FROM DAYS GONE BY June 28, 1918

June 28, 1918.
The Georgia Editors are to arrive in Wrightsville Monday night, July 15th, for their three day convention. Some will come down train from Tennille, the late train from Dublin and some from north Georgia on the late "Shoe-Fly" to Tennille where they will be met by autos and trucks to bring them and their baggage. The people of Wrightsville have opened their homes to take those in after the hotels fill up.
The assembly will be held in the court house and Hon. Ben Hill Moye will deliver the welcome. Tuesday they will hold an executive session and at the noon hour the scribes will join the people of the city and county in a big basket bbq picnic at Idylwild at which time the Governor of Georgia will be an honored guest and the leading speaker. Tuesday night the ladies will give them a Garden Party on the court house lawn. Wednesday the last session will be held then they will be taken by auto to Dublin for entertainment and a boat ride down the Oconee. Thursday morning all will depart the town by the way they came.
Funds for the sale of the shares of stock in the Johnson County Fair Association are now in the hands of treasurer R. L. Kent at the Bank of Wrightsville. Plans for the place to hold the fair are being worked out. It looks to be one of the best fairs in southeast Georgia right here in Johnson, originated by Johnson, organized by Johnson, financed and furnished by Johnson County and to be enjoyed by Johnson County.
Clerk and Mrs. Joe B. Williams and children went down to Mr. J. R. Flanders Sunday afternoon to pay a visit to Capt. Chess Flanders. Uncle Chess has been in bed over 4 years in feeble health and old age and is not improving. He mentioned Capt. Kent's death saying how much he would have been pleased to have seen him before his death. He is about one year older than Kent. He is enduring his afflictions patiently and with the utmost resignment. His life on his bed is a living sermon.
On June 28th, today, its time to prove you are a loyal American. Will you greet the 4th of July with a free conscience? Or will you spend the 4th in shame-faced guilt? June 28th has been set as National War Savings Day. Your country expects you on that day to pledge every penny you can, up to $1000, towards the purchase of War Savings Stamps. The price of American citizenship is no longer cheap. A new hour has struck. The crash of war has ground all semblance of cheapness out of being an American. It is now a dear-bought honor. You must Pay.
Your country asks you to balance your patriotic cash account. Every penny you withhold, that you are able to give, extends aid and comfort to the enemy. No sordid legal summons will, for the present, compel payment. You are called to payment by the higher, more chivalric summons to volunteer on June 28th your pledge to purchase this year every dollars worth of War Savings Stamps you can buy.
This statement was issued by Fred T. Bridges of the Johnson County Farmers Union.