FROM DAYS GONE BY Dec. 26, 1919

December 26, 1919.

The rain the first of the week was welcomed by everybody. It had been a long dry spell and had aroused everybody except Jupe Hicks to singing "How dry I am." Jupe had been most of the time up in the mountains of North Georgia.
Quite a few of the young folks with some few of the married were delighted with a big possum hunt Monday night near the fine home of Mr. Ellis Johnson's. They succeeded in catching one fat possum but the most fun was reaching home after the long stride across the fields and woods.
Candidates are very busy now and will be right on until the final votes are counted. The election will be January 14th. State School Superintendant M. L. Brittain has divided the 1920 school fund of 4 million dollars on the per capita, on the school population basis at $4.60. This is an increase of 47 cents per capita over 1919. The total is $500,000 more for the state than last year. The check for Johnson County is $21,919.00.
Truth Lodge, No. 505, at Scott held its election of officers. They are J. D. Roberts, W. M; G. R. Smith, S. W.; John Ivey, J. W.; C. D. Ivey, Sec. While a great many cities and towns are feeling the effects of less trains and a radical change in schedules and railroad facilities and accomodations, Wrightsville is fortunate now in getting along with what she has had for the past. Trains coming by here will still come and at the same time with the exception of No. 1, the first train to hit the city in the morning, which comes ten minutes earlier, at 9:10 instead of 9:20. Several trains on the Southern end of the Wrightsville & Tennille have been cancelled for the time being but the service between Dublin and Tennille is unaffected.
Under the auspices of the Johnson County Chapter of Red Cross and all of the other war organizations in activity here, there will be a celebration on the courthouse lawn commemorating the signing of the armistice. Prof. L. M. Blount has kindly donated the tree, one of the prolific pecan variety for the occasion. This will be called the Victory Tree.
The Johnson County Chamber of Commerce is calling a meeting to consider ways and means to obtain a county agent and other matters of vital importance to the county. The coming of cool weather brings good business to the Wrightsville merchants. Winter business opens up strong.
The banks have released their statements of condition. The final one of the year. Citizens Bank of Kite, $263,477.51; Bank of Wrightsville, $604,051.91; The Farmers Bank, $189,282.94; Bank of Adrian, $311,481.09; The Scott Banking Company, $133,993.84; The Exchange Bank, $473,875.68.
Lt. Walter S. Bryan, a son of Mrs. R. B. Bryan, Sr. has returned home. He has been in Germany and Russia for several months in a special work for the army of the United States and says he had a thrilling experience. He is still in service at Ft. McPherson, Atlanta.