From Days Gone By Jan i, 1914

January 1, 1914.     Wrightsville enjoyed a safe and sane Christmas, and the merchants all had a good trade. They are largely indebted to the prosperous old year of 1913, for the extensive Christmas shopping and good business done during the holidays.     The street carnival with its various attractions arrived in Wrightsville Monday and will remain throughout this week. The old school campus is covered with tents, the "merry-go-round," the Dog and Pony circus, motorcycle riders and all kinds of catch penny concerns. They are taking in all pennies, nickels and dimes left here by Santa Claus.     The tabulation from the ginners of December 13th shows there were 19,112 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales ginned in Johnson County from the 1913 crop. This compares to 13,634 bales ginned in 1912.     The "Modern Pharmacy" is the name of the new drug store established by E.A.W. Johnson and C.E. Brinson located at the former Wrightsville Drug Co. (Hair Unlimited bldg). The interior has been remodeled and has the addition of a handsome new soda fount. Mr. C.E. Brinson a graduate in pharmacy of the State University will be in charge, so if you want, what you want, when you want it, call 29.     The campaign season has unofficially opened as J. L. Jones announces as a candidate for County Treasurer. Mr. Jones is a good, reliable citizen, thourghly competent, and the strongest plea of all, he's a cripple, a permanent cripple and his friends will make no mistake in helping him get the office.     Mr. J. W.  Vanlandingham and family have moved to College Heights occupying the house vacated by Mr. Lawrence and family. Mrs. W. A. Sinquefield purchased the Dr. Stewart residence on North Marcus street. The deal was made through the Mason Realty Company. M. M. Davis of Davis Store will leave this week for New York to select his spring and summer stock of goods.     Misses Walton, Mary Anna Moore, and Messers. Oswald Tompkins, Russel and Millard Daley, chaparoned by Mrs. Gordon Brantley, formed a pleasent automobile party to Dublin Saturday night to hear Creatore's Band. Mrs. W. T. Kitchens returned home from Rawlings Sanitarium where she has been a patient for several weeks.     Miss Alline Winter and Mr. James Hawkins were married on Christmas Day at the methodist parsonage in Tennille. The bride is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Winter of Hepzibah and taught school at Brantley's Chapel. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. & Mrs. Walter Hawkins of here. He is a salesman at a firm in Dublin.    The marriage of Miss Lillian Page and Mr. Monroe Hersey took place here at 7am Christmas morning. She is a daughter of Dr. & Mrs. S. T. Page of here and a Warthen College graduate. The groom located here from Waycross and is a salesman for W.S. Burns & Son.     Mary, the little daughter of Rev. & Mrs. Allaben is sick at the methodist parsonage with acute indigestion. Mr. Samuel T. Smith died on Monday morning at Moye's hospital at Vidalia where he had been a patient for some time. He was a Johnson native and was 58 years old. He was brother to Mrs. J.W. Williams and Mrs. W.B. Ivey and survived by his wife and three daughters.     There will be services every Sunday morning and night and Sunday School each Sunday afternoon at the court house throughout 1914 beginning next Sunday. This owing to the removal of the old Baptist church, preparatory to the erection of the new Brown Memorial church.