From Days Gone By June 17, 1929

 June 17, 1929.

    Miss Helen Shurling 15, Miss Mary Shurling 17, two sisters, and Miss Morell Wood 15, were badly hurt on Sunday afternoon near Tennille on the bridge at Deep Cut over the Central Railroad track sending all to the hospital. A big Buick going at a fast speed across the highway bridge swerved at them as a prank as they stood on the bridge but hit them all. Helen was thrown off the bridge, 10 feet below breaking her jaw and internal injuries almost fatal. Mary was bruised internally and the Wood girl a broken leg. The girls, wounded and bleeding were left there crushed in agony on the ground. The little boy with them escaped uninjured. The Sunday afternoon Kodaking party was turned into a bloody, excruciating painful calamity.

    The car stopped about 100 feet away, one of 3 men got out to take a look at the situation, got back in and sped away. The injured girls were rushed to Sandersville and a hot chase set up to catch the fleeing car, all surrounding counties were on the lookout with over a dozen counties involved. Finally the 3 were arrested and landed in the Sandersville jail held without bond pending the outcome of the girls. Those arrested were John Frank Rogers 23, Union Point, George Wilkins 25 and Nathan Rogers 22 of Washington County.

    Tom Page, Johnnie Beasley and S. A. Attaway all reported burglaries around their places, the thieves seeming to target meats in the farmers smokehouses. The nightly marauders carried away some hams and other kinds of meat. They are telling folks to lock their smokehouses and get a good dog.

    Hon. Nelson Shipp of Macon is coming to Wrightsville to speak on bonds for good roads. The poultry sale netted farmers $1,408.51. Idylwild is having a big square dance this night. There will be a tent meeting at Scott between A. L. Foskey's store and McGahee service station. The prohibition enforcement matter is getting old. This way of shooting into cars with innocent and helpless is no way to aid the cause and the people have about lost all sympathy with the revenuers who operate this way.

    Pasturing cattle is becoming a big industry these days and has made its way to Johnson. Mr. W. H. Lovett has bought some fine breeding stock having several hundred head up on the Tarbutton and Parson place. Dr. H. B. Bray has a large number also.

    Rev. F. C. Oliff has accepted the presidency of Andrew Female College at Cuthbert. Rev. Oliff is a half Wrightsville man having married a daughter of Judge & Mrs. W. J. Flanders.

    Miss Myrtle Frost of Wrightsville and Mr. Louis Veal of Milledgeville were wed at Tennille Methodist. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. E. R. Frost of here. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Veal. Miss Irene Smith of Decatur wed Waymond A. Clay of Dekalb Co. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Sidney F. Smith and a graduate of Kite and Martha Berry College. They will live at Viola, GA.

    Miss Henrietta Odom of Newton wed Mr. Edwin Ferrell of Albany on June 1st. Her parents are Mr. & Mrs. Robert Benton Odom of Newton and she was the former Miss Penny Dent of Wrightsville. Mr. & Mrs. James L. Miller celebrated 60 years of marriage on June 17th. James is one of a few Confederate veterans left in the county.

    Mr. Tom V. Sanders died at the hospital in Dublin where he lived for 35 years practicing law and livestock farming. His plantation was considered a model farm. His parents and family moved to Wrightsville from Griffin where they were all raised. He is survived by brothers Wade, Walter D., E. E. and H. B. Sisters Mrs. Lena Cunningham and Mrs. Ella Duffee. He was buried in Westview.

    Mr. Stephen J. Ham, 63, died in Savannah hospital on June 8th. He was born in Ft. Valley but for 15 years lived at Scott, employed by the Central Railway. He was prominent in the Masonic and Woodmen fraturnities. Surving is his wife, 3 brothers and 3 sisters. He has no children but one granddaughter, Mrs. W. C. Smith and grandson, Rance Smith of Scott. He was buried at Carters Chapel.

    Mr. Jim Sumner, 72, respected citizen of Soperton fell dead as he entered the Soperton post office. He had been sick and off duty as mail carrier from the post office to the train there for a few days, but upon improving he had gone from home to the office to do some writing when he fell dead of heart failure. He formally resided in Johnson where he has a large family connection. His children are Mrs. Bennett Tapley, Mrs. Robert Webb and George and Trellie Sumner. He was brought back and buried at Pleasant Grove.