April 13, 1923.
Barrels of red liquor this day and time! That's an exciting incident, especially when men, women, autos and officers figure so heavily in a capture as that was Friday morning when Oscar Smith was tipped off as to the location of a Hudson and a Studebaker car near Scott loaded to the last inch with Cedar Brook and old Lewis Hunter bottled-up red liquor.
Sometime Wednesday afternoon its claimed these two cars left Savannah. A man and woman in each car. Upon reaching Johnson County the Hudson had a mishap to the rear end and it went out of commission 2 miles of Scott. Someone discovered the contents of the runners and reported it to Officer Smith who called Sheriff Lewis Davis who dispatched deputies W. T. Kitchens and Jimmie Davis to the scene.
Late Friday Davis, Kitchens and Smith drove into Wrightsville with the Studebaker, the two women and the contents of the autos, the latter being transferred to a cell in the jail where under a court order it left early Saturday and was ditched until the red stuff filtered on down and the darkies around is said to have imbibed too freely of it, some of them sipping it up out of the ditch.
The two women were held at the local hotel. The two men have not been caught. One named Lester Williams and known around Scott, they had left to get parts for the Hudson when the women were caught. Pearl Hendrix and Virgie Hanson as they called themselves plead guilty in City Court and fined $1000 each by Judge Ben Hill Moye. Two men and a woman, one being named Rose, was in town Saturday from Savannah, as soon as the fines were assessed they left by auto. They were seen talking to the women's attorney B. B. Blount.
The Hudson was pulled into Scott for safe keeping. Of all the conceivable nooks, corners and hiding places that could ever be conceived in, around, back of and under an auto, slides, holes, seats and backs, welded copper cisterns, apertures, candestined and almost undiscoverable, the people had these cars fixed up in the regular runner type. In lieu of the fines the women had 12 months at the State Farm in Milledgeville.
Three young men from Swainsboro Friday were arrested here on a charge of having whiskey in their car, they rode up and gave bonds. Chief Carl J. Claxton made the arrests. One of the men denied that he knew anything about the whiskey being in the car which he said was his wife's car.
Mr. W. R. Smith made up his mind to run for sheriff. Dr. Herschel B. Bray of Grady Hospital spent several days with his mother, Mrs. C. T. Bray, Sr. Mr. John W. Williams had a family reunion at his home.
Mr. E. A. W. Johnson, being sick sold all his store stock to Hall Brothers who sold them to a Brewton firm. Parker & Price bought the grocery stock. Col. W. M. Shurling left for New Orleans where the Johnson County Livestock & Produce Company shipped a carload of cattle. While there he will attend the Confederate Reunion.
Mr. Johnnie Hall who works for Chas. S. Blankenship, while breaking up ice with an ice pick missed his mark and the pick went through his left hand. Rev. G. F. Sumner, a noted and devoted minister lost his only horse, being a man of limited means the Headlight started a fund to buy him another horse. $41.50 had been collected so far. Mr. D. L. Maddox has taken management of J. B. Paul's barber shop.
Mann Warthen, colored laboror on the Duff farm was brought to doctors by Jim Duff, badly bruised and cut up, the results of a colored row. Mann had a bad lick on the head from a shotgun barrel by Elbert Fann. Fann and Mann were in a fight and knives were in play when another colored boy hit Mann with the gun. Mr. Duff said the row started over 25 cents.
Mrs. J. F. Elton died at home after a several week sickness. Besides her husband she had a son, Tom Elton. Burial was at Westview.
The edge of ignorance in Johnson Co. can be trimmed off a little yet. There are 15 white and 75 colored children in the county above the age of 10 who are unable to read and write. There's work for somebody to do.
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