From Days Gone By March 22,1924

 March 22,1924.

    The city fathers are jubilant over the fact that the big job is over and the sewer system is ready for use. They paid for it all, for the new artesian well at the power house and everything connected with the sewerage system and new works and have something like $13.37 left of the bond issue.

    The work of putting in the individual sewers and plumbing in the residences is now starting, several having already been completed and new contracts being made all over town. Wrightsville is moving forward now. Mr. Pugh of the sewer company remarked before he left, "The sewers are now in for your use of abuse.".

    Judge Kent convened the Superior Court. Several divorce cases came up and we're quickly dispensed with. Civil cases were then called, some had been settled and we're stricken from the docket.

    In the criminal part the three coloreds in jail were brought to court for the charges of the murder of John Harmon. Otis and Lee Rogers plead guilty and we're sentenced to life. Hill Rogers was turned loose.

    The Redjackets of Wrightsville opposed Cochran High in the first games of the 12th District basketball tournament at Cochran. A very close score resulted 26 to 30 in favor of Cochran.

    The new lights suspended from the ceiling at Brown Memorial is giving the interior a more attractive appearance giving off beautiful light. The funds for this was furnished by the Women's Missionary Society of the church.

    During the year 1918 when Mr. Milo Smith of Tennille was on the high seas enroute to France with the A. E. F., he wrote a short note and inserted it in a bottle and thrown overboard. The bottle was found last week in Chesapeake Bay by Mr. H. D. Fizzell of Baltimore, after having been in the water for six years. He communicated his find to Mr. Smith.

    Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Blankenship announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Mary Blankenship to Mr. Charlie Webb. Richard Lamar Harris, Jr. was born in Augusta March 9th. Henry Wheeler of near Kite turned 80 years old on March 16th.

    Mr. Tobe S. Morgan is dead. He moved to Augusta about two years ago. He died on March 16th. Mr. Morgan was in the photo business in Wrightsville for several years. His wife and several children survived him. He was brought back here and buried at Piney Mount.

    Mr. T. H. Walden, born May 14,1842, died March 8th and was 81 years old. He was buried at Beulah. He was a Confederate veteran serving under Johnson and Hood. He was raised in Glascock County and married there Dec. 26,1867 to Miss Martha Curry. He lived most of his life in the Donovan community and was a farmer. He had nine children, six boys and three girls with six surviving him. He was a charter member of Beulah Baptist Church.

    Mr. Jim Thigpen of Washington County died and was buried at Beulah where he was a member more than twenty years. He was 74 and has eight children survive him.