FROM DAYS GONE BY Feb. 9, 1918

February 9, 1918.
Mr. W. B. Ivey, an aged and most highly respected citizen of Moore's Chapel community, ended a long and useful career at the home of his son-in-law, Mr. John Spivey, near Rockledge in Montgomery County Monday morning where he had been staying on a visit to his daughter.
It seems that he had accompanied Mr. Spivey for a load of lumber to a sawmill near by and when the lumber had been loaded the old gentleman went into the swamp alone. Remaining there an unusually long length of time his son-in-law went to find him.
He had used a razor to gash his throat and had made four ugly cuts on it, anyone of which would have been fatal. He was taken to the house and his family was notified. The remains were brought to his home six miles below Wrightsville and entered Tuesday afternoon in the family cemetery.
Mr. Ivey has been in a despondent condition for several weeks and fears had been entertained for his own safety for some time. Care had been taken to prevent this act, but he had obtained the razor secretly. He is the father-in-law of Sheriff Willis D. Rowland.
Revs. Griffin and Cowart officiated at the funeral services. A large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends were present to pay the last sad rites to the deceased and his twelve living children.
The Idle Hour ice cream parlor changed hands the first, the management for the passing year passing over to Mr. Otho Tanner. Mr. Tanner has come to the city to reside and be in business. He and his family are now staying out at Mr. Ellis Johnson's.
While Mr. A. J. Thigpen of near Adrian was driving home Saturday night from Rockledge a calf ran in front of his car stopping the right wheel causing the left wheel to turn the car completely upside down, catching Mr. Thigpen and the two other occupants under it. Mr. Freeman Pritchard suffered a broken collarbone and one arm nearly broken. Mr. William Pritchard of Camp Wheeler, a soldier boy was thrown through the windshield falling under one of the wheels and getting his face cut almost to pieces, while Mr. Thigpen got his back and side mashed severly, having lots of weight of the car on him.
Mr. Thigpen did not see the calf coming in time to put on brakes to stop. All three were wet with gasoline, while the car was almost in a blaze of fire when help reached them and lifted the car off them, had it not been for help in five minutes the car and young men would have been burned to pieces. Mr. William Pritchard returned to the Base Hospital at Camp Wheeler while Freeman Pritchard and Mr. Thigpen are home under physicians care.
Mrs. Wm Irvin Renfroe died at her residence near Rehobeth on January 27th. She was buried in the family cemetery. She was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Isom Stephens. Her husband and four children survive her. Mr. Tommie Johnson of near Bay Springs died having been sick only a few days. He leaves a wife and four children.
Mr. S. A. Mixon told of the death of the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John Wheeler of Kite. Mrs. J. P. Williams was called to Sandersville on the death of her brother, Mr. Milton Taylor. He died at his home and was interred in Sandersville city cemetery.