From Days Gone By Nov. 2,1923

 November 2,1923.

    Actual work started this week on the give and a half miles of sewerage for Wrightsville. Three carloads of machinery came to the railroad sidetracks here along with 6 carloads of sewer pipings. It will require 20 carloads in all to put down the miles of sewerage. The big ditcher is here. It can open a ditch fast and if they have good weather it won't take a 150 days. Dirt was broken in the pasture of Judge Kent near the big branch and is now in progress, more than 1000 feet already.

    Duke ran away but he didn't stay gone because he let his identity be known too well in Savannah and before his tracks in Johnson had grown entirely cold he was back on Cat. Wright's gang working out the remainder of his lifetime sentence and it is now safe to say that Duke will now stay. The courthouse keys which he flew away with he kept and they were recovered.

    Mr. J. R. Williams is running for tax Receiver, Will Nixon may run for Sheriff, F. C. Lord for tax Receiver, H. T. Hicks is urged to run for solicitor. It is rumored that a prominent lady in town is going to run for mayor, if she does, and wins, she is going to prevent men from spitting tobacco juice on the paved sidewalks, and abolish the "sleepy corner", and put a tax on all unmarried men under 35. But the first official entrance for school superintendent is Mrs. George W. Gordy of the high school faculty. This is the first woman for political office here since women were allowed to vote.

    Mr. R. H. Smith is having his North Marcus St. residence remodeled by contractor T. L. Chester. Mr. & Mrs. James T. McAfee of Harrison, daughter Janet and Elzie L. King of Atlanta will be married at Eufala, Ala.

    Mr. A. B. Douglas farming on shares with Wade Mimbs made 390 bushels of corn on a one-horse farm, 3400 bundles of fodder, 150 bales of hay, two tons of oats, 100 bushels sweet potatoes, 500 bushels peas, half acre in sugar cane 7 ft high, and a fine garden. Besides all this he sold $400 of cotton. He made this crop with a $50 horse.

    Mrs. R. A. Foskey, 81, died at her son, Mr. Lott Foskey after being sick for only an hour or two. She leaves 5 sons and a daughter. She was buried at Bay Springs. Mr. Jas.  A. Davis died at home at Sardis quite suddenly. He was a half brother to Sheriff Lewis Davis. His mother of over 90 years, and his wife survive him. He was buried near Bartow.

    Johnson Co. has commercial minerals. It is in Post-Eocene formation which consists principally of sand and gravel. Near Wrightsville along the Ohoopee river on the Dublin Rd is a bed of fine-grained, gray sand almost free of clay. The W. C. Brinson property one mile south of town on the Dublin Rd carries a deposit of sand of medium grain, loamy and about 4 feet thick covering several acres. One mile north of Kite on the Wadley Southern is exposed 15 to 20 feet of fine to medium, clean, yellow and gray sand.

    At a point 5 miles from Kite, a mile south of Gumlog Creek on the Wylie Cheaves land there is sand and gravel 4 to 5 feet thick over several acres. The gravel could be used for road building and if washed and screened would prove desirable for concrete aggregate.

    The J. H. Rowland land 5 miles from town carries gravel over about 5 acres, desirable for road surfacing. There are several other exposures in this area on the Burroll- Womble property and on the G. C. Rained, R. Sammons, Green Harrison and S. F. Harrison properties.

    One mile east of Donovan are gravel outcrops on the R. E. Smith place, and the Annison-Pool place one half mile from Donovan station. The McCray land on Bartow Rd carries gravel and sand to depth of 2 to 6 feet. The T. J. Brantley place has sand and gravel in abundance. Others with deposits are J. W. Smith on Adrian Rd, Jim Flanders, and both sides of Meeks Creek on the Kite Rd and C. L. Williams land 4 miles of Kite is good for bottle and window glass.

    Underlying the Post-Eocene sands and gravel are found limestone's of the Eocene as indicated by logs of several artesian wells. The only known exposures of limestone are found at Ring-Jaw Landing on the Oconee River. The limestone at this point is exposed over a thickness of 8 feet with about 32 feet of sands and Clay's overlying. All this is from the Central of Georgia Railways directory of commercial minerals.