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THE BAINBRIDGE POST-SEARCH LIGHT
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For Vacation Trips THE BOLL WEEVIL
LAURENS COUNTY MAN SAYS
THAT IT WILL ABSOLUTELY
KILL WEEVILS.
1 ake Erie has long been noted for
its fleet of magnificent passenger
., t imers. The most recent addition
tc this fleet is the Great Ship “SEE-
AN'DBEE,” the largest and most cost-
j v passenger steamer on inland wa
ters of the world. This Great Ship,
wi th her sister ship, Steamer “City
of Buffalo,” plys daily between Cleve
land and Buffalo, so that you may
board steamer at either city any eve
ning at 9:00 enjoy a night of refresh-
j,,„ =leep and arrive at destination
following morning at 7:30.
In addition to the night trips, the
Saturday daylight trips are proving
very attractive to many travelers.
From Cleveland, C. & B. Line
Steamer “City of Buffalo” leaves New
Pier, foot of E. 9th St., every Satur
day during the summer season at
9:00 a.m., arriving at Buffalo 7:00
evening of same day.
From Buffalo, the Great Ship
“SEEANDBEE” leaves wharves at
South Michigan Ave. Bridge every
Saturday during the summer season
at 9:00 a.m., arriving at Cleveland
7:00 evening of same day.
All Eastern Standard Time.
THE NEW CITY CHARTER
There seems to be a misunderstand
ing as to the effect of the new charter
relating to the paving of the side
walks, and I a mtaking the liberty
of attempting to explain the meaning
of this charter. The authorities seem
uniform in holding that without any
express charter provision a municipal
corporation is, nevertheless, author
ized to pave streets and sidewalks.
The law compels the city to keep the
street sin proper condition, and if in
the discretion of the mayor and coun
cil it is necessary to pave the streets,
they have the authority to do so, even
without express charter provision.
Cyc. on page 949, says: “The word
street is generic, and includes side
walks and cross-walks; and the power
to improve streets includes the power
to lay sidewalks. The municipality
may require abutting owners to build
sidewalks in accordance with pre
scribed specifications, and within its
discretion may order a repavement.”
There seems to be no question as to
the right of the city to pave either
the streets or the sidewalks and to
require the abutting owners to pay
therefor. The trouble is, that to act
under the general provision it would
be necessary to require the owners to
pay in cash. If they act under the
charter of 1920, then it is necessary
to make a contract based on a ten
year payment. In either event a ahrd-
ship would be inflicted upon some
people. The object of the new charter
is simply to authorize the mayor and
council to make arrangements in their
contract for the paving for the pay
ment thereof eithe rin cash or in in
stallments covering such period of
time as they may think proper, and
permitting the mto allow a discount,
or contract for a discount, in the
event of a cash payment. Outside of
permitting them to arrange for the
payment for the work, the new char
ter gives to the city absolutely no
power of any kind or character which
it does not now possess.
7-21-lt T. S. HAWES.
NOTICE—AH repair work is
strictly cash. No exceptions to
anv one. E. R. Meddock.
YEARSAGO
I thought I would say a few words
through this valuable paper that
might interest some one that reads
it, about dear old Bainbridge. How
it has changed since I was a boy. It
was the first town I went to after
I saw the light of day. When I was
eight years old I went with my father
to Bainbridge. We stopped our team
in the shade of the big oak tree that
stands on the west side of the Willis
Park. I Will speak of the little log
jail house that stood near the bath
ing pool. The first man I saw hanged
was taken out of that jail. He was
a slave; he belonged to a man by the
name of Hill. W. W. Harrell was
sheriff at that time. I will also speak
of a livery stable that stood on the
spot that the handsome post office
is now on. The back of.it was made
of pine poles, so you can draw an
idea how Bainbridge has changed
since my father and I stopped our
team in the shade of that oak tree.
I have done all of my trading in
Bainbridge during these long years.
Some of my best friends live in Bain
bridge. I was born the 15th day of
August, 1850, and have lived in four
miles of that place and never have
lived over ten miles from there dur
ing my life.
JESSE W. FRANKLIN,
Eldorendo, Ga.
ABRAVE FIGHT
The people of Georgia have been
fighting typhoid fever during the past
month and a half more earnestly than
ever beforte. The State (Board of
Health through the newspapers and
the physicians warned all the citizens
of the State that Typhoid Fever
threatened to be quite serious unless
certain precautionary measures be in
stituted; namely, vaccination and bet
ter sanitation.
Much activity was noted along these
lines. In one county the County
Health Officer was able to secure the
installation of 500 sanitary privies
during the month of June. Also large
quantities of typhoid vaccine have
been administered by the health of
ficers and physicians since the pub
lication of these warnings. During
the month of June the State Board of
Health Laboratory filled orders for
vaccine to the amount of 85,000 c. c.
or injections. A large number of
orders, however, were not filled be
cause of the inadequacy of the sup
ply of vaccine and also funds for
employing the necessary help to man
ufacture the vaccine.
If any one wishes to secure vaccine
free from the laboratory during the
present typhoid season, it would be
well to place the order at once, as
there is such a demand until it now
appears that some of the “eleventh
hour” orders cannot be filled.
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
CLEANING, PRESSING
REPAIRING
A man is not necessarily just out
of a bandbox because his apparel is
neat, clean and attractive.
Frequent cleaning, pressing and
repairing of his clothing gives him
that nifty appearance.
It also saves him the cost of buy
ing new clothing, an item worthy of
consideration these days.
Ladies may bring us their delicate
garments with the utmost assurance
that they will be handled with
proper care and returned without
the slighest injury.
Clothes Pressed by Hoffman Steam
Pressers.
F. A. PRESTON
Broad Street Bainbridge, Ga.
Dublin, Ga.—A formula for ridding
the cotton fields of boll weevils until
August, when the migratory weevils
are in action, is being used this year
by Dr. W. B. Taylor, of Dexter, in
Laurens county. Dr. Taylor, who lives
about fourteen miles from Dublin, is
recognized as the boll weevil expert
of the county.
His formula, which has the indorse
ment of the county (femonstration
agent of Laurens county, is as fol
lows: Molasses, 2 gallons, saccharine,
1 ounce; ice cream powder, 2 pack
ages; calcium arsenate, 10 pounds;
water, 8 gallons. Dr. Taylor states
that both the ice cream powder and
the saccharine should both be mixed
in a little water before they are addeil
to the other ingredients. After mix
ing it should be kept stirred, he says,
so that the poison will not settle at
the bottom.
He says that the poison should be
applied to the undersides of the leaves
near the bud, and that the above mix
ture should suffice for 20 acres. All
that is necessary for complete suc
cess after one application of the mix
ture, he says, is for two sunshiny
days to follow.
In explaining his formula, Dr. Tay
lor made the following pointers: He
has found by two years of special ex
perimental work that the weevils are
attracted by a sweet mixture and eas
ily fall prey to poisoned sweets. Sy
rup, calcium arsenate, and water will
kill the weevils, but he adds the sac
charine to make the mixture sweeter
than ordinary syrup, and more at
tractive to the weevil. The ice cream
powder are added to give the mixture
a “body” make it foamy and mucila-
genous, therefore hard to wash off
by rains, and sticking longer on the
plant, while it requires less agitation.
Any kind of syrup, corn syrup, mo
lasses, or any like sweetening will do.
Card From Mr.
S. W. Freeman
I wonder why it never occured to
the Solomons that run^pr county af
fairs that they could build dipping
vats at each shipping point in the
county and when there was a car of
cattle to ship, dip them twice, and
thus comply with the U. S. quarantine
law. It would not cost one-half of
the interest each year that they would
have to pay on the money already ex
pended on dipping. But then there
would not have been near the rake-off
for some one in the buying of the
dipping fluid.
The condition down here on the
State line is deplorable. Dr. Tick
Martin and his gang of outlaws will
put a man in jail in Georgia if he
don’t dip and if a Florida man does
dip, he will put him in jail. This is
certainly inconsistency. It looks like
a case of I can and I can't, I will
and I won't, I will be damned if I
do and I will be damned if I don’t.
Captain Tucker's letter in your last
issue was an eye opener. The ques
tion now in order is what arc we do
ing with our money. I understand it
is all gone and some of the county
warrants are unpaid, though several
months old. Our condition reminds
me of a story I once heard:
“An Irish sailor had lost his place
on his ship and like all other fools
he thought he had a divine call to
farm. So he drifted out in the coun
try and hired to a farmer to break
land. The farmer put Pat to plowing
a yoke of oxen, and a little pony in
the lead called Nell. Pat didn’t know
anything about gee and ha, but lar
board and starboard as used on the
ship to designate right and left. Ev
erything went on nice for a while un
til the plow turned over a yellow jack
et’s nest and then the fun began.
Pat commenced to call the farmer and
he asked Pat what was the trouble.
Pat said the larboard ox was on the
starboard side and starboard ox was
on the larboard side, and Nell was
foul in the rigging and the whole
damned push was drifting to hell to
gether.”
I am a little bit afraid this is the
condition of our county. One of our
commissioners told me that he had
been trying to find out the indebted
ness of the county, but had failed it
seems like. No one knows. I hope
it isn’t so large that they can’t count
it.
I hope that every man that ha:s
our county’s good at heart will meet
me at the commissioner's office on the
first Monday in August and let’s see
if we can’t persuade them to abandon
the dipping and save the county that
much.
S. W. FREEMAN.
NOTICE—All repair work is
strictly cash. No exceptions to
any one. E. It. .Meddock.
FIELDS & FIELDS
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Clearance
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SUITS:-FURNISHINGS
A big occasion for sayings. All this season’s goods.
Representing our choicest lines oi merchandise.
All Palm Beach and Mohair Suits
$20 to $32.50 Values Reduced to
$12.50 and $22.50
Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits
Any all-wool Summer Suit, your choice for
$45.00
SHIRTS
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8.50
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12.50
Shirts
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Sale Starts Thursday July 28th.
Shoes! Shoes!
We still have Thirty pairs of those
$3.45 Shoes
In sizes: 5, 51-2, 6, 61-2 and 7.
ALL SHOES
STRAW HATS
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