FROM DAYS GONE BY November 28, 1919

November 28, 1919.

Mr. Reuben C. Douglas of the eastern part of the county makes another candidate in this race for the office of Sheriff. He has a wide circle of relations and friends in the county. He comes in the race as a soldier candidate having spent two years in the Army, nine months in France and four months on the firing line where shells and bombs falling thick and fast. He says when you vote to remember that a little over a year ago when you where at home in your warm bed, he was in cold muddy France, on the firing lines, living on a scant meal a day of canned beef, known as "corn willie", sleeping what little he could in a hole in the side of a mountain known as a dugout, without bedding except two blankets well supplied with "cooties" (body lice). He says he will protect the citizens of the county as he protected the citizens of this nation. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. John A. Douglas, Sr. who's family were some of the first citizens here.
Mr. W. T. Kitchens of Wrightsville also announces for Sheriff. Mr. Joe Butterly is back home from his services overseas. Judge J. L. Kent at this time has no opposition for Judge of the Dublin Judicial Circuit.
Mrs. J. C. Midyett and Mrs. J. M. Mason of the Red Cross Home Service will be here and any soldiers or families of soldiers who need the help that she can be of assistance at her residence on East Elm Street.
Mr. R. P. Hicks returned from a trip to Blue Ridge where he has made two big purchases of land which is quite an addition to his already vast estate. He aims to erect a summer home up there. At the present he has joined a hunting party from Dublin and is down on the coast for a deer hunt.
Uncle Henry Stephens of near Kite is improving. He has been crippled for several weeks with an inflamed leg. Mrs. John M. Meeks came home from Dublin Sanitarium where she has been under treatment for three weeks. Messrs. Fred Daley and Hugh McWhorter have gone west seeking health and employment. At the present they are in Oklahoma.
Col. and Mrs. G. Anton Faircloth will soon occupy the remodeled home on East Elm Street. Col. C. S. Claxton is completing his new home on North Marcus Street. A busy man is Mr. Edd Tompkins, President of the Tompkins chain of three stores. He divides his time between the three and in the country surrounding for sixty or seventy miles, doing one of the largest wholesale and retail businesses in this part of Georgia.
Faircloth & Faircloth say they have $15,000 in hand to loan at once on improved farmlands in Johnson County. Borrower can obtain same as soon as titles can be investigated and papers drawn. No delay. Cheap rate of interest and low commission charges.
Rev. W. E. Arnold has been returned to pastorate of the Wrightsville Methodist church. Those attending the Methodist Conference in Dublin were Col. & Mrs. E. L. Stephens, Dr. J. W. Flanders, Mr. Joe M. Mason, Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Thompson, Mrs. W. A. Sinquefield, Sheriff W. D. Rowland and Editor C. D. Roundtree.
Fred T. Bridges will be at Mr. Robinson's office in the court house taking orders for nitrate of soda. Up to November 1st Johnson County has ginned 9,401 bales against last years 15,016 bales of cotton in 1918. Burke County is still the cotton leader with Walton County second. Emanuel, Laurens and Johnson are way down the list.