FROM DAYS GONE BY Sept. 19, 1919

September 19, 1919.

Three young men from Lovett created quite a big sensation in Wrightsville Friday afternoon. They came into town soon after dinner in a Paige automobile and proceeded to celebrate by driving around very dangerously over the streets, which gave the police reason to believe they were either drunk or drinking or both.
Friends of the three boys were plotting them out of the city towards Lovett when policeman J. L. Tapley, deputy sheriff W. T. Rowland and baliff C. T. Mixon overtook them and placed them under arrest. The other one took to his heels, while the other two were being arrested.
The boy gave their names as Paul Glover, Talmage Holmes and Joe Johnson. Joe was the runner. Holmes was crazy drunk creating much noise enroute to jail. Four empty bottles were found in the car, one the remenants of grape wine. Holmes is a prize fighter and it required all three officers with several assistants to place him in jail.
RFD E. J. McAfee happened to a very disastrious accident just by the post office, when he and RFD Powell were changing a tire on the Ford of the former. Sily was using a tire tool and when prizing off the casing, assisted by McAfee who was using his bare hands, caught the fore finger of his left hand, completely tearing the end, nail, flesh and all clean off. A physician soon had it bound up and it is getting along all right.
On Tuesday, September 2, Alonzo Warnock and Joe Cowart who live in Emanuel County near Canoochee, went fishing in the Ogeechee at Sand Ridge lake near Herndon. Upon arriving on the banks they secured the boat they had used on Monday in putting out hooks and started on a cruise around to see what luck had been theirs. Parties coming from there stated they carried along some "wet bait" with them and had about a quart in the boat.
Headed down stream they reached a small flurry which put the boat to swinging sideways and the two men, Cowart a large fat man, fell into the deep of the stream. Warnock succeeded in landing safe on the banks but Cowart was not fortunate. He sank to remain and it was Friday morning at 9 am when his swollen body gave up its submerged position and came to the top 300 yards on down the stream from where he fell into the water.
Warnock spread the news of the death of his fellow angler and searching parties remained on the scene, up and down the river for a mile or more until his body came up. They tried dynamite and raking and diving but to no avail. The drowned corpse was taken home Friday and given burial Saturday. He was of the best family, as also is Warnock. Too much 'shine was considered the cause of this unfortunate tragedy.