FROM DAYS GONE BY Feb. 6, 1920

February 6, 1920.

Miss Clemmie Massey announced a call meeting on February 7th at the court house where a County Farm Bureau will be organized. This will be one of the greatest organizations ever started here, because thru it every need of the county will be looked after. The county will be divided into districts and each will have a woman chairman to look after home work and a man chairman to look after the farming interests. Each chairman will have as many helpers as they need to carry on the work in their respective districts. All of the community councils together will constitute the County Farm Bureau.
The Farmers Potato and Produce Exchange is the name of the local firm just organized here for the purpose of erecting a potato curing house, buying and selling them as well as a great many other products, such as peas, velvet beans, peanuts, etc. The capital stock is fixed at $7500 and the stockholders are seeking a charter. The Johnson County Potato Grower's Association's board of directors are J. H. Rowland, J. W. Brinson, T. E. Hayes, T. V. Kent and J. T. Fulford.
Monday morning Judge B. B. Blount convenes the February term of City Court. Clerk Joe B. Williams states a long docket of civil business but few of them will come up for trial at this term for various reasons. The recent fight with pocket knives by N. Williams and Willie Price at the home of Swain Anderson is scheduled unless its side tracked. Somewhere will be aired then that is the cases under the misdemeanor head. It is said that there was some whiskey and pistols mixed up in the fight. Otherwise the docket is a short one of about three days.
Mr. M. E. Crow has just disposed of the Wrightsville Pressing Club, selling it to Noah Paul and Jack Robinson. Mr. Paul has resigned from Hauger-Hobbs-Davis Company and will take charge of the Pressing Club. Mr. Crow is now busy as the County Demonstration Agent.
After a honeymoon down in Florida Mr. & Mrs. Arthur B. Rowland are back here in the city. Arthur is the junior member of Star Feed Company. Miss Louise Reynolds of Forsyth is to wed Mr. Beverly B. Hayes the latter part of this month. Mr. Tom Brantley is in the hospital after a wreck near Scott. Born to Mr. & Mrs. Bascom Dillard on the 16th of January, a 12 pound boy named Bascom Jr.
Mr. Swain Anderson reports that Mr. Rip Williams and Mr. Boy Price, who were in the pocket knife fight are both rapidly recovering. E. J. McAfee is riding his mail now in a brand new Ford Runabout. Rain has fallen throughout this section until there is no longer a scarcity of water anywhere.
Born near Tennille December 14, 1865, William Elkins Scott joined Tennille Baptist church in 1884; was baptized by Dr. J. T. Bech, married Miss Rosa Lee Hardaway in 1902; taught school a few years in his early manhood; was in the merchantile business in Millen and Tompson; the last years of his life in Wrightsville as agent of the Express Company, which he had given up on account of failing health. He removed to Tennille on the first of November 1919. After nine weeks lingering he died on February 3, 1920. Services where held at Tennille Baptist church. He leaves a brother, Jas L. Scott of Jacksonville, Florida, a sister Miss Mollie Scott who has looked after him since the death of his wife in 1913, and a daughter nine years old. He was buried beside his wife at Westview Cemetery.