From Days Gone By May 1, 1913

May 1, 1913.

    On account of the cool weather, the picnicing and fishing have been on the bum. "The call to Tybee, Where Ocean Breezes Blow," has been made an Messrs. J. C. Haile, General Passenger Agent of the Central of GA, and Fred J. Robinson, assistant, have sent out attractive advertisments of pretty sea bathers, announcing the season at Tybee has opened.

   The students and faculty of Warthen College are now engaged in preparation for commencement. A most excellent program is being planned and this occasion bids fair to be a great success.

   Mr. G. A. Brasington gives notice he has bought the timber known as the Tom Hicks', and have leased the land for a term of years, and hereby gives warning to all parties, forbidding the removal of live or dead pine wood, or placing dead carcasses of any kind on same land.

   Mrs. S. M. Johnson has been sick with grippe. Mrs. D. G. Blount came from the missionary conference in Birmingham sick. Miss Louanna Lovett has recovered from her appendicitis operation and came home from Rawlings Sanitarium.

   A marriage of unusual interest was that of Miss Eva Snell of Scott, and Mr. James W. Everette of Macon which consumated at high noon on April 23 at the brides parents, Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Snell. The groom is from a prominent Wilkinson County family.

   A shock came to the county in news of the death at Dublin of Rev. H. Turner Smith at his home on the 23rd. He attended prayer meeting at Dublin Baptist and soon after returning home was taken ill an died from an attack of heart trouble. He was a native of Laurens County and graduated Mercer University. He was 60 and survived by a wife and six children. He was buried at Northview.

   On last wednesday morning Mr. David E. Clark who lived near New Home, was found dead in his bed. He had been in feeble health for several years and his death was not unexpected. Had he lived a short while longer he would have been 91. He was one of the pioneer citizens of Johnson County. He was buried at New Home with Masonic honors. He was survived by 2 sons, A. T. and A. E., 2 daughters, Mrs. Cicero Perry, Mrs. Benj. Brantley.

   Mr. C. P. Nix was arrested in Dublin and charged with having two wives, one in Cornelia and the other in Dublin. He was put in jail in Wrightsville where his marriage to his Dublin wife took place. A short time ago wife No. 1 had her fortune told by a palmist at Cornelia. He told her she had a husband in Dublin, who was in trouble and to write to Dr. C. C. Jordan who is a brother of the Dublin wife of Nix. She wrote the letter and upon receipt, Jordan had Nix arrested for bigamy.

   Nix met Mrs. Freeman Keen, a widow, and boarded in her home while he sold books. In November after a short courtship they were married in Wrightsville, surprising her family who disapproved. After a few weeks he borrowed money and left for Atlanta, "on business", but met wife No. 1, then later telling her he had to go to Jacksonville, Fla. for a few months, "on business". She thought that is where he was until the palmist told her different.

   When confronted, Nix stoutly denied his guilt and telegraphed wife No. 1 that they had the wrong man. Attorney Kimsey of Cornelia represnting wife No. 1, came to Wrightsville to serve divorce proceedings on Nix and to identify him as  knowing him since boyhood. He told Nix he had "played the devil" and would get the limit of the law.

   Nix waivered commitment trial and is waiting action from the Grand Jury. He is one-legged, and having lost a leg in a railroad accident had received $7500 going through the money in a short time. Mrs. Keen who became his wife No. 2, is well known here, and connected with some prominent families. This bigamist was caught by a palmists' tale.