FROM DAYS GONE BY May 31, 1918

May 31, 1918.
    The labor condition in Johnson County is getting to be a serious problem, as the drafts draw near. Persons in charge of farms who have laborers or persons in the army who are necessary for a period to get the crops planted and cultivated until laying-by time can file applications for furlough, for a short period. Blanks for furlough have been sent to the county agricultural agent, and instruction can be had from him in regard to this.
    Chairman J. H. Rowland released the figures by district, dollars raised for the Third Liberty Loan to date. Wrightsville, $63,830; Adrian, $9,225; Smith, $9,526; Ivey, $5,950; Price, $3,966; Powell, $6,725; Kite, $13,845; Pullen, $8,582; Spann, $4,695; Brays, $8,940; Ring Jaw, $3,916.
    The Johnson County Red Cross drive raised $2500 as the people were most generous. On June 8th and 9th, the Johnson and Washington   County Singing Convention will hold their big sing at Idylwild. The Johnson County Fair Association has set the dates of our first fair on October 17, 18, 19. The Wrightsville Headlight celebrated its 30th birthday, making it one of the oldest papers in the state.
    Mr. Shade Carter, one of the county's foremost young men, was badly injured in Macon last Tuesday evening when an automobile struck him, hurling him to the sidewalk and causing a break in two places of his collarbone, a bad bruise on his arm and a cut as long as your forefinger on the head. He barely escaped death.
On Sunday May 12th Miss Ada Rowland, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Rowland, and Mr. George W. Cheaves were married. Judge J. S. Wheeler officiating. The groom is a soldier boy. On Saturday May 25th Miss Ida Mae Harrison became the wife of Mr. Otis Fortner, both of near Kite, by Judge Wheeler. The bride is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Jim Lewis Harrison and Mr. Fortner is a son of Mr. G. L. Fortner.
The Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad wants crossties and will pay for them to be delivered at any side track on its line. First class black or red cypress, 60 cent each, heart pine, 55 cent, they are to be gotton out 7 inches by 9 inches by 8 feet 6 inches long.
A total eclipse of the sun will occur on Saturday June 8th and will be visable here. An eclipse of this great magnitude is seen but once in a lifetime.
With practically two weeks of open weather Johnson County farmers have come from under a terrible strain on their labor forces, killing the grass as they came to it and placing their growing crops in a good condition. In the language of the average planter, "It came mighty nigh gitting the upper hand on us." and it did. The rainy weather conglomerated whole fields with the green, green grass growing all around, over and under cotton, corn, cane, potatoes, gardens and the like but they defeated "General Green's" army and sent them to the cemetery without a funeral.