From Days Gone By, Jan 8,1914

January 8,1914.     Angus Hightower and Grady Cox has bought the business of Hatcher & Tanner. Both men have considerable business experience. Angus Hightower has been with the Peoples Hardware Co. for some time and Grady Cox has been in the grocery business in Wrightsville for a number of successful years. The firm will be known as Hightower & Cox Grocery Co. Mr. & Mrs. Frost of Harrison has taken charge of the Lovett Hotel and will continue to cater to the public giving the best service.     The Spring Term of Warthen College opened on the 5th with a full corps of teachers and pupils. Rev. L.P. Glass of North Georgia was called to the pastorate of the Baptist church, corner of Elm and Valley streets. Misses Cleo and Geneva Bray and Mildred Walker left for Wesleyan College. Bernard Tanner will attend Gordon Institute at Barnesville. Clifford Robinson headed to Dalono resume studies at N.G.A. College.     Mr. & Mrs. C.E. Brinson moved to the Stephens home on West Elm street and Mr. & Mrs. R.L. Stephens now occupy the Tanner cottage vacated by the Brinson's. Mr. H. G. Hatcher and family moved to the corner of Lynnhurst and Idylwild Drive. Dr. R.R. Douglas has made improvements on his home on Myrtle Avenue. Solicitor E. L. Stephens purchased the home of Mrs. W.A. Sinquefield on West Court street.     Dr. J. C. Robinson is sick at Rawlings Sanitarium. Mr. J.H. McWhorter and Mrs. B. G. Dunham of Atlanta were called to Rawlings Sanitarium by thecritical illness of their mother, Mrs. Mamie McWhorter, whose death is only a question of time. The home of Mr. A.S. Norris, a few miles from Wrightsville to which he was moving, was destroyed by fire Monday night and only a few household effects were saved. The origin of the fire was not known.    A pretty and quiet marriage was that of Miss Maudlou Sterling and Mr. Leon Lovett which was consumated on the 5th at the home of the bride on East Elm street. She is the eldest daughter of Mr. R.Z. Sterling of Wrightsville, a graduate of Warthen College and in charge of the bookkeeping at H.C. Tompkins department store. Leon is the son of Mr. E.A. Lovett, president of the Bank of Wrightsville. He also graduated Warthen College and is a member of the Wrightsville Grain Co. and also bookkeeping for the Cotton Exchange.     Jas. M. Smith, incumbent County Treasurer offers himself for re-election to that office. If elected it will be his second term. Mr. Alex A. Mayo ia a candidate for Tax Collector. This will be his second try for this office. The new Mayor and Council of Wrightsville for 1914 are now in harness and down to work.     General Sherman and President Huerta has ordered a complete destruction of Northern Mexico, so Villa and his soldiers cannot exist there. Villages are to be laid waste, farms blotted out, men to join him or be murdered and the women and children left to starve. A pathway of 25 miles is to be cut through the region. This is nothing. Sherman cut a similar swath of 50 miles wide through Georgia and South Carolina and left the women and children to starve. And the North applauded the deed yet as wonderful generalship.