From Days Gone By Feb 11, 1922

Feburary 11, 1922.
    The February term of the City Court of Wrightsville convenes this week with Judge Ben Hill Moye on the bench and Solicitor W. C. Brinson representing the interest of the State in the criminal branch.
    Since the jail delivery several days ago Sheriff Lewis Davis has not had to confine any inmates in the restraining house and it is empty at this time. All criminal cases will come from bonded ones unless arrests arise between now and the time of court.
    Clerk Joe B. Williams states there is quite alot of civil business and much more probably than will be brought to trial this term.
    The largest pecan  in this county is out on the  of Mr. W. H. Raley, owned by his son, Mr. Albert Raley. Albert has sixty acres in pecans which he planted three years ago and they are growing off fine. The dead ones, which were few, have been removed and live ones replanted, the prospects being very good for all to grow off now.
    Ivey R. Tanner has recently shipped to different markets a lot of cattle and hogs from the county. This stuff was winter fed and in tip- condition, attracting fancy prices as the market could hold at the time. Friday night a load of bean-fed steers, fat and plump, left for a northern market. These cows were fed by George H. Prescott for the past several weeks and were part of the shipment of Tennessee stock shipped down here last fall by Tanner. Mr. G. A. Tarbutton had a car of steers which he fattened in his bean fields.
    Mrs. J. T. Tyus, mother of Mrs. Quincy Powell, of Kite, died at her daughters home Thursday afternoon after an illness of several weeks. She formerly lived in Spaulding County. The remains were brought to Kent & Bush Undertaking Co. Then shipped to Griffin for internment.
    Mr. David C. Page who is in Washington, D. C. with the medical dept. writes his parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Page concerning the destruction of the Knickerbocker Theatre on 18th street. It was an awful catastrophe. All the soldiers of his department were put on duty helping with the dead and wounded. He hadn't slept in 48 hrs attending to the sick and helping prepare the dead for burial.
    Mr. & Mrs. James M. Neal will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, their silver wedding with many guest expected at their Kite home.
    Judge E. W. Carter fell from a vehicle from which he was alighting Saturday and sustained some bad injuries that have caused him to stay indoors. He was starting off home from Mr. Robert Lee Carroll's home and was in the act of driving away, when the animal suddenly started off and threw him to the ground, hurting him badly.
    Wedding bells were heard at Liberty Grove as Miss Lois Scarborough became the bride of Mr. Alton Watson. She is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Scarborough. Mr. Watson is the son of Laurens County Sheriff Watson.
    The fire alarm was sounded as a tenant house on a corner of the lumber plant of Rowland Lumber Co. which was ablaze on the roof. Quick work from the fire fighters soon put it out with little damage done. However, it took a dangerous outlook with high wind blowing and all the nearby houses and lumber piles which run high into the air. Barber Knowles picked the shingles off the roof like feathers off a chicken for dinner.