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.