From Days Gone By July 5,1924

July 5,1924.

    Several citizens spent the 4th out of town, others went fishing, the rest went to Idylwild for swimming, skating and a ball game. Mr. A. B. Rowland while diving into the pool at Idylwild hit the bottom and severly injured his neck. The place he dived was considered deep, but the recent heavy rains had filled the pool in and nobody realized this. They thought he broke his neck but after examination by Dr. Brantley it was just a bad sprain.

    Idylwild has been very popular this summer for camping. Mr. & Mrs. B. B. Hayes, Mrs. R. H. Rowland, Misses Louise Moore, Elizabeth Cook, Ruby and Nina Jackson, Mr. Edward Sanders and Annis Martin are down there camping this week.

    A private hog sale was held on the 28th where over 90 head were sold at 8 cents top basis. Approximately 15,000 lbs brought $1,133.67. Thomas and Tucker of Macon were the successful bidders.

    L. A. Downs, President of the Central of Georgia Railway states 2000 cars of peaches have been moved on the lines and about 7000 more before the season is over. Georgia has not had a crop failure in 26 years, a record not equalled by any other peach growing state .

    Bill Jenkins while working at Martin's sawmill got hit in the head by a piece of iron making a long gash on his head. Dr. T. L. Harris repaired him with 8 stitches. Mr. Jet Kitchens while sawing some lumber to make stove wood at a sawmill near town, got his hand caught in the saw nearly cutting it off. The thumb was cut nearly through the bone and the other fingers badly cut.

    Miss Eva Powell, 14, the daughter of Mrs. A. H. Powell was seriously burned on her shoulder and arm while carrying a bucket of hot water from the kitchen to another room, her foot slipped spilling it on herself.

    Mr. & Mrs. L. J. Claxton announced the engagement of their daughter, Annie Lee, to Mr. Henry Murphy Newsome of Callahan, Fla.

    The family of Mr. & Mrs. H. T. Hammock all gathered at the old home place for a reunion. When everyone arrived they all went to Cedar Grove and enjoyed a sermon. Afterwards they all went back to the home place and had dinner under the big oaks.

   All 12 of their children were there and 45 grandchildren, only Cecil was not there. The children of H. T. were  J. M. and Johnnie Hammock of Scott; Arthur and Dewey Hammock and Mrs. Will Brantley of Harrison; B. H., Greely, M. D. Hammock, Mrs. Tyler Young and Mrs. Arthur Smith, Wrightsville and Roy Hammock of Salem, Ohio.

From Days Gone By June 28,1924

June 28,1924.

    Politics are quiet in the county as qualifying comes to a close. W. W. Larsen, 12th district congressman, Dr. A. M. Roundtree state senator, Dr. D. C. Harrison representative have no opposition. The main interest is the solicitors race. Current solicitor E. L. Stephens is opposed by Fred Kea and Judge Kent is opposed by R. Earl Camp.

    The Wrightsville Ball Club made it two out of three from Tennille last week at Idylwild 4 to 3. Mrs. Martha Knight, 64, and her granddaughter, Miss Irene Smith, 18, both celebrated their birthdays June 15th with about 100 people attending.

    Edd McLendon, colored jail bird who got out of the chaingang April 21st, broke his way back in again and he goes for 12 months this time. Judge Brinson sentenced him after he pled guilty for robbing Mr. Gainor Fulford. He denied robbing the other home and store.

    The sawmill of Mr. T. L. Martin, located on the Walker place about 3 miles from town, burned Monday night. The fire was discovered in time to save the boiler and engine but the rest of the outfit was destroyed. Estimated loss was $500.

    It has been a little warm here lately with the thermometer going as high as 107 at one time Friday. The average for the heat wave has been around 97 during the week. Not in a long time has there been such intense heat in the city. A temperature of 100 has been common at some time almost every summer but few here ever remember 107. So get out the summer rockers and hunt the cool places and prepare for a mosquito battle most every night unless you are screened in.

    Miss Anna Mason of Sanford, Fla. married Mr. Ned Smith of the same place. She is a daughter of Dr. & Mrs. W. G. Mason. She is well known here from visiting relatives on occasion.

    Tom Lovett Bray, the only son of Mr. & Mrs. C. T. Bray died at his parents home from colitis. He had been sick about 2 weeks. He was 18 months old and buried at Westview.

    Mrs. J. C. Cave died at her home in the Western part of the county from heart trouble and rheumatism. She had been in bad health the past 3 or 4 years and confined to her bed the past few months. Mrs. Cave had been married twice. To the first union were sons, Tom, Berner and Clay Jenkins, daughters Mrs. N. L. Grice, Mrs. Gus Brantley, Mrs. J. A. Oliver and Mrs. C. J. Williams. Her 2nd marriage produced Wyman and Miss Alberta Cave. She was buried in the Williams cemetery.

From Days Gone By June 21,1924

 June 21,1924.

    Thieves continue their work in the community. While Mr. & Mrs. G. E. Fulford were out thieves entered their home on East Elm street dismantling things and throwing things around. It was a general ransacking with money being the chief object. Then later that night thieves went through the front door of Hayes Cash Store and loaded up on men's wear including, a dozen suits, some shoes, shirts and hats then escaping out the back door.

    Thieves tore open the penny weighing machine in front of Dr. Brinson's drug store but couldn't get the money out. Edd McLendon, colored jailbird, is behind bars for Mr. Fulford's burglery. B. J. Moye believes he is the same man who entered his place a couple weeks ago and carried off a ring, a razor and a pistol.

    A fight ensued at Price's bridge about noon Sunday between a bunch of colored men, the result being one dead and one in jail on a murder charge. Tom Scott handled a knife with good aim and correct blows, landing a jab in the breast and another in the back below the shoulder, in the body of Richard Jackson. Jackson died soon afterwards and Scott is in jail. Scott lives on the plantation of Mr. Byron Price while Jackson live on Prof. J. Y. Chastain's place.

    John Luther Kent runs for judge again. Dr. A. M. Roundtree of Adrian runs for state senator of the 16th district. Col. William Brunson of Dublin is urged to run for Solicitor-General.

    A picnic and baseball game will be at Idylwild this week between Wrightsville and Tennille. The W. & T. Ry will run a special train for the event. "Ten Nights in a Bathroom" is at the Dixie Theatre.

    Mr. W. Chess Smith of Adrian died from pneumonia. He was 59 and married three times. His third wife and child and several by his former wives survive him. He was buried at Poplar Springs.

    Mrs. Margaret Smith, wife of Daniel Smith, died at her home near Steve Toler's June 2nd. She married Dan at the age of 40 and lived happily until he past five years ago. She was survived by George, Luther, W. R., Jas W., Marvin and Clint Smith, Mrs. Ellen Haywood, Mrs. Mary Haywood and Mrs. Ruth Monons and sisters, Miss Sarah Williams, and Mrs. B. Ann Fortner. She was buried at Red Hill cemetery.

    Mr. Asa Logue, born 1847 in Hancock County, died May 25th, the husband of Lizzie Logue. He is survived by 11 children and was buried at Piney Mount.

    The Wrightsville Headlight turned 40 years old. From a village, Wrightsville has grown these 40 years. Johnson County is dotted on every Hill with evidences of higher civilization. The people have prospered, the schools have grown and churches have covered every corner. What will 40 years more bring? The great majority of us will never know.

From days Gone By June 14,1924

 June 14,1924.

     Thieves are still at work around Wrightsville. About 2 or 3 Saturday night they broke open the garage of Mr. Roundtree, editor of the Headlight, and drove off his new Buick. Major Loring Clayton, the coroner, while on his usually early morning rounds of checking his chickens, discovered the car missing. An immediate search ensued and the car was easily tracked speeding towards Dublin. Telegrams were sent and Fred Roberts and the chief of police set up a search.

    While driving out of Dublin, 4 men were near the bend of the road this side of the Grove the people call East Dublin, and behind the large sign of the Stevens Hardware Co., the car was seen by Horace McCord, W. R. Locke, L. E. Shepard and Cordey Tindoll and Roberts was notified. No damage was done to the car.

    While attending the sing at Idylwild Sunday, Mr. T. T. Barnett of Dublin had some miscreants drive off in his Buick and it was later found abandoned in the road near Dublin.

    Many people believe it to be an "inside job". Some incline to the idea of a crowd of reward hunters that demoralize the community by stealing cars and leaving them miles away in the woods. It is growing into a bad state of affairs in this section.

    Many thousand people went to Idylwild Sunday to the singing convention. Train loads from all over and autos of all sorts came until the grounds were covered with people.

    Cashier Elmer E. Daley is now VP of the Exchange Bank. Since the bank was organized 14 years ago he has been cashier and will still act in that capacity. He replaced the late J. M. Mason.

    R. H. Smith moved his sawmill to a tract of timber south of Kite. The tract is owned by W. H. Lovett Lumber Co. The lumber will come to the Lovett planning Mills and shipped away from here.

    Bernard Rawls is in jail at Tybee for shooting A. L. Poindexter, the proprietor of Hotel Tybee and Rawls was the night clerk. Rawls is well known in Johnson County.

    The 18 month old baby of Mr. J. J. Harrison died at home in Scott after a short illness. The baby was buried at Davisboro. Mr. Jack McCook, 68, a painter by trade, died at Mr. & Mrs. Joe Alewine's home of cancer. He was buried in Westview. Mrs. Johnny Frost died at her country home. She was a sister of Phillip Price.

    Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Stephens had an 8 pound baby girl on May 31st. Her name is Elizabeth La-Rose.

    Telegrams were received here by the Wrightsville Commercial Club stating the bill for the erection of a bridge over the Oconee River on the Bee-Line passed the House and Senate. This is the direct work of Congressman W. W. Larsen. A survey must now be made by the state highway department. The Bee-Line project is still moving along and more results are coming.