From Days Gone By June 26,1913

June 26, 1913.

    Miss Sadie Brantley, an orphan girl, 16 years old, was killed near Harrison this morning by the southbound W. & T. train. She was picking berries with other children and sat down on the track near some bushes and hearing the train coming attempted to cross the track and was struck by the engine and killed instantly. She made her home with Mr. Lord's family near Harrison.

    While playing little Louis, the 4 year old son of Postmaster Renfroe had the misfortune to run a tine of a pitch fork into the fleshy part of his leg, making an incision one and a half inch deep. Dr. Erle Brinson attended to the little fellow, dressed his wound and nothing serious has resulted.

    Monday, while some of the town urchins were going through some baseball manuvers on Bradford street, the ball glanced from a hydrant and crashed into one of the large glass windows of the Peoples' Hardware Store doing considerable damage.

   R. L. Stephens left for Baltimore working for the well known Straus Brothers in their special line of clothing. Mr. H. C. Tompkins, proprietor of H. C. Tompkins Department Stores returned from Virginia where he was looking after his merchantile interests in Roanoke. Peter Mathis, a worthy colored man and expert mattress maker from Tennille is here to repair your mattresses and he also reseats chairs.

    Mr. James W. Smith, a prominent, wealthy and well known businessman of Tennille, died at Rawlings Sanitarium where he had been for some time suffering from cancer of the stomach. A Mrs. Marsh, a tennent on Dr. S. M. Johnson's farm died of malaria. Her husband, James Marsh preceded her to the grave about two months earlier.

   The directors of the Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad held their annual meeting in Dublin. The semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent was ordered paid. The railroad is in good shape and the board was well pleased with all the business conducted.

    On the public road between Wrightsville and Adrian, Mr. L. B. Lightfoot lost a medium sized leather grip. A liberal reward will be paid for its return. Mrs. W. H. Harrison residing near Beulah Church owned a hen of the ordinary stock of chickens that was remarkable for longevity, if not for laying eggs. This hen had lived to be 16 years old, and died a few days ago. She was indeed a "game old hen" to have lived so long.