From Days Gone By August 11, 1922

August 11, 1922.
    The faculty of the Wrightsville District School for the 1922-23 has been completed by the Board of Education. Prof. E. N. Anthony is the superintendent, with the help of Prof. J. L. Flemming. Misses Annie Mae Melton and Ola Johnson are music instructors. High school will be Miss Doris Johnson, Mrs. M. D. Mobley and Miss Mary Carter. The grammar school will consist of Mrs. W. L. Norris, Miss Marguerite Lowe, Miss Bernice Lewis, Miss Clyde Perry, Mrs. G. W. Gordy, Miss Annie Jenkins and Mrs. J. W. Vanlandingham.
    The eleven o'clock train passing Wrightsville was delayed here Sunday about two and a half hours caused from a rail turning sideways when the engine was on a side track for some freight cars. Every wheel left the rail and fell on the cross ties, the speed being slow it soon stopped and as soon as an engine could be secured from Dublin the wreck was cleared and the passenger train left for Tennille.
    Col. Charles S. Claxton of the city, a lawyer of ability in both criminal and civil realms is running for office of solicitor of the City Court of Wrightsville. Miss Zora Mae Price, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. L. A. Price of the eastern side of the county, was operated on about four weeks ago in Sandersville for appendicitis and for some time was critically ill. She is improving now.
    When the continued meetings at Oaky Grove church closed out last Wednesday there were a class of 13 new members added to the church during the services. Preaching was done first by the pastor, Eld. W. A. Lamb, until the arrival of Eld. J. Walter Hendricks of Sardis who preached able sermons until the close.
    Since last week the number of men being spoken of for. State Representative have been reduced to two or three by statments from them they were not serious contenders for it and one or two said they could not afford to run at this time. Messers. B. J. Wiggins and C. T. Bray say they will not enter the race and Dr. A. M. Roundtree and Dr. D. C. Harrison neither. Nothing has been heard from former state senator Morris T. Riner. Judge A. L. Hatcher is still considering a run.
    President Sidney F. Smith of the Johnson County Singing Convention says it will be at Rehobeth next Sunday. The Moye Family will hold a reunion at Idylwild. Miss Louise Dautry and Mr. Neil B. Blount were married by Rev. W. A. Brooks.
    Tuesday morning while her little child was playing around her chair, Mrs. L. E. Parker missed her sewing needle and upon the spur of the moment, decided the little babe had swallowed it as it was coughing out of the ordinary. A quick hunt for the needle was unsuccessful and this increased the mother's suspicions and she hastened to the store to her husband for relief. The baby was hurried to Rawlings where an x-ray picture was made to no avail. Upon returning home the needle was discovered on the back porch where the child had dropped it. The child had taken a bean or some hard substance which produced the coughing. It was lucky for it and the family that it didn't swallow the needle.