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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