From Days Gone By Sept. 29, 1922

September 29, 1922.
    The county fair association opens next week for four big days. Midway attractions promises to be great and large crowds expected each day. Exhibits form a grand display this year, and plenty of fun. One good free attraction twice daily.
    Superior Court convened with Judge Shurley presiding. In the suit for damages instituted by Mrs. A. Walden against the fair association for the enormous amount of $20,000 for the death of her husband on the fair grounds was started. Most of the entire. Local attorneys were on the defendants side while Evans & Evans of Sandersville were for Mrs. Walden. The case lasted all afternoon and into the night, the jury being closeted until a late hour considering the case. The jury was out some few hours making a verdict which they sealed. The next morning the verdict was read giving a damage of $2,000 against the fair association and W. J. Crawford.
    Then the judge pushed hard down on the gas of court and speeded through several civil cases to clear the docket for the Vickers-Robinson land case. The same day James Price was lodged in jail on a blanket charge of murder with the death a A. Walden at the fair grounds last October. Tom Crabb was also jailed on several charges which are said to be bad ones.
    A big price for the 200 head of hogs sold here Tuesday was received by the producers. The top price paid was $8.35. The succssful buyers was Bragg, Milsap & Company of Atlanta.
    All Georgia is mourning the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson who died suddenly on Monday night. He was 66 years old, a statesman and editor. He will be buried at Thomson. A wife and two grandchildren survive him.
    A wreck of a freight train near Macon on the Central of Georgia was reported that 18 freight cars had been torn from the track caused a bad delay in the mails. The W. & T. ran as usual but no mail at all was brought on the first train. So many people went without a Sunday paper. This is the second wreck the Central has had in a week or two in the same area.
    Mr. & Mrs. Joe B. Roundtree of Boston, Georgia motored to Wrightsville to Mr. H. P. Hicks. Mrs. Roundtree is a sister of Mr. Hicks. Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Hall announced the birth of a little boy, Andrew Lotis. Both mother and babe are doing well.
    Mr. John W. Johnson moved to Macon where he is now drumming for a well-known tobacco house there. Mrs. Hettie Wiggins in the eastern part of the county celebrate her 90th birthday. She has two sons J. C. and B. J. and three daughters.
    Now that the strikes on all the railroads nearly and is most of the mining areas have been settled and freights are moving there is an air in the land of upward outlook in business all over the country. And too, at home, in Johnson we find men who say times are actually better with them and their neighbors than they were this time last year. Few people say this and then a few others, very few, say it is not better. Conditions are good.