From Days Gone By Dec. 10,1914

December 10, 1914.

    Mr. W.A. West, living near New Home church sustained a serious loss last Saturday night by having  15 bales of cotton burned on his premises. The cotton had only a few days been placed in a lot only a short distance from the house, and sometime during the night caught fire and the entire 15 bales was practically destroyed.

    Mr. West knew nothing about the fire or his loss until going out Sunday morning to feed his stock, when he was dumbfounded at the discovery. This is a severe loss for Mr. West in which he has the deep sympathy of his friends and the community.

    Rev. J. C. G. Brooks goes to Adel as the appointments were read out by Bishop Warren A. Chandler at Dawson. He was located in Wrightsville where he has been president of Warthen Institute during the past two years. Prior to that he was pastor at the Methodist church at Ashburn for four years.

    The friends of Mr. W. H. Chivers were glad to see him on the streets of Wrightsville again after a protracted serious illness at his home near town.

    Mr. Lucillous Blankenship, the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Blankenship died suddenly Tuesday night at his home in the city after an extended illness of tuberculosis. He spent some time at Madison, Florida with the hope of recuperating his health but it availed nothing. He was an excellent young man.

    Married in the city Sunday evening, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Meredy Davis on Belmont Avenue, Miss Mary Duggan and Mr. Ed R. Spell. The bride is the daughter of the late Doctor Duggan and is an estimable young woman. The groom is an excellent business young man.

    The various banks released their statements of condition: The Bank of Wrightsville, $217,451.25; Exchange Bank, $141,251.93; Citizens Bank of Kite, $70,099.82; Bank of Adrian, $53,369.32.

    A. L. Hatcher, Attorney at Law, is now in a position to handle loans on improved farm lands at a reasonable rate of interest and attractive terms. Mr. H. J. Young has 48 and one half acres of land for sale, lying three miles north of Wrightsville on the public road to Tennille. It has a school and church a quarter mile from it. Twenty-eight to thirty acres in cultivation, reasonable good buildings and good well of water.