FROM DAYS GONE BY November 29, 1918

November 29, 1918.

Capt. I. W. Haughey, an army physician from Nebraska, but stationed at Camp wheeler, was sent to Wrightsville to address Class 1 which would have been drafted into the army had the war not ended. Over 540 came in response to the call sent out by the Local Board. The meeting was held at the court house and Haughey was introduced by Col. Brinson. The captain went into the subject at once with his gloves off and put out in strong terms the definition, the cause, the action and the results of contracting veneral diseases and their effects on boys entering the service of this government.
when the ill-fated ship Otranto went down on the coast of Scotland in the early part of October it carried with it forty-eight boys from this state, the most from any state, and about the heaviest blow to Georgia of the war. Emanuel County suffered heaviest of all Georgia counties. So far as is known only one from Johnson County went down with it. This was Lonnie Steptoe of Kite. Notice that he was lost has just been published. It is not known whether his body was saved or not.
willie Parker has been discharged and is the first to reach home since the cease fire. Dr. I. H. Archer, in France, sent cashier E. E Daley a Boche helmet which had been worn by a Hun. It had a shrapnel hole in the top of it, where the Hohenzollern got his dose.
The chairman of the County Council of Defense has been notified that restrictions of all kinds have been removed and that any class of structure can now proceed without a permit. If you have a house to build, he said go ahead and build it.
A new merchantile business organization is replacing a retiring one in the city. The promoters are all well known successful merchants here for many years. They are J. H. and w. D. Rowland, E. N. Hitchcock and Raymond Roland. The Union Grocery Co. managed by Hitchcock will close. The new firm may still operate under the name of Union Grocery Co. but the business will be locate at Rowland Grain & Seed Co. The new firm will carry a full line of farmer supplies, vehicles, implements and harness, a general line of groceries, hardware and undertaker's supplies.
An organization among the colored people of the county to encourage work among the Negroes and to stop loafing has been launched. Rufus T. Bennett, arranged it along with H. T. Akins, James Jordan, D. F. Kemp, C. H. Robinson, E. V. Bently and Prof. J. D. Tucker.
Mr. A. M. Kea of Dublin has been given the job of Deputy U. S. Marshal to take the place of Mr. J. Ben Wilson, who was recently killed near Soperton by J. A. Alford when they made a raid on a still.
Everybody intersted in the possibilities of war finds in D. w. Griffith's specticale, "The Birth of a Nation" which comes to the Vivola Theater soon a thrilling association with the issues of today. The great crisis of 1861-70 as pictured in the play have their lesson for the Americans of today. The North and the South internal struggles; the strategy of the Petersburg Campaign and of Sherman's March to the Sea; Lee's surrender to Grant, and the aftermath of war in the Reconstruction period, all these from a servial of mastial and political events that enchain the spectators' interest. Out of the terrible conflict a new nation, united by spiritual as well as geographical ties, was born. The fire of American patriotism never burned brighter than it burns today, and the play which shows the evolution from past to the present will be gladly welcomed at the local presentation.
Its 12,000 feet of the greatest film ever up to that date. Cost of production 500,000; 5,000 scenes, 18,000 people and 3,000 horses compose this giant military specticale. The Vivola Theater will have a matinee and night, one day only, Saturday, December 7th.