From Days Gone By Nov. 14,1925

 November 14,1925.

    The Commercial Club of Wrightsville will meet at the city council chambers to consider the largest proposition to ever come before it. It concerns a $30,000 investment for the city and county, to be put here by foreign capital to operate the Enterprise. A wealthy syndicate is considering coming to Johnson to establish a large tomato canning and packing plant and will do it providing the people of the county grow tomatoes in large quantities.

    The county Fair came to a successful conclusion with good weather and large crowds day and night. Congressman W. W. Larson delivered an address on Friday and he distribution $400 club prize money to the boys and girls who one at the three big state fairs. Mr. W. T. Johnson's little son, Rosco, won the spelling bee and Mrs. W. A. Brooks won the grown folks spelling bee.

    John Walker, colored man sent up from Tattnall County, is to be a free man Saturday night. John has been in the county chain gang for thirteen and a half years. John was charged with voluntary manslaughter in Tattnall for killing a white man named Bub Rogers, a farmer of that county. He was found guilty and sentenced to 18 years. He is said to have cut Rogers to death. He spent his whole time on Johnson's gang. He got four and a half years off for good behavior, for he has been a good workman and behaved himself. John says he doesn't want to go back to Tattnall but aims to work on in this section with the highway forces. He is now 29 and was barely 17 when he was sentenced. His last few days have been spent in the court house and on the countys property doing general cleaning.

    The November Term of City Court convened Monday. A full dozen guilty pleas were recorded and Judge Blount assessed fines. Most were white defendants. Fines ranged from $25 to $50. Three were tried by jury and we're acquitted. Two others were found guilty.

    Around Lawson K. Derisaw, a colored citizen of some wild ideas, gathered two heated legal battles this week. Monday, Derisaw was up for cotton stealing and was the Victor, the jury turning him free. Tuesday he was again areigned by Solicitor Rowland on a charge of cruelty to animals. On this Derisaw was found guilty.

    A jury convicted Tom Cain on a whiskey charge. In a civil case the Gatlin estate was plaintiff and W. N. Snell defendant, the question lying around the ownership of a mule.

    Mrs. L. J. Reynolds died at her home in Mt. Vernon November 7th. She was buried at the Hall cemetery here. She was a daughter of Mrs. Julia Hall and a sister to Mr. Dewey Hall. She was 35 and survived by her husband and two children.

    Two prominent real estate men of Florida returned home here for a stay. They are Stacy and Howard Johnson, who have made it good in the real estate business. Their father is Mr. E. A. W. Johnson.