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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1907
Page
3
The article envisions Bainbridge growing to ten thousand residents with many new enterprises. Plans include a cotton mill with substantial local investment, a tobacco company packing house and cigar manufactory, and a shift driven by Prohibition. Growth is set for the next five years.
Mr J B Shingler, a leading Bainbridge financier now residing in Ashburn, spent several days in the city during the first week examining opportunities with plans to place larger investments in the City of Oaks. His arrival could mark the greatest individual acquisition Raleigh has seen in decades as he weighs making the region his permanent home.
The community expresses deep sympathy for Dr. T. R. Wardell a highly honored Bainbridge physician and Confederate veteran nearing eighty who has been housebound for two weeks. Once active at fifty he now faces serious decline and friends wish for his early recovery.
The city’s white voter registration this year reaches 430 qualified voters, unofficial but correct, taken at the City Executive Committee’s suggestion. The periodical appeals to subscribers in arrears to settle, noting collectively a large amount due though individual sums may be small.
Chief William Hill of Maryland warns that women who roam the country fields for daisies and jimson weeds attract mosquitos in large numbers. He claims a single woman with very full skirts could bring into town millions of mosquitos, many alive and others in an embryonic state.
Bainbridge Sept 25 1907 The Democrat reports a new Special Tariff issued by the Interstate Georgia Passenger Fares tariff reflecting a reduced rate ordered by the Georgia Railroad Commission. The Georgia line now sells through tickets to Georgia points at the new rates with baggage checked through, eliminating three weeks of passenger inconvenience. Traffic Manager B C Privet?
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