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.