FROM DAYS GONE BY Oct. 4, 1918

October 4, 1918.
Lieut. Asbury J. Hall of Adrian has made the supreme sacrifice in France, having been killed in battle September 13th. LT. Hall is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Y. L. Hall, a graduate of Mercer, and one of the best young men of his community. He sailed for France January 1, 1918, and was transferred to the 167th U. S. Infantry. He was a member of the Rainbow Division.
In the new draft includes deferring classes of persons who are more likely to further the war by remaining in civilian occupations than by entering the army. Special attention will be given for agriculture occupations, and labor requirements for such. Somebody has to stay home and feed the army.
Formal announcement was made that the government has taken over the operation of the Wrightsville & Tennille railroad, along with the Louisville & Wadley; Sylvania Central and Wadley Southern railways. Directors of the W. & T. held a meeting, declared a dividend of 3 per cent and all officers resigned. The W. & T. corporation will not have charge of the operation of the road, but will act as financial agent for the stockholders and see that their property is protected and cared for. Mr. W. A. Winburn was made Federal manager for the four railroads with headquarters in Savannah. Taking over the W. & T. railroad means that all the roads entering Dublin are now under Federal control.
The gins have been as busy as ever all this week. People come in the afternoon and stay over until late the next afternoon before they can get their bale ginned and sold. It has been selling higher this week. The birth of twin girls is announced by Mr. & Mrs. B. Vickers at their home a short distance from the city on Friday September 27th.
It is said that old corn liquor was the cause of it all out at Mt. Pleasant church last Sunday, when one Will Stubbs, colored, emptied a barrel of his hip pocket machine into the abdominal departments of one colored youth named Sims Smith. Sims was waiting his turn to have his picture made, according to eye witnesses, when up walked Stubbs, who it is claimed had filled up with the "strong stuff" to the extent of "feeling swell", and pulled the trigger, a ball going into young Smith's stomach.
The boy was rushed to Rawlings Sanitarium, where his life has hung in the balance ever since. Some of the deacons and members of the church called for the sheriff, who responded, and placed Stubbs behind bars. A warrant charging him with assault with attempt to murder was sworn out for him Monday morning and he is still in jail awaiting the outcome of the wounded boy's condition. Stubbs will also have to answer to the courts for uprooting a perfectly good meeting among the colored folks around Mt. Pleasant.
Another ugly shooting affray took place on the plantation of Mr. E. J. Sumner about noon when Coatney Davis, is said, pulled a pistol and fired upon Charley Morgan, while Morgan and his wife, Lucy, were going to the house out of the cotton patch. The bullet lodged in Charley's left leg, breaking the bone. Lucy came to town post haste and swore out a warrant for Coatney's arrest.