From Days Gone By May 28,1914

May 28, 1914.     It was Macon Day at Idylwild last Tuesday as hundreds of the Central City people enjoyed the day's outing. It was the annual picnic of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, their families and friends. Special trains over the Southern, Macon & Dublin and the W. & T. Railroads transported the crowds to the picnic grounds. Most of Wrightsville's merchants closed their stores for the day. A game of baseball was played between Wrightsville and Midville with the homeboys winning.     When the Macon Orchestra struck up the couples glided to the dance floor to do the Tango and "Two Step", a rush was made for the pavillion; where, it is said, the Wrightsville crowd was first and last to see the much-talked-of "Tango Dance." "Saints and sinners" alike had a novel good time. Idylwild-on-the-Ohoopie, Johnson County's famous picnic grounds is winning quite a reputation afar and near.     The Wrightsville Public School for colored children closes with a very successful year. The principal is Ralph W.E. Irwin who came from the Georgia Industrial College near Savannah, assisted by his wife. They are planning a campaign for the building of a good school house. Co-operation from white and colored is expected and both claim it will be good for the whole town. Mr. William LeGrand Bryan will graduate with an A.B. degree from the Senior Law Class of the State University. He also graduated from Emory College and read law at Columbia University, New York.     J.T. Fulford came to town with a handful of new crop cotton plants which he had taken from his field a few miles east of town. Beginning from the soil surface these stalks measured seven and one-half inches in height on which squares were already forming. Fulford says he has 100 acres of this cotton and prospects to have a bumper staple crop.     Col. A. L. Hatcher has purchased a Hupmobile. Mrs. Sol Price has returned home from Rawlings Sanitarium and Mrs. Anna Bell Williams has been sick. The drought is broken at last by a most welcome shower which fell Tuesday afternoon and more rain is expected the next few days.     George Wesley, the 8 month old baby of Mr. & Mrs. Willis Cochran died on May 20th. He had suffered about 2 weeks with brain and stomach troubles. Mrs. Hulda Henderson Kent, widow of the late Jack Kent, died at her home in Mitchell and was buried at Old Mount Zion Church. Mrs. Kent had past her 86th birthday and lived to see her 5th generation. She was the mother of Mrs. J.T. Furguson of Wrightsville.