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.