From Days Gone By Feb. 19,1914

Febuary 19,1914.      The members of the Baptist church voted unanimously Sunday night in regular conference to erect the new brick Brown Memorial Church on the site of the recently burned pastorium on corner of Elm and Valley streets. The trustees were instructed also to proceed at once with a new pastorium on the corner of Court and Valley. The $1000 insurance is to be used to build the new one which is not enough so the rest will be suplimented by the church.     Frank Outlaw is building a modern six-room cottage at Fairview, fronting on Margaret street. Mr. O. A. Kennedy painted white his large two story residence on East Court Street. Mr. Rodney Lanier of Harrison has moved to the Linder House on Myrtle Avenue. Mr. T. V. Kent of Tanner & Kent spent several days in Atlanta acquiring new spring designs in furniture.     Mayor Cook and family made a motor trip to Sparta Sunday in their handsome new car to spend the day with relatives. Mr. J.T. Miller, the popular insurance man, is right along with the big bunch of auto sports of Wrightsville and he presides very gracefully at the wheel of a handsome 4 passenger Ford he just purchased. Messers. Z.D. Hatcher and S.C. Josey former residents here have opened up a drug store in Brunswick under the name Hatcher & Josey.     J. A. Lindsey announces for Tax Receiver in the March 11th primary. J.V. Snell, Clerk of Superior Court the past 12 months is asking the voters to re-elect him to that office. W.D. "Willis" Rowland runs for re-election as sheriff. Mr. Rowland is a true man in his entire makeup. During his past first term of office his deportment and administration has been clean cut. It is only necessary that he says he wants to keep that office the people will re-elect him.     On Tuesday the 10th, Bernice, the four year old daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J.W.A. Walden, while playing with her two little sisters in the yard near the wash pot, her clothing caught fire. She ran to her mother who  was close by but before she could extinguish the flames she was badly burned. Dr. T.L. Harris was called but she died that afternoon. She was buried at Beulah. Mrs. M.E. Bridges died at Rawlings Sanitarium on the 12th. She was brought back to Harrison and buried at Bethany. Mr. George Mixon of near Swainsboro died and was buried at Oaky Grove. He was the father of W.L. Mixon. Mixon was a Conferderate soldier and was 76 years old.     Sheriff Rowland went to Atlanta to arrest W.A. Peebles, a lumber dealer but came back without his man despite the fact he won a habeas corpus proceeding brought by Peebles. Peebles it seems, when his writ of habeas corpus was denied by Judge Ben H. Hill, asked through his attorneys that a bond be allowed and a supersedeas granted in order that he might bring the habeas corpus to the supreme court. Judge Hill denied this on Tuesday morning but stated that at 3pm he would decide whether or not he would grant the supersedeas and allow the case to be carried before the supreme court. In the meantime Peebles was allowed his freedom on a $500 bond. At 3pm the Judge held that the case was not a proper one for the granting of a supersedeas and informed the sheriff he could take his man to Wrightsville. Then the sheriff found that Peebles had disappeared and despite a 24 hour search could not be found.    Peebles brought the habeas corpus on the grounds that he could not have committed a crime in Johnson County since he had never been there in his life. Judge Hill held that this was a matter for defense at the trial and not for habeas corpus. The court decided that the warrant from Johnson County, on its face, was sufficent authority to hold the man. Peebles was charged with defrauding a lumber dealer out of a carload of shingles.