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.

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