From Days Gone By Nov. 26, 1921

November 26, 1921.
    No town can prosper where every businessman in it lives to himself! Merchants and businessmen of a town must co-operate with each other if they would hold the trade in territory that belongs to them. All business institutions and property owners of a town to be permanently prosperous must always be working together to bring the trade of the territory in their direction or else it will go elsewhere where more alluring inducements are offered. Merchants of no town of any importance should be without an organization of their own. All business institutions of a town besides a merchants association should maintain a well organized and well suported chamber of commerce or board of trade.
   The C. E. Smith Cash Store at Harrison was broken into a little after midnight by a set of robbers and goods to the amount of about $300 were taken out as estimated by the manager, Mr. Daniel. The glass in the front door was broken, the door opened and the goods taken out at the back, put in an automobile and carried hastily away. The night marshal saw the light and heard the noise in the store and went for help. Before help got there the robbers had made their haul and left for parts unknown. Mr. Daniels offered a $50 reeard for their capture and return of goods.
    Mr. Goode C. Watkins of meeks and Mr. Charles L. Wilson filed for bankruptcy. Mrs. Eloise Grahl of Adrian won the prize of $1 offered for the Alma Mater song written by a student of Andrew Female College at Cutbert.
    T. D. Holt resigns as night policeman because of health reasons. Mr. Elton Oliver will replace him for the city of Wrightsville. Dr. I. H. Archer who has been in New Orleans will be returning to Wrightsville on furlough.
    Next week is the city elections and politics is warming up. Those in the council races are O. H. Tompkins, R. E. Butterly, Gainer Fulford, M. S. Duggan, James D. Bush, C. S. Blankenship, A. F. Flanders, J. A. Hall, J. W. Brinson, I. R. Tanner and W. F. Outlaw.
    A large black dog came to Alex Mayo's home acting very insanely. After watching it for a while Mayo determined the dog was mad as it ran after his hogs and chickens. Mayo got his shotgun and mounted his mule and when he got in shooting distance killed the mad dog.
    If the boll weevil had never infested the cotton belt, it was only a question of time until our agriculture would have collapsed of its own accord. Our soils were getting poorer all the time, due to the strain of planting cotton year after year. We must improve our soils permanently and the best way to do this is to keep livestock. Now is the best time to build up your worn out gully lands.
    A real cold snap has hit the county and it is a good time for hog killing. Many farmers have taken advantadge of it and put in their smokehouse for next year. This is one thing that is plentiful in Johnson County and a real money-saving proposition with plenty of meat and curing houses. Especially when hogs are selling for 6 cent a pound but a pound of porkchops cost you 25 cents a pound in the store. Lots of difference between the hog in the farmers hands and the consumer. Somebody is getting an unreasonable profit.
    It is refreshing to note that throughout Johnson County there is an increased interest in schools.Educating your children is an investment that bankrupt courts can't touch.