May 4, 1923.
During the early hours of Sunday morning this section was visited by a heavy downpour of rain with wind. A heavy gale blew in many places and the weatherman was dishing out some "rough stuff" here and there.
The worst damage was the awful destruction of the tenant home in which John M. Brantley and his five motherless children 7 miles east of Wrightsville. John is a tenant on the farm of Mr. J. T. Fulford. It was raining when they awoke, then in the twinkling of an eye a heavy gale, drawn hard into a cyclone bore down upon the premises sweeping the home from its resting place and tearing it to smithereens scattering everything to the four winds.
John crawled from the brick pile injured internally and bruised badly. Adel the eldest daughter was rescued by siblings Charlie and Beatrice from beneath a heavy sill with her left thigh and ankle broken. Beatrice was badly bruised and battered. Charlie was only slightly bruised. Guy had nail punches and marks all over his head and face and Annie Myrtle, the baby, escaped unhurt.
The mule was left standing while the stable was blown to fragments and chickens lay dead all around the place. Frank Attaway opened his home to the family until other arangements could be made.
The storm struck down hard also on the G. C. Raines place about the same time but the dwelling was unhurt. A storeroom in the yard was destroyed with alot of implements, oils, and farm materials swept away. All his shade trees were blown down but one. Mr. Raines said it was a fearful time.
The storm swooped down on fields and cleaned up whole patches of cotton. Another farm house of Fulford's the storm took off a chimney flue.
Going on down east the cyclone hit a tenant house on the Berry Price place taking the roof off. It also took Price school house off its blocks. At Pringle Lonnie Garnto, James Price, W. W. Frost and others suffered losses to the storm's fury. It went on down into Emanuel County and wreaked much havoc around Blundale.
Judge Moye postpones City Court until June on account of farmer's getting behind on crops. Next Sunday is the last day autos will be allowed to run here without a 1923 tag. Mr. Goerge H. Brantley left for training at Ft. Benning. Wrightsville gets 1924 accredited high school meet of the 12th district.
Several coloreds had gathered on the corner across from Union Warehouse late Sunday when a row ensued. It looked like a general fight until one pulled his gun and fired at another when the thing died down. The officers chased the shooter with track dogs but he got away.
Twenty-one Civil War veterans were guests at the Memorial Day services. They were D. C. Blankenship, A. T. Linder, W. S. Burns, T. J. Brantley, J. R. Wilson, L. Moseley, J. T. Dickens, H. C. Mason, Isham Stephens, C. Snider, M. N. Killebrew, T. H. Walden, J. L. Miller, J. H. Hardaway, Drew Loyd, H. G. and B. Y. Wheeler, O. S. Fortner, W. S. Corbin, W. D. Smith and S. P. Barfield.
A fire broke out next to the Headlight building. The wood structure owned by W. E. Blankenship caught fire in the center where David Lavine had a shop repair shop. Dr. S. M. Johnson's office was in the front. The fire dept. got it out but the building was destroyed and the Headlight building saved. Blankenship had no insurance but will rebuild a brick building.
Little Trenton Soles, the 6 month old son of Henry L. Soles died April 23rd. Mrs. Martha Jane Mixon died April 25th at 78. She was widow of T. T. Mixon and was buried at New Home.
The horse fund for Rev. Sumner is now up to $71. Agent Crow assisted in Jackson Farms of Donovan in selling a carload of hogs shipped to Havana, Cuba.
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