FROM DAYS GONE BY August 1, 1919

August 1, 1919.

The W. & T. railroad shops in Tennille have been re-opened since the shop men have come off strike. They are now running as usual with a full crew of workmen. The strikers are giving little trouble to the road, although guards are still stationed around the shops to prevent trouble.
Tax Receiver George W. Brantley has filed the tax values of the county with the Ordinary. The figures show a decrease in tax values in the county for 1919 of $6,579. The amount given in this year was $2,972,729. The tax returns for the colored people show a net gain of $23,000 over 1918. Ordinary Wiggins states the county rate will be the same as last year.
The Johnson County Auto Company, an automobile firm owned by capitalist of the city, are opening in a new home next door to the law firm of Faircloth & Claxton, on the east side fronting the courthouse square. Mr. Lawson Pournell who has been foreman of the L. A. Lovett Ford garage has severed ties and will run this firm. The establishment has been selling cars for the past year and will add a new line of autos and put in a supply storehouse for most any type of car from tire to top.
It is current talk that the grocery store owned by Mr. Jack Henderson & Son will change hands about the first of the month. It is rumored that Messrs. M. S. Duggan and R. T. Moye have bought the stock and will operate the store. One of the townsmen, Mr. Lofton Thompson, 4 years ago invested in a 150 acre pecan grove near Baconton, Ga. He bought the trees, set them out and today they are just beginning to bear. He was recently offered $250 per acre for the entire grove. The land cost him $30 per acre. Thus it may be seen that his investment has meant $220 per acre profit to him, excepting the cost of the trees. Johnson County folks can raise pecans to as good a profit as is being done there.
Up to Friday night there had been filed just and only 105 criminal cases by Solicitor Claxton of the City Court and Clerk Williams stated there were more en route to the same jurisdiction. Taking that one half will be tried, which is a big figure, it would require, at the rate of ten a day, five days of steady grinding to rid the docket of them. This is not counting the civil cases this term.
Miss Katie Pullen became the bride of Mr. Leston Powell, Jr. and Miss Gladys Mixon was married to Mr. Matthew Powell. Mr. J. M. Crawford, about 60 years old, died very suddenly at his home near Wrightsville. He had been ill only a few hours having taken violently sickwhile attending to business in town. He collapsed in the store of Mr. Parker, Dr. Harris was called as he was taken home but he died within two hours. He left a wife and nine children. He was buried at Westview. Near Rehobeth the little daughter of Mr. & Mrs. M. G. Sammons died and was buried at Liberty Grove. Senator Morris Riner was called to Summit to attend the funeral of his nephew, Clark Riner, son of Dr. & Mrs. C. R. Riner.
Mule driver J. I. Singletary. He drives his mule to town and on Saturdays he comes in to barber. But the most of his time he takes up in feeding the mule. Tuesday he came along and when he arrived here he had several open cotton bolls. Singletary said he got them out of his patch before he left home, but nobody believes it. Probably if a neighbor should wander out in his patch he would see where the bolls were plucked.
In traveling over the roads of the county it would be seen that there were many washouts during the rainy weeks just passed. In several places travel is hard and almost impassible. Capt. Kemp has been putting in these places and repairing up and will soon have the roads back where people can again use them all right.