May 19, 1922.
A ghastly sight met the eyes of Mr. Sprague Paul at an early hour last Sunday morning as he looked from a window and discovered the body of his father lying in the lane with several hogs gnawing the corpse.
The Paul's reside between Aline and Cobbtown, about three miles from the former town. Saturday afternoon, according to statements of his son and others, Mr. Paul and his son went to Cobbtown, staying there until after dark and arriving home about nine that night. Mr. Paul is said to have been drinking during the time he was in Cobbtown and was in practically a helpless condition when the car in which he, his son and one or two others arrived at the Paul home.
Efforts were made to get Mr. Paul into the house but owing to the difficulty of doing this he was finally left in the lane near the front gate, his son later placing an overcoat over him. It is understood that it was not infrequently the case that the old gentleman would come home in this condition and remain under the wagon shed or other outhouses on the place until the next morning.
Young Mr. Paul stated that he awoke between daylight and sunrise and immediately thought of his father. He glanced out of a window and was horrified to observe several hogs gathered around the body, from which already they had torn both sides of the face and inflicted wounds on the arms and the hands.
Dr. L. V. Strickland of Cobbtown was called and Dr. B. B. Jones attended the hearing at the Coroner's inquest, which was held Sunday at 3 pm. The verdict of the jury following the opinion of the physicians, was that the deceased came to his death from the effects of alcoholism.
Mr. Paul was 62 years of age, and left a wife, two daughters and two sons. The deceased was born in Johnson County near Kite. His internment was a Gumlog cemetery.
Mr. O. A. Kennedy was taken violently ill and for several hours his condition was serious, but has now gotten better. Uncle John Hamilton was taken home sick from his shop but is getting better. Miss Clemmie Massey is recovering from an appendicitis operation performed at Brigham-Claxton hospital in Dublin.
The high school is making preparations for their commencment this year. They will be going to Idylwild for their annual school picnic.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
From Days Gone By May 12, 1922
May 12, 1922.
A serious shooting affray in Nunez, Emanuel County, took place Sunday afternoon when Bill Kirby and Homer Corbin engaged young Carl Youmans, the seventeen year old son of Sewell Youmans, in a fight, beating the young man severly. Passers-by told the father of what was happening and Mr. Youmans hastened to the scene with his gun and began firing on the men who had his son down.
Bill Kirby was dangerously wounded and was taken to a hospital in Statesboro where reports are given out that he is in a serious condition.
Carl Youmans was bably beaten and bruised and a bullet from his father's gun lodged in his leg accidentally and he was taken to the Dublin hospital where the leg was amputated Monday.
It is said that there had been threats made against Sewell Youmans by the Kirby brothers and that bad feelings had prevailed between them for some time.
A party of folks from this community are anticipating a fishing outing time next week down on the Altamaha at Middleton's Lake, twelve miles from Darian. They want to be there early Monday to spend most of the week on the excursion. Going will be Messrs. W. F. And Arlie Outlaw, J. E. and Frank Jordan, Lawson Pournell, Marvin Davis, Robbie Rowland, Willie Raines, Bartow Brantley and several more. Then a party from Adrian and Glennville will join them there.
Johnson County is to have another and the largest hog sale it has ever had coming in June. Six carloads of hogs and one carload of chickens will be on hand for auction.
The world is not at peace, for in China today is raging a civil war between the forces of General Wu and General Chang, the hottest battlrs raging near the capital city, Pekin, and over its possesion. Uncle Sam has sent 127 sailors, 23 marines and 6 officers to help out the 400 there in Pekin who guard the American legation.
In Kite, Dr. J. E. Claxton has just moved into his new residence and Mr. J. M. Johnson is finishing up his handsome new store on the corner. Rev. Rhodes united in marriage Mr. Eddie Woods and Miss Lois Meeks. A party composed of Mr. S. D. Howard, Q. B. Powell, J. A. Wheeler, J. C. Claxton and Duma Peebles motored over to Coleman Lake for a nice time. Mr. Horace Kight and Mr. Morgan Beasley are doing better at Rawlings Sanitarium in Sandersville.
Wrightsville needs a clean up of fly nests and dens.
A serious shooting affray in Nunez, Emanuel County, took place Sunday afternoon when Bill Kirby and Homer Corbin engaged young Carl Youmans, the seventeen year old son of Sewell Youmans, in a fight, beating the young man severly. Passers-by told the father of what was happening and Mr. Youmans hastened to the scene with his gun and began firing on the men who had his son down.
Bill Kirby was dangerously wounded and was taken to a hospital in Statesboro where reports are given out that he is in a serious condition.
Carl Youmans was bably beaten and bruised and a bullet from his father's gun lodged in his leg accidentally and he was taken to the Dublin hospital where the leg was amputated Monday.
It is said that there had been threats made against Sewell Youmans by the Kirby brothers and that bad feelings had prevailed between them for some time.
A party of folks from this community are anticipating a fishing outing time next week down on the Altamaha at Middleton's Lake, twelve miles from Darian. They want to be there early Monday to spend most of the week on the excursion. Going will be Messrs. W. F. And Arlie Outlaw, J. E. and Frank Jordan, Lawson Pournell, Marvin Davis, Robbie Rowland, Willie Raines, Bartow Brantley and several more. Then a party from Adrian and Glennville will join them there.
Johnson County is to have another and the largest hog sale it has ever had coming in June. Six carloads of hogs and one carload of chickens will be on hand for auction.
The world is not at peace, for in China today is raging a civil war between the forces of General Wu and General Chang, the hottest battlrs raging near the capital city, Pekin, and over its possesion. Uncle Sam has sent 127 sailors, 23 marines and 6 officers to help out the 400 there in Pekin who guard the American legation.
In Kite, Dr. J. E. Claxton has just moved into his new residence and Mr. J. M. Johnson is finishing up his handsome new store on the corner. Rev. Rhodes united in marriage Mr. Eddie Woods and Miss Lois Meeks. A party composed of Mr. S. D. Howard, Q. B. Powell, J. A. Wheeler, J. C. Claxton and Duma Peebles motored over to Coleman Lake for a nice time. Mr. Horace Kight and Mr. Morgan Beasley are doing better at Rawlings Sanitarium in Sandersville.
Wrightsville needs a clean up of fly nests and dens.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
From Days Gone By May 5, 1922
May 5, 1922.
The Church of the Nazarene, using the tent, is still doing business back of the Opera Housr nightly when the soul-stirring sermons of Mrs. Nina Dean and Mrs. Olive Rife fall upon the tentative ears of hundreds who attend each night to hear these two lady preachers. People from 20 to 30 miles around have come to visit the meetings. It has lasted a week and looks to go on at least another week.
A delegation from Wrightsville and Adrian have gone to Atlanta to appear before the state highway department on road matters which interest Johnson County. One project is the Bee-Line highway and also the Wrightsville- Adrian- Scott- Soperton- Mt. Vernon highway roads.
The many samples of grain exhibited at the Headlight office shows the people of the county to be growing some of the best they ever raised up to now. The lpngest and largest, strongest, and firmest, with big heads, most of which is maturing now. One most recently was brought in by RFD carrier E. J. McAfee from the farm of Mr. C. D. Henderson.
The mayor and council of Wrightsville have directed the enforcement of the ordinance prohibiting hogs from being penned in said city in pens of less size than 20 feet square to the hog. J. C. Claxton, Chief of Police will be around to check your premises.
Mr. S. M. Johnson, Jr. Is now with the Jacksonville baseball team of the Florida State League. He is starting off his big league baseball career with much success. "Red" Martin is now at Trenton, Tennessee playing but is expecting to go to Savannah soon.
Mrs. W. W. Anthony will have a big family reunion for her eight children, at her spacious home on North Marcus street. Mr. Lee Kennedy, accompained by officer Lester, from the State Farm at Milledgeville arrived in town to visit his seriously sick family member, Mr. O. A. Kennedy.
The school at Myrtle Grove closed with a big day at Hall's Landing on the Ohoopee River. There was but little property put up for sale here during the Sheriff Sales. Mr. J. C. Coleman is manager of the Stretch-Your-Nickle-Stores in Wrightsville.
County Agent M. E. Crow spent the week at Tifton meeting of South Georgia County Agents. Mr. Crow also states if you have any clean, nice shoats, weighing anywhere from 85 to 125 pounds, he can sell them for you at a very good price if done before May 10th.
Thirty thousand dollars in hard cash was distributed in the county. The money from the six cars of hogs, 100 bales of cotton, three cars of cattle, velvet beans, peanuts, chickens and eggs and the veterans pension money amounted to $30,000.
On April 23, Miss Laura Liles and Mr. Phillip Wilkins were married by Judge E. W. Carter. Mr. Carter married the parents of the groom 22 years earlier one half mile from where these were married.
Some things Wrightsville doesn't need: Grand Opera, a grave digger's bureau, the buzz of green bottle flies, a hard boiled pessimist, a grouchy grouch, a hypocrite, booze-fighters, flappers or floppers, flirts or tea hounds, vamps or the like. But it does need to clean up fly nests and dens.
The Church of the Nazarene, using the tent, is still doing business back of the Opera Housr nightly when the soul-stirring sermons of Mrs. Nina Dean and Mrs. Olive Rife fall upon the tentative ears of hundreds who attend each night to hear these two lady preachers. People from 20 to 30 miles around have come to visit the meetings. It has lasted a week and looks to go on at least another week.
A delegation from Wrightsville and Adrian have gone to Atlanta to appear before the state highway department on road matters which interest Johnson County. One project is the Bee-Line highway and also the Wrightsville- Adrian- Scott- Soperton- Mt. Vernon highway roads.
The many samples of grain exhibited at the Headlight office shows the people of the county to be growing some of the best they ever raised up to now. The lpngest and largest, strongest, and firmest, with big heads, most of which is maturing now. One most recently was brought in by RFD carrier E. J. McAfee from the farm of Mr. C. D. Henderson.
The mayor and council of Wrightsville have directed the enforcement of the ordinance prohibiting hogs from being penned in said city in pens of less size than 20 feet square to the hog. J. C. Claxton, Chief of Police will be around to check your premises.
Mr. S. M. Johnson, Jr. Is now with the Jacksonville baseball team of the Florida State League. He is starting off his big league baseball career with much success. "Red" Martin is now at Trenton, Tennessee playing but is expecting to go to Savannah soon.
Mrs. W. W. Anthony will have a big family reunion for her eight children, at her spacious home on North Marcus street. Mr. Lee Kennedy, accompained by officer Lester, from the State Farm at Milledgeville arrived in town to visit his seriously sick family member, Mr. O. A. Kennedy.
The school at Myrtle Grove closed with a big day at Hall's Landing on the Ohoopee River. There was but little property put up for sale here during the Sheriff Sales. Mr. J. C. Coleman is manager of the Stretch-Your-Nickle-Stores in Wrightsville.
County Agent M. E. Crow spent the week at Tifton meeting of South Georgia County Agents. Mr. Crow also states if you have any clean, nice shoats, weighing anywhere from 85 to 125 pounds, he can sell them for you at a very good price if done before May 10th.
Thirty thousand dollars in hard cash was distributed in the county. The money from the six cars of hogs, 100 bales of cotton, three cars of cattle, velvet beans, peanuts, chickens and eggs and the veterans pension money amounted to $30,000.
On April 23, Miss Laura Liles and Mr. Phillip Wilkins were married by Judge E. W. Carter. Mr. Carter married the parents of the groom 22 years earlier one half mile from where these were married.
Some things Wrightsville doesn't need: Grand Opera, a grave digger's bureau, the buzz of green bottle flies, a hard boiled pessimist, a grouchy grouch, a hypocrite, booze-fighters, flappers or floppers, flirts or tea hounds, vamps or the like. But it does need to clean up fly nests and dens.
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