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From Days Gone By June 2, 1932

 June 2, 1932.

    Mr. M. C. Tyson will entertain the audience tonight with a special feature of music by the Melody Makers, a trio of players at the Fiddler's Contest at the Palace Theater. He was formally with the North Carolina Ramblers and the Tennessee Gully Jumpers. The annual Union Singing Convention at Idylwild has been running for 29 years. At this one will be a memorial service for the late lamented song producer and singer, Prof. E. L. Faircloth of Greenville, S. C., who died December 6, 1931.

    Mr. L. O. Moseley has returned to Atlanta from Montgomery, Alabama where he was manager of a large hotel. He is now associate manager of the Piedmont Hotel in Atlanta.  Tom L. Martin is turning out a lot of ice from his new manufacturing plant. Its Wrightsville's newest industry. There was 2,467 pounds of poultry sold at the co-op poultry sale in Wrightsville. Prices were about 75 per cent of pre-war prices.

    Col. R. L. Stephens announces for Solicitor-General to succeed Fred Kea. Stephens is a Johnson native and was committed to the Bar in 1915. Miss Sallie Mae Stephens and Mr. Harold Smith were married last Sunday at the home of Rev. G. F. Sumner. They are members of the Myrtle Grove community.

    Miss Mamie Riner of Wrightsville received her diploma from the G. S. T. C. at Collegeboro this commencement. Cadet Robert Brinson, son of Mrs. R. E. Brinson, who has been a student at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, is returning home after a successful year. Following the graduating excercises at Wesleyan College, Misses Frances Flanders and Juliette Roundtree graduated the 1932 class.

    In a fast game of baseball the local nine played excellent ball at Oconee, but lost the game 4 to 3. One of the best fishermen in the county, Mr. Dewey Hall, says he is all fixed up for the summer season. Another angler who is proud to go fishing again is Mr. O. P. Prescott.

    Mrs. Rebecca H. Hines died at Eastman on Sunday evening while visiting her daughter, Mrs. H. C. Allen. Her home was in Reidsville but she formally lived in Wrightsville. Besides her daughter she is survived by a son, Dr. Holmes Hines of Reidsville. She was buried in the Bartow cemetery.

    Mrs. Mollie Frost died at her home in Augusta on Monday night. She had been feeble a long time and her death not unexpected. She was buried at Oaky Grove. She was a sister to Mrs. W. T. Keyton, Mrs. O. L. Tanner and Messrs. Philip Price and J. P. Price. Two sons, Rufus and Walter, three daughters Mrs. Ben Tanner, Mrs. W. H. Perry and Mrs. R. R. Perkins. She was a Baptist.

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