From Days Gone By March 19, 1921

March 19, 1921.
    Beulah church is to be the host to the next convention of the Washington-Johnson Singing Convention. It will meet April 9th and 10th. Among those singing will be the McLendon Brothers, A. P. Kimberly, The Misses Gillis and the Emanuel Quartet. Mr. J. S. P. Lampp, one of the strong pillars in Smith's Chapel Baptist church is asking to host a singing convention in the future.
    The banks released their Statement of Condition. The Bank of Wrightsville, $287,508.44; The Farmers Bank, $141,634.18; The Bank of Adrian, $176,401.52; The Citizens Bank of Kite, $165,904.57; The Scott Banking Company, $77,076.41; The Exchange Bank, $$241,977.74.
    O. L. Smith, cattle inspector will be at the E. J. Sumner dipping vat April 6th, Scott vat April 7th, Garnto's April 8th, and every 14 days after until further notice.
    Sammie Kaplan arrived in Wrightsville Tuesday morning happy as a lark. He is a Jew and a brother to Jacob Kaplan of this city. Jake hasn't seen Sammie in 12 years. Sammie was just 3 years old then. Now he is a plump size lad. He can't speak any English at all hardly but Jake says he is starting him to school here next week. Sammie found the way to Wrightsville all by himself from New York.
    Miss Massey states she has over 200 members this year in her clubs, a point never reached in this work in the county before. Mr. Crow has around 160 boys in his clubs which is also the largest number of boys doing this work.
    Dr. J. R. Dent is building him a nice little bungalow at Oconee where he is now practicing medicine. The residents on Myrtle Avenue would very much appreciate the extension of this throughfare on southward across the W. & T. tracks connecting with the Idylwild Drive road.
    If you live in Wrightsville and Johnson County you are certainly interested in Wrightsville's growth and prosperity. Then why not spend your money at home people. Leave it here in Wrightsville and see your own business houses prosper instead of having to close up their doors by the bankrupt courts. The business houses of this town sell as reasonably as they can afford which is as cheap as any place. Trade at home, boost your home, live at home and home will be happy and all the neighborhood likewise. Some people's idea of progress runs backwards. So if we could turn the wheels around for their benefit maybe something would be accomplished.
    The future of stock raising in general in this county is looming up brightly. A lot of the farmers have put in purebred stock and are going into the business with a vim. It is a sure way to combat the boll weevil and have plenty to eat too.
    Did you know that Georgia established the first free school, the first State University in the Union, the first female college in the world, the first woman in the world to receive a diploma (Miss Catherine Brewer), the first steam navigation (Longstreet), the first steamer to cross the Atlantic, the first sewing machine, the first iron vessel (John Randolph), the first Memorial Day, the first inventor circular saw, the first to tunnel the Hudson River? Truly Georgians, as has been said before, have been the flower and fruitage of families who for generations feared God, reverenced the purity of womanhood and the ballot and staiving faithful, honestly and with unfaltering truth and courage "builded better than they knew".