FROM DAYS GONE BY June 21, 1918

June 21, 1918.
Mr. Charles Malony, President of the W. & T. Railroad makes a reasonable reply to the petition of Johnson County folks asking him not to run anymore Monday excursions on this line for the period of the war. He states, "I will gladly comply with the request. With all respect to the particular negro excursion operated from Tennille to Hawkinsville I wish to explain that this excursion had been advertised in the usual way for 10 days prior to May 27th, and not a single protest against the operation reached me until after the train was in motion and then we had to carry out our agreement."
Will Outlaw, colored, made an attempt Sunday afternoon to kill his cousin, Duncan Outlaw, as Duncan, Charles and John Outlaw and Fellow Harton were passing down the road near the Charlie Hall place about 6 miles southeast of Wrightsville, going to a singing school near their home.
As they approached Hutchens branch about 4 pm, Will jumped up from beside the road and leveled the single barreled gun on Duncan, pulling the trigger and landing the birdshot in his right thigh. Duncan turned around and Will let him have a second load in the other thigh, a few shots hitting him in the lower parts of the body. Friends interfered, but Will seems to have followed Duncan on up to a white man's home and there took two more chances at Duncan but missed him.
Will and Duncan, it seems, according to E. M. Outlaw, who swore out warrants for Will's arrest. They have a great deal of trouble, but they had compromised the matter and went into an agreement not to have any further trouble or to have anything to do with each other again. But it all broke out anew Sunday afternoon with the above results. Will was placed in jail, but was released later on bond.
Bailiff C. T. Mixon and Mr. John A. Douglas, Jr. carried a colored man and a white man to Camp Wheeler Saturday morning. The colored gent said he had never heard anything about the business since he "regist" and therefore hadn't reported for duty. The white man was in uniform. He said he had been at Spartenburg, South Carolina and was off on a 15 day furlough which expired the 8th. When asked why he hadn't reported back he said he had been sick.
Messrs. Emory Rowland, Robbie Rowland, Billie Henderson and O. A. Kennedy, Jr. left as volunteers for the army. Twenty-eight more white boys are scheduled to leave next week from the draft. H. C. Garland, Angus Foskey, Morris Denton Key, Willie D. Wood, Fred H. Daley, S. A. B. Mitchell, Tullie Burris, N. T. Blizzard, John Hall, W. L. Hall, Jim Daniels, E. L. Wheeler, Melrim Smith, Jewel Cooper, Jim V. Smith, Wm G. McTier, Cannie M. Lindsey, Gilbert Simpson, B. M. Powell, James A. Turner, Roy L. Dent, Dee O. Young, W. A. Perry, O. L. Ricks, William Brown, John Marvin Davis, V. L. Tapley, James I. Spell.
Coloreds who left yesterday were Thomas Walker, Willie Johnson, Richard C. Carswell, Charlie Lee Linder, George Cannon, Joe Carlow, John W. Arline, Juttie Thomas, Railegh Ruffin, Eddie Randall, Tom Irwin, Isadore Daniel, Johnnie Lumpkin, J. Clinton Logue, Scola Davis, Sam Jackson.
Mr. L. A. Lovett, owner and manager of the Ford Garage has arrangements whereby he can furnish any farmer in this county with a Ford tractor from Ford's plant. The price for the tractor is $750 and for the Oliver No. 7 plow, designed especially for it, for $140.