From Days Gone By Oct. 6, 1922

October 6, 1922.
    The last days of Superior Court for this term ended with Judge Kent taking back over the bench. The Vickers-Robinson was a hard fought case that resulted in a verdict for the Robinsons. The James Price murder case was transfered to Laurens County because of his relationship with some of the fair association stockholders. The Thigpen-Mathis case which Mathis was charged with the murder of the Thigpen child by running over it about three years ago resulted in guilty of involuntary manslaughter. He was fined $50 or 6 months in jail.
    Sherman Dixon was tried for killing Ira Lindsey, the Marshal at Kite, in 1911. This was the oldest case on the docket. The jury turned him free and the case against Cliff Dixon was nollied. This ended the famous Dixon murder case. Cliff Dixon was in Dublin hospital seriously sick.
    Hallie Brinson, colored, was found guilty of shooting hogs and given 9 months or $75. Tom Crabb, white, went to the gang for 6 months for whipping his wife.
    Dr. R. E. Brinson, Dr. & Mrs. C. H. Kittrell, B. R. Spell, C. E. Price, C. M. Dent, Jim Cave and J. E. Jordan all attended Senator Thomas E. Watson's funeral at Thomson. Mrs. Walter N. Powell is still in the sanitarium in Dublin as is Mrs. J. E. Cannady.
    The highway department is now building up Star Route No. 26 which crosses this county from Scott to Adrian a distance of 5 or 6 miles. At the hog sale in Adrian there was not enough for a carload. There were only 35 hogs which Mr. C. A. Fountain purchased at $8.10 to hold until next months sale. Mr. Shelton W. Harrison who was with the garage and car sales at Lavonia has moved back home here.
    Early Friday morning a big fire of unknown origin destroyed three warehouses in Bartow along the railroad tracks and 1219 bales of cotton, valued at $100 a bale. A framed grocery store was also burned but alot of the stock was saved. Two of the warehouses, owned by the Bartow Gin & Warehouse stored 715 bales. The other owned by the Bartow Investment Co. contained 504 bales. A fertilizer mixer was also burned. The No. 4 on the Central passed this burning but water had to be applied to the burning tracks so it could proceed. Damages were estimated at $130,000.
    The following are the statements of condition of the county banks. The Bank of Adrian $171,584.74; The Scott Banking Co. $63,857.26; Bank of Wrightsville $344,357.35; Exchange Bank $276,550.45; Citizens Bank of Kite $160,435.17; Farmers Bank $155,885.50.
    In Grand Jury presentments concerning the chaingang they found 5 white and 48 colored convicts well cared for. The Grand Jury also swore with fear nor favor to go on record condeming the lynching of Jim Drisdom by a masked mob of men having taken place in the upper edge of Johnson County. They also deplored the fact that whiskey is being sold in our towns and county and have made an investigation but failed to obtain enough evidence against who they believed to be guilty of selling it.
    The county didn't clean up on cotton this year but made a swarm with hogs and chickens. By giving these two items on our farms more and better attention they are the best money crops.