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.