April 19,1924.
The entire plant of the Rowland Lumber Company of Wrightsville was reduced to ashes just after midnight Tuesday causing severe loss to the owners, Arthur and Raymond Rowland. The night watchman was shoveling shavings from the pit when all at once coming from several yards away a terrific blaze glanced across one end of the plant near the machinery. The alarm was sounded and firefighters worked furiously but efforts were futile as the entire plant was destroyed.
The firm estimates their loss at $20,000 in lumber in the new dry kiln, on the grounds under and around the long sheds and in a boxcar that was being loaded on the spur, car and all with the mostly new machinery was lost.
Three sawmills furnished the lumber for the plant with good output and good business, something the town Can ill afford to be without. Very little insurance was carried on the plant.
Mr. J. H. Rowland also lost his grist mill. His loss was $10,000 as he had two Mills in the building, one boiler and two engines, fixtures, a $1,000 corn sheller and other farm implements. This was a hard blow to the Rowland's and the county.
Mrs. Emma Downs, the wife of Mr. Tom Downs, a brother of Mr. L. D. Downs of Wrightsville, fell from a moving auto Sunday morning sustaining injuries from which she died within three minutes with her husband, two children and her parents in the car. They were coming to Wrightsville from their home in Mitchell to attend a birthday party for Mr. L. D. Downs wife.
Coming two miles this side of Tennille her hat blew from her head and in the attempt to catch it she fell from the car and died from hemorrhage from internal injuries. The driver of the car started to slow up and, being in a hurry, she stepped onto the running boards, and just at that moment the car came to a sudden stop and she fell hard to the ground, hitting on the breast and crushing the breastbone. She was about 40 years old. Her body was taken to a nearby home and prepared for burial, then taken back to Mitchell.
Dr. and Mrs. James Gordon Brantley announced the birth of twins on April 15th, a six and a half pound daughter and a seven and a half pound son.
Mayor T. V. Kent held a very profitable matinee of his court in the council chambers, extracting several times that aggregated a neat sum to the city's treasury. The mayor is after violators heavily these days.
Messrs. J. Roy Rowland and Robbie Rowland, sons of Mr. J. H. Rowland, have rented the resort Idylwild for the coming season and will soon take it over with concessions that usually come to the place as an outing. Already the grounds, buildings, fences, trees and swimming pool and bath houses are pruned up and cleaned up for this season by a crew from the W. & T. Railway.
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