FROM DAYS GONE BY SEPT. 20, 1918

September 20, 1918.
The management the Johnson County Fair Association are encouraged over the prospect that the first fair will be bigger and better than anticipated. On every hand people are signing up for booth space to show their articles and property. Everything from colts to steers and all sorts of 4 legged and feathered stock will be on hand. So will all matters of needle work, oddities, vegetables, canning and cooking. Manager Bridges is signing booths up every day.
Only 1330 boys and men registered last Thursday in the county. This was 400 under government estimates. The numbers registered by precinct were: Powell 91, Price 45, Ivey 64, Pullen 99, Adrian 95,Smith 103, Spann 9, Bray 96, Ring Jaw 46, Wrightsville 429, Kite 172. Messrs. Remus Fulford and Marvin Snell left for Atlanta where they volunteered for the navy. Willie Lindsey and Walter Frost returned home having been rejected on account of disability.
Provost Marshal Crowder makes call to fill up camps. Georgia is to send 2,235 white men to Camp McClelland and 248 to Camp Greenleaf. The colored men to go will be 1500 to Camp Wheeler. Johnson County now has a strong Y. M. C. A. organization here. Dr. James Gordon Brantley is chairman and Col. Hillard T. Hicks is secretary. They will begin work very soon.
The order in which Class One boys and men will be called for duty will be as follows: A- single man without dependent relatives. B- married man with or without children or father of motherless children who has habitually failed to support his family. C- married man dependent on wife for support. D- married man, children or not, not usefully engaged, family supported by income independent of his labor. E- unskilled or not a necessary farm laboror. F- unskilled or not a necessary industrial laborer. G- registrant by or in respect of whom no deferred classification is claimed. H- registrant who fails to submit questionare and in respect of whom no deferred classification is claimed. I- registrant not deferred and not included in any of the above divisions.
Mrs. W. B. Barfield sold her 60 acres near town to George H. Prescott. The W. H. Chivers property was sold by J. H. Rowland, administrator. The house and lot sold high but the other property did not sell very well. The Union Grocery Company is going out of business here. Otis Sumner and D. O. Young opened Wrightsville's newest and largest auto repair shop and fully equipped garage in the old Wood-Walden place.
Mr. James A. Hall has lost his left eye, it being removed by doctors in Augusta. While doing some nailing at his job with Hayes Bros. store a piece of steel from either the nail or the hammer flew into his eye giving him great pain for several days. It was until he couldn't stand the pain anymore, by that time there was no saving it. Mail carrier Silas L. Powell broke his right wrist trying to crank his Ford.
On Saturday night at Justice Z. A. Anderson's Mr. Oscar Howell and Miss Vidie Schwalls were married. He is a son of Mr. Sam Howell of Dublin and she is the daughter of Mr. C. M. Schwalls of Kite. Then Sunday morning also at Justice Anderson's, Mr. J. C. Cooper of Glascock County and Miss Minnie Copeland of Johnson County were married. Her father is Mr. J. E. Copeland. Miss Clarice Kent, daughter of Judge & Mrs. John Luther Kent married Mr. Raymond Rowland son of Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Rowland in Augusta.