From Days Gone By Jan. 15, 1921

January 15, 1921.
    A lot of changing around has taken place during the advent of the New Year and a lot of new faces are seen in new places and many faces missed from other places until you'll have to become used to the whole place over again mostly. The court house is full of new occupants and from there it has started and spread all over town.
    The new sheriff, ordinary, school superintendent, treasurer, tax collector, tax receiver, city court judge and solicitor, and on down to Mr. Jones, the new janitor, find the courthouse's lights all trimmed and burning for the new year and new term.
    The Wrightsville Hardware has changed around considerably. Messrs. E. N. Hitchcock and R. H. Rowland have sold their interests to Messrs. J. M. Cook, Monroe Cook and T. F. Elton and the three latter are now in the place of business.
    Mr. E. N. Hitchcock and Mr. R. H. Smith will open up a grocery store up in the Hayes Bros. old stand soon. Their firm will be the Georgia Grocery Company.
    Mr. M. E. Woods has opened up a first class garage where he formally did business. Mr. Hough Harris, who has just come from New York, will be with him, also Lunnus Price.
    The Star Feed Company is closing out and its manager, Mr. A. B. Rowland will be in charge of the Rowland Lumber Company. Mr. Jimmie Spell, after the closing out of the Hauger- Davis store in the Hayes Bros. Place, has gone with Mr. T. V. Kent.
    Col. C. S. Claxton has moved his office from the Brinson building over to the brick office building where Faircloth & Claxton occupied on the east side of the court house. Mr. Wren Spell has gone to Brunswick to accept a position in a drug store at that place.
    Mrs. Mae Parker has resigned her position with the Hayes Cash Stores for the present. The Duff Brothers will open up at once a general line of farm supplies and general merchandisd for their own disposal and the public at large in the other store up at the Hayes Brothers old stand.
    The Board of Education held its regular monthly meeting with new Superintendent L. L. Lillard and board members Brinson, Powell, Brantley and Mixon. The matter of compulsery attendance was discussed at length.
    Solicitor W. C. Brinson of the City Court gave the board his vision on the matter, saying he would prosecute only in flagrant violations, that leniency would be shown wherever the ocasion demanded it and where prosecutions were instituted in the case of poverty-stricken children that he would ask the courg to inforce a fine of a dime and he would pay that himself. But in case of willful violations he would urge a penalty.
    Mr. M. E. Crow was elected attendance officer for the county. The pay of the Superintendent remained the same at $100.
    Mr. George Grady Sumner is about well after suffering from injury from being run over by a heavily loaded two-horse wagon. Dr. J. R. Dent is moving his family and practice to Oconee where he has accepted a position with the Cleveland-Oconee Lumber Company as chief surgeon and medical advisor. Miss Willie Graham, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Graham of McRae wed Mr. J. H. Rowland.
    The colored people of the county met in Wrightsville Saturday to celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation with a program in the court house. The colored band played mysic. This is a big event for the colored population of the county.