FROM DAYS GONE BY November 25, 1915

November 25, 1915.

    There was also no paper for this week so once again here are some stories gleaned from other papers during 1915.

    While visiting the United States court in Atlanta, Rev. W. H. Simmons, a Baptist minister from Homer, GA., by accident sat down among the moonshine prisioners who had been convicted during the morning and sentenced to various terms in jail. As he rose to go the hand of the deputy sheriff was rudely laid upon his shoulder and he was told to get ready to go to jail. Rev. Mr. Simmons had to call several friends to identify him before he could secure his release.

    It was formally announced at the white house that the marriage of President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Norman Galt will take place near the close of December and that it will be a private at Mrs. Gault's home.

    In Brunswick, Richard Oberlaughter, an aged jeweler and watchmaker, who has resided there for the past 40 years was murdered early in the morning in his little jewelry store on Monk street, and his shop was simply ransacked from one end to the other by the murderer, who, like many others from Brunswick, believed that the aged German had a small fortune hidden in his store. The police up to a late hour had made only one arrest in connection with the brutal crime. It was established to the satisfaction of the authoritees that no great amount of money was obtained by the slayer.

    Henry Colvin, a white farmer, living 3 miles east of Crosland in Colquitt county, died this morning as the result of an accidental shooting the night before. While in a drunken frenzy Colvin struck his wife on the head with the butt of his pistol. The weapon fired the bullet passing through Mrs. Colvin's hand and through Colvin's hand, entering the upper part of his body and ranging downward through his stomach. The wound was pronounced fatal as soon as physicians reached him. Colvin was about 50 years old and left 3 children.

    Now this is interesting taking in the context of 1915 compared to today. Its amazing most of these predictions we have seen in our lifetime. The mystery of electricity.

    "So thick and fast come the developments of science in these days that men are losing their sense of astonishment. The impossible becomes the actual so often that it is unsafe to say that anything cannot be done. A few months ago the first telephone message was transmitted across the continent. Today we hear that a still greater distance has been covered by a wireless telephone. Forty years ago a current of electricity could not be made to jump more than a few inches through a vaccum. Today there is no known limit to it or rather to the capacity of new instruments to detect it.

    Some electrical engineers believe that messages could be sent to the moon and perhaps not into infinite space through the ether just as easily as from San Francisco to Honolulu through the atmosphere. With all this, no man can tell us what electricity is. All we know about it is that when a certain thing is done certain results follow.