From Days Gone By Dec. 10, 1926

 December 10, 1926.

    Johnson Lodge No. 110, I. O. O. F., is the first to make a donation to the rebuilding of Brown Memorial Baptist Church. The lodge pledged $100. The Odd Fellows are the first to donate.

    There were two residences burned down during the weekend. The Tharpe home owned by Mr. & Mrs. Ben Kirkland near New Home church and they lost everything. The home of Mr. George Cullens, up on Buckeye was burned with a heavy loss.

    In a token of appreciation for four years as pastor of Mulberry Street Methodist church in Macon, and as an expression of their esteem for Rev, Walter Anthony, the congregation gave him a new Buick sedan at the close of Sunday services. He is now in Savannah serving the Wesley Monumental Church.

    While enroute to Augusta on Thanksgiving, Mr. W. H. Lovett and his party escaped bad injury when his large auto was struck by a smaller car at the intersection of a by road with the main highway. Mr. Lovett speeded up and hit a large telephone pole carrying high tension current. The pole was snapped in to the wires saving it from falling on his car. With Mr. Lovett was his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Daley and Mr. & Mrs. Beverly Hayes.

    Master T. J. Luke, Jr. and Master Raymond McAfee were in a very dangerous auto wreck Saturday afternoon near town when a front tire went bad and caused the car to ditch hitting a log lying in the ditch. T. J. tried to stop the car and reached over for the emergency when the car hit the log and jarred his head through the windshield.

    Prof. J. Y. Chastain says the new consolodated Price-New Home school which was just completed is starting off well. Mrs. Kelly Powell is assisting Prof. Chastain.

    J. Nat Riner, Tax Collector, urges tax payers they have twenty days to pay their taxes. The list of taxes for 1926 are $53,119.89 county taxes; $15,572.90 state taxes; $13,279.99 county school tax; $13,876.96 local school tax. The total taxes are $95,849.74 and only $12,827.14 has been collected.

    Pastor R. D. Hodges and his congregation worshiped with the Christian congregation last Sunday. This was due to the fact the Baptist church burned to the ground.

    While coming from the football stadium in Birmingham, Mr. Grayson C. Rowland fell and broke both bones of the left arm and is confined to the hospital there. He and Mr. Laudice Lovett had attended the Georgia-Alabama game that day.

    Mrs. John S. Wheeler died early Monday morning at the family home in the eastern part of the county after a brief illness from acute indigestion. She was about 51, and was a Powell before marriage to Judge Wheeler. She was buried in the Wheeler cemetery.

    Mr. William Thomas (Will Tom) and Mrs. Lokella Brantley Smith had a baby boy born on December 4th, who was named Wade Riley Smith.