From Days Gone By Oct. 1,1914

October 1, 1914.

    The girls of the boarding department at Warthen College are becoming more and more delighted with their splendid rooms in the main building. It is more than a convience to have the rooms, meals, and the classes all in the same building. Mr. George Smith, a young man student of Warthen College filled the pulpit at the Methodist church on Sunday last in the absence of Rev. Johnson.

    The Johnson County Sunday School Convention was held here at the Baptist church. Reports showed 32 Sunday Schools in the county and of those 24 were present. Mr. & Mrs. Carl Claxton have moved from Kite to Minter. Mr. Thos. Hayes and family have been residing in Florida, have returned to Wrightsville to the Snell home on West Court Street.

    Mr. Henry Edgar Montford of Wrightsville and Miss Nettie Lillian Ivey married Sunday evening at St. John's parsonage in Augusta. Mr. Montford is connected to Flanders Drug Company and a son of the late Henry and Fannie Montford. If reports are true, Autumn wedding bells are to ring again, and Wrightsville is to "give the bride away."

    Mr. E. M. (Ruff) Robinson died on the 28th at his home in Kathleen, Florida, his death resulting from paraylisis. His remains were brought to Westview cemetery. He was a brother to A. J. M. Robinson.

    Mr. William Henry Heath, the oldest man in Johnson County, died Tuesday at his home 2 miles east of town. "Uncle Billie" Heath, as he was called, lived to be 88 years old. He was a Conferderate veteran and a worthy and good citizen of the county. He was a pioneer citizen of the county and was survived by the wife of his second marriage and several children. He was buried at the family burying ground near his home.

    The four day old infant son of Col. and Mrs. C. S. Claxton, of this city, died Tuesday night and was buried Wednesday at Westview cemetery.

    Farmer Mart Hammock brought to town some fine potato crop samples, weighing a fraction over 7 pounds, and twas of the Banana yam variety. Mr. Hammock is harvesting a big crop of these fine potatoes.

    The Greensboro Herald-Journal states "In the good ole days", when we were a boy, 70 years ago, we had to sit on benches made from pine slabs with legs made from green saplings and writing desks made of the same thing. Pens were made from goose quills, and boys up to 15 years old wore long shirts and no trousers. And the boys didn't wear shoes until they were 15 years of age. In those days merchant didn't sell meat, corn or flour. The merchant of that day had to go in the county to buy such things to eat for himself. The farmer made a little cotton and carried the most of that on a wagon to Augusta. He sold it for 5 and 6 cents per pound. What a difference in then and now.