April 25,1925.
The Court of Appeals decided that C. G. Rawlings was not entitled to a change of venue under the appeal taken up from Johnson Superior Court. Judge Camp was right in his declining to send the case to some other county for trial. Evans and Hardwick for the defendant and Stephens for the State appeared at the hearing. The trial will be held here.
Ordinary Jenkins has been paying pensions this week to the Confederate soldiers and their widows. Instead of the regular club meeting, they will have a memorial program at the Opera House for the veterans.
Capt. C. T. Wright is working on the Jefferson Davis Highway towards Dublin. Wrightville and Johnson are shoving to the front for better roads and for one or two main roads. Johnson County property owners cannot afford to sit idly by and see good highways slip away from them, it will enhance property values. A large land owner at Kite described his experience with some lands he owns along a highway in an adjoining county. He says it never fails at the material benefit to the land and it's owners.
Johnson County's share of oil tax accruel was sent to Ordinary Jenkins amounting to $725.01 which goes into the general fund.
Mr. L. R. Anderson of Wrightville, who has been buying cotton the past two seasons has leased the Idylwild resort for the coming season.
A small blaze on the roof of an aged house near the depot was quickly extinguished by the fire brigade. Mr. Willie Mae Kitchens was painfully scalded in the face while assisting with the cooking on a fishing trip, the coffee pot steaming up in his face.
Mr. J. B. Garnto was buried at Pleasant Grove. He was standing near the Oconee River run and suffered a stroke and fell into the river. His body was recovered the next day after several hours dragging the river. He was found about 100 yards below where he fell in. He had been the ferryman at Blackshear's Ferry since January assisted by his son Lofton Garnto. He was 65, a Baptist, and left four children and one brother.
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