From Days Gone By May 27,1915

May 27,1915.

    Warthen College commencement exercises of the Spring term closed this week. There were only two in the Senior class, Miss Sara Harper of Stillmore, and Mr. Comer Daley of this city, both A. B. graduates, and received diplomas. This was the 28th graduating class from the college.

    Idylwild was alive Sunday with the picnic of the Eastman Union Sunday School. A special train of five coaches left Eastman with every car filled to capacity. Also several automobiles followed bringing the crowd to about 350.

    Wrightsville will soon get Free mail delivery. Each residence and store is now being numbered. Congress has appropriated $1800 for free delivery here and should be ready to start in 90 days.

    Judge J. L. Kent is recognized as one of the hardest working judges in the state. The record he made during the Montford trial fully sustains him the claim.

    Miss Mamie Rowland was taken by Mr. H. C. Tompkins automobile to Rawlings Sanitarium accompanied by her two nurses. The doctor gave Tompkins instructions to proceed at the moderate rate of 5 miles per hour.

    Dr. J. M. Page and son, Dr. Landrum Page were called into consultation with Drs. Rawlings and Johnson in the illness of Mr. B. B. Tanner. Shellman Martin of this city and Mrs. W. D. Thompson of Meeks are very sick.

    While in Sandersville, Judge R. N. Hardeman of Louisville heard the plea of Lee Kennedy, convicted of the murder of his wife, and sentenced to a life term, claims that he is afraid of harm while being held in the Washington County jail pending the hearing for a new trial. The night policeman keeps a viligant outlook around the square, and in the corners of the streets where the lights are not very bright they often use flashlights to discharge their duties. Kennedy has been seeing their lights from the jail window, and has trumped up the charge that someone is after him and he wants to be moved to another jail.

    After hearing the plea, which was a very silly one, Judge Hardeman promptly denied the appeal. He will remain in Washington County. He was convicted of killing his wife in Emanuel County but on account of prejudice he was tried in Washington County.

    Seeking to solve the mystery of the blighted romance of her daughter, Mrs. F. A. Lightfoot, wife of an Adrian attorney went to Atlanta and has appealed to the police to aid her in finding the husband of her daughter, B. H. Overby. She says her daughter, Eunice, and Overby eloped to Swainsboro, married there and then came to Atlanta to live. Later she learned, so she states, that Overby had lived with a Mexican girl in Atlanta as husband and wife and she says she has reasons to believe the Mexican and Overby, formerly a soldier, were married. She has taken her daughter away from Overby against whom she makes a number of other charges.