March 2, 1923.
Saturday and Saturday night was a bad time for the negro Burnett family who live on the William Oliver place on account of the meanderings of one. Modie Taylor, colored, who also lives around there when he's not on the county gang.
Taylor made it hot for the whole layout of Burnett's, driving the old woman up the road with a shotgun and abusing her badly. He wasn't satisfied with that and he sets in wait along the road about dark for the boy, Arthur Burnett. Arthur worked with Mr. Tarbutton. Modie gets in ambush and lies in wait with a single barrelled shotgun. As Arthur comes along Modie shoots filling the boy's front from waist up with small shot and knocking out a couple of teeth. The doctor says if it hadn't been for Arthur's thickly clad body it could have been real serious but Arthur will get well.
Modie seemed to be working his way back in the gang. He hit for high parts but was seen by several people and the county and three baliffs went in search for him on Monday. But Modie decided he rather surrender and while they were tracking him he walked calmly into Sheriff Davis' office unarmed, leaving the gun at his brothers.
Robbers made an unsuccessful attempt to rob the Scott Banking Co. just before rain set in Monday night. The parties drove up and made a quick entrance through broken windows, then pulled the shades and placed a type writer on it so they would not be detected. Scott like other small towns at this hour are asleep. The robbers had nothing to stop them until they had broken the knob to the vault door and left it still fastened hard. They left in such dismay they didn't even stop to take the $10 left in tbe cash drawer. Banking was at a stanstill till they could get in the vault. The rain came in time the robbers could not be tracked out of town with no clue who it was, where they came from or where they went.
Will Cuyler, a colored laborer with Rowland Lumber Co. was severly wounded while working around the dry kiln at the lumber plant. The large weights that control the door were hoisted at the time and in some manner one fell, crushing down on Will's head and fractured his skull. Also badly wounding his right hip. Mr. Arthur Rowland rushed him to Dr. Claxton in Dublin. His escape was a narrow one but he is believed to recover.
Mr. W. T. Kitchens of Wrightsville was appointed county policeman. He will serve papers and act as an arresting officer. It is rumored Mr. W. R. "Bill" Smith will run for sheriff. Mr. J. D. Johnson has moved to Clearwater, S. C.
Rev. J. C. Griner with some members of his congregation had a thrilling experience at Arline. When assembling they began to build a fire in the stove. It started right off an the pastor began the service when he discovered the house on fire around the stove. Quick work got it put out. Mr. & Nrs. C. T. Swinson had a daughter on Feb. 25th. Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Tompkins daughter, Lulline, is engaged to Mr. Claude Lewis Hodges.
The Redjackets won two games beating Louisville 18 to 4, then went to Wrens and beat them 26 to 21. The Bearcats beat Adrian Athletic Quint 39 to 31.
Frank Flanders just laid the foundation for Mr. Nat Bray's new store near his home in the country. Alice Lake in "The Golden Gift" is at the Dixie.
Bearing down tremendously hard on the flagrant lawlessness now going on in our county, Rev. Brown during his revival at Brown Memorial pulled down the bars and flayed the workshops of Satan in all their accursed features. He never missed a word but went after gambling, liquor drinking, dancing, picture shows and public bathing pools with his gloves off. He applied the remedy in each and declared that in order to be faithful he could not nor would not change the label on the bottle.
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