From Days Gone By Febuary 25, 1915

Febuary 25, 1915.

    Fires of a serious nature, continue to occur in and around Wrightsville. About dusk just a week ago today, a small outhouse on the premises of Mrs. Edward Montiford was burned. The on Friday morning between 5 and 6 the citizens woke up to find Duff & Robinson's jewelry shop a blaze on the inside. The fire department soon had the flames subdued, not, however, until the material, tools, etc. were ruined or totally consumed. Miss Annie Lou Robinson conducts a millinery business which sustained water damage, as did Dr. J. Curtis Robinson who's dental office adjoined.

    Again on Saturday morning at 10 the firemen responded, promptly, as usual, to an alarm which proved to be an incipient blaze in the colored M. E. Church which was soon put out with minor damage.

    Brown Memorial, in conference, called to its pastorate Rev. R. L. Peoples of Atlanta. Orange blossoms in Wrightsville! The pure white fragrant orange flowers have lent their beauty and perfume to Wrightsville courtesy of Mrs. R. B. Bryan,Sr.

    Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Braddy and children have moved from near Wrightsville to Tennille. Mr. B. B. Tanner has purchased a handsome 5-passenger Cadillac 1915 model. J. V. Snell has purchased the W. H. Chivers' farm located just across Cedar Creek one and a half miles from town. This near-in farm consists of 100 acres land with good tenant houses, large new barn, etc.

    Mrs. Georgia Gay is quite sick. Mrs. J. M. Mason has pleurisy. Mrs. W. J. Dent, Sr. is in critical condition. Miss Mary Lillie Haines of Piney Mt has pneumonia.

    Last Thursday morning Mrs. Clayton Wood who resides near Arline Chapel placed their 5 month old baby on the bed, and left the little 2 year old son playing about the room while they went out to the lot to milk the cows. While she heard the children screaming, and hastening to the house she was met by the little boy, his clothing on fire which she extinguished. Then rushing into the house she was horrified to see the bed and baby nearly consumed by the fire. The baby died during the day and the little boy lingered until Saturday when he too died from the burns.

    It is supposed that the boy was playing with the fire on the hearth and caught fire and that he either set fire to the bedding or it caught fire from his clothing as he ran to the bed.

    A man came into Kite Sunday morning to get some whiskey. Failing to find any tigers here he went to Savannah. The very idea of any one thinking he could buy such stuff as that in Kite! Jean Jaques Rousseau, said that the best way to teach a child temperance was to let the child see a drunk man wallowing in the gutter. We saw a man in Kite the other day who was just ready to give a course of Rousseau's Temperance Lectures.

    There must be some wild animals in the neighborhood of Kite. There were some fellows on the streets Sunday who had met a tiger and were so badly whipped that they could not walk straight.