April 28, 1922.
The big hog sale in Wrightsville Tuesday brought to the raisers of this county a vast sum of ready spending money. The No. 1s brought $8.575 and Mr. T. W. Hollis of Buena Vista, Georgia was the successful bidder. There was 47,000 pounds of pork waiting the buyer's price as hogs came in from all over the county. The sellers had a bulk sum of $4,063.11 from the sale. Mr. Grady Cox sold 300 feeders in one lot at the price of 7 cents per pound. Mr. Ivey R. Tanner shipped off two full carloads of cattle along with the hogs.
Georgia is destined to lead as a hog raising state because it has many advantages unseen and unappreciated over the West. Iowa is said to be the wealthest state in the union and hogs did it. This grunter can do the same thing for Georgia.
Judge Ben Hill Moye suspends City Court the month of May as there is no business being looked at except calling the appearance docket. Mr. & Mrs. B. B. Tanner had a little son on April 19th.
On Friday the tenant house of Judge Ben Hill Moye caught fire and was soon in ashes, the large barn near by being saved by a brigade of buckets. Henry Hilson, colored, occupied the which stood on the Idylwild Drive road. Mason & Thompson carried the insurance on the building. Clothing being laundered that belong to several households of the city were saved and most of the furniture and clothing of Hilson and his family were saved but the kitchen ware went. Origin of the blaze was unknown but the fire drew a large crowd.
The local school trustees met and voted to keep the same teachers as last year. They are Miss Mary Lee Horn, Miss Annie Mae King, Miss Maude Fleming, Miss Doris Johnson, Miss Ethyleene Hartley, Mrs. J. W. Vanlandingham, Mrs. George W. Gordy, Miss Sarah Lou Gillis, Miss Mae Melton and Miss Ola Johnson.
The state bond issue for highways is going to be the biggest hot-bed of state politics seen in many a day. The big guns are already being wiped out for the fray. The local law regulating livestock pens in the city this summer is to be enforced and the matter had a turn to it which means a cleaner atmosphere in the city.
Young Chauncy Brinson fell from the loft of the barn onto a billy goat's horns and suffered the gash over his eye which required four stitches to sew up, plus bruises. The child had been up in the barn throwing down feed to his goat in the trough and the goat had jumped up in the trough and was eating away when the young man tumbled down.
Mrs. J. O. Tanner's automobile burned up in the car house of her father, Mr. Ellis Johnson. Her car was a costly one and in mint condition.
Another aged and highly respected citizen went to Glory as Mrs. Alice T. Kitchens, wife of the late G. N. Kitchens died at the home of her son, Mr. W. T. Kitchens in Wrightsville. She was 65 years old and a Baptist for over 40 years. She died from nephritis. Of her immediate family that survived her was a sister, Mrs. B. B. Kitchens of Mitchell; brother, Mr. James Hill of Madison; five sons and four daughters, C. G. , Robert L. and Hobson Kitchens from Dexter; W. T. Kitchens, Wrightsville; Mrs. George Walker, Dublin; H. C. Kitchens, Mrs. Ernest Swan, Mrs. B. L. Collins all of Macon and Mrs. Harry Ennis of Milledgeville. She was buried in Sandersville.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
From Days Gone By April 21, 1922
April 21, 1922.
As our people emerge from the effects of a world war and its ultimate consequence of a slump in fanicial and business circles generally, they are taking more thought of their educational possibilites all over the country. In Johnson County they are waking up to better school facilities and longer terms with more efficient teachers and better equipped school plants and it now looks like an onward and upright rise with most all of them in the education of their children, the flower of the country.
It speaks well for the county to see it clamoring for a higher place in the educational category of the counties of the state and bids it all speed in this high, lofty endeavor. Innovations of the future as times allow must eventually come, but the revolution cannot be realized overnight. The change from old, from inefficent and inconvient to new, better and more easily handled facilities are brought around day by day through constant endeavor and unwavering faith in what the future will bring.
We see our people's longing for the sweeter cup that will eventually provide the utensil enabling their offspring to drink deep from the fountain of certain knowledge and grasp those sterner qualities which make for better citizens and thus a better county. Paying for it they should have it, the best educational advantage. That is what we want to see in the easy reach of every child in the county. Time will bring it. Our children deserve it. We can have it by going after it.
The Bank of Adrian released its statement of condition at $133,300.39. Miss Geradine Brinson receives her diploma in piano from LaGrange College.
The city of Wrightsville is now the owner of a new tractor which they bought to work on the streets, pulling plows, road machines and harrows. They aim to make further purchases of road and street building equipment and are planning to put the thoroughfares of the city in the best condition as soon as possible. Some of them are needing work badly now, others have been bumpy for years, and the cemetery street has never been in real good shape for any length of time.
On March 26th, Miss Lorena Johnson and Mr. Luther Rowland were married by Rev. P. Flanders. The bride is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Johnson, the groom is son of Mr. J. S. Rowland. Dr. Richard Lamar Harris married Miss Florence Myrtle Edie Gemmill on March 25th in Chicago. Dr. Harris is son of Dr. T. L. Harris.
The county road gang is now working the road to Spann which was in an almost impassible condition. Mr. W. C. Tompkins, one of the big farmers of the county has recently sold a lot of corn to the elevator company in Dublin and has been delivering this week. He makes a great deal more of it than it takes to feed all tha animals on his large farm.
Mr. R. T. Pounds is back home from a lengthy stay in Florida. He was wounded very badly in an auto wreck when a bridge over which his party was crossing fell through. He had his head badly hurt and an arm also. Mr. J. T. Drake is back home in Adrian after being cleared of charges in Soperton of being implicated in the killing of a moonshiner in Treutlen County some time ago.
As our people emerge from the effects of a world war and its ultimate consequence of a slump in fanicial and business circles generally, they are taking more thought of their educational possibilites all over the country. In Johnson County they are waking up to better school facilities and longer terms with more efficient teachers and better equipped school plants and it now looks like an onward and upright rise with most all of them in the education of their children, the flower of the country.
It speaks well for the county to see it clamoring for a higher place in the educational category of the counties of the state and bids it all speed in this high, lofty endeavor. Innovations of the future as times allow must eventually come, but the revolution cannot be realized overnight. The change from old, from inefficent and inconvient to new, better and more easily handled facilities are brought around day by day through constant endeavor and unwavering faith in what the future will bring.
We see our people's longing for the sweeter cup that will eventually provide the utensil enabling their offspring to drink deep from the fountain of certain knowledge and grasp those sterner qualities which make for better citizens and thus a better county. Paying for it they should have it, the best educational advantage. That is what we want to see in the easy reach of every child in the county. Time will bring it. Our children deserve it. We can have it by going after it.
The Bank of Adrian released its statement of condition at $133,300.39. Miss Geradine Brinson receives her diploma in piano from LaGrange College.
The city of Wrightsville is now the owner of a new tractor which they bought to work on the streets, pulling plows, road machines and harrows. They aim to make further purchases of road and street building equipment and are planning to put the thoroughfares of the city in the best condition as soon as possible. Some of them are needing work badly now, others have been bumpy for years, and the cemetery street has never been in real good shape for any length of time.
On March 26th, Miss Lorena Johnson and Mr. Luther Rowland were married by Rev. P. Flanders. The bride is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Johnson, the groom is son of Mr. J. S. Rowland. Dr. Richard Lamar Harris married Miss Florence Myrtle Edie Gemmill on March 25th in Chicago. Dr. Harris is son of Dr. T. L. Harris.
The county road gang is now working the road to Spann which was in an almost impassible condition. Mr. W. C. Tompkins, one of the big farmers of the county has recently sold a lot of corn to the elevator company in Dublin and has been delivering this week. He makes a great deal more of it than it takes to feed all tha animals on his large farm.
Mr. R. T. Pounds is back home from a lengthy stay in Florida. He was wounded very badly in an auto wreck when a bridge over which his party was crossing fell through. He had his head badly hurt and an arm also. Mr. J. T. Drake is back home in Adrian after being cleared of charges in Soperton of being implicated in the killing of a moonshiner in Treutlen County some time ago.
From Days Gone By. April 14, 1923
April 14, 1922.
The incorporated company known as the Johnson County Fair Association was made a defendant in a death damage suit filed by Mrs. A. Walden through her attorneys Evans & Evans of Sandersville, for the mammoth sum of $20,000. A. Walden died from bullet wounds inflicted at the fair grounds last fall during a scuffle in which officer W. J. Crawford and James Price were implicated. Price was hit in the hip. Officer Crawford received a blow on the head from a cane in the hands of Walden, claimed eye witnesses.
In her contentions, Mrs. Walden sets up that Crawford was in the employ of the fair association, knowing that he was habitually drinking, that he had been drunk and that Crawford killed Walden. Her alligations are bitterly denied as Judge Ben Hill Moye is attorney for the fair association.
Resulting from this suit a warrant was sworn out by Crawford charging James Price with killing Walden. To even up matters and to try to substantiate his contentions and those of Mrs. Walden, Price swears out a warrant for Crawford for the same offense.
The latest developments are about these as near as can be told. But still another feature of the case comes from the tomb of Mr. Walden. It is reported here that some time last week the attorneys for Mrs. Walden had the body exhumed and called in a physician to examine it and cut out the bullet which is said to be still in the hands of the physician who lives up near where the body is buried. The size of the bullet will have something to do with the aspect of the situation.
A hearing was demanded by Mr. Crawford and Judge Ferguson set a time for it. Moye & Shurling represent Crawford. Judge Blount is Price's lawyer.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has put to rest all the trouble and dispute over the cattle dipping question in this state when it rendered the decision in the case carried up from Johnson County by Mr. John R. Rowland vs. Sheriff Lewis Davis and C. E. Morris, State Cattle Inspector of this county last year.
The court held that the inspector and the sheriff were authorized to quarentine and dip the cattle of Rowland's without any warrants and that the lower court did not err in refusing to grant an injunction under the pleadings and facts in the case. The court took judicial cognizance of the fact that Texas fever, a communicable disease, is prevalent in all counties of the state where tick eradication has not been completed and that this state of affairs existed in Johnson County.
He says the statute is not unconstitutional for any reason alleged. They say quarentine and dipping of the cattle is only available and efficient method of accomplishing the ends sought. The statute is the warrant for the inspector and the sheriff to seize, quarentine and treat cattle. No warrant from any court is necessary, they added.
Prohibition officers have been after moonshiners down in Emanuel County for some time, but last week they ran up against a bar with a wick on his name and before the light went out on this shine one of the prohis was carrying off some buckshot in his flesh. Many a life has been put to blink on account of this illicit distilling business and we are actually afraid that before it is even curbed in some counties that many more will go down.
The incorporated company known as the Johnson County Fair Association was made a defendant in a death damage suit filed by Mrs. A. Walden through her attorneys Evans & Evans of Sandersville, for the mammoth sum of $20,000. A. Walden died from bullet wounds inflicted at the fair grounds last fall during a scuffle in which officer W. J. Crawford and James Price were implicated. Price was hit in the hip. Officer Crawford received a blow on the head from a cane in the hands of Walden, claimed eye witnesses.
In her contentions, Mrs. Walden sets up that Crawford was in the employ of the fair association, knowing that he was habitually drinking, that he had been drunk and that Crawford killed Walden. Her alligations are bitterly denied as Judge Ben Hill Moye is attorney for the fair association.
Resulting from this suit a warrant was sworn out by Crawford charging James Price with killing Walden. To even up matters and to try to substantiate his contentions and those of Mrs. Walden, Price swears out a warrant for Crawford for the same offense.
The latest developments are about these as near as can be told. But still another feature of the case comes from the tomb of Mr. Walden. It is reported here that some time last week the attorneys for Mrs. Walden had the body exhumed and called in a physician to examine it and cut out the bullet which is said to be still in the hands of the physician who lives up near where the body is buried. The size of the bullet will have something to do with the aspect of the situation.
A hearing was demanded by Mr. Crawford and Judge Ferguson set a time for it. Moye & Shurling represent Crawford. Judge Blount is Price's lawyer.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has put to rest all the trouble and dispute over the cattle dipping question in this state when it rendered the decision in the case carried up from Johnson County by Mr. John R. Rowland vs. Sheriff Lewis Davis and C. E. Morris, State Cattle Inspector of this county last year.
The court held that the inspector and the sheriff were authorized to quarentine and dip the cattle of Rowland's without any warrants and that the lower court did not err in refusing to grant an injunction under the pleadings and facts in the case. The court took judicial cognizance of the fact that Texas fever, a communicable disease, is prevalent in all counties of the state where tick eradication has not been completed and that this state of affairs existed in Johnson County.
He says the statute is not unconstitutional for any reason alleged. They say quarentine and dipping of the cattle is only available and efficient method of accomplishing the ends sought. The statute is the warrant for the inspector and the sheriff to seize, quarentine and treat cattle. No warrant from any court is necessary, they added.
Prohibition officers have been after moonshiners down in Emanuel County for some time, but last week they ran up against a bar with a wick on his name and before the light went out on this shine one of the prohis was carrying off some buckshot in his flesh. Many a life has been put to blink on account of this illicit distilling business and we are actually afraid that before it is even curbed in some counties that many more will go down.
From Days Gone By April 7, 1922
April 7, 1922.
The streets of the city have been given some dragging up after a good ploughing and are being put in shape. Rube Dent with a tractor and road machine is at home on a public thoroughfare.
Judge John T. Ferguson, in the Justice Court, last week after hearing the evidence and arguments in the preliminary trial in which James Price was charged with the death of A. Walden, bound Price over, and he is since been confined in jail without bond. It is understood that bond cannot be assessed by the present Judge of the Superior Court on account of his being disqualified through relation to the prosecutor. Mr. Price has been sick almost all the time since his incarceration but is improving at this time. There are no further developments now in the case and but little is being said about it.
The Farmers' Co-Operation Association is being pushed on a fast track to complete the organization and aim to be incorporated.
Messrs. Jim Hall, Mark Duggan, W. M. Shurling, W. A. Sinquefield, B. B. Blount, H. B. Sanders, G. W. Gannon, J. L. Fleming, W. C. Chester, J. T. Davis, R. L. Stephens, T. V. Kent, R. E. Brinson, W. C. Brinson, F. A. Sinquefield, A. F. Flanders, R. P. Hicks are proposing to organize a fishing club for Wrightsville and call it "The Ogeechee Club of Organized Anglers". They aim to charter it, capitalize it at 5 gallons of bait per share, meet every evening at 6, elect a foreman, reporter, appoint cooking committees weekly, skiddoo work from May 1st to Sep 1st, and do any and all other things usual and necessary under like organizations. The period for which the club asks a charter is perpetual. Violaters of the working clause disqualifies membership.
The Dock Kemp Training School for colored people is to be a big one from the way the promoters of it are going after their school building. They are doing good work on it now and making splendid headway at getting the plant completed. They expect to have the top on this week and will rush on the work, getting it ready for the fall term. W. E. Roberts has been re-elected the head of the school again and has accepted. The white folks are helping them out right on with contribitions and it is believed by the men in charge that they will have enough funds to finish it as planned.
Bartow and Wrightsville locked horns on the local diamond here in the first game of the season and Bartow came out the winner by the score of 7 to 2. Wrightsville's team now goes to Bartow for the second game.
The grocery firm of Parker & Price of Wrightsville have recently opened up a branch grocery in Kite, with Mr. Frank Price in charge. They are making a live store of this new place.
Cleo Hammock and Jim Jordan have another monster rattler to their credit, killing another large one in about 100 yards of where their last snake battle occured. This one had 12 rattles and they brought it to town to show it. These young men are now the champion rattler killers of the community.
The streets of the city have been given some dragging up after a good ploughing and are being put in shape. Rube Dent with a tractor and road machine is at home on a public thoroughfare.
Judge John T. Ferguson, in the Justice Court, last week after hearing the evidence and arguments in the preliminary trial in which James Price was charged with the death of A. Walden, bound Price over, and he is since been confined in jail without bond. It is understood that bond cannot be assessed by the present Judge of the Superior Court on account of his being disqualified through relation to the prosecutor. Mr. Price has been sick almost all the time since his incarceration but is improving at this time. There are no further developments now in the case and but little is being said about it.
The Farmers' Co-Operation Association is being pushed on a fast track to complete the organization and aim to be incorporated.
Messrs. Jim Hall, Mark Duggan, W. M. Shurling, W. A. Sinquefield, B. B. Blount, H. B. Sanders, G. W. Gannon, J. L. Fleming, W. C. Chester, J. T. Davis, R. L. Stephens, T. V. Kent, R. E. Brinson, W. C. Brinson, F. A. Sinquefield, A. F. Flanders, R. P. Hicks are proposing to organize a fishing club for Wrightsville and call it "The Ogeechee Club of Organized Anglers". They aim to charter it, capitalize it at 5 gallons of bait per share, meet every evening at 6, elect a foreman, reporter, appoint cooking committees weekly, skiddoo work from May 1st to Sep 1st, and do any and all other things usual and necessary under like organizations. The period for which the club asks a charter is perpetual. Violaters of the working clause disqualifies membership.
The Dock Kemp Training School for colored people is to be a big one from the way the promoters of it are going after their school building. They are doing good work on it now and making splendid headway at getting the plant completed. They expect to have the top on this week and will rush on the work, getting it ready for the fall term. W. E. Roberts has been re-elected the head of the school again and has accepted. The white folks are helping them out right on with contribitions and it is believed by the men in charge that they will have enough funds to finish it as planned.
Bartow and Wrightsville locked horns on the local diamond here in the first game of the season and Bartow came out the winner by the score of 7 to 2. Wrightsville's team now goes to Bartow for the second game.
The grocery firm of Parker & Price of Wrightsville have recently opened up a branch grocery in Kite, with Mr. Frank Price in charge. They are making a live store of this new place.
Cleo Hammock and Jim Jordan have another monster rattler to their credit, killing another large one in about 100 yards of where their last snake battle occured. This one had 12 rattles and they brought it to town to show it. These young men are now the champion rattler killers of the community.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
From Days Gone By March 31, 1922
March 31, 1922.
The big field day for the schools was a success and may become an annual event. There were between 12 and 15 hundred. They came from every corner of the county by truck, wagon and buggy until the grounds were covered with teachers, parents and pupils. Winners of the various contests were:
1st, 2nd, 3rd grade reading- Vurian Hammock; 4th & 5th grade reading- Norman Lovein; 6th & 7th grade reading- Dorthy Dunlap; 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade spelling- Earnest Cook; 4th & 5th grade spelling- Robbie Kitchens; 6th & 7th grade spelling- Bernice Hill; High school spelling- Lois Flanders.
1st, 2nd, 3rd grade math- Lonnie Cox; 4th & 5th grade math- Hazel McAfee; 6th & 7th grade math- T. G. Willis; high school math- Maude Mimbs; ready writing- Eugene Cook.
High school athletics: running broad jump- Freeman Pool; 220 yard dash- Freeman Pool; standing broad jump- Walker of Adrian; 440 dash- Moye of Wrightsville; chinning the bar- tie between Cook of Wrightsville and Hutchinson of Adrian; standing high jump- Morris of Mayo Hill; running high jump- Moye of Wrightsville; 3 legged race- Hall & Moye of Wrghtsville; 100 yard dash- Pool of Wrightsville.
Friday morning James Banks, alias Sam Watkins, decided to plead guilty to carrying a pistol concealed and carrying a pistol without a license. In City Court Judge Ben Hill Moye sentenced him to 24 months on the county chaingang. James is the same black man who shot his wife in the back on a prominent city street a couple Saturday's back and then led officers on a chase, only to make a return visit to the city on Sunday and hide in a gin house and was captured by Clerk Williams and others.
The wounded woman is all right now and has been trying to get her husband out of jail since she got out of bed. But James has a long time ahead on the gang before he can have the opportunity, if he wishes it, of putting another ball in the wife's back, though she does forgive him.
About 11: 30 Saturday morning the country home of Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Perry was destroyed by fire that started in the kitchen loft believed from a defective chimney flue. Mr. Walter N. Powell is finishing his new home which was destroyed by fire last year.
The Swine Growers Convention will meet in Tennlle where Mr. B. H. Lord expects quite a number of people. Ten or more carloads of fat hogs will be auctioned . Wrightsville will host another hog sale on April 25th.
The big field day for the schools was a success and may become an annual event. There were between 12 and 15 hundred. They came from every corner of the county by truck, wagon and buggy until the grounds were covered with teachers, parents and pupils. Winners of the various contests were:
1st, 2nd, 3rd grade reading- Vurian Hammock; 4th & 5th grade reading- Norman Lovein; 6th & 7th grade reading- Dorthy Dunlap; 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade spelling- Earnest Cook; 4th & 5th grade spelling- Robbie Kitchens; 6th & 7th grade spelling- Bernice Hill; High school spelling- Lois Flanders.
1st, 2nd, 3rd grade math- Lonnie Cox; 4th & 5th grade math- Hazel McAfee; 6th & 7th grade math- T. G. Willis; high school math- Maude Mimbs; ready writing- Eugene Cook.
High school athletics: running broad jump- Freeman Pool; 220 yard dash- Freeman Pool; standing broad jump- Walker of Adrian; 440 dash- Moye of Wrightsville; chinning the bar- tie between Cook of Wrightsville and Hutchinson of Adrian; standing high jump- Morris of Mayo Hill; running high jump- Moye of Wrightsville; 3 legged race- Hall & Moye of Wrghtsville; 100 yard dash- Pool of Wrightsville.
Friday morning James Banks, alias Sam Watkins, decided to plead guilty to carrying a pistol concealed and carrying a pistol without a license. In City Court Judge Ben Hill Moye sentenced him to 24 months on the county chaingang. James is the same black man who shot his wife in the back on a prominent city street a couple Saturday's back and then led officers on a chase, only to make a return visit to the city on Sunday and hide in a gin house and was captured by Clerk Williams and others.
The wounded woman is all right now and has been trying to get her husband out of jail since she got out of bed. But James has a long time ahead on the gang before he can have the opportunity, if he wishes it, of putting another ball in the wife's back, though she does forgive him.
About 11: 30 Saturday morning the country home of Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Perry was destroyed by fire that started in the kitchen loft believed from a defective chimney flue. Mr. Walter N. Powell is finishing his new home which was destroyed by fire last year.
The Swine Growers Convention will meet in Tennlle where Mr. B. H. Lord expects quite a number of people. Ten or more carloads of fat hogs will be auctioned . Wrightsville will host another hog sale on April 25th.
Monday, March 9, 2020
From Days Gone By March 24, 1922
March 24, 1922.
The annual county school meeting was held today in Wrightsville at the high school building. All county schools will attend with a basket dinner on the grounds. The program will include spelling by the first seven grades, spelling by pupils of the high schools, the same with arithmetic, reading and writing. In the afternoon will be the running broad jump, standing high jump, 100 yard dash, 220 yard dash, 440 yard dash, three-legged race, sack race and chinning the bar.
A story that reads like city doings is that perpetration of petty thievery in Wrightsville Saturday by a congregation of banded Negroes, part of whom live here and part in Dublin and elsewhere. They came to town and huddled together most of the day and some time in the late afternoon visited almost every store in the city on the pretense of purchasing goods. Clothing was the chief article besought.
While part of the crowd engaged the clerks some other one of the bunch was perusing around with pilfering in his mind, judging from what was finally done. They paid the store of Hall Brothers a call and on checking up there goods the merchants found eight or ten pair of pants, some silk hose and a few other articles missing. They went up to the store of Mr. T. V. Kent and there made off with a couple of pair of shoes and possibly other articles.
Warrants were sworn out for a half dozen of the gang. Two were arrested and jailed Monday night. One of these had on a pair of the pants taken from Hall Brothers. The sheriff had these returned to them Tuesday morning. Mr. Kent secured one pair of shoes, also, from these.
Armed with warrants for four men deputies went to Dublin Tuesday morning for four others and two women, who are also wanted on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen goods.
A clergyman walking round his parrish, met an old parishoner. "Well, John," he said. "How is it I have not seen you at church lately."
"Hain't got no Sunday trousers." answered John.
"Well," said the clergyman. "I have a pair at home which will just about fit you, and I will have them sent to you."
The trousers were duly sent, and the following Sunday John was seen at church. Then after being absent for sometime, the clergyman again met him.
"Well, John" he said. "You have no excuse for not coming to church lately."
"Look here, pastor," said John, "i come to church three Sunday's, an' if you don't think I earned them trousers, just tell me how many more Sunday's I shall have to come before they're mine?"
The annual county school meeting was held today in Wrightsville at the high school building. All county schools will attend with a basket dinner on the grounds. The program will include spelling by the first seven grades, spelling by pupils of the high schools, the same with arithmetic, reading and writing. In the afternoon will be the running broad jump, standing high jump, 100 yard dash, 220 yard dash, 440 yard dash, three-legged race, sack race and chinning the bar.
A story that reads like city doings is that perpetration of petty thievery in Wrightsville Saturday by a congregation of banded Negroes, part of whom live here and part in Dublin and elsewhere. They came to town and huddled together most of the day and some time in the late afternoon visited almost every store in the city on the pretense of purchasing goods. Clothing was the chief article besought.
While part of the crowd engaged the clerks some other one of the bunch was perusing around with pilfering in his mind, judging from what was finally done. They paid the store of Hall Brothers a call and on checking up there goods the merchants found eight or ten pair of pants, some silk hose and a few other articles missing. They went up to the store of Mr. T. V. Kent and there made off with a couple of pair of shoes and possibly other articles.
Warrants were sworn out for a half dozen of the gang. Two were arrested and jailed Monday night. One of these had on a pair of the pants taken from Hall Brothers. The sheriff had these returned to them Tuesday morning. Mr. Kent secured one pair of shoes, also, from these.
Armed with warrants for four men deputies went to Dublin Tuesday morning for four others and two women, who are also wanted on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen goods.
A clergyman walking round his parrish, met an old parishoner. "Well, John," he said. "How is it I have not seen you at church lately."
"Hain't got no Sunday trousers." answered John.
"Well," said the clergyman. "I have a pair at home which will just about fit you, and I will have them sent to you."
The trousers were duly sent, and the following Sunday John was seen at church. Then after being absent for sometime, the clergyman again met him.
"Well, John" he said. "You have no excuse for not coming to church lately."
"Look here, pastor," said John, "i come to church three Sunday's, an' if you don't think I earned them trousers, just tell me how many more Sunday's I shall have to come before they're mine?"
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