DOUBLE SPRINGS--ELBERT HILLHOUSE, SON OF J.F. HILLHOUSE, AND MEMBER OF ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT FAMILIES IN THIS COMMUNITY, PASSED AWAY ON DEC 24 1935. THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH WAS ATTRIBUTED TO COMPLICATIONS FROM A BROKEN LEG SUSTAINED IN A FALL AT TUPELO SEVERAL DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH. HE WAS A CHRISTIAN AND LEAVES BEHIND HIM A LITTLE BABY GIRL, A FATHER, STEPMOTHER, THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS AND NUMEROUS OTHER MORE DISTANT RELATIVES. MCDANIEL FUNERAL PARLORS, EUPORA  WERE IN CHARGE OF INTERMENT.

MATHISSTON--JOHN WESLEY HARLEY, 68 PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME HERE ON THURSDAY DEC 26 OF HEART FAILURE. HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY AND WAS WIDELY KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY WHERE HE HAD WORKED AS A  TRAVELING SALESMAN. HE  WAS A DEVOTED HUSBAND AND FATHER AND WAS A KIND TENDERHEARTED MAN WHO HAD GREAT FAITH IN HIS FELLOWMAN AND IN GOD.

HE WAS BORN AT ATLANTA MS ON JAN 18 1868. HE WAS MARRIED TO MS CLADIE HICKS ON AUG 12 1896. A MEMBER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HE WAS ALWAYS CONSCIOUS OF HIS DUTY TO THE CHURCH AND TO HIS FRIENDS. IN FORMER YEARS HE WORKED IN EUPORA FOR TAYLOR BROTHERS AND HAS MANY FRIENDS THERE WHO REGRETTED TO LEARN OF HIS PASSING.

SURVIVING RELATIVES INCLUDE HIS WIFE, MRS. J.W. HARLEY; A DAUGHTER MRS. LOUISE BAILEY; THREE SISTERS MRS. MATTIE FLYNN, MRS ELISA MCARTHUR, MRS J.D. WALTON, TWO BROTHER A.M. HARLEY, JOE HARLEY, AND OTHER NEAR RELATIVES. MRS. JOE BOB STEVENS, MRS JIM CARR, MRS. (DR.) MONTGOMERY, AND C.L. LOGAN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE EBENEZER CHURCH ON DEC 27 AT 2 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. THE REV. C.S. MULLINS WAS IN CHARGE OF THESE RITES, AND WISE BROTHERS, OF EUPORA, HANDLED INTERMENT IN THE EBENEZER CEMETERY.