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.