From Days Gone By Sept. 18, 1920

September 18, 1920.
    Roger Gamble, colored, about 30 years old, was killed in cold blood Sunday at Mount Pleasant church near Bray's store and three colored men are being charged with the murder. The details are scant and varied. It seems that one negro came upon the church grounds with some 'shine and was dishing it out promiscously. Roger and one of the liquorites got into a fight over the whisky.
    Pistols were here brought into play. Two other men came into the fight against Gamble, and soon his his body was full of bullet holes. Levi Hightower, Isadore Hood and one other colored man whose name has not been learned was charged with the killing. So far as is known yet no warrants have been sworn out for either.
    Deputy W. T. Rowland arrested the one who it is said brought the shine to the church and he is now resting safely behind bars in the county jail. The dead man has a family. Bad liquor is the cause of it all, no doubt.
    If you haven't been to Donovan, in Johnson County, you have missed going somewhere well worth going to. It is only a wide place in the road, but it posesses a few families the best in the country who live at home and board at the same place. Happy, contented, prosperous and energetic, these people are what one might call "living".
    Just to mention the one big particular thing in Donovan is the Jackson Dairy and the stock and agricultural farm in connection. This is an enterprise that is unsurpased anywhere in the state so far as information goes. The sixty tony milkers of the largest producing kind all lined up for milking is a pretty sight. The milker weighs each cow's bucket of milk each time and a record is kept. A non-productor is thus ascertained and banished from the herd. Everything is so neat and clean around therr even tho its a cow barn. And in the creamery you ought to go. Then wind up all of this, see his silo and machinery and the fields of growing grain, and then visit his hog farm, Durocs are his favorite. One in particular he had at last years fair, he is sending off to some of the big state fairs. This is a farm operation Johnson County can be proud of.
    New Home hosted a fine Singing Convention and Beulah will host the next one. Mr. J. O. Lake sold his meat market to Mr. James Hooks of Spann. Mr. Lake is now running machinery for Mr. B. Vickers. By the way new homes are going up in Wrightsvlle one would judge that hard times isn't staying around here much. The town is on a building boom. Mr. & Mrs. Quergeon Martin had the arrival of a baby girl on September 10th.
    Mr. J. Morgan Layton has opened a new shoe repair shop in Mr. F. C. Lords grocery store just in front of the Cotton Exchange. Judge Wiggins is now collecting the road tax for 1920. Mr. John R. Moore has been shipping some of his fine stock hogs off where he has been made the seller lately. He is improving his farm which he has named "The Willows". He is putting up new stock barns. The farm is located down on the Brasington saw mill tract.