From Days Gone By, September 29, 1911

September 29, 1911. The opera chairs have been placed in the Vivola Opera House and the scenery and drop curtain are now being installed, prepatory for the initial attraction "The Vassar Girls", on the evening of october 21st, by the Lyceum Course. By the purchase of more rail for the extension from Wrightsville to Lyons the new railroad project for this section seems even more a certainty. The route is from Wrightsville to Adrian to Lyons, to Waycross. It is proposed that this road will be extended in each direction until a new route will be established from Florida through Waycross to Athens and northeast Georgia, the route to go either via Milledgeville or Sparta and connect with a branch of the Seaboard Airline. There is a possibility of a connection also with the Georgia Coast and Piedmont, which proposes an extension to Vidalia. Notice was hereby given that on the 15th day of September the firm of Martin Bros. (T. L. & J. B.) were duly adjudged bankrupt in the District Court for the Northeastern Division of the Southern District of Georgia at Augusta. Submitted by Joseph Ganahl, Referee in Bankruptcy. W. R. Kemp of Route 1 Wrightsville will pay a reasonable reward for the arrest of two colored boys named respectively Charles Carter and Beverly Kemp, each about 16 years old. Kemp has a scar on the side of his face. For their arrest I will pay a suitable reward. Mr. & Mrs. John Mayo, and Mr. Henry Mayo and family have rented the Daley residence on Marcus Street and will take possession next week. Milledge Claxton of Kite is now filling the position as bookkeeper at the H. C. Tompkins stores. Misses Lena and Mamie Rowland entertained a number of the younger set at their home on Belmont Avenue. Preston, the little son of Mr. & Mrs. Jim Bryan is ill with malarial fever. Misses Maud Lou and Zeta Hightower are sick with fever. J. M. Blackshear, Jr. and his sister Dulcet are improving after several weeks of malaria fever. Mrs. Mary Duggan has it too. The friends of Mrs. J. M. Blackshear, who is now in the hospital at Rochester, Minnisota, will be glad to learn she is improving. Mr. Blackshear says it is quite cold there with the ice is two inches thick. The Wrightsville friends of T. H. Jackson of Dublin learn that he is critically ill at Blue Ridge where he was carried for the benefit of his health. Mrs. R. B. Chapman was called to Dublin by the illness of her sister, Mrs. Frank Brantley who's death occured tuesday night from fever. Andrew T. Clark, our clever and popular fellow countyman has been very feeble but was back in town this week, a guest of his son, Gordon Clark and family. Miss Lizzie Lee Johnson has been elected teacher in the 5th and 6th grades of Warthen College. She is conscientious and capable, and will doubtless fill the position in a satisfactory manner. Rev. W. A. Parker who has been pastor of the Baptist church for the past 2 years will move to Washington County where he has bought the Doc Waller farm, one mile and a half from Tennille. On last thursday 21st, at the home of the brides' parents, Mr. & Mrs. Gid Raines, near Wrightsville, Miss Nora Raines and Mr. Carlus Harrison were united in marriage by Rev. J. R. Kelly. J. R. Edwards, who lives on the Vicker's place, a few miles from town, brought to town a stalk of corn, on which there were ten well developed ears. The "fireless cooker" has made its appearance in Wrightsville. Mrs. D. G. Blount has been using one for several weeks, and is delighted with it in every way. New inventions are constantly coming to us. The horseless carriage, wireless telegraph, tasteless medicine and the like. Perhaps some of us may live to see "talkless women".