From Days Gone By April 12,1924

 April 12,1924.

    One of the largest events that ever come to the county and city will be the Wrightsville Accredited High School Meet on April 24 and 25th. A special table on Friday will be prepared for the Confederate Veterans. Five thousand people are expected here. Homes in town are being opened to representatives and all the clubs are working on preparations. Mayor T. V. Kent is asking Wrightsville to clean up their homes and businesses.

    Mr. Bascom Drake, the 24 year old son of Mr. Morris Drake of near Adrian, was struck by a limb of a falling tree in a swamp in the upper edge of Jefferson Co., and died at Rawlings Sanitarium from the head wound. Part of the skull was crushed and on into the brain and he was rushed from Louisville to Sandersville but too much damage was done. He was brought through Wrightsville Thursday and carried to his father's home. Burial was at Poplar Springs.

    Mr. Drake was working with the logging crew of the Case-Fowler Lumber Co. They had cut down a tree and it had lodged before reaching the ground. A skidder was hitched to it and the power started, Mr. Drake dodged behind another tree to get out of the way when a long limb from the falling tree switched around where he was thought to be safe and struck him on the head. He leaves a wife and one child, father and several siblings.

    Mrs. Ell Underwood died last Friday in the Georgia Sanitarium at Milledgeville where she has been the past 28 years. She was buried in the family Cemetery in the Western part of the county. She was about 60 years old.

    The banks released their statements of condition. The Citizens Bank of Kite $142,883.94; The Exchange Bank $294,691.49; The Bank of Wrightsville $287,825.76; The Farmers Bank $143,574.32; Bank of Adrian $104,242.03.

    Ordinary U. R. Jenkins has received a lot of bridge posters or capacity signs for the bridges to be used where necessary.

    The pleasant spring time has undoubtly made its idvent, as a few signs we notice indicating this are: the small boy is going barefoot, the tomcat has a new set of whiskers, the ant has made its appearance, the bluebird is cheerfully making its post-nuptial notes, and the lips of sweet maidens are looking like ripe cherries that ripen in sunny June in the beautiful valley of old Virginia.