From Days Gone Jan. 26, 1923

 January 26, 1923.

    Alvie Price was given a peliminary hearing before a large crowd of spectators. In the assualt with an attempt to murder charge a bond of $1000 was assessed when the hearing ended and a bond of $500 in the other case which was larceny.

    The other case against him happened sometime prior to the two upon which the bonds were assessed and this bond is still over him in addition to the two fixed at Friday's hearing. Judge B. B. Blount appeared for the defendant, the State being represented at the hearing by Judge B. H. Moye. At this time Price was still in jail.

    Mr. E. J. Sumner, one of Johnson's most prosperous, wealthy citizens was able to attend the hearing, his head which still bears the deep signs of the carburetor where the lick was placed is healing up quite well. Mr. Sumner is the prosecutor in the assualt and larceny case.

    The Redjackets, the school team, will go up against Cochran High team in basketball on Friday night. This is one of the best teams in the state. On Feb. 7th, Brewton-Parker comes to play the Redjackets. The Adrian Athletic Club met a bad defeat at the hands of the Bearcats 75 to 21.

    J. B. Paul, Jr. will sing "School Days" at the Dixie Theatre with Freckles Barry in the picture by the same name. Also Gloria Swanson shows off her pretty gowns in "The Great Moment".

    Agent M. E. Crow is in Athens attending a farmers meeting. Wrightsville Hardware Co. has genuine Avery, Oliver, Lynburg, Chattanooga, Gantt, Farmers Friend and Dixie plows. You can come to Lovett's Filling Station and have your cars washed, no waiting, good service every day of the week.

    Mr. James H. McWhorter, Wrightsville's postmaster, was honored by the Georgia State League of Postmasters at Atlanta. Application for parole for Jim Johnson, serving a life sentence for murder, will be made to the Governor and prison Commission.

    We are spending still here in Johnson more money for fertilizers than we are getting from the sale of corn, hay and peas. Last January only seven cars of fertilizer were handled by the W. & T., this January the figures will run up to 107 which shows a heavy cotton acreage likely.

    Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Smith, their daughter, Miss Zelma Smith wed Mr. Marvin Snell the eldest son of Mr. W. N. Snell.

    Mr. D. C. Price killed a large porker which netted him 534 pounds of fine meat and is one of the largest killings of the season.

    The W. & T. Railway Co. was made a defendant in a big suit for damages supposed and alleged to have been sustained by Mr. J. E. Joiner, when the latter boarded their train at Meadows on the 14th of December last year.

    Col. R. P.  Jackson filed the suit for the man and wife in City Court. Col. Chas. S. Claxton is the railroad attorney. Mrs. Della C. Joiner is asking for a judgement of $25,000 against the company, the sum her husband suing for being $15,000. This is one of the largest damage suits filed here in many years.

    The statement is made in some parts of the state that some counties are dispensing with their county agents. Counties that do this will make a serious mistake. If there ever was a time when on the farms, we needed every possible guidance and instruction, it is now. Latter-day demands on the farm call for the employment there of every knowledge which science and experience can impart. The county agents, without exception are young men finely schooled in all the latest instruction bearing on agriculture. They are invaluable on the farms.

    You can't build a town and knock its businesses and people. Let's buy at home, trade at home, spend at home, be happy at home. A good crop of home-raised common sense will assist too.

From Days Gone By Jan. 19, 1923

 January 19, 1923.

    There is a big movement with the stock dealers of the county. Cows, hogs and mules are being shipped in and out in large quantities and the cash sales from this industry is adding large sums of money to the vaults of the banks in the county.

    Powell & Harrison at Kite sold a car of bovines to Ivey R. Tanner. C. T. Bray and J. H. Rowland sold loads to Tanner also. Tanner handled 5 carloads in and out of his stables. Shipped one load to Atlanta, and taking the others to his plantation to feed. The Johnson County L. S. & P. Company and Sanders & Shurling are also buying and selling in abundance. They have cattle now grazing on bean fields which came from Tennessee and will soon market them. Mr. J. E. Linder shipped a carload of mules. This is the first time the industry has moved up since the panic struck the country.

    The Dixie Oil Company of Texas, the largest in the country started drilling at McRae. The Dixie is asking no subscriptions nor favors but is going it on their own resources and backing. Oil talk is in the air right down there and much speculation is rife as to the outcome of the first test well digging. The state at large is awaiting with exceeding anticipations the outcome of their work in Telfair.

    The little city of Kite, now a growing one, is to soon have a big Ford Service Station, which is to be erected by Mr. L. A. Lovett and Mr. Robt. J. Boatright of Kite. The work is to begin immediately. It is to be larger than the Ford station in Wrightsville. It will be built on the lot next to the depot in Kite, fronting the new brick stores now being erected by W. W. Claxton & Co. The owners will carry everything Ford sells and will operate a general repair shop also.

    Mr. W. T. Kitchens has moved his army store next to E. A. W. Johnson's, fronting the Lovett Hotel. Mr. T. L. Drake has occupied the store vacated by Kitchens. It will be a grocery store. The fair stockholders held their annual meeting. Officers were re-elected. They will hold a fair and celebration this fall and are asking for boosting.

    Announcement is made by the attornys in the Alvin Price case charged with an assault on E. J. Sumner will hold a peliminary hearing this week. Judge J. T. Ferguson will preside.

    Mr. Price has been detained in jail since he was arrested near Soperton several days ago by officers here. There are two cases against him in this instance, but this hearing is just for the assault charge. The sheriff says there is another charge against him being out on bond at the time he was arrested. Mr. Price is a son of Mrs. Millie Price. Mr. Sumner has been able to get out the last few days, the wound on his head is still bound-up. A long list of witnesses have been summoned to the hearing.

    Farm work is going on all over the county. The planters are going to their work with a vim this year. Many fields have already been turned over and a lead taken for a big year on the farm. Production of cotton is going to be tried out again.

    Three carloads of hogs sold here at the Co-Op Sale. Mr. C. H. McGee was the successful bidder at $6.80 for No 1s. Mr. Jack Hammock owns what he calls and what is a valuable swine out on his plantation. He says she has given birth to 35 pigs in 13 months all healthy and growing.

    Mr. Lewis P. Claxton files for bankruptcy as does R. R. Frost. Bessie Holt files for divorce from E. L. Holt. Annie J. Benson files for divorce against F. L. Benson. The statement of condition for the Scott Banking Co. Is $58, 271. 49.

    Mr. J. H. Rowland killed a porker that dressed just 580 pounds. Mr. L. A. Attaway killed two that netted 1040 pounds. Mr. William Jackson dressed one at 506 pounds.

    Mr. John A. Douglas, Sr. at Meeks celebrated his 78th birthday. Eight families gathered at Mr. W. R. Spell's home to celebrate birthdays of two family members.

    Mr. Dennis Beasley, a former citizen, died at his home 6 miles east of Soperton from a complication of troubles. He was a brother to Messrs. Johnie and Morgan Beasley. He moved from Johnson 18 years ago. He was 50 years old and left a wife and 10 children. He was buried at Harmony church at Soperton.