our duty without harm
ing others, nor bear ourselves brave
ly without benefit to others.
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Whom have you buried in your se
pulcher of hate? Looking down into
that vast grave, the tomb of one at
least as good as yourself, your petty
whim-if ought to dwarf into nothing
ness.
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That man who willfully neglects his
own, or that woman who deliberately
refuses the crown of motherhood—
these are the shoals upon which the
American home is sure to wreck. It
has never failed. It cannot fail.
o
Broadly speaking, freedom is not
liberty. Nor will liberty ever be free
dom in the full sense of that word. Wc
are not at libgrfy to do as we please
When our thought and act interfere
with the rights and privileges of an
other we are no longer free. Fr
dom is always the right to obey the
expresed will of the majority—and
I no more.
We detest negative characters—
those silent figures in a restless,
bustling world. We despise the sort
that is content with the mummy life
Somehow we like the fellow who does
something, and does it wrong, far
more than we do the fellow who doc
nothing for fear he will do that some
thing wrong. Start something!
There’s tonic in a'dare. Scare some
body—antagonize something. Only
the dead keep quiet. They are very
quiet.
Wood-Cash on Delivery
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We are glad to supply our customers with wood but
iv must nav ihn Jriv« ntcn ! t!... •_ , .. ’ DU *
they must pay the driver when the wood is delivered
We
can not charge it. We must insist o nthis, as we can n
afford to hire a man to collect it. 0
Load Hogs on Thursday
I will load hogs every Thursday, and if you have anv
for sale, bring them along, I will .pay you the largest price
fo rthem. __ F e
Transfer and Heavy hauling
is our long-suit and our phone number is 305. Talk a little
business with us.
TRUCK FOR LONG AND SHORT TRIPs
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G. A. PERKINS
H. ffcl S(. Ptiine 305 Midge, Gl
AKIN-SHOW ALTER Si NO
There will be a two-days’ Singing of
the Akin-Shovvalter Singing Conven
tion at Bethany church on Saturday
and Sunday, Dec. 25-26, 1920.
All singers and lovers of singing
are invited to attend and bring well
filled baskets.
Subscribe for the Bainbridge Post-
Searchlight—$1.50 a year.
FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER
Calls Answered Day or Night.
Out-of-Town Calls Attended to Promptly.
Parker-MeCaskill Furniture Company
Night Phone 413. Day Phone 229. Night Phone 329-W
BIG EGG YIELD
“ From a small flock of hens I now
get 20 to 25 eggs per day, whereas
before giving them Dr. LeGear’s
Poultry Prescription, I only received
three or four. Its cost has been re
paid to me over and over.” So writes
Mrs. J. W. Montgomery Tunnell Hill,
Ga.
You should increase your yield
now, while price arc high, through Dr.
LeGear’s Poultry Prescription. It is
a tonic which builds up the hen’s
strength and vitality and stimulates
the egg-producing organs. ,
For 28 years Dr. LeGear has been
recognized as America’s foremost Ex
pert Poultry Breeder and Veteri
narian. Any time your poultry
stock are ailing, it will pay you to
get the proper Dr. LeGear Remedy
from your dealer. It must give sat
isfaction, or your dealer will refund
your money.
For Sale—100,000 feet of
rough lumber, will sell cheap for
the cash. H. W. Bussey, Fpwls-
town, Ga.
WANfED
WHITE FARMERS
To settle in Burke
County, Ga. Special
inducements offered.
For further informa
tion, write
BURKE COUNTY CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
WAYNESBORO, • - GEORGIA
During The Joyous
Christmas Season
HAPPINESS is universal; laughter
spontaneous.
Formality is cast aside; smiles are
the order ot the day.
The spirit of a new-born fills the
air with Good Cheer. It sweeps the
cob-webs from Ambition’s store
room.
To friends and patrons, we extend
Best Wishes for a Christmas of joy
and a New Year made happy by
the realization of their brightest
hopes.
The Citizens Bank & Trust-Company
Successors to The Citizens Bank
Bainbridge, Georgia '
H. B. EHRLICH, President
MAX KWILECKI, Vice-President
H. L CANS, Vice-President
E. F. VICKERS, Cashier