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.