From Days Gone By Dec. 10, 1921

December 10, 1921.
    Mr. E. E. Sanders is mayor of the city after last weeks elections. Messrs. C. S. Blankenship, I. R. Tanner and W. F. Outlaw won the three open council seats.
    Miss Jennie Moore and Mr. Ellie Drake were married. Jennie is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Moore of Adrian. Mr. Drake is son of Mr. & Mrs. Lum Drake. Mr. Samps Powell and Miss Bertha Mae Garrett were married also. Mr. Charlie Brady died suddenly at Alamo. He was once employed here with the Headlight.
    In a very spirited game of basketball in Tennille, Wrightsville went  in defeat by the score of 27 to 20. Eugene Cook stared for Wrightsville. Wrightsville has several good games booked for this season and with a little practice will give these teams a hard fight.
    Johnson had ginned 3,701 bales of cotton up to November 14th against 7,395 bales up to the same point last year. Johnson County's quarenteen has been lifted. It is now free of the cattle tick.
    The fire alarm sounded around 8:30 Sunday night and the force with alot of people came out to assist in stopping the destruction of property by fire. The vacant residence that was built by Mr. W. H. Smith and belonging to Mr. R. B. Bryan was afire and burning fast. The department turned out in full force but too late to save anything. It was a seven room frame house and practically new. It is not known how the fire originated.
    The sales here Tuesday was attended by more people than have been gathered here for awhile. There was a few sales made through levies by the sheriff but the most of the property sold was sold by administators for the purpose of distrbuting among heirs. Principal among these were the Powell, Harrison and Davis estates which were put up to the highest and best bidder and which did not bring on the average more than $12 per acre. There was a few shares of bank stock sold also.
    Messrs. L. Samps Powell and W. T. Harrison, Jr. and Messrs. J. W. and O. K. Davis were the administators who sold the property, Col. A. L. Hatcher representing the two former estates and Judge B. B. Blount the Davis estate. Col. C. S. Claxton sold two tracts of land under levy. Some cattle was sold by Sheriff Davis under another levy.
    Gov. Hardwick orders soldiers pensions to be ready to distribute by the 25th. The war tax on soda's was also lifted. The directors of the Jefferson County bank at Wadley closed its doors Friday morning and placed in the hands of the state bank examiners. The branch at Matthews is also affected.
    The moon may be a dry planet, but there is considerable moisture in moonshine. Many people are saying how proud they are of the way the roads over the county are being improved by the present force of hands. Alot of moving around will be done between now and the new year. Several houses in the city are vacant now and there are reports that a few more will be vacant by owners moving to thier farms.
    Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Burch had a little daughter and all are just fine. Miss Sallie Davis is now with Powell Chapel School.
    W. T. Johnson will open up a place of business next to the E. A. W. Johnson store. The Tanner Undertaking Co. is moving down to the store of Mr. T. V. Kent, where it has arrainged new quarters for its big stock of coffins, caskets and robes.
    Mr. Stephen D. Powell died November 13th living in the Providence Community. He was born in 1877. In 1905 he married Miss Mattie Mae Caplan and had 10 children, one who died in infancy. He died of pneumonia and was buried at Gumlog cemetery.