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THE BAINBRIDGE POST-SEARCH LIGHT
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|VC. W. WIMBERLEY, JR.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Practice in All Courts
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I BAINBRIDGE, : GEORGIA
INEGRO SHOT DEAD
BY AVENGING MOB
JIM ROLAND KILLED FOR
SHOOTING JASON HAR
RELL, WHITE.
JOHN R. WILSON
"~'r ^ Attorney at Law
H. C. Harrison, associate
Practice in all courts, except criminal
Offices: O’Neal Building
J. M. FLOYD
Attorney and Counsellor At Law
Buys, Sells and Rents
HOUSES
Office under old Fordham Hotsl _
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
DR. P. M. LEWIS
Practice Limited to the Diseases
of the EYE, EAR, NOSE
and THROAT.
Glasses Fitted.
Office Phone 3. Residence Phone 216
F. E. STRICKLAND
Farm and City Loans at 5 Vi
OFFICE IN COURT HOUSB
R. H. HERRON
VETERINARIAN
Phone 18 Res. Phone 89
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
Office Phone 295. . Res. Phone 64
L. W. WILLIS
Physician and Surgeon
Iffice Corner Broughton and Clark
Streets.
Bainbridge, Georgia
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Attorney-at-I.aw
tree doors from corner of
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City Park.
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Chason Building
Courthouse
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Cairo, Jan. 2.—Jim Roland, colored,
who shot and probably fatally wound
ed Jason I. Harrell, a well-known
white farmer of Grady county, about
5 o’clock Saturday afternoon, was this
morning at 2 o’clock caught by a mob
in Mitchell county and lynched. The
shooting yesterday afternoon occured
almost exactly on the Grady-Mitehell
county line, and when Mr. Harrell fell,
after being shot through the stomach
and his hip broken, his body was said
to be partially in both counties,
though more in Grady than in Mitch
ell. Late this afternoon Harrell is
said by doctors to be at the point of
death. All is quiet today and there
are no indications of further trouble.
Nothing at all can be learned as to
the cause of the shooting. Chan Mc-
Elvey, a white Grady county farmer,
who resides in the neighborhood, came
up on a load of furniture as the shoot
ing began. He was moving and being
on top of the furniture and some lit
tle distance away, saw the shots
passed, but did not recognize Harrell.
He drew closer about the time Har
rell fell and he states that Roland
gave his pistol to another negro
standing by, took Harrell's pistol, hit
him over the head and then took both
pistols and went on up the road over
into Mitchell county. Harrell’s son
came along in a short time on his
way home from Pelham and Vada and
with McElvey, took Harrell to the
nearest doctor.
Two Sheriffs Find Body.
The whole neighborhood was soon
aroused and Sheriff D. D. Perkins,
of Grady county ,here, and Sheriff C.
D. Crow, of Mitchell county, were no
tified immediately. They both went
to the scene immediately and as soon
as possible began to scour the woods
for Roland. Seeing that others were
also after him, the sheriffs hastened
their search, but the mob found the
negro sometime betwen midnight and
2 o’clock this morning, as the sheriffs
rods up on the body near the public
road from Camilla to Whigham, in
Mitche!l\ county, about nine miles
from Pelham, just at 2 o’clock. The
body was lying on the ground riddled
with bullets, there being evidence of
the use of shotguns as well as pistols.
Mr. Harrell has lived in that neijh-
berheed all of his life and is said to
be a good citizen. He owns and suc
cessfully operates a good sized farm
just this side of the line and is well
known through this section.
Roland, according to beliefs, was a
fugitive, though he owns a two-hun
dred-acre farm just over the line in
Mitchell county, and though he has
been living in this section for many
years, its said that he has stated that
he knows nothing of his parents, and
that he came to this section with a
party of gypsies. He is an independ
ent farmer and has been known as an
honest, thrifty, hard-working negro,
with all this, though, it is said that
he has never mixed with others of his
race to a great extent and has never
had a great liking for white people.
The belief that he is a fugitive has
been denied by some, though it was
regarded as strange that he knew
nothing of his early life. He was
about forty years old.
It is said that an inquest was held
this morning and that he came to his
death by pistol and gun shot wounds
by parties unknown.
The mob went about its business in
an extremely orderly and businesslike
way. No racial feeling was stirred
at all, and the mob was entirely
courteous to the two negroes who
were eye-witnesses to the shooting
and to all others. It is said that the
mob was sober and that it acted with
precision. The negroes gave the in
formation as 'bekt they could, it is
said, and there was not at any time
a cause for general alarm.
• Little Hope for Harrell.
Pelham, Jan. 2.—Pelham Hospital
authorities announced tonight that
Jason Harrell, who was wounded by
Jim Roland, a negro, which resulted
in the lynching of Roland, is in a
critical condition and that there was
little hopes for his recovery.
Bad Cold and Cough Cured by Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy.
Several years ago C. D. Glass,
Gardiner, Me., contracted a severe
sold and cough. He tried various
medicines but instead of getting well
he kept adding to it by contracting
fresh celds. Nothing he had taken for
it was of any permanent benefit until
a druggist advised him to try Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy. He says,
“I was completely cured by this rem
edy and have since alwajjgjuned to
it when I had a cold
relief.”
CUT COTTON COST
BY MAKING FOOD
Southern Farm Proaperlty Absolutely
Dependent on Cutting Produc
tion Cost Through Food-
Making and Saving.
Atlanta, Ga.—(Special.)—"A right
about-face movement in 1921 is neces
sary If the farmers of the South are
to get on safe, firm ground again,”
said H. G. Hastings, President of the
great Southeastern Fair.
"It looks as if we all went cotton
crazy last spring, despite all the dan
ger signals flying and the disregard
of plain facts as to costs of cotton
production. We have repeated our fol
lies of 1911 and 1914 and piled up
debts based on costly food and grain
to be paid for by cotton that is now
below cost of production.
“With few exceptions those items
of food and .grain could and should
have been produced on home acres
at one-tbird to one-half p-liat the sup
ply merchant charges for them.
"Cotton is the one best money crop
for the South, and probably always
will be. The time of war prices is
over and the problem from now on is
to lower cost of production and at the
same time afford the cotton grower a
fair profit.
“Cost of making cotton is primarily
the cost of food, grain and foragt
for the farmer, his family, his labor
ers or tenants, and his work stock.
Cutting food, grain and forage costs
by home production will reduce cot
ton costs front one-third to one-half.
"Plant for an abundance of food,
grain and forage,' thus cutting down
store bills, and the lower prices for
cotton will not hurt so much. We can
not, with European countries so thor
oughly disorganized, reasonably expect
high prices for cotton for several years
and we must make cotton at lower
cost, or else quit cotton growing.
“Most of us cannot quit cotton,
hence the absolute necessity of food,
grain and forage planting in 1921—
the making on home acres of every
pound of food and grain needed to see
us through.
“In -this food production program,
take the home vegetable garden seri
ously. Give the home garden a square
deal and it will surprise you in the
amount of healthful food produced. It
takes the least ground, can be plant
ed the earliest, brings quick returns
and if kept replanted and worked will
stay by you all the season through.”
McCoy Tells Court
He Is Ready to
Serve Sentence
Americus, Dec. 30.—H. A. McCoy, 1
prominent Cuthbert young man who
was convicted! ii^ Sumter Superior
Court at the May term of bigamy and
sentenced to serve two to three years
on the chaingang, has asked the
Court of Appeals to dismiss his ap
peal and will begin at once serving
his sentence.
McCoy earned a State-wide reputa
tion as a result of his army career,
when he captured seventeen Germans
single handed.
He went through a ceremony with
a nurse in France, which, he claimed
both he and the woman considered as
merely a plan for giving a name to
an unborn infant, and afterwards
married Miss Georgia Pitts of Pitts-
view, Ala., while she was a student
of Andrew College at Cuthbert.
The baby, McCoy nsserts, was never
born, the nurse having misrepresented
her condition to him in France. He
says he regards Miss Pitts as his law
ful wife and that he will serve his
sentence as loyally as he served hi3
country during the war, at the end of
which, he plans to straighten out
the legal tangle, which now surrounds
his marriageable status with the view
of remarrying Miss Pitts, first getting
the consent of her parents, who are
prominent in lAabama.
Quit dreaming about so mnny sweet
things and do u few of them. Do
them often. Get used to it. Stop
this eternally drifting. Don’t long
er dream—but do awhile.
A Bank Statement that any Man or Woman can Understand
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
AND
DECATUR COUNTY BANK'
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
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P’ 'I I ,
STATEMENT OF NOVEMBER IS, 1920
The Bank Owes to Depositors $ 802,213-72
Obligations secured by Liberty Bonds 19,460.00
Notes Re-discounted (this is borrowed money
loaned to our customers) 16,032.65
$ 837,696.37
A conservative Banker always has this indlebted-
^ ness in mind, and he arranges his assets so as to
be able to meet any request for payment.
For This Purpose We Have—
. Cash $ 199,530.50
(Gold Bank Notes and Specie) and with legal de
positories returnable on demand.
U. S. Government Securities 22,482.00
City Bonds 2,000.00
Stocks 41,019.75
Two Buildings 40,251.92
Due from U. S. Treasury 5,250.00
Loans: (Notes of our customers, largely secured
by collateral, mortgages or endorsements 773,602.34
Total to Meet Indebtedness $1,084,136.51
This leaves a Surplus of $ 246,940.14
Which becomes the property of the Stockholders
after the debts to the depositors are paid, and is
a guarantee fund upon which we solicit new de
posits, and retain those which have been lodged
with us for many years.
Rich Auto Supply Company
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We wish to all or ourfriendsa Happy New
Year. We have enjoyed a splendid patron
age and hope that in 1921 our friends will
continue to be as liberal as they have in
the past. Make our store your headquart
ers for your wishes in our line as we will
try our best to please you.
Overstreet Drug Company
Bainbridge, Georgia
WE THANK YOU
We wish to thank all our friends and custom
ers for their liberal patronage during the year
1920 and ask their consideration for the New
Year. Our trade has been splendid and our
friends have been liberal in their patronage.
We take this method of extending to all our
customers and friends a Happy New Year and
and hope that they all will be prosperous and
enjoy a splendid year. We thank you. /
W. J. BRADY
Broad Street Bainbridge, Ga.