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.