January 2,1926.
Ordinary U. R. Jenkins will call an election next Tuesday for the people to pass upon the proposed bond issue for Johnson. It is proposed to put a bonded indebtness over the county to the amount of $200,000 and to pledge the county's share of the gasoline tax to pay off the bonds, allowing the bonds to run a sufficient length of time to do this. Thus the people will not have to pay them by taxation on property. Also at the same time call an election to fill the vacancy of county representative caused by the death of Dr. D. C. Harrison.
Mr. & Mrs. George Gordy and Mr. & Mrs. Chatty Johnson will move into the Anthony home. Then Mr. B. B. Tanner and family will move into their home.
Agent Crow has been busy distributing the stump blasting materials and showing the people how it is used.
Mr. Joseph Jenkins at his home up on the Tennille road was in town Christmas Eve shopping and was taken suddenly ill and is still in bed. Little Edison Brinson fell and broke both bones of his left forearm while playing with his siblings at his parents, Dr. & Mrs. R. E. Brinson.
Miss Ada Carter, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. T. W. Carter became the bride of Mr. Charles Edward Veal, son of Mr. W. A. Veal. Miss Dessie Oliver, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Oliver was married to Mr. Wannie Price on Dec. 20th at Harrison.
Mr. Jack Hammock's crib caught fire and was soon in ashes. One of the children was out near the crib by a bale of cotton and playing with matches when the bale alighted and the flames soon spread to the crib. Several hundred bushels of corn were burned, the bale of cotton, all his farming implements, and other things. Mr. Hammock recently lost a son, Martin, in a bad car wreck a couple weeks ago.
Dr. D. C. Harrison, 56, died in Rawlings Sanitarium Wednesday night. He was buried at Pleasant Hill near Pringle Christmas Day. He practiced medicine at Kite about 30 years. He served two terms in the Ga. Legislature. Since 1919 he has been president of the Citizens Bank of Kite and holds valuable real estate and city property in Kite and the county. He was a son of David C. & Sarah Frost Harrison and was twice married. His present wife was Miss Lula Webster. Ten children blessed his home, six daughters by his first marriage and two sons and two daughters by the last. One brother Louis Harrison and sister Mrs. Dave New. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan sent a delegation and participated in the service
Mr. Hansell Dixon, an aged Confederate veteran died at home Monday night. He was buried at the family cemetery near the former residence of Mr. E. W. Tanner.
Poor old Jesse Thomas! It was a fatal Christmas to him! He died away in the woods on that cold Christmas night! Jesse, nearly a hundred, died in the slush and swamp! He started across to a neighbor's house but he never got there. Overcome by afflictions of age and extreme exposure he fell. The day after Christmas the old darkey was missed by his friends.
Viligent searchers swarmed in the woods, swamps, fields and on Saturday morning about ten his stiff and frozen form was found and the matter was brought to the Coroner, L. R. Clayton. He summoned a jury and on a secluded spot that cold sabbath morning six citizens inquired into the cause of Jesse's strange death. The jury was composed of J. W. Williams, J. Tom Davis, Robt. T. Moye, C. D. Roundtree, W. D. Hall and E. H. Hamilton. They decided he came to the end of his way from the natural afflictions of old age and exposure and, all this over, he was given a decent burial on Monday.
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