FROM DAYS GONE BY Dec 12, 1919

December 12, 1919.

Two colored women mix in an ugly fight as Mary Curry slashes Mae Mills awfully bad and she is likely to die. Mary Curry met Mae Willie Mills and Ida Reese in the public road just beyond the home of Mr. E. W. Tanner where the road forks at the ginnery of Mr. J. T. Fulford Monday afternoon near sunset and interrupted their journey by hailing them and proceeded to wind up a fight right in the middle of the road.
The Reese woman is a witness to the ugly affray in which the Mills woman is so badly cut that her life is hanging on a balance. She has a long gash across the lower part of the abdomen which allowed the intestines to ooze out, another deep and painful wound to the hilt of the knife in her right thigh which was too large to be sewed up and another in the left arm.
She was hurried to the city and Dr. Dent attended her. He said she had only a lighting chance to live. After being attended by the physician she was carried to her home on the farm of Mr. Charles Harrison where she and her husband live.
The Reese and Mills women had been to the city and were enroute home and were hailed by the Curry woman, asking them had they seen her husband, Isadore Curry. When they replied they had not she immediately drew a long knife and proceeded to slash in into the body of the Mills woman, at the same time cursing her and telling her that she had been told to let her husband alone and now she was going to get pay for it. The affair was an ugly one.
The forthcoming marriage of Miss Gray Melton of Baxley to LT. Arthur Bryan Rowland was announced. The wedding will be in January 1920. Lots of babies were recently born. Mr. & Mrs. Noah D. Paul had a daughter December 8th. Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Anderson had a boy December 8th. Mr. & Mrs. M. E. Woods had a daughter December 5th. Cashier & Mrs. Robert B. Bryan had a daughter December 9th. Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Tanner also had a girl on December 9th. Uncle Berry Price is laid up sick.
After an illness of several months Mrs. Mary V. Duff died at her home in the city Thursday evening December 4th surrounded by her children. The funeral services were held at the residence by Rev. Father T. J. Morrow of Milledgeville with burial at Westview cemetery.
At the time of her death she was 85. She was married twice. Her first marriage was to Henry Caneega who died in action at the close of the civil war. Two years later she married to LT. James B. Duff, who also served throughout that war. Since April 11th, 1900 she had been left a widow.
She was a devout member of the Catholic church, a woman of very high Christian character. Her beautiful life had been one of umtiring perseverance and deep devotion to her children. She was loved by all who knew her. She was the mother of twelve children, eight of whom survive her; 4 daughters, Miss Susan Caneega, Misses Kate and Gertrude Duff, Mrs. W. E. Page, and four sons; H. H. Caneega, J. T. Duff, P. F. Duff and J. J. Duff. She is also survived by three sisters; Mrs. J. F. Price, Mrs. J. M. Bush and Mrs. M. G. Hall. One brother, Mr. J. R. Parker.

FROM DAYS GONE BY Dec. 5, 1919

December 5, 1919.

There was a special meeting of the Johnson County Farmers Union which a large assemblage gathered to dispense with a lot of business. Mr. Charlie M. Dent chaired the meeting. Mr. R. P. Hicks gave a interesting summing up of his work before the legislature last summer and said he was well received. Col. Ben Hill Moye was elected as delegate to the state convention in Atlanta.
New officers were elected for 1920. Mr. C. M. Dent was chosen as county president with Mr. G. B. Maddox as vice-president and Mr. C. D. Henderson secretary-treasurer. Mr. R. E. Kitchens is door minder and Mr. R. A. Green inside conductor.
At least three Johnson County banks are deeply interested in the club work of Miss Massey in the county. These banks are The Bank of Wrightsville, The Exchange Bank and the Citizens Bank of Kite. They offered a scholarship each at the state college of agriculture this year. Mr. John B. Greenway won the prize offered by the Kite bank, Miss Corene Hammock came out with the one offered by the Bank of Wrightsville and Miss Lavada Price won the premium offered by the Exchange Bank. John Edward Vanlandingham won the scholarship of $30 valuation donated by the Central of Georgia Railway.
The professional fishermen, Messrs. Leon A. Lovett, Jim Roe Cook, Charles Claxton and their friend, Bob Pritchett of Atlanta, are leaving Wrightsville tonight for St. Marx, Florida, down below Tallahassee for their regular outing. They will be gone about three weeks. Jim Roe bought the supplies and strange to say this time he took in the drug store on his filling-up rounds. Their luck will mostley depend on the duration of their supply of "long green" is a safe bet.
Dr. Vestus Schwalls is operating a drug store at Scott now. J. J. and M. A. Snell has posted their land for no trespassing. William Jackson of Donovan has one Overland truck for sale very cheap. John R. Moore wants to pay high cash for your corn and cow peas.
At their recent meeting in Atlanta the Prest-O-Lite Company made a strong showing in their convention idea of dealer education. Mr. W. R. Gatlin of the City Garage says one thing he learned outside the practical end of it, was the scarcity of new batteries, that according to reports there would not be more than four million new batteries to supply the more than five million cars, old and new. He says he wants to impress upon auto owner the need to keep their batteries in good trim and condition all of the time and conserve them in every possible way to help out in this shortage.
M. E. Woods, Wrightsville's garage owner says he is operating a clean up-to-date business. Expert automobile repairing, gasoline engine repair, battery, starter and generator repairs, Delco light plant repairs and repairs on any electrical apparatus. Star, General and McGraw tires, fabric and cord. His slogan is the best work and best prices, which means satisfaction.