From Days Gone By April 30, 1921

April 30, 1921.
    Judge J. L. Kent is not holding the April Term of Laurens Superior Court having adjourned it till July. The people petitioned him to postpone on account of all the farm work needing to be done. Judge Kent is farming himself these days.
    Wrightsville High will hold its graduation the third Sunday in May. Scott closes on May 5th and the schools at Liberty Grove, Price, New Home, Gethsemne, Rehobeth and Mayo Hill will close Friday.
    Messers. Joe M. Mason, C. D. Roundtree, J. S. Stephenson and Morris T. Riner are the four men responsible for the drive and contributions to the Georgia Tech Fund. The goal is $2,500.
    On May 5th will take place the marriage of Miss Marion Hollinhead of Milledgeville to Dr. Thomas E. Vickers of Wrightsville.
    Mr. Zack Cullens attended the school closing evening and had a bad night coming home, when a piston bolt in the auto engine broke into, damaging the entire engine. Zack's friends are advising him to get married and save on his going all the time.
    While in the city Mr. T. J. Powell made a large purchase of furniture and other furnishings for his new home at Kite. David Lavine, the Jew cobbler, after a lengthy absence from the city, arrived back and says he hasn't found anyplace better than Wrightsville.
    Mr. Gordon Smith died Saturday afternoon at his home in Wrightsville after an illness of several years. He had been confined to his bed for more than a year and almost continuously. His wife and six children, small ones, survive him. Burial was at Beulah cemetery. He was an Odd Fellow and the lodges at Wrightsville and Moore's Chapel officiated.
    After a severe illness of a little more than a week, Mrs. A. F. Smith, wife of the beloved pastor of Brown Memorial died at the pastorium forty five minutes after 12 Tuesday night, April 27th. Mrs. Smith was born at Roswell, Ga. September 4th 1886. She had been a most earnest and consistant member of the Baptist church for 18 years. Surviving her are her husband, seven children, three sons and four daughters, two sisters and three brothers. The funeral was at Brown Memorial and she was buried at Canton, Ga.
    Joe Smith and R. L. (Bub) Brown, both of Davisboro, were arrested tonight, suspects in connection with the assualt and robbery of I. W. Arnold, cashier of the Merchants & Farmers Bank last night. The two men were taken into custody five miles from Davisboro by Sheriff B. A. English of Washington County and a posse as they were endeavering to make tbeir getaway in an automobile.
    Smith and Brown had been sought since the attack on the bank cashier. Saturday night two of the members of the Sheriff's posse, which immediately started in pursuit of the robbers, were held up at the points of guns by Smith and Brown and were told to "walk it.". Both have been in trouble here several times, and are said to have been hiding out several days to avoid arrest. One had $55 and the other $75 when placed under arrest.
    Cashier Arnold, at the time of the robbery, was rendered unconcious by a blow, but revived in time to shoot at the fleeing robbers, who had taken $500 from him. A large posse working under the direction of Sheriff English had been scouring the country all last night and today and rewards of $200 had been offered for the arrest of the guilty parties.