From Days Gone By Sep. 24, 1914

September 24, 1914.

    The September Term of Superior Court is grinding slow with only a few unimportant cases disposed of. It is expected the court will adjourn until the 3rd Monday in October to take up the criminal docket.

    Warthen College has had a steady increase in attendance. Austelle Bray is a promising new pupil and the girls of the dormitory are delighted with the attractive and convient rooms which they now enjoy in the main building.

    Col. & Mrs. W. C. Brinson announce the birth of a son, born Friday, the 18th, named William Chauncey Brinson. Mr. & Mrs. O. A. Kennedy also had a son on the 22nd. Mr. & Mrs. Leon Lovett have moved to their home on South Marcus street. Mr. Walter Hawkins has moved to Dublin and Mr. Joe Holmes is going to Tifton.

    A Sunday School has been organized at Hollywood school house with C. D. Henderson, superintendent and Fred Cox, secretary & treasurer. The Johnson County Sunday School Convention will be held at the Baptist church in Wrightsville on the 29th.

    H. C. Tompkins will pay 10 cents for trade for cotton. If you want to buy $50 worth of goods at his store, one 500 pound bale of cotton will pay the bill. Wrightsville Grain Company has on hand the best grade of Texas Red Rust Proof seed oats and Tall Growing Georgia Rye. J.M. Crawford wants to buy fat cows and fat hogs. J.H. Rowland will open his new feed and seed store about October 1st at the old Crawford business. He will sell all feed and seed stuff, Ajax auto tires, each guaranteed for 5000 miles. He is also an agent for Standard Oil Company.

    There have been numorous sad deaths recently. Mrs. Leonora Arnett Barbee, wife of Mr. Hubert Barbee, died on the 19th at her home 3 miles east of Wrightsville at her home. She was 32 years old and formerly of Camden County. She was survived by her husband and four children one a 2 week old infant. She was buried at Union Hill. On Saturday evening Mrs. J. R. Odom died after a 3 month illness. She was buried at Moores Chapel.

    Mrs. J. J. Garnto died on the 16th after a 3 week illness at her home near Dudley. She is survived by her husband, one daughter and four sons. She was 53 years old and a member at Boiling Springs Methodist church. Mrs. J.H. Fisher died Monday, and just 2 days before, her 3 year old child passed away. Mr. W. H. Lawrimore, living 4 miles east of town, passed away after an extended illness, and on last Saturday a Mr. Green living 8 miles east of town lost a child.

    Ferrish Blankenship, the soda jerker at Brantley and Wilson Drug Store is quite the poet with his original production to compliment the B. & W. Drug Store.

When you are in town,

Won't you come around

To B. and W. drug store?

Its the best to be found.

Don't you think

You'd like a drink

At our fount?

We've got the lick,

We'll serve you quick;

Give us a call,

We'll make you stick-to

B. and W. Drug Store.

From Days Gone By September 17, 1914

September 17, 1914.

    About 4pm on Tuesday the ginnery outfit, saw-mill and other buildings belonging to Mr. G. A. Tarbutton, living in the Buckeye District, were completely destroyed by fire, a loss of several thousand dollars and was only partially insured.

 The gin was in operation at the time of the fire, and the gin is where the fire started, destroying the entire plant, with machinery and contents of 8 or 10 bales of cotton. The flames then spread to the saw-mill and consumed it also. Mr. D. G. Blount had a general merchandise store nearby and for awhile it too was in danger and many of the goods were removed.

    In the ginners report, the tabulation of the separate returns from the ginners for September 1st report shows there were 1433 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Johnson County from 1914 crop. This is compared to only 541 bales ginned at this point in 1913.

    Dublin gets a new paper called "The Laurens Citizen" and is published every Tuesday and Friday by the Citizen Publishing Company, with J. A. Peacock as Editor and Manager; D. C.  Collins, assistant manager. They are experienced newspaper men.

    Mr. Angus Hightower is now with the People's Hardware Company. Mr. Julius Jenkins who has been a student at the State University is resuming his studies at that place. Mr. & Mrs. D. L. Emerson of Dublin, announce the birth of a son on Friday, September 11th. Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Adkins also of Dublin had a son on September 14th named Joe Norris Adkins.

    The Fall Term of  Johnson Superior Court convenes next Monday with Judge Larson presiding. The docket is lengthy with a couple of murder cases to be tried along with several minor cases.

    Young Felt Mixon who was severly hurt last week in an auto accident is sslowly improving at Moye Brothers Sanitarium in Vidalia. Mrs. Elizabeth Lovett has been suffering from blood poison in her arm and is doing better. Rev. L. P. Glass is confined to his room with a severe case of sore eyes.

    The U. S. Census report on home ownership in Johnson County is as follows: There are 2646 homes in the county, of this number 1676 are farm homes, 970 are urban homes. The local banks have released their statements of condition as of September 9th. The Exchange Bank, $151,285.49; Bank of Wrightsville, $207,278.87; Citizens Bank of Kite, $76,900.94; Bank of Adrian, $61,758.57; Scott Banking Company, $54,994.33.

    After an illness of more than 2 years, Mrs. Caroline Harrison Davis, wife of ex-sheriff Lewis Davis, died at her home here Sunday morning. Mrs. Davis had been an invalid and was lately stricken with paralysis which resulted in her death. She was the daughter of Rev. J. E. Harrison a well-known Baptist minister, and Aunt of Dr. J. G. Harrison of Mercer University. She was 57 years old and survived by her husband and 5 sons, Messrs. J. A., J. L., M. M., J. T. and R. G; 4 daughters, Mrs. M. O. Davis, Misses Bell, Sallie and Bessie Davis. She was buried at Westview.

From Days Gone By Sep. 10, 1914

September 10, 1914.

    One woman was killed, one injured and a man badly hurt on September 5th when a Georgia Railroad train crashed into an automobile at the East Lake Crossing near Atlanta. Miss Gladys Glass, formerly of Dawson, Ga. was tossed from the car, fearfully mangled, and her head was cut from her body. Her brother, Raymond Glass was badly injured and his wife was also hurt. The Glass family were residents of Decatur. News of the tragic death was wired to Misses Gertrude and Bessie Martin. The lady was a niece of the late Robert Kennedy. Mrs. Rosa Kennedy is with the bereaved family.

    The trial of Lee Kennedy charged with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Maude Kennedy will be postponed again says Judge Rawlings of the Washington County Superior Court. Meanwhile Mr. Kennedy continues to await his doom in the Chatham County jail. He failed in an escape attempt from there recently. His trial is awaited with general interest in Johnson and Washington counties where he is well known.

    Mr. Felt Mixon, son of Mr. J. P. Mixon was seriously injured in an automobile accident enroute from Tarrytown to Vidalia. Mr. T. J. Luck was taken to Rawlings Sanitarium for kidney trouble.

    Mr. J. M. Luck, who just recently located to Wrightsville has opened a private school on North Marcus Street. He has 25 scholars. Mr. Luck is a graduate of the 2nd Congressional District Agricultural College at Tifton and is a brother of Mrs. B. B. Tanner. Mrs. J. G. Brantley is teaching a private school of 18 scholars at her home on College Street teaching 2nd and 3rd grades.

    Mr. A. R. Lanier, recently of Harrison, has opened a meat and produce market in the Chan Brinson building on the West Side. Mr. J. T. Blankenship is now working with Lanier. Everything of the Modern Pharmacy has been transferred to Dr. J. G. Brantley and Mr. C. L. Wilson. It was acquired from Messrs. Johnson & Brinson who will continue the Georgia Medicine Company with headquarters in the Vivola building. Dr. Brantley will handle prescriptions, Ferris Blankenship will be the "soda water jerker" and Mr. Wilson will handle the rest.

From Days Gone By Sep. 3, 1914

SEPTEMBER 3,1914.
  Last Saturday afternoon Mr. J. D. Sheppard , a prominent Johnson County farmer, living about 4 miles east of Wrightsville, was shot and instantly killed on the public road about a mile from town, by a young man by the name of James Mitchell.
    The killing was the culmination of a fight which took place between Marcus Sheppard, son of the deceased and Mitchell early in the afternoon. Mitchell was arrested immediately after the killing and is in the county jail awaiting action of the Grand Jury. Mr. Sheppard leaves a wife and several children, while Mitchell is unmarried.
    Mr. Seward Hicks of Mt. Vernon, son of the late Dr. Charles Hicks, was badly hurt last Friday by falling from the board seat of a wagon in which he was hauling ice. The wheels passed over his head, crushing his left jaw and otherwise painfully wounding him. Medical assistance was rendered and his conditions is thought to be precarious.
  Dr. J. W. Brinson was called to Waycross last week to see his brother, Mr. Robert Brinson who had been stricken with paralysis in the left side. "Bob Brinson" as he is known here where he was raised and grew to manhood is in critical conditon.
    There are a number of improvements now in progress on South Marcus street. Mr. E. A. Lovett had his house repainted. Mr. Leon Lovett purchased the R. B. Bryan residence and has painted and repaired this structure and so has Miss Kate Duff. Work on the new Baptist church is rapidly progressing. The second floor which will be used for classrooms and gallery has been reached, the stone window ledges placed, and the two massive arched entrance doors erected, and with favorable weather the exterior work will soon be completed.
    Mr. B. B. Tanner has bought the grocery firm of Higher & Cox and will continue at the same place under the name of Tanner Grocery Company, J.O. & B. B. Tanner,Jr., proprietors. M. P. Flanders who has been a salesman at Hayes Bros. has gone to Washington, Ga. to work. Col. W. L. Bryan has located at Americas to practice law in the office of Col. Maynard.

    The fall term of Warthen College opened Wednesday morning with a full faculty, and a good attendance. The Tax Digest is now complete for Johnson County for 1914. Aggregate return for 1914 - $2,362,901; Aggregate for 1913 - $2,158,154; Gains - $204,747. This raise came as follows: The Tax Equalizers, $180,000; N. B. Miller, Tax Receivers raise over last years work, $24,747.

    Mr. & Mrs. Preach Tanner, near Harrison, lost their baby, little Mary Amanda on August 18th. She suffered several days and was only 3 months old.

From Days Gone By Aug. 27, 1914

August 27, 1914.

    Early Tuesday morning while Mr. E. A. Lovett was at the Wrightsville Gin, which he owns, he stooped down near the seed conveyor to examine while the gin was at work and his coat caught on the conveyor, he immediately tried to extricate himself from his coat, but not before his left arm and shoulder were caught and dislocated and badly mashed. Dr.'s Brinson and S. M. Johnson attended to him and he is now doing well and his escape from death is miraculous.

    Homer Tapley, a son of a successful Emanuel County farmer, Mr. George Tapley, was run down by a passenger train near the trestle in Adrian on Tuesday. He died after two days of intense suffering at Dublin, never fully recovering consciousness.

    The Buckeye Union Industrial School for colored people, located about 9 miles from Wrightsville is a factor for the colored race here. Founded a few years ago by John D. Tucker, a worthy colored man, who is principal and is alone responsible for its success. It started in a little log cabin and has developed into a nice commodious building with a dormitory. The school is maintained partially by the county, principal Tucker receiving $35 month for his services as teacher of literary and agricultural departments. The school owns 46 acres of land, 36 which is under cultivation. The school goes to the 8th grade. Mrs. Effie Butler teaches industrial work for $15 month and the school enrolls 93 pupils. English is also taught and every Friday is devoted to Bible study. The school's pupils sample of work is in millinery, crochet in wool, silk and cotton, "middies" and sweaters in wool; handbags in silk, baskets and hats in Raffia work.

    Velma Lee Claxton, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Claxton of Kite, was born October 4, 1912 and died August 15, 1914 and was buried at New Home Baptist Church.

    It was with deep regret the news of the death of Captain John L. Martin who died at his home in the city on the 22nd after an extended illness of chills and fever, aided by general debility. He was one of the oldest and best known men in this section and a familiar figure on the Wrightsville streets where he lived for nearly 30 years. He was born in Laurens County, son of J. L. Martin, an extensive planter near Savannah.

    He was intensly southern in his proclivities and a truly loyal Confederate soldier. He entered service at Savannah with the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, 8th GA. Regiment under the command of Col. Francis Bartow and he was wounded at the 1st battle of Manassas in the hip and right arm. At the battle of Reams Station he was promoted to captain for gallantry in the field, and at the last he was with the escort of President Jefferson Davis and cabnet when they passed thru the 

Carolina's into Georgia.

    After the war he went to Washington County where he served one term as Clerk of Superior Court. Returning to Savannah he entered the cotton brokerage business, after which he moved to Johnson County where he did extensive farming, and was married to Miss Elizabeth Wright, daughter of John B. Wright.

    When the United Confederate Veterans of Johnson County organized Camp No. 964, he was elected commander and the camp was named in his honor.

    He was a brother of the late Nannie Thomas and survived by 8 children: Dr. J. W. Martin, Col. W. T. Martin, Mrs. B. G. Dunlap, Mrs. Rosa Kennedy, Misses Gertrude and Bessie Martin, T. O. and P. H. Martin. He was buried at Westview. "Thus another one of the old guard has dropped out of the shattered ranks of Lee and Jackson, exclaiming as he passed into the great beyond, 'I am not afraid to die.' and a flower laden casket bearing a Confederate flag he was laid to rest, to sleep, and dream of battlefields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking".

From Days Gone By August 20, 1914

August 20, 1914.

    Well the agony is over. In a brief report on yesterdays election in state and county, or in other words those elected in Johnson County were: Hoke Smith, Senator long term; Thos W. Hardwick, Short term; Judge Nat Harris, for Governor; Dudley Hughes, Congressman; J. L. Kent, Judge Dublin Circuit; N. L. Gillis, Senator 16th District;W. C. Brinson, for Representative.

    The big steam whistles at the several gins in town peal forth at early morn and dewy eve, evidencing that 10 cts cotton is fast coming in to be ginned. C. H. Moore has expanded in the gin business. He has erected a four gin outfit and warehouse combined, in Kite, and put in a brand new four 80 saw ginnery in Wrightsville. The latter is the latest and most improved model and will give  the farmers excellent service. The gins in Wrightsville have a daily capacity of nearly 250 bales.

    Billie Pournell, living on the east side has converted his old home into a modern dwelling that is "very pretty". The prospective handsome new Baptist church building is looming up rapidly and looks to be one of the best arranged houses of worship.

    Oswald Tompkins, formally with the First National Bank is helping in the Bank of Wrightsville in the absence of Cashier W. L. Thompson who is on vacation. J. H. "Ped" McWhorter came back to his old position with the Wrightsville Gin Company. Messrs. J. M. Mason and R. B. Bryan, insurance and real estate agents have joined forces and now have their offices in the rear of the Exchange Bank building.

    Mr. & Mrs. L. J. Claxton announced the birth of a daughter on Sunday, August 16. Mr. & Mrs. Preston Norris had a daughter on August 19th. Mr. J. T. Fulford and family are happy again. Their prized dog, Sport, who left home without permission two weeks ago returned home. Rev. L. P. Glass and his corps of Scouts have gone on a hike to the Oconee River to encamp a few days.

    Miss Trudie Bell Mayo and Mr. O. H. Price married Sunday afternoon in an automobile in the street at the residence of Judge W. A. Wood who performed the ceremony. There was no objection to the marriage, but the young couple decided to have it over without any unnecessary ceremony. Mrs. Price is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. George Mayo. The couple will reside in Kite.