From Days Gone By Sep 4,1913

September 4,1913.

    Our sister city, Dublin, is making extensive preparations for the 12th District Fair which will be November 3rd to 8th. It is second only to the Georgia State Fair in Macon and was attended last year by nearly 40,000 people. The 12th District covers 13 of the best agricultural counties of the state. Last year there was more than 2,000 head of breed poultry shown. This year they will have automobile races, airship flights and the regular exhibits.

    For the past few days nearly every train has brought some of the teachers and boarding pupils for the opening excercises of Warthen College. There are six new teachers this year, Prof. J. V. A. Carlton, Mrs. C.S. Ward, Misses Mary and Ruth Ponder, Miss Pansy Webb and Miss Lois Walton.

    Mr. G. M. Hensey of Waycross is now a citizen of our town. He is connected now with the new store of W. S. Burns & Son as head salesman. W. F. Dent, proprietor of the Wrightsville Bottling Works has purchased an auto truck, with which he is able to dispose of quantities of all kinds of soft drinks. It is a first class machine. W. S. Williams is anxious to buy your cotton seed. He pays the highest prices and gives accurate weights. Bring your eggs to the Busy Bee Resturant and will pay 20 cents per dozen for same.

    Mr. Paul E. Bryan has returned to Yale College. Harlie Fulford has returned from Atlanta completing bookkeeping at Southern Business College. Messers. Fay Boland and Arthur Rowland finished Wrightsville's School of Business and Shorthand. Arthur now has a position at a bank in Metter. Mrs. Addie Morel and daughter, Rosamond enjoyed the mountain breezes of Tracy City, Tennessee and our former well-known ex-sheriff J. W. Linder, now of Higgston, spent the day in Wrightsville with old friends.

    Mr. B. J. Moye was called to Oconee about his mother, Mrs. B. A. Moye who has had a stroke. Mrs. W. F. Dent is still sick at her home. Mrs. Roose, the mother of Mr. Dominicus Roose, who was killed in the Kite explosion, arrived there from her home in New York and is with the widow of her unfortunate son.

    Last Sunday at the home of the brides grandmother, Mrs. Amos Bush at Donovan, Miss Dora Bush and Mr. Henry B. Wilkes were married. The bride is a neice of Mr. James Bush. Married in Wrightsville on Wednesday, 27th at the home of Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Hall, Miss Lizzie Snell and Mr. Leo Scarboro were married. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. O.O. Snell of Liberty Grove settlement and the groom a nephew of the Hall's. They will live at Hall's settlement.