From Days Gone By August 30, 1924

 August 30, 1924.

    Rev. J. C. Midyett of Augusta stated when he was a pastor in Wrightsville he saw the need of an addition to Westview Cemetery and tried to secure land for such. He spent lots of time and wrote many letters inquiring of the ownership of lands lying around the cemetery.

    His first effort was to do just what the city council has done and thought is was ready to be done, but when he approached Mr. Wm. Crawford he refused any proposition. Midyett offered him $400 for as much land as he would deed, some 50 feet beyond the Walnut tree but Crawford said it was land that had come to him in some way that made it very precious to him and meant to keep it as long as he lived.

    Next he tried to get a strip on the side next to town but this met in defeat also. Then he tried the land crossing the road on the left going out of town but this land had been sold to blacks for building lots. As a last resort he considered the plot beyond the cemetery but this was so low and undesirable and would cost so much to make usable that he abandoned the whole project and began looking for a location for a new cemetery but he resigned from the church and moved away. Recently he came back to visit the grave of a loved one and found his dream had been accomplished, Westview had been enlarged.

    The September Term of Superior Court convenes on the third Monday. Clerk J. B. Williams says there's not much business this term. The jail has one black man awaiting trial for murder, being charged with killing another black man out near Price's bridge several weeks ago.

    Wrightsville High opens next week. Kite High opens the 22nd and will be in their new building.

    Laura Dent files for divorce from Royal L. Dent. Mr. & Mrs. Chas. M. Sheppard had a baby daughter August 22nd.

    W. D. Rowland and J. M. Hall were the losers in a fire that destroyed a barn on their plantation near Liberty Grove. The origin unknown. In the barn was a lot of corn and fodder and farming materials. Under the adjoining shelter were 6 hogs and a buggy which also burned.

    Shelton and James Harrison are in Greene County buying a lot of milk cattle which they intend to sell to the people of Kite.

    Johnson county are furnishing many students to college this term. Among them are UGA- Albon Hatcher, Grayson Rowland, Hoke Jenkins and Roy Johnson. Mercer- Carl Roundtree, Eugene Cook, Tom Luther Lovett, Reginald Smith, Carnage Harrison, Roy Peddy, Manning Elliot and John R. Roundtree.

   Wesleyan- Maud Lila Lovett. G. S. C. W. - Ida Brinson, Florence Hatcher, Nina Frost and Janet Bryan. Oglethorpe - W. W. Crow and Bill Delph. Bessie Tift- Margaret Kent and Elizabeth Cook. Twelfth A. & M. - Willam Doke and Wilbur Douglas.

    Those who will be teachers are Jerradine Brinson Douglas High, Alma Blount, Lumpkin High; Bobbie Chapman at Leary High; Luella Stokes at Abbeville, Ala. High; Gladys Anthony at Mobile; Ethelyn Blount in Atlanta; Minnie and Mabel Blount at the Women's College at Montgomery, Ala.; Ada Walker at Waycross; Lillian Hicks at Richland and Ione McAfee below Soperton.