Sunday, October 22, 2023

From Days Gone By Oct. 31,1925

 October 31,1925.
    The big local fair opens here next week with amusements plentiful every day and a big parade on Wednesday night.
    County Agent Crow and his clubs brought home more bacon from the Georgia State Exposition in Macon bringing home around $350.
    A stump blasting demonstration will be on the plantation of Mr. Reuben C. Douglas at Meeks. Mr. W. E. Broach,  Ag field agent from Athens will demonstrate the blasting with the use of pyrotol on this occasion.
    News came of Robert Lee Durden and Nudie Dixon were killed in an automobile wreck at Graymont in Emanuel County.
    Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Rowland have acquired a new Studebaker touring car.
    Playing at the Dixie Theatre is Bebe Daniels in "Dangerous Money" and Jack Perrin in "Canyon Rustlers", also, "Bond of Fear" with Buddy Rosevelt. 
    On October 18th Mr. William Waller married Miss Inez Wheeler at Kite.
    Miss Ida Smith and Mr. George L. Youmans were married at the Baptist Church in Wrightsville. The bride is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Smith and works with Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company. Mr. Youmans is a prominent planter and businessman of Wesley in Emanuel County.
    Mrs. Claudia Askew Bryan of Riddleville's daughter, Essie Mae, we'd Mr. Herman L. Rogers of West Palm Beach, Florida. They were married at Jasper, Florida October 7th.
    Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Youngblood of Adrian announced the marriage of their daughter, Frances Irene, to Mr. U. S. Wynn, of Adrian on September 30th.
    T. E. Hayes of Hayes Drug Store, has filed for bankruptcy. R. I. Ackridge warns all that his son, James Ackridge, 17, has left home without cause. He is a minor and he forbids any person hiring, sheltering, employing, keeping, detaining or assisting him in staying away from his home.
    Mrs. T. F. Brown has 100 acres in the town of Donovan, a three horse farm in cultivation, 5 room dwelling and two tenant houses convient to railroad, school, church and gin. She will rent for one to give years.

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