From Days Gone By May 3,1924

 May 3,1924.

    The Confederate Veterans of the sixties, the remaining few, of the county were well represented at the school meet. A special room was set up to accomdate them. 

    Those present were H. C. Mason,  L. Mosley, M. N. Killebrew, J. L. Miller, W. S. Burns, D. A. Mills, K. H. Robertson, Drew Loyd, J. T. Dickens, W. H. Blankenship, T. J. Brantley, A. T. Kinder, B. Y. Wheeler, John Mayo, H. G. Wheeler, and Lum Snider. Those absent were T. F. Horton, J. M. Burns, D. Z. Douglas, Sim Cooper, J. K. Mixon and Gus Powell.

    As the meet was being held, one of their own was crossing over the river. Mr. Isham Stephens had been sick for several days. He was a highly respected landmark, a Confederate Veteran, a Kite Mason and member of Rehobeth Church where he was buried with Masonic honors.

    If he had lived till May 9th he would have been 76. Surviving him was his wife Mary and several children, two brothers, Henry and Bill Stephens, a sister, Mrs. Drew Loyd. He was a Mason for more than 40 years.

    Mr. J. M. Burns, a Confederate veteran, had a stroke and his family fears he will not make it.

    There was good order throughout the school meet among the crowds and all passed off smoothly, with the streets crowded with autos and people there wasn't a single incident.

    Prof. T. M. Hicks, formally of Wrightsville was re-elected principal of Dublin High School. Headlight editor Charles D. Roundtree was elected a delegate to New York at the National Press Convention. Mr. B. H. Lord was promoted to traffic manager of the W. & T. Railroad. Mr. Shellman "Red" Martin moved his sawmill to Rained bridge.

    The last swine sale until September was held and two carloads sold. There were 177 hogs that brought $1,888.62. Top price was 7.55, the best of the year.

    Miss Irene Elma Hammock of Adrian and Mr. Alonzo Moore of Norristown were married April 15th. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Hammock. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Moore.

    Miss Evelyn Price, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Price married Mr. Freeman Pool, son of Mr. & Mrs. Billie Pool.

From Days Gone By April 26,1924

 April 26,1924.

    What came near being a bad accident happened about noon Saturday at the Washington-Johnson line. E. L. Stephens, Jr., and a party of young ladies of the city were returning from Sandersville on a school matter.

    In catching up with a loaded wagon the driver sounded his sparton but to no avail and he found himself to close to safely pass and as the big car swerved around the wagon hit a wet, Sandy place in the road and slides in the ditch and turned over on its side. Stephens was driving a moderate speed and had it under control until he got the treacherous spot in the road.

    In the front with E. L. were Miss Elizabeth Stephens who obtained a slight gash, and Miss Louise Moore who was uninjured. In the back was Miss Annie Mae Melton, high school music teacher sustained a painful nose injury and a hard hit on the forehead and left arm. Miss Theo Parker and Odessa Moore escaped injury. Miss Melton was rushed to town by Mr. E. R. Frost who came up on the wreck and Drs. Johnson and Brinson attended her. Then she was taken to a nose specialist in Dublin.

    On May 3rd each county district will hold an election for three vacancies on the school board. The terms of B. B. Blount, E. E. Sanders and I. R. Tanner are up and they are not seeking re-election. Blount states that two of the board should be ladies. So far R. R. Martin has announced for a seat.

    M. V. Mahoney of Dublin died at home from a stroke and was buried in Northview Cemetery. He had been with the W. & T. Railroad 35 years with 22 years in Dublin. 

    Mr. Alexander McWhorter, son of Mr. & Mrs. W. H. McWhorter broke both bones in his right arm while practicing pole vaulting at the fairgrounds athletic field.

    The Johnson County Confederate Veterans will receive their pensions this week. Wendel Crowe, son of Mr. & Mrs. M. E. Crowe was elected president of the senior class at Oglethorpe University. Mr. Alonzo Maddox, proprietor of the Coochecoo Barber Shop contemples having a beauty parlor here with a lady in charge. Mr. Lewis Davis murdered two huge rattlesnakes.

    John G. Kight died at Metter and brought to Kite for burial with Masonic honors by the Kite Lodge. He was brother to Sen. Kight. On April 12th Martha Steptoe, wife of J. F. Steptoe of Meeks died. They married Oct. 21,1869. She was 73 and buried in Anderson Cemetery.

    Mrs. Carrie Wood Mason, wife of Henry R. Mason died on the 5th in Bryan County and buried in the Lawrence Cemetery. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Lorin and Robbie, two daughters, Mrs. Zettie Williams and Miss Zelma Mason of Pembroke.

    Lonnie Salter, colored of Adrian, plead guilty to a misdemeanor in City Court and got 11 months on the gang. 

    William Atkinson, colored, the largest person in the county weighing 333 lbs was in town. He says he would not be afraid to have a fist fight with ole Goliath should he be alive.

    

From Days Gone By April 19,1924

 April 19,1924.

    The entire plant of the Rowland Lumber Company of Wrightsville was reduced to ashes just after midnight Tuesday causing severe loss to the owners, Arthur and Raymond Rowland. The night watchman was shoveling shavings from the pit when all at once coming from several yards away a terrific blaze glanced across one end of the plant near the machinery. The alarm was sounded and firefighters worked furiously but efforts were futile as the entire plant was destroyed.

    The firm estimates their loss at $20,000 in lumber in the new dry kiln, on the grounds under and around the long sheds and in a boxcar that was being loaded on the spur, car and all with the mostly new machinery was lost.

    Three sawmills furnished the lumber for the plant with good output and good business, something the town Can ill afford to be without. Very little insurance was carried on the plant.

    Mr. J. H. Rowland also lost his grist mill. His loss was $10,000 as he had two Mills in the building, one boiler and two engines, fixtures, a $1,000 corn sheller and other farm implements. This was a hard blow to the Rowland's and the county.

    Mrs. Emma Downs, the wife of Mr. Tom Downs, a brother of Mr. L. D. Downs of Wrightsville, fell from a moving auto Sunday morning sustaining injuries from which she died within three minutes with her husband, two children and her parents in the car. They were coming to Wrightsville from their home in Mitchell to attend a birthday party for Mr. L. D. Downs wife.

    Coming two miles this side of Tennille her hat blew from her head and in the attempt to catch it she fell from the car and died from hemorrhage from internal injuries. The driver of the car started to slow up and, being in a hurry, she stepped onto the running boards, and just at that moment the car came to a sudden stop and she fell hard to the ground, hitting on the breast and crushing the breastbone. She was about 40 years old. Her body was taken to a nearby home and prepared for burial, then taken back to Mitchell.

    Dr. and Mrs. James Gordon Brantley announced the birth of twins on April 15th, a six and a half pound daughter and a seven and a half pound son.

    Mayor T. V. Kent held a very profitable matinee of his court in the council chambers, extracting several times that aggregated a neat sum to the city's treasury. The mayor is after violators heavily these days.

    Messrs. J. Roy Rowland and Robbie Rowland, sons of Mr. J. H. Rowland, have rented the resort Idylwild for the coming season and will soon take it over with concessions that usually come to the place as an outing. Already the grounds, buildings, fences, trees and swimming pool and bath houses are pruned up and cleaned up for this season by a crew from the W. & T. Railway.