FROM DAYS GONE BY Jan 9, 1920

January 9, 1920.

As happy a bunch of good fellows are raking and combing the fields of the county now for votes as you have seldom seen in any county. Nobody is talking unkind about the other. The campaigns are without mud-slinging. The election is Wednesday the 14th when the big avalanche of ballots will decide who will fill the county's offices for the next 4 years.
Miss Clemmie Massey announces the winning of two prizes by Johnson County girls at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta last fall. Miss Mary Brooks of Donovan won the 2nd prize, $8 on a grape exhibit, and Miss Corine Hammock received 3rd prize, $10 on her general garden exhibit.
Mr. L. D. Downs has purchased from Dr. Sheftall the house and three lots just across the fair property in south Wrightsville and has moved to the city for his home. Mr. Downs now owns 7 lots in Lynnhurst which is a fine place for a home. Ex-Deputy Sheriff Jim Tapley has removed from the city to his old home near Powell's Chapel church. Mr. T. F. Elton has purchased from the Bray estate the home formerly occupied by Mr. C. H. Moore having moved into the handsome Daley home which he recently purchased.
Messrs. S. M. Price and J. P. Price have moved back to the county the former going back to his old home near New Home church and the latter has gone to a farm near Oaky Grove church. Mr. L. A. Attaway from near Union Hill has moved to town, occupying the house recently vacated by Mr. R. Gatlin who moved into the Kent house. Mr. J. Alden Price, son of Mr. S. M. Price has moved to Wrightsville from Harrison and is associated in business with Mr. L. E. Parker.
Mrs. C. M. Flanders, who had her clothes nearly burned from her Saturday morning, died Sunday about 11 am. Mrs. Flanders was sitting near the fire, nursing her month old baby when she noticed her apron afire. She carried the baby and laid it on the bed and called her husband. Mr. Flanders' hands are burned severly, but he was unable to get the fire out before her clothes were nearly burned off. Mrs. Flanders was buried Monday afternoon at Old Bethel in Emanuel County.
An expert will give a public demonstration on Feb. 14th on how to use calcium arsenate on cotton infected with boll weevils. The financial report of the officers of the Johnson County Fair Association will be made soon. Owning all their property left after the sale of part of the land the fair will owe a balance of a few hundred dollars on the buildings, etc. Work is to be started on the next fair right away.
The attraction at the Vivola Theatre on January 14th, in addition to a fine movie program, will be Vierra's Hawaiian Singers and Players. This company of six members are reputed to be performers that are well worth while. Not only do they render their own dreamy Hawaiian music as only natives of the South Sea Isles can, but it is said they are equally as good at handling American Ragtime.
Miss Lathia Thigpen of Adrian married Mr. Oscar Griffin of Cordele. The wedding was held at Scott. Six men have started covering the county for the census. So, when the census man calls at your house have your name on your tongue, your sex, color, age last birthday, single or married, birthplace, occupation, whether attending school, able to read, write, speak English own your home, if it is mortgaged, and a lot of other questions you will be asked by the enumerator. The six men working Johnson County are A. S. Norris, J. M. Hightower, H. S. McWhorter, Gus Brantley, Prof. J. Y. Chastain and Wm C. Pope.