FROM DAYS GONE BY, March 15, 1918

March 15,1918.
The local Board for Johnson County began the examination of the boys in class 1 Monday morning and 30 were examined each day. The work will be continued until all in class 1 is examined. It is not known yet when those who pass will be called into service at the camps but it is thought it will not be long.
The fair in Wrightsville this fall is becoming the talk of the county and in a short while plans are being laid by the promoters of it to organize a fair association and get matters underway. Many are interested and with the assistance from the two county agents we could have a good one.
There are a lots of girls and boys in Johnson taking a lively interest in the several clubs which are being organized throughout the county by the county agents. Miss Massey has enrolled over 140 members in the Girls Canning and the Poultry Clubs. Mr. Bridges has over 160 members in the Boy's Corn and Velvet Bean Club and the Pig and Calf Club.
Skilled mechanics and trained workers of any and all descriptions have been in consultation with Chairman Roundtree of the County Council of Defense seeking information relative to enrolling with the U. S. Public Service Reserve of the Department of Labor for work at home in some of the government's special war industries. This is a patriotic service and is entirely voluntary and good wages are being offered.
Let the loaf of bread represent a saving of 10 cent; the butter a saving of 50 cent, the sugar a saving of a dime, and the meat a saving of 30 cent, making a total of $1.00 saved each week. If each of the 20,000,000 families in the United States saved $1.00 a week in the kitchen, and that money were invested in Thrift Stamps, the government would have available $20,000,000 a week, and no one would feel the pinch of the savings.
The United States now has guns in Italy and France with a killing range of 17 miles. One of these guns, mounted on the courthouse square in Dublin, could kill Germans left in Wrightsville after Charlie Roundtree smoked them out.
Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Harris are the proud parents of a fine baby girl that just arrived in their home.
Johnson County has plenty of pigs and some to spare. Years ago, and not so long at that, pigs were needed here and were brought in from every direction but the situation has had a complete change. The farmers and others of the county almost to a home have plenty of meat to do them this year and some to sell. Those who are so fortunate as to be selling it are receiving fancy prices indeed.
This week through county agent Fred T. Bridges, ten throughbred registered pigs belonging to Judge Wm. Faircloth were sold for a big price to a man in Hall County. This is an example of what is being done in the hog-raising business in this county. Agent Bridges has a plan for a grading pen for use in selling hogs. This pen will be erected in Wrightsville and all who have good stock hogs for sale will be notified when to bring them in and the buyer will buy from this pen.