From Days Gone By July 25,1925

 July 25,1925.

    Sheriff Lovett J. Claxton and his son James, returned from Council, Ga., below Waycross with Jim Upshaw, a colored man who left here post haste some nights back for parts unknown after a bad affair down in the colored section of Wrightville. Upshaw decided he would use a knife and stick on one colored woman who goes by the name Coot Baker. She charges him with cutting her badly across the breast and other places and beating her across the back leaving her for dead on the dirt by the railroad tracks. She hollared loudly until help came. Upshaw fled, the Sheriff started a hunt and he was located at the big sawmill below Waycross.

    Mayor James M. Cook had a big court with more than 15 cases being docketed. The court room looked like a session of some higher tribunal with more than 100 people present.

    The crops are looking good all over the county with hopes of a good fall harvest. The corn is good and with the rains sights of it should be made. Cotton is good but depends on the outcome of the weevil's work over the next 20 days. Fodder pulling will soon be in full force.

    The first open cotton recorded this year was brought in by C. H. London who lives on the farm of L. D. Lovett. The traveler towards Kite, just across the Cedar swamp and up the hill on the left cannot help but notice the pretty young peach orchard of Mrs. J. H. Rowland. It has been growing the last couple of years and since McRae's misfortune and Wrightville's good fortune shows the peaches in our county will do well.

    Mr. H. L. Hall who operates the Crystal Theatre in Dublin, has now leased the Dixie Theatre here.

    Johnson seems to be on the move. The Bee-Line is going to be put through, the Jeff Davis is being revived and highways all over the county are better than ever and schools and churches are having a reconstruction boom going on with consolidation and new buildings are coming along.

    Mr. & Mrs. Byron Price had a fine baby daughter on Sunday July 12th.

    Mr. Felton Hall died on Thursday night at home near Liberty Grove from gastritis. A wife and two children survive. He was a son of Mr. M. A. Hall and was 23 years old. He was buried at the Hall Cemetery.

    News was received of the death of Richard Mixon on July 11th at his home in Corsicns, Texas from appendicitis. His wife survived him along with his brothers, Rev. W. A. Mixon of this county, George W. of Lyons and Cornelius of Texas. He also had five sisters.