September 7, 1923.
Mr. W. C. Brinson and his committee to raise the money allotted Johnson County for promoting the Jefferson Davis Highway have succeeded in their venture and the county is nearly over the top with the funds as required and will be transferred to Secretary Gelder's this week. Each county had an amount allotted as per the actual road mileage that runs through the county. Johnson, Dodge, Lauren's and Jefferson have all signed contracts. Mr. Gelders will at once go to work on the big job of putting up road signs, logging it, etc. with this money and advertising it throughout the North and East.
The local men who have so far backed this with their own money are J. W. Brinson, T. V. Kent, J. I. Spell, L. D. Lovett, J. T. Fulford, Parker & Price Grocery, Samps Powell, L. S. Powell, J. V. Greenway, E. E. Daley, J. C. Claxton, J. M. Cook, M. S. Duggan, R. L. Stephens, A. F. Flanders, W. D. Sumner, U. R. Jenkins, E. R. Frost, I. R. Tanner, J. G. Greenway, W. C. Brinson, O. H. Tompkins, J. B. Williams, J. H. Rowland, H. T. Johnson, E. E. Sanders, J. E. Sheppard, J. Y. Claxton, C. C. Davis, J. A. Lindsey.
C. S. Claxton, T. E. Hayes, T. F. Elton, W. H. Lovett, G. E. Fulford, J. C. Sumner, J. Nat Riner, Gordon Clarke, Wm Jackson, M. R. Scarboro, C. D. Roundtree, R. L. Kent, R. E. Brinson, J. E. Jordan, B. H. Moye, Byron Price, W. T. Page, Loyd Price, A. L. Hatcher, Mason & Thompson, M. E. Woods, D. Mosely, Ga. Grocery Co., L. A. Lovett, H. G. Hatcher, W. F. Outlaw, A. W. Hightower, E. L. Stephens, H. L. Fulford and Monroe Cook.
In coming from Bartow, Mr. Gelders, while checking the route got stuck in a sluice of water at Price's Bridge and it took real effort to get him out. Convicts we're immediately brought out to fix this. Another reason for this road to go through the county
The high school opens with bright outlooks. The Board of Education met and two schools have took an active step in consolidating. Wesley Chapel and Stokes schools in the upper part of the county have decided to join together. The Board accepted it. A new and modern building will now be erected, the location to be determined by the trustees of these two schools. Adrian High also opens with a record attendance.
The gasoline tax for the county goes up October 1st which will extract about $20 per year average for each motorist in the county or around $15,000 per year figuring 750 cars running in the county daily for one year. Auto tags are projected to run the states revenues up too. Tax Receiver J. A. Lindsey has completed the digest of Johnson Co. A comparison of returns show a decrease of $114,274 from the valuations of last year. The total county returns this year shows a valuation of $2,650,875.
The town of Scott is coming again, says Oscar Smith. Where there was ashes will soon be new brick or wooden buildings. J. J. Harrison and R. T. V. Schwalls are putting materials on the ground now.
Mr. Green B. Harrison will start him a dairy with Andrew Perry to manage it. The sewerage for the city will be rushed through now as fast as it can. The city power house is getting in it's new machinery.
Ordinary U. R. Jenkins purchased a 1924 Buick and John Fulford is running a Willys-Knight. County Agent Crow and his club boys are at stock judging contests in Savannah. Miss Jeradine Brinson will teach music at Douglas High School. William Doke, Gresham Jordan and Roy Frost will attend Cochran A & M.
County Warden Charles T. Wright took over his duties with the chain gang. He has four guards under him, J. Lovett Anderson, Asa A. West, Jimmie Tapley and W. T. Boatwright. The gang will start on the Jeff Davis Highway project starting with Price's Bridge
A fellow got off the train here the other day and rushed up the street somewhat hurriedly. The first man he met was a lawyer of the town. The stranger asked, "Have you a criminal lawyer here?" The astonished lawyer replied, "Well, they think they have but they haven't proved it yet "
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