From Days Gone By Mar. 5,1926

 March 5, 1926.

    Superior Court will convene on the third Monday and seems to be a week of general business with both dockets lighter than usual. Most criminal and civil business should be finished up, all except the re-trial of J. J. Tanner. If Tanner is tried this term, the court may run longer than a week. Rawlings is still in jail awaiting a hearing from the Supreme Court.

    Ordinary Jenkins sent out 51 pension checks to Confederate Veterans in the total amount of $2550. Mr. I. F. Warnock of Kite filed for bankruptcy.

    Aunt Cheney Spann, colored, 80, was accidentally burned to death in her hose early Tuesday night and no one saw the painful writhings of this old woman in her last and fatal struggle for life. When the Coroner and jury arrived for an inquest the charred body lay cold on the floor beside her bed. There was no evidence of foul play.

    Mr. Henry A. Hutcheson was badly burned at his home while he was working on some trouble at his lighting plant.

    Agent Crow had a big swine sale Feb. 24th selling two full car loads from the barns of the Johnson County Livestock & Produce Co. The shipment sold for $3,013.88.

    While out hunting rabbits Willie Davis, son of Jim Davis, who is grandson of Godfrey Davis, accidentally shot himself with a shotgun dying instantly. Jim Davis, Ridge L. Flanders, Charlie Davis, a son of Jordan Wilkinson and this boy were out burning around some fence and the boy stepped off to shoot a rabbit which dogs were running. He had walked around a little branch when they heard the gun fire. Charlie Davis called to Willie to see if he killed it but got no reply. Ridge Flanders climbed on the fence and saw Willie laying in the grass with his head submerged in water. After getting to him he had accidentally shot himself, the load entering the left side of his face. This occured on the Coursey place in Emanuel County. Burial was at the Schwalls graveyard.

    On June 15, 1842 was born a child who grew to be 83, becoming a farmer and soldier. Mr. Ell Underwood died at the home of his only son, J. P. Underwood. He was buried in Westview.

    Mr. John A. J. Walker, one of Wrightville first citizen's died at his home. He had been working on a fence along side the Bee Line highway when he was stricken suddenly with pain in his side. John was twice married, his last wife and three children survive. He has two sons, J. M. Walker and Rev. S. D. Walker, one daughter, Mrs. Mary Johnson. He was a Mason and a Baptist. He was buried in Westview.

    Dr. T. S. Jones of Jeffersonville died in a Macon Sanitarium. He was survived by four children including Mrs. Nellie Thompson of Wrightville.