Waycross Headlight in Waycross, Georgia

Georgian newspaper item reflects on remarkable local events

The item recounts a mosaic of small town incidents including misadventures of a local editor, a wedding with brass band, a fatal lightning strike, a cache of Civil War era letters, a train incident involving a derailed engine, and notes on social gatherings, temperance talk, and small-town crime in Georgia towns like Waycross, Blackshear, and Macon during May and June.