May 26, 1917.
The season at Idylwild has opened in full blast and swing and every two or three days now manager H. B. Sanders has a big crowd of joy makers down there. Eastman came Saturday for a picnic and the W. & T. brought seven carloads over for the big day. On Sunday, Dublin comes in for another picnic.
Warthen College held their graduation with Misses Maxie Vanlandingham, Kate Walker and Araminta Whitehurst receiving diplomas. Wrightsville is organizing a Glee Club. Twenty-two have already made a commitment.
Mr. E. A. W. Johnson is hurrying on the work of putting in the six new stores on the corner front of the post office. Three stores will face Lovett Hotel and three on College street. The foundation has been dug out and the brick work will be hurried as fast as possible.
The W. & T. Railroad is interested in building potato warehouses at every main station on the line. Mr. Joe H. Rowland already has three buildings similar that could be converted into warehouses, and he is interested in the prospect. The idea is a warehouse operated kinda like a cotton warehouse where the potatoes can be cured and saved from rottening. Its estimated now that 56 percent of all the potatoes rot. Where warehouses are used that number is reduced to 1 percent.
After the potatoes have been sorted and packed in crates, a bushel to a crate, with no tops. For the first ten days a fire is kept burning in a couple of small stoves in the building day and night to cure them. After this the fires are needed no more. When crates are shipped to market the potatoes inside are inspected, decayed ones removed and the tops nailed on. Then they are held until the market is ready for them to be shipped or sold, with buyers on hand.
Sheriff Willis D. Rowland called a mass meeting at the courthouse to appoint registrars for each district and all males to learn the particulars for registration for the draft. The Registrars are: 1201st, Wrightsville- R. L. Kent, J. E. Brantley, R. B. Bryan, B. R. Spell; 1203rd, Ivey's- J. S. Wheeler, S. M. Price; 1326,Powells- T. J. Williams, A. E. Powell; 55th, Kite- C. L. Claxton, J. C. Harrison; 56th, Pullens- M. T. Riner, H. G. Tyson; 1746, Adrian- W. F. Kea, J. Brown Hutchinson; 1266th, Smith-S. P. Rice, J. W. Sumner; 1405th, Spann- W. D. Sumner, E. W. Carter; 1301st, Brays- Luther Lillard, N. T. Bray; 1202nd, Ring Jaw- W. C. Brantley, O. V. Martin.
Capt. W. Z. Kemp finished the road to Spann and the county line this side of Lovett. This gives a good road now to Dublin, all but 250 yards that's in very bad condition. The reason it hasn't been fixed is some misunderstanding between Laurens and Johnson on where the line is, both countys claim its the others. Johnson says the state established the line when it was surveyed after a certain murder had been committed near the divide. It looks as if Laurens will have to fix the road. Washington County's side of the Tennille road is right at impassable. There are holes in many places axle deep.
Mr. Wyly Blankenship is improving from his accidental gunshot wound. At the time of the incident a colored man happened to be passing and rushed to his assistance. If not for this he would have surly died from loss of blood. It was impossible to save his hand and Drs Johnson and Brantley amputated just below the elbow. In Adrian Mr. Arch Smith was cranking his ford when it kicked back breaking both bones in his right arm.
Miss Frances Neal Wooten and Mr. Millard Daley were married on May 22nd. He is a son of Mrs. A. F. Daley. In Tom, Mr. M. B. Watkins has completed his blacksmith shop.
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