From Days Gone By Oct. 12, 1923

 October 12, 1923.

    Mr. Arthur Pew, engineer, Atlanta is coming today for matters pertaining to the letting of the contract for installing sewerage for Wrightsville which is to be let on the 17th. Mayor Kent and Mr. Pew are of the impression that the numorous number of bidders for the work will be bid low or at a price commensurate with the times and they are expecting a fair figure to come in.

    Mayor Kent says there will be a lot of companies represented here judging from the inquires. Thus the work for putting in the system is going on without a hitch and the mayor and council have done all they can to do it that way.

    All the counties touched by the Jefferson Davis Highway will send delegations to Savannah to the Tri-State Fair to promote and advertise this new national highway. October 31st is Jeff Davis Highway Day at the fair and it is expected more than 100 cars will motorcade into Savannah, from Augusta all the way to Abbeville will be in the motorcade.

    Miss Winifred Gilmore of Baxley has started an Expression Class at the high school. The program will consist of readings, piano solos, vocal solos and a number of quartets. A troop of Boy Scouts was organized at Adrian with 14 members. The scoutmaster chosen was James M. Mayfield with Mr. Manning Flanders assistant. The troop committee is T. D. Fountain, Edward Ellison, Sr., J. Brown Hutcheson and a Mr. Drake.

    Ivey R. Tanner and James W. Harrison left for Atlanta to buy a car load or two of market cattle to feed through the winter and resale after they are fattened on bean fields, etc. This has been very profitable to them the past couple of years. J. Tom Flanders shows off some fine corn and peas from his 12 acre field without any fertilizer being added. There is an abundant crop of hay this season that exceeds any previous year. The melon record for 1923 goes to J. Gordon Greenway at 56 pounds.

    Mr. J. Frank Jackson is being urged to run for solicitor and J. Nat Riner will run for re-election for tax collector. Mr. B. J. Wiggins is considering a Senate run.

    Mr. & Mrs. Weldon W. Claxton of Kite has a new daughter. This is the first granddaughter for Mr. & Mrs. Joe W. Claxton. Mr. & Mrs. John F. Powell had a son on October 9th. Mr. & Mrs. W. I. Renfroe had a boy Oct. 7th and Mr. & Mrs. Johnnie Sumner had a girl the same day.

    Miss Dovie Sheppard, daughter of Mrs. John Sheppard of near Pleasant Plains church, and Mr. W. S. Johnson of Soperton were married. Miss Sallie Davis, daughter of Sheriff Lewis Davis married Mr. Curtis Lee of Miami, Fla on Oct. 4th. Judge Jenkins says there has not been much increase in marriage license yet, but he believes it will pick up before winter because no one wants to spend dreary winter days alone.

    On Wednesday morning while nature was radiantly smiling, Editor Roundtree performed a marriage ceremony in front of the paper office, the couple remaining in the buggy during the brief ceremony which was witnessed by a few persons, a woodpecker on a telephone pole, a mocking bird on the top most bough of an Elm, the feathered musician singing in a sweetly subdued strain, "Love's Rhapsody". As the couple departed down West Elm Street with hands clasped a lordly cock, which was crossing the street, lustily crowed, his merry salutation seeming to want a message of felicitation to them as they embarked on the matrimonial Sea.

    Mr. J. W. Delph has moved here from Albany. Mr. John M. Gillis has moved here from Macon. Mr. Charlie Blizzard is driving a new Ford.

    'Possum and 'tater time with cane grindings and boilings, to say nothing about good old chitterlings and crackling bread, are the next vegetables in order.