From Days Gone By january 2, 1913

January 2, 1913.

    As a result of a derailment in the Seaboard Air Line at 8:15 Christmas morning, Joseph Ivey, a switchman, was instantly killed. The accident occured when switch engine No. 425 jumped the tracks. Ivey was standing on the footboard of the engine and was thrown under the front wheels. Ivey was dead when he was pulled from beneath the engine. His body was badly mangled, the heart being crushed and the ribs torn from the spinal cord. Both of the front  wheels of the engine passed over his body. The engineer heard the doomed man's scream as the locomotive left the tracks.

    "Joe" Ivey recently went to Savannah from here and was a son of Joseph H. Ivey. He served throughout the Spanish-American War at Santiago, Cuba. After coming home he married and began painting before going to Savannah to work with the Seaboard-Airline Company. He was about 34 years old and a member of the Baptist Church here. Besides his wife and father he is survived by a sister, Mrs. J. J. Harrison of Scott.

   Mr. & Mrs. R. R. Douglas have returned to their home on Myrtle Avenue. Mrs. Susie Hightower and family have moved to the residence on West Elm recently vacated by C. R. Williams family. Banker C. R. Williams and family left to reside in Dublin. Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Kent of Adel will move shortly to their plantation home near Smarrs Station, not far from Forsyth, however he will continue in the furniture business at Adel.

   Mr. Lewis Dent is a patient at the State Sanitarium and is hopelessly ill with tuberculosis and family members have been called to see him. Miss Mae Belle Williams, who is a guest of her sister, Mrs. N. Braddy, has been quite ill with pneumonia for several days now. Little Lewis Lovett is sick at home with malarial fever and his sister Louise and a younger brother is also sick.

   A marriage of unusual interest was that of Miss Marie Harrison and Mr. Carl Claxton, all of Kite. She is the daughter of Dr. David Crawford Harrison of Pringle. Carl is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Lovett J. Claxton and runs Claxton Drug Company in Kite. Another pretty holiday wedding was that of Miss Mary Hicks and Dr. William H. Thompson of Dublin.

   Mr. Lewis Pournell died Christmas afternoon at his Wrightsville home. Pournell had been in Mississippi and Knoxville, Tennessee for several weeks, and returned here friday before his death, suffering from a severe cold which developed into Quinzy. During his illness he was treated by Dr. Rawlings but died from choking. He was a son of Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Pournell and had traveled extensively over the states and at one time served in the navy during the Spanish-American War in Cuba. He was an expert carpenter and cabinet maker. He was buried at Westview.