From Days Gone By March 10, 1922

March 10, 1922.
    The campaign for "Go-To-Church Sunday" is on in earnest to beat the old record. Churches and Sunday Schools pulling for biggest day yet. Pastors are seeking the attendance of everybody. The Methodists, Baptists and Christian churches of Wrightsville are jointly promoting this event.
    Piney Mount had a big day for the Singing Convention and Moores Chapel beat out Gumlog and Bay Springs to hold the next convention.
    Mr. N. G. Bartlett of Dublin came over and made a short address to some leading citizens of the county at the court house in Ordinary U. R. Jenkins office concerning the subject of the road bond issue that is being so widely discussed all over Georgia.
    Ordinary U. R. Jenkins and Warden R. M. Stanley had a busy day cutting off the shrubbery fencing from around the court house yard, taking it off about a foot up from the ground, the idea being to make it grow out in a more bushy form and make a better and neater growth as it spreads upwards again. The change is quite apparent and is the second addition to yard work done by the authorities recently, the first being the planting of several rows of pecan trees on the square.
    The ladies of the county are taking an interest in the matter of voting and registering. It now looks like there will be quite a lively interest in the matter of sufferage whenever the next election rolls around by the "fair sex". They are being urged to place their names on the registration book so that they will be qualified if they desire to cast their vote when the occasion arises. Paying a poll tax is somethong new for them as well as voting and their entering the political arena in this county is being watched with much interest.
    March came in mighty wet and it wouldn't be surprising if she doesn't go out mighty wet in many places. County agent M. E. Crow went to Macon on business pertaining to the watermelon growers' association. March is here and now for a big corn planting season that'll heapup corn cribs this fall to the roofs and fatten a world of hogs for the market and bring in a big surplus of ready cash this winter to be used to buy heavy clothing for the kids and the good wives. A nice program it is.
    Dr. Chas. Blankenship, optometrist of this city, is branching out after new business in other fields. He goes to Sandersville each Wednsday where his is building up a lucrative practice. Dr. Blankenship is a clever and experienced eye man and, of his own, has an eye for business.
    Tyrus Raymond Cobb, cosmopolitan baseball hero, of Augusta, spent last week in Emanuel County on a hunting and an outing expedition, making his headquarters in Swainsboro. Ty Cobb has been down there before when he made many friends who gave him a glad hand on his return.
    Pastor A. F. Smith has declined the call tendered him by Central Baptist Church of Gainsville and will remain with Brown Memorial.
    Camp Benning has been changed to Fort Benning by order of the War Department as it will now be a permanant encampment.
    Snell Brothers of Scott has had ordered a bankrupt sale containing 488 3/4 acres. Summer tourist fares will be cut by the Southern Railway system. Thomas D. Wood files for bankruptcy.