From Days Gone By March 17, 1922

March 17, 1922.
    Crop making is the all absorbing topic with everyone along now. The farmer is planting his crop and the businesd man is planning how he'll make it if there is no crop made. But this country has never made a rank failure on a crop since the days of Adam.
    The basketball scraps at Dublin for three days will be participated in by the local team, which is one of the strongest in this district. Dublin is preparing to have a basketball tournament. The team losing a game will be eliminated as the tourney progresses and the last two undefeated teams will play for the cup that will go to the winner. This cup is being offered as a prize by Dublin Chamber of Commerce, and if it is held by any one team for three years consecutively it will belong to that team. Eight or ten teams have entered for the contest and the scrap is going to be a lively one. Metter, Bartow, Eastman, Cochran, A & M, Cochran Hi, Marshalville, Dublin and several others will play.
    The basketball game between Adrian and Scott showed Scott girls up "game". Miss Bernice Hammock made repetition of a "good matcher", somebody else as "scrapped" initial M. F. H., and Misses Louise Burke and Gladys Odum was warmly praised for their good work. It is planned that a game with Bartow will be played soon.
    In another game the Adrian girls are feeling fine over their basketball game with Scott. The score was 12 to 5 Adrian. All of Adrian is proud of Cloie Oliver, their best player. The girls have been defeated only once this season and this is their first year to play basketball. Misses Heard and Brown are proud they are from Adrian since the girls beat Scott. Wonder what is the matter with the Wrightsville boys? Adrian girls are still looking for them.
    The Eastman High School basketball team, composed of that town's leading young men, spent Friday night in our city. They were defeated in their game with the locals by the score of 19 to 12 on the indoor court before a large crowd of interested spectators. Mr. Laudice Lovett was the referee.
    Fire brokeout in the Overstreet Brothers storage warehouse in Wadley, spreading to their department store which was completely destroyed. S. Steinburg's bankrupt stock was also destroyed with the offices of J. M. Outlaw above. The buildings were all owned by N. W. Bedingfield and valued at $20,000. Overstreet's loss is $32,000, Steinburg's $4,000, Outlaw's $1,000, all partially covered by insurance. The cause of the fire was not known.
    Mr. J. C. Meeks came to Wrightsville and swore out a warrant for Mr. Homer Tapley for assault with an attempt to murder. Mr. Tapley came up the next day and gave bond in the sum of $500 to answer to the coming Grand Jury on the charge made by Meeks. Meeks was somewhat "bunged up" and said Tapley had hit him with a piece of piping.
    Sheriff Lewis Davis has been notified by the Secretary of State to call the attention of the people to the motor law in existance, it being an open violation of the law to operate a motor car of any description without a license on or after March 1st. Otherwise owners od cars will have to let their cars remain idle until he makes application through the sheriff's office and pay the penalty of one dollar before he can have his license renewed.