From Days Gone By August 8, 1925

 August 8,1925.

    At the asking of County Agent M. E. Crow, the tobacco men from North Carolina and Virginia are here. They are Mr. T. B. Cheney and Mr. E. H. Hodnett of Ringgold, N. C. and Mr. Matthew Keese of Keeling, Va. They are experts on tobacco growing and are eager to share their expertise.

    They will get a list of farmers interested in growing tobacco in 1926 and it is predicted that this county will be dotted with the weed next year. The price is good, the quality fine and neighboring counties are getting in thousands of cash dollars already for it's culture. 

    To the east and to the west they are growing it successfully, to say nothing of towards the south and everyone believes that Johnson will come among the first counties of the belt in it's production once the crop gets started here.

    Mr. J. H. Rowland and farmer, William Dudley, brought in the first 1925 cotton bale, the earliest on record. The bale was ginned by W. H. Lovett & Son and was a light bale, weighing 597 pounds. The Dixie Cotton Co. by E. E. Sanders bought the bale.

    Sheriff Lovett J. Claxton and his deputies made several arrests Sunday of disorderly person's around the county, mostly in the western part. The disturbances arose among the colored people. It has become a frequent thing of troubles arising at negro churches and the ring leaders are being gone after hot and heavy by the more orderly element of their color. Everytime they have a big meeting there seems to be more or less of it brewing and the church leaders say they want to break it up.

    Ralph Anderson of Kite has returned from camp at Fort Bragg. Mr. S. M. Johnson is back with the baseball team at Lakeland, Fla. after suffering a broken ankle.

    Mr. Raymond H. Rowland has moved his sawmill into the city lot where his planing mill burned. Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hall of Hall Brothers and Mr. R. E. Hayes of Hayes Cash Store have gone to New York to buy merchandise.

    Mr. W. H. Lovett partnered with his son, Master Billy in the ginnery here and at Harrison. It was formerly E. A. & W. H. Lovett. The firm is now W. H. Lovett & Son. Billy is barely 5 years old and is now the youngest businessman probably in the state. He takes the place of his late grandfather, Alf Lovett.

    The payroll of the Wrightville & Tennille railroad company in the year 1924 amounted to $170,235.04. This is equal to $14,186.25 per month, or $465.12 per day. Of all the money taken in by the W. & T. for 1924, 47.23 per cent went for payrolls.