March 14, 1912.
The rains and showers have been inseparable visitors to Wrightsville of late. But this didnt put a damper on fires. At 9:30 last Sunday morning the fire alarm was turned in from Mr. I. R. Tanner's residence. The firemen responded promptly and in a short time got the flames under control. The entire roof and loft was a mass of flames. The origin of the fire was in the west front room and was started accidentally. The building was the property of Mrs. H. W. Snell and was insured.
Mr. Elmer Daley now occupies his new bungalow on East Elm Street and its the handsomest of its kind in the state. Prof. Clarkson is at the Dent boarding house. Everyone at the college had their picture taken by a traveling photographer and they will be finished as postcards.
Mr. C. M. Dent will celebrate his 56th anniversary at a family reunion dinner at his home near Wrightsville. Mrs. J. G. Kent has come back from the Rawlings Sanitarium much improved but not able to return to her home at Adel. Mr. H. P. Hicks has returned from Fitzgerald where he was called to see his father, Capt. Jimmie Hicks, who has gripp. He is still feeble and little hope for his ultimate recovery. Ralph, the 3 year old son of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Bryan has critical pneumonia.
Mr. George W. Gannon, the expert tonsorial artist recently opened a new place in the old Burch Drug Store, in the Daley building with new equipment and will give prompt service with a shave or hair cut. Mr. Paul Gilmore and his London Players will be at the Vivola on April 2nd presenting The Mummy and The Humming Bird.
The list of candidates is growing and it is a good list. All are collectively and individually good strong men, excellent citizens of the town and county. Mr. C. S. Meadows writes of his friend and old comrade, Jacob Tapley Snell: "I have known him for about 45 years; one who has always stood for the right. His liberality has been enjoyed by the more destitute of old Johnson County. He is always ready to contribute to the distressed and down trodden of humanity. In the days that tried mens' souls, back in the sixties, he was always liberal with his means, to feed the hungry and clothe the destitute. He was one of the first jurors that ever served on the Grand Jury of Johnson County. He is one whose veracity stands among all classes. I see his name announced for House of Reprsentative from old Johnson. It is true, I am not in the county now, but it is my birthplace, and ther is no man in the county that I had rather see elected than J. T. Snell. I trust my old friends will turn out and elect him. Give him this honor, as he is getting old and probably this will be the last time that he will ever offer."
"A NO. 1" Distinguished Tramp visits Wrightsville. The world's most famous tramp, whose only known name is the sobriquet "A No. 1" was in our city and made a pleasant call to the paper office. He is a man most pleasent address, inteligent, well groomed, and gave evidence of a courtly gentleman.
He is a native of San Fransico, from which city he tramped when 11 years old, and he has been tramping eversince. He has been around the world several times, and seldom pays railroad fare, and frequently "rides the rods," as he expresses it. He is well known to all local railroad men, and the story of his fame is founded on facts. He is master of four languages, and is quite a unique character and deserves the cognomen of "the gentleman hobo."
And the following short sketch of this raravis will doubtless be interesting to our readers, showing the good he exerts over boys. Whenever "A No. 1" meets a runaway boy upon his journeys he gives him a talking to that is almost certain to make the lad home sick, and glad when "A No. 1" purchase a ticket sending him home to his parents.
If the boy is already a confirmed wanderer "A No. 1" teaches him his own motto: "Never associate with anyone in whose company you would be ashamed in broad open day light to pass your mother's home." He entertain the town with his instructive stories of the road and the solution of the tramp problem.
"About 359,000 minors run away from home annually. Of this number over 38,000 become confirmed hobos 7,000 are crippled, 3,500 are killed and the rest can only stand the hardships of tramp life about 10 years, until they are in a poor house. So many mothers, if they only knew it, are the cause of many young men living the hobo life. If a regular grown up tramp comes to the house and asks for a meal she turns him away and tells him to go to work for it, but when the young fellow comes along just starting out to be a tramp she takes him in, feeds him on the best she has, not realizing that within a few short years the same youngster will be an exact prototype of the burly tramp she had just turned away."
"Now if she would only get his name from him and his address, and talk to him in a nice way about his home and mother, there would be a good chance that he would go back and it would be a help towards reforming a large number of the boys."
"A No. 1" makes his transient expenses by the sale of two books, the first being "Life and Adventures of A No. 1", tells of his travels among tramps all over the world. The second "Hobo Camp Fire Tales," is a true story of the pitiful hardships of the road. Both show the darkside of tramp life so that any restless boy will get a good idea of its disgusting feature.
The rains and showers have been inseparable visitors to Wrightsville of late. But this didnt put a damper on fires. At 9:30 last Sunday morning the fire alarm was turned in from Mr. I. R. Tanner's residence. The firemen responded promptly and in a short time got the flames under control. The entire roof and loft was a mass of flames. The origin of the fire was in the west front room and was started accidentally. The building was the property of Mrs. H. W. Snell and was insured.
Mr. Elmer Daley now occupies his new bungalow on East Elm Street and its the handsomest of its kind in the state. Prof. Clarkson is at the Dent boarding house. Everyone at the college had their picture taken by a traveling photographer and they will be finished as postcards.
Mr. C. M. Dent will celebrate his 56th anniversary at a family reunion dinner at his home near Wrightsville. Mrs. J. G. Kent has come back from the Rawlings Sanitarium much improved but not able to return to her home at Adel. Mr. H. P. Hicks has returned from Fitzgerald where he was called to see his father, Capt. Jimmie Hicks, who has gripp. He is still feeble and little hope for his ultimate recovery. Ralph, the 3 year old son of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Bryan has critical pneumonia.
Mr. George W. Gannon, the expert tonsorial artist recently opened a new place in the old Burch Drug Store, in the Daley building with new equipment and will give prompt service with a shave or hair cut. Mr. Paul Gilmore and his London Players will be at the Vivola on April 2nd presenting The Mummy and The Humming Bird.
The list of candidates is growing and it is a good list. All are collectively and individually good strong men, excellent citizens of the town and county. Mr. C. S. Meadows writes of his friend and old comrade, Jacob Tapley Snell: "I have known him for about 45 years; one who has always stood for the right. His liberality has been enjoyed by the more destitute of old Johnson County. He is always ready to contribute to the distressed and down trodden of humanity. In the days that tried mens' souls, back in the sixties, he was always liberal with his means, to feed the hungry and clothe the destitute. He was one of the first jurors that ever served on the Grand Jury of Johnson County. He is one whose veracity stands among all classes. I see his name announced for House of Reprsentative from old Johnson. It is true, I am not in the county now, but it is my birthplace, and ther is no man in the county that I had rather see elected than J. T. Snell. I trust my old friends will turn out and elect him. Give him this honor, as he is getting old and probably this will be the last time that he will ever offer."
"A NO. 1" Distinguished Tramp visits Wrightsville. The world's most famous tramp, whose only known name is the sobriquet "A No. 1" was in our city and made a pleasant call to the paper office. He is a man most pleasent address, inteligent, well groomed, and gave evidence of a courtly gentleman.
He is a native of San Fransico, from which city he tramped when 11 years old, and he has been tramping eversince. He has been around the world several times, and seldom pays railroad fare, and frequently "rides the rods," as he expresses it. He is well known to all local railroad men, and the story of his fame is founded on facts. He is master of four languages, and is quite a unique character and deserves the cognomen of "the gentleman hobo."
And the following short sketch of this raravis will doubtless be interesting to our readers, showing the good he exerts over boys. Whenever "A No. 1" meets a runaway boy upon his journeys he gives him a talking to that is almost certain to make the lad home sick, and glad when "A No. 1" purchase a ticket sending him home to his parents.
If the boy is already a confirmed wanderer "A No. 1" teaches him his own motto: "Never associate with anyone in whose company you would be ashamed in broad open day light to pass your mother's home." He entertain the town with his instructive stories of the road and the solution of the tramp problem.
"About 359,000 minors run away from home annually. Of this number over 38,000 become confirmed hobos 7,000 are crippled, 3,500 are killed and the rest can only stand the hardships of tramp life about 10 years, until they are in a poor house. So many mothers, if they only knew it, are the cause of many young men living the hobo life. If a regular grown up tramp comes to the house and asks for a meal she turns him away and tells him to go to work for it, but when the young fellow comes along just starting out to be a tramp she takes him in, feeds him on the best she has, not realizing that within a few short years the same youngster will be an exact prototype of the burly tramp she had just turned away."
"Now if she would only get his name from him and his address, and talk to him in a nice way about his home and mother, there would be a good chance that he would go back and it would be a help towards reforming a large number of the boys."
"A No. 1" makes his transient expenses by the sale of two books, the first being "Life and Adventures of A No. 1", tells of his travels among tramps all over the world. The second "Hobo Camp Fire Tales," is a true story of the pitiful hardships of the road. Both show the darkside of tramp life so that any restless boy will get a good idea of its disgusting feature.
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