From Days Gone By, August 7, 1913

August 7, 1913.

    Everybody and their kin have gone to the Woodmen of the World picnic today. The largest gathering ever at Idylwild. Some of the young men of the city complimented the visiting young ladies with a picnic at Mason Spring. The party was chaperoned by J. M. Cook and J. G. Brantley. Mr. H. C. Tompkins, proprietor of The H. C. Tompkins Department Store left for New York, Baltimore and the Eastern Markets to buy his fall and winter dry goods and notions. Miss Wylanta Hicks who has been conducting a millinery store here for sometime, has closed out business and will locate elsewhere.

    The old Wrightsville Baptist Church building must be sold before the erection of the new Brown Memorial, and it can be bought at a bargain. Apply to B. B. Tanner or J. M. Cook, trustees. Mr. & Mrs. Thos. Elton contemplate housekeeping soon at the Daley residence on West Elm Street. The Marcus Street team beat the (6) Nine last monday, 14 to 7.

    W. B. Screws, Minister, Lecturer and Author of Glennville, GA., will deliver an address on the Roman Catholic Hierarchy at Scott. All patriots are asked to attend. J. M. Bryan, President of the Johnson County Sunday School Association will attend the S.S. Convention at Kite.

    Miss Lillian Hartley, Miss Edith Sterling and Miss Annie Laura Bray returned home from the State Normal School in Athens. Little Mae Ware Daley had a tea party with friends at their Bungalow on West Elm Street.

    Mrs. W. J. Jordan returned home from Rawlings Sanitarium. A little son of Mr. Herschel Smith residing about 5 miles from town, fell from a wagon while riding and sustained a painful scalp wound by the wagon passing over his head. He is now doing very well.. Little Ruby, the eight months old daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Frank Outlaw, died Sunday night after a brief illness of congestion of the bowels. She was buried the next day at Pleasant Hill.

    Married Tuesday night at the home of Mr. & Mrs. R. R. Martin on West Elm Street, Miss Nettie Martin of Kittrell, and Mr. Nat F. Bray were joined together by Rev. E. L. Wainwright. She is a daughter of Mrs. E. L. Martin. Mr. Bray is the son of Hon. C. T. Bray and is a prosperous merchant and farmer.

    The City Court summoned jurors for August 19th court. They were: J. F. Cannedy, S. J. Sumner, J. A. Fort, J. B. Garnto, H. S. Hall, G. C. Douglas, J. R. Grice, J. F. Flanders, C. E. Price, J. G. Greenway, H. A. Stewart, J. W. Price, Stanley Wilson, E. R. Martin, C. H. Martin, B. A. Lamp, J. B. Colston, Charley Green, M. M. Johnson, J. R. Parker, F. F. Flanders, J. L. Hatcher, Wiley Cheaves, and J. I. Moye.