February 18, 1922.
While driving through a field in her buggy, Mrs. Charles W. Brantley of Spann, was very painfully injured when the animal she was driving became frightened at another mule which was loose in the field ran by scaring her buggy mule and making him run away. Mrs. Brantley held to the lines until they broke and the mule soon turned her out. She is resting well but was hurt very badly from the fall.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Brantley was paid a visit by the stork on February 3rd, leaving a fine little daughter who has been named Mary Evelyn.
Mr. Thomas O. Martin of Eatonton has been back home here. He has been working hard up there with a lot of milk cows, he being in the dairy business now.
No action has been taken by the Board og Trustees on the selection of a principal for the school for the remainder of the term. It seems to be running smooth with Prof. J. L. Flemming in charge.
The Potato Exchange here has been doing a pretty good business this season, a lot of potatoes, peas, beans, etc being handled.
Recent rainy spells have set the streams to high water mark and made the roads impassable in some places. Plowing has been at a standstill.
Mrs. Eva Thompson, formerly Eva Flanders, widow of William W. Flanders files for 12 months support for herself and her four minor children. M. J. & L. L. Claxton file for bankruptcy.
In spite of a strong current from the northeast, the Wrightsville Warriors played the Harrison girls a thrilling and interesting game of basketball, resulting in the score of 4 to 4. Nina Frost starred for W. H. S. and Mamie Lee Harrison for Harrison. The W. H. S. team has played four games, losing their first game to Adrian 17 to 9, winning their second in Harrison, tieing the third with Adrian and the fourth with Harrison.
Henry Ashley Stewart was born September 8, 1865 and died November 29, 1921. The first time he married his wife was Miss Annie Carter, daughter of the late Fred Carter. In his early married life he lost his wife and with three little daughters he started anew, sad and dreary. He restrained from remarrying for 5 or 6 years keeping his daughters, except for the baby in his home.
After some years he married Miss Maggie Webb, daughter of William A. Webb and were born 8 more children, which seven survive him. He was a Methodist.
He had been in failing health two or more years with leakage of the heart. He was an ardent worker and was warned by his doctors to quit work but he would not until he became so weak he had to stay in his room. All was done to comfort him but to no avail as he passed on.
All the ministers of the city are making a big fight against sin and crime that has been taking place in this community recently.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
From Days Gone By Feb 11, 1922
Feburary 11, 1922.
The February term of the City Court of Wrightsville convenes this week with Judge Ben Hill Moye on the bench and Solicitor W. C. Brinson representing the interest of the State in the criminal branch.
Since the jail delivery several days ago Sheriff Lewis Davis has not had to confine any inmates in the restraining house and it is empty at this time. All criminal cases will come from bonded ones unless arrests arise between now and the time of court.
Clerk Joe B. Williams states there is quite alot of civil business and much more probably than will be brought to trial this term.
The largest pecan in this county is out on the of Mr. W. H. Raley, owned by his son, Mr. Albert Raley. Albert has sixty acres in pecans which he planted three years ago and they are growing off fine. The dead ones, which were few, have been removed and live ones replanted, the prospects being very good for all to grow off now.
Ivey R. Tanner has recently shipped to different markets a lot of cattle and hogs from the county. This stuff was winter fed and in tip- condition, attracting fancy prices as the market could hold at the time. Friday night a load of bean-fed steers, fat and plump, left for a northern market. These cows were fed by George H. Prescott for the past several weeks and were part of the shipment of Tennessee stock shipped down here last fall by Tanner. Mr. G. A. Tarbutton had a car of steers which he fattened in his bean fields.
Mrs. J. T. Tyus, mother of Mrs. Quincy Powell, of Kite, died at her daughters home Thursday afternoon after an illness of several weeks. She formerly lived in Spaulding County. The remains were brought to Kent & Bush Undertaking Co. Then shipped to Griffin for internment.
Mr. David C. Page who is in Washington, D. C. with the medical dept. writes his parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Page concerning the destruction of the Knickerbocker Theatre on 18th street. It was an awful catastrophe. All the soldiers of his department were put on duty helping with the dead and wounded. He hadn't slept in 48 hrs attending to the sick and helping prepare the dead for burial.
Mr. & Mrs. James M. Neal will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, their silver wedding with many guest expected at their Kite home.
Judge E. W. Carter fell from a vehicle from which he was alighting Saturday and sustained some bad injuries that have caused him to stay indoors. He was starting off home from Mr. Robert Lee Carroll's home and was in the act of driving away, when the animal suddenly started off and threw him to the ground, hurting him badly.
Wedding bells were heard at Liberty Grove as Miss Lois Scarborough became the bride of Mr. Alton Watson. She is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Scarborough. Mr. Watson is the son of Laurens County Sheriff Watson.
The fire alarm was sounded as a tenant house on a corner of the lumber plant of Rowland Lumber Co. which was ablaze on the roof. Quick work from the fire fighters soon put it out with little damage done. However, it took a dangerous outlook with high wind blowing and all the nearby houses and lumber piles which run high into the air. Barber Knowles picked the shingles off the roof like feathers off a chicken for dinner.
The February term of the City Court of Wrightsville convenes this week with Judge Ben Hill Moye on the bench and Solicitor W. C. Brinson representing the interest of the State in the criminal branch.
Since the jail delivery several days ago Sheriff Lewis Davis has not had to confine any inmates in the restraining house and it is empty at this time. All criminal cases will come from bonded ones unless arrests arise between now and the time of court.
Clerk Joe B. Williams states there is quite alot of civil business and much more probably than will be brought to trial this term.
The largest pecan in this county is out on the of Mr. W. H. Raley, owned by his son, Mr. Albert Raley. Albert has sixty acres in pecans which he planted three years ago and they are growing off fine. The dead ones, which were few, have been removed and live ones replanted, the prospects being very good for all to grow off now.
Ivey R. Tanner has recently shipped to different markets a lot of cattle and hogs from the county. This stuff was winter fed and in tip- condition, attracting fancy prices as the market could hold at the time. Friday night a load of bean-fed steers, fat and plump, left for a northern market. These cows were fed by George H. Prescott for the past several weeks and were part of the shipment of Tennessee stock shipped down here last fall by Tanner. Mr. G. A. Tarbutton had a car of steers which he fattened in his bean fields.
Mrs. J. T. Tyus, mother of Mrs. Quincy Powell, of Kite, died at her daughters home Thursday afternoon after an illness of several weeks. She formerly lived in Spaulding County. The remains were brought to Kent & Bush Undertaking Co. Then shipped to Griffin for internment.
Mr. David C. Page who is in Washington, D. C. with the medical dept. writes his parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Page concerning the destruction of the Knickerbocker Theatre on 18th street. It was an awful catastrophe. All the soldiers of his department were put on duty helping with the dead and wounded. He hadn't slept in 48 hrs attending to the sick and helping prepare the dead for burial.
Mr. & Mrs. James M. Neal will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, their silver wedding with many guest expected at their Kite home.
Judge E. W. Carter fell from a vehicle from which he was alighting Saturday and sustained some bad injuries that have caused him to stay indoors. He was starting off home from Mr. Robert Lee Carroll's home and was in the act of driving away, when the animal suddenly started off and threw him to the ground, hurting him badly.
Wedding bells were heard at Liberty Grove as Miss Lois Scarborough became the bride of Mr. Alton Watson. She is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Scarborough. Mr. Watson is the son of Laurens County Sheriff Watson.
The fire alarm was sounded as a tenant house on a corner of the lumber plant of Rowland Lumber Co. which was ablaze on the roof. Quick work from the fire fighters soon put it out with little damage done. However, it took a dangerous outlook with high wind blowing and all the nearby houses and lumber piles which run high into the air. Barber Knowles picked the shingles off the roof like feathers off a chicken for dinner.
From Days Gone By Feb. 4, 1922
Feburary 4, 1922.
The Association of Georgia Fairs will hold their annual meeting in Albany on Feburary 22, 23. Governor Hardwick will speak on the subject of Georgia fairs which he attended 30 or 40 fairs around the state. Johnson County's fair folks will send a delegation to this event.
Jack J. Crawford had the job of repairing the county jail which had been out of commission recently when four coloreds got away, two having been captured and upon a plea of guilty went to the county gang for several months each. Jack had a good piece of welding to do in the department where the culprits chisled their way under the cage. He turned the keys back over to the sheriff Saturday.
Ordinary U. R. Jenkins held a very busy session of his court, a number of administrations come before his attention for the term. A case requiring a jury went over until his next regular term in March when it will come to trial. Judge Moye, Judge Hatcher and Solicitor E. L. Stephens are interested as attorneys in this trial.
While hunting in the woods near the city, Jim Jordan, Cleo Hammock and Lawson Crawford ran across a big rattler that was singing a death tune near a big bunch of bushes. The boys let their game go while they bore heavily down upon her majesty with all their might and brought her to town, a large crowd viewing the snake. She had 13 rattles and the usual button.
Farmer R. P. Hicks reports the killing of a big snake on his plantation, a monster rattler more than 4 feet long and had 13 rattles. "Jupe" says he had come out hunting feed after the sleet storm and was snuggled up in some bushes where he made considerable noise before they finally located and killed him.
Georgia had ginned 318,473 bales of cotton up to January 16th, against 1,385,132 bales ginned up to same time last year. The county of Franklin still leads, Jackson is second and Walton is third. The production in Johnson up to the 16th was 3,924 as against 7,577 bales in 1921.
County Agent M. E. Crow presided at a farmers meeting at the courthouse where David B. Long, soil improvement of Atlanta and D. V. Cunningham from the state college of agriculture spoke to a large delegation of farmers with their wives and daughters.
They discussed how to grow cotton at this time and how to prevent the ravages of the boll weevil. He told them what not to use as well as what to use.
They also spoke to the farmers urging them to adopt a cropping system for this year and gave a descriptive outline of a peach orchard which could be made profitable in Johnson County. A second meeting was held later in the day at Kite.
The city of Wrightsville will pay a reward of $10 for the arrest with evidence to convict any person or persons guilty of breaking street lights or otherwise damaging the property of the city.
The Association of Georgia Fairs will hold their annual meeting in Albany on Feburary 22, 23. Governor Hardwick will speak on the subject of Georgia fairs which he attended 30 or 40 fairs around the state. Johnson County's fair folks will send a delegation to this event.
Jack J. Crawford had the job of repairing the county jail which had been out of commission recently when four coloreds got away, two having been captured and upon a plea of guilty went to the county gang for several months each. Jack had a good piece of welding to do in the department where the culprits chisled their way under the cage. He turned the keys back over to the sheriff Saturday.
Ordinary U. R. Jenkins held a very busy session of his court, a number of administrations come before his attention for the term. A case requiring a jury went over until his next regular term in March when it will come to trial. Judge Moye, Judge Hatcher and Solicitor E. L. Stephens are interested as attorneys in this trial.
While hunting in the woods near the city, Jim Jordan, Cleo Hammock and Lawson Crawford ran across a big rattler that was singing a death tune near a big bunch of bushes. The boys let their game go while they bore heavily down upon her majesty with all their might and brought her to town, a large crowd viewing the snake. She had 13 rattles and the usual button.
Farmer R. P. Hicks reports the killing of a big snake on his plantation, a monster rattler more than 4 feet long and had 13 rattles. "Jupe" says he had come out hunting feed after the sleet storm and was snuggled up in some bushes where he made considerable noise before they finally located and killed him.
Georgia had ginned 318,473 bales of cotton up to January 16th, against 1,385,132 bales ginned up to same time last year. The county of Franklin still leads, Jackson is second and Walton is third. The production in Johnson up to the 16th was 3,924 as against 7,577 bales in 1921.
County Agent M. E. Crow presided at a farmers meeting at the courthouse where David B. Long, soil improvement of Atlanta and D. V. Cunningham from the state college of agriculture spoke to a large delegation of farmers with their wives and daughters.
They discussed how to grow cotton at this time and how to prevent the ravages of the boll weevil. He told them what not to use as well as what to use.
They also spoke to the farmers urging them to adopt a cropping system for this year and gave a descriptive outline of a peach orchard which could be made profitable in Johnson County. A second meeting was held later in the day at Kite.
The city of Wrightsville will pay a reward of $10 for the arrest with evidence to convict any person or persons guilty of breaking street lights or otherwise damaging the property of the city.
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