From Days Gone By. April 9, 1921

April 9, 1921.
    The Dublin District Epworth League Conference of the M. E. Church, South, convenes in Wrightsville on the 8th, 9th and 10th this week. The city's homes have been opened to receive the many guest who will visit the city for three days.
    The Johnson-Washington Singing Convention will meet Saturday and Sunday at Beulah Baptist Church for two days of singing and dinners. Singers are coming from Laurens, Emanuel, Toombs, Treutlen and Jefferson counties.
    News from the University Hospital in Augusta stated that Mr. James Culver had completely lost the eyesight of the injured optic and it was necessary to remove it which was done that day.
    The U. S. Army has again enlisted the services of Dr. I. H. Archer of Wrightsville as one of their dentists and he has gone to occupy the position accepted at New Orleans. He has closed his office here for some time not knowing how long he would be gone.
    Saturday was set aside as a clean up day at Scott. Also two runaway couples were married there. Miss Ethel Rogers and Mr. George Sutton and Miss Vianky Horton to Mr. Marvin Holmes.
    Mr. Johnnie B. Paul files for bankrupcy. Ordinary U. R. Jenkins has made a neater appearance out of the shrubbery at the courthouse. Mr. W. J. Grant came up from the lower part of the county and says he is planting his cotton this week and thinks its in plenty of time.
    Mildred Morgan has opened a picture gallery and is ready to make your pictures. On and after April 9th Wrightsville Police Chief H. T. Downs, the ordinance on speeding and cut-cuts and bursted mufflers will be strictly enforced. The Jackson Brothers of Donovan have purchased the feed mill of Mr. J. H. Rowland and are now prepared to grind velvet beans and corn at the price of 25 cents per hundred pound.
    Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Johnson had a little daughter on March 28th. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Jackson of Donovan had a baby boy on the 31st of March.
    There were two funerals and burials at Pleasent Grove church Monday. Mr. John Edward Cox and Mr. Johnny Meeks. The former was 73 and had been sick for years. His wife, three sons and one daughter survived him. The children are John L. Cox, Walter Cox, Milton Cox and Mrs. John Howell.
    The latter, Mr. Meeks was 45, a son of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Meeks. He died Sunday afternoon. He left six children, three boys and three girls. Both men were members at Pleasent Grove.