FROM DAYS GONE BY January 31, 1919

January 31, 1919.

Tom Haines, a constant defendant in court, runs amuck at home Saturday night. He got mad with his wife, Anna, and took the occasion to see how fast and good his shinning pocket machine would shoot at his wife. But it only took one shot to do the work. This shot hit her in the groin and downed her. Chief Glover arrested Tom and placed him in the calaboose from which he soon made his escape by breaking out. Chief Tapley soon apprehended him again and placed him behind the bars of the county jail, where he remained until Mayor's Court Monday morning.
Mayor W. M. Shurling heard the evidence against Tom and fined him in four cases, made the last being a 30 days sentence without an alternative of a fine. This was suspended upon good behavior, the Mayor telling Tom the next time he came up before him this would be the fist thing he would face. Anna is not seriously hurt, it is said. She was told by Tom not to go away from home, but refusing to listen, it is claimed, she started off and Tom used his pop gun on her.
Dr. Benjamin Sheftall, a graduate veterinary surgeon has decided to make Johnson County his home and make his occupation here. He has 25 years of experience as a stock doctor and 10 years in treating hog cholera. His office is in the Linder Horse & Mule Company. He will examin your stock for free.
Georgia is leading the entire South in funds raised for the United War work. Georgia has collected 47 percent of its funds. To solve the problem of unemployed discharged soldiers, the War Department has ordered that no man be discharged from the army against his desire until such time as he can obtain employment in civil life. Metford Broxton is listed as missing in action. His residence is R.F.D 5 in Wrightsville.
All arrangements have been completed between Laurens County and the State Highway Commission relative to building a new bridge over the Oconee River at Dublin. The county has me all requirements demanded in order to get a Federal appropriation, and the commissin has granted a sum of $75,000 to the project, to which is to be added a like sum by the county making a total of $150,000 to be expended on a combination steel and concrete drawbridge over the river to replace the old bridge that has been doing service for a quarter of a century but badly outdated. Garrett & Slack engineers have charge of the work.
The Georgia Vital Statistics law went into effect the first day of this month. The registrar is the Notary Public or Justice of the Peace of each militia district. Papers must be entered by the physician, midwife and undertaker must register births within 10 days. Death certificates are to be given the undertaker or those who sell coffins, and must be done to receive a permit before the body can be buried.
A fellow can get into bad with the law now about the motor number of an automobile. If it happens to be the wrong number on what is registered to be the right auto or vice versa the fellow so caught is liable to a felony sentence, the law says, from one to twenty years.
Most people have finished ginning cotton but there is yet a lot of it unsold in the yards and barns at the homes. Cotton has been rising and falling so recently until you can't tell where she is going to stop. Those holding it have been put to a lot of calls and the thing is getting to look rather shaky to a whole lot of folks. And the price being mostly down it seems to be the intention of a great many to ride it on awhile longer.
Mr. & Mrs. M. S. Duggan are the proud parents of a young son born to them Thursday, January 23rd.The fellow who sits on the amen seat at church and goes back to his business Monday morning "a cussin" ought to be extradited, so says the newspaper.