December 8, 1922.
Jeffie Tanner, the son of Tom Tanner who was in jail for shooting his cousin, Jim Tanner, gave bond for his freedom until the next Grand Jury. Jim is getting along fine, but had a very close call of it. He has been in the Brigham-Claxton hospital in Dublin since the shooting occured and part of the time not expected to survive the wound. The boys are first cousins, brothers children, and the affair is deeply regretted on this account. The shooting with a pistol occured in the public road near the Mosley home at Donovan some time ago. The fight attracted considerable notice at the time. Messrs. "Hap" Durden, Hugh Coleman and John T. Roberts, Jr. of Twin City, Summit-Graymont, were in Wrightsville advertising the Warrenton-Twin City football game which takes place at Louisville. E. C. I. has a good team under Dick Hartley and they are claiming the championship of 1922 of Middle Georgia as well as South Georgia. Warrenton also has a powerfull football team considering the size of the town. In basketball Wrightsville won over Louisville 56 to 15. Playing for the locals were East, Moye, Frost, Pool and Lovett. Louisville had beat Tennille by one point and Tennille won over Wrightsville by one point. Wrightsville won again over Jeffersonville 37 to 2, a bad beating by the Red Jackets. Miss Elsie Anthony, 16 year old daughter of Dr. Walter Anthony, recently appointed pastor of Mulberry Street Methodist church, was painfully injured in an auto wreck about 10 miles from Eatonton when the auto in which she, with Dr. Anthony and his family were riding, was struck by an auto driven by Eatonton banker, B. W. Hunt. Miss Anthony sustained severe lacerations and bruises about the face, and the auto was badly wrecked, but other members escaped with minor bruises. In a passing auto Dr Anthony rushed his daughter to Eatonton where she was given medical attention. Dr. Anthony was former pastor at First Methodist in Athens and was on his way back to Wrightsville, his boyhood home when the wreck occured. The family had eaten Thanksgiving dinner in Eatonton and left for Wrightsville when at a sharp curve in the road the Hunt car and the Anthony car hit head on, neither of the cars were traveling fast. Miss Anthony had 4 stitches on her cheek, a severe cut under the chin and one of her ears was badly mangled. The County Board of Education by a vote of 3 to 2 to continue the work of the county home economics agent Miss Gertude Proctor. Dr. T. A. Powell and Mr. Z. T. Houser voted no while Dr. J. W. Brinson, W. C. Brantley and W. L. Mixon voted yes. The salary was agreed at $50 per month. Mr. J. B. Paul has purchased the Knowles Barber Shop from the owner, Mr. B. F. Knowles. Mr. T. L. Drake entered the merchantile business and grocery trade in the Kennedy building which was occupied by Mr. J. B. Paul, the latter selling to Drake. Mr. John Eason Durden died in Franklin's Sanitarium in Swainsboro. He was buried at Twin City Cemetery with an impressive Masonic ceremony. Mr. Durden's wife was a daughter of the late Joseph Brantley of near Harrison and has lots of relatives in Johnson County. Mr. John B. Poston died after a brief illness. He resided with his family in the eastern part of the county and was a good, hardworking citizen. He was buried in the family burying grounds at Davisboro. Mrs. E. V. Powell, wife of the late James Bennett Powell, died at the Brigham-Claxton hospital in Dublin at 71 years of age. She was a member of Oaky Grove and was buried there. A sister, Mrs. Henry Wheeler, and three brothers, Cicero Perry, J. M. Perry survive her. Her living children are J. M., Samps L., Walter N., and Q. B. Powell and Mrs. C. L. Claxton, Mrs. M. J. Claxton and Mrs. Newton Meeks. Kent & Bush undertakers were in charge.
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