From Days Gone By Oct. 16, 1920

October 16, 1920.
    The gates of the Johnson County Fair Association in the southern section of Wrightsville opened yesterday on what is the biggest and best of the county fairs in this section. Central States Shows giving good entertainments daily. Individual county exhibits are many. There are the livestock, county bred mules, horses and colts, different breeds of throughbred hogs from all sections of the county. All types of agricultural products, the Corn Club, Pig Club and Calf Club is here also. Along with embroidery, crochet, tatting and the Canning Club.
    The many displays of farming machinery by different companies are a big attraction. Mr. W. F. Outlaw has a mammoth display but Mr. L. A. Lovett has the largest collection of power farm machinery.
    An unusual attraction is Nome, the half snake and half human. The Siamese Twins, Barnum's "Bosco" and all freaks and curiosities of past days and ages have dropped far in the back ground in comparrison with Doc Howell's freak "Nome".
    The two Wrightsville men who mixed in a fight on Wrightsville's streets last week are recovering. The Jew, David Lavine is in his room over the Exchange Bank while W. T. Tompkins is still in Sandersville. Mr. & Mrs. B. G. Dunlap announced the birth od a daughter on September 6th. Clerk Joe B. Williams has bought the home of Mr. James A. Hall on South Myrtle street. Mr. Hall has purchased the J. D. Hutchinson home from Mr. W. H. Lovett.
    Mrs. Dr. Lee W. Wheeler of Kite died Friday night after a lingering illness of several weeks. Dr. Wheeler also lost a son just a few days before his wife's death.
    Some fellow who didn't have as much cash as he needed at the time took the front doorway into Butterly's store Sunday night some time and placed to the bright side of his ledger something like $45 in cash from the register and from Uncle Sam's War Tax collection box. And it is a two- to- one bet that the said miscreant did not appropriate any of these funds for the collection box at any church in the county. The Doctors Strychine pills were unbothered.
    What was a perfectly good lard can outfit in the way of a distilling of that famous old "shine" was destroyed Sunday morning down in Cedar swamp by special officer M. L. Jackson. No evidence was on hand other than the apparatus but it was ascertained by the surroundings that the outfit had been in use just recently. The whole shebang was scattered to the four winds by Chief Jackson.
    Figures so far for the 1920 cotton season Johnson County ginned up to October 4th, 3,227 bales as against 6,748 last year.
    Mr. E. W. Jordan who works for the Wrightsville Furniture Company lost all of his household goods Monday to a fire that consumed his dwelling on the Crawford place. No insurance was carried.
    A whole lot of malaria and other fevers are circulating throughout the cpunty and much sickness prevails. A lot of folks are sick or recovering.