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.