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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
6
The community reports the Methodist Church roof nearing completion and a new John R Sharp steamer shaping up on Flint River. It notes local weather hints an early fall, plus town updates on theater and Bainbridge lacking a showplace. Also mentions Willis Drug seeds and a pair of vacancies in Apalachicola.
City council voted to offer a $50 reward to any officer or private citizen who provides information with evidence leading to a conviction of any person operating a blind tiger in the city. The piece urges Bainbridge to adopt a similar measure, predicting quick results.
Wanted one hundred hands to cut our foot cord wood at six cents per cord wood. Woods checked up and paid for once a week. Apply to George O Smith, city.
Mr A H Morton promoter of the Florida National Tobacco Co will leave this morning for Attapulgus Georgia where the company contemplates erecting a large packing house for tobacco He will meet growers to determine acreage and arrange to handle the output benefiting the planters in Decatur County near the state line
An ad by Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana promotes a free home treatment for bed wetting and urinary difficulties. It asserts spanking is ineffective and offers full instructions without money. The notice claims the method helps children adults and elderly with daytime or nighttime urine issues.
A simple walnut and fig dessert using 1 2 cup English walnuts and 1 2 dozen figs. Dissolve JELL O in boiling water, then fold in chopped figs and nuts as it thickens. Serve with whipped cream. Walnuts figs and Jell O available at a good grocery. Makes enough for a large family and economical.
Amasim Kansas believes advertising pays after posting a $5 bill reward. A stranger returning the bill found it. later the same bill reappeared in a vest pocket. He claims advertising paid 200 percent, noting the original loser who did not advertise remained out $5.
Mrs Mary Lee of rural route 8 Zanesville writes that her husband James Lee nearly faced consumption before using Dr King’s New Discovery. She says the remedy restored his health and claims it offers relief for coughs and colds. A five cent and one dollar sizes are sold with a bottle free offer.
Lost objects include a shoe shed a pearl set and a scarf pin. Finder will be liberally rewarded for returning to this office or account of its value. Associations connected with the pin noted. 13-tf.
Joe Jones offers a neat clean quiet barber shop above Shaw Furniture on Worth LU road. First class dolite barbers provide clean shave or haircut in a stylish period setting. Call for appointment.
Frank Crawford sues Lola Crawford in Decatur County Georgia for total divorce. Lola Crawford must appear with or without counsel at the next Superior Court session the second Monday in November to answer the libel. If she fails the court proceeds by law. Judge W N Spence notes. Clerk C W Wimberley and attorney R G Hartsfield record.
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