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NUMBER 49.
BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1922.
$1.50 PER ANNUM
ANKERS, HOTEL MEN AND COMMISSIONERS TO MEET HERE
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MACTSLETFOR
HINT RIVER BRIDGE
TOTAL cost of the struc-
S WILL BE $257,OOO.M
S,RK BEGINS APRIL 7TH.
Contracts covering the erection of a
C 0 highway bridge across the
-t river at Bainbridge were award-
■„ t Friday afternoon, and the ac-
work of construction is to begin
the next few days, not later
April 7th.
,is information will be the Source
_ ner al gratification throughout
bounty, as the building of the
ii™ will bring the Decatur county
y system to a high state of per-
The bridge is to be built
tin a few feet of the present struc-
, which it is to supplant.
’ Three Contracts Awarded.
The construction work is divided
to three contracts, the total cost of
e structure amounting to $257,000.
ntract No. One, covering construc-
of the causeway, grassing slopes,
, will be carried out by Decatur
unty, at a cost of §14,485.00.
Contract No. Two, which includes
ie bridge proper, was awarded to
raytor, Hawton & Wood Construc
t'd)., of Albany, the bid of this con-
rn being §154,040.00. The success-
1 bidder is the same firm that con-
ructed the Flint river bridge at Al-
,ny. and the work of the concern
ere assures that the building of the
idge is in competent hands.
Contract No. Three, covering tin.
eel work, will be carried out by the
ensacola Shipbuilding Co. of Pen-
icola Fla., at a cost of §29,500.00.
lis work includes the installation of
movable span of approved design.
Other items of cost include $23,402.-
i for engineers’ fees and incidentals.
(Continued on last page).
ETHODlSf CHURCH
TO HAVE REVIVAL
RUNNING APRIL 30th WITH DR.
WALT HOLCOMB AS THE
EVANGELIST.
Arrangements are being made by
the officers and congregation of the
Bainbridge First Methodist church for
revival meeting, which is announced,
begin Sunday, April 30th. The
series of meetings will continue for
at least two weeks, with two services
each day.
The church has been fortunate in
securing the services of Dr. Walt Hol
comb, a noted evangelist and able pul
pit orator, to assist the pastor, Rev.
L M. Foster. Dr. Holcomb is one of
the ablest Methodist ministers in the
state, and Bainbridge people are to be
congratulated upon having the op
portunity to hear him.
Dr. Holcomb is at present conduct
ing a revival meeting at the Wesley
Monumental church in Savannah, and
a men only meeting held in that
c >ty last Sunday he preached to a con
gregation of six thousand. His ser-
Vlces in Savannah are attracting a
great deal of interest and attention,
and are being largely attended.
From Savannah the evangelist goes
io Atlanta for a revival, after which
he will come to Bainbridge for the
meeting here. Dr. Holcomb will be
accompanied by a noted singer and
choir leader, and splendid music will
ho a feature of the revival. That the
meetings will be largely attended is
Wrtain.
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick and Governor Carey D. Hardee, of Florida, and Many Other Lead
ing Men of This State and Other States Will Gather Here During the Month of April
to Attend the Bankers, Hotel Men and Commissioners Conventions.
Clean-up Now!
April will be the month of As
sociations. The Bankers, Hotel
men and Commissioners. With
that, and “family” pride in mind,
a great many are “brushing” up
for the “company.” But there
still hang around some places, old
awnings that should come down,
if a good wind would come along,
they would be blown away but in
the meantime they are looking very
shabby. One or two vacant lots
need a fire and brooms and rakes.
The lot opposite the Dodge offices
has been cleaned and is a great
improvement. The Hodges build
ing will be all painted “up” before
“they” get here. The men in
charge of the visitors wont be able
to proudly hold their heads up if
you do not clean up. The new
homes are looking very smart. Mr.
and Mrs. H. D: Trawick's hand
some new home has just had the
last finishing touch added to it
in-sieje, walks paved and paved
walks up to the steps and around
the yard. Ulmer and Beiote did the
artistic work. Look at your beauti
ful park and then squint your pre
mises.
BANKERS ASSOCIATION MEET HERE APRIL 12
GEORGIA HOTEL MEN’S ASSOCIATION WILL MEET HERE
ON APRIL 18TH, AS THE GUEST OF MESSRS. J. D.
PLANT AND SHERWOOD THAXTON, MANA
GERS OF THE TWO LEADING HOTELS.
COMMISSIONERS MEET HERE APRIL 19-20
EVERY EFFORT IS BEING MADE BY THE VARIOUS COMMITTEES
WHO ARE STRIVING TO GET EVERYTHING READY FOR
THIS OCCASION WHICH WILL BE tRe BIGGEST
EVENT OF THE YEAR.
America’s Oldest
Confection Praised
Professor Robert Lindsay, of Coal
reek, Tenn., gave a lecture before
“rudent-body on the food value of
Popcorn. Quite a few of the forward-
ooking educators have, in the past
ew l eers called attention to the many
’Walitits of “America’s Own Confec
tion.”
Professor Lindsay is certainly to be
plimimed on his down-to-date
1 eas. Scientific men have long ap
preciated the remarkable properties
“« P< j^ Corn ’ kut too few of them have
spoken up in public and voiced their
opinions.”
Service Star Legion meet first Tues-
s m ®raing after the 11th.
“TIMES ARE NOT SO
HARD/MS STATED
THIS STATEMENT IS MADE BY
MESSRS. E. J. AND C. C. WILLIS,
OF DECATUR COUNTY.
“Times are not so hard” recently
stated' E. S. Willis, capitalist and
planter of Decatur county. E. J. and
C. C. Willis operate a large planta
tion near Bainbridge that they have
only given personal attention to in the
last year. Their wagons never come
to town empty and never return load
ed. The little they buy for the plant
ation is carried out in a Ford. When
they do not bring potatoes, hay, cot
ton or some farm product they bring
wood and have always found a mar
ket. Hay is most profitable to them.
They raised seventy three tons, last
year and bring in some every week
for home market. Perkins, local buy
er, bought, fifty four head of hogs
from this plantation at eight cents,
the average weight of 11,215 pounds,
age average, 9 to 15 months, just a
common herd of hogs driven up from
the range. That shows the value of
the “rooter” when used with judg
ment and a turn for thrift.
WOMAN’S CLUB -
BUSINESS MEETING
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
CLUB TO BE ORGANIZED SAT
URDAY AT CITY HALL.
On Saturday afternoon, City Hall at
4:00 o’clock, there will be a meeting
for the purpose of perfecting a busi
ness and professional Woman’s Club
in Bainbridge.
Miss Stella Akin, State President
and proAiinent attorney of Savannah,
will be present and will address the
meeting. Every business and profes
sional woman and gill of the city, and
surrounding towns is invited and urg
ed to be present at this meeting. Miss
Aikin comes with enthusiasm and in
spiration from Thomasville where she
is attending the State convention. This
Federation is non-political; non-sectar
ian, self governing and self support
ing. The purpose is to promote the
interest of business and professional
women and girls; to secure combined
action by them; to encourage inter
change of ideas and to create good fel
lowship among them; to gather and
distribute information concerning op
portunities and handicaps affecting
them; to furnish a stronger, far-reach
ing channel through which these
women may spend their forces toward
the advancement of their cause and
that of other women. Annette Adams,
former Assistant Attorney General of
the United States said in an inter-
Bainbridge is to have the
distinction of entertaining
three important conventions
during the month of April,
which will bring to this city
hundreds of the leading busi
ness men of Georgia. The work
of preparing for these events
is engaging the interest arid
attention of many citizens of
the city, and everything pos
sible is to be done for the pleas
ure and entertainment of the
visitors.
Elaborate programs are be
ing worked out for each of the
three gatherings, and every
citizen is urged to lend aid in
presenting Bainbridge at its
best to the city’s guests. The
“Oak City,” famed throughout
the state as one of Georgia’s
most betautiful cities, is at its
prettiest during the month of
April, and delegates to'the
conventions will be certain to
be impressed favorably.
Bankers Here April 12.
The first of the gatherings
will be the regular semi-an
nual meeting of Group Four
of the Georgia Bankers As
sociation, composed of about
125 banks in the western and
southwestern sections of the
state, which will be held here
April 12.
Among the cities to be re
presented at this meeting will
be Thomasville, Moultrie, Syl
vester, Ashburn, Albany,
Americus, Oglethorpe, Butler,
LaGrange, Thomason, Green
ville and many other towns
west and south of the lines
connecting these places. Of
ficers of the state association
and from banks in Savannah,
Macon and Atlanta, as well as
representatives from some of
the northern and eastern cities
will also be present.
A most interesting program
has been arranged, copies of
which will be mailed out next
week by J. J. Wicker, of Cam
illa, chairman of the associa
tion. F. S. Jones, of Bain
bridge, secretary, has already
sent out invitations to all the
bankers of Georgia, urging
them to attend.
An interesting feature of
the program will be an address
by Governor Carey Hardee, of
Florida. Addresses will also
be made by other prominent
speakers on subjects of inter
est to bankers. The delegates
will be taken for an automo
bile ride over Decatur coun
ty’s splendid system of high-
view, “That the Business and Profes
sional Women’s Clubs were the coming
movement for women in the United
States." There is fine material here
for an organization of this character
and it is hoped that a large audience
will be present An organization will
not only promote business relations
among the women and girls but it
will have a social feature highly de
ways, and will be shown the
places of interest in the city
and county.
The outstanding social fea
ture of the meeting will be a
luncheon tendered by the local
banks. The business sessions
will be held in the auditorium
of the Decatur county court
house, and will be presided
over by Chairman Wicker, of
Camilla. Bainbridge banks
will suspend business at 11 a.
m. for the day, an dthe officers
will devote their time to the
entertainment of their guests.
Hotel Men Coming.
The second of the series of
conventions will be a meeting
of the western division of the
Georgia Hotel Men’s Associa
tion, which will be held April
18, Representatives of practi-
ally all the leading hotels of
southwest Georgia will be here
as guests of the local hotels.
The meeting will be large
ly devoted to business, and
President Fred Houser, of the
state association, will preside.
Messrs. J. D. Plant, of the Cal
lahan Hotel, and Sherwood
Thaxton, of the Bon Air, are
preparing to give their guests
a cordial reception. The meet
ing will be held at the Bon Air.
Forty or fifty hotel men will
probably be present.
Commissioners Association.
The third gathering will be
the eighth annual convention
of the Georgia Commissioners
Association, scheduled for
April 19th and 20th. Being
state-wide in scope this will be
the most improtant and large
ly attended of the three, and
will bring to Bainbridge repre
sentatives, citizens from prac
tically two thirds of the coun
ties of Georgia.
Various committees are
busily at work perfecting de
tails of the program of enter
tainment, which includes many
interesting features. The
program has already appeared
in these columns.
The coming of these impor
tant conventions to Bainbridge
will undoubtedly add to its
fame as a convention city, and
result in much favorable pub
licity. Many of the visitors
will be here for their first time,
and everything possible will be
done to see that they take
hom^ with them a favorable
impression of the beauty and
hospitality of Bainbridge.
sirable, for there are many who only
attend “office.”
Mr. and Mra. John W. Callahan re
turned Sunday afternoon from a trip
to Barnesville and Macon. Mr. Ogden
Persons and mother, of Forsyth, who
returned with Mr. and Mrs. Callahan,
left with them Monday for a trip
through the country to the east Coast.
Chairmen Named
The following names have been
announced and departments of the
Tri-County Fair will be identified
by them. Mrs. C. H. Woodberry,
Woman’s Department; Dr. R- H.
Herron in charge of live Btocy; W.
M. Griffin, assistant manager; Mrs.
H. J. Knowles, of Cuthbert, in
charge of poultry. Mrs. Knowles
is a noted chicken fancier and will
handle her work with great inter
est to exhibitors and the public.
The mnin feature of the Fair, will
be the raise in the premium list,
$150 for first, $100 for second, $50
for third and $25 for fourth best
exhibits and for communities exhi
biting and not winning a blue rib
bon, $10 will be given. Unusual in
terest is already being manifest
ed and the prospects for a big fair
are good. Agriculture is being
stressed by the raise in prices.
The above named offleals are
well known to the people of Bain
bridge and Decatur county, and any
one wishing any information in re
gard to the exhibits and the prem
iums offered can get same by writ
ing to the above managers of the
different departments.
H. H. GARNER DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME ON
SHARPE STREET SUNDAY
AFTERNOON.
Mr. H. H. Garner, after a lingering
illness passed away in his home on
Sharpe street, Sunday ufternoon at 4
o’clock with his wife, father and bro
ther, of Dothan, at his bedside.
Mr. Garner was well and popularly
known in Bainbridge where he had
lived for a number of years. He serv
ed the Singer Sewing Machine Com
pany before going to the Salter Furni
ture Company whose employ he waB
in when his health failed. Funeral
services were conducted by the Ma
sons, of which order he was a devoted
miembe^l and interment took: place
Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock in Oak
City Cemetery with a large gathering
of friends present. Beautiful flowers
were banked high around the grave as
a token of love and esteem to him.
Mid Summer Night’s Dream will be
given in Chapel, Friday morning in
stead of Wednesday as has been an
nounced.
RAPID PROGRESS
. BY NIGHT SCHOOL
ENROLLMENT STEADILY IN-
j CREASING. MISS WICKER’S
LECTURE APPRECIATED.
j The enrollment of the night school
| is steadily on the increase. The
(students already enrolled are making
rapid advancement, and in another
week new pupils will have to be placed
in other classes. The teachers and
officials therefore wish to make a
special appeal to those who are con
templating entering that they do so
without further delay.
The boys and young men and women
attending have gone into the work
with such zest that they have advanc
ed in leaps and bounds. The class in
mathematics is considering a short
course in book-keeping which promises
eo be interesting as. well as helpful.
However, the most progress is to be
noted in the English work which is
more properly a class for the better
expression of ideas,—the medium of
which is of course English.
On Monday night Miss Wicker de
livered the first of the series of lec
tures on prominent figures of his
tory. Her talk met with unbounded
appreciation and interest. In the near
future lectures by other speakers will
be given on Hannibal, Caesar, Napo
leon and Jackson. They will be an
nounced in this paper from time to
time.
ORGAN RECITAL AT
METHODIST CHURCH
TO BE GIVEN MONDAY EVENING.
APRIL 10th. AUSPICES OF
EPWORTH LEAGUE.
On April 10th, Monday evening at
eight o’clock under the auspiicas of
the Epworth League at the Metbodiat
Church there will be a recital by Prof-
fessor Ellie H. McNeil, a well known
organiBt. Profssor McNeil has been
an organist for oved thirty years
and has given recitals more or less
all over the Btate. Was teacher at
Andrew College, Cuthbert, Ga., eight
years, had charge of the American
Schol of Music for three years, at
at which time he was also choir direc
tor and organist at the First Methodist
Church there. At present and for the
past fourteen years he has been direct
or of the department of music for
Georgia Academy for the Blind in
Macon also during this time has had
charge of the Choir of Vinevilie
Qhurch. He has been director of
music for South Georgia Epwlortli
League Conference since 1902. It
will be remembered that he has been to
Bainbridge before and played for vari
ous occasions.
This will be the first recital on the
new organ at the Methodist Church.
This organ has just been installed last
year. It Is one o fthe latest types of
pneumatic action, is motor driven and
has twelve stops comprising si/
hundred and seventy-five pipes can <
be controlled to the most delicate tones
hardly audible to the grand crescendo.
Bainbridge people have shown their
appreciation for this class of enter
tainment lately. We have had some
excellent program rendered along
this line already in our city and w*
hope to cultivate our taste for high
cluss entertainment. Be sure to came.
CHAMPS IN ACTION
HERE NEXT WEEK
MOTION PICTURE REPRODUC
TION OF THE WORLD’S GREAT
EST ATHLETIC EVENT.
To all lovers of clean athletic sport
this announcement should bring much
pleasure. As the pictures as will be
exhibited will prove even better than
the boxing exhibition itself.
Slow motion camera work illus
trates every detail of the figbt. The
building of the largest arena the
world has yet known will within itself
prove very interesting, the training
camps of both Dempsey and Garp-
entier will be shown, with the Champ
ions in action.
As announced in outdoor advertis
ing, this entertainment is one solid
hour of big smashing live terrific ac
tion and the theatre patrons of this
territory are indeed fortunate to ’be
able to see these wonder pictures
without the expense of travel to sonic
far distant city. -a
A fifty dollar ringside seat for
fifty cents, and please bear in mind the
fact that the pictures a* will be ex
hibited at the Callahan Theatre are
exactly the same as shown in the large
cities at prices ranging from one te
two dollars. Children will be permit
ted at 25c with adults at 50c positive
ly no higher price than fifty cents.
The attraction plays Bainbridge ttwo
duys, Wednesday and Thursday, April
6th, and 8th. The afternoon shows
start at three o’clock and there will
be a show every hour from three in
the afternoon to mid-night each day.
Madame Butterfly 1
A Fine Success
Madame Butterfly given by artists
from Dothan and chorus from Bain
bridge, on: Tuesday , averting, High
school Auditorium, was a fine and
delightful success.
Although the lights went out, lamps
and candles were brought in and the
program was taken up as if noth
ing had happened. A full house greet
ed the performance. The program
was given under the auspices of the
Philathea class of the Baptist Sunday
School and a great many music lovers
are indebted to them for the nice
evening.
U. D. C’s. meet first Friday
noon.