From Days Gone By March 9, 1923

 March 9, 1923.

    Officers W. T. Kitchens, W. T. Rowland and Carl J. Claxton responded Friday late to a tip there was in operation near Moore's Chapel, a stilling outfit which would likely be going that night and so they drove down and began a search. It was found about 2 miles east of Moore's Chapel in a dense cluster of bushes, briers and swamp so thick that the officers could hardly work their entrance into it. They walked and crawled until they come up to the splended outfit which was set up and ready for business.

    It was a copper concern and looked to hold about 30 gallons of mash. County policeman Kitchens brought it to town and set it up in his store where hundreds gazed upon it. The large can, the second mate, the run and the worm were all of copper and in good condition. Seldom found and well-arranged an outfit found anywhere. About 125 gallons of mash, beer or mobby were destroyed. It was ripe for running and no doubt the outfit would have been all heated up in a few hours had the officers not found it. No arrests were made as no one was around it.

    For 7 years Dr. S. M. Johnson has been devising and originating specific ingredients to perfect a favorite beverage to be served at fountains or in bottles and to bear his own trademark. He has worked between calls on this drink until he has gotten it like he wants and spending alot of money perfecting it. His product being named "La Pal" advertising it as "Nothing else like it!" La Pal is going on the market right out of Wrightsville this summer.

    In the high school basketball tournament in Augusta the Redjackets scored the highest score in the first round. The 10 teams that played the score was Wrightsville 51, Louisville 24, Zebina 30, Wadley 29, North Augusta 19, Warrenton 35, Edgefield 24, Thompson 21, Graniteville 28, Wrens 35. In the Dublin tournament the Bearcats defeated Dublin 25 to 19. The Cochran Aggies beat the Redjackets 22 to 19. This pitted the Bearcats vs Sandersville and Wrightsville won 27 to 10.

    The Salvage Co. will be selling the damaged goods of the Dixie Dept. store that burned recently. The county will have another hog sale March 28th. Mr. & Mrs. W. Anthony West had fine twin boys. This makes 14 living children.

    Charlie Dent was in town selling cotton. He says there is going to be a cotton famine on account of the scarcity of labor. More than 100 farms are lying out this year because of nobody to work them.

    The post office says now if you get your mail delivered by a rural carrier you must have a mailbox. In January & February the W. & T. RR. shipped 447 cars of fertilizer, the Wadley Southern shipped 286 cars.

    Warden Stanley is building a good road between the city and Kite. This is the most important road in the county now. It is 4 miles nearer via Kite and Wrightsville to Sandersville from Swainsboro.

    Mr. J. T. Jenkins was honored on his 65th birthday. Rev. C. R. Williams has moved to Alma. Mr. Elton Oliver has moved to Waynesboro to work in the Chero-Cola bottling works. Mr. J. L. Stephens works in a silk weaving mill in High Point, N. C. Morris Riner may run again for state senator. Mr. John A. Douglas, Jr. Is likely to run for Clerk of Court. William Duncan in "Where Men Are Men" is at the Dixie.

    Do you know that over $250 worth of butter fat is being shipped from the county each month. A carload of livestock has been shipped from the county for nearly every day this year. Thousands of dollars have gone into the banks from cotton sales. That sewerage would help Wrightsville no telling how much. More lumber is being moved now than when timber was around. That officers are on the scout for tigers and the like. We had 2 cases of rabies while the state had 2,476 cases. It was left to a black man chemist to show the world the 150 by products of the lowly peanut. The guinea fowl has been proven to be very effective in the eradication of the boll weevil.