From Days Gone By, July 10, 1913

July 10, 1913.

    About one thousand people attended the July 4th picnic at Idylwild and witnessed a game of ball between Wrightsville and Bartow. Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Cook had a fishfry picnic at Idylwild on wednesday. A number of Sandersville people who went in bathing at Idylwild were robbed of money and jewelry by some sneak thief who had access to their clothing while they were in the water. People from other points were also robbed. One man reporting of a $75 watch and $19 in money. It seems the same thing happens at Idylwild year after year. The thief evidently picks up all the money he needs. The people think something should be done to check his depredations.

   Mrs. R. B. Bryan's son, W. L. Bryan recently underwent appendicitis surgery at Rawlings Sanitarium. Mrs. Oscar Kennedy has been quite ill the past week and the infant son of Mr. & Mrs. B. H. Lord is very sick. Postmaster Renfroe's father-in-law, Lewis Webster is suffering from Brights Disease. Miss Lillian Moore who has been a patient at St. Joseph's Infirmary in Atlanta has returned home. Dr. Lee Horn, eye specialist of Cincinnatti will be at Flanders Drug Store next week.

    J. M. Bryan, agent Gulf Refinery Company has just installed a 250 gallon Red Sentry Bowser Gasoline tank, and is now prepared to fill your cars with pure gasoline. J. J. L. Outlaw, city inspector will begin next week inspecting all lots in the city both public and private and notifies citizens to look after the sanitary conditions of their property.

    L. M. Burns has a farm for sale, seven miles from town consisting of 125 acres with 80 acres in cultivation. Among the new bills in the house was one by Mr. Ben Hill Moye to incorporate the town of Scott. Robert Brinson notifies the public that Rosa Ann Brinson left his home in June, 1913 and warning not to employ or harbor her.

    After a brief illness of pneumonia, Mr. J. F. Hattaway died at his home in Wrightsville last friday and was buried at Pleasent Grove. He was the faithful mail carrier on Route No. 2, a good man and highly esteemed. He married Miss Essie Dent and had five children including an infant.

    In Decatur, Alabama on July 4th, Thomas I. Malpass, an insurance man of Birmingham, committed suicide by drowning in the Tennessee River. His body has not been recovered. Malpass left a note to D. W. Williams requesting the news of his death be broken gently to his wife. Another note to his son stated he was going to end his life. Mr. Malpass is a brother-in-law of Mayor T. L. Harris.