From Days Gone By October 5,1923

 October 5,1923.

    The county Fair was a mammoth success. All expenses of fair paid up-to-date, stock to be sold and all directors jubilant over the outcome of the event. The county will be represented at the Southeastern Fair.

    Contracting for the job of putting in sewrage in Wrightsville is now in order, bids for same to be opened on the 17th. All of the specifications are bound in book form and put out to over a 100 concerns. The work to be let consists of furnishing all materials and laying complete about 5 miles of 6 inch to 12 inch sewer pipe and constructing complete the necessary manholes and flush tanks and building 4 separate settling tanks.

    Johnson County is to have a candidate for Congress as Judge Ben Hill Moye cast his hat into the ring. Mr. Oscar L. Smith comes out for Sheriff and Major L. R. Clayton for re-election for coroner. The campaign for county officers this time includes the lady voters of the county and the number registered is large, more than 200.

    Dr. J. W. Brinson has made a new bench around the oak in front of his business and has painted the lettering of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway. It has become a frequent resting place in the city. Mr. J. F. Renfroe has been appointed as the new Postmaster for Wrightsville. Mr. George Schwalls killed a big rattler in his yard with 20 rattles. Mr. John D. Wheeler files for bankruptcy. Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Downs had a son October 2nd. Miss Marie Bailey we'd Mr. Thomas Logue.

    A run mad dog passed this way several days ago causing a lot of trouble and biting several other dogs and snapping at people. This prompted the city council to order all dogs in the city shut up for 30 days and after that time they must be muzzled. About 20 dogs have been bitten.

    Kite is still on a building boom. People here are smiling over the good road, the first they ever had. Mr. G. W. Tapley is building a new home on the former Baptist Church lot. Mr. B. I. Might just moved in his new home. The election for bonds carried 128 to 20 for a new $15,000 brick building on the school grounds.

    Policeman Carl Carlos Claxton who weighs over 300 pounds, and who is efficient in the discharge of his duties, as well as obliging, says mad dogs have no terror for him. He would not fear 100 of these rabid animals should they surround him, through each one should have three heads and from each mouth there came forth a demonic howl. Mr. Claxton though naturally fearless, has doubtless "that old time religion", the kind that made Solomon love all his numerous wives; the kind of religion that made Jonah sleep soundly inside of the whale, and the kind that made Sampson rend a lion to pieces.