From Days Gone By Sept. 22, 1922

September 22, 1922.
    The Majestic Exposition Shows are coming to Wrightsville the week of October 2nd to 7th to pitch their tents on the grounds of the Johnson County Fair Association. The contract was made and entered at a meeting in the chamber of the Bank of Wrightsville when Mr. Erven B. Kaw of the Majestic Shows met the fair directors. It includes 8 big shows, 35 concessions, 4 riding devices, the 8 piece band and the big free act which constitutes the shows. Of the 8 shows he has the Nut College, the snake show, athletic show, wild west, plantation, Japanese garden, sideshow and the educated horse.
    New Home school will open October 2nd with Prof. J. Y. Chastain as principal and Miss Sadie Powell, assistant. The Mt. Vernon Baptist Association will meet here at Brown Memorial on October 13 and 14. The next Johnson-Washington Singing Convention will be at the methodist church in Kite.
    After the eloquent address of Mrs. Florence Ewell Atkins, state organizer of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at the methodist church a local chapter was organized. Mrs. W. C. Brinson was chosen president, Miss Proctor, secretary and Mrs. J. M. Mason, treasurer. The Blue Bird Club held its first meeting at the home of Miss Edith Bryan. The purpose of the club is to promote interest and good fellowship among the younger set.
    The methodist church made improvements on the church lawn, and the painting of the parsonage.
    The dengue fever is still raging in the city and county and has affected most every family. The disease, a new name is not dangerous under proper care and treatment, but makes folks mighty sick, weakening them down decidedly. The epidemic is widespread and in the larger cities it is raving tremendously. Among the sick are William Parker, Rube Dent, Albert Raley, Miss Mary Moore Johnson and Mrs. J. E. Cannedy.
    The school here now has 285 pupils and there are almost 100 of these in the high school. Dr. I. H. Archer of New Orleans came home for vacation. Many hope this popular dentist will come back permanant when the government turns him loose. Judge Edward T. Shurley of Warranton arrived for this term of Superor Court and is a guest at the Lovett Hotel.
    Master Reginald Smith has about completed his radio receiving station at his home and says he is getting pretty fair service from it already.
    The gins of Wrightsville, Kite, Donovan and Harrison will not run on Mondays. This incudes E. A. & W. H. Lovett, Farmers Gin Company, Kite Gin Company and Willam Jackson. The county's cotton crop this year is about as short as you want to feel it and it's mighty near all out and gone already. But old hog and hominey are still in the land.
    Mr. & Mrs. R. M. Arnau of Dublin announced the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth, to Sibley Lanier White on October 5th. Mrs. James Franklin Brantley of Harrison announced the October marriage of her daughter, Nana Pauline to Henry Lee Cockran of Baltimore.