From Days Gone By July 12, 1924

 July 12, 1924.

    Calvin Coolidge, Jr., the younger son of the President, died at Walter Reed Hospital of blood poisoning. President and Mrs. Coolidge, who had maintained constant vigil at the hospital, were at his bedside. The boy battled for five days against a disease which had racked his body with pain and sapped the reserve strength of his frail constitution.

    The infection developed from a broken blister on the right foot, incurred during a tennis match with his brother on the White House courts. He was 16 years old. He was buried at Plymouth, the present home of the boys grandfather.

    Editor C. D. Roundtree returned home from New York where he has been attending the National Democratic Convention. While in Atlanta, Mr. Harris Moye joined the Marines and is headed to Paris Island for training.

    The banks released their statements of condition. Exchange Bank, $277,773.25; The Farmers Bank, $150,128.81; Bank of Wrightsville, $294,125.19; Citizens Bank of Kite, $146,920.26.

    Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Jackson had a baby boy, Ralph, Jr., on June 21st. Mr. & Mrs. James L. Harrison had a baby boy on June 20th.

    Miss Jerradine Brinson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Brinson, Jr., who is attending summer school in Athens, was operated on in the hospital there, for appendicitis. Miss Lena Robinson had the same surgery at Rawlings Sanitarium in Sandersville. Both are doing well.

    There are two candidates in the race for representative of this county in the lower house of the General Assembly. They are Dr. D. C. Harrison and Mr. Walter N. Powell.

    Miss Queen Sanders, 45, who lived about three miles from the city died following a stroke of paralysis. For the past two years Miss Sanders and her sister lived together in their country home, her father having died two years ago and her mother before they moved here from North Georgia. Her sister Miss Claude Sanders was her only relation. She was buried at Westview.