From Days Gone By Oct 8, 1914

October 8, 1914.

    The services in the churches of Wrightsville were very well attended last Sunday, and the request of President Woodrow Wilson that prayers be said for peace was complied with in the different churches. The lecture and impersonation given at the college auditorium by Prof. Sam J. White, was par excellence in every respect. Mr. White is a most magnetic speaker, fluent and graceful, and goes from the sublime to the ridiculous, causing smiles and tears, with ease, and his powers of wit and eloquence are well portrayed. The "Evolution of a Girl" was especially good.

    Tax Collector C. J. Smith says the office will be open for the purpose of collecting State and County taxes on Saturday and each following Saturday. Billie Kavakos, the popular young Greek citizen who is head chef at the Busy Bee Resurant knows how to cook and serve good food, especially fish and oysters. J. H. Rowland is now in his commodious new quarters with a "full house" of everything in the grain and stock feed lines. In the ginners report shows there were 8,555 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Johnson County from the 1914 crop, compared with 6,731 bales in 1913.

    The Federal Census reports Georgia has 291,027 farms; of this number 100,047 are operated by owner managers and 190,080 by tenants. The farm home owners and managers cultivate 5,179,645 acres of land and the tenants till 7,118,372 acres in this state. The value of land and buildings of the tenant farms is $221,929,000; that of the home owners and managers is $257,276,000.

    Mr. T. A. Elton and family have moved from the Daley house at West Elm street, and are now occupying an apartment at Mrs. J.F. Norris on East Elm. Mr. Will Kitchens and family have moved to the house on Court Street, recently vacated by Mr. Walter Hawkins and family.

    Mr. James Hatcher of Kite has a critical illness from gall stones. Dr. Rawlings believes there is little hope for his recovery. Mrs. A. L. Hatcher has been quite ill at her home in the city and Rev. W. G. Alaben, pastor of the Methodist church has been given a leave of absence on account of his health, that he may rest and recuperate.

    Mr. F. F. Stacer, who met his tragic death on a Central Railroad train last Friday night while enroute to his home in Tennille, was a brother of Mr. G. G. Stacer of Wrightsville. Mr. John W. Renfroe died last Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. L. Smith, 2 miles south of town. He was 67 years old and had been in declining health. He was survived by 2 sons, 2 daughters and several grandchildren.

    Mrs. Larfenia Stokes Fisher, the young wife of Mr. J. H. Fisher, died at the home of her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Josiah Stokes on the 28th from a complication of diseases. Only two and a half days earlier, Gladys, her darling little girl passed away. Then on Monday before her death, a baby of a few hours old died. Mrs. Fisher was 28 years old and a member of Bethel Church. On January 14, 1914 she was married to J. H. She had five children with only three surviving her.