From Days Gone By Nov. 21,1925

 November 21,1925.

    Next Tuesday is Wrightsville's election for mayor and three councilmen. B. B. Hayes, R. H. Rowland and H. T. Johnson will continue for another year. M. S. Duggan, R. R. Martin and I. R. Tanner's seats are up this time.

    The city of Wrightville is undergoing an advertisement campaign to the traveling world. Road signs, pointers, auto name plates, and maps are being purchased at the urging of the Commercial Club. The auto tags will be furnished to every auto of the city. Maps will be given to tourists at filling stations and road pointers will be put up all over the country. The Jeff Davis and Bee-Line highways will be well marked.

    In a rousing meeting of the Commercial Club, they are going all out indorsing the proposed tomato canning plant.

    Judge Camp heard the motion for a new trial in the case of the State vs Charles G. Rawlings. The decision is expected soon. The defense offered 9 counts in their appeal for  new trial. Of course the State rebutted this.

    Miss Bessie Hadden and Mr. Walter Hall were married on the 15th. She is a daughter of Mr. Ben L. Hadden, the groom being a son of Mr. Manning Hall.

    Mrs. Fannie Stephens, wife of Henry Stephens, died Nov. 13th after a lengthy illness with the last few days spent in the hospital. Her funeral was at Rehobeth. She was born Sept. 1860, a daughter of Mr. J. R. G. & Mrs. Julia Underwood. She married Mr. Stephens Dec. 3,1884.

    A bad cutting affray took place 5 miles south of Kite last Thursday about supper time. Charlie Tanner, a white married man of 30 years old, is in jail on assault with attempt to murder one Otis Jackson, a white, single man about 21. Jackson is in Dublin hospital from knife wounds and cuts.

    The cutting took place at Jackson's home where he lives with his aged mother on Mr. Henry Wheeler's place. Tanner came over there from his home on the Bascom Tapley Farm.

    The two boys have been friends for years but wound up fighting in the yard. After more than three years of friendship they had been drinking all afternoon. Streams of blood after the fight had Jackson struggling to the front Piazza and fell on it, calling on his mother for help.

    Dr. Lee W. Wheeler of Kite tried to sew him up but the cuts were too deep and numorous, one most dangerous was across the stomach from hip to hip. He is in a real bad fix.

    A warrant was sworn out for Tanner and Sheriff Claxton went to Tanner's home and arrested him. He had a slash on his coat supposed to have been made by a knife in the hands of Jackson. There were no eye witness to the fight.