From Days Gone By. April 28, 1922

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.