July 21, 1922.
Wrightsville stands in close proximity at this time to losing a very valuable enterprise to the city and county, one that has filled a vacancy in business circles for just a brief period and has become a fixture, so to speak, with the people of the county. We speak of the ice plant.
Its dismantling at this time is rather an unfortunate occurance for the city and county and one that may mean more than we might count in a passing notice. The enterprise is one of the few here. It has proven a good thing. The cold storage as well as the output of ice has assisted conveniently and the whole industry as a going proposition has meant much to the people.
It is a backset to the prosperity of any community to lose an industry, and especially one that means so much as this one does, and, not arguing either side of any court procedure or any failure anywhere that has taken place concerning same, it is a pity that Wrightsville loses the ice factory and cold storage plant.
Felder Smith, the son of Mr. & Mrs. George Smith died June 22nd near Bay Springs. Judge U. R. Jenkins and Clerk J. B. Williams have been somewhat on the sick list from malaria. Sheriff Lewis Davis has marked time around the court house in their absence. RFD Tom Jenkins is building a fine little home on North Myrtle Avenue. Mr. Osley M. Sumner will leave for Savannah to continue treatment in the U. S. Marine Hospital.
The banks have released their statement of condition. The Bank of Wrightsville, $328,402.49; Exchange Bank of Wrightsville, $271,019.69; The Farmers Bank, S152,648.88.
The typhoid fever season has come and many, many people in Georgia are still unprotected so far as being vaccinated is concerned. Time and again the State Board of Health and the county Board's of Health have sent out warnings and advised, even begged the people to be vaccinated. Last year 798 people who turned a deaf ear to such timely advice have already crossed to the unknown. Anyone who wants typhoid vaccine this year better apply at once. The supply is by no means unlimited.
No one denies a falling off of blind tigering around the county and dry areas are widening. Let the good work go on until the whole business is wiped out of existence. The rot that is generally peddled out will kill.
Some awful things are transpiring in Georgia nowadays. Highly respectable lady is horsewhipped and a bull dog set on her by two other females in Emanuel County, a physician is accused of the double murder of his first and the husband of his second wife, a preacher shot his wife and her mother in Bulloch County, two negroes were lynched at Jesup, a cow dip set the woods on fire in Echols County and a whole lot more calamities, disasters, crimes and disorders have arisen lately. The more the pity on top of everything else bad coming down the pike of late. We might stop a minute and ask "Where we're at?".
Sunday, June 21, 2020
From Days Gone By July 14, 1922
July 14, 1922.
A bill will be introduced at the next session of the General Assembly to amend the Act entitled, an Act to incorporate the City of Adrian; to define the corporate limits thereof and for other purposes, by amending section two of said Act so as to reduce the territorial limits of the City of Adrian from a radius of one mile to a radius of five-eighths of a mile.
The county Board of Education held a meeting in the office of Supt. L. Lillard. Oak Hill and Hollywood schools, owing to conditions, were discontinued. Several parties were there with concerns over Myrtle Grove and Liberty Grove schools.
The Johnson Orchestra is filling a wide demand upon them for their musical services at various dances and socials. The clever family outfit goes over to play at Swainsboro this evening.
Farmer E. J. Sumner brought to town a full truck load of watermelons, the first of the season offered the local market. The price was high but they sold pretty well. Judge J. L. Kent says his cotton and corn crops are looking much better the past three weeks.
There is a wide demand for another chicken sale here so one was set for July 25th. Mr. Bragg Thompson has been assigned to the dipping vat work in Echols County. This is the county where so much serious consequences have arison over dipping cattle and ever vat in the county has been dynamited except two and pitched battles have raged. Thompson has done splendid work on the vats in Johnson County.
Misses Vela and Loree Rowland, Miss Lucile Douglas, Miss Inez Kitchens, Miss Annie Dell and Missouri Powell and also Mr. Eugene Rowland have all been in Athens attending summer normal courses for teachers at the University.
The Dixie Theatre will present the big photo play entitled "Where Are My Children". This is the picture that created such a rage in the larger cities. It is said that every mother and 16 year old girl should see it.
Hon. W. Wash Larson has no opposition so will return to Washington for the 4th time as the 12th districts congressman.
Mrs. Nina Dean and Mrs. Olive Rife are returning to the city to start another series of meetings under "the little brown tent" on the lot donated by Mr. W. C. Tompkins. These Nazarenes had a huge following last time they were here.
Beneficial work has been done in the city by the authorities this year. They have built good streets claying and rounding them up wherever needed until they are now hard surfaced, dug out several ditches where draining was needed, opened up sewers, built side walks, put in new coping and got a lot of new piping put in and a lot more on hand for use and have tried, making a start at cleaning up generally. In six years the streets have not been as good as now. Even the sore out cemetery way is all right.
Wrightsville's summer health will be normal providing cess pools and dirty hog pens are cleaned up and the authorities say they are going to see they are.
A bill will be introduced at the next session of the General Assembly to amend the Act entitled, an Act to incorporate the City of Adrian; to define the corporate limits thereof and for other purposes, by amending section two of said Act so as to reduce the territorial limits of the City of Adrian from a radius of one mile to a radius of five-eighths of a mile.
The county Board of Education held a meeting in the office of Supt. L. Lillard. Oak Hill and Hollywood schools, owing to conditions, were discontinued. Several parties were there with concerns over Myrtle Grove and Liberty Grove schools.
The Johnson Orchestra is filling a wide demand upon them for their musical services at various dances and socials. The clever family outfit goes over to play at Swainsboro this evening.
Farmer E. J. Sumner brought to town a full truck load of watermelons, the first of the season offered the local market. The price was high but they sold pretty well. Judge J. L. Kent says his cotton and corn crops are looking much better the past three weeks.
There is a wide demand for another chicken sale here so one was set for July 25th. Mr. Bragg Thompson has been assigned to the dipping vat work in Echols County. This is the county where so much serious consequences have arison over dipping cattle and ever vat in the county has been dynamited except two and pitched battles have raged. Thompson has done splendid work on the vats in Johnson County.
Misses Vela and Loree Rowland, Miss Lucile Douglas, Miss Inez Kitchens, Miss Annie Dell and Missouri Powell and also Mr. Eugene Rowland have all been in Athens attending summer normal courses for teachers at the University.
The Dixie Theatre will present the big photo play entitled "Where Are My Children". This is the picture that created such a rage in the larger cities. It is said that every mother and 16 year old girl should see it.
Hon. W. Wash Larson has no opposition so will return to Washington for the 4th time as the 12th districts congressman.
Mrs. Nina Dean and Mrs. Olive Rife are returning to the city to start another series of meetings under "the little brown tent" on the lot donated by Mr. W. C. Tompkins. These Nazarenes had a huge following last time they were here.
Beneficial work has been done in the city by the authorities this year. They have built good streets claying and rounding them up wherever needed until they are now hard surfaced, dug out several ditches where draining was needed, opened up sewers, built side walks, put in new coping and got a lot of new piping put in and a lot more on hand for use and have tried, making a start at cleaning up generally. In six years the streets have not been as good as now. Even the sore out cemetery way is all right.
Wrightsville's summer health will be normal providing cess pools and dirty hog pens are cleaned up and the authorities say they are going to see they are.
From Days Gone By July 7, 1922
July 7, 1922.
Tuesday, the fourth, business was at a standstill in the city and county. The people took the day off enjoying themselves at home eating watermelons and fried chicken. A big crowd went to the ballgame at Bartow, some to Idylwild and other places of recreation. That was about all the day's program.
Picnics at Idylwild are a popular event this summer. Down there every day and most every evening parties go on a picnic and enjoy the resort's pleasure until a late hour.
Several farmers have grown a lot of wheat as a surplus crop this year and have had it made into flour which they are selling out around to the merchants and anyone who will buy it, thus realizing some ready money from this source. Our merchants are glad to place the home-made brands with their customers and when it is known that most of the grocery men of the city carry it in stock buyers will no doubt be pleased to take the Johnson brand to encourage and help along the farmers.
Farmer John R. Moore brought to the city a cotton boll more than half grown and he told his friends he had hundreds of them all over his fields and that he had the weevil conquered.
Wrens was an easy prey for the home team Thursday. They came to the fairgrounds for one run against thirteen in a seven inning one sided affair. Young, McGahee and Brown formed the battery against Bedingfield and Tyson for Wrightsville.
Friday's game was a slow one, full of errors and runs, the latter showing a net for each of 11 to 9 in favor of the old home town. Lester's two innings on the mound gave Wrightsville ten runs and they took him out and put in the first baseman, Bedingfield, who held his new job well, allowing but one run. Hits evened off in a basket full. J. B. Kitchens threw good ball. "Red" Martin arrived home for the remainder of the summer and was met at Tennille by some of the team who went for him in time for this game. "Red" played third ok, and came out fine all though considering having been up a lots and being wearied from the trip down from Marshalville, Kentucky. All fans are glad to see him back in the home town lineup again.
Soperton wiped Wrightsville up properly Wednesday of last week in a one-sided game at the fairgrounds. The score stood 9 to 2 at the end of the 9th. Clay Jenkins was on the mound for the visitors and pitched good ball against Rollins for the home team. Jenkins gave up five hits to Rollins eleven. Wrightsville had been winning for the past five games and this one luck went wrong with them. The attendance was the largest so far this season.
Wrightsville won over Bartow Monday 9 to 1. Rawlings gave up one hit and in the 6th frame retired the side on three balls. Jam up ball playing by the Wrightsville boys featured the game with the homerun of Tyson who placed one nicely away over in the cornfield.
Bartow got another defeat put over her Tuesday on her own grounds, the score ending 10 to 8. Sanders, Kitchens and Tyson vs two Bedingfields and Allen were oposing batteries. Dublin is coming up.
The Wrightsville Troop of Boy Scouts held their weekly meeting where they received an elementary lesson in drills.
Tuesday, the fourth, business was at a standstill in the city and county. The people took the day off enjoying themselves at home eating watermelons and fried chicken. A big crowd went to the ballgame at Bartow, some to Idylwild and other places of recreation. That was about all the day's program.
Picnics at Idylwild are a popular event this summer. Down there every day and most every evening parties go on a picnic and enjoy the resort's pleasure until a late hour.
Several farmers have grown a lot of wheat as a surplus crop this year and have had it made into flour which they are selling out around to the merchants and anyone who will buy it, thus realizing some ready money from this source. Our merchants are glad to place the home-made brands with their customers and when it is known that most of the grocery men of the city carry it in stock buyers will no doubt be pleased to take the Johnson brand to encourage and help along the farmers.
Farmer John R. Moore brought to the city a cotton boll more than half grown and he told his friends he had hundreds of them all over his fields and that he had the weevil conquered.
Wrens was an easy prey for the home team Thursday. They came to the fairgrounds for one run against thirteen in a seven inning one sided affair. Young, McGahee and Brown formed the battery against Bedingfield and Tyson for Wrightsville.
Friday's game was a slow one, full of errors and runs, the latter showing a net for each of 11 to 9 in favor of the old home town. Lester's two innings on the mound gave Wrightsville ten runs and they took him out and put in the first baseman, Bedingfield, who held his new job well, allowing but one run. Hits evened off in a basket full. J. B. Kitchens threw good ball. "Red" Martin arrived home for the remainder of the summer and was met at Tennille by some of the team who went for him in time for this game. "Red" played third ok, and came out fine all though considering having been up a lots and being wearied from the trip down from Marshalville, Kentucky. All fans are glad to see him back in the home town lineup again.
Soperton wiped Wrightsville up properly Wednesday of last week in a one-sided game at the fairgrounds. The score stood 9 to 2 at the end of the 9th. Clay Jenkins was on the mound for the visitors and pitched good ball against Rollins for the home team. Jenkins gave up five hits to Rollins eleven. Wrightsville had been winning for the past five games and this one luck went wrong with them. The attendance was the largest so far this season.
Wrightsville won over Bartow Monday 9 to 1. Rawlings gave up one hit and in the 6th frame retired the side on three balls. Jam up ball playing by the Wrightsville boys featured the game with the homerun of Tyson who placed one nicely away over in the cornfield.
Bartow got another defeat put over her Tuesday on her own grounds, the score ending 10 to 8. Sanders, Kitchens and Tyson vs two Bedingfields and Allen were oposing batteries. Dublin is coming up.
The Wrightsville Troop of Boy Scouts held their weekly meeting where they received an elementary lesson in drills.
Saturday, June 6, 2020
From Days Gone By June 30, 1922
June 30, 1922.
Johnson County had two bad jobs on its hands last Thursday morning upon completion of the inquest Coroner Loring R. Clayton held over the dead body of Duff Dixon, the colored man who was knocked in the head with a club axe Tuesday night of last week by his supposed wife, Rena Jackson. The first was burying Duff and the second was detaining Rena.
The Ordinary set out on the first one with a detail of convicts and the sheriff took the coroner's warrant to apprehend Rena, who had been let go for the outcome of Duff and, on account of her physical condition.
The jury were composed of Dr. S. M. Johnson, Messrs. R. R. Martin, W. T. Kitchens, C. T. Swinson, B. J. Moye and C. D. Roundtree. Their verdict charged Rena with cold-blooded murder. Just what will be done with the diseased and afflicted woman is not to be ferreted out yet.
Mrs. James I. Moye succumbed last Wednesday to the potash poisioning she had administered by her own hand through a period of delirum caused from an affected and unbalanced mind traceable directly to ill health which had overcame her body and mind for sometime. She lived several hours after taking the potash in the dead of night, passing out as the doctors and family labored untiringly to save her.
Her family and that of her husband are among the first of the western part of the county and the sudden and regretful turn in her existence has been the cause of much sorrow. Her husband and four children survives her. She was a daughter of Mr. Jordan Hodges. The funeral took place at Wesley Chapel.
Prof. A. J. M. Robinson was called to Lumber City to attend the funeral of his granddaughter, Miss Louise Calhoun. She was 15 and her death was a shock. She had recently undergone treatment at a Macon hospital.
Mr. E. A. Lovett who took on the work of erecting the grandstand at the ball ground in the fair enclosure is putting the finishing touches on it at a cost of more than $200.
Starting next week farmers will be bringing their watermelons to the railroad for shipping. John R. Moore has already shiped a car load.
Miss Mary Belle Davis and Mr. Charlie Claxton were married on the 21st. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. M. O. Davis of the county. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. H. P. Claxton also of Johnson County.
Mr. Willie E. Page remains were brought to Westview for burial last week. Mr. Page died at his home in Dublin. Judge J. E. Page and Mr. Cleveland Page were brothers. He married a sister of John, Pat and Jim Duff. He was 45 on May 26th. His wife and six children survived him.
Next Tuesday is the 4th of July, the time looked to by thousands and thousands of American's annually since its honored origin as a day of days. In Wrightsville the stores will close for at least the afternoon, the banks and offices all day.
Johnson County had two bad jobs on its hands last Thursday morning upon completion of the inquest Coroner Loring R. Clayton held over the dead body of Duff Dixon, the colored man who was knocked in the head with a club axe Tuesday night of last week by his supposed wife, Rena Jackson. The first was burying Duff and the second was detaining Rena.
The Ordinary set out on the first one with a detail of convicts and the sheriff took the coroner's warrant to apprehend Rena, who had been let go for the outcome of Duff and, on account of her physical condition.
The jury were composed of Dr. S. M. Johnson, Messrs. R. R. Martin, W. T. Kitchens, C. T. Swinson, B. J. Moye and C. D. Roundtree. Their verdict charged Rena with cold-blooded murder. Just what will be done with the diseased and afflicted woman is not to be ferreted out yet.
Mrs. James I. Moye succumbed last Wednesday to the potash poisioning she had administered by her own hand through a period of delirum caused from an affected and unbalanced mind traceable directly to ill health which had overcame her body and mind for sometime. She lived several hours after taking the potash in the dead of night, passing out as the doctors and family labored untiringly to save her.
Her family and that of her husband are among the first of the western part of the county and the sudden and regretful turn in her existence has been the cause of much sorrow. Her husband and four children survives her. She was a daughter of Mr. Jordan Hodges. The funeral took place at Wesley Chapel.
Prof. A. J. M. Robinson was called to Lumber City to attend the funeral of his granddaughter, Miss Louise Calhoun. She was 15 and her death was a shock. She had recently undergone treatment at a Macon hospital.
Mr. E. A. Lovett who took on the work of erecting the grandstand at the ball ground in the fair enclosure is putting the finishing touches on it at a cost of more than $200.
Starting next week farmers will be bringing their watermelons to the railroad for shipping. John R. Moore has already shiped a car load.
Miss Mary Belle Davis and Mr. Charlie Claxton were married on the 21st. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. M. O. Davis of the county. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. H. P. Claxton also of Johnson County.
Mr. Willie E. Page remains were brought to Westview for burial last week. Mr. Page died at his home in Dublin. Judge J. E. Page and Mr. Cleveland Page were brothers. He married a sister of John, Pat and Jim Duff. He was 45 on May 26th. His wife and six children survived him.
Next Tuesday is the 4th of July, the time looked to by thousands and thousands of American's annually since its honored origin as a day of days. In Wrightsville the stores will close for at least the afternoon, the banks and offices all day.
From Days Gone By June 23, 1922
June 23, 1922.
Local baseball fans are making considerable plans for a hot season of this popular game in Wrightsville and near-by towns with a strong line-up of the community's own boys who are among the best amateures in South Georgia.
Laudice D. Lovett has been elected the manager and Prof. E. N. Anthony the captain. The season proper opened last week. The principal players on the team this year will be Bill Tyson, catcher; Clay Jenkins, J. B. Kitchens, Edward Sanders and Charlie Rollins, pitchers; E. N. Anthony, 1st base; Chatty Johnson, 2nd base; Eugene Cook, short stop; Albon Hatcher, 3rd base; Laudice Lovett, Lewis Lovett and Lon Smith, outfielders.
The team will be strengthened by Forrest Jackson and possibly others as the season passes. The boys are expecting a winning record for the season and are open for games with teams anywhere in this part of the state.
A clipping from a Kentucky newspaper received at home here shows that "Red" Martin is playing good ball with that team this season. In this game with Paris, Kentucky, he went to bat 4 times, drew a homerun and 2 singles, a total of 3 hits. Stole one base among all the other features in which he figured. S. M. Johnson is down in Jacksonville making a good ball record also.
Prof. E. N. Anthony and family last week moved to the city from Bartow and are making their home in the school building rooms. They received a strong welcome here as residents, everyone being glad to have them. He is chosen the head of the school for the next year and is getting familiar with the people and school and finding out just what the definite needs are locally. During a few weeks of the summer months he will direct some special work for a number of pupils who are wanting to make up in a few studies. Besides being a splendid teacher, he is a firm believer in athletics, having been identified with the basketball fans players for years and he is good at the game himself. He plans to build a strong team here next year.
The very largest hog sale ever held in Wrightsville from a money standpoint was pulled off here. There was 412 head of hogs brought to this sale and they were auctioned off by Mr. W. W. Webb at a nine and a half cents for tops. The others brought the usual differential. There were 4 car loads of them 60,173 pounds and the cash this left in the county amounted to 8 and 9 thousand dollars, far exceeding expectations.
The chicken sale was a success also. One car of chickens, possibly 9,000 pounds brought in more than $2,000.
This was a $10,000 cash proposition for Johnson County and shows what is being done to keep the wolf from the door. The people are now deeply embedded in this industry.
Local baseball fans are making considerable plans for a hot season of this popular game in Wrightsville and near-by towns with a strong line-up of the community's own boys who are among the best amateures in South Georgia.
Laudice D. Lovett has been elected the manager and Prof. E. N. Anthony the captain. The season proper opened last week. The principal players on the team this year will be Bill Tyson, catcher; Clay Jenkins, J. B. Kitchens, Edward Sanders and Charlie Rollins, pitchers; E. N. Anthony, 1st base; Chatty Johnson, 2nd base; Eugene Cook, short stop; Albon Hatcher, 3rd base; Laudice Lovett, Lewis Lovett and Lon Smith, outfielders.
The team will be strengthened by Forrest Jackson and possibly others as the season passes. The boys are expecting a winning record for the season and are open for games with teams anywhere in this part of the state.
A clipping from a Kentucky newspaper received at home here shows that "Red" Martin is playing good ball with that team this season. In this game with Paris, Kentucky, he went to bat 4 times, drew a homerun and 2 singles, a total of 3 hits. Stole one base among all the other features in which he figured. S. M. Johnson is down in Jacksonville making a good ball record also.
Prof. E. N. Anthony and family last week moved to the city from Bartow and are making their home in the school building rooms. They received a strong welcome here as residents, everyone being glad to have them. He is chosen the head of the school for the next year and is getting familiar with the people and school and finding out just what the definite needs are locally. During a few weeks of the summer months he will direct some special work for a number of pupils who are wanting to make up in a few studies. Besides being a splendid teacher, he is a firm believer in athletics, having been identified with the basketball fans players for years and he is good at the game himself. He plans to build a strong team here next year.
The very largest hog sale ever held in Wrightsville from a money standpoint was pulled off here. There was 412 head of hogs brought to this sale and they were auctioned off by Mr. W. W. Webb at a nine and a half cents for tops. The others brought the usual differential. There were 4 car loads of them 60,173 pounds and the cash this left in the county amounted to 8 and 9 thousand dollars, far exceeding expectations.
The chicken sale was a success also. One car of chickens, possibly 9,000 pounds brought in more than $2,000.
This was a $10,000 cash proposition for Johnson County and shows what is being done to keep the wolf from the door. The people are now deeply embedded in this industry.
Friday, June 5, 2020
From Days Gone By June 16, 1922
June 16, 1922.
Although attornys for the State did not ask for the death penalty, the jury trying Mrs. Cora Lou Vinson in Fulton Superior Court for the murder of her husband, Dr. W. D. Vinson, Saturday night, brought in a verdict of murder, without a recomendation for mercy, which carried with it the death penalty.
Judge John D. Humphries immediately sentenced her to be hanged on July 28th. Mrs. Vinson showed no signs of emotion over the death sentence and continued to chew her gum with her accustomed regularity. This is the first time the death penalty has been passed on a woman in the history of Fulton County, according to officials at the court house. No case in Fulton County has been harder contested and the fact that Solicitor Boykin in his argument to the jury declared that he had never asked for the death penalty for any woman and would not in this case, makes the verdict a great victory for the State, which had contended throughout the trial that it was one of the most dastardly crimes ever committed in the county.
William Schley Howard, connected with the prosecution; also refrained from asking for the death penalty in his argument before the jury.
Following the conclusion of arguments by Sam Hewlett of counsel for Mrs. Vinson, Judge Humphries charged the jury of murder, voluntary manslaughter and justifiable homicide. The case went to the jury at 5:30 Saturday afternoon, after being on trial since Wednesday.
Judge Humphries read his charge as Judge Newt Morris, attorney for the defense, had asked that the Judge write out the charge before giving it to the jury. The law provides that counsel may ask the court to do so.
In closing for the State, Solicitor General Boykin declared that he would not ask for the death penalty for the defendant, but added it was the duty of the jury to return a verdict that would insure a life term for Mrs. Vinson, who in the discretion of the prison commission could be paroled after serving three years.
"Rube" Dent, the road man, is now in Laurens County with the highway department, building roads under the district supervision. Misses Sarah Lou and Maggie Gillis left for their home in Soperton having vacated their rooms over the Farmers Bank. Going to the county officers convention at Savannah is Clerk Joe B. Williams, Sheriff Lewis Davis, Tax Collector J. Nat Riner and Ordinary U. R. Jenkins.
Dr. Chas H. Kittrell has been gone to Montreal, Canada the past ten days to familiarize himself with port conditions of that city. As a legislator from Laurens County he led the plans which have been successfully put over so far in establishing a state-owned port to be erected at Savannah. Dr. Kittrell is a live wire and is doing more than most Georgians for his state's future.
Miss Gertrude Proctor, Johnson's new county agent was in Savannah attending a convention. She is getting along fine with her work in the county so far.
Although attornys for the State did not ask for the death penalty, the jury trying Mrs. Cora Lou Vinson in Fulton Superior Court for the murder of her husband, Dr. W. D. Vinson, Saturday night, brought in a verdict of murder, without a recomendation for mercy, which carried with it the death penalty.
Judge John D. Humphries immediately sentenced her to be hanged on July 28th. Mrs. Vinson showed no signs of emotion over the death sentence and continued to chew her gum with her accustomed regularity. This is the first time the death penalty has been passed on a woman in the history of Fulton County, according to officials at the court house. No case in Fulton County has been harder contested and the fact that Solicitor Boykin in his argument to the jury declared that he had never asked for the death penalty for any woman and would not in this case, makes the verdict a great victory for the State, which had contended throughout the trial that it was one of the most dastardly crimes ever committed in the county.
William Schley Howard, connected with the prosecution; also refrained from asking for the death penalty in his argument before the jury.
Following the conclusion of arguments by Sam Hewlett of counsel for Mrs. Vinson, Judge Humphries charged the jury of murder, voluntary manslaughter and justifiable homicide. The case went to the jury at 5:30 Saturday afternoon, after being on trial since Wednesday.
Judge Humphries read his charge as Judge Newt Morris, attorney for the defense, had asked that the Judge write out the charge before giving it to the jury. The law provides that counsel may ask the court to do so.
In closing for the State, Solicitor General Boykin declared that he would not ask for the death penalty for the defendant, but added it was the duty of the jury to return a verdict that would insure a life term for Mrs. Vinson, who in the discretion of the prison commission could be paroled after serving three years.
"Rube" Dent, the road man, is now in Laurens County with the highway department, building roads under the district supervision. Misses Sarah Lou and Maggie Gillis left for their home in Soperton having vacated their rooms over the Farmers Bank. Going to the county officers convention at Savannah is Clerk Joe B. Williams, Sheriff Lewis Davis, Tax Collector J. Nat Riner and Ordinary U. R. Jenkins.
Dr. Chas H. Kittrell has been gone to Montreal, Canada the past ten days to familiarize himself with port conditions of that city. As a legislator from Laurens County he led the plans which have been successfully put over so far in establishing a state-owned port to be erected at Savannah. Dr. Kittrell is a live wire and is doing more than most Georgians for his state's future.
Miss Gertrude Proctor, Johnson's new county agent was in Savannah attending a convention. She is getting along fine with her work in the county so far.
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