October 3,1925.
Monday morning of last week the W. & T. Railway had another bad wreck near Idylwild, just to the east of the road crossing outside the enclosure, 8 or 9 cars going off the track. No one was hurt. The track was soon cleared and but little delay was experienced in train operations. This was a costly wreck to the road.
Then on Monday afternoon of this week the W. & T. had another wreck near Harrison when passenger train No. 3 was derailed and fortunately no one was injured in this one either. This is the third wreck in a month. This was also another heavy loss to the road and traffic was delayed awhile. The wreck was cleared Tuesday about noon and rail service was resumed.
Sheriff L. J. Claxton and his deputies made a visit to Daley Grove church of colored people Sunday afternoon and raided a bunch of whiskey operations. The five defendants appeared before Judge B. B. Blount Monday morning. Grover Turner, Louis Stephens and Crawford Hicks pleaded guilty to whiskey charges and were given a fine of $50 or 8 months. Eulie Curry and Bob Hannah gave bond to await trial in November.
The power people are now in a frame of mind to enter into trade discussion with the city for the electric light plant here and negotiations for the sale of the system to them will now be considered.
The farmer's are fast winding up their cotton picking. Gins are now running during the day only but are kept busy ginning the remainder of the crop.
Mr. Elmer Jackson of Donovan has some prize Duroc Jersey pigs on his large stock farm this year. The ten specimen of Durocs, 180 days old, weighed 2311 pounds last week. Six months old, they are indeed good pigs and Jackson is showing what can be done in hog raising in this county.
Mr. C. S. Blankenship sold out his meat market to Mr. L. E. Parker and Messrs. Price and McAfee are operating it. Those driving new autos are W. C. Chester, W. V. Tyson and Emory L. Rowland.
Messrs. J. E. Sanders and R. S. Moye are now handling the Chevrolet autos for the county. Sanders resigned from B. B. Hayes merchantile and Moye resigned from the Georgia Grocery Co. They will now sell Chevy's full time. Coupes are $810; Coach $840; Sedan $930.
A marriage took place in Harrison between Miss Theodosia Jordan of there, to Mr. Benjamin Alford of Wrightville. Two marriages occured Sunday. Miss Nannie Lou Williams, daughter of Mr. James Williams of Tom, became the wife of Mr. Ernest Smith, eldest son of Mr. & Mrs. N. G. Smith of Rehobeth community. Miss Lucile Edge, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Edge was married to Mr. Milo Walden, son of Mrs. Isaac Walden.
The monkey has come to town to stay at last. And he is all fixed up and chained to a post and looks like he has escaped an evolution trial all right enough. Col. W. M. Shurling has him eating candy at his place and the little sprout is being seen by all visitors there.
