Tuesday, October 29, 2019

From Days Gone By Nov. 5, 1921

The schools of the county are now going full blast and hearing from quite a number of them we learn they are getting along fine so far and the children are taking much interest in their work.
    Messrs. J. H. Rowland and F. M. Tapley brought samples of their 1921 syrup to town. One was cooked on the old-fashioned boiler and a quart of it resembled honey. The other was made on a new evaporator and ground by a gasoline engine pulling a new patented cane mill which does business by the wholesale. The sugar cane industry in the county is becoming very big.
    Wrightsville is again to be visited by a circle of representatives from the South Georgia Orphans Home of Macon.
   Seab Johnson, a negro, convicted in the Superior Court of Emanuel County, convicted of murdering his wife and sister-in-law several months ago, was sentenced by Judge R. N. Hardeman to hang December 2nd. It has been a long time since there has been anyone sentenced to hang in Emanuel County, and when the sentence was pronounced by the court on this negro it made a very noticeable impression on those who heard it.
    Also after being out all night the jury in the case of the state against Will Durden, charged with murder, returned a verdict of guilty with a recomendation that he be imprisioned for life. Durden's council is said they will appeal.
    More than seven hundred dollars was distributed among the county people in prizes earned by exhibitors at the recent county fair and county money into county pockets from a county venture.
    Success to the county agents who carried the big car load of county products to the Savannah Exposition. This is the first time Johnson County has had such a mammoth one anywhere and the very first showing in Savannah.
    Warden and Mrs. R. M. Stanley had a son born on October 18th. Baliff C. T. Mixon made a big sale of household and farming effects leived on under some executions. Looked like breaking up housekeeping in front of the court house for awhile. Mr. & Mrs. Watson Mosley have gone to make Thomson their home. He will barber there.
    Private Crawford Page, a son of Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Page has been home for 15 days. He is located with the general hospital of the army in Washington, D. C.
    Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Sanders will occupy the residence of Dr. & Mrs. Jas. B. Dent on Marcus Street north. Mr. Sanders burned his right forearm when escaping steam from the radiator of his car ran up his sleeve.
    Mr. & Mrs. George W. Gordy are moving to the Holt apartment. Mr. Gordon Holt is moving to Atlanta where he is with a private detective agency in a lucrative position.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

From Days Gone By Oct. 29, 1921

October 29, 1921.
    Ordinary U. R. Jenkins was informed by Dr. Morris, the superintendent of tick eradication in Johnson, that the quarentine is likely to be lifted about December 1st. The work has been pushed on as rapidly as it was practicable. Dr. Morris says there will be something like 20 premises which will be quarantined after December 1st but the work in the county as a whole will be over by that time.
    The county has made a record both as to the time of doing this work and as to the expense. Many counties have worked over two years with considerable money, but Johnson is indeed fortunate in getting rid of the cattle tick with such little time and expense.
    The 12th District Fair opens next Monday in Dublin. Court is in session in Laurens Superior Court with Judge J. L. Kent presiding. There are many criminal matters to come before that body. The docket is a heavy one.
    Rev. Elmer Anthony of Bartow, has been called to preach at the Christian church. Prof. W. S. Branham states the school is now moving along fine and running smoothly. The pupils are in the midst of their regular monthly exams and all seem to be doing good work. The next county court will be City Court which will be in November and will likely last a week.
    The city of Adrian was aroused from its slumber around midnight Saturday night when the residence of Mrs. Tom Rowland, known as the Young L. Hall home, was discovered all ablaze. The home was a large one and contained a lot of nice and new furniture and the loss was heavy. There was some inzurance but not near enough.
    Miss Kate Walker has accepted the chair of domestic science and english in the college at Corinth Hill, Alabama. Mr. & Mrs. Preston Norris, of Washington City arrived here with his mother, Mrs. John F. Norris, and the family of Ben Jordan. They had been in the Capital for about four years.
    Miss Grace Wheeler of Soperton wed Mr. Amos Ellis Claxton of Kite at the Baptist church in Adrian. Grace is the eldest daughter of Mrs. S. W. Wheeler. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. & Mrs Charles Claxton of Kite. They will live in Kite where he will be engaged in the drug business. Mr. Ted Webb and Miss Nora Hall were married at Moore's Chapel.
    Gov. Hardwick issued a proclaimation urging everyone to observe Sunday, November 6, a special day of prayer for the success of the International Conference on reduction of armaments which will convene in Washington on Armistice Day, November 11th.
    Judge Ben Hill Moye, J. Nat Riner, W. T. Kitchens and J. Frank Jackson represented Johnson County at the opening of the mammoth newly built bridge across the Oconee River between Wheeler and Montgomery counties at Mt. Vernon. This bridge was built under the Federal Aid Project and the two counties at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars and is one of the longest in the state.
    In Dublin it was announced that a merger between Citizens Bank and the Southern Exchange Bank would become effective at the close of business October 21st.
    The cotton warehouse property of the Emanuel Farm Company at Blundale, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night around 7 pm. One thousand six hundred bales of cotton were lpst, all fully covered by insurance. Horace P. Smart of Savannah, his sisters and H. R. Smith are the owners of the Emanuel Farm Company.

Thursday, October 17, 2019

From Days Gone By Oct 22, 1921

Octber 22, 1921.
    A call to every farmer who is interested in melons for 1922, the Middle Georgia Melon Growers Association will have a melon expert coming to the court house says Mr. John R. Moore.
    A "clean up squad" of the Veteran's Bureau will be in Dublin for all veteran's disabled who feel they have a claim for compensation, vocational training or medicinal treatment are urged to get in touch, bringing with them their discharge papers.
    Judging by the samples of sugar cane syrup that have been brought to town one would think that this industry would be pursued dilligently in the county with a handsome pay. The land is, the most part of it, well adapted to the growth of sugar cane and the syrup is unexcelled, yet there is annually shipped here hundreds of barrels of syrup. That can be stopped by growing cane at home and making syrup that is the real article.
    In memory of Dewitt Talmage Price, born May 9, 1900 and died August 9, 1921. He lived a consistant member of Bay Springs Baptist Church a little over one year. Though he was afflicted all his life he was cherished and loved by all who knew him. He was true to his father and mother, J. W. and Ophelia Price. He was buried at Bay Springs.
    M. J. Claxton's store in Kite will be sold, lock, stock and barrel. They need immediate cash so they are slaughtering all prices in the store. Stetson hats $4.98; overalls .89 cents; work shirts .59; ladies and men's hose .9 pr; chambry .10 yard; bleaching .10 per yard; self-rising flour $1.10; dress shirts .98; pepperell sheeting .45 per yard; check homespun and mattress ticking .10; aca feather ticking .25.
    Mr. Monroe Cook at Wrightsville Hardware Company wants 2,000 bushels of peas and will pay the highest market value. Mr. J. W. Johnson says he will do the same. Someone asked, "Why don't somebody handle school books in Wrightsville for school children and parents of the county?" It is certainly a hardship like it is.
    Councilman R. P. Hicks presided at Mayor's Court in the absence of the mayor. A few cases came up for disposal. Dr. A. E. Harrison of the Harrison Drug Company in Adrian just passed the examination before the State Board of Pharmacy and is now a licensed druggist.
    Business was fine in Wrightsville Saturday among the merchants and a good lot of sales were made by all. It had a gentle reminder to it of days gone by. The grocery stores were in the class who came in for a big trade during the day.
    T. L. Chester, contractor says build now while building materials and labor are cheap. Building materials are advancing in price. If you are thinking of building or repairing it will pay to do it now.
    Malaria is prevalent around town, several people being indoors with it. There must be some cesspool somewhere breeding this thing. The long ditch across the southern end of town is a bad thing to have around wide open. It should have attention constantly.
    C. L. Linder says he will pay $5 for the arrest of one Collie Wright, colored, about 22 years old, of a ginger cake color, scar on cheek, wore brown cap, blue pants and white shirt when last seen. Or will pay same reward for capture of one dark brown suit of clothes and a pair black slippers with rubber heels believed to be in his possesion.

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

From Days Gone By Oct 15, 1921

October 15, 1921.
    Stealing the Buick 5 passenger auto from their employer, Mr. Homer Moore, one Doke Kennedy, John Jackson and another colored boy drove it head long into a buggy in Cedar Swamp on the public road, tearing up the auto, breaking a bone in Doke Kennedy's thigh and bruising the occupant of the buggy pretty badly. All four wheels of the buggy were stripped from the body, leaving the latter on the ground flat. Doctors dressed the broken thigh and Doke is on the road to recovery with the likelihood of being on a real road before long, together with the other two culprits.
    Henry Bell, colored, age 17, died in jail here some time about midnight Friday night in a cell with Johnnie Jackson. Johnnie said Henry had been well during the day and was laughing and talking until late at night when he began struggling and whining and was soon a dead boy. From certain circumstances it was deemed best to hold an inquest, there being in jail one peg-legged John Thompson, who was claimed had so enimity against Henry because the peg didn't want the boy to go see his daughter.
    Coroner L. R. Clayton summoned an inquest jury of Dr. S. M. Johnson, W. T. Kitchens, J. Tom Davis, J. M. Johnson, Jr., O. A. Kennedy and C. D. Roundtree, who went into the case thoroughly but did not find any material clue upon which they could base any crime and after some deliberations decided upon the following verdict: Believed his death came from unknown causes.
    Henry Bell had been in jail only a day or so on a warrant sworn out by a Fitzgerald party charging him with the theft of a suit of clothes. He had come back home and was arrested and put in jail. He grew deathly sick and other occupants of the main cells gave an alarm which was heard by Sheriff Davis who came to the jail and found Henry dead. The county buried him.
    About 5 pm on Tuesday last week the pretty country home of Mr. Walter N. Powell, about six moles north of Kite, was completely destroyed by fire with all of the contents at an estimated loss of $8,500. At the time Mr. Powell was at Kite with some cotton, Mrs Powell was in Wrightsville and the children were away from home. The nearest person was a mile away and the fires origin was unknown. Mr. Powell with some friends headed to the burning home after receiving a phone call.
    A dark cloud had been hovering around and there was a lot of lightning and Powell believes it struck his house. The barn and buildings were saved. The home was built in 1918 and was considered one of the costliest and most beautiful in the county. He once had heavy insurance on it but had let part of it go though he still had some on the house. He plans to rebuild one just like the one that burned.
    Mr. Charlie Dent, a very successful farmer who studies his business as a business. On six acres of land in the fall of 1920 he had growing peanuts from which he fed and fattened 23 hogs, which netted him 5000 pounds of pork. From the same six acres he has made this year 200 bales or 14,000 pounds of peanut hay, estimated now in the ground 2800 pounds of peanuts for hogs, enough to fatten ten head more. He says he cleared $150 on these six acres and on his ten-horse farm he has lost a $1,000.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

From Days Gone By Oct. 8, 1921

October 8, 1921.
    The best fair yet held in Wrightsville. In the animal industry the county and stockpens overflowed. The Krauss Shows were the best according to all the attendees and Gov. Hardwick spoke to a record attendance on Saturday.
    Among the attractions on the midway was a family of Igorot savages. Mr. H. L. Anfenger  and Mickey J. Toner brought this event. The 5 savages came to this country in 1915 from the Phillipines. The head of the family has been decorated by the chief of his tribe for bravery in the head hunting warfare of his country. These decorations were tattooed on his chest. He is an artist in making walking sticks, while his wife weaves beautiful belts, shawls, etc. The 3 children remind one of monkeys as they nimble up and down the poles in the tent. These people lived in tree tops in their native country. Among other things they do is the barbecuing of dogs before the spectators. They are very  of dog meat, which they state by signs is much cleaner and more desirable than hog meat.
    The Mutt and Jeff Show was here along with an old plantation show, athletic show featuring Nester The Wrestler. The ferris wheel, whip and merry-go-round was also here. There was something for everyone every night and day.
    There were agricultural booths by Mr. Johnnie Bray, Mr. & Mrs. Fluker Tarbutton, Mr. M. T. Riner, Mr. W. C. Tompkins and Mrs. T. F. Bullard. In livestock exhibits were William , B. J. Wiggins, W. C. Tompkins, Fulford Brothers, Riner & Henry, T. J. James, John Gillis, J. H. Rowland, William Oliver, C. G. Raines & Son and Johnnie Bray.
    Mr. Crow is showing 53 pigs of his clubs, 23 exhibits of the corn club and 3 of the calf club.
    A party of fair boosters was in Harrison last week and were overwhelmed with talk over the changing of the Washington-Johnson County lines so that a wide strip embracing Harrison would be cut off into Johnson County. The Harrison folk seemed eager to leave Washington County and Johnson was ready to welcome them. It is supposed that Washington would seriously object to such a move.
    The Downs Mill Pond which belonged to B. G. Wilson was recently sold to J. T. Miller & L. D. Downs who formally owned it, the sale being made just before the fishing of the pond was advertised to be done, but the fishing was put off by the new owners. They will operate a grist mill there, putting it all under the management of Mellie Downs, who for some time has been working in Macon.
    It was announced from Dublin that Mrs. Tanner, widow of Mr. Mack Sumner, has sued in Laurens Superior Court for damages against the W. & T. Railway for the death of her former husband who was killed by a passenger train earlier this year. She is asking for $25,000. Hon. Tom E. Watson has been retained in this case.
    Mr. & Mrs. M. T. Lord of Gethsemne community had a little girl, Bessie Will, on September 20th. Messrs. Monroe Cook and Otis Hall now have charge of the Dixie Theatre. Mr. Morris L. Mimbs of Scott has filed for bankrupcy.
    Mr. Rube Dent has improved the town's streets except for cemetery street which is still the same bumpy mess as it has been for years. Ordinary Jenkins is having all the woodwork painted around the courthouse.
    There is a fellow who wants a candidate for governor on the platform of the Ten Comandments. He was told he would have to revert back before the flood to get him.