From Days Gone By Dec. 3, 1921

December 3, 1921.
    The November term of City Court stopped work late Friday afternoon having put through a long line of criminal and civil proceedings through the judicial mill. Judge S. W. Sturgess of the City Court of Dublin was on the bench part of the week for Judge Moye who was disqualified in a number of cases. Judge Moye took the bench again Thursday morning and until adjournment on Friday late.
    Solicitor W. C. Brinson represented the interest of the county in his usual efficient manner and quite a number of convictions are on the court's record. Eight went to the chaingang from the court. Of these, five were men and three were women. The latter were arrainged on charges growing out of crimes committed in the city. There are now 49 inmates of the county gang and Warden Stanley has the largest force the county has ever had. A lot of bonds were forfeited.
    Even the joker is there. All except one queen, Warden Stanley now has a full deck. A white man went off Saturday for a liquor crime to which he plead guilty before Judge Moye and two more blacks went off Monday afternoon, making now 52 inmates on the chaingang. The two blacks were Robert Davis, who plead guilty to a pistol charge, and Lewis Youngblood who visited the farm of Prof. L. M. Blount Sunday afternoon and carried away a bag of pecans. He, also, said he was guilty and they both drew 8 months a piece. Warden Stanley now has 9 more then the gang ever carried before and is building roads in a hurry.
    Just as Mr. J. E. Linder had returned from his room in the Ansley Hotel in Atlanta, to the street where 20 minutes before he had alighted from his big Packard automobile he discovered to his dismay that his costly machine was gone. Mr. Linder and party had just srrived in the city and the others had gotten out at the Piedmont and he drove on down to the Ansley. He stopped his car, got out and registered, went up to his room, bathed his hands and immediately returned to the street and during this short interval the car was nowhere to be found. Detectives and the police were put after it, but up to now no trace of the missing auto has been revealed. Mr. Linder had theft insurance to the amount of $2000. The Packard people fixed him up with a brand new beauty in which he came home.
    There is no doubt that the railroads of the country are hit hard and many of them are facing a crisis in their running existence and it is being talked that there will be a general scrapping of short lines in many sections of the United States. Whether this will be done or not we cannot say. We do know that their business is crippled and will be for another year, because their business is like most every other business--not much doing. Nothing being shipped in nor out and won't be for some time to amount to a great deal. It is then for our people to begin to look into road building possibilites over this section, building highways over which may be conveyed such commodities as will necessary have to move.
    It all depends on how you look at it. A lot of folks go around wearing good clothes, owe every other fellow you meet and then brag on how much they pay the preacher.