From Days Gone By, May 19th, 1911

May 19, 1911.
Jim Sparks, a black man in the employ of Dr. J. W. Brinson, shot and instantly killed Charlie Rickerson, another black man, on last Saturday afternoon. The killing occured in a field of Dr. Brinson's near Wrightsville, where Sparks had gone to feed hogs, and where he met Rickerson who he states shot at him with a gun. Sparks returned the fire with the above result, claiming the killing was in self defense. As there were no witnesses to the act, no inquest was held over the dead man.
As Mr. Mark Smith of Dublin was coming to Wrightsville in his Jackson car, and when near the Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad crossing, he looked back to see the rearend of his car on fire and rapidly burning. He leaped from the car and fell to the ground in a swoon, and by the time he had regained conciousness his car which had stopped running was entirely consumed by fire.
The depot at Adrian was robbed on Monday night. The burglers secured about $100 in cash and a number of tickets and paychecks. Representatives of the Central of Georgia are at work on the case.
A "picked nine", composed of Wrightsville's young bachelors and married men, and nondescripts, played baseball with the college boys Tuesday afternoon, and were defeated in a score of 14 to 4 in favor of the college team. Agreeable to a previous engagement, the Sandersville boys came down Wednesday afternoon and pulled off a contest with our home team. It soon proved that the visitors were "dead easy" in the hands of our boys, to prove which, at the wind-up the score showed 27 to 3 in favor of Wrightsville. Carroll and Swann, batteries for Sandersville: Culver and Lord, batteries for Wrightsville. Next!
Mr. & Mrs. G. B. Dunlap have a new daughter. Col. Rufus Price has moved to Swainsboro to practice law with his brother, Col. I. L. Price. Mrs. Geo. W. Cochran is having additions made to her home on Myrtle Avenue. Johnnie Paul has opened a grocery store at the corner, under the telephone exchange. Wrightsville now has a milk wagon, ice wagon, bread wagon and fresh meat wagon. Guess we will have a "water wagon" next. It might have a few patrons during the hot weather. Macon, Georgia was selected as the next place for the reunion of the United Confederate Veterans is the word from this years reunion at Little Rock, Arkansas.
H. P. Hicks, Wrightsville's well known and expert house painter is at Mount Vernon painting the court house and jail.
Mr. & Mrs. Wm Whitfield Anthony of Wrightsville announced the ehgagement of their daughter, Gladine, to Mr. Stephen Folsom of Dublin. The marriage of Dr. John Green Harrison, of Macon, and Miss Ruth Barrett, of near Washington, Ga., is announced to take place in June at the home of the brides parents. Dr. Harrison was reared near Wrightsville and was once pastor of the Baptist church here. He is now one of the faculty of Mercer University.
Mr. Gus Brantley, who resides about six miles from Wrightsville, took his little daughter Emogine, to Rawlings' Sanitarium, where on last friday she was operated on for appendicitis, after a ten day illness. The operation was successful, and she is now doing nicely, and will be able to return to her home in a few days.
Messers. B. B. Blount, Wm L. Culver, J. M. Cook, A. T. Cobb, E. E. Daley, I. H. Archer, W. A. Lovett, R. L. Stephens, Frank Downs, Flyint Flanders and H. T. Downs, left Tuesday by automobile and rail transportation for Colman's Lake, on the Ogeechee River, where they will spend the week in flirting with the finny tribe. A jolly bunch of fellows they are, and they went "thoroughly equipped with all the paraphernalia necessary" to enjoy the outing; and will have some wonderful fish stories for the suckers to bite at when they get back home. The above party got back yesterday afternoon, a little earlier than was expected---on account of getting out of "bait", besides securing as many fish as they wanted. The catch was fine.