From Days Gone By July 30, 1914

July 30, 1914.

    Mr. Shade Carter, the young son of Mr. Thomas Carter, living on route 4 brought to town a large, open boll of cotton which was taken from his 3 acre patch on the 18th. It is the first open cotton of the season brought to town. Mr. J. Tom Flanders brought in some fine Elberta peaches and also a 52 pound watermelon. Mr. G. F. Sumner came with some very fine peaches of the Chinese Cling variety, each measuring 10 inches in circumference. There is more money in such fruit than in so much cotton and it was suggested the people cultivate orchards instead of planting cotton.

    Mr. W. H. Chivers is offering his plantation for sale. This place is near in, good farming land. He is also offering his stock of fine hogs, all purebred Berkshires, and everyone in this section knows Chivers reputation as breeder of and dealer in fine hogs. This includes service boars, bred and open gilts, pigs ready to ship sired by Prize Winner, one of the best boars in the south.

    Sometime during Saturday night A. F. Flanders' drug store was entered from the rear and robbed of between $300 and $400 worth of jewelry. Entrance was effected by an inch auger hole being bored just under the heavy wooden bar which confines the back door, and through this hole the bar was gradually worked from its position. The loss falls heavy on Mr. Flanders who with his drug stock carries a handsome line of jewelry. Nothing else in the store was disturbed.

    Mr. Hobbs, the new agent at the W. & T. Railroad office has settled into the Stewart house on Marcus Street. Judge W. W. Larson announced his candidacy for judge of the Dublin circuit, a position he was just appointed to to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Hawkins. Dr. W. J. Flanders is a candidate for Prison Commissioner. He was a former Prison Inspector which he resigned to run for that position.

    Mr. Walter S. Bryan is in the hospital at New Haven, Conneticut being operated on for varicose veines in one of his legs. Ida, the little daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Brinson, Jr. was taken ill with a violent sore throat while visiting her aunt, Mrs. C. H. Kitrell in Dublin. Dr. J. W. Brinson pronounced it a full developed case of diphtheria and she is under the strickest quarantine. It is not expected to be other cases.

    Mrs. Hettie Tapley died at the home of Mr. O. O. Snell, 8 miles east of town on the 17th and was buried at the Hall graveyard. She was survived by 3 children, 4 brothers and 2 sisters. After an extended illness of tuberculosis Mrs. Jerusha Johnson, wife of W. F. Johnson died at her home in the city on the 22nd. She was buried at Westview. She was a faithful Christian, a member of Moores Chapel. Besides her husband she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. C. S. Meeks, and 2 sons, Messers. L. D. and A. F. Johnson.

    The sudden death of Mrs. Clarice Fields Hicks, wife of Mr. Talmage M. Hicks which occurred Friday night at her home in Dublin, was a shock to everyone. Mrs. Hicks died from heart failure, superinduced by an ulcerated throat, and had been ill for only 2 days. She was a beautiful Christian character, and in her death everyone was reminded that "The good die first, and those whose hearts are dry as summer's dust burn to the socket." She was survived by her husband, an infant daughter, and her parents. She was buried at Northview in Dublin.