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THE BAINBRIDGE POSY-SEARCH LIGHT '
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W. WIMBERLEY, JR.
attorney-at-law
Practice in All Courts
Office Hamil Building
BAINBRIDGE,
GEORGIA
JOHN R. WILSON
attorney-at-law
H. C. Harrison, Associate
Practice in all courts, except
criminal
Offices: O’Neal Building
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA
TO THE HONORABLE R. C. BELL,
JUDGE:
The Decatur County Bar Associa
tion having appointed the undersigned
as a committee to draft a suitable
memorial of Honorable John E. Don-
alson, the Committee presents the
following, and requests that it be
read in open court and entered on
the minutes:
J. M. FLOYD
Attorney and Counsellor At Law
Buys, Sells and Rents Houses
Office under old Fogdham Hotel
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA
dr. p. m. lewis
Practice Limited to the Diseases
of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Glasses Fitted
Phones: Office 3, Residence 216
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA
F. E. STRICKLAND
Farm and City Loans at 61-2
Per Cent.
Office in Court House
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA
R. H. HERRON
VETERINARIAN
Phone 124
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA
Office Phone 295 Res. Phone 64
L. W. WILLIS
Physician and Surgeon
Office Corner Broughton and Clark
Streets
BAINBRIDGE,
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GEORGIA
REGULAR MEETING
DECATUR LODGE NO 32
K. OF P.
First and Third Tuesday of
Each Month
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA
J. C. HALE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office in Hamil Building
Practice in All Courts
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA
Memorial By The Decatur County Bar
Association of Hon. John E- Donalson
AN INTERESTING LETTER
FROM MR. S. W. FREEMAN
i Editor Post-Search Light:
lawyers of South Georgia, among his . Tht* County Commissioners
partnerships being those with Judge certainly the finest bunch of sweet
B. B. Bower, Honorable A. L. Hawes, smiling insects I have ever run up
Judge Russell W. Fleming, and last against. Whenever you ask them to
with his son, Honorable Erie M. Don- discontinue the dipping they will show
alson. In addition to his law prac- you the law, Ahere the board can be
tice, Colonel Donalson was actively use d and forced to pay for it. And
connected with manufacturing, farm- j then give the dipping 'inspector a
ing, banking and other enterprises. check) when the y know that the coun-
Colonel Donalson was an active ty was hopelessly involved, and did
John Ernest Donalson was born in Democrat all of his life and devoted no t have a cent in the bank and that
Bainbridge, Georgia, April 29th, 1846. j rnueh of his time and attention to t he warrant would be turned down,
He was the son of Jonathan and Caro- I cause of the people of the South. an( j knew that to draw a worthless
line Williams Donalson, and the i He was a delegate to the National c heck was a violation of the law. I
grandson of John and Agnes Peele Democratic Convention in 1896. He have seen many a poor white man,
Donalson and William and Casandral was a ' so n member of the Constitu- ant ) negro p u n e d into Court for pas-
Shepard Williams, the grand parents jtional Convention of 1877 of the State F j ng a worthless check, but this bunch
being among the first settlers in De- Georgia, and took a leading part j n u ^ er defiance of the law.
catur County and his great-grand-1 in ^ framing of the Constitution Again j am j n f ormed that the Coun-
parents among the patriots who | which has for more: than forty years ty boar(] hag uge( , thp m()ney that wag
helped make this country. On each i guarded and protected the rights and i,„;u *v,„ „„.i *v,„„
side of his family he was descended i
' Georgia.
JOHN C. CHASON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Practice in All Courts
BAINBRIDGE, GEO!
M. E. O’NEAL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Practice in All Courts
Office: O’Neal Building
GEORGIA
BAINBRIDGE,
DAVID M. ABRAMS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office at
donalsonville,
CA.
ERLE M. DONALSON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office three doors from corner of
^ater and West streets, fronting
City Park
bainbridge, Georgia
W. M. HARRELL
attorney-at-law
Office: O'Neal Building
bainbridge, Georgia
DH - WILLIAM R. HOWELL
CHIROPRACTOR
specializing j n disorders of the
stomach, Liver, and NERVES
O'Neal Building, Upstairs
Bainbridge, Georgia
H. G. BELL
attorn F.Y-AT- LA W
in Chason Building
Opposite Court House
BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA
from men of strength, courage, pa
triotism and high ideals.
In his early boyhood he was tutored
by Mr. John Erskine, afterwards Uni
ted States District Judge of Georgia.
Later he attended Mount Zion Acade
my, where he was a pupil of Governor
William Northern, who stated he was
the finest student and one of the
noblest characters he has ever met in
one so young. In 1862 he attended
the University of North Carolina,
where he became a member of the
Delta Psi Fraternity. He left Chapel
Hill at sixteen years of age to join
the Confederate Army, and enlisted
in Company A, of Duke’s Cavalry,
commanded by General John Morgan;
Company A of| the JFifth Floridp
Battalion Cavalry, where he served
until the close of the war. At the
time of his death he was Commander
of the Decatur County Camp of Con
federate Veterans.
After the war he attended the Uni
versity of Georgia, where he became a
charter member of the Chi Phi Fra
ternity. It is well here to direct at
tention to the fact that Colonel Donal
son was the only American who ever
became a member of two active col
lege Greek letter fraternities. This
condition was brought about one ac
count of the fact that the Delta Psi
Fraternity was known as a Northern
Fraternity, and after the war between
the States withdrew from all Southern
colleges, and after the withdrawal of
this fraternity from the South, Colo
nel Donalson, with the permission of
the Delta Psi, associated himself i^th
the Chi Phi Fraternity and helped or
ganize the noted chapter which is
still one of the leading fraternities
at the University of Georgia. , He
was an honor graduate in the “Fam
ous Class of ’68,” with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts. A year later he
graduated from the University of
Georgia Law School with the degree
of Bachelor of Law, and was in 1869
regularly admitted to the practice of
law. A few years before his death
he was granted the honorary degree
of Bachelor of Arts fromNthc Uni
versity of North Carolina.
He was a member of the American
Bar Association, of the Georgia Bar
Association, and for many years
President of the Decatur County Bar
Association, having taken a leading
part in its organization.
He was a devout member of the
Presbyterian Church, and was an El
der since he was twenty-one years of
age. The last night of his life his
prayer at the closing of the Prayer
meeting was one of the most touch
ing and beautiful ever delivered in
Bainbridge. On that night he moved
that Mr. Ward, the minister, invite
the newly created outhwestern Pres
bytery to hold its first meeting in
Bainbridge. Surely this was a beau
tiful close to a beautiful life.
Colonel Donalson was married three
times. First, to Miss Mary Baker,
daughter of Judge and Mrs. Nathan
Baker, of Apalachicola, Florida. His
second wife was Miss Amelia Pohl-
man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hen
ry J. Pohlman, of St. Louis, by whom
he has two living children, Erie M.
Donalson, of Bainbridge, and Miriam
Agnes Donalson, now Mrs. Ben Lee
Crew, of Atlanta. His third wife
was Mrs. Loulie M. Gordon, of At
lanta, daughter of Major and Mrs.
Jonathan Jackson McClendon, of
Newnan, Georgia.
He commenced in practice of law
in 1869, and was engaged as counsel
in much of the most important liti
gation of South Georgia, covering a
great number of years. During his
practice he wap Attorney for the
Alabama Midland Railroad, and the
Plant System of Railways, afterward.?
General Counsel for the Georgia,
Florida & Alabama Railway Com
pany, later General Counsel for the
Georgia, Southwestern & Gulf Rail-
read Company, and then for the Calla
han Line of Steamers, the First
National Bank of Bainbridge, and the
Decatur County Bank, having as
sisted in the organization of these
Inst two organizations. He was as
sociated with many of the Lading
f t collected to build the bridge and they
liberties of the people of the State of k||ow that the , aw sayg that thia
j money can not be used for any other
His death on December 2nd, 1920, p Ur p 0Se> except to one collected for.
removed from our midst one of our ■ . . ,, . , ,
, , , , . , ... j I wonder what the officious Judge
most beloved and useful citizens and 1 ... . . ... , , . ,
, ... , . will sny about this. I understand
lawyers. His life from beginning to , _ . .
,• , that he told one of the Commissioners
end was a model of ethics and pro
priety which could be well followed
by every member of the profession.
Respectfully submitted,
T. S. HAWES
J. D. TALBERT
M. E. O’NEAL.
Georgia, Decatur County.
to send men to see that the cows were
dipped even at the risk of their lives.
Now Judge, preach again. Sec. that
the law is enforced against passing
worthless checks, and the misappro
priation of public money. Don’t
spend all your desire to enforce the
law on us little fellows that can’t
The foregoing memorial having) ’ , ,, , „ „ . , ,
. . . .... j i Bee why we should be Hell-hncked
been read in open court, it is ordered , . ...
. , * ., for life, so a few men can ship cattle
that the same be entered upon the
minutes of the Superior Court of De
catur County.
In open court, May term, 11)21, this
20th day of May, 1921.
R. C. BELL,
Judge Superior Courts Albany Cir
cuit.
Entered on minutes of Decatur Su
perior Court, Book “R” pages 509
and 510.
C. W. WIMBERLY, Clerk.
LIBEL FOR DIVORCE
Georgia, Decatur County.
Mack Davis vs. Ada Davis. Libel
for divorce in Decatur Superior Court,
November term, 1921.
Ada Davis is hereby required per
sonally or by attorney to be and ap
pear at the Superior Court to be held
for said county on the second Mon
day in November, 1921, to answer the
plaintiff’s libel as in default thereof,
the court will proceed as provided by
Witness the Honorable R. C. Bell,
Judge of said court, this July 25,
1921.
C. W. WIMBERLEY, Clerk.
G. G. BOWER,
Plaintiff’s Attorney. . ‘
and some one get a little graft.
The meeting to try to get the Com
missioners to suspend the dipping,
was the queerest legal procedure
that 1 ever saw the Commissioners
have. Some nursed every man that
they thought would endorse the dip
ping, which was only a handful, and
when the opposition appeared to pre
sent our case we were told that we
would be allowed a hearing after din
ner. They then heard from the de
fence and after they fully made up
their minds that they would not lis
ten to any thing the common people
said, they let us talk.
I notice that some of our county
fathers are real fond of greeting
our County Attorney. If I was them,
after he had allowed and I presume
advised them to violate the law for
seven years, in pnying the farm dem
onstration agent, I certainly would be
n little jealous of him as a lawyer.
Our County Attorney is a nice jovial
fellow, but I am afraid that he is like
myself, he studied law but went to
practicing at the wrong bar. The
things that he don’t know would fill
a big book.
It seems to me that Dr. Tick Mar
tin is running the county affairs.
When he says hands up or down, and
the way the Commissioners change po
sitions would pass any enrton I ever
saw.
I can’t see why the Board of Edu
cation don’t come to the rescue of the
Commissioners, for it seems that they
had rnther pay out money in an il
legal way than to pay it out in a legal
one. I draw my conclusion from the
fnct that they paid the farm demon
strator, which was a violation of the
Do you
know why
it's toasted?
To seal in
the delicious
Burley flavor.
It's toasted.
lnw, instead of paying it to tho
school teachers as the lnw directs.
Maybe they will stop when they
bankrupt the county, and I don’t think
they have much farther to go.
There is great rumors afloat about
the financial condition of our county,
the Commissioners can put it all at
rest by publicly giving us a true, fi
nancial statement. Don’t you do it,
it is our business, you aTe the ser
vants and we are the masters and
we demand it. Now put up or get
out of the game. We are tired of tho
cards being dealt .under the table.
S. W. FREEMAN.
CITATION—Guardianship
Georgia, Decatur County.
To All Whom it May Concern:
J. O. Norman, having applied for
Guardianship of the person and prop
erty of Verdie Ruth Norman, miror
child of B. F. Norman, late of Polk
County, Fla., deceased, notice is given
that said application will be heard at
my office, at 10 o’clock A. M., on the
first Monday in August, next.
This July 5, 1921.
T. B. MAXWELL, Ordinary
and ex-officio Clerk C. O.
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