Governor Hugh Dorsey has announced the Board of Trustees for the new Agricultural School to be located somewhere in the 12th District by the bill that passed last session. As it stands now this board will receive bids from any city and county that wishes to apply by October 15th. C. D. Roundtree was chosen for Johnson County. Other counties with appointees are Bleckley, Dodge, Emanuel, Houston, Laurens, Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair, Toombs, Twiggs, Wheeler, and Wilcox.
Cotton picking all over Johnson County, that is what they are doing. The fields are not getting black very fast because the pickers are scarce. People are paying anywhere from 75 cents to $1 and 10 cents per hundred to get it picked and then they are crying for more help. It has been fairly good weather on them all the season so far and that has kept the grade up as well. All the washers are in the cotton patch and one can hardly get any washing done at all. If the weather will stay good three more weeks the best of the harvest will be complete. Judge Kent postponed Superior Court this week on account of the farmers trying to gather their crop. It has been carried over to November.
Business was at a rush at Kite Saturday. A lot of people were there and seemed to have plenty of money and everybody wore a smile. B. J. Wiggins sold 25 bales of cotton and had a check for $3484.25. The cotton weighed 13937 pounds at 25 cents per pound. He also has two fine colts he will put in the fair this year. Nat Wheeler is still ginning cotton and Ell Douglas is receiving it in the warehouses. Bob Boatwright is on crutches from rheumatism. Vestus Schwals is now with Dr. D. C. Harrison rug store. Milledge Claxton is doing a big merchantile business running two stores. Mrs. J. M. Neal operates a first class millinery. J. S. Stephenson and Quince Powell are here on banking business.
All the banks have released their condensed statements. The Exchange Bank, $319,331.22; Bank of Adrian, $138,342.57; Bank of Wrightsville, $304,182.30; Citizens Bank of Kite, $149,237.29; Scott Banking Company, $104,875.82.
In Scott, Fords are taking a back eat to Overlands, Oldsmobiles, Maxwells, Dorts and Chevrolets. Mr. Sidney Smith just bought a new Oldsmobile. There has been an unusual amount of horse traders in town the past week and they have been pulling off a lot of trades with all the good-looking mules and horses on hand. Miss Rosa Garnto became the bride of Rev. G. G. Harrison.
The Johnson County Convict Camp lost two of its white prisioners Sunday night just as the inmates were going to bed. Bud Chalker and Marcus Sheppard made a break to liberty. The guard had taken the prisoners through the yard into the tents and ordered each man to his place. The escaped ones, instead of stopping when they reached their cots, walked leisurely on through and out the back.
It is said that an automobile was waiting for them and they easily made their getaway. Up to now they have not been apprehended which leaves only one white man, named Pool. Catain Kemp was working the road from Scott to Adrian, which is part of the proposed Dixie Overland Highway, and it was at tis camp on this road that the convicts escaped.
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