From Days Gone By July 21, 1922

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?".