From Days Gone By August 4, 1922

August 4, 1922.
    Judge R. N. Hardeman sentenced Lee Currie to hang on September 1st in Toombs County Superior Court last week after a jury found him guilty of murdering Phillips three years ago. This was Currie's 4th trial, three resulted in verdict of murder in the first degree and one was a mistrial. Attorneys immediately filed a motion for another trial.
    A committer from the State Welfare Department composed of Dr. & Mrs. J. W. Brinson and Dr. S. M. Johnson submitted a report to the sheriff and ordinary and the Grand Jury. It does not look good for the jail.
    Their recomendations are first, a new jail be built or the present one remodeled. Second, better sanitation and prisioner hygiene regulations enforced. Third, clean blankets provided each new prisioner and washed at least once a month, more if necessary. Fourth, all metal parts of cell cages painted a light color. Fifth, all cell compartments walls painted, whitewashed or tinted. Sixth, a seperate shower bath installed in each cell with hot water. Seventh, require prisioners take a bath within 24 hours of confinement and twice a week in summer and once a week in winter. Eighth, prisioners change underclothing within 24 hours and county provide clothing when necessary. Ninth, plenty of soap at all times. Tenth, all broken window panes replaced. Eleventh, all prisioners given a medical examination within 24 hours of confinement.
    Mr. Jimmy Anderson of near Kite received a letter from his cousin, Mr. Lovett Anderson, who left Wrightsville on the 27th of March, 1876, 46 years ago, and he is now in South Houston, Texas enjoying good health and prosperity. He has not been back here since he left. It has been so long few people would know him and the changes wrought in these 46 years would make it a new country to him.
    Savannah is working hard for two things, the port and the Maritime Exposition and hopes it lands both. Brunswick and her natural port facilites are fine, but Savannah is needed for the future of Georgia. The Georgia Legislature is going this week to inspect this place as a port.
    The heaviest rain fell last week ever recorded here, and the boll weevils are busy. Warden Stanley has the convict gang on the Ohoopee River near Snell's bridge and it fell so much rain his entire camp was surrounded by water and washouts so that he could hardly get in and out for several days.
    List of City Court jurors for the August Term were W. S. Kight, James Anderson, C. R. Carter, L. W. Smith, M. L. Scarborough, J. W. Spell, O. V. Martin, Bennett Claxton, J. A. Stephens, W. N. Powell, J. G. Greenway, L. M. Powell, J. G. Ivey, J. T. Amerson, Wiley Cheaves, J. Y. Chastain, W. E. Blankenship, Joseph Jenkins, G. B. Phillips, W. A. Lamb, J. J. Smith, O. A. Kennedy, T. W. Stapleton and S. D. Smith.
    Mr. R. M. Paul recently killed a big mother rattlesnake that carried 11 rattles and the usual button. It measured five feet long and it had eight little rattlers twelve inches long with her. This is what might be termed a wholesale slaughter.