From Days Gone By Sept. 4, 1920

September 4, 1920.
    A representative of a big oil company was in the city last week from Shreveport, Louisiana and called on Mr. E. R. Spell oil land owner and H. T. Hicks of the Globe Realty Company who has charge of the leases of land around Mr. Spell. This magnate stated to Hicks & Spell that as soon as the required number of leases was procured that his company was ready to place their machinery on the ground and begin operations. He said that it would take 25,000 acres of land in a solid block for drilling purposes, that it was very seldom that oil companies would go into a new territory that is unproven for a less acreage than 50,000, bit that in this instance they would come for half that amount.
    Mr. Hicks has made contacts with other companies to come in the event he cannot get the kind of trade which will protect the people of this section, and trying to make it possible without cost to the people. Hicks says it is highly necessary that people of this section allow these leases if they wish this industry developed and ask all who are in anyways interested to call him.
    The fair is getting arranged for opening this fall and have just completed two show rooms and two extra stockpens. Already machinery and Merchantile firms have obtained showrooms. The management has secured one of the best show and carnival companies on the road.
    The Hampshire hog sale of Dr. C. E. Brinson was a success. The 35 head averaged $100 per head. A large crowd from around the surrounding country and buyers were numorous included two ladies that purchased hogs.
    Prof. W. S. Branham and teachers have everything ready for school to start next Monday. Among those leaving here to attend college are Pauline Hatcher, Ruth Arnold, Lucile Douglas, Vashti Cowart, Alma Blount, Margaret Kent, Hallie Bryan, Annie Jenkins, Robbie Claire Chapman, Jeradine Brinson, Ruby Moore, Mary Moore Johnson, Kate Walker, Delle Walker, Hilda Blount, Albion Hatcher, S. M. Johnson, Buster Tompkins, Carl Roundtree, Loy Petty, J. M. Lumley and Lewis Lovett.
    Ordinary Wiggins has been putting everything around the court housd in tip top shape. Trimming the shrubbery, all the weeds and brush in the inclosure cleared away. The hands of the clock are out of tune and the old time piece doesn't care to strike anymore. That's the one thing will need fixing.
    Dr. T. E. Vickers is aboard the steamship in Chesapeake Bay on a cruise to Baltimore, New York and Washington. A big cotton crop is growing on J. R. Smith's Buckeye farm. He had a stalk of cotton carrying 60 bolls of which he has 25 acres of. He estimates a half bale an acre. Ginning times will be the same this year and will cost 80 cents per 100 pound.
    Friday coming from Idylwild Mrs. Henry Wilson and Mrs. Johnnie Wilson in a Buick had a narrow escape. Close to W. C. Brinson's home, a man in a Ford tried to pass them and caused the Buick to go off the embankment. The car remained in the ditch till Monday.
    Officer J. E. Glisson left Sunday night for Nashville, Tenn. with requisition papers from this county for one colored man named Harris Mathis, wanted in Superior Court on three charges and is now a fugitive of the state.
    Mr. W. F. Dent has accepted a position with the Standard Oil Company in Dublin. Miss Thomas has resigned as postmaster and will go to Toombsboro. Mr. Bill Carter will take her place here.

From Days Gone By August 28, 1920

  August 28, 1920.
    Meat raisers in Johnson County are going to find that industry a better and more profitable one than ever before. Mr. C. H. Moore has about finished his latest enterprise, by putting in Wrightsville, one of the latest models, 1921, ice factory and cold storage plants. Mr. Miller is the foreman sent here to erect the machinery and says it should be ready in 30 to 40 days. This is costing Moore $65,000. The factory will turn out all the ice needed here and for the cold storage plant and then carry a supply for sale elsewhere and will operate year round. The meat curing plant will hold 100,000 pounds of meat at a time and 16 to 20 cows.
    Never before in the history of this section of the state has the breeding of pure bred swine reached such a stage of interest and it won't stop. Better hogs and more of them seem to be all the go now with our people and the indusry is to be undertaken on a large scale by a number of men in the county. Messrs. Chas W. and John T. Fulford, Jr. are the lattest entrantz into the swine growing ranks. Hampshirez will be their preferred stock.
    Wrightsville got her first bale of cotton last week raised on the farm of Mr. H. H. Caneega west of the city. It was ginned by E. A. & W. H. Lovett and bought by Dixie Cotton Company at 30 cents per pound. Power farming, that which is done through motive power, is receiving much attention throughout the state. Stumping lands starts the process and power machinery follws. This is the next progressive step to better production on our plantations.
    Bessie Barriscale in "The Luck of Geraldine Laird "is playing at the Dixie and coming soon is Joe Ryan (Shoe String) in "Hidden Dangers". A wedding of great surprise to the county was that of Miss Altia Carter and Mr. Bennie Carroll. Several days ago Mr. Royston Moore had a bad accident having his left hand severly mashed in some machinery and is in a great deal of pain but is rapidly recovering.
    Mr. Lonnie Norriz, Ford owner of Wrightsville is a lucky man. Less than two feet alone was the distance that kept Mr. Norris from serious or fatal injury. Mr. Norris was driving down Jackson Street in Dublin and had just reached the railroad track in front of Dudley's store, when he was warned by the noise of runaway train cars speeding down the hill from the ice house. Mr. Norris swerved his Ford as far towards Dudley's store as possible in an effort to outrun the cars and barely managed to pull his car across the track when the coal cars crashed into the Ford, shattering the entire backend, and pinning the car against the brick wall of the store. Mr. Norris was not injured. There is some question as to the manner in which the cars broke loose from their fastenings.

From Days Gone By August 21, 1920

August 21, 1920.
    T. K. Lumley, Sr., and T. K. Lumley, Jr., are in newly made graves, with knife wounds permeating various parts of the body of each which dropped them from further feud feelings between them and a family of Hooks, their neighbors but not friend. Boss Hooks and a son are in the Mount Vernon jail on a blanket charge of cold-blooded murder. It is said another Hooks boy has been arrested on a peace warrant after he had shouldered his breech loader and gone on the war path for whoever molested him. Old man Lumley and his son had been at outs, it seems, with these cutters and Saturday morning about 10 when the Hooks crowd carried a cow to be dipped in a vat near Lumley's home.
    The parties met and an old time cutting scrape ensued. Young Lumley was attacked first and cut to pieces and then the old man Lumley came to his son's assistance, it is said, and was likewise treated to a slashing by pocket knife wounds in different sections of his anatomy. The boy died on the spot, the old man living until Sunday morning.
    Feeling aroused by a firm sentiment against the Hooks has brought from the people of the neighborhood some 5 miles south of Adrian and in and around Adrian a large sum of money to aid in the immediate prosecution of the Hooks' who are in jail and it seems luckily so from reports reaching Wrightsville said to be true reports. The affair is a bad one and the like hasn't been recorded in this county in many a day.
    About 4 months ago Judge J. C. Wiggins made a contract with Mr. E. N. Parker, the division engineer of Dublin, to build that part of the designated state highway between Wrightsville and Washington County line. Mr. Parker came to the city and went over with Judge Wiggins this route and laid plans to begin its surveying right away so that actual road construction would begin around October 1st.
     This week Mr. Parker sent his surveyors and are now laying out the road. It is known as the Tennille road and leads out of the city as North Marcus street. It will take 3 weeks to survey. The road is to be hard gravel one and is the connecting link on the highway, the shortest route through Georgia from Athens to Wrightsville, and on to Jacksonville, Florida. It will become a national highway from north and east going into Florida.
    The Federal census gives Wrightsville the population of 1,476 and the county 13,546. Kite has 344, that part of Adrian in Johnson has 423. Scott has 212. Adrian's combined population is 740. Dr. I. H. Archer is home from the sanitarium in Macon from appendicitis. Mr. N. D. Norris is opening a dry goods store near his home. Gov. Hugh Dorsey is running for U. S. Senate. The city council is opening up a new street from town to the west side to the high school. Miss Jewel Morgan of Davisboro weds Mr. B. I. Kight of Kite.
    Mrs. Shade Hall of near Meeks died and was buried at Corinth. Mrs. W. E. Harvelle died, wife of Rev. W. E. Harvelle long time pastor of Beulah church.
    At the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. E. Hayes, Sunday morning, Mrs. Jane Snell died after reaching her 85th year. She was the wife of Mr. William B. Snell who died some 30 years before. She was buried in Westview. Surviving children were Mrs. T. E. Hayes, Mrs. T. E. Bradshaw, Mrs. C. M. Wood, Mr. H. W. and J. W. Snell. She was the mother of the late T. N. Snell and the youngest daughter of Major James Hicks.
    Down in the lower edge of Emanual County lie two towns side by side. One is Summit, the oldest, the other is Graymont. They have combined into one city but needed a new name. So by legislative enactment it is now known as Twin City, located on the Georgia & Florida Railway.

From Days Gone By August 14, 1920

August 14, 1920.
    Hon. Roscoe Peacock of Eastman came to Johnson County to speak at Greenway School house but heavy rain forced him to cancel, but he promised to return the next morning. He did get to speak to a large crowd in Kite. Col. E. L. Stephens has three counties giving him strong backing for re-election as Solicitor of the Dublin circuit. Hon. W. D. Sumner of Spann announced his bid for re-election to the lower statehouse. Col. Wm. C. Pope of near Adrian announced his plans to run against Sumner. Pope favors better schools, more money for the old veterans of the state and their widows and he is opposed to the League of Nations. L. O. Mosely spoke in Kite on Larson's behalf.
    The August term of city court of Wrightsville began with Judge B. B. Blount on the bench and Chas. S. Claxton Solicitor. After a full 24 jurors was caught the trial of cases was begun, but adjorned at 11 am for a political speech. At 1 pm court reassembled and went on Tuesday also. Liquor, pistol, sabbath breaking, cheating and swindaling and many minor offences brought up, much which was petty.
    Citizens of Wrightsville will find this fall that their tax receipts will look a great deal larger than before, and next month will see that their light and water bills are higher also. Shellman Martin is home on a vacation from playing ball. He has been at LaGrange. Mr. Willie Stephens of Ohoopee has beenup visiting his brothers Henry, and Isham Stephens.
    Mr. Horace H. Lake down on the Laurens side says he has been losing some fine breeded stock hogs from his pasture lately, that since he turned them in from his fields he has lost 18 head. He says they are stolen out of the pasture, he having found where they were cleaned and other evidences that thieves broke through and carried away.
    Tobacco growing in Johnson County is somewhat of a new thing but the farmers planting it this year are going to reap a good reward for their work if conditions hold out as good as they are now. Tobacco growing here is attrachting good attention and next year could be a big industry for the county. L. A. Lovett, local Fordson tractor dealer, ran by M. E. Woods, has a large stock of tractors, cut-away and disk harrows and other power machinery. To see car loads of tractors coming in demonstrates they are putting power to the farms here.
    On September 1st Mr. C. E. Brinson will hold an auction sale at the Johnson County fair grounds with 35 purebred Hampshire sows and gilts bred to Doris Looks Lad H. No 74811. This hog was first prize winner at Chattanooga and Knozville fairs, and first and junior champion of the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta, 1919.
    Mr. Ambrose Powell died at his home near New Home church Saturday night August 7th having been stricken with paralysis at the supper table Friday night. He had been out that afternoon and got wet from the rain and it is believed this was part the cause of his death. He was buried at Oaky Grove. Mrs. W. H. Perkins also past away.

From Days Gone By August 7, 1920

August 7, 1920.
    The raising of purebred registered cattle and hogs in the county is much in evidence by the the entrance of several new stockmen in this section. They believe the future is in purebred animals and purebred registed stock is what is growing here now. The Jackson stock farms in Donovan are the original fore runners of better stock raisinv in abundance in the county. Mr. William Jackson having years ago installed a system for better stockraising and setting the pace by putting in a lot of Jersey and White-faced Hereford cattle and Duroc hogs,  from which he has realized an immense profit. It is from Jackson farm that the city is supplied with the major part of its milk and butter.
    Mr. C. G. Williams ranks second. He grows the Spotted Poland China hogs and making great strides with the breed. Mr. W. C. Tompkins on his Ninell Stock Farm is also into the China breed. Mr. J. R. Moore raises the Black Poland China breed and fine Jersey cows. Mr. B. J. James is raising a purebred strain of White-faced Hereford cattle and Black faced Poland China hogs as well. Mr. O. P. Prescott is just getting into the China breed. Dr. C. E. Brinson is in the limelight raising the Hampshire breed and will have a sale September 1st.
    Robert J. Boatwright of Kite has a line of Durocs he is doing well with. Mr. J. H. Rowland has not fully developed his operation but is making a creditable showing with Holstein cattle and Spotted Poland China. Others in the county raising these breeds are Charlie Fulford, Austell Bray, Gordon Greenway, J. L. Kent, Jr., Dr. G. E. Youman's and W. C. Brinson.
    Veternarian Dr. F. A. Pouppirt states the value of a pedigree and gives in substance upon what it depends which is as follows: If the ancestors for 5 or 6 generations back have been individuals of a uniformly good character pedigree is valuable, and the individual which it represents is a breeding animal. On the contrary if there has been a lack of uniformity in the preveous generations the pedigree is of little account, and undesirable for breeding purposes.
    The August term of court begins next week with a heavy docket. There are five occupants in the safe keeping of the sheriff and the clerk has a pigeon hole full of bonds that need attention. Civil business isn't so spry. Judge Kent is holding court in Dublin where the Cadwell murder is to be heard, one man in jail charged with killing Hershel Jenkins.
    There are only 13, 546 people in Johnson County according to census figures by the Washington bureau. This is just 649 more people than were living here 10 years ago, an increase of 5 percent. Laurens County shows 39, 605 and Dodge 22,540. James T. Miller has declined to run for representative. Dr. Tyndall will remain as pastor of the Christian church. Dr. J. R. Dent now has an office upstairs over the Farmers Bank. The Headlight moved into its new location described as just west of Farmers Bank, across from Brinson Drug Store, 4 doors off the corner across from the courthouse square on West Elm street.
    Mr. L. L. Prescott was laid to rest in Northview in Dublin where he was a rural mail carrier. Mrs. Mollie Hudson, and aged and respected lady of the city, died at her daughters home, Mrs. C. T. Mixon. She was born December 2, 1851.

FROM DAYS GONE BY July 31, 1920

July 31, 1920.

    The Georgia Newspaper editors met in Carrollton for their annual meeting. Next years meeting will be in Washington, Georgia. Hon. Roscoe Peacock of Eastman, a candidate for Congress from the 12th district plans speaking dates at Greenway schoolhouse, Kite and Wrightsville next week. Congressman Wash W. Larson spoke in the court house to a large crowd of voters and spent most of the afternoon on the streets around town. Hon. Thomas E. Watson, candidate for the United States Senate will speak in Dublin today.

    The Rev. John W. Tyndall, the beloved pastor of the Wrightsville Christian church is considering remaining for another year. He was preparing to move to Atlanta recently purchasing a home there. The people are working very hard to keep him here. Rev. G. F. Sumner closed a very successful singing school at Piney Mount with a concert and dinner.

    Crops in Johnson County are healthy looking now and farmers are in much better heart over the present outlook. Last Wednesday the Dominey hog sale in Laurens County was pulled off ad $8,695 realized for 35 head. Spotted Poland China is his kind. The highest prize paid for a hog there that day was $375, paid by Burch & Williams of Milan. The lowest price being $145, paid by Mr. W. C. Tompkins. Mr. B. P. Lake bought one for $325.

    Dr. James G. Brantley completed his post graduate course in Chicago at Mayo Brothers. He will open offices here equipped with the latest diagnostic and surgical equipment. Col. & Mrs. W. M. Shurling just occupied his new home on North Marcus Street. The present term officers of the Johnson Lodge, No. 110 I. O. O. F. were installed. Dr. T. L. Harris is the N. G., Mr. J. A. Hall is the V. G., Mr. I. W. Williams is the secretary and Mr. L. J. Claxton is the treasurer.

    Dr. F. A. Pouppirt's family arrived here from the west where he has set up a veterinary office here. Work is going ahead fast now on the new buildings for the fair association and will soon all be done. Mr. Hugh McWhorter has resigned his position as Postmaster. Miss Emma Thomas of Jackson, who taught school here last year will fill his position.

    A party composed of Mrs. J. L. Kent, Mrs. Raymond Rowland, Mrs. J. O. Tanner, Mrs. C. D. Roundtree and Miss Gertrude Duff are spending the week at Tybee. Candidate J. Leonard Roundtree, candidate for State Senate from Summitt was a visitor to the county. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Jenkins had a son on July 5th named Hugh Tyndall Jenkins.

    Mrs. Joe M. Walker passed away July 25th in Dublin after being ill several months. She was 40 years old and a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Burns. Her brothers and sisters survive her. Messrs. Johnnie, W. G., Tyler, Lofton, Dawson and Jackson Burns. Also Mrs. Willie Bailes and Mrs. J. R. Cherry. She was buried at Westview. On the 23rd of June Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Foskey lost their daughter Hattie Gillian Foskey, almost 3 years old from diphtheria.

    Fevers are being reported constantly in various sections of the city, although there is not so much bad illness, just slight cases. There may be a reason for this located in some part of the city and it is deeply regretted that sewage is not all over the town at this time. Making moonshine, gambling and loafing go hand in hand here and the law is trying to cut it out.

FROM DAYS GONE BY July 24, 1920

July 24, 1920.

    Just half of what was seven weeks ago was a well, healthy, and happy family lie silent in their graves and the three left in the home are well but heart-broken and tear-stained. About that Long Fever, the wife, the eldest daughter and the eldest son of Mr. Eugene C. Miller, took sick with the typhoid. Dr. S. M. Johnson did all he could for them. The wife died on July 4th with two other children desperately ill. Then on July 15th, Cora, the eldest daughter, ten years old died and was buried at Piney Mount next to her mother who's dirt had not even settled yet. Then the next day, Lee, the eight year old son died and another fresh grave filled next to the previous. It isn't often that it happens as it has but the husband and two remaining children had the sympathy of the entire county.

    A strong petition from the citizens of Adrian to the members of the House and Senate is in Atlanta urging the immediate passage of the local bill affecting its city limits and other matters pertaining to the town. But there is some opposition to the idea of venue as set out in the bill and it is doubtful if the bill passes with the venue clauses in it as its written. Rep. Sumner and Sen. Kea are looking after the bill and will not allow Johnson County to suffer from any clause in it that smacks of injury to the county, whether it was so intended or not by the originators, and it is believed that the people of Adrian would not wish to injure Johnson in any way.

    Recent rains have brought forth much moisture for the maturing crops and after all speculations it seems that a pretty fair one will be harvested this fall by most every farmer in the county. Among the farmers smiling over the better cotton outlook were M. A. Hall, H. H. Garnto, Isham Stephens, A. T. R. Hall, Ben Walker, say the damage from the boll weevil so far is not so bad.

    William Jackson, and sons Roy and Forrest along with B. B. Tanner, M. E. Crow and C. D. Roundtree went to a mammoth Duroc hog sale at Cochran held by Peacock & Hodge. The sum of this sale was astonishing. About forty-five hogs were auctioned off at an average price of over $600 a piece. Twenty-five sold an average of $811. It was said by them that many of the hogs that sold were not as desirable as the ones they already owned.

    Sarah Brown swore out a warrant for a colored man who she swore was a worse biter than any bulldog she had ever seen and to prove her assersions she exhibited a bad bite on the fleshy part of her right arm and a still worse one on her back. The man was run down by Deputy Lee Jackson and landed in jail. Officers W. T. Rowland, M. L. Jackson and C. T. Mixon made another big raid on Saturday morning out near the river. They went to three places and captured three stills. Two of them were twenty gallon copper outfits and the other was just a plain old wash pot arrangement. They brought them in as evidence but no arrests were made. They say they are yet on the lookout for more and are expecting a bigger capture pretty soon.

    The Scott Banking Company's statement of condition stood at $88,836.98. W. H. and Artis Spell are now running the Palace Café in Wrightsville. The Dixie Theatre will have the Hawaiian Serenaders an July 28th. Wrightsville Mayor John M. Hightower went to Liberty County to inspect his farm and usually stays about three days. This time he spent ten days and didn't want to come back cause the fishing was so good. He says until the water got high his luck on this trip was the best. If the rivers, creeks and ponds hadn't got full nobody can tell if he would ever come back, and the town would have no mayor.

FROM DAYS GONE BY July 17, 1920.

July 17, 1920.

    The Globe Realty Company of Wrightsville began seeking leases on lands for the development of the E. R. Spell oil fields. Mr. H. T. Hicks says he has secured a great many leases already but not enough to insure success and needs more especially those close to the seepages. The terms are liberal and admit of nothing unreasonable nor dangerous. The seepages continue to emerge from the same locations and the evidence is there that oil must be under the surface in large quantities. Johnson County would be a mighty rich one and its people were oil wells a certainty within her boundaries.

    The Johnson County Fair Association informs the first piece of lumber was sawn and the first nail driven in putting up two more big agricultural houses and two more long stock pens at the fairgrounds. The lumber was purchased at a very close price and the work is out on contract, given by Messrs. R. R. Martin, J. T. Fulford and W. P. Bedingfield.

    There has been a bill submitted by Mr. Lewis B. Brinson of Emanuel County effecting the city charter of Adrian and it touches chiefly on the school situation there. It does not deal with the city limits except fixes the boundary at one mile from the crossing of the two railroads in the heart of the town. Nor does it place the town in either one of the two counties. It is designed to regulate the charter so as to allow further school progress in the community. It does say that all cases appealed from the council of the town shall go to Emanuel jurisdiction, cutting out Johnson entirely. It also names the mayor and councilmen for the ensuing term under the new charter but takes those elected recently.

    Judge Z. T. Prescott died last Thursday at his home six miles west of Wrightsville from a three week long sickness. He was for years a prominent man in political and civil activities of the county. He married young and had several children, four still living, two girls and two boys. They are Messrs. Ben and George Prescott and Mrs. U. R. Jenkins and Mrs. Julia Ballard. His wife also survives him. He was for years a Justice of the Peace of Bray's District. He was buried at Westview.

    Mr. John M. Barnes died in an Augusta hospital leaving a wife and six children. He married a Miss Stephens, sisters to Cols. E. L., R. I. and T. P. Stephens and resided in Washington County. He was buried at Bethany. Mrs. Eugene C. Miller died at her country home from a lengthy fever. Her husband and four children survive her with two of the children seriously ill. Burial was at Piney Mount.

    On the 14th Miss Mary Hammock became the bride of Mr. James Edward Agerton. She was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hammock, four miles north of Wrightsville.

    Mr. J. H. Rowland now has an electric motor to run his grist mill and Jim Bush says he can get a sack of meal ready while you wait. Allen Page brought a 36 pound melon to town. Mr. C. E. Brinson, famous for the Hampshire breed of hog will be having a big sale on the first day of September next. Wrightsville is still growing strong.

    The Headlight is moving to the brick store on Elm Street just below the Farmers Bank. Mr. Henry Heath has been transferred to Dublin and Wrightsville from Macon by the insurance company he has been with for several years. Mr. James E. Copeland is a new army recruit from this county. Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick will speak at Idylwild today.

FROM DAYS GONE BY July 10, 1920

JULY 10, 1920.

     Col. Walter R. Daley, formerly of the Wrightsville bar, but for the past 30 years a citizen of DeKalb County, has announced for the judgeship of the Stone Mountain circuit. He is a brother to the late judge Alexander F. Daley who was for years a leader in Wrightsville.

    Governor James M. Cox of Ohio has accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. He is a three time Ohio governor running 75,000 votes ahead of the congressional ticket last time. He owns two successful newspapers, a farmer, a natural leader in capital and labor. His running mate is Franklin D. Roosevelt of Hyde Park, New York and is Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He is a cousin of the late President Teddy R. Roosevelt.

    The girls canning club held here last week was a success. They closed with a picnic at Idylwild. Mr. Buford Lake, living on the Laurens side of Johnson County is growing 300 acres in peanuts this season and are rumored to be the best looking ones around. Part of the large plantation was first planted in cotton but afterwards plowed up and peanuts took its place with much success.

    Sooner or later someone is going to put in a peanut shelling plant in Wrightsville. It is simply needed. It does not require any great outlay of money. Almost any existing warehouse can be used. Peanut shelling machinery has become so thoroughly standardized that now it is built in units. With the large crop of peanuts being grown in this and adjoining counties, Wrightsville is the logical place for a modern shelling plant.

    Officers W, T. Rowland and Lee Jackson made another determined raid Friday on a liquor still up on the river and captured the whole outfit, consisting of a real, perfectly good copper still and its usual accompaniments. This happened to take place in Laurens County and the one charged with its operation will answer to that county's authorities.

    Mrs. Steely Smith, aged 71, died at Rawlings Sanitarium Friday evening after a siege of illness. She was buried in Westview. On Sunday morning, July 4th the death angel visited the home of Mr. & Mrs. T. I. Webb and bore away the spirit of their little son, Ivey Harris, age one year, three months, and twenty-four days. He was sick only three weeks and a day, his first ailment being stomach trouble, got better, then dropsy of the brain set in and carried him away. Mr. & Mrs. Julian E. Brantley announced the birth of a daughter, Julia Annell on June 30th in Milledgeville.

    The banks released their statement of condition. The Exchange Bank of Wrightsville, $347,894.19; The Bank of Wrightsville, $465,516.75; Citizens Bank of Kite, $204,185.23; The Farmers Bank, $179,834.18; The Bank of Adrian, $243,063.73.

FROM DAYS GONE BY July 3, 1920

July 3, 1920.

    Within the past twelve years the Headlight has been used unstiutedly  in what their opinion would be a happy solution for the geographical troubles of the town of Adrian and comes again to offer a suggestion or two on the same matter.

    The county lines in, through and around Adrian run so peculiary that it requires an old resident to point them out and often times he is puzzled. Crimes committed might be easily placed in whatever county suits and no stranger would be the wiser. The law-abiding folks of the community have long since grown tired over the monotonous howl of venue and have time and again sought relief from county commissioners to the Georgia legislature but it has been worthless so far. Adrian has seen defeat after defeat and new counties made and new lines established which more complex matters and she is still embarresed as usual with no excuse to offer only that she has made an effort to better the situation and failed.

    West of the Ohoopee since the creation of Treutlen, there remains but a small acreage in the county of Emanuel and its dispossession, by reason of the lay of the land and the river and the tremendous size of Emanuel and the comparatively smaller county of Johnson, would most certainly not do any violence to Emanuel's treasury nor to her people.

    Johnson would welcome them into its territory, we believe and treat them as a new born babe. We fail to see wherein Emanuel County would be damaged and what little she would be, if any at all. With her magnificent resourses, she could well afford to sacrifice something to give relief where relief is actually needed now more than ever.

    No one can prove other than that this was our position years ago and that we fought to rectify a state of affairs for Adrian that has brought up conflicts innumerable and our contention all along have been made in a manner of personal friendship for the good people of the town and for her interests as we have watched and considered them.

    Now it is up to the commissioners of Emanuel County to say whether she shall straighten out her lines and get into one county or the other, and for reasons already narrated and others as well, if she is satisfied to come into Johnson, why not let Johnson have the town and that little narrow strip of territory from the river west.

Fw: From Days Gone By June 26, 1920.

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June 26, 1920.

    The annual short course for the canning and poultry club workers of the county will meet at the school auditorium and rooms here for four days session announced Miss Clemmie Massey, the home demonstration agent. Hon. George N. Napier of Decatur visited the county shaking hands as a candidate for attorney general of Georgia.

    Daniel F. Martin was a recent graduate from the army school at Camp Gordon in radiator repair. Mr. Charlie Bray and brother are having new homes erected on their plantation out in the country. Leon and Inman Chester are the contractors. The firm of Stephens & Benton of Kite was dissolved. W. I. Benton sold his interest to J. A. Stephens.

    Mr. A. C. Brooks of Donovan returned to Walton , Kentucky to resume his duties as pastor of the Christian church there. Some folks from the county made a trip to Eureka Springs, that everybody calls Jaybird, down in Telfair County. A fine place for resting and drinking.

    Mr. & Mrs. Philip Price, on June 10th had an 8 pound baby girl. Little Jordan Nathaniel Stokes, son of Mr. & Mrs. W. N. Stokes was born July 27th 1918 and sweetly fell asleep in Jesus after a week of suffering June 7th 1920.

    June weddings are blossuming all over Johnson County. Mrs. Daisy Kent Waddell and Mr. Stephens May were married. Miss Alice Queen McAfee and Mr. Charles A. Turner of Buford, also Miss Gladys Moye and Mr. Stacy Johnson. Mr. Emmitt E. Martin and Miss Imo Shipes. Miss Effie Brooks of Donovan and Mr. C. L. Little of Tennille were married too.

    Mr. Teas, the assistant to the state geologist, came down here the other day and went over to the oil district of the county on E. R. Spell's lands and made a close inspection of the premises. He came unheralded and without the knowledge of the owners and promoters of the project. He looked it over and told Mr. Spell that the prospects for oil on this land was second to none in Georgia and that the oil looked to him to be worth $20 per barrel, so good was the grade. He said if there is no oil in this district there is none in Georgia.

    In fact old man Ross, from California and the west at large, made the same statment that it resembled oil he found in Wyoming in 1894 that then brought $8 per barrel when other oils were selling for $2.

    The two authorities agree on quantity and quality. It is there in abundance and of the finer grade. The Globe Reality Company of Wrightsville is handling some mighty interesting oil land leases for the project and it looks like something in the way of actual development is going to take place within the next few weeks.

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