FROM DAYS GONE BY Dec 12, 1919

December 12, 1919.

Two colored women mix in an ugly fight as Mary Curry slashes Mae Mills awfully bad and she is likely to die. Mary Curry met Mae Willie Mills and Ida Reese in the public road just beyond the home of Mr. E. W. Tanner where the road forks at the ginnery of Mr. J. T. Fulford Monday afternoon near sunset and interrupted their journey by hailing them and proceeded to wind up a fight right in the middle of the road.
The Reese woman is a witness to the ugly affray in which the Mills woman is so badly cut that her life is hanging on a balance. She has a long gash across the lower part of the abdomen which allowed the intestines to ooze out, another deep and painful wound to the hilt of the knife in her right thigh which was too large to be sewed up and another in the left arm.
She was hurried to the city and Dr. Dent attended her. He said she had only a lighting chance to live. After being attended by the physician she was carried to her home on the farm of Mr. Charles Harrison where she and her husband live.
The Reese and Mills women had been to the city and were enroute home and were hailed by the Curry woman, asking them had they seen her husband, Isadore Curry. When they replied they had not she immediately drew a long knife and proceeded to slash in into the body of the Mills woman, at the same time cursing her and telling her that she had been told to let her husband alone and now she was going to get pay for it. The affair was an ugly one.
The forthcoming marriage of Miss Gray Melton of Baxley to LT. Arthur Bryan Rowland was announced. The wedding will be in January 1920. Lots of babies were recently born. Mr. & Mrs. Noah D. Paul had a daughter December 8th. Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Anderson had a boy December 8th. Mr. & Mrs. M. E. Woods had a daughter December 5th. Cashier & Mrs. Robert B. Bryan had a daughter December 9th. Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Tanner also had a girl on December 9th. Uncle Berry Price is laid up sick.
After an illness of several months Mrs. Mary V. Duff died at her home in the city Thursday evening December 4th surrounded by her children. The funeral services were held at the residence by Rev. Father T. J. Morrow of Milledgeville with burial at Westview cemetery.
At the time of her death she was 85. She was married twice. Her first marriage was to Henry Caneega who died in action at the close of the civil war. Two years later she married to LT. James B. Duff, who also served throughout that war. Since April 11th, 1900 she had been left a widow.
She was a devout member of the Catholic church, a woman of very high Christian character. Her beautiful life had been one of umtiring perseverance and deep devotion to her children. She was loved by all who knew her. She was the mother of twelve children, eight of whom survive her; 4 daughters, Miss Susan Caneega, Misses Kate and Gertrude Duff, Mrs. W. E. Page, and four sons; H. H. Caneega, J. T. Duff, P. F. Duff and J. J. Duff. She is also survived by three sisters; Mrs. J. F. Price, Mrs. J. M. Bush and Mrs. M. G. Hall. One brother, Mr. J. R. Parker.