From Days Gone By Oct. 17,1925

 October 17,1925.

    The city is having an election next Tuesday asking the voters, women included, to vote on the matter of selling the light plant to the power company. Dublin sold it's plant this week.

    The light plant had a bad night Sunday. The lights were about to go on, about church time, when a fire began raging somewhere beneath the floor of the main room. It was a hidden blaze caused by a defective wire. The floor was torn up and the blaze put out.

    The Virginia tobacco men are coming back to secure contracts from Farmers intending to plant the crop.

    Charles D. Roundtree, editor of the Wrightville Headlight is retiring as President of the Georgia Press Association. Mr. E. H. Parker of Lovett has bought the home of Mr. & Mrs. John D. Outlaw here in the city. Mr. Outlaw will move to his farm out in the county to farm and work in his blacksmith shop.

    The two remaining banks released their statement of condition. The Bank of Adrian $151,829.51; The Farmers Bank $155,288.74.

    On Aug. 21st, Chas. G. Rawlings was found guilty of murder of G. A. Tarbutton on Feb. 17th and was given a life sentence. He filed a motion for a new trial. October 17th was set as a hearing date on this motion at the Dublin court house. There are about 860 long pages of it saying nothing of the other evidence. The lawyers for the State are ready. The defense have given no statement. Rawlings awaits the decision in his case, confined in county jail. J. J. Tanner who is also under a life sentence, awaits the Georgia Supreme Court decision on a new trial.

    Enoch Waters, 18, and Roosevelt Warthen, 18, were instantly killed Friday morning when a lumber truck collided with a ditch at the corner of the cemetery where the Dublin and Ringjaw roads intersect. The truck was driven by Otho Brown, a colored youth about the same age. Brown escaped with bruises. A fourth colored boy, Ernest Waters, a brother of Enoch, jumped off the truck before it crashed unhurt. They were hauling lumber for James O. Lake. The truck overturned throwing Enoch and Roosevelt on the ground and the lumber and truck buried them.

    Mrs. Susana Lake died at her son's home, Mr. E. Lake, near Lovett. Burial was at Pleasant Grove. She was 89, born in 1835 in Edgefield, S. C. She married E. M. Lake in 1909. Six children survive her. Mrs. Susan Perry, Mrs. R. F. Johnson, Mrs. Tobe Coleman and Mrs. Barm Coleman, Mr. E. P. and Mr. Joseph Lake.