From Days Gone By Nov.6, 1920

November 6, 1920.
    It was a landslide all over the country for Republicans. All indications are of a greater victory than President Wilson got in 1916. Johnson County and Georgia went Democratic. Warren G. Harding was elected President and Calvin Coolidge Vice-President, also Republicans swept the Congress. In Johnson County there were 589 Democratic votes and 76 Republican votes.
    Prizes awarded to club members during the recent fair were Elmer Brantley, best acre of corn; Remer Moore, best pig any breed; Burtis Price, best Duroc; W. M. Thompson, best Spotted Poland China; Jas. O. Colston, best black Poland China; J. B. Greenway, best calf.
    City Court will have a heavy docket come Monday with about a dozen in jail awaiting trial and alot of civil litigation. Tom Floyd, colored, pleaded guilty for carrying a concealed pistol. Judge Blount gave him $50 and costs or an alternative in the chain gang. He went to jail pending the payment of the fine.
    It grew cold down in that Fitzgerald jail Halloween night and the 11 colored brethren held for trial decided to heat up something and filed their way out the coal bin route. Over at Douglas 4 more filed their way to the open air. Only one of the 15 had been caught so far. Over in Montgomery, Alabama, 10 blacks were jailed for arson. The home and several bales of cotton, another home and one gin having been torched by them. Also several tenant houses. Two in addition to the ten were killed by a posse headed by the Sheriff.
    Furniture and fixtures for the Farmers Bank have arrived and being installed. The post office is going to put on a new front with new furniture. Mr. E. A. Lovett, owner of the building arranged for this.
    The estate of Mrs. E. A. Hall was sold. It brought $32.50 per acre. W. D. Sumner and H. Lake the successful bidders. It was divided into 3 lots of 42 acres each. The county Board of Education held its monthly meeting. The board audited the teacher's accounts and sent them to the state. The school at Poplar Springs was given 5 graded for small children so they would not have to go to Scott.
    Sunday night the seed house of the Farmers Gin Company caught fire. The firemen contained the blaze to that one building. The origin of the fire was unknown. There was $1000 insurance on the building and $6,000 on the contents of seed.
    On October 14th Miss Lille Mae Mills and Mr. Alvin Snell were married. Barber & Mrs. Willie Brantley had a little daughter on October 30th. Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Clarke had a daughter November 2nd.
    There will be a real old time fiddlers convention at Kite high school next month. Mrs. Rebecca Walker forbids anybody from harboring, hiring, feeding, sheltering or detaining her son, Nathan Wilkins, 16 years old. Aunt Jane Stephens died at Uncle Henry Stephens place yesterday. Mr. Stacy Johnson left L. A. Lovett to work in Macon at American Tobacco Company.
    Cane grindings are going on throughout the county now and they are receiving much patronage. These times are good ones and are long-looked for on the farm.