From Days Gone By Oct. 9, 1920

October 9, 1920.

    What almost terminated in a disatrous fight took place about dark Tuesday night in front of the store of Mr. C. S. Blankenship, fronting the court house square in the main business center of the city. At that time but few people were on the streets, the population of the city being at supper, mostly.
    David Lavine, a shoe repairer of the city who is a Jew, and Willie T. Tompkins mixed in the affray and both came out wounded by pistol balls. Of course details as given by various people differ and just how it started, who was the transgressor, and who caused it, etc., are at varience.
    Anyhow verging from the fight Tompkins was hit in the forarm and the bullet lodged somewhere in it. The shoe man was hit in the left thigh and the bullet went through, coming out and dropping into his clothes where it was found when a doctor examined and treated him. Mr. Tompkins was taken to the Sandersville sanitarium to have the bullet removed from his arm.
    J. H. Arnall, cashier of the Tennille Banking Company was found dead in the vault of the bank early Monday morning with a pistol wound in his head and a pistol clutched in his right hand. It is believed he committed suicide. It is believed his rash act was due to an unbalanced mind worrying over the health of his son.
    Shortly after 7 on Sunday night Arnall left home to attend revival service at the Christian church. He did not come home and a search was made when they found him at the bank in the vault which was barely opened. The bank went over the books and found them in good order. Arnall was 45 and survived by a wife and son. He was well known in banking circles throughout the state.
    The home of Mr. Cordie Price in the eastern part of the county was burglarized Monday morning. Mrs. Price had gone to a neighbors home for a few hours and upon her return discovered clothes misplaced, a suit case and over $100 worth of clothes were stolen. John Q. Amerson, Friday, while working at the saw mill near town broke his leg near the middle of the limb.
    The 3rd annual Johnson County Fair opens October 13th,  and Jackson Farms of Donovan will have a hige display of his purebred livestock including Duroc-Jersey hogs, Hereford and Jersey cattle. Johnson County voted overwhelming for Thomas W. Hardwick who won the governorship of Georgia. Mr. & Mrs. J. R. Harrison announced the birth of a daughter, Iris Neal, on October 3rd.
    The old soldiers who have gone to Texas for the Confederate Reunion were U. R. Jenkins, Captain T. J. Brantley, W. C. Chester, O. A. Kennedy, J. A. Douglas, Jr., G. V. McCray, Evans Tucker, Mrs. Dr. G. R. Bedingfield, Dr. & Mrs. M. D. L. Peacock and Mrs. Dr. Meeks of Kite.
    Mr. O. P. Prescott lost their eleven year old daughter, Bernice, who had been sick only a short time from hemoragic fever. They lost another daughter about a year ago. They were buried at Marvin Church in Laurens County.
    Are You Legally Married ?, with Lew Cody and Rosemary Theaby is coming to the Dixie Theatre. Also a coming attraction, a five reel feature film starring Earle Metcalfe and Claire Whitney in "The Chamber Mystery." The Scott Banking Company released its statement of condition at $91,439.12.