From Days Gone By April 16, 1921

April 16, 1921.
    The secretary of the fair association has been  engaged in corespondencr for the past two weeks working on a circuit of a half a dozen towns, lining up a route for a good carnival company to show at each of the fairs this fall.
    Warrenton, Sparta, Louisville and probably one or two more will likely join Wrightsville in the circuit proposition at a meeting to be held in Sandersville this week. A delegation from here will go there to meet the representatives of these fairs in discussion of the circuit.
    Other matters pertaining to a successful fair this fall are being worked out and the outlook for a real fair is encouraging. The people of the county want to keep this fact in mind and make preparations in time for the exhibits.
    If the people who have hogs for sale and wish to sell them co-operatively, county agent M. E. Crow will get the state market man here to help put on a sale. Don't sell your small hogs, none under 175 pounds gross weight and will be first grade hogs. The sale is scheduled for April 20th. Have 30 head already subscribed. Need 45 to 50 more. Hogs will have to be inspectrd and weighef.
    The fine 12 acre pasture is now complete with seed sown and everything in proper shape. It is on the large farm of Mr. Green B. Harrison, just east of the city a few miles and is the first of its kind in the county.
    The total cost of this pasture is $160, that is for the seed, plowing, etc. Mr. Harrison bears a half and the Central of Georgia Railroad the other half, or in other words the railway company agreed to put $100 in these pastures.
    Mr. McWhorter, the system's agricultural agent, and Mr. Brown, the district's general farm demonstration supervisor, who were here, were out at the pasture and assisted in its final touches. It has been sown in Carpet, Dallas and Lespedeza.
    In the pasture the county has an example pf what is being done in many places in the state to improve the cattle industry and also in a measure to meet weevil conditions.
    The latest territorial acquisition and line fixing now centers around Adrian, again. For many years she has been embarrassed one way or another by being mixed up in two or more counties. Now it is proposed to get it right.
    An idea coming from Adrian got the people here busy and want this valuable territory put into Johnson County. Firmly ninety percent of the people want to be in Johnson.
    The territory actually necessary to straighten out the lines and leave the community in the best of shape will embrace around 8 square miles and over a quarter of a million in taxable values. It will take in something like two hundred seventy five voters, minus the ladies.
    The committee and the people there decided to formulate 3 petitions and circulate them among all the folks in the territory and ascertain just what the sentiment is among them. It is intended to make plats of the territory survey it out and get up the necessary data and lay them before the October Grand Juries of the two counties and the Spring Term of next year, after having gone through other lawful proceedings and a long next summer., 1922, this territory can becme a part of Johnson, barring of course hinderences.
    It is thought Emanuel will not fight the move. Treutlen wants the territory but doesn't stand much of a show with those people around Adrian. There is a little nook which runs on down on the west side of the Ohoopee to a distance of almost eight miles from Adrian that Emanuel would like to disconnect with also. But this nook puts the people in it too far away and is thus an unfair proposition to take them into the new county lines. Johnson is gladly assisting in this matter of getting Adrian into her boundaries.