FROM DAYS GONE BY August 9, 1918

August 9, 1918.
A week ago last Saturday abundant and continued showers began to fall daily through all of Johnson County until the crops were getting in an injured condition and many of the roads boggy and unpassible. But on Friday afternoon around 4, a tremendous downpour fell through a streak of the county, covering most of it. It was the heaviest and longest fall in many a day.
Cotton fields and other crops received great damage. The dirt roads washed out and the railroad had washed out bridges that went down the creeks and branches along with many fences. Trees and shrubbery were uprooted. Lots of property damage from the heavy downpour that lasted about 2 hours. Many people were cut off from home, several autos were waterbound, some falling in the washouts. Lots of bridges were swept away by the sudden outrush of the swollen creeks and the damage to Johnson's bridges run up high.
Leaving from Wrightsville about the time the shower was slackening up, a colored man who works for Mr. J. H. Rowland drove his mule into an open ditch in the main road at Cedar Creek towards Kite thinking the bridge still remained, it being only submerged with water, but it was actually gone and the mule drowned, the wagon and harness and the contents, a load of corn, was swept off to the swamp.
Many were the water stories around town Saturday morning but a lot of them carried some semblance of truth along with them. The dam across the creek at Downs Mill pond, now the Miller pond, broke as the water rapidly and suddenly overflowed the pond causing a loss of about $500 to Mr. Miller. A fireman firing a boiler in a bathing suit. This is what happened Friday night at the power house. The location of the city power house in the low spot brought forth a flooded stream that way after the big rain and filled the cavity around the boiler almost waist deep. Some of the boys donned a bathing suit and fired up for lights for the picture show and city lights.
The local Democratic Executive Committee endorsed President Wilson for re-election. The final consolidation of the War Savings Stamps drive comes up $50,000 short of the county's goal. Mr. RayTanner left for Charleston were he was recalled to the Navy. Mr. J. M. Gillis was called to the colors and must report to San Antonio, Texas. The first young lady in Johnson County to offer her services for the volunteer nurse course was Miss Myra Daley. The new home of Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Lovett has been completed. Monday night Marie Hattie, the 2 year old daughter of Col. & Mrs. Ben Hill Moye died after a short illness. She was buried at Westview.
August City Court convenes next week and the main case cited is the ruckuss at Hubbard's Chapel where last spring there arose trouble and a great many of the colored folks got mixed up in a general free-for-all. The sheriff and his deputies were quickly on the scene and two or three car loads of law breakers were brought in. A total of 25 must stand trial for this one Sunday violence excursion.
Cotton gathering will soon begin and the scarcity of labor may hinder its progress. It is suggested school be held off until November 15th so as the children can help gather in the crop. The farmers stated they needed them now more than next spring. J. O. & B. B. Tanner have just received a shipment of Overland automobiles and can deliver you one at $985.00. Its the best car in the world at that price.