FROM DAYS GONE BY April 18, 1919

April 18, 1919.

Mr. W. M. Owens, staff correspondent for the Augusta Herald wrote an interesting piece on Wrightsville, which he called "A Hustling Town Of Live Businessmen And Farmers."
"The brightest and newest paper in the state--two strong banks--handsome and well stocked business houses--a half score of big cotton warehouses; These, and others too numerous to mention in detail, are the assets of Wrightsville, the seat of Johnson County, the best farming area in the state and populated with farmers who raise hog and hominy and live independent of the western farmer for corn, hay and meat.
Wrightsville has a population of 2,500. The town has enjoyed steady and substantial growth from a period dating several years before the war. The merchants are progressive, so are the business and professional men, and W. M. Shurling, Mayor, is an enterprising citizen and professional man, having a law office here.
The Wrightsville paper---The Headlight---is in every sense a local paper. The editor, C. D. Roundtree, who has been in charge of the paper since 1915, coming here from Swainsboro, where he conducted the Forrest-Blade of that town, makes no effort to publish foreign news in his paper, catering entirely to the people of this immediate section and furnishing them with up-to-the-minute local news items.
The farmers of this county, Mr. Roundtree pointed out, take daily papers for foreign news, fiction and the like, and thee are but few country homes in this section but what are entered by a daily newspaper. And, it is worth while noting, many of them take the Herald and state that they are better pleased with it than any state paper.
Wrightsville is situated almost in the heart of Johnson County and is on the Wrightsville and Tennille railroad, an enterprising line, which despite the fact that it operates only mixed trains, carries the most sanitary and comfortable of coaches and has a roadbed that is unequaled by any small road in the state.
It has just been announced in Wrightsville that a new bank is to be opened here, giving the town three strong financial institutions. The new bank will have a capital stock of $50,000 and the other two are capitalized at $35,000 and $25,000.
Among the most prominent businessmen and most active citizens of Wrightsville are E. A. Lovett, J. H. Rowland, W. C. and H. C. Tompkins, Elmore Hayes, R. E. Butterly, R. P. Hicks. These gentlemen are engaged largely in the merchantile and cotton business and have caused to be erected here a number of large cotton warehouses.
There are few towns in the state that can give evidence of a better financial future than Wrightsville, and this can be discovered by a visitor by the simple method of keeping one's eyes open, it not being necessary to take the word of the business men for it.
The matter of good roads is receiving considerable agitation here just now, it being admitted that the roads in some sections of the county are in a deplorable condition, and this is one of the matters that the county, now that the war is over, will get squarely behind and find a remedy for."