August 28, 1913.
The opening excercises for the fall term of Warthen College will be held September 3rd with Rev. H. T. Freeman of Savannah giving the address. An arrangement has been made between the county board of education and the college trustees in which public school will be taught in conjuction with the college at the following expense: primary grades, $5; Intermediate, $6; Academic, $7.50.
Jack Jordan, colored, manager of the Wrightsville Pressing Club has returned from a trip to Atlanta where he has been studying the tailoring business in all its branches. Jordan & Hicks have been operating a pressing and dyeing establishment in Wrightsville for several very successful years. Little Miss Elizabeth Cook was hostess to the Juvenile Sewing Club at her home serving ice cream and cake.
Mr. Otho Tanner and wife will occupy the residense of the late Rev. Charles Moore on West Elm Street. From present indications the proposed handsome new Baptist church building will soon be in course of erection. Mr. L. M. Burns has a farm for sale consisting of 125 acres, located 7 miles from town, 80 acres in cultivation.
Dr. C. H. Kittrell has been suffering from lumbago. Rev. E. W. Pease, formerly of this city, but now of Clarkston, informs us that Mrs. Pease had the misfortune to dislocate and fracture her ankle to such an extent that she is confined to her bed and suffering intensly.
The infant of Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Miller died Saturday night and was buried Sunday afternoon at Piney Mount. Mrs. Minnie Carter, wife of Mr. Oscar Carter, died at her home in this county August 25, from an attack of pneumonia, and was buried Tuesday 26 at Piney Mount. Mrs. Carter was a sister of Mrs. J. T. Miller.
On James Vicker's plantation, better known as the old Hightower place, on the Ohoopie, a big slaughter of rattlesnakes was made last Thursday and again on Sunday. Messers. Bose Peevy, C. E. Price and others were the discoverers and annihilators. The rattlers were flushed at an old saw mill plant under some slabs. These were found by Mr. Peevy on Thursday, who succeeded in killing twenty odd of them. Mr. Price was at the same place on Sunday, when he with the assistance of others killed twenty or more of the rattler family, making a total of forty two of the dangerous reptiles, all of different ages and sizes, among which were two pilots and old mother snake carrying eleven rattles. Rattlers are getting rather numorous in Johnson County.
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