From Days Gone By June 27, 1925

 June 27, 1925.

    There is little developing in the famous Rawlings trial. Judge Camp suspended the case on account the Supreme Court has yet to hand down it's ruling on the change of venue. Col. Fred Kea took the matter up by mail with the Chief Justice who says the court is not neglecting the case.

    Plans are going forward on building the Bee-Line highway. District engineer Darden went over the proposed route from Irwinton to Ball's Ferry and there to Wrightville. The idea now is to bridge the Oconee a couple hundred yards below Ball's Ferry. There the Wilkinson side approaches from the long ridge most favorable to the river. On the other side is a swamp a half mile wide out to the bank where a high but very sloping hill emerges Eastward and meets Washington Co. at the Williamson place, just 12 miles from Wrightville. Johnson Co. put up $720 or $60 per mile and Wilkinson has put in it's share with the highway department.

    Ex-Governor & Mrs. Thomas W. Hardwick were passing through town from Dublin to Sandersville and were involved in a wreck at the Myrtle and Court Street intersection. The truck of Bill Amerson and family with his son Allen driving collided with Hardwick. Allen and a little girl were hurt but not badly.

    A bad mix-up with knives happened 3 miles out in the county Saturday night when Willie Floyd and Jack King came together with open blades gashing each other badly. Willie got his nose split open and a gash on the arm. Jack got a dangerous wound near his heart in the left breast. No reason for the affray has been learned.

    June 16th Mr. & Mrs. F. C. Oliver of Spartanburg, S. C. had a baby girl, Kathleen. On June 20th Mr. & Mrs. O. A. Kennedy, Jr. had a son. Rev. & Mrs. Rufus D. Hodges had a daughter June 23rd.

    Mrs. Ben L. Hadden died at home on June 14th her husband on retiring to bed found her dead. She was buried in the Anthony cemetery.

    Following a brief illness Mrs. Martha P. Luck died at her daughter's, Mrs. T. F. Bullard on June 20th. She was 71 and originally from Fairburn, Ga. and her body was accompanied there by Mrs. Bullard and Mr. & Mrs. James M. Luck.

    On May 27th Mrs. Lou Walters died. She was the daughter of Mr. Mat Williamson and great grand-daughter of Elder Jordan Smith, a pioneer Primitive Baptist preacher. Her ancestors were Wright's, Evans, Harris, Gainors and the large Smith family of this section. When 18 she married Richard Walters and had 9 children. She was 70 and of the Christian faith.