From Days Gone By July 27, 1923

 July 27, 1923.

    Officers W. T. Rowland, N. D. Whittaker, W. T. Kitchens and W. J. Crawford made a wholesale raid up on U. R. Jenkins homeplace in the Bray settlement, finding 13 colored people engaged in a game of cards on the front porch of the dwelling and upon surrounding the patch they captured 12 of them, one getting away, 11 being jailed and a white man bonded. One colored woman was in the crowd.

    Policeman Claxton and Spell made another big haul in the city Sunday, catching a half dozen or so for the same offense and put them in jail.

    Monday morning Henry Johnson plead guilty to having liquor, etc. and was sentenced to 12 months on the gang or $186.20. He was one of the two captured by officers down near Spann the latter part of June and been in jail ever since. The other man, Henry Kemp, has been on the gang since the 29th of June having plead guilty also.

    A livestock meeting will be held at the test pasture on the farm of Mr. W. P. Bedingfield 4 1/2 miles Northeast of Wrightsville. This is one of 48 test pastures established the last 3 years by the Central of Georgia Railway. These pastures prove that Lespedeza, Carpet Grass and Dallis grass will make pastures on our lowlands which will afford more grazing than those of the most famous pasture regions. The Johnson Co. pasture has done very well, although some of the pasture is too high and dry. It averaged a cow and a fifth grazed per acre for more than 6 months last year.

    There are a lot of hog cholera going the rounds about this time every year and the report is that there is more or less of it spreading now. County Agent Crow states he will treat hogs in any part of the county when called upon and will only be the cost of the medicine used. He adds that the time to treat them is when they are well and hearty, not wait until the cholera attacks the herd.

    On August 9th, Mason's of more than 30 lodges will meet at Idylwild for a second rally and picnic. Warden Stanley is completing a new bridge at Gumlog. Dr. H. B. Bray is home at his mother's. He is now looking him up a place which will suit him for his practice.

    Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Burns had a son on the 16th named William Maurice Burns. Mr. & Mrs. James T. Miller had a son on the 23rd.

    Jimmie M. Anderson and son Milledge returned from Houston, Texas where they visited a cousin, Mr. J. Lovett Anderson, 80 years old who moved from here to there about 40 years ago and has never been back since.

    Clerk J. B. Williams had the accident of having iodine mistake Ed for a similar colored eye medicine and the error not discovered until his son had dropped some of the iodine in his eye which had already been giving him trouble. The pain of the wrong medicine was great and a physician was summoned immediately and he is being watched closely.

    Mrs. Lula Stokes was born Sept. 28, 1877, married W. N. Stokes July 23, 1896 and died July 8th. She left a husband and 11 children, one being 3 months old. She joined the Methodist Church at 13. She was preparing to attend church but was suddenly stricken with acute indigestion, lingering only a few hours before passing away.