FROM DAYS GONE BY Oct. 10, 1919

October 10, 1919.

Mrs. Janie Dorill Cummings, Saturday morning, killed her husband, Thomas D. Cummings, a brother to Mrs. M. L. Jackson of Wrightsville. Mr. Cummings had been married twice, this being his second wife. By his first marriage he had five children who lived with them. He was 40 and she was 29. Officers placed her in jail and charged her with murder.
She was given a preliminary hearing in Augusta where she claimed self defense, that her husband had beaten her and she shot to defend herself but this is bitterly denied by members of the dead man's family who claim he had not touched her and this could be established with little doubt by eye witnesses.
She ran amuck in the home, emptying a six-shooter improved revolver, five bullets hitting the husband and killing him instantly. The eldest son soon arrived on the scene and became desperate, thrushing a pistol at his step-mother and would have shot had not the officers rescued the gun from his hand.
The woman defied the police, neighbors and all until she saw herself overpowered by numbers and gave herself up. The father and brother of the dead man went from their home at Chalker, Georgia for the corpse of their son and brother and took it to Chalker to be buried. Mr. & Mrs. Lee Jackson have been with their relatives since the killing.
The patrons and Odd Fellows of Moores Chapel community are busy erecting a two-story structure for the use of the Order and the school. It is a wooden building adjoining the west side of the old school building, the lower room to be used for the school children and the upper story for the Odd Fellows hall. The people of the community with the assistance of friends elsewhere are financing the building.
Zach A. Anderson announces for County Treasurer. Joby L. Jones for Tax Receiver and W. A. Page for Tax Collector. J. B. Williams announces to succeed himself as Clerk of Courts. Mr. Laudice Lovett is home from France and Germany. Mr. Allen Brantley of Moores Chapel fell and knocked his arm out of place.
Many from here are expected to go to the stump pulling demonstration on the Outlaw farm near Dublin. It was proven here there is plenty of money in cattle. Sheriff Willis Rowland sold two good mules for $96 and a milk cow for an even $100. Zach Cannon, colored, said somebody took his horse and buggy from the colored Baptist church in Wrightsville Sunday night. The horse is red, weighs 700 lbs, right hind foot cut by rope. Buggy is a Golden Eagle top buggy. He offers a reward. H. B. Nasworthy of Kite bought Joe M. Walkers home in Dublin. Nasworthy sold his home to W. B. Meeks.
Frank Harris, colored, got mixed up in a row at a negro frolic below Lovett Saturday night and got a load of shot from a single barreled Iver Johnson shotgun which caused Dr. J. R. Dent to spend four hours amputating his leg.
Miss Myra Renfroe married Mr. Turner Scarboro and Miss Mozelle Sanford married Mr. Rabun Moore at Corinth church. There has been almost an ice famine in Wrightsville all of the week. The ice man was perspiring himself and although he worked to relieve the situation, the heat of the day could only be relieved by the cooler hours of the late night. All the past week sugar has been an item with the people and many a cup of coffee went begging. Sugar and ice, though, in a dry county isn't so bad after all.