From Days Gone By June 7,1924

 June 7,1924.

   At 5:45 am Saturday morning, May 31st, Mr. E. A. Lovett past away. For several days a Battle raged against an abscess in his breast that was treated by special doctors, nurses and family and all medical sciences were exhausted to try to save him. He lay very ill in the Sanitarium in Sandersville for several days until the end came.

    Mr. Lovett was born in Hancock County July 25th, 1864, and was 59 years old. On January 3rd, 1892 he married Miss Lena Parker. They had ten children whom survive him with their mother. Leon A., Laudice D., Lewis L., Tom L., Mrs. W. H. Lovett, Lila, Sarah, Mary and Grace Lovett. One sister, Mrs. Susan Hightower, four brothers, R. T., William, Homer and Geneva Lovett.

    When a young boy he moved to a farm with his parents between Wrightsville and Idylwild. He entered a merchantile business at Lovett, from 1904 to his death he was President of the Bank of Wrightsville and also held stock in other Banks. He was the main stockholder of the Dixie Cotton Company and had interests in various businesses in Dublin and elsewhere and owned large tracts of land in Johnson and other counties.

     His funeral was at the Methodist Church and was filled to capacity. He lie in state at his home on South Marcus St. where hundreds paid their respects. He was buried in Westview.

    Ellie Glisson died at a Dublin hospital from a loaded lumber truck turning over on him at J. C. Sumner's sawmill near Spann. He was a son of Mr. J. E. Glisson, a farmer of Spann. He left a wife and three children and was buried at Piney Mt.

    While coming to town from Dublin, H. E. Watson and Lott Warren, Jr. travelers for the Atlanta Lumber and Milling Co., came near losing their lives when their roadster skidded on a narrow stretch of road capsizing in a ditch. Both were pinned under the car. Help arrived and Drs. Brantley and Harris treated them at the Frost Hotel.

    The High School will have an agricultural department attached to its currculim next year with Prof. Bolton of the Brewton school.

    Congress will be asked by Hon. Wash Larson for a special appropriation to build a Bee-Line highway bridge across the Oconee River at some point below the Central of Georgia crossing. This is needed if there is to be a highway from Swainsboro to Macon, via Kite, Wrightsville and Irwinton. The name Bee-Line was so named by the Headlight for it's straight direction over the total distance traversed.

    This has sparked interest again from Irwinton and they are getting behind it, also offering the road through Toombsboro to Ball's Ferry is a good road and has been straightened out so it would be easy to build a bridge at Ball's Ferry.