FROM DAYS GONE BY April 11, 1919

April 11, 1919.

Five coloreds were riding towards Price's bridge Saturday night and their lights went out. They went up to a farm house near by for repairs and left in the same direction when the lights again went out. Starting to return in the dark the car was fired into by some unknown party with a shotgun, the load, entering the bosom of one Jack Dawson, a farm hand on the plantation of Mr. Loyd Price. The other four ran for their lives, leaving the Ford in the road with the engine running, the wounded Negro and all being found there by people living in the community.
Coroner Frank Jackson was summoned to the scene and entailed a jury which after making extensive investigations returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death by gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown person. A collection was taken for his burial and the expense of same saved the county. The Grand Jury is expected to further investigate this.
The colored people all went to St. Galillee church between the city and Idylwild Sunday and held a day's meeting until the afternoon the peace and quiet was disturbed by two getting out in the road and taking each other as a target for their pocket guns. No harm was done to either, but one of the sisters not far off got in the way of a bullet and was hit, but not seriously. Officers placed them under arrest but the church brethren are going to push it to the end of the law because they are tired of having their services upset so much.
The county is losing its extension agent as Mr. Fred T. Bridges is going to Dublin. Mr. Jacob Kaplan is having a big sale. The firm of J. O. & B. B. Tanner is dissolved. Mr. C. H. Moore added to his large plantation in Treutlen County on the lower side known as the Ben Griffin plantation. On it is the grave of the late Governor Troup and his relations, a lot of them.
Mr. & Mrs. T. L. Martin announced the birth of a fine daughter on April 9th. Mr. & Mrs. Claude Tompkins had a fine little girl on April 4th. On March 29th Miss Mary Will Johnson became the wife of Mr. Emanuel Harrison.
The little daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Eara Westbrook died April 2nd. She was born September 9, 1917 and a granddaughter of Mr. J. Tanner. Her name Earline Westbrook, was a member of Gethsemene Baptist church. Mr. Jasper Smith died at his home east of the city Sunday night after an illness of two weeks. He was one of the oldest and best men of Johnson County and has a large family connection here and elsewhere. He was 65 years old and was buried at New Home.
Dr. Benjamin Sheftall the local vet cured a mare of pneumonia with a remedy known as "iodum miller". The mare was brought to him on March 24th by its owner Mr. G. B. Warren who lives near Lovett. Then its temp was around 106 and went above. Everyone thought it was hopeless but by April 5th, just ten days it was feeling good as ever. Mr. Warren being a poor man the vet didn't charge him anything above the actual cost of the medicine.
Mrs. Ella Lord says she is mighty proud of her grandchildren who number twenty-six, the youngest being a son born to Mr. & Mrs. M. T. Lord on the 2nd. None are afflicted in anyway, all living and prospering and look good if they favor their grandmother.