From Days Gone By August 2,1924

 August 2,1924.

    At the next school term Wrightsville High will have a vocational education department. It will consist of the planting and raising of crops. Besides this there will be classroom instruction and they will be expected to grow crops themselves including cotton, corn and potatoes. This is considered very essential to those that will prepare themselves to make this their profession later in life. In Georgia over 3,000 boys took Ag Ed last year producing over $100,000 worth of farm products. Four years of Ag Ed will be offered here.

    The prospects for Georgia crops looks good. Cotton is splendid with the weevil doing little damage. Corn has never been more promising. Tobacco crops are good and the potato crop is a hummer.

    The Headlight toured the large acreage of cotton grown by Mr. J. T. Fulford and his son Harlie, 5 miles east of town. One 20 acre field should bring in a bale and a half per acre. Another 15 acre field he will gather 20 to 22 bales. He expects 300 bales from his entire acreage.

    Revivals are ongoing this week at Beulah, Oaky Grove, Bethel and Pleasent Plains. Mr. & Mrs. R. P. Hicks were called to Dublin after the death of Mrs. Dr. W. C. Thompson, a niece of Mr. Hicks. She was a daughter of Mr. T. B. Hicks. Marsburn Wood, the aged fellow who has been coming to Wrightsville for scores of years died at his home. He was best known to our town as he peddled wood and other things around town.

    Mr. & Mrs. Ira Blankenship had a daughter born July 24th. On July 27th a girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Bridges of the Buckeye District.

    Miss Katie Belle Lindsey, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. R. D. Lindsey wed Mr. King Poole, son of Mrs. Ella Poole on July 26th by Dr. T. L. Harris.

    Several citizens are camping down near Morgan's bridge this week on a fishing trip. Mr. Bill Tyson has been playing ball in Tate, Ga. Harry Rowland, son of Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Rowland underwent appendix surgery in Sandersville.

    No matter where you go you will find someone from Johnson County. Editor Roundtree while exploring the Okefenokee swamp met a local boy on Billy's Island where the big lumber plant is found. Saw another at Waycross and yet another at Jesup. He says you can't lose yourself anywhere.

    Ordinary U. R. Jenkins was complemented on the progress of the county roads by J. S. Stephenson of Kite. He had recently made a trip to Alabama and traveled through some 12 or 15 counties and our roads were better. Two years ago he made the same trip and when he got back to Johnson had to ford about a dozen creeks from the county line to Kite, when I had come about 200 miles through other counties without crossing one that was not bridged and I felt ashamed of our roads. But now Johnson has almost eliminated this from our most important roads. No county has made more progress in 2 years than Johnson.