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.
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
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.
Thursday, June 13, 2019
From Days Gone By June 18, 1921
June 18, 1921.
The management of the Johnson County Fair Association will meet at the Bank of Wrightsville for consultation over the Premium list, and it is expected a manager will be chosen for this year.
The crop outlook in the county is pretty fair, but could be better according to several farmers. The western side of the county crops look good, but in the eastern side it seems there has been more rain and therefore the crops are looking a little off, the farmers not being able to get into their fields to work them. But there will be a good crop made all over the county as plenty of time remains in which to work it and let it grow off. There is plenty of grass growing, but these warm days its being killed by the acre.
It was announced that Walter B. Medlin, Macon man, who shot and killed F. E. Baker, a barber, in February, 1918, had been granted a full pardon from the Governor. Medlin is now custodian of the court house building in Vadosta, attached to the chaingang of that county. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mr. William Jones, the courthouse and yard janitor is putting things in form here. He keeps the building clean and freshened up and looks after the trash as it accumulates. The shrubbery is also kept neatly trimmed.
Mrs. Sallie Outlaw Tanner, wife of Mr. E. W. Tanner, one of the counties most successful farmers, died at Brigham-Claxton sanitarium in Dublin on May 31st. Mrs. Tanner had been in wretched health for many weeks. Tanner Undertaking Company in Wrightsville was in charge. She was buried at Westview.
Sunday was the hottest day of the year here. The thermometer went to 96 and stayed there most of the day. Since then the weather has been a few degrees under these figures. Fishermen have had a bad week also on account of so many mosquito in the swamps.
Miss Delle Walker is a teacher at Holly Hill, South Carolina, Miss Kate Walker teaches at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Miss Mary Moore Johnson teaches at Union Point, Georgia.
Mr. J. N. Lanier died at his home in Harrison. He had been sick for several days. Surviving him are his wife and two children. Mrs. Lanier is a sister to Messrs. W. A. F. A. and Oliver Sinquefield. He was buried at Tennille.
John W. Townsend, Willam Frost and Bunnie I. Kight of Kite have received their Victory medals from the War Department.
Mr. L. A. Lovett stated that the May business was really good. He is the popular local agent for Fords and tractors. In May he made tractor sales to Messrs. William Oliver, Dr. W. J. Frost and G. A. Tarbutton. This makes two tractors for Mr. Oliver.
The management of the Johnson County Fair Association will meet at the Bank of Wrightsville for consultation over the Premium list, and it is expected a manager will be chosen for this year.
The crop outlook in the county is pretty fair, but could be better according to several farmers. The western side of the county crops look good, but in the eastern side it seems there has been more rain and therefore the crops are looking a little off, the farmers not being able to get into their fields to work them. But there will be a good crop made all over the county as plenty of time remains in which to work it and let it grow off. There is plenty of grass growing, but these warm days its being killed by the acre.
It was announced that Walter B. Medlin, Macon man, who shot and killed F. E. Baker, a barber, in February, 1918, had been granted a full pardon from the Governor. Medlin is now custodian of the court house building in Vadosta, attached to the chaingang of that county. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mr. William Jones, the courthouse and yard janitor is putting things in form here. He keeps the building clean and freshened up and looks after the trash as it accumulates. The shrubbery is also kept neatly trimmed.
Mrs. Sallie Outlaw Tanner, wife of Mr. E. W. Tanner, one of the counties most successful farmers, died at Brigham-Claxton sanitarium in Dublin on May 31st. Mrs. Tanner had been in wretched health for many weeks. Tanner Undertaking Company in Wrightsville was in charge. She was buried at Westview.
Sunday was the hottest day of the year here. The thermometer went to 96 and stayed there most of the day. Since then the weather has been a few degrees under these figures. Fishermen have had a bad week also on account of so many mosquito in the swamps.
Miss Delle Walker is a teacher at Holly Hill, South Carolina, Miss Kate Walker teaches at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Miss Mary Moore Johnson teaches at Union Point, Georgia.
Mr. J. N. Lanier died at his home in Harrison. He had been sick for several days. Surviving him are his wife and two children. Mrs. Lanier is a sister to Messrs. W. A. F. A. and Oliver Sinquefield. He was buried at Tennille.
John W. Townsend, Willam Frost and Bunnie I. Kight of Kite have received their Victory medals from the War Department.
Mr. L. A. Lovett stated that the May business was really good. He is the popular local agent for Fords and tractors. In May he made tractor sales to Messrs. William Oliver, Dr. W. J. Frost and G. A. Tarbutton. This makes two tractors for Mr. Oliver.
Sunday, June 9, 2019
From Days Gone By June 11, 1921
June 11, 1921.
The news of the killing in cold blood of George Crawford at a negro house some 20 miles beyond Dublin reached here Saturday morning, a short time after it was committed. The dead man has alot of relatives in Wrightsville and Johnson County and the news of the fight excited considerable interest since, several parties going over to obtain all the particulars and view the remains.
About 4:30am Saturday morning, according to the officer's eldest son, George Crawford, E. M. Osborne, Art Sapp and John Renfroe, all officers and deputies in Laurens County, went to Green Holsey's home. Crawford and Osborne going direct to his house and the other two to the back of a field to raid a still.
Upon reaching Green's house the wife and daughter of Holsey met them on the porch. The officers told them they had come to make a raid and the woman objected. A fight ensued. Both women were hit on the head making a bloody wound. Upon entering the house Crawford was attacked by Green with a shot gun. Crawford took this away and Green made a run for a pistol up behind a picture on the wall. Obtaining this Crawford grappled with the negro man.
At this time Math Holsey, Green's son, was noticed by Osborne standing down the hallway with a rifle. Immediately this gun fired and George Crawford fell to the floor mortally wounded. Osborne then opened fire, emptying every chamber at Math who fell to the floor. Attending Crawford a short time until he breathed his last without a murmer or word, Osborne then hurried across the field for the other two officers. When the three men returned Math had escaped. Instead of being dead as Osborne thought, he was only wounded. Green had received a death ball.
Officers and people at Alamo and Dublin were notified and immediately a posse was formed who finally located Math, and after the desperate colored refused to surrender, was killed, his body brought back and piled along side his father, Green, in the house and on the floor.
County policeman George Crawford had been with Laurens County in this work for nearly two years. He was unusually fearless, proof of that being shown by the fact that he did not draw his gun during the scuffle with Green Holsey. All the shooting was done by his deputy, E. M. Osborne and the coloreds.
George Crawford came to Dublin from Sandersville, where he was deputy sheriff for a long while, and where his father, then Sheriff, was killed by a negro resisting arrest.
George Crawford left a wife and eight children, and was liked by everyone. He was usually active in enforcing the prohibition law and had raided some of the old established moonshine stills and operations since being county policeman. His leather billy was still in his pocket when his body was prepared for burial, he not having even it in his hand during the scuffle. George was carried to Sandersville for burial.
The news of the killing in cold blood of George Crawford at a negro house some 20 miles beyond Dublin reached here Saturday morning, a short time after it was committed. The dead man has alot of relatives in Wrightsville and Johnson County and the news of the fight excited considerable interest since, several parties going over to obtain all the particulars and view the remains.
About 4:30am Saturday morning, according to the officer's eldest son, George Crawford, E. M. Osborne, Art Sapp and John Renfroe, all officers and deputies in Laurens County, went to Green Holsey's home. Crawford and Osborne going direct to his house and the other two to the back of a field to raid a still.
Upon reaching Green's house the wife and daughter of Holsey met them on the porch. The officers told them they had come to make a raid and the woman objected. A fight ensued. Both women were hit on the head making a bloody wound. Upon entering the house Crawford was attacked by Green with a shot gun. Crawford took this away and Green made a run for a pistol up behind a picture on the wall. Obtaining this Crawford grappled with the negro man.
At this time Math Holsey, Green's son, was noticed by Osborne standing down the hallway with a rifle. Immediately this gun fired and George Crawford fell to the floor mortally wounded. Osborne then opened fire, emptying every chamber at Math who fell to the floor. Attending Crawford a short time until he breathed his last without a murmer or word, Osborne then hurried across the field for the other two officers. When the three men returned Math had escaped. Instead of being dead as Osborne thought, he was only wounded. Green had received a death ball.
Officers and people at Alamo and Dublin were notified and immediately a posse was formed who finally located Math, and after the desperate colored refused to surrender, was killed, his body brought back and piled along side his father, Green, in the house and on the floor.
County policeman George Crawford had been with Laurens County in this work for nearly two years. He was unusually fearless, proof of that being shown by the fact that he did not draw his gun during the scuffle with Green Holsey. All the shooting was done by his deputy, E. M. Osborne and the coloreds.
George Crawford came to Dublin from Sandersville, where he was deputy sheriff for a long while, and where his father, then Sheriff, was killed by a negro resisting arrest.
George Crawford left a wife and eight children, and was liked by everyone. He was usually active in enforcing the prohibition law and had raided some of the old established moonshine stills and operations since being county policeman. His leather billy was still in his pocket when his body was prepared for burial, he not having even it in his hand during the scuffle. George was carried to Sandersville for burial.
Saturday, June 1, 2019
From Days Gone By, June 4, 1921
June 4, 1921.
Judge A. L. Hatcher, attorny for Mr. John R. Rowland, has appealed the cattle dipping case from Johnson Superior Court to the Supreme Court of Georgia. The clerk of the court here has been busy this week preparing the papers and it is now before this higher tribunal. A decision is expected within a short time.
The mid-summer meeting of the Medical Society of the 12th congressional district will be in Vidalia. Dr. E. B. Claxton is president and Dr. J. H. Moore is sec-treas.
University of Georgia alumni from Johnson County will attend the Alumni Day in Athens with Chancellor Barrow delivering the addresd to the greatest reunion of University men that the old campus has seen. While all the alumni are invited back to Athens, a special effort is being made to have a reunion of the clases of 1871, 1876, 1881, 1886, 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911 and 1916.
The 12th district agricultural school will close its second year with a play entitled "Scenes at a Union Depot" for the benefit of the library. Mr. George A. Smith is now selling ice at Soperton for the plant of Mr. Homer Moore. The little son of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Rowland who was painfully scalded by a falling vessel from the stove is improving. Mrs. Rowland who was also burned is recovering. Mr. W. J. Scoggins is getting along better from the pistol wound he received last week at his home in Minter, when he and Mr. J. O. Kennedy became engaged in an altercation, a matter of friends falling out for a moments time.
An impressive birthday party was held for Mrs. Mary J. Mosley of Myrtle Avenue. She is 72. She is the wife of Mr. Lee Mosley.
Mrs. Roxiean J. Howell died on April 14, 1921. She was 58 years old born June 13, 1862. She was married to Mr. Lee Howell. She was a daughter of the late John W. Tyson. She is survived by her husband and five children. They are Mrs. J. J. Wombles, Mrs. John Johnson, Mrs. J. S. Mason, Miss Susie Howell and Mr. Linton C. Howell. Three sisters, Mrs. Adeline Pullen, Mrs. Francis Pittman and Mrs. Morgan Stalnaker and one brother, George W. Tyson. She was a member of Rehobeth Church. She was buried in the family cemetery on Odum Road in Johnson County.
A town that never has anything to do in a public way is on the way to the cemetery. Any citizen who will do nothing for his town is helping to dig the grave. A man that "cusses" the town furnishes the coffin. The man who is so selfish as to have no time from his business to give it is making the shroud. The man who won't advertise is driving the herse. The man who is always pulling back from any public enterprise throws boquets on the grave. The man who is so stingy as to be howling hard times preaches the funeral, sings the doxology. And thus the town lies buried from all sorrow and care.
Judge A. L. Hatcher, attorny for Mr. John R. Rowland, has appealed the cattle dipping case from Johnson Superior Court to the Supreme Court of Georgia. The clerk of the court here has been busy this week preparing the papers and it is now before this higher tribunal. A decision is expected within a short time.
The mid-summer meeting of the Medical Society of the 12th congressional district will be in Vidalia. Dr. E. B. Claxton is president and Dr. J. H. Moore is sec-treas.
University of Georgia alumni from Johnson County will attend the Alumni Day in Athens with Chancellor Barrow delivering the addresd to the greatest reunion of University men that the old campus has seen. While all the alumni are invited back to Athens, a special effort is being made to have a reunion of the clases of 1871, 1876, 1881, 1886, 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911 and 1916.
The 12th district agricultural school will close its second year with a play entitled "Scenes at a Union Depot" for the benefit of the library. Mr. George A. Smith is now selling ice at Soperton for the plant of Mr. Homer Moore. The little son of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Rowland who was painfully scalded by a falling vessel from the stove is improving. Mrs. Rowland who was also burned is recovering. Mr. W. J. Scoggins is getting along better from the pistol wound he received last week at his home in Minter, when he and Mr. J. O. Kennedy became engaged in an altercation, a matter of friends falling out for a moments time.
An impressive birthday party was held for Mrs. Mary J. Mosley of Myrtle Avenue. She is 72. She is the wife of Mr. Lee Mosley.
Mrs. Roxiean J. Howell died on April 14, 1921. She was 58 years old born June 13, 1862. She was married to Mr. Lee Howell. She was a daughter of the late John W. Tyson. She is survived by her husband and five children. They are Mrs. J. J. Wombles, Mrs. John Johnson, Mrs. J. S. Mason, Miss Susie Howell and Mr. Linton C. Howell. Three sisters, Mrs. Adeline Pullen, Mrs. Francis Pittman and Mrs. Morgan Stalnaker and one brother, George W. Tyson. She was a member of Rehobeth Church. She was buried in the family cemetery on Odum Road in Johnson County.
A town that never has anything to do in a public way is on the way to the cemetery. Any citizen who will do nothing for his town is helping to dig the grave. A man that "cusses" the town furnishes the coffin. The man who is so selfish as to have no time from his business to give it is making the shroud. The man who won't advertise is driving the herse. The man who is always pulling back from any public enterprise throws boquets on the grave. The man who is so stingy as to be howling hard times preaches the funeral, sings the doxology. And thus the town lies buried from all sorrow and care.
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