From Days Gone By Dec. 4, 1920

December 4, 1920.
    A long-felt need is now an actuality. Wrightsville has its own ice plant, made at home by home men and capital. Ammoninated and steamed up it began running Sunday and Wednesday saw the first ice made. This plant has been in construction for about a year, and is considered the county's most important enterprise. Mr. C. Homer Moore let the contract for the $80,000 plant November 9, 1919.
    The Southern Ice & Coal Company has 245 cans putting out 300 pound blocks of ice eath. The cold storage part will greatly benefit the county's hog raisers. It will be run continuously br Mr. W. N. Watkins.
    Mr. Moore has also made an offer to the city to furnish water and light power from his ice plant at less than what the city pays for its own power plant. Councilman R. B. Bryan said it was a fine idea because the present light plant has been a losing proposition for the city. Moore has the surplus machinery which can be brought into action immediately in case of fire or any demand. He can keep the reservoir and tanks filled to supply water to every hydrant in town. His plant has to operate day and night which puts him in the position to make this offer.
    No action can be taken up until a new city council is elected. This proposition can make Mr. Moore and the city money while also reducing the cost of water and lights to the citizens.
    Mr. E. G. Lumley of Calhoun, Georgia is here to locate the areas in the county for installing dipping vats, which is now a law in Georgia. He estimates around 20 vats would be required and he is surveying the cattle areas to determine locations convenient to all. The state pays Lumley but the county must pay to build the vats. Johnson County is the only one in this area infested with ticks, as all surrounding counties already have vats and are tick free.
    Next week the 12th District Medical Society will meet in Wrightsville. Dr. J. H. Moore says a large number of physicians will be coming with local physician's entertaining with a picnic at Idylwild. Ordinary Wiggins sent out the papers for each militia district to elect their justice of the peace to be held Saturday.
    Captain W. Z. Kemp is forging ahead on the big highway project with a large force of convicts, mules, carts and road building devices and moving rapidly along. Captain Kemp will be replaced on the 15th by Mr. R. C. Dent. Kemp is returning to Screven County.
    Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Kitchens had a fine boy, Robert, Jr. on Thanksgiving Day. The U. S. Army has received several recruits from our county in James D. Sheppard, Jas M. Daniels, Guyton E. Hutcheson and Lundy S. Thompson. The infant of Mr. & Mrs. Amos Kight died last Friday morning near Rehobeth. The boy of Mr. & Mrs Jim Hammock was seriously burned near Scott.
    At the Kite. School auditorium Thanksgiving night the fiddlers did some old time fiddling which caused some "break-down" square dancing. Messrs. C. C. Tapley and Willie Thigpen weilded the bow as Miss Annie Mathis charmed on the piano. A feature of the evening was the dancing of Mr. Will Tapley.
    If you enjoy quick red-blooded action! A tale of adventure amid rocky peaks and yawning canyons! A fiery flamming romance! Mind baffling mystery! Then see Ruth Roland in "Ruth of the Rockies" at the Dixie Theatre.
Dear Santa Claus:
    I hope you will soon be around to see us all. I am a little boy 7 years old; I am in 1st grade. I want you to bring me a bicycle, red wagon and a toy automobile and lots of fruit, don't forget mt brothers and sisters, mama and papa. I hope you have a Merry Christmas. I am your little boy.
                 Marcus Oliver.