From Days Gone By May 23,1925

 May 23,1925.

    The voluminous record in the new trial motion by J. J. Tanner's lawyers caused a week's postponment of that hearing and will be heard in Dublin tomorrow by Judge Camp in Chambers. The defense submitted a long 1000 page record in the case. Tanner and Rawlings remain in jail here pending disposition of their cases.

    Thirteen graduates of Wrightville High School will receive their diploma's. The class roll as follows: Edith Bryan, Wesley Brinson, Clay Chester, Rowena Chester, Merry Nell Davis, Lizzie Lee Davis, Erna Flanders, Dicy Hall, Bessie Will Harrison, Willie Mas Kitchens, Theo Parker, Lizzie Lee Smith and Bessie Wynn Powell.

    Mrs. R. T. Lovett, Dr. and Mrs. M. D. L. Peacock and Dr. and Mrs. Meeks of Kite left for Dallas, Texas to attend the Confederate Reunion there. They will be guests of Mr. Roscoe Peacock while there.

    The wife of Mr. Church Harris died April 10th. She was 44 years old. Before marriage she was Miss Mae Norris. She left a husband and six children. She died from pneumonia. She was a member of Rehobeth and was buried there.

    Mrs. D. A. Mills, one of the oldest mothers of the county died at home near Spann. She was 76 and survived by her husband, three daughters and four sons. She was buried at Pleasant Grove.

    Macon welcomed the counties interested in the Bee-Line highway with enthusiasm. A resolution was passed. It was pointed out by Johnson and Wilkinson the road would shorten the distance from Wrightville by 20 miles. Currently to get to Macon you have to go to Dublin or Milledgeville. Not only milage savings the farmers on this route would be opened to better markets.

    They have been bottled up since the first colonists settled there. The Oconee a major barrier between the two. One Johnson resident stated not more than 15 residents of Johnson had ever been to Irwinton only 30 miles away. Much trade here which logically would go to Macon now goes to Savannah or Augusta.

    Fortunately the raw materials for road building exists along the proposed highway. The route is an old Indian trail that follows the natural line from Balls Ferry to Macon.

    Over four years ago Johnson County began this Bee-Line project and has been pushing it steadily onward ever since and now has road visions of it's success.