From Days Gone By Sept. 20,1924

 September 20, 1924.

    Cotton is still a staple in this section as the gospel bird is at the Deacon's home when the preacher comes around and a pretty fair crop of it is being harvested. Money isn't floating around like it once was but it is bulging many a man's pocket who hasn't had any swell to them in many a day. Many an old debt is being cancelled too. With the prospects good for a big rutabaga crop we see ahead a plenty in the land and the wolf barred from the door.

    Stumping lands is now being agitated. There was a time the farmers and landowners liked it and it looks like the idea is still holding. Land is worth more stumped to say nothing about the convince added in cultivation which adds to the value of the land.

    Up to now 1,903 bales of cotton have been ginned. At this time in 1923 only 257 bales were ginned.

    Judge Kent suspended the September Term of Superior Court and will re-conviene the third Monday in October. Mrs. Bertha Kight seeks a divorce from T. W. Kight.

    Those leaving for various colleges were Janet Bryan, Nina Frost, Florene Hatcher, Mary Brooks, Ida Brinson, Albon Hatcher, Grayson Rowland, Hoke Jenkins and Roy Johnson.

    Lewis Lovett, Manager of the Wrightsville Grain Co. is showing off his new Checkerboard Chariot in the form of a Ford truck. The red and white Checkerboard is the trademark of Purina Mills of St. Louis, manufacturers of Checkerboard Chows for poultry and livestock.

    Hanging is no more in Georgia unless it is an illegal one somewhere sometimes. It is now Electrocution. The new mode of death went into effect last Saturday at the State Farm where the electric chair is erected and the first victim had been brought as a tryout. Howard Hinton, a colored from DeKalb County was sentenced to death for criminal assault and was the first to pay the penalty in the electric chair. The current passed through his body for 63 seconds and in 3 minutes he was declared dead.

    Mr. Joseph A. Riner died near Meeks having been sick more than a year. He was buried at Sardis and would have been 80 years old on December 9th. His wife survived him as does children J. D., J. N., Rufus and Leon A. Riner, Mrs. Bee Ann Pope and Miss Mary Riner.

    Mr. Henry R. Maddox died at his home near Arline's Chapel after heart failure while picking cotton on his plantation. Henry was 66. He was survived by his wife and one daughter. He was buried in Westview.