From Days Gone By Feb. 2, 1923

 Febuary 2, 1923.

    Mrs. R. P. Hicks of the Woman's Club of Wrightsville announced that they are putting forth an effort to start a memorial library in Wrightsville in memory of our boys that fell on Flanders Field. On February 9th the club will have a book shower in the club room over Brinson Drug Store. Everyone is encouraged to come and bring a good book, a book that will help one mentally and morally. Think what a good library will mean to the town. "Readers make Leaders."

    Dublin is planning a big industrial exposition and automobile show the week of March 12th to 17th. Johnson County was extended an invitation to participate.

    Elder W. C. Kicklighter of Vidalia, a primitive Baptist minister of Sardis Church will speak at the Christian Church. The Georgia Primitive Baptist are undertaking a big proposition at Vidalia, the first of its kind in this denomination. They plan to erect at once a home for the aged and an orphanage in connection with the home. Homeless aged people and orphan children will find in this institution a real home.

    Capt. R. M. Stanley's force of road builders are now around Adrian doing a lot of road building in the lower section of the county. They are working towards Meeks and Kite. The mayor of Wrightsville is setting down hard on tigering and drinking. Heavy fines are going to follow. The membership of Brown Memorial has just installed a heating aparatus adding to the buildings comfort.

   Mr. Emory Rowland who has been with the local post office is going to work for L. A. Lovett Ford. Ford has the lowest prices in the history of the company. You can buy a Chasis for $235; Runabout $269; Touring car $298; truck $380; Coupe $530; Sedan $595.

    Reports of petty thefts in town this weekend. Harnesses, robes, other articles in buggies and wagons that are left in the rear of business houses while owners are shopping. Alice Braddy in "Dawn of the East" is playing at the Dixie Theatre.

    The Redjackets left for Cochran where they played the Cochran High basketball team. They will go to Brewton to play them.

    Contractor John Sutton and Jack Strozier are about to finish the brick department store of Mr. M. J. Claxton. Mr. C. M. Schwalls is making his stores two-story and will have a residence in the upper story. Dirt has been broken on the grounds for the new Ford building by Lovett and Boatright. It is understood that two or three more brick stores will go up. Kite is on a boom. Besides the new brick stores a number of new residences are going up too.

    Mr. Freeman Williams, a highly respected citizen of near Adrian died at his home being sick in bed for two weeks. He leaves a wife, three sons, two daughters. He was 62, a member of Adrian Masonic Lodge, a Confederate veteran and member of Poplar Springs church where he was buried. John Redding Williams is a son.

    Mrs. Sarah Wright Dickens died Jan. 26th at the Dickens House, a popular hostelry they operated for 22 years. She was the wife of Mr. J. T. Dickens and was born Jan. 10th 1852. Her father, Henry Hyman moved to Georgia from Virginia. She was ill only a short while. She was member of Brown Memorial. Her children are Rev. E. C. J. Dickens, Eugene T., W. H., H. E. Dickens, Mrs. Walter Shivers, Mrs. L. H. Darby and Miss Berta Dickens. She was buried at Westview.

    There are said to be from one to four million drug addicts in the United States. The increase in the number of drug users since the introduction of Prohibition is enormous.