FROM DAYS GONE BY July 2,1926

 July 2, 1926.

    The General Manager of the Georgia Southern Power Company announced they will bill Wrightsville customers the same rates as Dublin. The reduction is possible due to lines from Dublin connecting Wrightsville.

    Professor J. H. Forbis of Smithville School District has notified the local school board that he has accepted their offer to become head of Wrightsville school.

      The farmers and land owners of Johnson will soon have at their opportunity to sell all their stumps in the fields to a company in Dublin who will need a vast quantity of stump wood or yellow pine stumps to supply its mammoth industrial plant. This operation in Dublin is spending more than $750,000 on this one plant. The company is called Southern Pulp & Naval Stores Company. Two train loads of machinery and another on the way being part of their fixtures. The W. & T. Railroad has run three side tracks for these people by and near the plant for their operations.

    This plant will need stumps from 8,000 to 10,000 acres of land each year, making the land easily produce from a fourth to a third more each year. It will make 15,000 tons of Kraft pulp, 750,000 gallons of turpentine and 22,500,000 barrels of rosin annually. This is considered a conservative effort of plant production.

    The Bethany Home in Vidalia will hold a big July 4th birthday party. Bethany Home is an institution for the aid of old ladies and children operated by the Primitive Baptist denomination. The Southeastern Union Singing Convention had an all day sing at the court house.

    Hon. W. W. Larson of the 12th District will return to Congress without opposition. The Democratic Executive Committee has set qualifiying fees as follows: Solicitor City Court $50; Representative $50; State Senator $50. Mary Lou Britt files for divorce from Louis Britt. C. H. Moore files for bankrupcty. Also J. E. Linder, trading as the Linder Horse & Mule Co. files for bankruptcy.

    The W. & T. Railroad is having the depot here gone over with the paint brush and other needed improvements. The farmer is having it hard. About the time they thought they had the weevil under control along comes these other pests called Texas Cotton fleas.

    The voters of Adrian passed a bond issue of $40,000 to build and equip a large school building. The vote was 226 to 33. Mr. Walter W. Simmons of Augusta was awarded the contract.

    Miss Alma Rowland, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Rowland, plaintiff in a suit against two men in Savannah who owned the car that hit her, won a verdict of $5,000. John Willie Spivey, colored man charged with a whiskey matter, plead guilty before Judge Blount and was given a year on the chain gang.

    On June 6th, William Clinton Stephens, son of Mr. & Mrs. B.B. Stephens died. He was 6 months old and was buried at Rehobeth. Mr. & Mrs. B. B. Steptoe of Meeks, son, Eliza, died on the 14th of pneumonia. His wife and child survive him. He was buried at Corinth.