FROM DAYS GONE BY June 12, 1920

June 12, 1920.

All told the excersies marking the 1919-20 commencement season for Wrightsville High School was the best in five years. Rain seriously interfered with the crowd Friday night who were ready to come to the auditorium but the number was still good. Six young people getting diplomas. Professor and Mrs. J. O. McMahon will leave in the next few days for Mexico to teach for two months.
The Union Singing Convention will meet at Idylwild Saturday and Sunday with attendance from six counties. On Sunday the Liberty Grove girls quartette will be there, also the Gillis girls. Tennille is having a picnic at Idylwild today and the boys there have come down to meet the Wrightsville boys in a ball game at the park.
Mr. A. B. Douglas brought to town several stalks of fine cotton from a twelve acre field on his farm. The stalks were 24 inches high and didn't show the least sign of a boll weevils' work. Over in Burke County the merchants of Waynesboro made up $600 to be distributed as prizes to the ones killing the most boll weevils in a certain time. The time to kill is when there are fewer. Peanuts and potatoes are thriving in Johnson County while cotton is distressingly poor. Corn is pretty good, so look out for plenty of hog and hominy anyhow.
The United States Public Health Service is having ex-servicemen's dental work done free, several Johnson County boys have obtained their papers. Costs will range from $40 to $135. The twin cities of Summit and Graymont, in lower Emanuel County voted to combine under one municiapallity and have one town instead of two. The vote carried with but 25 votes cast against consolidation. Nineteen in Summit and six in Graymont. The city limits dividing the two will now be erased. They will have one common name which has yet to be selected.
To pass along the roads throughout the county one would judge the timber business to be almost a thing of the past here, but then you go down around the railroad station and through the large lumber yards of the Rowland Lumber Company you will change your mind. Stacked in high piles are thousands and thousands of feet of first class lumber sawed from the county. Mr. J. H. Rowland has two or three saw mills running regularly. Others operating saw mills in the county are Messrs. Lovett & Hutchinson, C. W. Wilson and O. A. Kennedy. M. E. Woods has sold his entire garage and equipment to L. A. Lovett.
Johnson County has just turned out two more young physicians who are graduating from the University in Augusta. They are Dr. Wade R. Bedingfield and Dr. Lamar Harris, both are sons of Dr. P. B. Bedingfield and Dr. T. L. Harris. Dr. Harris will practice here with his father while Dr. Bedingfield will be Assistant Surgeon at St. John's Riverside Hospital in New York.
Messrs. Willie T. Tompkins, J. M. Cook, O. P. Sinquefield and E. E. Sanders had a very serious accident as they were returning from Augusta in W. C. Tompkins Cadillac. The brakes failed as they ran down a hill and ran up on a Ford injuring the two men in the Ford. Mr. & Mrs. Linton Holt had a baby boy. Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Kennedy, Jr. had a little daughter and Mr. & Mrs. Ray Barnes had a little son.
Officers Willie T. Rowland, Lee Jackson and Tom Mixon are engaged in the destruction of copper stills and lard can stills and every other kind of still being operated in Johnson County. Since last Saturday morning they have brought to town nine of these outfits or some part of each one. Several offenders of the prohibition law have been jailed and are under bond for illicit distilling as a result of their wholesale raids. A big copper still was brought in Tuesday night and Wednesday morning large crowds assembled to see it. The officers seem to have no "let up" on their raids.