Febuary 3, 1916, 1917.
1916- A petition was filed to Phillp Cook, Secretary of State, to charter a railroad corporation to be called The Atlantic and Northwestern Railway Co. The length of the road would be estimated at 190 miles and will run from Johnson Co. south to Brunswick, and northerly direction to Milledgeville. It would run through the counties of Johnson, Emanuel, Toombs, Tatnall, Liberty, Wayne, Glynn, Washington and Baldwin. The proposed capital stock is $100,000 in $100 shares with the priviledge to increase to $500,000. The petitioners were J. H. Rowland, William Faircloth, C. S. Claxton, E. J. Sumner, F. J. Garbutt, C. R. Williams, M. E. Burts, W. C. Oliver, G. W. Lankford, and I. E. Aaron.
More men have jumped into the local races with some fields becoming very crowded. Tax Receiver, J. Wesley Meadows, John M. Meeks, E. W. Carter; Tax Collector, J. Nat Riner, A. S. Mayo, C. C. Wheeler; School Superintendant, R. L. Sumner, Luther Lillard; Clerk Superior Court, Green B. Harrison, J. Lovett Anderson; Solicitor City Court, W. C. Brinson, A. L. Hatcher; Ordinary, J. M. Hightower, J. C. Wiggins; Sheriff, W. D. Rowland.
Mr. & Mrs. T. L. Martin moved next to Col. Kent until their new house on East Elm is finished. The Dublin High School basketball team played Warthen College but the score went in favor of Dublin 28 to 10.
Last Sunday afternoon at the Methodist parsonage, Mrs. Sara Hatcher Smith and Mr. Lymon Moore were married. Mr. Moore is son of Mr. & Mrs. Ira Moore of Dublin and nephew of H. C. Moore of Wrightsville.
After a brief illness of diphtheria, Mrs. Johnnie Wilson died last Friday evening. She was a mere girl, only married a short time and the circumstances surrounding her death were peculiarly pathetic. Her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Bateman of Gordon was with her as was her young husband. She was buried at Westview.
William LeGrande Bryan died Saturday at Wesley Memorial in Atlanta of pneumonia. It came on rapidly beginning on Thursday but by Saturday he had expired. Will as he was called was a young man who graduated with honors from Emory College and the U. G. A. Law School. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. R. B. Bryan, Sr., five brothers, Pauel E., Walter S., Joe M., J. M., and R. B.; two sisters, Mrs. R. M. Mason, and Mrs. Mabel Blount.
Mr. Silas L. Fortner died on December 31st. He was born Feb. 1854 in Emanuel Co., joined Rehobeth in 1874 and 1878 moved his letter to Mt. Pleasant. He was licensed to preach in 1875. He was a Master Mason in 1898 with the Kite Lodge. He married in 1875 to Miss Venie Davis and were married for 40 years. He was buried at Gumlog.
1917- Mr. A. T. Clark was stricken Sunday after church and is in serious condition. Mrs. Mollie Dent of Arline's Chapel, a much loved and respected widow, passed away. She had been sick for many months and left three children, grandchildren and brothers and sisters. She was buried at the family burying grounds near her home.
Miss Mabel Mosely and Mr. Floyd Hattaway were married Sunday afternoon in Wrightsville. She is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Leander Mosely and the groom is a businessman from Perkins, Ga. On January 24th Mrs. Berkie Powell and Mr. John Stephens were married at the home of Mrs. J. B. Harrison. They will make their home at Rehobeth.
Mr. John Johnson of the Wrightsville Grocery Co. sold out to R. E. and J. J. Butterly and will change to Butterly Bros. Mr. Johnson is planning on moving to Vidalia to open a wholesale business. There were 14,810 bales of cotton ginned for 1916, compared with 15,629 for 1915. Mr. J. H. Rowland, representative of the Standard Oil Co. filled the large storage tanks here for the very first time.
Wrightsville's Concert Band was organized with James Luck, R. H. Rowland, T. E. Jenkins, H. E. Montford, Fred Daley, Jim Spell, A. B. Rowland, Harlie Fulford, Roy Rowland, Emory Rowland, Louie Johnson, Stacy Johnson, Olin Smith, and Neil Blount.
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