From Days Gone By March 5, 1914

March 5,1914.      From now on there will be no bell rung for the Baptist services which are now held at the Christian church. The hours are 11am and 7pm every first and third Sunday, and 4pm every second and fourth Sunday. Sunday School will be at 3pm.     G. W. Brantley has made it known he is seeking the office of Tax Receiver. He is an honorable, deserving citizen who, by reason of bodily afflictions, is unable to do active labor, so he asks his friends to use their votes and influence in securing him that office. J. Wesley Meadows announces as a candidate for Coroner of Johnson County.     Rev. Jordan Norris will on April 15th, celebrate his 80th birthday (should he live till then), with a dinner at Gum Log Church where he has been preaching the past 38 years. He will be at Brantley's Chapel the first Saturday and Sunday in March and asks his home town friends to come out and hear him.     A memorial letter was written by A.S. Mayo and E. L. Harrison in the death of David E. Clark who died April 28th 1913. He was born in Laurens County and lived to be over 96 years of age. He joined the Baptist church at Jackson Church in Washington County. Later he was a charter member of Pleasant Hill. Then later his membership was at New Home nearly ever since it was organized. He was a charter member of the Mount Vernon Baptist Association which was organized in 1859 at Riddleville. He attended the first sermon that was preached at New Home, under a brush arbor. There were only six men at this meeting. David was a devoted husband and a true father and a noble citizen.     Mr. W. R. Chivers, a prominent cotton man of Vidalia, who accidentally shot himself in attempting to take his gun from a buggy while out hunting with a party of friends on Tuesday 17th and he died that Thursday at the hospital in Vidalia. His remains were brought to Harrison, his old home, and intered there Friday. Mr. Chivers was about 40 years old and survived by a wife and four children. He is a relative of William Chivers of Johnson County. He went from Washington County to Vidalia three years ago and has since resided there.