September 1, 1917.
Sunday will be a county-wide church going with the largest possible attendance wanted. The Headlight started this move to have the largest total attendance n a single day. There are no strings to it whatever. No matter what denomination you belong to, or whether your on a membership roll or not, take your wife, your son, your daughter, or your "intended" out Sunday and enjoy the day at church.
The Board of Trustees of the Wrightsville School District are doing all they can to make sure enough teachers are in place for school on Monday. The Board met with the Board of Warthen College and entered into a contract to rent the college building for the term with a view to purchasing it.
The Johnson-Washington Singing Convention will meet at Pleasant Hill on the 8th and 9th, so issued the president of the convention, G. F. Sumner. Dr. T. L. Harris is erecting an office building on Bradford near the corner of Court street. It will be one story.
The Southern Gin & Warehouse Co. is now operating three big ginneries Thy have one in Rockledge, Wrightsville and Kite. Mr. C. H. Moore is manager. The cotton season is open in full blast and gins everywhere are running in full time. The farmers are having it ginned as fast as they get It picked out. The price has been much above twenty cents and as long as it stays there they will sell the major part of it.
Mr. William Jackson of Donovan is devoting much time to the raising of stock. He has a large stock farm now and is deriving considerable benefits from it already. He says he aims to add to it until he gets a large herd of milk cows and increase the output of his dairy. He has probably erected the only silo in this county. It is made out of tiling and is 40 feet high. He is demonstrating that more can be profitably done than just cotton raising.
The War Department has drafted the legal services of Judge A. Lee Hatcher to represent the exemption board in Johnson County. Last Wednesday afternoon 3 to 6 girls entertained the boys who are expected to leave for military service with a picnic at Downs Mill, with fishing, swimming and boat riding. Mr. Laudice D. Lovett writes home from San Antonio, Texas that he is with the 99th squadron.
Death came suddenly and unexpectedly to Mr. Tom Hudson at the home of his sister, Mrs. C. T. Mixon right after dinner Saturday. He had gone out to the lot, and Mrs. Mixon thinking he was gone too long discovered him lying in the lot, there were no signs of a struggle. He was buried in Westview. Mr. T. J. James of Adrian is bad sick.
Mr. & Mrs. Linton Holt had a daughter on the 11th. Mr. Eugene Tharpe and Miss Alleane Valandingham were married Sunday afternoon.
The Fall of a Nation, the mightiest picture of world conflict that the brain of man has yet conceived and realized, is coming to the Vivola Theatre. Mr. O. A. Kennedy ran across a big rattlesnake near Mr. E. L. Smith's tenant house. The auto wheel did not seem to injure his majesty and it took considerable lamming with a big scantling to kill the 4 foot monster.
The newspaper stated, "We are happy because we live in the town of Wrightsville, in the county of Johnson, and the state of Georgia, and if Uncle Sam needs us to shoot Germans we will be darn happy to do that too."
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