From Days Gone By April 18, 1912

April 18, 1912.

On Sunday the 14th, at 11:40pm, the great ship, Titanic, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage, and sank early on the 15th. Jacque Futrelle, the popular writer and his wife, Lillie May were on the ship. Mr. Wiley Harman Heath Futrelle, Jacques father, lives near Adrian and is an old friend of the Headlight editor and while in town a few weeks ago, during conversation mentioned that "Jack" and Lillie May were abroad, and their expected return to America soon. Reports are that Jack went down with the ship. His wife is reported among the survivors of the lost ship, and everyone hopes he is also. Messers. W. R. Amason and H. B. Sanders informs everyone that Idylwild, the beautiful picnic grounds of the W. & T. Railroad, will open on the 19th. Amason and Sanders are the managers and are doing all they can to make Idylwild attractive and pleasant to visitors and picnic parties. The faculty and pupils of Warthen College will have their annual picnic there tomorrow. The long continued wetting rains are having retarded the progress of the farmers to an alarming extent. Wednesday's rains cut down the attendance at Warthen College about one-half, and school was dismissed at noon. Dr. R. R. Douglas has recently invested in a handsome Flanders Car, and is liberally treating his friends to joy rides every pleasant afternoon. Mr. John M. Jordan is back in town and is still in his old line of business, repairing and adjusting all kinds of sewing machines, organs and various other kinds of machine work. He can be called on at the Wrightsville Merchantile Company. Mr. J. B. Long has on hand five good second hand buggies for sale, cheap for cash, or good notes. Buggies have just been overhauled. He does all kinds of repair work; vehicles, all plantation implements, horse-shoeing, etc. Dr. F. B. Hughes, the eyesight specialist will be in Wrightsville for two days at Duff & Robinson shop. The Johnson County Singing Convention will convene at Beulah Baptist near Donovan on April 27th & 28th. Mr. W. W. Hackett, Traveling Passenger agent of the Central of Georgia Railroad was in town perfecting arrangements of special cars from Wrightsville direct to Macon, during the re-union in May. It is expected that practically every Confederate soldier of Johnson County will attend. It was omitted in last weeks election results that Mr. Hillard Hicks won the race for Surveyor. He only received 4 votes but he had no opposition. On last Sunday morning Mr. James Jackson Bush died at his home on Mr. Ben Wiggin's place and was buried Monday at Gum Log church, Rev. Jordan Norris conducting the funeral. Mr. Bush was a native of Laurens County, but had lived here for several years. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist church and is survived by many relatives and friends. Prof. Broxton chaperoned the college base ball team to Adrian on Tuesday. The afternoon gave an interesting game with Warthen beating Adrian by the score of 10 to 6. Both sides were evenly matched and took eleven innings to decide the better team. The game which lasted one hour and twenty minutes featured hard hitting and fast base running. Throughout the conflict it was mainly a pitcher's battle, both pitchers covering themselves with glory. McWhorter fanned 13 and walked one; and Smith struck out 15 and walked two.