FROM DAYS GONE BY Aug 30, 1918

August 30, 1918.
The Johnson County local board registered 21 men for the army from the county. These were men who have turned 21 since last registration. Those of both colors who registered were: Carl C. Carter, Thos. Lee Hampton, Jno. Willie Moorman, Robert Hudson, Willie T. West, Thos. B. Jackson, A. B. Salter, W. O. Davis, Jesse James, Horace Mills, Geo. L. Hutcheson, Geo. H. Bray, Carlton B. Rowland, Grover C. Bennett, Vernon Hutcheson, Herbert R. Williams, Griffin Bradshaw, Otis Lee Kight, Robert Pierce, Albert Lewis, W. F. Smith.
Twenty-one will go to training now from the colored draft. They are: Joe Goff, Willie Williams, Tom Harvey, Harris Gundy, E. Gerome Usher, Lucus McCullen, Alfred Seals, Fred Irwin, Harry Twiggs, Clifford Williams, Henry Harman, Arthur Wright, Tom Williams, Julius Britt, Walter Bentley, Jas Odom, Jim Jones, Lewis Youngblood, Raymond Powell, Irwin Knight, and David Stanford.
The Wrightsville School will open its doors next week. All of the teachers will be present and the trustees desire as full attendance as possible. The entrances for the September 11th political races closed last Saturday. They are Wash W. Larson, Congress; G. H. Williams, State Senator; W. D. Sumner and S. A. Scott, representatives; B. H. Moye and Chas S. Claxton for Solicitor.
Dr. J. G. Brantley, fuel administrator for this county asked the State to let the gins run the last two Saturdays of this month, but the State ruled they must shut down two Mondays in September to make up for the two Saturdays they run. Johnson County farmers are selling their cotton as fast as it is being ginned and its being ginned as fast as its being picked but the picking does not go along as fast as the cotton opens, as this latter process takes place down here, when it starts, in a hurry and labor is scarce. The price is good and green cotton doesn't keep well, so farmers are selling it.
Mr. James T. Miller has decided he had rather insure people against accidents than to have accidents happen to him like the one which swept away part of his mill dam the other week. Jim owned the Downs Mill Pond and along came the big rain and the waters swelled the creek so rapidly that it filled the long dry pond, dry for a long time, to its utmost capacity and the dam broke and away went several hundred dollars worth of good dirt, etc., down stream. So Jim decided he had best get rid of the whole dam, mill and all. So he sold out last week to Mr. Ben Wilson at a pretty fair price.
The Ebenezer Fortner place, this side of Gumlog, was sold by W. M. Shurling, dealer in real estate, last Thursday to Mr. J. L. Harrison. The place belonged to Mr. H. B. Nasworthy, contained around 535 acres, and the consideration was in the neighborhood of $13,000.
Tom Gainor was caught at noon Sunday at Raines Bridge, running away from his pursuers in an automobile. Tom was sent up by the recent city court for stealing Mr. Will Snell's meat and was turned over to Capt. Kemp for his gang. Tom escaped pretty soon by cutting his chains into by making a file out of a Case knife.
Marshal Oliver discovered Tom's absence in the city, dressed up as a woman, going around in woman's apparel. Mr. Oliver tried to locate him, but with the assistance of Chief Walker, failed to apprehend him in the city after an all night's search Saturday night. Sunday at noon Oliver learned that Tom was fixing to flee the country in an automobile and informed Sheriff Willis Rowland, who with Chief Joe Walker, Deputy Sheriff Isaac Walden and Bailiff Tom Mixon went in the direction Tom and a friend were driving. Upon overtaking them they drove around Tom's car, halted and tried to capture Tom. But he flew the track. A pistol or two were fired by the arresting officers and one bullet took effect in Tom's body, bringing him to a standstill and he is now resting safely in the county jail. There are other warrants against Tom.