FROM DAYS GONE BY Dec. 13, 1918

December 13, 1918.

A great mass meeting will be held on the 18th where Mrs. James McCormick of Memphis will be here. She is a Red Cross speaker of national reputation on the issues of the hour. The churches will call in their prayer meetings and the leaders in the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call and it is asked that all other matters be put aside. A week's campaign is underway to add 3,000 names to the Johnson County Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Mr. J. G. Brantley, Fuel Administrator for Johnson County says its been brought to his attention that people who are hauling wood to the city have been charging extortionate prices for same. He issues a warning to those guilty that they are in violation of law and will be dealt with if proven to be so. He also issued the set prices to producers to be : hardwood, seasoned (oak, ash, hickory, etc.) $6 per cord; hardwood green $4 cord; yellow pine seasoned $4.50 and green $3. All wood must be sold by the cord.
Mr. M. S. Duggan has recently closed a trade for the entire stock of the Union Grocery Company, and will take possession of same the first day of January. He will move his present stock into the store now occupied by the Union Grocery Co. and will combine the two. He takes occasion to thank all of his patrons and friends for their kind patronage in the past and solicits their future trade.
The resurrection of the Wrightsville Auto Company will take place the first of the new year. Mr. B. I. Walden, the owner of the old garage, will open up in the Kennedy building. The Rowland Grain and Seed Company will discontinue business December 31st, and all accounts not closed up by this date, will be turned over to an officer for collection.
Mr. T. N. McWhorter has purchased a plantation down at Hinesville and has moved his family to Liberty County. Capt. W. Z. Kemp has located his convict camp at Gum Log where he will work up the roads in that area. Messrs. Vernon Hall, Lewis Hutcheson and George Bray are home from the service. Neil Gillis is Ordinary of his new county of Treutlen. See now why he wanted a new county so much.
In Kite news Dr. & Mrs. Vestus Schwalls of Scott, are being congradulated upon the birth of a daughter December 6th. Mother and babe are fine. Robert Boatright has been mustered out of service and is back home. He will resume his same job. Kite had a carnival last week which carried off a lot of money, but, gee, how much fun the boys did have!
Christmas will be rather dull in all probability as people have much of their cotton still unsold and ready cash isn't so plentiful. But one little boy found the time to write Santa a letter. "Dear Santa: I want you to bring me a doll locket and a doll cradle. Eugene wants a climbing monkey, gun, doll and knife, and please bring us plenty of fruit. Papa and Mama, Sara Mae and Eugene Smith. P. S. We have moved to the country on R. No. 3.