From Days Gone By March 4,1915

March 4, 1915.

    There was a large congregation in attendance at Brown Memorial Sunday night to hear Rev. R. L. Peoples, the new pastor, who has made a most favorable impression on all who have heard him preach.

    Mr. H. P. Hicks who is in charge of the Bill posting business has recently made vast improvement in erecting bill-boards which are made of sheet iron in the fire limit on which to post bills and when completed they resemble large framed pictures and more of an ornament than a detraction.

    Little Louise Kent, daughter of T. V. Kent has pneumonia. Mrs. M. M. Davis has grippe. Mr. Claud Renfroe is undergoing surgery by Dr. Rawlings. Quite a large crowd attended the funeral of Mr. Tom Spear of Eastman who was buried at Piney Mt. Thursday morning.

    Mr. J. M. Bryan and family have moved to the former Haines home on West Court street. Miss Minnie Berry of one of the largest millinery houses in Baltimore is now in charge of that department here at H. C. Tompkins department store. Mrs. E. L. Stephens hosted a sewing party at her West Court street home.

    The banks released their statement of condition. Exchange Bank, $95,623.83; Bank of Wrightsville, $194,289.83; Citizens Bank of Kite, $60,277.07.

    L. A. Kennedy, the alleged wife murderer of Swainsboro, who has been in the Chatham County jail for the past several months waiting on trial, was taken back to Sandersville on the Central train early this morning. The sheriff of Washington County carried him off. He will be tried in Sandersville on Wednesday the venue of the case having been changed.

    W. F. Tharpe, of Orlando, was killed by the accidental discharge of the gun of Joseph Davis, his companion, about noon today. Tharpe and Davis were hunting on Davis' land when the latter fell and his gun struck the ground and went off. The load entered the side of Tharpe and killed him instantly. Both were prominent farmers. Tharpe left a wife.

    The act of congress prohibiting all persons from selling or giving away habit-forming drugs without a physicians prescription, or under direct instruction of a physician, went into effect throughout the country today.