FROM DAYS GONE BY Dec. 6, 1918

December 6, 1918.

Postmaster R. P. Hicks has resigned as Wrightsville's Postmaster. Mr. Hicks was commissioned the first time in early 1915 succeeding Mr. J. F. Renfroe. He was re-commissioned February 14, 1916 and his term hasn't yet expired but he will hold on until January or until a successor is named. Hicks stated the work has increased so, especially since the war began and with no increase in wages feels he can't continue at the present rate of pay.
Dublin will have no fair this year due to the flu which has broke out afresh in Dublin and Laurens County so the Board of Health ordered it shut down. The lid is off for our stores to put on their delivery boys again if they decide to do so. Many people want this service restored and the Council of Defense takes pleasure in lifting the ban. Mr. M. N. Killebrew has opened up a market in the back room adjoining the Dixie Grocery Company where he ill carry a general line of meats.
Through every conceivable avenue the attention of the county chairman of the War Savings Stamp Campaign is being called to the fact that Johnson County is so far behind with her redemption of the pledges made back yonder in June. Johnson's quota is $276,565 of which $43,145 has been purchased, leaving for redemption $33,515. Now that is the way the county stood the first day of October. Since that time the county has bought about $20,000 more, which leaves us far behind yet. The government is asking everybody to meet their obligation now whether pledge was made due now or not.
Mr. Ivey R. Tanner, the man who knows as much about a mule as Balaam of old and can tell whether any animal is worth the trade or not and never deals in "cheap stuff" either. Ivey has been a builder for years, but most recently became a builder in Wrightsville, where he enjoys a lucrative trade and business. He resides in a lovely home on Marcus Street. In recalling incidents he never fails to interest you and in enjoying a joke he's got the belt. Progressive and aggressive, he is making and building for a future with a big determination to win out victorious over everything save a big appetite. Ivey is congenial and clever, the kind that keeps a stiff upper lip when the snow is on the ground. The kind of men who make a town.
Mr. James Hunter Johnson died at his home on November 22nd from Bright's Disease. He suffered greatly the few days prior to his death. He was a Methodist also member of Twiggs Lodge Master Masons and the local Woodmen of the World camp. Mrs. Vera Mae Webb wed Mr. Cleo Brantley at the home of the brides parents. Rev. Pompie Flanders did the honors.
While engaged in marketing 4 bales of cotton in Wrightsville Tuesday just before 10 am, Mr. Andrew T. Clarke, one of the counties solid citizens succumbed instantaneously to hear failure caused by a second stroke of paralysis. He fell in front of the Cotton Exchange just as he was showing samples to the buyers and breathed his last breath as he was lain on the table inside the Exchange.
He had left home feeling fine according to his son-in-law Mr. A. M. Fordham. Once in town he was walking the streets talking and laughing with his many friends. When the undertaker arrived Clarke was taken to the home of Mr. Lovett Claxton and prepared for burial. He was survived by his wife and his children are nine in number, only one dead, the eldest girl who was burned to death some years back. The others are Mrs. W. T. Page, Mrs. G. B. Harrison, Mrs. A. R. Vanlandingham, Mr. Gordon Clarke, Mrs. A. M. Fordham, Mrs. Col. I. L. Price, Miss Ada Clarke, Pvt. Turner Clarke and Mrs. S. W. Harrison. Burial was at New Home.