January 28, 1922.
The Wrightsville Headlight printed a piece from the Nashville Tennessean about the plight of farmers, called "De Ducks".
Under an Iowa dateline the newspapers of the middle west recently carried a story of a farmer who had sold his corn, attempting to explain to a banker why he needed a loan. The following dialogue ensued:
"But," the banker said, "I don't understand why you should want to borrow money when you have just shipped your corn. What did you do with the money?"
"De ducks got it," replied the farmer. "What do you mean by 'de ducks?" Replied the banker.
"Well," the farmer explained, "i shipped the corn to market and sold it for 52 cents a bushel. They de duck freight, that left 31 cents; de duck 1 cent commission, that left 30 cents; de duck elevator charges, that left 27 cents; de duck huskings that left 15 cents; de duck hauling, that left 5 cents; de duck the hired man's wages from that and you are a better farmer than I am if you can find anything left."
The "de ducks" are the plague of the farmer's existance. Under the prevailing marketing system he pays everytime he turns around, and unless times are remarkably good, it takes keen figuring to discover the profit.
All of the "de ducks" cannot be eliminated, but some of them can, and the average remainder can be reduced. Cooperative marketing will deliver the knock-out to the present "de duck" system. The farmer is certainly entitled to fair percentage of return on his investment and labor, and the only way in which we can be assured of it is by organization so that he can have a voice in the sales price of what he raises.
Agriculture needs to apply the same scientific methods of buying, warehousing, and merchandising as it does to producing. When that is done the industry will be placed upon a business basis.
Monday, December 30, 2019
From Days Gone By Jan 21, 1922
January 21, 1922.
The following was printed in late 1921 in the Wrightsville Headlight as farming was Georgia's biggest industry and the county fairs were the biggest and most important events of the time. It's entitled "The Fair" by D. G. Bickers.
"From Georgia farms and Georgia fields are Georgia products fine,
And gems and precious metals there from many a Georgia mine.
The Georgia woods have beat their share of treasure for the show
And Georgia marble smooth and white will soon be all the go.
There's Georgia melons, Georgia cane, and Georgia cotton, too,
And Georgia oats and wheat and corn like what the west can do,
There's Georgia bread from Georgia mills and Georgia wool for clothes.
There's Georgia shoes and Georgia hats and overalls and hose.
There's Georgia turnips turning and punkins never punk,
And Georgia 'taters syrupy like candy by the chunk.
There's Georgia pinders, peanuts--also ground peas, goobers, too,
And Georgia syrup, "ribbon cane" -- and Georgia "mountain dew",
There's Georgia cakes and Georgia cream and Georgia peaches sweet.
And Georgia rice and Georgia hams and Georgia middling meat.
There's Georgia cabbage, collards, and some other things as green,
And luscious Georgia fruits of all sorts - the like was never seen.
There's Georgia horses, mules and colts, and Georgia hogs galore,
And Georgia cows and calves and bulls, and then a plenty more,
Of other Georgia livestock from the pasture and the stall----
The finest that was ever seen in summer, spring or fall.
From out the Georgia mountains, Georgia hills and Georgia vales,
From off the plains and fields, from out the Georgia dales,
The products of this Georgia soil would open wide the eyes
Of Easterner or Westerner and fill him with surprise.
And many a Georgia fellow there will chew his Georgia quid
And reach into his Georgia jeans where Georgia gold is hid,
Enjoy in true old Georgia style the fair in all its parts
And show in turn the Georgianess of "sho-nuff" Georgia hearts."
Another entitled "The Dairy Cow" by Walt Mason.
"The dairy cow's a thing of charm; she lifts the morgage from the farm, and makes the farmer's life more sweet and sets him down in easy street. Where'er the dairy cow is queen, a country prosperous is seen, and dairymen, in joyful ranks, are packing bullion to the banks. Why plug along the same old way, producing nutmegs, prunes, hay, and putting up a bankrupt wail if one year's crop should chance to fail? There a better method now---the method of the dairy cow; this critter always earns her keep, and piles up riches while you sleep. So let us boost the Holstein cow, which beats the old breechloading plow; the Guernsey and the Jersey, too, as smooth as any cow in view. Let's talk up dairies, milk and cream, the safest money-making scheme."
The following was printed in late 1921 in the Wrightsville Headlight as farming was Georgia's biggest industry and the county fairs were the biggest and most important events of the time. It's entitled "The Fair" by D. G. Bickers.
"From Georgia farms and Georgia fields are Georgia products fine,
And gems and precious metals there from many a Georgia mine.
The Georgia woods have beat their share of treasure for the show
And Georgia marble smooth and white will soon be all the go.
There's Georgia melons, Georgia cane, and Georgia cotton, too,
And Georgia oats and wheat and corn like what the west can do,
There's Georgia bread from Georgia mills and Georgia wool for clothes.
There's Georgia shoes and Georgia hats and overalls and hose.
There's Georgia turnips turning and punkins never punk,
And Georgia 'taters syrupy like candy by the chunk.
There's Georgia pinders, peanuts--also ground peas, goobers, too,
And Georgia syrup, "ribbon cane" -- and Georgia "mountain dew",
There's Georgia cakes and Georgia cream and Georgia peaches sweet.
And Georgia rice and Georgia hams and Georgia middling meat.
There's Georgia cabbage, collards, and some other things as green,
And luscious Georgia fruits of all sorts - the like was never seen.
There's Georgia horses, mules and colts, and Georgia hogs galore,
And Georgia cows and calves and bulls, and then a plenty more,
Of other Georgia livestock from the pasture and the stall----
The finest that was ever seen in summer, spring or fall.
From out the Georgia mountains, Georgia hills and Georgia vales,
From off the plains and fields, from out the Georgia dales,
The products of this Georgia soil would open wide the eyes
Of Easterner or Westerner and fill him with surprise.
And many a Georgia fellow there will chew his Georgia quid
And reach into his Georgia jeans where Georgia gold is hid,
Enjoy in true old Georgia style the fair in all its parts
And show in turn the Georgianess of "sho-nuff" Georgia hearts."
Another entitled "The Dairy Cow" by Walt Mason.
"The dairy cow's a thing of charm; she lifts the morgage from the farm, and makes the farmer's life more sweet and sets him down in easy street. Where'er the dairy cow is queen, a country prosperous is seen, and dairymen, in joyful ranks, are packing bullion to the banks. Why plug along the same old way, producing nutmegs, prunes, hay, and putting up a bankrupt wail if one year's crop should chance to fail? There a better method now---the method of the dairy cow; this critter always earns her keep, and piles up riches while you sleep. So let us boost the Holstein cow, which beats the old breechloading plow; the Guernsey and the Jersey, too, as smooth as any cow in view. Let's talk up dairies, milk and cream, the safest money-making scheme."
From Days Gone By Jan 14, 1922
January 14, 1922.
This is part two of interesting and little known facts about the first twenty-six presidents of the United States.
Andrew Johnson was one of the poorest presidents monetarily. Only Southern Senator to oppose Sessesion and keep his Senate seat after the Confederacy was formed. Only president to be a Senator, become President, then return to the Senate. First President to be impeached by the House but was aquitted by the Senate.
Ulysses Simpson Grant never voted for a Republican until he was top leader of the army, at 46 was youngest elected up to that time. Last president to have been a slave owner. He also created the Department of Justice.
Rutherford B. Hayes was first to call for full citizenship of Indians, spent an hour in prayer each morning before doing his presidential duties. First to win Electoral College and lose popular vote, Democrats claimed he stole the election. (Sound familiar).
James A. Garfield was last president born in a log cabin, second president to be assasinated although he live more than two months after being shot.
Chester Alan Arthur, until he became vice-president had no political experience in National politics, did not move into the White House for 3 months claiminng the previous occupant left it in a mess.
Grover Cleveland was first Democrat elected after the Civil War, only president who's wedding was in the White House, only president to lose re-election then return to the presidency in a subsquent election. Won popular vote but lost Electoral College 233-168. His Supreme Court struck down the income tax as unconstitutional.
Benjamin Harrison was the Centenial president, 100 years after George Washington, refused to shake hands believing it hygienic.
William McKinley lost $100,000 business deal but supporters established a fund to pay it off, later he tried to repay them but they refused to accept it. Last president to have served in the Civil War. Third president to be assasinated.
Teddy Roosevelt at 42 became the youngest president when McKinley was shot. Only president to recieve the Nobel Prize and Medal of Honor, first in foreign policy to use the term "America First".
William Howard Taft was the heaviest president at over 300, started tradition of throwing the first pitch of baseball season. As a progressive he wanted to lower tarriffs and offset revenues with income taxes, which, until the adoption of the 16th Amendment, unconstitutional.
Of the nation's first seven presidents, five were re-elected for a second term, of the next eight, none was. Two died and six either failed to be re-elected or decided to serve one term.
This is part two of interesting and little known facts about the first twenty-six presidents of the United States.
Andrew Johnson was one of the poorest presidents monetarily. Only Southern Senator to oppose Sessesion and keep his Senate seat after the Confederacy was formed. Only president to be a Senator, become President, then return to the Senate. First President to be impeached by the House but was aquitted by the Senate.
Ulysses Simpson Grant never voted for a Republican until he was top leader of the army, at 46 was youngest elected up to that time. Last president to have been a slave owner. He also created the Department of Justice.
Rutherford B. Hayes was first to call for full citizenship of Indians, spent an hour in prayer each morning before doing his presidential duties. First to win Electoral College and lose popular vote, Democrats claimed he stole the election. (Sound familiar).
James A. Garfield was last president born in a log cabin, second president to be assasinated although he live more than two months after being shot.
Chester Alan Arthur, until he became vice-president had no political experience in National politics, did not move into the White House for 3 months claiminng the previous occupant left it in a mess.
Grover Cleveland was first Democrat elected after the Civil War, only president who's wedding was in the White House, only president to lose re-election then return to the presidency in a subsquent election. Won popular vote but lost Electoral College 233-168. His Supreme Court struck down the income tax as unconstitutional.
Benjamin Harrison was the Centenial president, 100 years after George Washington, refused to shake hands believing it hygienic.
William McKinley lost $100,000 business deal but supporters established a fund to pay it off, later he tried to repay them but they refused to accept it. Last president to have served in the Civil War. Third president to be assasinated.
Teddy Roosevelt at 42 became the youngest president when McKinley was shot. Only president to recieve the Nobel Prize and Medal of Honor, first in foreign policy to use the term "America First".
William Howard Taft was the heaviest president at over 300, started tradition of throwing the first pitch of baseball season. As a progressive he wanted to lower tarriffs and offset revenues with income taxes, which, until the adoption of the 16th Amendment, unconstitutional.
Of the nation's first seven presidents, five were re-elected for a second term, of the next eight, none was. Two died and six either failed to be re-elected or decided to serve one term.
From Days Gone By Jan 7, 1922
January 7, 1922.
This is part one of some interesting, and little known facts about the first twenty-six presidents of the United States.
George Washington was thought to be old as president, but he was 13 years younger than Ronald Reagan and 10 years older than Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama.
John Adams successfully defended British soldiers against murder charges in the Boston Massacre. He believed everyone deserved their day in court.
Thomas Jefferson opened the door and personally greeted guests at the White House, often in his bedroom slippers. Even before term limits he believed two terms was enough for any president.
James Madison was the first president to ask Congress for a declaration of war, and the first sitting president to lead American troops to the Battle of Bladensburg.
James Monroe was the first president to tour every region of the country and the last to wear a ponytail.
John Quincy Adams took the oath on a constitutional law book and not a Bible. The only president to serve in the House of Representatives after he lost re-election as president.
Andrew Jackson was the first president to be a target of assasination and repeatedly called for an amendment to eliminate the Electoral College.
Martin Van Buren inherited a slave as a teenager, who ran away, thus the first northern president to have been a slave owner. Created the Democratic Party and the first to be nominated by that party.
William Henry Harrison was the first presidential candidate to go state to state campaigning, served the shortest time in office (30 days) and gave the longest inaugural speech that lasted 2 hours. First president to die in office.
John Tyler was the first president to have a veto overridden by Congress, named no vice-president after assuming the presidency from Harrison's death, first to lose a wife while in office. Hail to the Chief was first played for him and adopted for future presidents. First to be threatened with impeachment by his own party. He narrowly escaped death when a cannon explosion occured during a demonstration. The result would have been two presidents to die in office in a 3 year period.
James Knox Polk was the only Speaker of the House to win the presidency and the first to promise to serve only one term.
Zachary Taylor was the first to call his wife the First Lady. His daughter defied him by marrying President Jefferson Davis.
Millard Fillmore appointed the only Whig Supreme Court Justice. (Whig was a political party at that time). While presiding over the Senate as Vice-President, watched as Senator Foote of Mississippi pull a pistol on Senator Benton of Missouri on the Senate floor.
Franklin Pierce at 49 was the youngest president before U. S. Grant was elected. Only president born in New Hampshire.
James Buchanan was only president to never marry and last to be born in the 1700s.
Abraham Lincoln was the only president to hold a patent. He was not even on the list of original candidates for the 1860 Republican nomination. His depression was so bad he joked to friends not to allow him near a knife. First president to be assassinated.
This is part one of some interesting, and little known facts about the first twenty-six presidents of the United States.
George Washington was thought to be old as president, but he was 13 years younger than Ronald Reagan and 10 years older than Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama.
John Adams successfully defended British soldiers against murder charges in the Boston Massacre. He believed everyone deserved their day in court.
Thomas Jefferson opened the door and personally greeted guests at the White House, often in his bedroom slippers. Even before term limits he believed two terms was enough for any president.
James Madison was the first president to ask Congress for a declaration of war, and the first sitting president to lead American troops to the Battle of Bladensburg.
James Monroe was the first president to tour every region of the country and the last to wear a ponytail.
John Quincy Adams took the oath on a constitutional law book and not a Bible. The only president to serve in the House of Representatives after he lost re-election as president.
Andrew Jackson was the first president to be a target of assasination and repeatedly called for an amendment to eliminate the Electoral College.
Martin Van Buren inherited a slave as a teenager, who ran away, thus the first northern president to have been a slave owner. Created the Democratic Party and the first to be nominated by that party.
William Henry Harrison was the first presidential candidate to go state to state campaigning, served the shortest time in office (30 days) and gave the longest inaugural speech that lasted 2 hours. First president to die in office.
John Tyler was the first president to have a veto overridden by Congress, named no vice-president after assuming the presidency from Harrison's death, first to lose a wife while in office. Hail to the Chief was first played for him and adopted for future presidents. First to be threatened with impeachment by his own party. He narrowly escaped death when a cannon explosion occured during a demonstration. The result would have been two presidents to die in office in a 3 year period.
James Knox Polk was the only Speaker of the House to win the presidency and the first to promise to serve only one term.
Zachary Taylor was the first to call his wife the First Lady. His daughter defied him by marrying President Jefferson Davis.
Millard Fillmore appointed the only Whig Supreme Court Justice. (Whig was a political party at that time). While presiding over the Senate as Vice-President, watched as Senator Foote of Mississippi pull a pistol on Senator Benton of Missouri on the Senate floor.
Franklin Pierce at 49 was the youngest president before U. S. Grant was elected. Only president born in New Hampshire.
James Buchanan was only president to never marry and last to be born in the 1700s.
Abraham Lincoln was the only president to hold a patent. He was not even on the list of original candidates for the 1860 Republican nomination. His depression was so bad he joked to friends not to allow him near a knife. First president to be assassinated.
Sunday, December 8, 2019
From Days Gone By Dec 31, 1921
December 31, 1921.
Wrightsville saw a quiet, sober and enjoyable Christmas. Drunkeness was at a low ebb and is now and disorderly charges have been few. The houses of worship were filled on Christmas day. The town businesses reports heavy selling several days in advance.
A jolly set of young people from around Mr. Oliver's and Raines Crossroads paraded all over Wrightsville and put on the first outward Christmas celebration of the season save the small amount of firecrackers shot in town. Dressed funnily and driving and riding odd conveyances they made merry for sometime beforr taking their departure.
Messrs. T. V. Kent and J. D. Bush have purchased the entire undertaking establishment of the Tanner Undertaking Company and have attractive quarters in Mr. Kent's department store on the west side of the court house.
Mr. Mark Anthony, a football star of Georgia was the guest of Mr. Louie Johnson and other friends in the city. Dr. & Mrs. R. E. Butterly entertained them with a dinner.
Warden Stanley is soon to break dirt on the Bee-Line highway out of the city towards Kite working his way to Moore's Chapel then completing it into Kite and to be at the Emanuel line by early summer. He has just completed a long stretch of public road into the city along the Summer's bridge way to Adrian.
A colored named Fason was turned loose having been parolled by Govenor Hardwick. A few more have paid out and the gang is barely 50 in number now. Mr. Lovett Price and Mr. T. D. Holt has been added to the guard force.
A new barn down at camp headquarters is finished. Several are in jail waiting to be tried. One of these is a colored man nicknamed "Peg" and "Peg" has started a regular "preaching" racket down there.
Around 2am the town was arroused with the fire alarm when the tenant house of Mrs. William Tyson out Idlywild was in flames. The colored tenants lost everything. Then later at 7am another alarm when the vacant residence next to Mr. R. T. Moye. The bucket brigade saved Moye's home but was all they could do.
Officer C. T. Mixon went to Hastings, Florida for a colored prisioner whom Sheriff Davis located and had jailed on a local charge. Mr. W. T. Kitchens went to Macon where he has opened a store selling army goods. Mr. T. W. Horton of Scott filed for bankruptcy.
Christmas weddings were very numorous this year. Miss Exie Lou Martin to Mr. Clyde Lord. She is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Wallace Martin, he is son of Mr. & Mrs. F. C. Lord.
Miss Lotis Stroud and Mr. Sidney Peebles, Miss Sarah Price to Mr. Olin Brantley, Miss Bessie McCoy to Mr. Roy Scarborough, Miss Eva Mae Beasley to Mr. Asa R. Morris, Miss Winburn Jackson to Mr. Lorenzie Powell and Miss Carrie Davis to Mr. Talmadge Colston.
Wrightsville saw a quiet, sober and enjoyable Christmas. Drunkeness was at a low ebb and is now and disorderly charges have been few. The houses of worship were filled on Christmas day. The town businesses reports heavy selling several days in advance.
A jolly set of young people from around Mr. Oliver's and Raines Crossroads paraded all over Wrightsville and put on the first outward Christmas celebration of the season save the small amount of firecrackers shot in town. Dressed funnily and driving and riding odd conveyances they made merry for sometime beforr taking their departure.
Messrs. T. V. Kent and J. D. Bush have purchased the entire undertaking establishment of the Tanner Undertaking Company and have attractive quarters in Mr. Kent's department store on the west side of the court house.
Mr. Mark Anthony, a football star of Georgia was the guest of Mr. Louie Johnson and other friends in the city. Dr. & Mrs. R. E. Butterly entertained them with a dinner.
Warden Stanley is soon to break dirt on the Bee-Line highway out of the city towards Kite working his way to Moore's Chapel then completing it into Kite and to be at the Emanuel line by early summer. He has just completed a long stretch of public road into the city along the Summer's bridge way to Adrian.
A colored named Fason was turned loose having been parolled by Govenor Hardwick. A few more have paid out and the gang is barely 50 in number now. Mr. Lovett Price and Mr. T. D. Holt has been added to the guard force.
A new barn down at camp headquarters is finished. Several are in jail waiting to be tried. One of these is a colored man nicknamed "Peg" and "Peg" has started a regular "preaching" racket down there.
Around 2am the town was arroused with the fire alarm when the tenant house of Mrs. William Tyson out Idlywild was in flames. The colored tenants lost everything. Then later at 7am another alarm when the vacant residence next to Mr. R. T. Moye. The bucket brigade saved Moye's home but was all they could do.
Officer C. T. Mixon went to Hastings, Florida for a colored prisioner whom Sheriff Davis located and had jailed on a local charge. Mr. W. T. Kitchens went to Macon where he has opened a store selling army goods. Mr. T. W. Horton of Scott filed for bankruptcy.
Christmas weddings were very numorous this year. Miss Exie Lou Martin to Mr. Clyde Lord. She is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Wallace Martin, he is son of Mr. & Mrs. F. C. Lord.
Miss Lotis Stroud and Mr. Sidney Peebles, Miss Sarah Price to Mr. Olin Brantley, Miss Bessie McCoy to Mr. Roy Scarborough, Miss Eva Mae Beasley to Mr. Asa R. Morris, Miss Winburn Jackson to Mr. Lorenzie Powell and Miss Carrie Davis to Mr. Talmadge Colston.
From Days Gone By Dec 24, 1921
December 24, 1921.
According to Victor Davidson of Wilkinson County the proposed Bee-Line Highway was once an Indian trail. Known as the Ridge Road it divides the valleys of Big Commissioner and Big Sandy creeks, lined with old homes.
The movement ehich is gathering force in Washington, Johnson and Emanuel counties for the building of a Bee-Line state highway from Savannah to Macon, running through these counties, crossing the Oconee River at Ball's Ferry and passing through the middle of Wilkinson County, is arousing considerable comment here.
The proposed route known as the Ridge Road passes through Irwinton and running near the majority of the towns of the county would be of untold benefit to thousands of people in Wilkinson. Macon being the market in which most of the produce of the county is sold, there has been felt a widespread need for an excellent highway to that city for many years, and should the big canning plants open up in Macon in the near future, Wilkinson County, on account of its proximity, will be able to market all the vegetables that can be raised.
Although the length of this stretch of road lying in Wilkinson County is about 30 miles, yet there is no doubt but that this could be built as cheaply as any road in the state. There is a world of clay and sand all along the route which could be had without effort. In addition to that there is a peculiarity about this road that is to be found perhaps nowhere else in Georgia, in that throughout its entire length in the county, it can be run without crossing a single stream of water, which would eliminate all need of bridges.
This road gets the name of Ridge Road from the fact that throughout the whole county it follows the long narrow ridge which divides the valley of the Big Commissioner from that of the Big Sandy creeks. The ridge is the divide and in places very narrow. One joker makes a statement which is slightly exaggerated in that "when a car is coming from Macon in the rain water that runs off the right side of the car goes into Big Sandy and the left side into Big Commissioner". However, there are one or two spots where this might happen on the road.
This road has played an important part in the history of Wilkinson County. First, we find it an old Indian trail leading from the Indian village of Fort Hawkins towards the sea coast. Later, when the county was laid off and Irwinton was settled, it became the line of communication between this isolated spot and the civilized world. The Oconee River being opened for navigation for barges and small boats, the cotton, tobacco and other produce was hauled along this road to Ball's Ferry and often on to Savannah. Later on, when Fort Hawkins settlement began to grow, the road was extended there along the old Indian trail, and this being the nearest route to Savannah by as much as a whole day's journey, then became the stage route to Savannah the road was during those years traveled as much perhaps as any road in the state.
Running along the highest ridge of the county, on either side are the wide valleys of the two creeks stretching out for miles, furnishing the finest views to be found in middle Georgia. It is small wonder that as the county increased rapidly in population the aristocracy of the antebellum days should build their fine homes along this route. To this day many of the dilapidated remains of those homes may yet be found, others with their chimneys standing guard over the ashes as ghostly reminders of the departed glory of the old South.
Still later, along the road came Sherman's hosts, burning and pilliaging the countryside, passing through Irwinton, destroying the court house on his march of destruction. And to this day the country has not recovered from the devistation nor have the indignities suffered been obliterated from the minds of the people. In their triumphant march along this road, Sherman's men carried J. R. Kelley, now attendance officer for Wilkinson, then the one-legged soldier, a prisioner in their hands and sentenced to be shot at sunrise because he had the nerve to attack single-handed the Federal patrols approaching the town of Gordon, killing one of them. Mr. Kelley succeeded in rolling out of the covered wagon he was in and escaping his captors while crossing Ogeechee swamp.
There are no less than three Primitive Baptist churches located on the road, Ramah, Friendship and Myrtle Springs. Ball's Ferry across the Oconee, connecting this stretch with Washington County, is one of the oldest ferries across the Oconee river, getting its name from Anderson Ball, one of the most prominant pioneer citizens of the county.
According to Victor Davidson of Wilkinson County the proposed Bee-Line Highway was once an Indian trail. Known as the Ridge Road it divides the valleys of Big Commissioner and Big Sandy creeks, lined with old homes.
The movement ehich is gathering force in Washington, Johnson and Emanuel counties for the building of a Bee-Line state highway from Savannah to Macon, running through these counties, crossing the Oconee River at Ball's Ferry and passing through the middle of Wilkinson County, is arousing considerable comment here.
The proposed route known as the Ridge Road passes through Irwinton and running near the majority of the towns of the county would be of untold benefit to thousands of people in Wilkinson. Macon being the market in which most of the produce of the county is sold, there has been felt a widespread need for an excellent highway to that city for many years, and should the big canning plants open up in Macon in the near future, Wilkinson County, on account of its proximity, will be able to market all the vegetables that can be raised.
Although the length of this stretch of road lying in Wilkinson County is about 30 miles, yet there is no doubt but that this could be built as cheaply as any road in the state. There is a world of clay and sand all along the route which could be had without effort. In addition to that there is a peculiarity about this road that is to be found perhaps nowhere else in Georgia, in that throughout its entire length in the county, it can be run without crossing a single stream of water, which would eliminate all need of bridges.
This road gets the name of Ridge Road from the fact that throughout the whole county it follows the long narrow ridge which divides the valley of the Big Commissioner from that of the Big Sandy creeks. The ridge is the divide and in places very narrow. One joker makes a statement which is slightly exaggerated in that "when a car is coming from Macon in the rain water that runs off the right side of the car goes into Big Sandy and the left side into Big Commissioner". However, there are one or two spots where this might happen on the road.
This road has played an important part in the history of Wilkinson County. First, we find it an old Indian trail leading from the Indian village of Fort Hawkins towards the sea coast. Later, when the county was laid off and Irwinton was settled, it became the line of communication between this isolated spot and the civilized world. The Oconee River being opened for navigation for barges and small boats, the cotton, tobacco and other produce was hauled along this road to Ball's Ferry and often on to Savannah. Later on, when Fort Hawkins settlement began to grow, the road was extended there along the old Indian trail, and this being the nearest route to Savannah by as much as a whole day's journey, then became the stage route to Savannah the road was during those years traveled as much perhaps as any road in the state.
Running along the highest ridge of the county, on either side are the wide valleys of the two creeks stretching out for miles, furnishing the finest views to be found in middle Georgia. It is small wonder that as the county increased rapidly in population the aristocracy of the antebellum days should build their fine homes along this route. To this day many of the dilapidated remains of those homes may yet be found, others with their chimneys standing guard over the ashes as ghostly reminders of the departed glory of the old South.
Still later, along the road came Sherman's hosts, burning and pilliaging the countryside, passing through Irwinton, destroying the court house on his march of destruction. And to this day the country has not recovered from the devistation nor have the indignities suffered been obliterated from the minds of the people. In their triumphant march along this road, Sherman's men carried J. R. Kelley, now attendance officer for Wilkinson, then the one-legged soldier, a prisioner in their hands and sentenced to be shot at sunrise because he had the nerve to attack single-handed the Federal patrols approaching the town of Gordon, killing one of them. Mr. Kelley succeeded in rolling out of the covered wagon he was in and escaping his captors while crossing Ogeechee swamp.
There are no less than three Primitive Baptist churches located on the road, Ramah, Friendship and Myrtle Springs. Ball's Ferry across the Oconee, connecting this stretch with Washington County, is one of the oldest ferries across the Oconee river, getting its name from Anderson Ball, one of the most prominant pioneer citizens of the county.
From Days Gone By Dec. 17' 1921
December 17, 1921.
William Wright, colored, living 7 or 8 miles west of the city was caught Saturday night with alot of wet goods and shooting irons around his usual place of abode by officers Lee Jackson and Will Crawford in a raid on the premises. A gallon and a half of the home-made brew was captured, a 15 gallon lard can still was destroyed and 2 barrels of mobby went up in flames.
When Officer Jackson went into the yard he was confronted by Wright who went back for his pistol. The officer grabbed him and took the big gun away from him. Wright's wife took a hand in the fray with a big shotgun but she didn't get far before this was taken away from her. She grabbed the whiskey and started under the house with it when Crawford pulled her out by a foot. They had some crowd of shooting irons around. The big blue-steel pistol, a 44-40 Winchester rifle, a pop-gun and a breach loading shotgun and Wright carried a big pocket knife which much resembled a Bowie knife. Wright was jailed on several charges.
Solicitor W. C. Brinson charged Mrs. Eliza Stuckey after her house had been raided Sunday night by officers Elton Oliver, Will Crawford and Henry T. Downs, Eliza had a big time at her house Sunday night. All the bloods of darktown were either there, had been there or was on the road there and as a result of the net dragging seven sons Eric were landed in the guard house charged with gambling. Brinson is making an effort to stop so much of this gambling around by putting some folk in the gang who operate such houses.
The Bee-Line Highway Association was formed in Wrightsville and the outline was given of the proposed route. The Bee-Line route from Savannah to Macon through Johnson County via Kite and Wrightsville is to be undertaken. They are pushing for the state to adopt this route. The committiee consisted of C. D. Roundtree, Dr. J. W. Brinson, Mr. W. A. Mixon, W. H. Lovett, G. D. Smith, J. C. Cave, M. T. Riner, J. S. Stephenson and S. M. Price. Also added were Fluker Tarbutton, Z. T. Houser, W. R. Smith, L. A. Lovett, J. B. Williams, M. Daley, C. T. Bray, H. J. Claxton, Henry Stephens, W. H. Raley, C. L. Claxton, Henry Garnto, Samps L. Powell, S. H. Lynch and W. N. Powell.
Part of the group traveled part of the proposed route of the Bee-Line starting in Kite and Wrightsville and headed towards Irwinton by way of Ball's Ferry crossing on the Oconee River and met with the Irwinton committee at their courthouse.
The Bee-Line Highway, a road project in which now the citizens of Johnson, Emanuel, Wilkinson, Bibb and others are relaying this interest to the state highway department. Candler County has been asked to join also as a letter was sent to Secretary Williams of the Woodpecker route, which runs from Savannah over the Dixie Overland through Statesboro, Metter, Graymont, Swainsboro, Kite, Wrightsville, Irwinton to Macon. It is shown that this route saves 25 to 30 miles between Swainsboro and Macon by way of Wrightsville and would shorten the trip from Atlanta to Savannah.
William Wright, colored, living 7 or 8 miles west of the city was caught Saturday night with alot of wet goods and shooting irons around his usual place of abode by officers Lee Jackson and Will Crawford in a raid on the premises. A gallon and a half of the home-made brew was captured, a 15 gallon lard can still was destroyed and 2 barrels of mobby went up in flames.
When Officer Jackson went into the yard he was confronted by Wright who went back for his pistol. The officer grabbed him and took the big gun away from him. Wright's wife took a hand in the fray with a big shotgun but she didn't get far before this was taken away from her. She grabbed the whiskey and started under the house with it when Crawford pulled her out by a foot. They had some crowd of shooting irons around. The big blue-steel pistol, a 44-40 Winchester rifle, a pop-gun and a breach loading shotgun and Wright carried a big pocket knife which much resembled a Bowie knife. Wright was jailed on several charges.
Solicitor W. C. Brinson charged Mrs. Eliza Stuckey after her house had been raided Sunday night by officers Elton Oliver, Will Crawford and Henry T. Downs, Eliza had a big time at her house Sunday night. All the bloods of darktown were either there, had been there or was on the road there and as a result of the net dragging seven sons Eric were landed in the guard house charged with gambling. Brinson is making an effort to stop so much of this gambling around by putting some folk in the gang who operate such houses.
The Bee-Line Highway Association was formed in Wrightsville and the outline was given of the proposed route. The Bee-Line route from Savannah to Macon through Johnson County via Kite and Wrightsville is to be undertaken. They are pushing for the state to adopt this route. The committiee consisted of C. D. Roundtree, Dr. J. W. Brinson, Mr. W. A. Mixon, W. H. Lovett, G. D. Smith, J. C. Cave, M. T. Riner, J. S. Stephenson and S. M. Price. Also added were Fluker Tarbutton, Z. T. Houser, W. R. Smith, L. A. Lovett, J. B. Williams, M. Daley, C. T. Bray, H. J. Claxton, Henry Stephens, W. H. Raley, C. L. Claxton, Henry Garnto, Samps L. Powell, S. H. Lynch and W. N. Powell.
Part of the group traveled part of the proposed route of the Bee-Line starting in Kite and Wrightsville and headed towards Irwinton by way of Ball's Ferry crossing on the Oconee River and met with the Irwinton committee at their courthouse.
The Bee-Line Highway, a road project in which now the citizens of Johnson, Emanuel, Wilkinson, Bibb and others are relaying this interest to the state highway department. Candler County has been asked to join also as a letter was sent to Secretary Williams of the Woodpecker route, which runs from Savannah over the Dixie Overland through Statesboro, Metter, Graymont, Swainsboro, Kite, Wrightsville, Irwinton to Macon. It is shown that this route saves 25 to 30 miles between Swainsboro and Macon by way of Wrightsville and would shorten the trip from Atlanta to Savannah.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
From Days Gone By Dec. 10, 1921
December 10, 1921.
Mr. E. E. Sanders is mayor of the city after last weeks elections. Messrs. C. S. Blankenship, I. R. Tanner and W. F. Outlaw won the three open council seats.
Miss Jennie Moore and Mr. Ellie Drake were married. Jennie is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Moore of Adrian. Mr. Drake is son of Mr. & Mrs. Lum Drake. Mr. Samps Powell and Miss Bertha Mae Garrett were married also. Mr. Charlie Brady died suddenly at Alamo. He was once employed here with the Headlight.
In a very spirited game of basketball in Tennille, Wrightsville went in defeat by the score of 27 to 20. Eugene Cook stared for Wrightsville. Wrightsville has several good games booked for this season and with a little practice will give these teams a hard fight.
Johnson had ginned 3,701 bales of cotton up to November 14th against 7,395 bales up to the same point last year. Johnson County's quarenteen has been lifted. It is now free of the cattle tick.
The fire alarm sounded around 8:30 Sunday night and the force with alot of people came out to assist in stopping the destruction of property by fire. The vacant residence that was built by Mr. W. H. Smith and belonging to Mr. R. B. Bryan was afire and burning fast. The department turned out in full force but too late to save anything. It was a seven room frame house and practically new. It is not known how the fire originated.
The sales here Tuesday was attended by more people than have been gathered here for awhile. There was a few sales made through levies by the sheriff but the most of the property sold was sold by administators for the purpose of distrbuting among heirs. Principal among these were the Powell, Harrison and Davis estates which were put up to the highest and best bidder and which did not bring on the average more than $12 per acre. There was a few shares of bank stock sold also.
Messrs. L. Samps Powell and W. T. Harrison, Jr. and Messrs. J. W. and O. K. Davis were the administators who sold the property, Col. A. L. Hatcher representing the two former estates and Judge B. B. Blount the Davis estate. Col. C. S. Claxton sold two tracts of land under levy. Some cattle was sold by Sheriff Davis under another levy.
Gov. Hardwick orders soldiers pensions to be ready to distribute by the 25th. The war tax on soda's was also lifted. The directors of the Jefferson County bank at Wadley closed its doors Friday morning and placed in the hands of the state bank examiners. The branch at Matthews is also affected.
The moon may be a dry planet, but there is considerable moisture in moonshine. Many people are saying how proud they are of the way the roads over the county are being improved by the present force of hands. Alot of moving around will be done between now and the new year. Several houses in the city are vacant now and there are reports that a few more will be vacant by owners moving to thier farms.
Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Burch had a little daughter and all are just fine. Miss Sallie Davis is now with Powell Chapel School.
W. T. Johnson will open up a place of business next to the E. A. W. Johnson store. The Tanner Undertaking Co. is moving down to the store of Mr. T. V. Kent, where it has arrainged new quarters for its big stock of coffins, caskets and robes.
Mr. Stephen D. Powell died November 13th living in the Providence Community. He was born in 1877. In 1905 he married Miss Mattie Mae Caplan and had 10 children, one who died in infancy. He died of pneumonia and was buried at Gumlog cemetery.
Mr. E. E. Sanders is mayor of the city after last weeks elections. Messrs. C. S. Blankenship, I. R. Tanner and W. F. Outlaw won the three open council seats.
Miss Jennie Moore and Mr. Ellie Drake were married. Jennie is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Moore of Adrian. Mr. Drake is son of Mr. & Mrs. Lum Drake. Mr. Samps Powell and Miss Bertha Mae Garrett were married also. Mr. Charlie Brady died suddenly at Alamo. He was once employed here with the Headlight.
In a very spirited game of basketball in Tennille, Wrightsville went in defeat by the score of 27 to 20. Eugene Cook stared for Wrightsville. Wrightsville has several good games booked for this season and with a little practice will give these teams a hard fight.
Johnson had ginned 3,701 bales of cotton up to November 14th against 7,395 bales up to the same point last year. Johnson County's quarenteen has been lifted. It is now free of the cattle tick.
The fire alarm sounded around 8:30 Sunday night and the force with alot of people came out to assist in stopping the destruction of property by fire. The vacant residence that was built by Mr. W. H. Smith and belonging to Mr. R. B. Bryan was afire and burning fast. The department turned out in full force but too late to save anything. It was a seven room frame house and practically new. It is not known how the fire originated.
The sales here Tuesday was attended by more people than have been gathered here for awhile. There was a few sales made through levies by the sheriff but the most of the property sold was sold by administators for the purpose of distrbuting among heirs. Principal among these were the Powell, Harrison and Davis estates which were put up to the highest and best bidder and which did not bring on the average more than $12 per acre. There was a few shares of bank stock sold also.
Messrs. L. Samps Powell and W. T. Harrison, Jr. and Messrs. J. W. and O. K. Davis were the administators who sold the property, Col. A. L. Hatcher representing the two former estates and Judge B. B. Blount the Davis estate. Col. C. S. Claxton sold two tracts of land under levy. Some cattle was sold by Sheriff Davis under another levy.
Gov. Hardwick orders soldiers pensions to be ready to distribute by the 25th. The war tax on soda's was also lifted. The directors of the Jefferson County bank at Wadley closed its doors Friday morning and placed in the hands of the state bank examiners. The branch at Matthews is also affected.
The moon may be a dry planet, but there is considerable moisture in moonshine. Many people are saying how proud they are of the way the roads over the county are being improved by the present force of hands. Alot of moving around will be done between now and the new year. Several houses in the city are vacant now and there are reports that a few more will be vacant by owners moving to thier farms.
Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Burch had a little daughter and all are just fine. Miss Sallie Davis is now with Powell Chapel School.
W. T. Johnson will open up a place of business next to the E. A. W. Johnson store. The Tanner Undertaking Co. is moving down to the store of Mr. T. V. Kent, where it has arrainged new quarters for its big stock of coffins, caskets and robes.
Mr. Stephen D. Powell died November 13th living in the Providence Community. He was born in 1877. In 1905 he married Miss Mattie Mae Caplan and had 10 children, one who died in infancy. He died of pneumonia and was buried at Gumlog cemetery.
Sunday, December 1, 2019
From Days Gone By Dec. 3, 1921
December 3, 1921.
The November term of City Court stopped work late Friday afternoon having put through a long line of criminal and civil proceedings through the judicial mill. Judge S. W. Sturgess of the City Court of Dublin was on the bench part of the week for Judge Moye who was disqualified in a number of cases. Judge Moye took the bench again Thursday morning and until adjournment on Friday late.
Solicitor W. C. Brinson represented the interest of the county in his usual efficient manner and quite a number of convictions are on the court's record. Eight went to the chaingang from the court. Of these, five were men and three were women. The latter were arrainged on charges growing out of crimes committed in the city. There are now 49 inmates of the county gang and Warden Stanley has the largest force the county has ever had. A lot of bonds were forfeited.
Even the joker is there. All except one queen, Warden Stanley now has a full deck. A white man went off Saturday for a liquor crime to which he plead guilty before Judge Moye and two more blacks went off Monday afternoon, making now 52 inmates on the chaingang. The two blacks were Robert Davis, who plead guilty to a pistol charge, and Lewis Youngblood who visited the farm of Prof. L. M. Blount Sunday afternoon and carried away a bag of pecans. He, also, said he was guilty and they both drew 8 months a piece. Warden Stanley now has 9 more then the gang ever carried before and is building roads in a hurry.
Just as Mr. J. E. Linder had returned from his room in the Ansley Hotel in Atlanta, to the street where 20 minutes before he had alighted from his big Packard automobile he discovered to his dismay that his costly machine was gone. Mr. Linder and party had just srrived in the city and the others had gotten out at the Piedmont and he drove on down to the Ansley. He stopped his car, got out and registered, went up to his room, bathed his hands and immediately returned to the street and during this short interval the car was nowhere to be found. Detectives and the police were put after it, but up to now no trace of the missing auto has been revealed. Mr. Linder had theft insurance to the amount of $2000. The Packard people fixed him up with a brand new beauty in which he came home.
There is no doubt that the railroads of the country are hit hard and many of them are facing a crisis in their running existence and it is being talked that there will be a general scrapping of short lines in many sections of the United States. Whether this will be done or not we cannot say. We do know that their business is crippled and will be for another year, because their business is like most every other business--not much doing. Nothing being shipped in nor out and won't be for some time to amount to a great deal. It is then for our people to begin to look into road building possibilites over this section, building highways over which may be conveyed such commodities as will necessary have to move.
It all depends on how you look at it. A lot of folks go around wearing good clothes, owe every other fellow you meet and then brag on how much they pay the preacher.
The November term of City Court stopped work late Friday afternoon having put through a long line of criminal and civil proceedings through the judicial mill. Judge S. W. Sturgess of the City Court of Dublin was on the bench part of the week for Judge Moye who was disqualified in a number of cases. Judge Moye took the bench again Thursday morning and until adjournment on Friday late.
Solicitor W. C. Brinson represented the interest of the county in his usual efficient manner and quite a number of convictions are on the court's record. Eight went to the chaingang from the court. Of these, five were men and three were women. The latter were arrainged on charges growing out of crimes committed in the city. There are now 49 inmates of the county gang and Warden Stanley has the largest force the county has ever had. A lot of bonds were forfeited.
Even the joker is there. All except one queen, Warden Stanley now has a full deck. A white man went off Saturday for a liquor crime to which he plead guilty before Judge Moye and two more blacks went off Monday afternoon, making now 52 inmates on the chaingang. The two blacks were Robert Davis, who plead guilty to a pistol charge, and Lewis Youngblood who visited the farm of Prof. L. M. Blount Sunday afternoon and carried away a bag of pecans. He, also, said he was guilty and they both drew 8 months a piece. Warden Stanley now has 9 more then the gang ever carried before and is building roads in a hurry.
Just as Mr. J. E. Linder had returned from his room in the Ansley Hotel in Atlanta, to the street where 20 minutes before he had alighted from his big Packard automobile he discovered to his dismay that his costly machine was gone. Mr. Linder and party had just srrived in the city and the others had gotten out at the Piedmont and he drove on down to the Ansley. He stopped his car, got out and registered, went up to his room, bathed his hands and immediately returned to the street and during this short interval the car was nowhere to be found. Detectives and the police were put after it, but up to now no trace of the missing auto has been revealed. Mr. Linder had theft insurance to the amount of $2000. The Packard people fixed him up with a brand new beauty in which he came home.
There is no doubt that the railroads of the country are hit hard and many of them are facing a crisis in their running existence and it is being talked that there will be a general scrapping of short lines in many sections of the United States. Whether this will be done or not we cannot say. We do know that their business is crippled and will be for another year, because their business is like most every other business--not much doing. Nothing being shipped in nor out and won't be for some time to amount to a great deal. It is then for our people to begin to look into road building possibilites over this section, building highways over which may be conveyed such commodities as will necessary have to move.
It all depends on how you look at it. A lot of folks go around wearing good clothes, owe every other fellow you meet and then brag on how much they pay the preacher.
Monday, November 18, 2019
From Days Gone By Nov. 26, 1921
November 26, 1921.
No town can prosper where every businessman in it lives to himself! Merchants and businessmen of a town must co-operate with each other if they would hold the trade in territory that belongs to them. All business institutions and property owners of a town to be permanently prosperous must always be working together to bring the trade of the territory in their direction or else it will go elsewhere where more alluring inducements are offered. Merchants of no town of any importance should be without an organization of their own. All business institutions of a town besides a merchants association should maintain a well organized and well suported chamber of commerce or board of trade.
The C. E. Smith Cash Store at Harrison was broken into a little after midnight by a set of robbers and goods to the amount of about $300 were taken out as estimated by the manager, Mr. Daniel. The glass in the front door was broken, the door opened and the goods taken out at the back, put in an automobile and carried hastily away. The night marshal saw the light and heard the noise in the store and went for help. Before help got there the robbers had made their haul and left for parts unknown. Mr. Daniels offered a $50 reeard for their capture and return of goods.
Mr. Goode C. Watkins of meeks and Mr. Charles L. Wilson filed for bankruptcy. Mrs. Eloise Grahl of Adrian won the prize of $1 offered for the Alma Mater song written by a student of Andrew Female College at Cutbert.
T. D. Holt resigns as night policeman because of health reasons. Mr. Elton Oliver will replace him for the city of Wrightsville. Dr. I. H. Archer who has been in New Orleans will be returning to Wrightsville on furlough.
Next week is the city elections and politics is warming up. Those in the council races are O. H. Tompkins, R. E. Butterly, Gainer Fulford, M. S. Duggan, James D. Bush, C. S. Blankenship, A. F. Flanders, J. A. Hall, J. W. Brinson, I. R. Tanner and W. F. Outlaw.
A large black dog came to Alex Mayo's home acting very insanely. After watching it for a while Mayo determined the dog was mad as it ran after his hogs and chickens. Mayo got his shotgun and mounted his mule and when he got in shooting distance killed the mad dog.
If the boll weevil had never infested the cotton belt, it was only a question of time until our agriculture would have collapsed of its own accord. Our soils were getting poorer all the time, due to the strain of planting cotton year after year. We must improve our soils permanently and the best way to do this is to keep livestock. Now is the best time to build up your worn out gully lands.
A real cold snap has hit the county and it is a good time for hog killing. Many farmers have taken advantadge of it and put in their smokehouse for next year. This is one thing that is plentiful in Johnson County and a real money-saving proposition with plenty of meat and curing houses. Especially when hogs are selling for 6 cent a pound but a pound of porkchops cost you 25 cents a pound in the store. Lots of difference between the hog in the farmers hands and the consumer. Somebody is getting an unreasonable profit.
It is refreshing to note that throughout Johnson County there is an increased interest in schools.Educating your children is an investment that bankrupt courts can't touch.
No town can prosper where every businessman in it lives to himself! Merchants and businessmen of a town must co-operate with each other if they would hold the trade in territory that belongs to them. All business institutions and property owners of a town to be permanently prosperous must always be working together to bring the trade of the territory in their direction or else it will go elsewhere where more alluring inducements are offered. Merchants of no town of any importance should be without an organization of their own. All business institutions of a town besides a merchants association should maintain a well organized and well suported chamber of commerce or board of trade.
The C. E. Smith Cash Store at Harrison was broken into a little after midnight by a set of robbers and goods to the amount of about $300 were taken out as estimated by the manager, Mr. Daniel. The glass in the front door was broken, the door opened and the goods taken out at the back, put in an automobile and carried hastily away. The night marshal saw the light and heard the noise in the store and went for help. Before help got there the robbers had made their haul and left for parts unknown. Mr. Daniels offered a $50 reeard for their capture and return of goods.
Mr. Goode C. Watkins of meeks and Mr. Charles L. Wilson filed for bankruptcy. Mrs. Eloise Grahl of Adrian won the prize of $1 offered for the Alma Mater song written by a student of Andrew Female College at Cutbert.
T. D. Holt resigns as night policeman because of health reasons. Mr. Elton Oliver will replace him for the city of Wrightsville. Dr. I. H. Archer who has been in New Orleans will be returning to Wrightsville on furlough.
Next week is the city elections and politics is warming up. Those in the council races are O. H. Tompkins, R. E. Butterly, Gainer Fulford, M. S. Duggan, James D. Bush, C. S. Blankenship, A. F. Flanders, J. A. Hall, J. W. Brinson, I. R. Tanner and W. F. Outlaw.
A large black dog came to Alex Mayo's home acting very insanely. After watching it for a while Mayo determined the dog was mad as it ran after his hogs and chickens. Mayo got his shotgun and mounted his mule and when he got in shooting distance killed the mad dog.
If the boll weevil had never infested the cotton belt, it was only a question of time until our agriculture would have collapsed of its own accord. Our soils were getting poorer all the time, due to the strain of planting cotton year after year. We must improve our soils permanently and the best way to do this is to keep livestock. Now is the best time to build up your worn out gully lands.
A real cold snap has hit the county and it is a good time for hog killing. Many farmers have taken advantadge of it and put in their smokehouse for next year. This is one thing that is plentiful in Johnson County and a real money-saving proposition with plenty of meat and curing houses. Especially when hogs are selling for 6 cent a pound but a pound of porkchops cost you 25 cents a pound in the store. Lots of difference between the hog in the farmers hands and the consumer. Somebody is getting an unreasonable profit.
It is refreshing to note that throughout Johnson County there is an increased interest in schools.Educating your children is an investment that bankrupt courts can't touch.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
From Days Gone By Nov. 19, 1921
November 19, 1921.
The present status of law and order, the continuance of lawlessness and depravity in Johnson County has the people questioning the safety of their homes and firesides. It has grown to a pretty pickle when brazen-faced bootleggers, blind tigers, pistol carriers, blood-thirsty, dirty loafers roam around at will, degrading the moral stamina of the county and besmirching its fair name. "Cyclone Mack" fittingly describes a blind tiger as a cross between a buzzard and a polecat.
Whether a man and his family may dwell in this county in saftey and have enjoyments of life is a question before us at this time and a question for the courts with their juries to decide with unflinching support of the citizenry in redeeming it from this terrible state of lawlessness. Civilization and lawlessness cannot live in the same land. When a man is slain in a private quarrel the crime is not a private one but a public wrong, done against all the people, impairing their security and threatening the destruction of it.
The murders and other crimes are more or less directly traceable to the moonshiner who has the crimes on his hands and the blood stains covering his front doors show the bloody trails he is leaving behind him as he dispenses the poison which is demoralizing the county and lowering its standards as a quiet, law-respecting community. Johnson County people who really care do not relish such conditions, do not uphold them and blush at their committals. And Johnson's true-blue people resent its continuance with their vigor and manhood, all at their command, and arise to ask from slumbers, are our homes safe? Is our citizenship protected? True nerve and backbone of the good folks of the county must answer these questions.
We must help our sheriff put down this wave and re-establish law and order, remove the causes of the lawlessness. It is grossly unfair to the schools and the churches, to the future citizens of our county to give its very existence to the moonshine stills and non-responders of the law of every character. Shame on us if we can't do something and do it now.
Sheriff Lewis Davis has made a statement to the Headlight in which he says he nor his office can't do anything with this whiskey business and other petty and bad crimes of the county without the backing of the good people of the county. He is ready and willing at any time to go after any sort of law breaking whenever it is put before him.
He says that the chaingang is as full now as it has ever been, there being 43 inmates there at this time, and according to Warden Stanley it has never been any higher. These prisioners are there for making and selling liquor, stealing hogs, pistol toting, gambling, assualt and battery, murder, etc.
The sheriff states that this is the result, although there was no court in May and no Superior Court in September or there woul most likely have been more on the gang. Since he went in office the first of this year he has handled 111 prisioners through the county jail for this county, to say nothing of the large number he has handled for other counties. There are 4 now in jail and between 120 and 130 out under bond for both the courts, according to the cases on file in the clerk's office.
Sheriff Davis believes in law and order and the strict enforcement of all laws on the statutes and regards the crime wave bad. He expresses the hope that it will subside and most respectfully seeks the moral backing and strong support of the good people of the county in surppressing it.
The present status of law and order, the continuance of lawlessness and depravity in Johnson County has the people questioning the safety of their homes and firesides. It has grown to a pretty pickle when brazen-faced bootleggers, blind tigers, pistol carriers, blood-thirsty, dirty loafers roam around at will, degrading the moral stamina of the county and besmirching its fair name. "Cyclone Mack" fittingly describes a blind tiger as a cross between a buzzard and a polecat.
Whether a man and his family may dwell in this county in saftey and have enjoyments of life is a question before us at this time and a question for the courts with their juries to decide with unflinching support of the citizenry in redeeming it from this terrible state of lawlessness. Civilization and lawlessness cannot live in the same land. When a man is slain in a private quarrel the crime is not a private one but a public wrong, done against all the people, impairing their security and threatening the destruction of it.
The murders and other crimes are more or less directly traceable to the moonshiner who has the crimes on his hands and the blood stains covering his front doors show the bloody trails he is leaving behind him as he dispenses the poison which is demoralizing the county and lowering its standards as a quiet, law-respecting community. Johnson County people who really care do not relish such conditions, do not uphold them and blush at their committals. And Johnson's true-blue people resent its continuance with their vigor and manhood, all at their command, and arise to ask from slumbers, are our homes safe? Is our citizenship protected? True nerve and backbone of the good folks of the county must answer these questions.
We must help our sheriff put down this wave and re-establish law and order, remove the causes of the lawlessness. It is grossly unfair to the schools and the churches, to the future citizens of our county to give its very existence to the moonshine stills and non-responders of the law of every character. Shame on us if we can't do something and do it now.
Sheriff Lewis Davis has made a statement to the Headlight in which he says he nor his office can't do anything with this whiskey business and other petty and bad crimes of the county without the backing of the good people of the county. He is ready and willing at any time to go after any sort of law breaking whenever it is put before him.
He says that the chaingang is as full now as it has ever been, there being 43 inmates there at this time, and according to Warden Stanley it has never been any higher. These prisioners are there for making and selling liquor, stealing hogs, pistol toting, gambling, assualt and battery, murder, etc.
The sheriff states that this is the result, although there was no court in May and no Superior Court in September or there woul most likely have been more on the gang. Since he went in office the first of this year he has handled 111 prisioners through the county jail for this county, to say nothing of the large number he has handled for other counties. There are 4 now in jail and between 120 and 130 out under bond for both the courts, according to the cases on file in the clerk's office.
Sheriff Davis believes in law and order and the strict enforcement of all laws on the statutes and regards the crime wave bad. He expresses the hope that it will subside and most respectfully seeks the moral backing and strong support of the good people of the county in surppressing it.
Saturday, November 9, 2019
From Days Gone By Nov. 12, 1921
November 12, 1921.
Last week in this county the revenue officers in a body went searching for shiners and stills and succeeded in raiding three big ones and destroying a large quantity of whiskey and materials. In the party were Messrs. J. T. Jackson, county policeman of Laurens County, prohibition officer J. M. Crowder of Dublin, one deputy sheriff of Laurens, M. L. Jackson and C. T. Mixon of Wrightsville.
The direction of their search led towards the western end of the county and the largest haul they made was near the home of T. I. Young, about a couple miles this side of the county line up on the river. A 30 gallon copper still, neatly and adequately equipped with a good brick foundation around it. 105 gallons of beer, and a little amount of the "real article" being captured.
The next one was near by on another plantation and is said to be the property of one Isadore Hood, colored. This was a 53 gallon gasoline drum outfit. There was also 105 gallons of mobby there which was destroyed.
A lard can outfit was next given attention by the raiders. Some small amount of shine was on the spot. This is said to have been property of C. D. Ivans.
Going around to another place the officers poured out a large quantity of materials which ere on the spot just vacated by the stilling outfit, it having been moved and the slowly dying fire under it being found on the arrival of the officers.
The county agents came home with the bacon. Agents Miss Clemmie Massey and Mr. M. E. Crow took a carload of local products to Savannah last week and brought back over $400 in cash from prizes won in open competition with nine other counties.
The next Johnson County Singing Convention will meet the 3rd Sunday at Liberty Grove. Mr. Eugene Kelley and Miss Mattie Dawson were married at the home of Mr. Carrol Lord. Miss Mollie Pullen has opened her school at Pine Grove. Prof. & Mrs. N. D. Norris had a baby boy born October 26th. Mr. Henry D. Garnto of Meeks is finishing up his nice new home.
Misses Corinne Peddy and Laura Peacock are teaching school ar Rehobeth. Kite school opened over a month ago and have the largest enrollment ever.
Completing a highly successful term in St. Vincent's hospital, Staten Island, New York city, Dr. Wade R. Bedingfield has returned and will enter practice here. He is the son of Dr. & Mrs. P. B. Bedingfield, one of the most prominent families in the county. His father has practiced here for many years.
Of interest to the ladies is the announcement that in this state the male voters barely outnumber the female voters according to the census. Wrightsville ladies are on the voting list in short numbers but there are quite a fee more who are ready to put their signatures to the voting list and participate in the forthcoming municipal election.
Warden R. M. Stanley moved the road gang from the Oconee river to across the Ohoopee and now building on the Adrian and Scott roads. Judging by the way his large gang is moving he may cover the major portion of the county in the next 12 months.
Last week in this county the revenue officers in a body went searching for shiners and stills and succeeded in raiding three big ones and destroying a large quantity of whiskey and materials. In the party were Messrs. J. T. Jackson, county policeman of Laurens County, prohibition officer J. M. Crowder of Dublin, one deputy sheriff of Laurens, M. L. Jackson and C. T. Mixon of Wrightsville.
The direction of their search led towards the western end of the county and the largest haul they made was near the home of T. I. Young, about a couple miles this side of the county line up on the river. A 30 gallon copper still, neatly and adequately equipped with a good brick foundation around it. 105 gallons of beer, and a little amount of the "real article" being captured.
The next one was near by on another plantation and is said to be the property of one Isadore Hood, colored. This was a 53 gallon gasoline drum outfit. There was also 105 gallons of mobby there which was destroyed.
A lard can outfit was next given attention by the raiders. Some small amount of shine was on the spot. This is said to have been property of C. D. Ivans.
Going around to another place the officers poured out a large quantity of materials which ere on the spot just vacated by the stilling outfit, it having been moved and the slowly dying fire under it being found on the arrival of the officers.
The county agents came home with the bacon. Agents Miss Clemmie Massey and Mr. M. E. Crow took a carload of local products to Savannah last week and brought back over $400 in cash from prizes won in open competition with nine other counties.
The next Johnson County Singing Convention will meet the 3rd Sunday at Liberty Grove. Mr. Eugene Kelley and Miss Mattie Dawson were married at the home of Mr. Carrol Lord. Miss Mollie Pullen has opened her school at Pine Grove. Prof. & Mrs. N. D. Norris had a baby boy born October 26th. Mr. Henry D. Garnto of Meeks is finishing up his nice new home.
Misses Corinne Peddy and Laura Peacock are teaching school ar Rehobeth. Kite school opened over a month ago and have the largest enrollment ever.
Completing a highly successful term in St. Vincent's hospital, Staten Island, New York city, Dr. Wade R. Bedingfield has returned and will enter practice here. He is the son of Dr. & Mrs. P. B. Bedingfield, one of the most prominent families in the county. His father has practiced here for many years.
Of interest to the ladies is the announcement that in this state the male voters barely outnumber the female voters according to the census. Wrightsville ladies are on the voting list in short numbers but there are quite a fee more who are ready to put their signatures to the voting list and participate in the forthcoming municipal election.
Warden R. M. Stanley moved the road gang from the Oconee river to across the Ohoopee and now building on the Adrian and Scott roads. Judging by the way his large gang is moving he may cover the major portion of the county in the next 12 months.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
From Days Gone By Nov. 5, 1921
The schools of the county are now going full blast and hearing from quite a number of them we learn they are getting along fine so far and the children are taking much interest in their work.
Messrs. J. H. Rowland and F. M. Tapley brought samples of their 1921 syrup to town. One was cooked on the old-fashioned boiler and a quart of it resembled honey. The other was made on a new evaporator and ground by a gasoline engine pulling a new patented cane mill which does business by the wholesale. The sugar cane industry in the county is becoming very big.
Wrightsville is again to be visited by a circle of representatives from the South Georgia Orphans Home of Macon.
Seab Johnson, a negro, convicted in the Superior Court of Emanuel County, convicted of murdering his wife and sister-in-law several months ago, was sentenced by Judge R. N. Hardeman to hang December 2nd. It has been a long time since there has been anyone sentenced to hang in Emanuel County, and when the sentence was pronounced by the court on this negro it made a very noticeable impression on those who heard it.
Also after being out all night the jury in the case of the state against Will Durden, charged with murder, returned a verdict of guilty with a recomendation that he be imprisioned for life. Durden's council is said they will appeal.
More than seven hundred dollars was distributed among the county people in prizes earned by exhibitors at the recent county fair and county money into county pockets from a county venture.
Success to the county agents who carried the big car load of county products to the Savannah Exposition. This is the first time Johnson County has had such a mammoth one anywhere and the very first showing in Savannah.
Warden and Mrs. R. M. Stanley had a son born on October 18th. Baliff C. T. Mixon made a big sale of household and farming effects leived on under some executions. Looked like breaking up housekeeping in front of the court house for awhile. Mr. & Mrs. Watson Mosley have gone to make Thomson their home. He will barber there.
Private Crawford Page, a son of Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Page has been home for 15 days. He is located with the general hospital of the army in Washington, D. C.
Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Sanders will occupy the residence of Dr. & Mrs. Jas. B. Dent on Marcus Street north. Mr. Sanders burned his right forearm when escaping steam from the radiator of his car ran up his sleeve.
Mr. & Mrs. George W. Gordy are moving to the Holt apartment. Mr. Gordon Holt is moving to Atlanta where he is with a private detective agency in a lucrative position.
Messrs. J. H. Rowland and F. M. Tapley brought samples of their 1921 syrup to town. One was cooked on the old-fashioned boiler and a quart of it resembled honey. The other was made on a new evaporator and ground by a gasoline engine pulling a new patented cane mill which does business by the wholesale. The sugar cane industry in the county is becoming very big.
Wrightsville is again to be visited by a circle of representatives from the South Georgia Orphans Home of Macon.
Seab Johnson, a negro, convicted in the Superior Court of Emanuel County, convicted of murdering his wife and sister-in-law several months ago, was sentenced by Judge R. N. Hardeman to hang December 2nd. It has been a long time since there has been anyone sentenced to hang in Emanuel County, and when the sentence was pronounced by the court on this negro it made a very noticeable impression on those who heard it.
Also after being out all night the jury in the case of the state against Will Durden, charged with murder, returned a verdict of guilty with a recomendation that he be imprisioned for life. Durden's council is said they will appeal.
More than seven hundred dollars was distributed among the county people in prizes earned by exhibitors at the recent county fair and county money into county pockets from a county venture.
Success to the county agents who carried the big car load of county products to the Savannah Exposition. This is the first time Johnson County has had such a mammoth one anywhere and the very first showing in Savannah.
Warden and Mrs. R. M. Stanley had a son born on October 18th. Baliff C. T. Mixon made a big sale of household and farming effects leived on under some executions. Looked like breaking up housekeeping in front of the court house for awhile. Mr. & Mrs. Watson Mosley have gone to make Thomson their home. He will barber there.
Private Crawford Page, a son of Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Page has been home for 15 days. He is located with the general hospital of the army in Washington, D. C.
Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Sanders will occupy the residence of Dr. & Mrs. Jas. B. Dent on Marcus Street north. Mr. Sanders burned his right forearm when escaping steam from the radiator of his car ran up his sleeve.
Mr. & Mrs. George W. Gordy are moving to the Holt apartment. Mr. Gordon Holt is moving to Atlanta where he is with a private detective agency in a lucrative position.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
From Days Gone By Oct. 29, 1921
October 29, 1921.
Ordinary U. R. Jenkins was informed by Dr. Morris, the superintendent of tick eradication in Johnson, that the quarentine is likely to be lifted about December 1st. The work has been pushed on as rapidly as it was practicable. Dr. Morris says there will be something like 20 premises which will be quarantined after December 1st but the work in the county as a whole will be over by that time.
The county has made a record both as to the time of doing this work and as to the expense. Many counties have worked over two years with considerable money, but Johnson is indeed fortunate in getting rid of the cattle tick with such little time and expense.
The 12th District Fair opens next Monday in Dublin. Court is in session in Laurens Superior Court with Judge J. L. Kent presiding. There are many criminal matters to come before that body. The docket is a heavy one.
Rev. Elmer Anthony of Bartow, has been called to preach at the Christian church. Prof. W. S. Branham states the school is now moving along fine and running smoothly. The pupils are in the midst of their regular monthly exams and all seem to be doing good work. The next county court will be City Court which will be in November and will likely last a week.
The city of Adrian was aroused from its slumber around midnight Saturday night when the residence of Mrs. Tom Rowland, known as the Young L. Hall home, was discovered all ablaze. The home was a large one and contained a lot of nice and new furniture and the loss was heavy. There was some inzurance but not near enough.
Miss Kate Walker has accepted the chair of domestic science and english in the college at Corinth Hill, Alabama. Mr. & Mrs. Preston Norris, of Washington City arrived here with his mother, Mrs. John F. Norris, and the family of Ben Jordan. They had been in the Capital for about four years.
Miss Grace Wheeler of Soperton wed Mr. Amos Ellis Claxton of Kite at the Baptist church in Adrian. Grace is the eldest daughter of Mrs. S. W. Wheeler. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. & Mrs Charles Claxton of Kite. They will live in Kite where he will be engaged in the drug business. Mr. Ted Webb and Miss Nora Hall were married at Moore's Chapel.
Gov. Hardwick issued a proclaimation urging everyone to observe Sunday, November 6, a special day of prayer for the success of the International Conference on reduction of armaments which will convene in Washington on Armistice Day, November 11th.
Judge Ben Hill Moye, J. Nat Riner, W. T. Kitchens and J. Frank Jackson represented Johnson County at the opening of the mammoth newly built bridge across the Oconee River between Wheeler and Montgomery counties at Mt. Vernon. This bridge was built under the Federal Aid Project and the two counties at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars and is one of the longest in the state.
In Dublin it was announced that a merger between Citizens Bank and the Southern Exchange Bank would become effective at the close of business October 21st.
The cotton warehouse property of the Emanuel Farm Company at Blundale, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night around 7 pm. One thousand six hundred bales of cotton were lpst, all fully covered by insurance. Horace P. Smart of Savannah, his sisters and H. R. Smith are the owners of the Emanuel Farm Company.
Ordinary U. R. Jenkins was informed by Dr. Morris, the superintendent of tick eradication in Johnson, that the quarentine is likely to be lifted about December 1st. The work has been pushed on as rapidly as it was practicable. Dr. Morris says there will be something like 20 premises which will be quarantined after December 1st but the work in the county as a whole will be over by that time.
The county has made a record both as to the time of doing this work and as to the expense. Many counties have worked over two years with considerable money, but Johnson is indeed fortunate in getting rid of the cattle tick with such little time and expense.
The 12th District Fair opens next Monday in Dublin. Court is in session in Laurens Superior Court with Judge J. L. Kent presiding. There are many criminal matters to come before that body. The docket is a heavy one.
Rev. Elmer Anthony of Bartow, has been called to preach at the Christian church. Prof. W. S. Branham states the school is now moving along fine and running smoothly. The pupils are in the midst of their regular monthly exams and all seem to be doing good work. The next county court will be City Court which will be in November and will likely last a week.
The city of Adrian was aroused from its slumber around midnight Saturday night when the residence of Mrs. Tom Rowland, known as the Young L. Hall home, was discovered all ablaze. The home was a large one and contained a lot of nice and new furniture and the loss was heavy. There was some inzurance but not near enough.
Miss Kate Walker has accepted the chair of domestic science and english in the college at Corinth Hill, Alabama. Mr. & Mrs. Preston Norris, of Washington City arrived here with his mother, Mrs. John F. Norris, and the family of Ben Jordan. They had been in the Capital for about four years.
Miss Grace Wheeler of Soperton wed Mr. Amos Ellis Claxton of Kite at the Baptist church in Adrian. Grace is the eldest daughter of Mrs. S. W. Wheeler. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. & Mrs Charles Claxton of Kite. They will live in Kite where he will be engaged in the drug business. Mr. Ted Webb and Miss Nora Hall were married at Moore's Chapel.
Gov. Hardwick issued a proclaimation urging everyone to observe Sunday, November 6, a special day of prayer for the success of the International Conference on reduction of armaments which will convene in Washington on Armistice Day, November 11th.
Judge Ben Hill Moye, J. Nat Riner, W. T. Kitchens and J. Frank Jackson represented Johnson County at the opening of the mammoth newly built bridge across the Oconee River between Wheeler and Montgomery counties at Mt. Vernon. This bridge was built under the Federal Aid Project and the two counties at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars and is one of the longest in the state.
In Dublin it was announced that a merger between Citizens Bank and the Southern Exchange Bank would become effective at the close of business October 21st.
The cotton warehouse property of the Emanuel Farm Company at Blundale, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night around 7 pm. One thousand six hundred bales of cotton were lpst, all fully covered by insurance. Horace P. Smart of Savannah, his sisters and H. R. Smith are the owners of the Emanuel Farm Company.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
From Days Gone By Oct 22, 1921
Octber 22, 1921.
A call to every farmer who is interested in melons for 1922, the Middle Georgia Melon Growers Association will have a melon expert coming to the court house says Mr. John R. Moore.
A "clean up squad" of the Veteran's Bureau will be in Dublin for all veteran's disabled who feel they have a claim for compensation, vocational training or medicinal treatment are urged to get in touch, bringing with them their discharge papers.
Judging by the samples of sugar cane syrup that have been brought to town one would think that this industry would be pursued dilligently in the county with a handsome pay. The land is, the most part of it, well adapted to the growth of sugar cane and the syrup is unexcelled, yet there is annually shipped here hundreds of barrels of syrup. That can be stopped by growing cane at home and making syrup that is the real article.
In memory of Dewitt Talmage Price, born May 9, 1900 and died August 9, 1921. He lived a consistant member of Bay Springs Baptist Church a little over one year. Though he was afflicted all his life he was cherished and loved by all who knew him. He was true to his father and mother, J. W. and Ophelia Price. He was buried at Bay Springs.
M. J. Claxton's store in Kite will be sold, lock, stock and barrel. They need immediate cash so they are slaughtering all prices in the store. Stetson hats $4.98; overalls .89 cents; work shirts .59; ladies and men's hose .9 pr; chambry .10 yard; bleaching .10 per yard; self-rising flour $1.10; dress shirts .98; pepperell sheeting .45 per yard; check homespun and mattress ticking .10; aca feather ticking .25.
Mr. Monroe Cook at Wrightsville Hardware Company wants 2,000 bushels of peas and will pay the highest market value. Mr. J. W. Johnson says he will do the same. Someone asked, "Why don't somebody handle school books in Wrightsville for school children and parents of the county?" It is certainly a hardship like it is.
Councilman R. P. Hicks presided at Mayor's Court in the absence of the mayor. A few cases came up for disposal. Dr. A. E. Harrison of the Harrison Drug Company in Adrian just passed the examination before the State Board of Pharmacy and is now a licensed druggist.
Business was fine in Wrightsville Saturday among the merchants and a good lot of sales were made by all. It had a gentle reminder to it of days gone by. The grocery stores were in the class who came in for a big trade during the day.
T. L. Chester, contractor says build now while building materials and labor are cheap. Building materials are advancing in price. If you are thinking of building or repairing it will pay to do it now.
Malaria is prevalent around town, several people being indoors with it. There must be some cesspool somewhere breeding this thing. The long ditch across the southern end of town is a bad thing to have around wide open. It should have attention constantly.
C. L. Linder says he will pay $5 for the arrest of one Collie Wright, colored, about 22 years old, of a ginger cake color, scar on cheek, wore brown cap, blue pants and white shirt when last seen. Or will pay same reward for capture of one dark brown suit of clothes and a pair black slippers with rubber heels believed to be in his possesion.
A call to every farmer who is interested in melons for 1922, the Middle Georgia Melon Growers Association will have a melon expert coming to the court house says Mr. John R. Moore.
A "clean up squad" of the Veteran's Bureau will be in Dublin for all veteran's disabled who feel they have a claim for compensation, vocational training or medicinal treatment are urged to get in touch, bringing with them their discharge papers.
Judging by the samples of sugar cane syrup that have been brought to town one would think that this industry would be pursued dilligently in the county with a handsome pay. The land is, the most part of it, well adapted to the growth of sugar cane and the syrup is unexcelled, yet there is annually shipped here hundreds of barrels of syrup. That can be stopped by growing cane at home and making syrup that is the real article.
In memory of Dewitt Talmage Price, born May 9, 1900 and died August 9, 1921. He lived a consistant member of Bay Springs Baptist Church a little over one year. Though he was afflicted all his life he was cherished and loved by all who knew him. He was true to his father and mother, J. W. and Ophelia Price. He was buried at Bay Springs.
M. J. Claxton's store in Kite will be sold, lock, stock and barrel. They need immediate cash so they are slaughtering all prices in the store. Stetson hats $4.98; overalls .89 cents; work shirts .59; ladies and men's hose .9 pr; chambry .10 yard; bleaching .10 per yard; self-rising flour $1.10; dress shirts .98; pepperell sheeting .45 per yard; check homespun and mattress ticking .10; aca feather ticking .25.
Mr. Monroe Cook at Wrightsville Hardware Company wants 2,000 bushels of peas and will pay the highest market value. Mr. J. W. Johnson says he will do the same. Someone asked, "Why don't somebody handle school books in Wrightsville for school children and parents of the county?" It is certainly a hardship like it is.
Councilman R. P. Hicks presided at Mayor's Court in the absence of the mayor. A few cases came up for disposal. Dr. A. E. Harrison of the Harrison Drug Company in Adrian just passed the examination before the State Board of Pharmacy and is now a licensed druggist.
Business was fine in Wrightsville Saturday among the merchants and a good lot of sales were made by all. It had a gentle reminder to it of days gone by. The grocery stores were in the class who came in for a big trade during the day.
T. L. Chester, contractor says build now while building materials and labor are cheap. Building materials are advancing in price. If you are thinking of building or repairing it will pay to do it now.
Malaria is prevalent around town, several people being indoors with it. There must be some cesspool somewhere breeding this thing. The long ditch across the southern end of town is a bad thing to have around wide open. It should have attention constantly.
C. L. Linder says he will pay $5 for the arrest of one Collie Wright, colored, about 22 years old, of a ginger cake color, scar on cheek, wore brown cap, blue pants and white shirt when last seen. Or will pay same reward for capture of one dark brown suit of clothes and a pair black slippers with rubber heels believed to be in his possesion.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
From Days Gone By Oct 15, 1921
October 15, 1921.
Stealing the Buick 5 passenger auto from their employer, Mr. Homer Moore, one Doke Kennedy, John Jackson and another colored boy drove it head long into a buggy in Cedar Swamp on the public road, tearing up the auto, breaking a bone in Doke Kennedy's thigh and bruising the occupant of the buggy pretty badly. All four wheels of the buggy were stripped from the body, leaving the latter on the ground flat. Doctors dressed the broken thigh and Doke is on the road to recovery with the likelihood of being on a real road before long, together with the other two culprits.
Henry Bell, colored, age 17, died in jail here some time about midnight Friday night in a cell with Johnnie Jackson. Johnnie said Henry had been well during the day and was laughing and talking until late at night when he began struggling and whining and was soon a dead boy. From certain circumstances it was deemed best to hold an inquest, there being in jail one peg-legged John Thompson, who was claimed had so enimity against Henry because the peg didn't want the boy to go see his daughter.
Coroner L. R. Clayton summoned an inquest jury of Dr. S. M. Johnson, W. T. Kitchens, J. Tom Davis, J. M. Johnson, Jr., O. A. Kennedy and C. D. Roundtree, who went into the case thoroughly but did not find any material clue upon which they could base any crime and after some deliberations decided upon the following verdict: Believed his death came from unknown causes.
Henry Bell had been in jail only a day or so on a warrant sworn out by a Fitzgerald party charging him with the theft of a suit of clothes. He had come back home and was arrested and put in jail. He grew deathly sick and other occupants of the main cells gave an alarm which was heard by Sheriff Davis who came to the jail and found Henry dead. The county buried him.
About 5 pm on Tuesday last week the pretty country home of Mr. Walter N. Powell, about six moles north of Kite, was completely destroyed by fire with all of the contents at an estimated loss of $8,500. At the time Mr. Powell was at Kite with some cotton, Mrs Powell was in Wrightsville and the children were away from home. The nearest person was a mile away and the fires origin was unknown. Mr. Powell with some friends headed to the burning home after receiving a phone call.
A dark cloud had been hovering around and there was a lot of lightning and Powell believes it struck his house. The barn and buildings were saved. The home was built in 1918 and was considered one of the costliest and most beautiful in the county. He once had heavy insurance on it but had let part of it go though he still had some on the house. He plans to rebuild one just like the one that burned.
Mr. Charlie Dent, a very successful farmer who studies his business as a business. On six acres of land in the fall of 1920 he had growing peanuts from which he fed and fattened 23 hogs, which netted him 5000 pounds of pork. From the same six acres he has made this year 200 bales or 14,000 pounds of peanut hay, estimated now in the ground 2800 pounds of peanuts for hogs, enough to fatten ten head more. He says he cleared $150 on these six acres and on his ten-horse farm he has lost a $1,000.
Stealing the Buick 5 passenger auto from their employer, Mr. Homer Moore, one Doke Kennedy, John Jackson and another colored boy drove it head long into a buggy in Cedar Swamp on the public road, tearing up the auto, breaking a bone in Doke Kennedy's thigh and bruising the occupant of the buggy pretty badly. All four wheels of the buggy were stripped from the body, leaving the latter on the ground flat. Doctors dressed the broken thigh and Doke is on the road to recovery with the likelihood of being on a real road before long, together with the other two culprits.
Henry Bell, colored, age 17, died in jail here some time about midnight Friday night in a cell with Johnnie Jackson. Johnnie said Henry had been well during the day and was laughing and talking until late at night when he began struggling and whining and was soon a dead boy. From certain circumstances it was deemed best to hold an inquest, there being in jail one peg-legged John Thompson, who was claimed had so enimity against Henry because the peg didn't want the boy to go see his daughter.
Coroner L. R. Clayton summoned an inquest jury of Dr. S. M. Johnson, W. T. Kitchens, J. Tom Davis, J. M. Johnson, Jr., O. A. Kennedy and C. D. Roundtree, who went into the case thoroughly but did not find any material clue upon which they could base any crime and after some deliberations decided upon the following verdict: Believed his death came from unknown causes.
Henry Bell had been in jail only a day or so on a warrant sworn out by a Fitzgerald party charging him with the theft of a suit of clothes. He had come back home and was arrested and put in jail. He grew deathly sick and other occupants of the main cells gave an alarm which was heard by Sheriff Davis who came to the jail and found Henry dead. The county buried him.
About 5 pm on Tuesday last week the pretty country home of Mr. Walter N. Powell, about six moles north of Kite, was completely destroyed by fire with all of the contents at an estimated loss of $8,500. At the time Mr. Powell was at Kite with some cotton, Mrs Powell was in Wrightsville and the children were away from home. The nearest person was a mile away and the fires origin was unknown. Mr. Powell with some friends headed to the burning home after receiving a phone call.
A dark cloud had been hovering around and there was a lot of lightning and Powell believes it struck his house. The barn and buildings were saved. The home was built in 1918 and was considered one of the costliest and most beautiful in the county. He once had heavy insurance on it but had let part of it go though he still had some on the house. He plans to rebuild one just like the one that burned.
Mr. Charlie Dent, a very successful farmer who studies his business as a business. On six acres of land in the fall of 1920 he had growing peanuts from which he fed and fattened 23 hogs, which netted him 5000 pounds of pork. From the same six acres he has made this year 200 bales or 14,000 pounds of peanut hay, estimated now in the ground 2800 pounds of peanuts for hogs, enough to fatten ten head more. He says he cleared $150 on these six acres and on his ten-horse farm he has lost a $1,000.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
From Days Gone By Oct. 8, 1921
October 8, 1921.
The best fair yet held in Wrightsville. In the animal industry the county and stockpens overflowed. The Krauss Shows were the best according to all the attendees and Gov. Hardwick spoke to a record attendance on Saturday.
Among the attractions on the midway was a family of Igorot savages. Mr. H. L. Anfenger and Mickey J. Toner brought this event. The 5 savages came to this country in 1915 from the Phillipines. The head of the family has been decorated by the chief of his tribe for bravery in the head hunting warfare of his country. These decorations were tattooed on his chest. He is an artist in making walking sticks, while his wife weaves beautiful belts, shawls, etc. The 3 children remind one of monkeys as they nimble up and down the poles in the tent. These people lived in tree tops in their native country. Among other things they do is the barbecuing of dogs before the spectators. They are very of dog meat, which they state by signs is much cleaner and more desirable than hog meat.
The Mutt and Jeff Show was here along with an old plantation show, athletic show featuring Nester The Wrestler. The ferris wheel, whip and merry-go-round was also here. There was something for everyone every night and day.
There were agricultural booths by Mr. Johnnie Bray, Mr. & Mrs. Fluker Tarbutton, Mr. M. T. Riner, Mr. W. C. Tompkins and Mrs. T. F. Bullard. In livestock exhibits were William , B. J. Wiggins, W. C. Tompkins, Fulford Brothers, Riner & Henry, T. J. James, John Gillis, J. H. Rowland, William Oliver, C. G. Raines & Son and Johnnie Bray.
Mr. Crow is showing 53 pigs of his clubs, 23 exhibits of the corn club and 3 of the calf club.
A party of fair boosters was in Harrison last week and were overwhelmed with talk over the changing of the Washington-Johnson County lines so that a wide strip embracing Harrison would be cut off into Johnson County. The Harrison folk seemed eager to leave Washington County and Johnson was ready to welcome them. It is supposed that Washington would seriously object to such a move.
The Downs Mill Pond which belonged to B. G. Wilson was recently sold to J. T. Miller & L. D. Downs who formally owned it, the sale being made just before the fishing of the pond was advertised to be done, but the fishing was put off by the new owners. They will operate a grist mill there, putting it all under the management of Mellie Downs, who for some time has been working in Macon.
It was announced from Dublin that Mrs. Tanner, widow of Mr. Mack Sumner, has sued in Laurens Superior Court for damages against the W. & T. Railway for the death of her former husband who was killed by a passenger train earlier this year. She is asking for $25,000. Hon. Tom E. Watson has been retained in this case.
Mr. & Mrs. M. T. Lord of Gethsemne community had a little girl, Bessie Will, on September 20th. Messrs. Monroe Cook and Otis Hall now have charge of the Dixie Theatre. Mr. Morris L. Mimbs of Scott has filed for bankrupcy.
Mr. Rube Dent has improved the town's streets except for cemetery street which is still the same bumpy mess as it has been for years. Ordinary Jenkins is having all the woodwork painted around the courthouse.
There is a fellow who wants a candidate for governor on the platform of the Ten Comandments. He was told he would have to revert back before the flood to get him.
The best fair yet held in Wrightsville. In the animal industry the county and stockpens overflowed. The Krauss Shows were the best according to all the attendees and Gov. Hardwick spoke to a record attendance on Saturday.
Among the attractions on the midway was a family of Igorot savages. Mr. H. L. Anfenger and Mickey J. Toner brought this event. The 5 savages came to this country in 1915 from the Phillipines. The head of the family has been decorated by the chief of his tribe for bravery in the head hunting warfare of his country. These decorations were tattooed on his chest. He is an artist in making walking sticks, while his wife weaves beautiful belts, shawls, etc. The 3 children remind one of monkeys as they nimble up and down the poles in the tent. These people lived in tree tops in their native country. Among other things they do is the barbecuing of dogs before the spectators. They are very of dog meat, which they state by signs is much cleaner and more desirable than hog meat.
The Mutt and Jeff Show was here along with an old plantation show, athletic show featuring Nester The Wrestler. The ferris wheel, whip and merry-go-round was also here. There was something for everyone every night and day.
There were agricultural booths by Mr. Johnnie Bray, Mr. & Mrs. Fluker Tarbutton, Mr. M. T. Riner, Mr. W. C. Tompkins and Mrs. T. F. Bullard. In livestock exhibits were William , B. J. Wiggins, W. C. Tompkins, Fulford Brothers, Riner & Henry, T. J. James, John Gillis, J. H. Rowland, William Oliver, C. G. Raines & Son and Johnnie Bray.
Mr. Crow is showing 53 pigs of his clubs, 23 exhibits of the corn club and 3 of the calf club.
A party of fair boosters was in Harrison last week and were overwhelmed with talk over the changing of the Washington-Johnson County lines so that a wide strip embracing Harrison would be cut off into Johnson County. The Harrison folk seemed eager to leave Washington County and Johnson was ready to welcome them. It is supposed that Washington would seriously object to such a move.
The Downs Mill Pond which belonged to B. G. Wilson was recently sold to J. T. Miller & L. D. Downs who formally owned it, the sale being made just before the fishing of the pond was advertised to be done, but the fishing was put off by the new owners. They will operate a grist mill there, putting it all under the management of Mellie Downs, who for some time has been working in Macon.
It was announced from Dublin that Mrs. Tanner, widow of Mr. Mack Sumner, has sued in Laurens Superior Court for damages against the W. & T. Railway for the death of her former husband who was killed by a passenger train earlier this year. She is asking for $25,000. Hon. Tom E. Watson has been retained in this case.
Mr. & Mrs. M. T. Lord of Gethsemne community had a little girl, Bessie Will, on September 20th. Messrs. Monroe Cook and Otis Hall now have charge of the Dixie Theatre. Mr. Morris L. Mimbs of Scott has filed for bankrupcy.
Mr. Rube Dent has improved the town's streets except for cemetery street which is still the same bumpy mess as it has been for years. Ordinary Jenkins is having all the woodwork painted around the courthouse.
There is a fellow who wants a candidate for governor on the platform of the Ten Comandments. He was told he would have to revert back before the flood to get him.
Sunday, September 29, 2019
From Days Gone by October 1, 1921
October 1, 1921.
All eyes are now turned toward opening of the Johnson County Fair October 5th thru 8th. The Wrightsville boosters have been to every section in the county promoting the fair. They toured Donovan, Pringle, Harrison, Vicker's, Oliver's, Bray's, Spann, Lovett, Scott, Adrian, Meeks, Kite, New Home and all intermediate places. The outlook is bright for the best fair yet.
The boys and girls clubs will have their various contests during the fair including the categories of Best Calf Grade, Dairy Type; Black Poland China; Spotted Poland China; Duroc Red; Hampshire; and corn contest.
Mr. T. J. Powell states Kite High School will formerly open October 3rd. Kite has the material and finacial backing for a splendid school, and with a good set of teachers secured.
Hon. J. Phil Campbell, director of extension work of the state college of agriculture has been secured as Friday's speaker at the fair. He is coming on the invite of the county agents.
Farmers have about picked out all of their cotton they made this year and are now busy gathering and baling hay and peanuts which there is quite an abundance. There is also plenty of corn, peas, potatoes and cane. The hogs are good enough to mention also. The scarcity of cash is the only drawback now.
The price of cotton still lingers around 20 cents and there is some being held over of this and last year's crop with the hope of the price advancing to 25 cents.
Warden R. M. Stanley states he will be up on the river until just after this week when he will move back to Wrightsville and start work on the Adrian road. He says he can't make the headway up in that section like he does in other parts of the county on account of the condition of the ground, some being clay and others deep sand.
The fats lost to the leans at the ballgame to the tune of 12 to 16 and before an attendance of several scores of people who wittnessed tha amateur specticle of green hands trying their skills at the diamond's tricks. Some were old players getting in again, while others had never played a game in their lives, and to peep in on the lefties and the fats scaling the bases was amusement to all.
Sore bodies, swelled up thumbs and fingers, a few sprains and about $40 in cash off the gate receipts and refreshments was the net results, to say nothing about Cashier E. E. Daley's hard luck in falling and breaking the larger bone in his left arm about the wrist. But there was fun for all and the cash goes to the fund of the P.T. A. for school improvement.
The remains of Private Arlie E. Claxton were buried at Nails Creek Baptist Church near Bartow where a large crowd came to witness the military and religious ceremonies in honor of the dead hero. Private Claxton was killed in action in the Agonne October 15, 1918. He served with Company K, 326th infantry.
Company K Georgia National Guards of Dublin under direction of Lts. Pope and Kassel had charge of burial. Local ex-soldiers served as honorary pall bearers. Rev. G. Gordon Gunter of Louisville, W. E. Harvill of Dublin and Mr. Milo Smith of Dublin addressed the crowd.
Private Claxton was survived by his father and mother, Mr. & Mrs. L. B. Claxton; brothers, Rev. J. L. Claxton, Dr. E. B. Claxton, M. Z. Claxton, L. E. Claxton, N. E. Claxton and sisters Mrs. Ethel Price and Mrs. J. D. Green.
All eyes are now turned toward opening of the Johnson County Fair October 5th thru 8th. The Wrightsville boosters have been to every section in the county promoting the fair. They toured Donovan, Pringle, Harrison, Vicker's, Oliver's, Bray's, Spann, Lovett, Scott, Adrian, Meeks, Kite, New Home and all intermediate places. The outlook is bright for the best fair yet.
The boys and girls clubs will have their various contests during the fair including the categories of Best Calf Grade, Dairy Type; Black Poland China; Spotted Poland China; Duroc Red; Hampshire; and corn contest.
Mr. T. J. Powell states Kite High School will formerly open October 3rd. Kite has the material and finacial backing for a splendid school, and with a good set of teachers secured.
Hon. J. Phil Campbell, director of extension work of the state college of agriculture has been secured as Friday's speaker at the fair. He is coming on the invite of the county agents.
Farmers have about picked out all of their cotton they made this year and are now busy gathering and baling hay and peanuts which there is quite an abundance. There is also plenty of corn, peas, potatoes and cane. The hogs are good enough to mention also. The scarcity of cash is the only drawback now.
The price of cotton still lingers around 20 cents and there is some being held over of this and last year's crop with the hope of the price advancing to 25 cents.
Warden R. M. Stanley states he will be up on the river until just after this week when he will move back to Wrightsville and start work on the Adrian road. He says he can't make the headway up in that section like he does in other parts of the county on account of the condition of the ground, some being clay and others deep sand.
The fats lost to the leans at the ballgame to the tune of 12 to 16 and before an attendance of several scores of people who wittnessed tha amateur specticle of green hands trying their skills at the diamond's tricks. Some were old players getting in again, while others had never played a game in their lives, and to peep in on the lefties and the fats scaling the bases was amusement to all.
Sore bodies, swelled up thumbs and fingers, a few sprains and about $40 in cash off the gate receipts and refreshments was the net results, to say nothing about Cashier E. E. Daley's hard luck in falling and breaking the larger bone in his left arm about the wrist. But there was fun for all and the cash goes to the fund of the P.T. A. for school improvement.
The remains of Private Arlie E. Claxton were buried at Nails Creek Baptist Church near Bartow where a large crowd came to witness the military and religious ceremonies in honor of the dead hero. Private Claxton was killed in action in the Agonne October 15, 1918. He served with Company K, 326th infantry.
Company K Georgia National Guards of Dublin under direction of Lts. Pope and Kassel had charge of burial. Local ex-soldiers served as honorary pall bearers. Rev. G. Gordon Gunter of Louisville, W. E. Harvill of Dublin and Mr. Milo Smith of Dublin addressed the crowd.
Private Claxton was survived by his father and mother, Mr. & Mrs. L. B. Claxton; brothers, Rev. J. L. Claxton, Dr. E. B. Claxton, M. Z. Claxton, L. E. Claxton, N. E. Claxton and sisters Mrs. Ethel Price and Mrs. J. D. Green.
Friday, September 20, 2019
From Days Gone By Sept. 24, 1921
September 24, 1921.
Johnson County citizen farmer, John R. Moore shared his interest and take on the newly formed American Farm Bureau Association which was just 12 months old. Also he encouraged farmers that during the present hard times this could be their only hope.
"This being my native county I feel very much interested in the prosperity of everyone and especially so to my brother farmer. And just at this time when our burdens are the heaviest we are much as a drowning man, we catch at a straw. Had we rallied to the Farm Bureau last winter and completed the work and joined in numbers sufficient to become a member we now would have been clipping our coupons.
What does the American Farm Bureau Federation stand for? Forst, it proposes to help is pool ans sell our produce, hogs, cattle, chickens, eggs and also our cotton. It will be linked together from ocean to ocean and from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. Nationally it is 12 months old today and has 44 states now running in high. Some of these are what they call 100 per cent states, every county a member. Nationwide, lets give it our support. Live agents in every county will help us work and market collectively.
Johnson County can do nothing alone in the way of marketing. The Farm Bureau keeps posted, having a chain of advisors, and then it is our business. You need it and it needs you. It can live better without you than you can without it. It has grown now until it covers the United States as the dew covers tbe earth. If the county farmers so desire I would be glad f p r Miss Massey and Agent Crow to arrange the places and time and I will take pleasure in going into the workings of same, and what I will say will not cost you a cent nor anyone else. We cannot afford to let it go by. To get any support from if we must join it.
The question is asked, "What is done with the joining money?" I will answer that by asking one, "What does Johnson County do with the taxes collected?" Should there be any dates arranged you may ask me any question and if I can't answer I will say so.
This appeal is to our farmers and made by one. So let's rally to a man and get together and co-operate, one with another, and we will have a greater county and more enlightened people."
Another idea mentioned by the Headlight was the NEOSHO Plan. Ot does this: Farmers are given an opportunity of disposing of all of their produce at a regular monthly community auction sale, selling produce, livestock, second-hand implements, household goods and anything else they have to sell. It provides for a monthly bargain day at which no two merchants advertise the same bargains, the advertising being done co-operatively. It provides for a monthly or a semi-monthly visit to the country by business men of the town for the discussion of topics of interest to the farmer. The net result is said to be a much better understanding and co-operation between the farmer and themselves, between the merchants and between farmer and merchant.
Wrightsville could put this on or the all-the-year-round marketing system she has proposed already. Someday we are going to wake up and find ourselves nowhere. Better get together on something and that quick. We need action, not cold water.
Johnson County citizen farmer, John R. Moore shared his interest and take on the newly formed American Farm Bureau Association which was just 12 months old. Also he encouraged farmers that during the present hard times this could be their only hope.
"This being my native county I feel very much interested in the prosperity of everyone and especially so to my brother farmer. And just at this time when our burdens are the heaviest we are much as a drowning man, we catch at a straw. Had we rallied to the Farm Bureau last winter and completed the work and joined in numbers sufficient to become a member we now would have been clipping our coupons.
What does the American Farm Bureau Federation stand for? Forst, it proposes to help is pool ans sell our produce, hogs, cattle, chickens, eggs and also our cotton. It will be linked together from ocean to ocean and from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. Nationally it is 12 months old today and has 44 states now running in high. Some of these are what they call 100 per cent states, every county a member. Nationwide, lets give it our support. Live agents in every county will help us work and market collectively.
Johnson County can do nothing alone in the way of marketing. The Farm Bureau keeps posted, having a chain of advisors, and then it is our business. You need it and it needs you. It can live better without you than you can without it. It has grown now until it covers the United States as the dew covers tbe earth. If the county farmers so desire I would be glad f p r Miss Massey and Agent Crow to arrange the places and time and I will take pleasure in going into the workings of same, and what I will say will not cost you a cent nor anyone else. We cannot afford to let it go by. To get any support from if we must join it.
The question is asked, "What is done with the joining money?" I will answer that by asking one, "What does Johnson County do with the taxes collected?" Should there be any dates arranged you may ask me any question and if I can't answer I will say so.
This appeal is to our farmers and made by one. So let's rally to a man and get together and co-operate, one with another, and we will have a greater county and more enlightened people."
Another idea mentioned by the Headlight was the NEOSHO Plan. Ot does this: Farmers are given an opportunity of disposing of all of their produce at a regular monthly community auction sale, selling produce, livestock, second-hand implements, household goods and anything else they have to sell. It provides for a monthly bargain day at which no two merchants advertise the same bargains, the advertising being done co-operatively. It provides for a monthly or a semi-monthly visit to the country by business men of the town for the discussion of topics of interest to the farmer. The net result is said to be a much better understanding and co-operation between the farmer and themselves, between the merchants and between farmer and merchant.
Wrightsville could put this on or the all-the-year-round marketing system she has proposed already. Someday we are going to wake up and find ourselves nowhere. Better get together on something and that quick. We need action, not cold water.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
From Days Gone By Sept 17, 1921
September 17, 1921.
Johnson County is to be highly honored at the next county fair. Governor Thomas W. Hardwick will come to Wrightsville and deliver an address on education at the fair grounds.
Those registered who will enter the various colleged are: Misses Hallie Bryan, Margaret Kent and Robbie Claire Chapman will attend Andrew College at Cuthbert. Miss Jerradine Brinson and Miss Mary Moore Johnson to LaGrange Female College at LaGrange. Misses Nannie Kennedy, Alda Walker and Luella Stokes to G. H. & I. C. Master Albion Hatcher to Georgia at Athens and Master William Parker to Emory. Miss Mary Brooks to Wesleyan College in Macon.
Mr. John E. Hall has been confined to his room for several days from an illnesd which clings to him. His wife is quite sick also. Mr. Frank A. Sinquefield came back from Rawlings Sanitarium minus his tonsils.
Mrs. John L. Willis and Miss Gertrude Martin warn the public not to trouble the flowers in their family lot at Westview Cemetery where Captain John L. Martin rests. Two of the large Japonicass were taken last spring.
A statement given out by Manager W. C. Brinson of the fair says he is working hard for several individual farm exhibits. He has promises from several farmers large exhibits of their agricultural products. Mr. Crow says he has in view now the largest and best animal show ever had. Miss Massey says her club girls will have all their exhbits.
The Batts Junior B. Y. P. U. of Brown Memorial went to Adrian and perfected a Junior organization at the Baptist church there. They had 20 members join. Miss Velma Killebrew, Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Williams, Mr. W. T. Kitchens, and Col. Chas S. Claxton accompained the Juniors to Adrian.
A Florida kid submitted the follwing so-called poem to the paper entitled, The Lost Ford.
Lost- One Ford car with piston ring,
Two rear wheels and one front spring;
Has no fenders, seats are planked,
Burns lots of gas and hard to crank;
Carborator rusted half way througb,
Engine missing, just hits on two;
Three years old, coming four this spring,
Has shock absorbers and every thing;
Radiator busted and sure does leak;
Differential dry, you can hear it squeak;
Ten spokes missing, front all bent,
Tires blown out, not worth a cent;
Gets lots of speed, will run like the deuce;
Runs on gas or tobacco juice;
Tires all off, runs on the rim,
A darn good Ford for the shape its in.
J. J. Wilkins says this particulaf machine belongs to Charles W. Brantley of Spann. The Headlight dosen't vouch for it, but is content to take J. J.' s word for it.
Johnson County is to be highly honored at the next county fair. Governor Thomas W. Hardwick will come to Wrightsville and deliver an address on education at the fair grounds.
Those registered who will enter the various colleged are: Misses Hallie Bryan, Margaret Kent and Robbie Claire Chapman will attend Andrew College at Cuthbert. Miss Jerradine Brinson and Miss Mary Moore Johnson to LaGrange Female College at LaGrange. Misses Nannie Kennedy, Alda Walker and Luella Stokes to G. H. & I. C. Master Albion Hatcher to Georgia at Athens and Master William Parker to Emory. Miss Mary Brooks to Wesleyan College in Macon.
Mr. John E. Hall has been confined to his room for several days from an illnesd which clings to him. His wife is quite sick also. Mr. Frank A. Sinquefield came back from Rawlings Sanitarium minus his tonsils.
Mrs. John L. Willis and Miss Gertrude Martin warn the public not to trouble the flowers in their family lot at Westview Cemetery where Captain John L. Martin rests. Two of the large Japonicass were taken last spring.
A statement given out by Manager W. C. Brinson of the fair says he is working hard for several individual farm exhibits. He has promises from several farmers large exhibits of their agricultural products. Mr. Crow says he has in view now the largest and best animal show ever had. Miss Massey says her club girls will have all their exhbits.
The Batts Junior B. Y. P. U. of Brown Memorial went to Adrian and perfected a Junior organization at the Baptist church there. They had 20 members join. Miss Velma Killebrew, Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Williams, Mr. W. T. Kitchens, and Col. Chas S. Claxton accompained the Juniors to Adrian.
A Florida kid submitted the follwing so-called poem to the paper entitled, The Lost Ford.
Lost- One Ford car with piston ring,
Two rear wheels and one front spring;
Has no fenders, seats are planked,
Burns lots of gas and hard to crank;
Carborator rusted half way througb,
Engine missing, just hits on two;
Three years old, coming four this spring,
Has shock absorbers and every thing;
Radiator busted and sure does leak;
Differential dry, you can hear it squeak;
Ten spokes missing, front all bent,
Tires blown out, not worth a cent;
Gets lots of speed, will run like the deuce;
Runs on gas or tobacco juice;
Tires all off, runs on the rim,
A darn good Ford for the shape its in.
J. J. Wilkins says this particulaf machine belongs to Charles W. Brantley of Spann. The Headlight dosen't vouch for it, but is content to take J. J.' s word for it.
Friday, September 6, 2019
From Days Gone By Sept 10, 1921
September 10, 1921.
Several hundred pupils and almost all of their parents went to school opening day. The opening consisted of several well-laid talks in which the business of school played a distinctly important part. Mayor E. E. Sanders hit the keynote when he declared emphatically that they were there for business, that this school was to be a business term with results coming at the end of it and insisted upon the parents backing the faculty and allowing the teachers to run the school.
The National Farmers Union is putting on a campaign in Johnson County to reorganize. State field organizer, Mr. W. J. Wootten is coming and will give his first speech at Moore's Chapel schoolhouse. He will go to every section in the county. At one time the organization was strong here but had recently became dormant.
About seventy five farmers and businessmen met the marketing promoters in Kite and listened attentively to all that was said. They all agreed upon a diversified program in their farm work for another year as presented. A list was made up by them as to the particular product they aim to grow and the number of acres that is to be planted in each.
Messrs. Riner & Henry at Meeks are making a good showing in their swine growing which was begun a stock farm, putting in the well-known Hampshire brand and they now have upwards of 200 head, all growing off nicely.
Judge J. L. Kent, than whom isn't found a better in Georgia's judiciary, has decided to accede to the wishes of a great majority of the people in the county not to hold any September term of Johnson Superior Court. In fact in all probability their would be no court until next March. With the present conditions it was deemed wise to postpone the term. The lower court of the county has done a lots towards this action, too, it getting rid of alot of business.
Mr. Benj. J. Wiggins several days ago had the misfortune of having his right arm broken in an accident on his plantation.
The date for the big baseball game between Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Red Martin and many more such players, including Laut Lovett and Tris Speaker, will soon be announced.
But for rattlers there wouldn't be excitement sometimes. Mrs. J. W. Harrison killed a monster moccasin, too, which had some excitement along With the snakes 17 young ones of an average length up to about 10 inches. Ben Jordan tells of a big rattler D. Young killed one afternoon at the home of his father. This snake had 11 rattles and was a "whooping big one at that.
Dr. C. E. Brinson and Mrs. Brinson are going to Florida to live, moving to St. Dora where he will engage in the drug business. Miss Ida Mae Smith of Adrian wed Mr. Leonard Clark who works with the Macon Railway and Light Company.
Kite's ball team has played several winning games this season. The team has won nearly every game played. Mr. & Mrs. William Benton have moved into a new home on College street. Gins are running pretty regular although the crop is pretty short around this area.
Several hundred pupils and almost all of their parents went to school opening day. The opening consisted of several well-laid talks in which the business of school played a distinctly important part. Mayor E. E. Sanders hit the keynote when he declared emphatically that they were there for business, that this school was to be a business term with results coming at the end of it and insisted upon the parents backing the faculty and allowing the teachers to run the school.
The National Farmers Union is putting on a campaign in Johnson County to reorganize. State field organizer, Mr. W. J. Wootten is coming and will give his first speech at Moore's Chapel schoolhouse. He will go to every section in the county. At one time the organization was strong here but had recently became dormant.
About seventy five farmers and businessmen met the marketing promoters in Kite and listened attentively to all that was said. They all agreed upon a diversified program in their farm work for another year as presented. A list was made up by them as to the particular product they aim to grow and the number of acres that is to be planted in each.
Messrs. Riner & Henry at Meeks are making a good showing in their swine growing which was begun a stock farm, putting in the well-known Hampshire brand and they now have upwards of 200 head, all growing off nicely.
Judge J. L. Kent, than whom isn't found a better in Georgia's judiciary, has decided to accede to the wishes of a great majority of the people in the county not to hold any September term of Johnson Superior Court. In fact in all probability their would be no court until next March. With the present conditions it was deemed wise to postpone the term. The lower court of the county has done a lots towards this action, too, it getting rid of alot of business.
Mr. Benj. J. Wiggins several days ago had the misfortune of having his right arm broken in an accident on his plantation.
The date for the big baseball game between Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Red Martin and many more such players, including Laut Lovett and Tris Speaker, will soon be announced.
But for rattlers there wouldn't be excitement sometimes. Mrs. J. W. Harrison killed a monster moccasin, too, which had some excitement along With the snakes 17 young ones of an average length up to about 10 inches. Ben Jordan tells of a big rattler D. Young killed one afternoon at the home of his father. This snake had 11 rattles and was a "whooping big one at that.
Dr. C. E. Brinson and Mrs. Brinson are going to Florida to live, moving to St. Dora where he will engage in the drug business. Miss Ida Mae Smith of Adrian wed Mr. Leonard Clark who works with the Macon Railway and Light Company.
Kite's ball team has played several winning games this season. The team has won nearly every game played. Mr. & Mrs. William Benton have moved into a new home on College street. Gins are running pretty regular although the crop is pretty short around this area.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
From Days Gone By Sept. 3, 1921
September 3, 1921.
The 1921-22 term of the Wrightsville District School opens on September 5th. Prof. W. S. Branham is principal, Prof. James Flemming of Lankfort Station, S. C. is Asst. Principal. The teachers are Mrs. J. W. Vanlandingham, Miss Leonora Strickland, Mrs. G. W. Gordy, Mrs. J. M. Luck, Miss Doris Johnson, Mrs. W. L. Norris, Mrs. Ethelyn Hartleigh, Miss Mary Simpson, Miss Sara Lou Gillis, Miss Mae Melton and Miss Ola Johnson.
The October fair prospects are exceedingly bright for four full days of entertainment. Wednesday October 5th is opening day, Thursday is Johnson County Products and Family Day, Froday is school and club day and Saturday is singing contests.
The Johnson County National Farm Loan Association received its charter with Mr. J. M. Cook secretary. They have money to loan on farm lands for 5 to 35 years at 6 percent interest. A big marketing meeting will be held in Kite, arranged by County Agent M. E. Crow to discuss the co-op marketing of Johnson County products.
The Royal Arch Masons enjoy a big day in Wrightsville. Mr. J. A. Gay, the owner of the through Dublin to Milledgeville bus line, says he will operate his bus everyday including Sundays. This mode of travel is convient and inexpensive and is becoming a popular one.
Luther Brantley, colored, is in jail charged with stealing meat. Luther must have grown meat hungry. While at the home of Mrs. V. B. Robinson a shoulder and ham were missed from the smokehouse and Luther's tracks led to where it was hidden. He went to jail, but he didn't stay there much longer than Pat did in a certain place before he plead guilty and was given 9 months, breaking his way back into the chain gang. A thorough hunt for the lost meat revealed it in an outhouse all covered up, where he had placed it, awaiting the darkness of night to take it away.
Mr. M. L. Jackson, county policeman, with assistance of Judson L. Jackson of Laurens County police force and J. T. Crowder of same, and J. H. Renfroe of Treutlen County, made a raid up on Buckeye obtaining a big copper still outfit, poured out a lot of mobby and made out a case of illicit liquor traffic against Buster Braddy.
Col. J. Frank Jackson of Donovan is now located in Wrightsville with Judge A. Lee Hatcher. The Johnson-Washington Singing Convention meets at Union Hill Church. Rev. G. F. Sumner is suffering from a painfull fall.
Mr. & Mrs. O. W. Hooks of Spann had a little baby on August 26th. Mr. Dewey Downs left for southern Florida for a job there. Reuben Dent with a force of hands are building up the sidewalks in the city. Several of the ball players went down to Kite and assisted in defeating Swainsboro 3 to 0. The fire alarm sounded for a small blaze around the Rowland Brothers planning mill with little damage done. Contractor T. L. Chester is overhauling the tower of the courthouse for Ordinary U. R. Jenkins.
Miss Nora Page wed Mr. George Cortell Daniels on August 28th. Her parents are Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Page of Dublin. B. J. Moxley, aged pioneer citizen of Adrain died at his home after several months of declining health. He was originally from Jefferson County. He served the Confederacy in Company C, 20th Georgia Regiment and was 82. He was buried at the Gregory Cemetery 5 miles from Wadley.
A motorist came upon another whose machine had broken down on the road. In the disabled car sat a woman. Need any help? Inquired the newcomer, courteosly. The other man lifted his flushed and quivering face from under the hood. "Yes" he replied, "I wish you would answer my wife's questions while I'm fixing this infernal engine."
The 1921-22 term of the Wrightsville District School opens on September 5th. Prof. W. S. Branham is principal, Prof. James Flemming of Lankfort Station, S. C. is Asst. Principal. The teachers are Mrs. J. W. Vanlandingham, Miss Leonora Strickland, Mrs. G. W. Gordy, Mrs. J. M. Luck, Miss Doris Johnson, Mrs. W. L. Norris, Mrs. Ethelyn Hartleigh, Miss Mary Simpson, Miss Sara Lou Gillis, Miss Mae Melton and Miss Ola Johnson.
The October fair prospects are exceedingly bright for four full days of entertainment. Wednesday October 5th is opening day, Thursday is Johnson County Products and Family Day, Froday is school and club day and Saturday is singing contests.
The Johnson County National Farm Loan Association received its charter with Mr. J. M. Cook secretary. They have money to loan on farm lands for 5 to 35 years at 6 percent interest. A big marketing meeting will be held in Kite, arranged by County Agent M. E. Crow to discuss the co-op marketing of Johnson County products.
The Royal Arch Masons enjoy a big day in Wrightsville. Mr. J. A. Gay, the owner of the through Dublin to Milledgeville bus line, says he will operate his bus everyday including Sundays. This mode of travel is convient and inexpensive and is becoming a popular one.
Luther Brantley, colored, is in jail charged with stealing meat. Luther must have grown meat hungry. While at the home of Mrs. V. B. Robinson a shoulder and ham were missed from the smokehouse and Luther's tracks led to where it was hidden. He went to jail, but he didn't stay there much longer than Pat did in a certain place before he plead guilty and was given 9 months, breaking his way back into the chain gang. A thorough hunt for the lost meat revealed it in an outhouse all covered up, where he had placed it, awaiting the darkness of night to take it away.
Mr. M. L. Jackson, county policeman, with assistance of Judson L. Jackson of Laurens County police force and J. T. Crowder of same, and J. H. Renfroe of Treutlen County, made a raid up on Buckeye obtaining a big copper still outfit, poured out a lot of mobby and made out a case of illicit liquor traffic against Buster Braddy.
Col. J. Frank Jackson of Donovan is now located in Wrightsville with Judge A. Lee Hatcher. The Johnson-Washington Singing Convention meets at Union Hill Church. Rev. G. F. Sumner is suffering from a painfull fall.
Mr. & Mrs. O. W. Hooks of Spann had a little baby on August 26th. Mr. Dewey Downs left for southern Florida for a job there. Reuben Dent with a force of hands are building up the sidewalks in the city. Several of the ball players went down to Kite and assisted in defeating Swainsboro 3 to 0. The fire alarm sounded for a small blaze around the Rowland Brothers planning mill with little damage done. Contractor T. L. Chester is overhauling the tower of the courthouse for Ordinary U. R. Jenkins.
Miss Nora Page wed Mr. George Cortell Daniels on August 28th. Her parents are Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Page of Dublin. B. J. Moxley, aged pioneer citizen of Adrain died at his home after several months of declining health. He was originally from Jefferson County. He served the Confederacy in Company C, 20th Georgia Regiment and was 82. He was buried at the Gregory Cemetery 5 miles from Wadley.
A motorist came upon another whose machine had broken down on the road. In the disabled car sat a woman. Need any help? Inquired the newcomer, courteosly. The other man lifted his flushed and quivering face from under the hood. "Yes" he replied, "I wish you would answer my wife's questions while I'm fixing this infernal engine."
Sunday, August 25, 2019
From Days Gone By August 27, 1921
August 27, 1921.
Wrightsville and Johnson County was a thriving place in 1921 dispite the early coming of the boll weevil. There was very little that could not be bought here. We had everything for farm and home. Going out of county just to buy something was a rarity. The following is a list of businesses operating the Johnson County in 1921. This is not all of them but is a sample of what we had to offer. Only one of the businesses listed is still in business today.
M. E. Woods Machine & Mechanic Shop; Dixie Battery Company; R. E. Butterly Pharmacy; C. S. Claxton Real Estate; J. H. Rowland Feed & Farm Supply; L. A. Lovett Ford dealer; W. R. Gatlin mechanic.
Frank Outlaw Machine Shop; Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad; M. E. Crow County Agent; Clemmie Massey Home Demonstration Agent; The Dixie Theatre; Hillard T. Hicks attorney; The Wrightsville Headlight; Thompson & Riner Groceries.
C. M. Schwalls Kite Millinery; Robinson & Paul Pressing Club; Wrightsville Furniture Company; Earl J. Harris Agent New York Life Insurance Company; Georgia Grocery Company; Hayes Cash Store; J. W. Brinson Drug Company; Southern Gin & Warehouse; Union Warehouse; City Warehouse.
Parker & Price Groceries; C. S. Blankenship Meat Market; Claxton & Cook Real Estate; Exchange Bank; Bank of Wrightsville; The Farmers Bank; The Bank of Adrian; Citizens Bank of Kite; The Scott Banking Company.
M. S. Duggan Grocery; Hauger-Davis Clothing; Royster Guano Company; T. L. Chester building contractor; C. T. Swinson Grocery; Wrightsville Grain Company; Wrightsville Shoe Hospital; United States Tires, Woods & Lovett; Tanner Undertaking Company; Idylwild Resorsts.
C. C. Blankenship Optometrist; Wrightsville Oil Company; Martin & Martin Produce; Wrightsville Ice Company; Johnson County Farm Loan Association; Johnson County Fair Association; Dr. S. M. Johnson.
Wrightsville and Johnson County was a thriving place in 1921 dispite the early coming of the boll weevil. There was very little that could not be bought here. We had everything for farm and home. Going out of county just to buy something was a rarity. The following is a list of businesses operating the Johnson County in 1921. This is not all of them but is a sample of what we had to offer. Only one of the businesses listed is still in business today.
M. E. Woods Machine & Mechanic Shop; Dixie Battery Company; R. E. Butterly Pharmacy; C. S. Claxton Real Estate; J. H. Rowland Feed & Farm Supply; L. A. Lovett Ford dealer; W. R. Gatlin mechanic.
Frank Outlaw Machine Shop; Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad; M. E. Crow County Agent; Clemmie Massey Home Demonstration Agent; The Dixie Theatre; Hillard T. Hicks attorney; The Wrightsville Headlight; Thompson & Riner Groceries.
C. M. Schwalls Kite Millinery; Robinson & Paul Pressing Club; Wrightsville Furniture Company; Earl J. Harris Agent New York Life Insurance Company; Georgia Grocery Company; Hayes Cash Store; J. W. Brinson Drug Company; Southern Gin & Warehouse; Union Warehouse; City Warehouse.
Parker & Price Groceries; C. S. Blankenship Meat Market; Claxton & Cook Real Estate; Exchange Bank; Bank of Wrightsville; The Farmers Bank; The Bank of Adrian; Citizens Bank of Kite; The Scott Banking Company.
M. S. Duggan Grocery; Hauger-Davis Clothing; Royster Guano Company; T. L. Chester building contractor; C. T. Swinson Grocery; Wrightsville Grain Company; Wrightsville Shoe Hospital; United States Tires, Woods & Lovett; Tanner Undertaking Company; Idylwild Resorsts.
C. C. Blankenship Optometrist; Wrightsville Oil Company; Martin & Martin Produce; Wrightsville Ice Company; Johnson County Farm Loan Association; Johnson County Fair Association; Dr. S. M. Johnson.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
From Days Gone By August 20, 1921
August 20, 1921.
Mrs. Ida Johnson of Wrightsville wrote an interesting letter to the editor of the Wrightsville Headlight on a matter which could be as relevant today as it seemed to be then.
"Will you allow me space in your paper for a letter? This is to all the readers of the Wrightsville Headlight.
Perhaps we all have been accused of things untrue as much as one or more than two. I have I am sure. My advise to all, respect the old when you are young, help the weak when you are strong. Confess your faults when you are wrong. Whole in your anger hold your tongue.
There is too much show in the world. People are too anxious to make an impression. There are many who would like to do right and obey the laws of God but hold back for fear of ridicule. They want to follow fashion and if it is the fashion to steal, tell lies, flirt, put on, etc., they would rather do that and spend eternity in hell than to do right. Some people will have to put Satan behind them and not care for the sneers of folks.
It seems to-day that everyone wants to live off the other fellow and not earn his living by the sweat of his brow. What a bitter memory it will be to look back over their lives and know that they have robbed others of their happiness.
Many bridges have been crossed. Many mistakes have been made. Let me say right here that one mistake too often made in old age is to give up all right and title to the dear old home. Now it behooves us to bid farewell to all the by gone days and with hearts of cheer and smiles to welcome the coming days. May health, happiness and success attend us all."
Mrs. Ida Johnson
Mrs. Ida Johnson of Wrightsville wrote an interesting letter to the editor of the Wrightsville Headlight on a matter which could be as relevant today as it seemed to be then.
"Will you allow me space in your paper for a letter? This is to all the readers of the Wrightsville Headlight.
Perhaps we all have been accused of things untrue as much as one or more than two. I have I am sure. My advise to all, respect the old when you are young, help the weak when you are strong. Confess your faults when you are wrong. Whole in your anger hold your tongue.
There is too much show in the world. People are too anxious to make an impression. There are many who would like to do right and obey the laws of God but hold back for fear of ridicule. They want to follow fashion and if it is the fashion to steal, tell lies, flirt, put on, etc., they would rather do that and spend eternity in hell than to do right. Some people will have to put Satan behind them and not care for the sneers of folks.
It seems to-day that everyone wants to live off the other fellow and not earn his living by the sweat of his brow. What a bitter memory it will be to look back over their lives and know that they have robbed others of their happiness.
Many bridges have been crossed. Many mistakes have been made. Let me say right here that one mistake too often made in old age is to give up all right and title to the dear old home. Now it behooves us to bid farewell to all the by gone days and with hearts of cheer and smiles to welcome the coming days. May health, happiness and success attend us all."
Mrs. Ida Johnson
Thursday, August 8, 2019
From Days Gone By August 13, 1921
August 13, 1921.
The following is two poems written in 1921 by local citizens.
REFLECTIONS OF BOYHOOD
The joys of my boyhood were many,
Its sorrows were fleeting and few;
I was rich if I had but a penny,
What other boys did I could do.
I swam in the waters of Ogeechee
And dived in the current beneath,
But life by one thing was made dreary---
I never could spit through my teeth.
Of the games of the school I was pitcher
Could slide on my belly to third;
No youngster in marbles was richer;
I could make a kite sail like a bird.
Mine, too, was the glorious treasure
That innocent amusement bequeath;
But one thing still clouded my pleasure-
I never could spit through my teeth.
Oh, time has brought serious sorrows,
(some day I may smile at them, too)
I have dreaded to see some tomorrows
With troublesome notes falling due.
But though fortune should greet me hereafter
And fame should award her best wreath,
One thought will obstrude on my laughter,
I never could spit through my teeth.
Moral- Never permit small things to mar great pleasures.
L. B. L.
Coffins have no pockets for money
Dead men carry no gold,
Brother get right with God,
Or you will lose your soul.
Man may have jewels and diamonds
And all this world can give,
Brother get right with God
Or your soul can never live.
Man in the service of Satan
Playing with cards and dice,
Brother get right with God
Or your soul will pay the price.
He gave the greatest gift could
Have been given to man
In heaven or upon the land,
He came to this world which
Was in a bad plight
To save those who came to
Him alright.
Rev. Carlos Renfroe
The following is two poems written in 1921 by local citizens.
REFLECTIONS OF BOYHOOD
The joys of my boyhood were many,
Its sorrows were fleeting and few;
I was rich if I had but a penny,
What other boys did I could do.
I swam in the waters of Ogeechee
And dived in the current beneath,
But life by one thing was made dreary---
I never could spit through my teeth.
Of the games of the school I was pitcher
Could slide on my belly to third;
No youngster in marbles was richer;
I could make a kite sail like a bird.
Mine, too, was the glorious treasure
That innocent amusement bequeath;
But one thing still clouded my pleasure-
I never could spit through my teeth.
Oh, time has brought serious sorrows,
(some day I may smile at them, too)
I have dreaded to see some tomorrows
With troublesome notes falling due.
But though fortune should greet me hereafter
And fame should award her best wreath,
One thought will obstrude on my laughter,
I never could spit through my teeth.
Moral- Never permit small things to mar great pleasures.
L. B. L.
Coffins have no pockets for money
Dead men carry no gold,
Brother get right with God,
Or you will lose your soul.
Man may have jewels and diamonds
And all this world can give,
Brother get right with God
Or your soul can never live.
Man in the service of Satan
Playing with cards and dice,
Brother get right with God
Or your soul will pay the price.
He gave the greatest gift could
Have been given to man
In heaven or upon the land,
He came to this world which
Was in a bad plight
To save those who came to
Him alright.
Rev. Carlos Renfroe
Friday, August 2, 2019
From Days Gone By August 6, 1921
August 6, 1921.
Following are some interesting facts and tidbits from 1921.
Cotton which has been put under hydraulic pressure of from 6,000 to 8,000 pounds and made into gears, produces an article superior to that made of steel. Softer than steel, the cotton gear yields where the steel gear wears under friction.
The two main ingredients in the manufacture of linoleum are cork and linseed oil, to which are added smaller quantities of Kauri gum, rosin and pigments of various kinds.
Clouds are very variable in height, from 500 to 2,000 feet. The clouds in thunderstorms may be very deep, from 2 to 5 miles and more, hence the appearance as to distance is very deceptive. Cumulus clouds are intermedate.
The strength of males increases rapidly from 12 to 19 years and more slowly and regularly up to 30 years, after which it declines. The strength of females increases at a more uniform rate from 9 to 19 years, more slowly to 30 after which it falls off.
When buying woolen materials hold them up to the light and look through them; the best qualities are free from uneven and broken threads.
There is still a prejudice among some against noght air. For that reason some foolish people sleep with their windows closed. Night air is not dangerous. On the average it is more pure than that of the day. In malarious sections exposure at night may be dangerous, not because the air is bad but because malarial mosquitos bite only at night. The danger is in the mosquito, not the air.
Absence doth but hold off a friend to make one see him more truly.
The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education.
Corruption in political life is really skepticism. It is a distrust, a disuse which has lasted so long that it has grown into disbelief of political principles, of the first fundamental truths of the sacredness of government and the necessity of righteousness.
Chilled hands or feet should not be put near the fire or in hot water, as this causes the blood vessels to dilate too rapidly and chilblains result. The chilled members may be put in tepid water and a little hot water added from time to time, but the best plan is to warm by excercise and by rubbing.
A person breathing cold air obtains as much oxygen in six inhalations as he would in seven taken in hot weather. This increase of oxygen is a matter of great consequence to sufferers from lung trouble and also to the person enjoying good health.
Patriotism, magical emotion, which makes you rise superior to all obstacles, support all weariness, willingly accept all necessary discipline and joyfully face all dangers.
Following are some interesting facts and tidbits from 1921.
Cotton which has been put under hydraulic pressure of from 6,000 to 8,000 pounds and made into gears, produces an article superior to that made of steel. Softer than steel, the cotton gear yields where the steel gear wears under friction.
The two main ingredients in the manufacture of linoleum are cork and linseed oil, to which are added smaller quantities of Kauri gum, rosin and pigments of various kinds.
Clouds are very variable in height, from 500 to 2,000 feet. The clouds in thunderstorms may be very deep, from 2 to 5 miles and more, hence the appearance as to distance is very deceptive. Cumulus clouds are intermedate.
The strength of males increases rapidly from 12 to 19 years and more slowly and regularly up to 30 years, after which it declines. The strength of females increases at a more uniform rate from 9 to 19 years, more slowly to 30 after which it falls off.
When buying woolen materials hold them up to the light and look through them; the best qualities are free from uneven and broken threads.
There is still a prejudice among some against noght air. For that reason some foolish people sleep with their windows closed. Night air is not dangerous. On the average it is more pure than that of the day. In malarious sections exposure at night may be dangerous, not because the air is bad but because malarial mosquitos bite only at night. The danger is in the mosquito, not the air.
Absence doth but hold off a friend to make one see him more truly.
The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education.
Corruption in political life is really skepticism. It is a distrust, a disuse which has lasted so long that it has grown into disbelief of political principles, of the first fundamental truths of the sacredness of government and the necessity of righteousness.
Chilled hands or feet should not be put near the fire or in hot water, as this causes the blood vessels to dilate too rapidly and chilblains result. The chilled members may be put in tepid water and a little hot water added from time to time, but the best plan is to warm by excercise and by rubbing.
A person breathing cold air obtains as much oxygen in six inhalations as he would in seven taken in hot weather. This increase of oxygen is a matter of great consequence to sufferers from lung trouble and also to the person enjoying good health.
Patriotism, magical emotion, which makes you rise superior to all obstacles, support all weariness, willingly accept all necessary discipline and joyfully face all dangers.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
From Days Gone By July 30, 1921
July 30, 1921.
A "pasture meeting" of those interested in livestock would be held at the pasture of W. P. Bedingfield 4 1/2 miles north east of Wrightsville on August 9th. It will be adressed by Paul Tabor of State College of Agriculture and J. F. Jackson, Ag Agent of the Central of Georgia Railway and others.
The test pasture, one of 46 planted last spring by the Central Railroad in co-op with the owner, has made one of the best showings of the entire lot.
The pastures were planted with Lespedeza, Carpet Grass and Dalfis Grass. Sites chosen were either existing pastures or waste lands. The success of the test pastures has answered the argument that good pasturage cannot be obtained in the southeast. The expense of the interesting experiment was borne equally by the railroad and the land owner, the Central of Georgia Railway having appropriated $100 for each of the counties in Georgia and Alabama that its lines traverse.
Realizing that the salvation of the entire cotton crop depends on what is done in the area during the next two weeks, one of the largest county wide campaigns against the boll weevil ever organized will get underway under the direction of the Laurens County Chamber of Commerce and the county extention agent.
Their plan of operation is along these lines: It has been demonstrated by actual experience that a simple formula of arsenate of lead, and syrup, or calcium arsenate instead of syrup, will kill the weevil and rid a cotton field of the pests in a short time.
Businessmen of the city have put in a fund for the purchase of arsenate of lead which the Chamber will sell to the farmers at cost, and if they cannot get the money to pay cash, sell it on credit. A country-wide campaign to get every farmer in the county to use this formula within the next few weeks begins immediately. Bussinessmen and farmers will visit every school district within two days and lay the plan out to the farmers, urge them to save their cotton crop. The arsenate of lead will be the only material hard to get, as most have plenty of syrup on hand.
The formula to be used is very simple. It is as follows: Two pounds either arsenate of lead or calcium of arsenate, one gallon molasses or sorgum syrup, one half gallon of water. This is sufficient to cover two and one half acres. It is applied to the underside of the leaves of each plant in the bud, with a small mop. It can be applied for about 50 cent per acre.
Laurens County has a chance to save the present crop or a good portion of it, if quick work is done. Weather conditions will govern a great deal, for if it rains every day or so, the poison will not have a chance to help much. If the next week is dry and hot, the farmers have a chance to save their crop.
Johnson County and other surrounding counties were encouraged to follow Laurens lead.
A "pasture meeting" of those interested in livestock would be held at the pasture of W. P. Bedingfield 4 1/2 miles north east of Wrightsville on August 9th. It will be adressed by Paul Tabor of State College of Agriculture and J. F. Jackson, Ag Agent of the Central of Georgia Railway and others.
The test pasture, one of 46 planted last spring by the Central Railroad in co-op with the owner, has made one of the best showings of the entire lot.
The pastures were planted with Lespedeza, Carpet Grass and Dalfis Grass. Sites chosen were either existing pastures or waste lands. The success of the test pastures has answered the argument that good pasturage cannot be obtained in the southeast. The expense of the interesting experiment was borne equally by the railroad and the land owner, the Central of Georgia Railway having appropriated $100 for each of the counties in Georgia and Alabama that its lines traverse.
Realizing that the salvation of the entire cotton crop depends on what is done in the area during the next two weeks, one of the largest county wide campaigns against the boll weevil ever organized will get underway under the direction of the Laurens County Chamber of Commerce and the county extention agent.
Their plan of operation is along these lines: It has been demonstrated by actual experience that a simple formula of arsenate of lead, and syrup, or calcium arsenate instead of syrup, will kill the weevil and rid a cotton field of the pests in a short time.
Businessmen of the city have put in a fund for the purchase of arsenate of lead which the Chamber will sell to the farmers at cost, and if they cannot get the money to pay cash, sell it on credit. A country-wide campaign to get every farmer in the county to use this formula within the next few weeks begins immediately. Bussinessmen and farmers will visit every school district within two days and lay the plan out to the farmers, urge them to save their cotton crop. The arsenate of lead will be the only material hard to get, as most have plenty of syrup on hand.
The formula to be used is very simple. It is as follows: Two pounds either arsenate of lead or calcium of arsenate, one gallon molasses or sorgum syrup, one half gallon of water. This is sufficient to cover two and one half acres. It is applied to the underside of the leaves of each plant in the bud, with a small mop. It can be applied for about 50 cent per acre.
Laurens County has a chance to save the present crop or a good portion of it, if quick work is done. Weather conditions will govern a great deal, for if it rains every day or so, the poison will not have a chance to help much. If the next week is dry and hot, the farmers have a chance to save their crop.
Johnson County and other surrounding counties were encouraged to follow Laurens lead.
Friday, July 19, 2019
From Days Gone By July 23, 1921
July 23, 1921.
THE CROSS-ROADS STORE
By Dennis Kirk
Some months ago, while driving along a county road in Johnson County, this State, we seemed suddenly to enter an unusual settlement. A school was near, and the road was full of children, dogs were scampering here and there, hogs wallowed lazily in the fence jams, and a flock of geese greeted us in the usual way that geese greet. After the geese greeted us, we were noticed by the community. Have you ever started to visit a neighbor in the country, and wanted your coming to be somewhat of a surprise, and met a flock of geese down the lane, you know what became of the intended surprise. But it is said a flock of geese once saved the city of Rome, and we guess they did, if saving depended upon waking up a sleeping sentry in their path. We then remarked to our traveling companion that we did not know there was a town just at this particular spot.
About this time the road in which we were traveling crossed over another road at angles, and the mystery was solved, it was nothing more nor less than a crossroads, with its store, and whittling box to one side, while grouped about here and there, were two or three dewllings, a church, schoolhouse, etc., alltogether a hustling, bustling little village.
No sooner had we entered the environment of the neighborhood, than we were carried back to a day, now almost gone, when the country cross roads store flourished. Our earliest recollections of a store is of one of these. There was not much in it. No up-to-date figures. The one we have in mind had not even a showcase, but the stick candy they sold was the best yet, if it did get stickey from being exposed to the moisture, and get walked upon by a few flies. The spiral streaks of red that wound the large and juicy sticks have never been equaled in beauty, or juicy sweetness.
Twas in the country cross-roads store that whittling originated. Here politicians whittled, planned and caucused. This is a day now almost gone. It was the day of the water grist mill, and the slow going ox team. Now the water mills are few and far between. The dams have been broken and washed away by floods, and the streams dried up by droughts, both extremes being caused largely by the cutting away of the forests that once covered hill and valley throughout the Southern expanse. Those were the days. What did we care, if it did take one day to shell the corn, one day to find the oxen, and another to make the trip to the mill and back, we had plenty of time, and did not have to live so fast as we do now.
But we guess it is well that we move on; but the memory of these old institutions, once so dear to our hearts, is good for the soul, and helps us to better life of today, from having lived the life of that enchanted day, now gone and going; and we think it well to preserve some of its peculiar charm in the song and story of this fleeting age.
THE CROSS-ROADS STORE
By Dennis Kirk
Some months ago, while driving along a county road in Johnson County, this State, we seemed suddenly to enter an unusual settlement. A school was near, and the road was full of children, dogs were scampering here and there, hogs wallowed lazily in the fence jams, and a flock of geese greeted us in the usual way that geese greet. After the geese greeted us, we were noticed by the community. Have you ever started to visit a neighbor in the country, and wanted your coming to be somewhat of a surprise, and met a flock of geese down the lane, you know what became of the intended surprise. But it is said a flock of geese once saved the city of Rome, and we guess they did, if saving depended upon waking up a sleeping sentry in their path. We then remarked to our traveling companion that we did not know there was a town just at this particular spot.
About this time the road in which we were traveling crossed over another road at angles, and the mystery was solved, it was nothing more nor less than a crossroads, with its store, and whittling box to one side, while grouped about here and there, were two or three dewllings, a church, schoolhouse, etc., alltogether a hustling, bustling little village.
No sooner had we entered the environment of the neighborhood, than we were carried back to a day, now almost gone, when the country cross roads store flourished. Our earliest recollections of a store is of one of these. There was not much in it. No up-to-date figures. The one we have in mind had not even a showcase, but the stick candy they sold was the best yet, if it did get stickey from being exposed to the moisture, and get walked upon by a few flies. The spiral streaks of red that wound the large and juicy sticks have never been equaled in beauty, or juicy sweetness.
Twas in the country cross-roads store that whittling originated. Here politicians whittled, planned and caucused. This is a day now almost gone. It was the day of the water grist mill, and the slow going ox team. Now the water mills are few and far between. The dams have been broken and washed away by floods, and the streams dried up by droughts, both extremes being caused largely by the cutting away of the forests that once covered hill and valley throughout the Southern expanse. Those were the days. What did we care, if it did take one day to shell the corn, one day to find the oxen, and another to make the trip to the mill and back, we had plenty of time, and did not have to live so fast as we do now.
But we guess it is well that we move on; but the memory of these old institutions, once so dear to our hearts, is good for the soul, and helps us to better life of today, from having lived the life of that enchanted day, now gone and going; and we think it well to preserve some of its peculiar charm in the song and story of this fleeting age.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
From Days Gone By July 16, 1921
July 16, 1921.
Two more convicts were added to the county gang Saturday. They were Alex Bell and Jack Knight, sentenced by Judge Kent to serve 12 months straight service for cruelty to animals, the prosecutor being Mr. L. A. Price. The men plead guilty. This makes six put on the gang during the last 30 days but there has been a decrease of five in the same time due to expiration of time. This gives Mr. Stanley 27 men on the gang, or in the words of the Ordinary, "twenty-six and a piece.".
County Agent M. E. Crow was showing a nice pin that is being given to the girl members of the county pig club who have Hampshire pigs. The young men have been given a watch fob as a present. These gifts come from the Hampshire Breeders Association. There are 36 club boys and girls in the county who own this stock of hog.
In announcing his various House committees, Speaker Neill has placed Johnson's Representative, Hon. W. D. Sumner on a number of important places. The committees Mr. Sumner is on are Vice-chair Auditing; General Agriculture No. 1; Georgia State Sanitarium.
In a familar case of Joe James, colored of Twiggs County, who was recently re-sentenced the 4th time by Judge Kent to hang July 15th. Joe's life was saved by the State Prison Commission last week who commuted his sentence to life imprisonment upon the grounds that he has a weak mind. Governor Hardwick has followed the Commission's recomendation and saved James from the hangman's noose.
Other local banks released their statement of condition. The Citizen Bank of Kite, $126,261.24; The Scott Banking Company, $72,779.17; The Bank of Adrian, $159,047.61.
The local ice plant is turning out ice just as fast as the plant will make it and it is being sold and delivered just as fast. Sunday was the first time that ice was anyways short in Wrightsville since the plant began operating but went without then but for an hour or two. They are to keep it going and the trade supplied all the time if this is possible.
Monday afternoon the young me of the city gave a watermelon feat at Idylwild. The party mounted a big truck about 6 pm and drove out. All had a fine swim, after which the melons were cut, and everyone seemed to enjoy the boneless meat very much.
After the crowd had finished eating, of course there had to be some fun, so they began to throw watermelon, some were hit in the face, and some in different places. Well after they finished that, the crowd decided to go straw riding so everybody mounted the big truck and away they went, rode around town a few minutes and they decided to go to Tennille, and get a sandwich, as the cafe here was closed.
Reached Tennille all ok and ordered 26 sandwiches and dopes. Everybody seemed to have been hungry after the jolts they received going up, till they reached the little city of Wrightsville about 11:30 pm. All smiles and asking when they are going again. But can't say yet when they will, but hope will be real soon. This was furnished to the paper by the reporter for the Straw Riders Convention.
Two more convicts were added to the county gang Saturday. They were Alex Bell and Jack Knight, sentenced by Judge Kent to serve 12 months straight service for cruelty to animals, the prosecutor being Mr. L. A. Price. The men plead guilty. This makes six put on the gang during the last 30 days but there has been a decrease of five in the same time due to expiration of time. This gives Mr. Stanley 27 men on the gang, or in the words of the Ordinary, "twenty-six and a piece.".
County Agent M. E. Crow was showing a nice pin that is being given to the girl members of the county pig club who have Hampshire pigs. The young men have been given a watch fob as a present. These gifts come from the Hampshire Breeders Association. There are 36 club boys and girls in the county who own this stock of hog.
In announcing his various House committees, Speaker Neill has placed Johnson's Representative, Hon. W. D. Sumner on a number of important places. The committees Mr. Sumner is on are Vice-chair Auditing; General Agriculture No. 1; Georgia State Sanitarium.
In a familar case of Joe James, colored of Twiggs County, who was recently re-sentenced the 4th time by Judge Kent to hang July 15th. Joe's life was saved by the State Prison Commission last week who commuted his sentence to life imprisonment upon the grounds that he has a weak mind. Governor Hardwick has followed the Commission's recomendation and saved James from the hangman's noose.
Other local banks released their statement of condition. The Citizen Bank of Kite, $126,261.24; The Scott Banking Company, $72,779.17; The Bank of Adrian, $159,047.61.
The local ice plant is turning out ice just as fast as the plant will make it and it is being sold and delivered just as fast. Sunday was the first time that ice was anyways short in Wrightsville since the plant began operating but went without then but for an hour or two. They are to keep it going and the trade supplied all the time if this is possible.
Monday afternoon the young me of the city gave a watermelon feat at Idylwild. The party mounted a big truck about 6 pm and drove out. All had a fine swim, after which the melons were cut, and everyone seemed to enjoy the boneless meat very much.
After the crowd had finished eating, of course there had to be some fun, so they began to throw watermelon, some were hit in the face, and some in different places. Well after they finished that, the crowd decided to go straw riding so everybody mounted the big truck and away they went, rode around town a few minutes and they decided to go to Tennille, and get a sandwich, as the cafe here was closed.
Reached Tennille all ok and ordered 26 sandwiches and dopes. Everybody seemed to have been hungry after the jolts they received going up, till they reached the little city of Wrightsville about 11:30 pm. All smiles and asking when they are going again. But can't say yet when they will, but hope will be real soon. This was furnished to the paper by the reporter for the Straw Riders Convention.
Friday, July 5, 2019
From Days Gone By July 9, 1921
July 9, 1921.
The large and attractive dairy farm of Mr. William Jackson at Donovan is the objective of a trip by a party of Dublin people coming to inspect with the interest of erecting a large creamery in Dublin. The party were members of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. After checking out the Donovan facility they will travel to Sandersville to the Rawlings stock farm, then on to Warthen where a Mr. Hooks operates a large dairy.
Monday, the 4th of July was another big, successful day for this section at Idylwild. There was good singing, a great address and plentg to eat. The town closed all day to make this event a success.
The Johnson County Fair, together with other fairs compossing the Middle Georgia Fair circuit will be played this fall by Krause Greater Shows, a solid compact of nine shows, three riding devices, forty concessions and a ten piece uniform band with strict guarentee against immorality.
The serum for the prevention of typhoid fever is being extensively used in this county, the doctors administering daily. Everyone is encouraged to get vaccinated as it might save 40 days sickness and a lot of cash.
Three persons were seriously injured Thursday night by eating some sardines they had bought from a store and from which they almost made their supper. The parties were Mrs. Catherine Paul, a daughter and a son. Mrs. Paul died from the effects of the poison in the sardines and the other two had a strong fight to make to live. Dr. S. M. Johnson was called in soon after the trouble began with the Paul family and by heroic work two of the effected ones were saved. Mrs. Paul died Saturday night and was buried Sunday at Westview Cemetery. She was the widow of Mr. John J. Paul and they were living at Mr. E. J. Summer's country place.
Miss Sara Evelyn Johnson, the 14 year old daughter of Dr. & Mrs. S. M. Johnson died. The illness was short but violent duration, an operation for appendicts having been formed a few hours before her death by several prominent physicians in the area. She was the doctor's youngest child. She was buried at Westview Cemetery.
On July 3rd the family of Mrs. Vina Colston celebrated her 81st birthday which was actually was January 3rd. About 300 people showed up. Mr. J. D. Hutchinson has occupied his new home on the southside of town. Wrightsville lost to Bartow 14 to 0 in the first game at Bartow but won the second game 6 to 5.
Three banks released their Statement of Condition. Exchange Bank of Wrightsville $206,079.81; The Bank of Wrightsville $281,891.25; The Farmers Bank $138,387.55.
Hon. J. B. Moore of Baxley, is pushing a bill for the protection of the women of our State, known as the Marriage Law. This requires an examination of the man not less than 15 days before tbe issuance of a marriage license, and a certificate from a reputable physician that he is not infected with a veneral disease. This disease is now running rampant in the State since the end of the war.
Killing boll weevils with poison molasses is going on all over Georgia and if the remedy is successful, which many claim it, Georgia 'lasses shore has come into its own for once.
The large and attractive dairy farm of Mr. William Jackson at Donovan is the objective of a trip by a party of Dublin people coming to inspect with the interest of erecting a large creamery in Dublin. The party were members of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. After checking out the Donovan facility they will travel to Sandersville to the Rawlings stock farm, then on to Warthen where a Mr. Hooks operates a large dairy.
Monday, the 4th of July was another big, successful day for this section at Idylwild. There was good singing, a great address and plentg to eat. The town closed all day to make this event a success.
The Johnson County Fair, together with other fairs compossing the Middle Georgia Fair circuit will be played this fall by Krause Greater Shows, a solid compact of nine shows, three riding devices, forty concessions and a ten piece uniform band with strict guarentee against immorality.
The serum for the prevention of typhoid fever is being extensively used in this county, the doctors administering daily. Everyone is encouraged to get vaccinated as it might save 40 days sickness and a lot of cash.
Three persons were seriously injured Thursday night by eating some sardines they had bought from a store and from which they almost made their supper. The parties were Mrs. Catherine Paul, a daughter and a son. Mrs. Paul died from the effects of the poison in the sardines and the other two had a strong fight to make to live. Dr. S. M. Johnson was called in soon after the trouble began with the Paul family and by heroic work two of the effected ones were saved. Mrs. Paul died Saturday night and was buried Sunday at Westview Cemetery. She was the widow of Mr. John J. Paul and they were living at Mr. E. J. Summer's country place.
Miss Sara Evelyn Johnson, the 14 year old daughter of Dr. & Mrs. S. M. Johnson died. The illness was short but violent duration, an operation for appendicts having been formed a few hours before her death by several prominent physicians in the area. She was the doctor's youngest child. She was buried at Westview Cemetery.
On July 3rd the family of Mrs. Vina Colston celebrated her 81st birthday which was actually was January 3rd. About 300 people showed up. Mr. J. D. Hutchinson has occupied his new home on the southside of town. Wrightsville lost to Bartow 14 to 0 in the first game at Bartow but won the second game 6 to 5.
Three banks released their Statement of Condition. Exchange Bank of Wrightsville $206,079.81; The Bank of Wrightsville $281,891.25; The Farmers Bank $138,387.55.
Hon. J. B. Moore of Baxley, is pushing a bill for the protection of the women of our State, known as the Marriage Law. This requires an examination of the man not less than 15 days before tbe issuance of a marriage license, and a certificate from a reputable physician that he is not infected with a veneral disease. This disease is now running rampant in the State since the end of the war.
Killing boll weevils with poison molasses is going on all over Georgia and if the remedy is successful, which many claim it, Georgia 'lasses shore has come into its own for once.
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
From Days Gone By July 2, 1921
July 2, 1921.
The big celebration of the 4th of July will be held at Idylwild and is to be one of the largest of its kind ever held in the county. Probably the largest watermelon cutting ever pulled off anywhere will take place under the large shade trees in the park. There will also be wagon loads of melons for sale. Rev. G. F. Sumner will direct the singing for the day. Judge Ben Hill Moye will deliver the address.
This national holiday finds the people in a little unrest and disquietude on account of the so often heard of "hard times" and the occasion is planned with the idea of forgetting your troubles for awhile.
Judge Ben Hill Moye of Wrightsville will enter the race for Congress. Ben is a well known lawyer of this city and announces as a candidate for Representative of the 12th District in opposition to Wash W. Larson of Dublin, the incumbent. Moye has practiced in the various courts of the State for a number of years and at present is Judge of Wrightsville City Court. He has served two terms in the lower house of the Georgia General assembly (1913-1914) and has been solicitor for the city. Congressman Larson is serving his third term in Congress after defeating Dudley M. Hughes of Danville.
In a slow game with errors Wrightsville defeated Sparta by the score of 3 to 11. Wrightsville was defeated at Swainsboro by the score of 11 to 12. Wrightsville received the worst defeat at the hands of Vidalia of the season when John D. Fuss went up against Smith, a star pitcher from Douglas. The fielding of Wrightsville's team on this occasion was spectacularly rotton, owing to injured players. The score was 5 to 17.
Wrightsville came back strong at the fairgrounds against Vidalia and won that game 8 to 6. The boys will retire from the diamond for a short interval, after having played a total of 35 games of which they won 26, lost 8 and tied one.
Three young men took the bar examination before Judge J. L. Kent. They were J. Frank Jackson of Donovan, B. C. Pierce and W. O. Purser of Alamo.
Jack did it. He worked a long time on it but its done, and it will last till something wears out. The clock tower now tolls each hour. For months it failed to strike. Ordinary Jenkins secured the services of Jeweler Jack Robinson who went up several times with a hammer and a file and a few rusty nails and came down with a wet shirt and said its fixed.
Robert , a colored youth claiming to be 15 but who looked 19 or 20 plead guilty to stealing and Judge Moye sentenced him to 9 months on the chaingang or $60 fine. Warden Stanley carried him straight to the county road building force. Sudo Jackson, colored, drew a sentence of 11 months on the gang for stealing 40 lbs of meat from a neighbor.
County agents in Georgia conducted 277,743 demonstrations since 1910. In the course of these demonstrations 1,015,157 hogs were inoculated to prevent hog cholera. By means of cooperative buying and selling of $24,427,835 worth of fertilizers, livestock, seed, etc., $3,935,442 was saved to the farmers of the state. Important work was done also in the development of boy's agricultural clubs, especially in connection with corn club work. The boys have grown products valued at $5,324,496.
The big celebration of the 4th of July will be held at Idylwild and is to be one of the largest of its kind ever held in the county. Probably the largest watermelon cutting ever pulled off anywhere will take place under the large shade trees in the park. There will also be wagon loads of melons for sale. Rev. G. F. Sumner will direct the singing for the day. Judge Ben Hill Moye will deliver the address.
This national holiday finds the people in a little unrest and disquietude on account of the so often heard of "hard times" and the occasion is planned with the idea of forgetting your troubles for awhile.
Judge Ben Hill Moye of Wrightsville will enter the race for Congress. Ben is a well known lawyer of this city and announces as a candidate for Representative of the 12th District in opposition to Wash W. Larson of Dublin, the incumbent. Moye has practiced in the various courts of the State for a number of years and at present is Judge of Wrightsville City Court. He has served two terms in the lower house of the Georgia General assembly (1913-1914) and has been solicitor for the city. Congressman Larson is serving his third term in Congress after defeating Dudley M. Hughes of Danville.
In a slow game with errors Wrightsville defeated Sparta by the score of 3 to 11. Wrightsville was defeated at Swainsboro by the score of 11 to 12. Wrightsville received the worst defeat at the hands of Vidalia of the season when John D. Fuss went up against Smith, a star pitcher from Douglas. The fielding of Wrightsville's team on this occasion was spectacularly rotton, owing to injured players. The score was 5 to 17.
Wrightsville came back strong at the fairgrounds against Vidalia and won that game 8 to 6. The boys will retire from the diamond for a short interval, after having played a total of 35 games of which they won 26, lost 8 and tied one.
Three young men took the bar examination before Judge J. L. Kent. They were J. Frank Jackson of Donovan, B. C. Pierce and W. O. Purser of Alamo.
Jack did it. He worked a long time on it but its done, and it will last till something wears out. The clock tower now tolls each hour. For months it failed to strike. Ordinary Jenkins secured the services of Jeweler Jack Robinson who went up several times with a hammer and a file and a few rusty nails and came down with a wet shirt and said its fixed.
Robert , a colored youth claiming to be 15 but who looked 19 or 20 plead guilty to stealing and Judge Moye sentenced him to 9 months on the chaingang or $60 fine. Warden Stanley carried him straight to the county road building force. Sudo Jackson, colored, drew a sentence of 11 months on the gang for stealing 40 lbs of meat from a neighbor.
County agents in Georgia conducted 277,743 demonstrations since 1910. In the course of these demonstrations 1,015,157 hogs were inoculated to prevent hog cholera. By means of cooperative buying and selling of $24,427,835 worth of fertilizers, livestock, seed, etc., $3,935,442 was saved to the farmers of the state. Important work was done also in the development of boy's agricultural clubs, especially in connection with corn club work. The boys have grown products valued at $5,324,496.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
From Days Gone By June 25, 1921
June 25, 1921.
Mr. M. E. Crow who was Johnson County's county agent wrote about a Johnson County farmer who he thought had the right idea to combat the boll weevil.
In the sandhills of southeast Johnson County there is a man named Baker, from Missouri; and he is showing the people how to divorce themselves from cotton. He has nearly four hundred acres in a body there and has seventy-five acres in corn and velvet beans that he will hog off and graze off with his herd of grade Durham cattle.
He has seventy-five acres in oats and he will house them to winter his herd on. Then sow it back in cowpeas and pick some of them; the rest will be turned under and seeded back to oats next fall and have a good pasture all winter, and more oats next spring, and his land will soon be in a high state of cultivation.
He has one of the best pure bred roan Durham bulls in this part of Georgia. His hogs are all good grades except his herd boar, which is a Duroc, and he is a registered one, Dr. Brinson by name. Mr. Baker has some two hundred acres in pasture and they are sown in Dallas and carpet grass, Lespedeza, red top timothy and different clovers.
Now, if Mr. Baker, at 77, can come here and see in so short a time that it pays to diversify his farming, why can't some of our good farmers, who have been here always, see where it will pay them to do the same thing.
Some will stick to cotton until Gabriel blows his trumpet, and then say if we all do that the market will be glutted. You have been raising cotton since before Whitney invented the cotton gin and you have failed to see where you were growing too much cotton.
There will be shipped into Georgia in year 1921, over two million dollars worth of feed and meat and lard. Shall we do as Mr. Baker is doing, or shall we continue to grow boll weevil and a half crop of cotton at a loss to ourselves and keep impoverishing our lands by taking all off and leaving nothing there to build our farms up with.
Let some of us get the Baker way of doing our farming. Go and see his farm one mile west of Meeks, Georgia and more fence, better stock and better land. More hay and money.
Mr. M. E. Crow who was Johnson County's county agent wrote about a Johnson County farmer who he thought had the right idea to combat the boll weevil.
In the sandhills of southeast Johnson County there is a man named Baker, from Missouri; and he is showing the people how to divorce themselves from cotton. He has nearly four hundred acres in a body there and has seventy-five acres in corn and velvet beans that he will hog off and graze off with his herd of grade Durham cattle.
He has seventy-five acres in oats and he will house them to winter his herd on. Then sow it back in cowpeas and pick some of them; the rest will be turned under and seeded back to oats next fall and have a good pasture all winter, and more oats next spring, and his land will soon be in a high state of cultivation.
He has one of the best pure bred roan Durham bulls in this part of Georgia. His hogs are all good grades except his herd boar, which is a Duroc, and he is a registered one, Dr. Brinson by name. Mr. Baker has some two hundred acres in pasture and they are sown in Dallas and carpet grass, Lespedeza, red top timothy and different clovers.
Now, if Mr. Baker, at 77, can come here and see in so short a time that it pays to diversify his farming, why can't some of our good farmers, who have been here always, see where it will pay them to do the same thing.
Some will stick to cotton until Gabriel blows his trumpet, and then say if we all do that the market will be glutted. You have been raising cotton since before Whitney invented the cotton gin and you have failed to see where you were growing too much cotton.
There will be shipped into Georgia in year 1921, over two million dollars worth of feed and meat and lard. Shall we do as Mr. Baker is doing, or shall we continue to grow boll weevil and a half crop of cotton at a loss to ourselves and keep impoverishing our lands by taking all off and leaving nothing there to build our farms up with.
Let some of us get the Baker way of doing our farming. Go and see his farm one mile west of Meeks, Georgia and more fence, better stock and better land. More hay and money.
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