From Days Gone By Dec. 30, 1929

 December 30, 1929.

    The following was written by local Pastor, F. M. Gaines. This was during the time of Prohibition. He called it "Bed-Bugs And Bootleggers".

    To claim an intimate knowledge of the nature and habits of Bed-Bugs would carry with it a certain degree of odium. For this reason the writer is quoting Mr. Webster, and is placing all responsibility on him for the apparent familiarity of the writer with his subject. The "highbrow" name of the Bed-Bug is Climax Lectularius, and Mr. Webster says that he is "an offensive bug which infests beds". But there is in these latter times a more offensive bug of which Mr. Webster seemed to be ignorant. This bug is a veritable pest and plague on decent civilization, and more to be dreaded than the boll weevil, the bean beetle, and the Mediterranian fly. The "lowbrow" name of this bug is "Bootlegger". There is a very striking analogy between the Bed-Bug and the Bootlegger.

1. They do their most devilish work at night. "And this is condemnation that light is come into the world", and Bed-Bugs and Bootleggers "loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil".

2. They are parasitic and thrive best on the life-blood of the innocent.

3. They make no economic contribution to society, but embarass society.

4. They are not content to play their ably trade alone. Mrs. Bed-Bug helps and abets her husband in his task. So does Mrs. Bootlegger; she often accompanies her husband and acts as a smoke-screen to deceive the eyes of the suspicious.

5. They counteract the influence of worth-while institutions. The bed promotes sleep which refreshes and rehabilitates the weary body, but the Bed-Bug makes it a place of torture. The Bootlegger is willing to imperil life, to curse the laws of the land, to damn boys and girls for whom parents are praying, to laugh at temperance organizations, to tie the hands of Sunday School teachers, and to counteract the influence of the church.

6. They are heartless. The Bed-Bug would defile the bed of the new-born babe and commit infanticide. The Bootlegger is willing to prevent baby's milk bottle from being refilled; he would rob baby of food, fuel, clothing, and home; he would stifle baby's intellect and deprive it of the advantages of school, sending it out into a competitive world, unprepared for the duties of life; he would snatch the roses from the cheeks of baby's mother, and substitute premature gray in her hair; he would send baby's father home, not to implant a true father's kiss, but as a staggering, heartless brute.

7. The hostess would be embarrassed greatly if she should find a Bed-Bug in the guest-chamber, and she would use every possible insecticide to exterminate it. But how greatly is the average community embarrassed over its Bootlegger, and to what extent does it use bootleggicide?

8. If it seems imperitive that we must have pests, then give us more Bed-Bugs and less Bootleggers.

From Days Gone By Dec. 23, 1929

 December 23, 1929.

    The Jefferson Davis Highway from Wrightsville to the Jefferson line will be designated a state highway and the county will be getting the gas tax off this 13.8 miles of road. Up to then the county only had 16 miles of state aid road. Now, provision on the new highway road system's map has been made for this 13.8 miles, for the 12 miles toward Irwinton on the Bee-Line, when taken over, and 14 miles from Wrightsville towards Swainsboro, and 18 miles from Wrightsville to Adrian.

    The state D. A. R. will place markers in ten cities through Georgia commemorating the Nancy Hart highway. This road comes through Johnson via Route 15 to Dublin and out of the state at Waycross. Wrightsville and Johnson County have not arranged for a marker yet but Mrs. W. M. Shurling, local representative is organizing a benefit to raise the funds and the matter is to come before the Mayor and Council soon.

    Deputy Sheriff George A. Smith is in the Sandersville hospital for a painful ailment. No operation has been made yet. Deputy Jim Tapley is strong on his feet taking up the slack. Johnson County made 12,055 bales of cotton up to December 1st. This time last year it was only 4,531 bales.

    Mr. Sidney F. Smith moved from Decatur back to Kite. Postmaster Robert Bryan will occupy the Johnson house on West Elm Street and is said to be purchasing the property. Mr. & Mrs. George Gannon now occupy the O. H. Tompkins home on West Elm Street.

    Miss Idelle Oliver, sister of Mr. Venson and Miss Mary Lizze Oliver, married Mr. Isaac (Buster) Walker, son of Mr. & Mrs. Ben Walker, at the home of Rev. Lotis McAfee who performed the ceremony. Miss Christine Claxton, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. L. J. Claxton married Mr. Shellman Martin, son of Mr. T. L. Martin, both from here, wed in South Carolina on November 17th.

    Miss Annie Mae Farrell, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Robert Farrell of New Home community, married December 15th to Mr. Felton Lindsey, son of Mrs. R. L. Lindsey of the Cedar Grove community at the home of Dr. & Mrs. W. J. Flanders who performed the ceremony.

    Mr. George N. Thompson, Johnson native, died at his home in Broxton from a two week sickness. He moved from here to Coffee County 12 years ago and was in the merchantile business there. He was 50 years old and survived by his wife and 5 sons. He was buried in Broxton.

    Mrs. Martha Anderson Ivey, widow of Dr. George M. Ivey died at 68 years old. She had moved to Atlanta in 1918. Surviving are daughters, Mrs. W. W. Frost, Miss Willie Mae and Miss Arema Ivey, son George N. Ivey and brother George W. Mayo.

From Days Gone By Dec. 16, 1929

 December 16, 1929.

Dear Santa,

    I am a little girl eleven years old. I am in the 5th grade and study very hard. I want you to bring me a doll bed, sweater, and candy.

                                         Ethel Foskey, Adrian.

Dear Santa Claus,

    How are you these days? I shall tell you what I want. A doll and a sewing box with thread and needle and some hooks and cloth, and there are some more things that I want which please bring me Christmas night. Don't forget it. Lots of love.

                                          Elaine Clark

Dear Santa Claus,

    Please bring me a pair of boots and a bicycle and a pair of pants to go with the boots and a shirt and some fire works and a motorcycle.

                                          Benjamin Harris

Dear Old Santa,

    I am a big boy, just 5 years old. I go to school and I have a good teacher, please bring her lots of nice things. Santa, I want an air rifle, a football and a rain coat and all the fruit you can spare.

                                               Milton Chester

Dear old Santa,

    Here we come, two little boys, 6 and 8; we go to school and study hard. We want you to bring is a bicycle, air plain, air rifle and lots of fireworks and don't forget our little cousin, Loutis, bring him a train and some fireworks.

                                                   Clyde & C. G. Snell

Dear Old Santa,

    I am a little girl 5 years old. I want you to bring me a doll, a carriage, a stove and lots of fruit and don't forget my little sister, Ada.

                                                     Annie Ola Brantley

Dear Santa,

    I am a little girl 3 years old. Please bring me a sleepy doll, a doll carriage, a small blackboard and lots of fruit. Don't forget little brother.

                                                       Little Falcher Hatcher

Dear Santa Clause,

    I am a little girl 7 years old. I am in the senior grade and I like to go to school. Please bring me a walking doll and a doll carriage and lots of fruit and don't forget mama and papa.

                                                          Evie Dell Carter

Dear Santa,

    We are two good little boys, one 7 and one 3. We want a gun, horse-shoe games, a wagon and a wheelbarrow and a lot of candy and fruit. Please bring grand-mother something nice and remember our little cousin, Mildred Smith, bring her lots of toys.

                                                          Edward & Gene McCoy

Dear Santa Claus,

    Please bring me a gun, a knife, a watch, some fruit and fireworks.

                                                            Earl Reese

Dear Santa Claus,

    Please bring me a gun, a wagon, a horn, some fruit and some fireworks.

                                                                Cevette Reese

Dear Old Santa,

    I am a little boy 11 years old. I go to school and am in the 4th grade. I want you to bring me a bicycle, air rifle, knife, some fireworks and lots of fruit, nuts and candy.

                                                              Buford Hutcheson

Dear Santa Clause,

    I am a little girl 8 years old and I go to school and am in the 3rd grade. I want you to bring me a doll, doll bed and carriage, lots of fruit, and candy.

                                                                 Loucile Hurcheson

From Days Gone By Dec. 9, 1929

 December 9, 1929.

    The Georgia Power Company has lowered the rates five dollars per hundred effective immediately. Mr. W. N. Watkins, local manager states the rate was cut from twelve dollars per hundred KW to seven dollars per KW. And there will be no curtailment of service.

    The Johnson Lodge, No. 110, I. O. O. F. (Odd Fellows), elected new officers. They are James A. Hall, Noble Grand; George M. Barnes, Vice-Grand; Frank Outlaw, Secretary; James T. Miller, Deputy Grand Master.

    Mr. W. S. Price received a notice from the Mount Vernon Association to arrange for the "Orphans' home car." It will be in Wrightsville December 20th and Harrison the 21st. Churches are asked to get up all the produce of all kinds to send to the orphans home. The schools will be selling Christmas Seals here the 16th to 19th for the campaign against tuberculosis in Georgia. The local schools goal is set at $15. This means 1500 seals should be sold here.

    In investigating the poultry market, County Agent M. E. Crow found that at the present prices were entirely too low for farmers to sell at this time. So the sale on the 17th has been cancelled. Playing at the Wrightsville Theatre is "Tarzan The Tiger". "An Arizona Cowboy", will be staged at the school auditorium, funds raised will go to football expenses.

    Officer Henry G. Tyson of Meeks took up a search with papers for some bed quilts allegded to be in the dwelling occupied by Mr. Henry Black, on a plantation down that way. He went to the home of the accused and made a search for the quilts which a widow lady claimed as hers. While searching he found some of them when he came across a quantity of whiskey, red liquor too, all done up in pints and a half gallon jar. The whiskey was confiscated and brought to town as evidence.

    Professor & Mrs. Linton Hutcheson announced the birth of a son on December 8th. Mrs. Winnie Sumner celebrated her 89th birthday on December 6th at her daughter's, Mrs. George Stephens near town.

    Miss Alma Peebles and Mr. Milton Anderson were married at Rehobeth by Judge Z. A. Anderson. Miss Novie Townsend and Mr. Silas Arrington were also married. Miss Bobbie Chapman, daughter of Mrs. R. B. Chapman of Wrightsville married Mr. Orion Goff.

From Days Gone By Dec. 2, 1929

 December 2, 1929.

    The new city fathers will take office in 1930. The new Mayor is Charles D. Roundtree, 48, son of Joshua W. & Mahala Durden Roundtree and a native of Emanuel County. Born on the banks of Little Canoochee River in Wiregrass, Georgia. He taught school, became editor of The Graymont Hustler in 1911 and lived in Graymont three years. He then moved to Swainsboro to be editor of the Forest-Blade for nearly three years. He moved to Wrightsville in March 1916, and is the editor of the Headlight. He is married to Miss Cora Gay and has a son and daughter. He served one term on the city council.

    Councilman Dewitte T. Brinson, 35, son of Dr. & Mrs. J. W. Brinson, Sr. has lived here his whole life. Spent most of his years in school up to ten years ago when he became local manager of Standard Oil Company. He served as councilman the past four years, and three years as city clerk. He married Miss Madie Hightower and has four sons. He is a Mason, Odd Fellow, and Methodist.

    Councilman M. S. Duggan, 36, native of Washington County, son of Dr. G. M. Duggan, came here in 1906, entering the grocery business in 1915. He served as councilman four years before, 1924-1927. He married Miss Nora Johnson and has one son. He is a Mason, Odd Fellow and a Methodist.

    Councilman H. G. Hatcher, 41, born here to Mr. & Mrs. William Hatcher. He has been manager of the City Warehouse the past fourteen years. This will be his first term. He married Miss Eunice Tanner, has one son and is a Baptist.

    Councilman James A. Hall, 43, a native and son of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Hall. He clerked in a dry goods store for years, and the past eleven years in business with his brother. He has served six years on the council, 1923-1929. He married Miss Mattie Hudson, is a Mason, Odd Fellow and a Baptist.

    Councilman Charles M. Sheppard, 31, a native and son of Mr. & Mrs. James Sheppard. He operates a barbershop and this will be his first term. He married Miss Lorena Maddox and has five children. He is an Odd Fellow and a Methodist.

    Councilman Bernard B. Tanner, 31, native son of Mr. & Mrs. B. B. Tanner. He operates a farm and a filling station. This is his first term. He married Miss Thelma Kennedy and has six children. He is a Baptist.

    Mr. Robert Burns Bryan became Postmaster here yesterday. He is experienced and worked here before. Mr. McWhorter retires after ten years of service. Bryan will be assisted by Emory L. Rowland and Alton Moye.

    Mrs. Ellen Page, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Colston and widow of C. A. Page of near Kite, married Mr. J. M. Gilbert, son of Mr. & Mrs. O. C. Gilbert of Thomaston.

    The Hello Girls of Wrightsville are officially in their new exchange above Brinson's Drug Store. The Wrightsville Ford and Chevrolet garages are some of the busiest businesses in town these days. New and used cars are being sold almost daily.

From Days Gone By Nov. 25, 1929

 November 25, 1929. 

    The Southern Bell people are in the city making the change in the local exchange office. It will have all new equipment, convenient operators and manager's office. It will be in the back part upstairs in the Brinson Drug building. The operators are Miss Lena Robinson, Miss Ora Lee Barnes, and a Miss Williams.

    The school is cold these days. The reason is a new heating system is being installed. A new low pressure boiler, piping is being replaced and radiators being repaired and re-set at a cost of about $2,000. School is out until the system is completed. The local football team defeated Sandersville by the score of 26 to 0.

    Dr. & Mrs. Flint Flanders and Little Flint, Mrs. S. H. Rhodes and Mr. R. P. Hicks are at Leland, Florida on a fishing trip and also visited with Mr. & Mrs. James I. Spell. Dr. Flanders owns a cottage there. The courthouse was in the dark today, officials taking the day off to go hunting.

    Thanksgiving finds pensioners happy as Judge W. J. Flanders issued pension checks to the old soldiers and widows of the south. The full amount was $1,600 for 13 veterans and 19 widows at $50 each. Two have died since the last pension payment, Mr. B. Y. Wheeler and Mrs. Ann Ruth Harrison.

    The state gasoline tax smashed all previous records the month of October that amounted to $1,175,501.62. The state highway department gets two-thirds of the tax while one-sixth is dispersed to the counties for road construction and one-sixth to the equalization fund of the common schools.

    There will be an auction at Ennis, on the Wadley Southern Railway on December 6th. Its a public sale of 3 mules, 10 head of cows, 12 head of hogs, farming utensils, wagons, harness, etc. Also a bathtub, hot water tank, refridgerator, one sawmill outfit complete, one shingle mill and several other things belonging to Mrs. Mary James.

    Rev. E. L. Harrison has moved from Collins to Ludowici where he will pastor the Baptist church there. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Burns Bryan announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Hallie Annida Bryan to Mr. Atwood B. Cochran of Camilla.

    On November 24th at the home of Judge & Mrs. Zach A. Anderson was the marriage of Miss Allene Moye to Mr. Luther Davis. Miss Annie Lou Riner, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Tommie J. Riner of Meeks, and Mr. Clark Allen also of the Meeks community were married in the Ordinary's office by Judge W. J. Flanders.

    Mrs. Marvin Davis' mother, Mrs. J. A. Lewis of Pelham, died at her home and was buried there. Mr. Alonzo Hope Rawls, father of Miss Martha Rawls, died at his home in Griffin and was buried there. Miss Rawls is a school teacher here.

From Days Gone By Nov. 18, 1929

 November 18, 1929.

    Mr. Richard (Bubber) Paul, the 22 year old son of Mr. & Mrs. R. M. Paul was buried at Pleasant Grove. He died in Sandersville early Monday morning from injuries when an auto accident occured at the crossroads at Mr. Willie Parker's store, just across Johnson bridge from Wrightsville. Paul and Mr. Marvin Raley were coming to town, Raley driving, as they came to the crossroads another car coming from the south, driven by Enoch Waters, colored, came along and somehow a collision occured. They had just left Mr. J. R. Raley's home in a model 1927 Ford. The car hit on Paul's side, Raley was unhurt. Mr. Paul was crushed in the breast and head. He was rushed to Dr. Bray, assisted by Dr. Brantley who advised them to take him to the hospital. He died soon after arriving at Sandersville. He was survived by his parents, one whole sister and two half sisters, four whole brothers and five half brothers.

    Mr. James S. Price, a Pringle citizen, died as they carried him to an Augusta hospital from a terrible wreck of his truck on the Augusta road. Ernest Smith was with him in the truck. Mr. Price was taking a load of corn to Augusta and as going through Louisville was flagged down by Smith. They headed on for about 40 miles and started downhill close to Ellis Pond. He put on his emergency brake which failed to hold back the load. Then he put the truck in gear, double low, this also failed to hold. He then tried reverse but stripped the gears and went head-long down the hill. On this side of the bridge was a parked car. As Price tried to drive around it and struck the hub cap of the car and turned the parked car into a wire fence. The bridge being close he was unable to recover, striking the hole on a washout, the truck tumbled against the concrete pillar, wrecking it. Price was lodged between the steering wheel and the pillar. Smith was thrown into the creek about 15 feet below in the water. He was a member of Pleasant Hill but was buried in Wrightsville. He was 36, survived by his parents, four brothers, six sisters, his wife and four children.

    Mr. & Mrs. Cecil T. Swinson had a daughter on November 16th. Pvt. Ralph C. Anderson is returning to New York from overseas , then to be stationed at Columbus. He has been in Hawaii. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Anderson of Kite.

    Coroner Morgan Layton was called to Buckeye at the home of Winfield Martin where his wife Eliza Jane Martin had died. No one was home and she was found on the front porch by a little boy passing by. He said she was struggling and vomiting profusely. It was determined she died of natural causes.

    Supervisor of wardens, J. L. Ridley is offering $50 reward to every game warden who arrests and convicts any person caught buying or selling quail. Also, there is no ruling yet against the shipment of furs and hides caught legally in the county.

    County Farm Superintendent J. M. Hammock, Sr. reports production of around 500 bushels of sweet potatoes on the county farm on the east side of town. This will feed the county workforce for some time.

    Miss Lola Mae Bridges, 14, of Albany, was buried at Piney Mount. She was a daughter of Mr. J. L. Bridges who lived here up to a few years ago. She was born here and has a lot of relatives still here.

From Days Gone By Nov. 11, 1929.

 November 11, 1929.

    Just 237 people voted in the Wrightsville City Primary on November 5th, to nominate a Mayor and three City Councilmen. For Mayor it was C. D. Roundtree with 168 votes to T. L. Harris 68 votes. For the three Councilmen it was M. S. Duggan 228, J. A. Hall 228, and B. B. Tanner 228.

    Mr. Robert B. Bryan was confirmed by the Senate at Washington for the Postmastership here in Wrightsville. He will assume his duties shortly. On December 7th there will be an election for the purpose of consolidating Meeks School with Adrian School.

    Friday saw an empty jail in Wrightsville. Not an inmate remains within the detention home. It was the first time in many a day that the bastile went "begging". The regular session of City Court will start this week. On November 6th in Macon, Miss Ellen Kitchens, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Kitchens, and Mr. H. C. Peeler, a businessman from Swainsboro, were married.

    On November 21st & 22nd, the famous Collegiate Comedy, Aunt Lucia, will be staged at the High School Auditorium under the auspices of the Young Matron's Class of the Methodist church. It is a burlesque comedy of American College life.

    The Marine Corps recruiting truck will be in Biundale November 15th for men 17 to 35 who pass the examination and will get free transportation to Paris Island, S. C. All young Wrightsville men are encouraged to join.

    This section was shocked when the news came of the tragic death of Mrs. E. Pierce Wood of Sandersville when she died instantly at Parson's Crossing when her auto was hit by Central train No. 2, Macon to Savannah. The car was a complete and total wreck and Mrs. Wood was so badly mangled, that it took the cards in her purse to identify her. She was alone at the time, her car held up at a small bridge just before mounting the crossing and was seen to stop before the train arrived. It was presumed that she endeavored to stop her auto and her feet slipped onto the accelerator, starting it off and the car ran on to the track just as the train came up. Bits of machine were over 100 feet from where the train struck it. It was in threads almost. Mrs. Wood was a sister to Col. A. S. Bradley of Swainsboro. She was 41 and prominent in clubs around Sandersville. Her husband is a reporter for the U. S. Court of Middle Georgia District.

    Mr. W. H. A. J. Thompson of the Gethsemene community died at the home of Rev. G. F. Sumner where he lived. He was 79. His wife died six years ago. They had 10 children, 55 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren. He was buried in the Anthony Cemetery.

    Mrs. W. H. Harrison died at her residence from a stroke. She had just turned 89 years old. She was buried at Beulah Cemetery.

From Days Gone By Nov. 4, 1929

 November 4, 1929.

    The big fair put on by the local Post of the American Legion is in full swing with crowds coming in daily. Exhibits of many things appear in the buildings and on the grounds and the county has a fine showing of agriculture on display. The Rock City Shows is one of the largest and best ever to come to the city. The display of Ford cars, big hogs and fine chickens was worth seeing. The schools of Scott, Kite, Adrian and Union Hill had fine displays also. The Legion was greatly gratified at the attendance this year.

    Arthur Miller, colored man of this county was given 20 years in the pen for a statutory offense which he openly confessed to in Laurens Superior Court where he had requested a change of venue from Johnson Superior Court. The charge was assault with an attempt to rape. Col. J. Roy Rowland led the prosecution assisted by Solicitor Fred Kea. Miller was represented by Judge A. L. Hatcher and the firm of Claxton & Cook.

    A car driven by Mr. Roy Kitchens and the buggy of Mr. W. T. N. Logue figured in a crash Saturday night on the Kite road. The auto's lights went out just before the crash occured. The car occupants escaped without injury, but the three in the buggy did not fare so well. Mr. Logue was hurt about the nose and face. His daughter Frances, also with head and face injuries. His little grandson escaped uninjured.

    Messrs. Leon Lovett, Silas Powell, H. T. Lovett, C. H. Lovett are down on the coast on a hunting trip. Mrs. C. S. Claxton has the second largest sweet potato of the season. It tipped the scales at 11 pounds.

    Edwin Wesley Tompkins, the five year old son of Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Wesley Tompkins of this city. He was visiting his aunt in Langley, South Carolina with his mother and sister. He was playing in a ditch in front of the house, and a large pile of dirt which was on the edge, fell on him completely covering his body and he was not big enough to dig his way out and smothered to death. His funeral was held at his grandmother's in Sandersville. He was survived by his parents, grandparents, Mrs. Addie Wicker and Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Tompkins; one sister, Adeline Tompkins; Aunts and Uncles, Mrs. Claude Hodges, Mrs. John Parker, Mr. Fay Tompkins, Miss Eloise Tompkins, a Miss Jones and Dr. & Mrs. Steve Malone.

From Days Gone By Oct. 28, 1929.

 October 28, 1929.

    Those qualifying for the city elections on November 5th are, for Mayor, T. L. Harris and C. D. Roundtree. For Councilmen is Dr. H. B. Bray, M. S. Duggan, J. A. Hall and B. B. Tanner.

    Mr. & Mrs. M. E. Crow, Miss Rowena Chester, R. L. Stephens, J. H. Rowland, Arthur Rowland, Lovett Claxton, W. C. Chester, Frank Jordan and C. D. Prescott joined more than twelve hundred citizens from Georgia, Florida and South Carolina and reported that Savannah will eventually get her port facilities and establish a co-operative market plan for agricultural products.

    The Southern Bell people will soon move their telephone exchange in Wrightsville from its present location to rooms upstairs in the Brinson Drug Store. The Myrtle Grove School is progressing under its teacher, Miss Jonnie Mae Outlaw of Milledgeville. The trustees are J. T. Phillips, J. Q. Ivey and Tom Brantley. Miss Alma Sumner of Spann, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Sumner, married Mr. Emory Stewart of Wadley who works for the Georgia Power Company.

    Mr. Hubert Odom, a grandson of Mr. & Mrs. Richmond Sammons, was killed early Sunday in an auto accident near Swainsboro, two miles out on Graymont-Summit road. Odom was in a car with Charlie Grimes as it collided with a car driven by Mr. Joe Kitchens, who had his wife and Cleone Kitchens, 17, and Mary Lou Kersey, 14. Grimes and the Kitchens family escaped with minor injuries except for Mrs. Kitchens who was hurt pretty bad. Grimes and Odom were in a Sport Coupe while Kitchens was in a Ford Touring car with only a lantern for a light. Hubert Odom was brought home and buried at Union Hill.

    James Green, colored man about 30, was shot with a 38 S. & W. pistol when he jumped upon the running board of the open touring car of Mr. Newton Powell, who was taking three young ladies out for a ride on Saturday night. The shooting took place in the city limits on the Bee Line highway in Jenkinsboro area. Powell tried to push the man off but he grabbed Powell's left arm at which point Powell shot him close range and he died instantly. Green was later picked up and carried to his home on Mr. Ostell Bray's plantation. The Coroner empaneled a jury of J. A. Douglas, S. M. Johnson, C. H. Roberts, W. C. Chester and C. E. Price. The jury rendered the verdict that Powell was justified in the act.

From Days Gone By Oct. 21, 1929

 October 21, 1929.

      The people came to town Monday. The streets were lined with them about the noon hour until travel in any way was difficult, and when the hard rain fell the stores were filled to their capacity when they sought shelter. The circus pitched their tents on the fairgrounds and at 1 pm when the rain was hardest they were caught in the parade uptown. It was a large crowd that came, mostly children, and the circus went away after having received a good patronage.

    The city executive committee met in a mass meeting under Col. W. M. Shurling and appointed a new committee for next year. This committee is composed of M. S. Duggan, Chairman; R. P. Hicks, Secretary; and C. D. Roundtree, E. R. Spell and H. G. Hatcher. The time for qualifying for Mayor and Council is upon them and the fees were set at $5 for mayor, and $2 for council. The primary will be November 5th. A mayor and three councilmen will be chosen. The present councilmen's time expiring are Dr. H. B. Bray, J. A. Hall and C. D. Roundtree.

    Judge Eschol Graham of McRae is presiding over Superior Court this week. The Grand Jury was sworn in with Mr. Elbert Canady, foreman and Alex Mayo, baliff. Other baliffs were R. O. Bridges and J. L. Tapley who will assist Sheriff W. D. Rowland and Deputy George A. Smith. The first business saw a number of divorce cases and then the civil cases were taken up in order.

    Three more deputy game wardens were appointed. Cordie L. Wiggins, L. J. Walker and B. J. Lampp. Anyone wanting license will have to see them. Mr. James W. Merritt, business manager of The Christian Index will preach next Sunday at Kite, then Beulah, then to Brown Memorial. A Negro Minstrel will be given at the Harrison Consolodated School. Admission is 10 and 15 cents. The Frost Hotel just recently got a new roof. Congressman W. W. Larson delivered an address at the courthouse on the Farm Relief Bill.

    Mr. B. H. Lord of Dublin, formally from here, has been made the successor to the late Harry A. Jordan of Savannah who was Traffic Manager of the Wadley Southern, the Louisville & Wadley and  the Sylvania Central railroads, together with the Wrightsville & Tennille. Hon. Charles Molony is President. Mr. Lord is now Traffic Manager of all four roads which are direct branches of the Central of Georgia Railway. Mr. Lord knows railroading from the ground up, can run an engine as well as a poll car, and direct traffic like a veteran.

    The Ford Motor Company issued that the production of passenger and commercial cars during September totaled 161,305 units, a heavy increase in production from last year. October is looking to hit 175,000 Model A and Model AA trucks. Total production for the year up to now is 1,633,498 units and expected to hit 2,000,000 by the end of the year.

    On October 20th at the Baptist pastorium was the marriage of Mr. Ernest Martin and Miss Anna Lois Hodges. Mr. Woodrow Spell, the schoolboy son of Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Spell had a bad accident on his way home from Macon on a motor cycle. It occured two miles this side Dublin when the machine tripped and threw him to the ground. He was painfully hurt about the back and hand. He was brought home and getting along fine now.

    Playing at the Wrightsville Theatre this week. Reginald Denny in "One Hysterical Night". Wm. S. Hart in "White Oak". Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall in "Two Weeks Off". Hoot Gibson in "The Long Long Trail". Also a Lucky Rabbit cartoon.

From Days Gone By Oct. 14, 1929

 October 14, 1929.

    Late Friday afternoon Sheriff W. D. Rowland and Deputy James L. Tapley made the largest whiskey raid ever made in this county. They cut up and destroyed the largest and most complete outfit ever found running. If its not the largest it measures up with the largest. It was near New Home, operating snugly back in the swamp, off the highway some distance, in a place hard to reach on foot. A 150 copper still or larger was put up good, brick furnace and bore earmarks of much use. It was in full running order when the Sheriff arrived and shine was trickling down in a steady stream out of the worm. Recepticles near-by held a large quantity of the finished product, all of which was delivered to mother earth. Nearby, too, sat three grandaddy mobby vats, all filled up with a thousand gallons or more of the raw materials waiting to be distilled. All was destroyed. On approach the Sheriff saw three people fleeing the scene to parts unknown and no arrests were made. A home not far away were the screams of women who spied the officers and gave the alarm.

    Arthur Miller, 33, colored, married, wife and two children, parents dead, works on Buckeye farm, was arrested about daybreak at his home. A warrant of a serious charge was served on him. In jail he gave an account of his whereabouts up to midnight Saturday, that he went home and to bed. After officers were notified of the matter that occured on Buckeye that night, Capt. Wright and Deputy Tapley went with the county's dogs to locate the party wanted, and the search led to Miller's arrest. He is in jail until further developments in the case.

    Wrightsville learned that Lee Kennedy was jailed in Statesboro. They are not sure of the charge but relatives report he was in the ditch with his car and was not sober. An ugly story by his wife who was suffering from bloody wounds on the head and a bullet hole through the toe when she was brought here. She says all this is from a pistol in her husbands hands. He was out on parole and the State may reclaim him.

    The organization of a local P. T. A. was completed here when a group of mother's met with teachers in the school library. The officers elected are Mrs. Herschel Bray, Supt. Knox, Mrs. Tom Jenkins, Miss Sarah Alley and Mrs. J. H. Rowland.

    The banks released their statements of condition. Farmers & Merchants of Kite, $37,503.39; Bank of Wrightsville, $264, 602.00; Bank of Adrian, $69,489.00; Exchange Bank, $323,728.33.

    Coroner Morgan Layton held his first inquest over the dead body of John W. Fisher, Sr., up on Buckeye near Gus Brantley's. Lucian Fisher, the son, arrived home finding his father near the door face down. A small bottle of medicine on the floor beside him. This was proved to be prescribed heart medicine. A jury was impanelled consisting of Gus and Will Brantley, A. C. Slade, R. R. Doke, W. J. Crawford and C. D. Roundtree. It was determined his death was from natural causes.

    Another wealthy town citizen passed with the death of Mr. John T. Fulford at his East Elm Street residence. He was a successful businessman and one of the county's largest farmers. He was a leader in banking circles and for years a director in the Exchange Bank. He was 66, his wife died in 1919. He has four sons, Charles W., Gainor E., Harlie L., and Remus. He was buried at New Bethel next to his wife.

    Mrs. Henry Black died at the family home six miles south of Wrightsville after an illness of several weeks. She was buried in Westview.

From Days Gone By Oct. 7, 1929

 October 7, 1929.

    The roads are so bad in the county from the ten day rains, help is being called in to clean up debris and work the roads back up. The county suffered heavily and it may be weeks before travel gets back to normal. Capt. Wright's gang has got the Adrian Road open and is working on others as fast as he can. The American Legion Fair has been put off a week because of the rains.

    Meeks School opened with 58 students. Monte School opened with Dr. Piper. Scott High School has a large enrollment according to Prof. Sam P. Jones. The staff is Lillian Bedenfield, Principal; Teachers - Evelyn Gay, Mrs. McLemore, Leslie Sandifer and Mrs. Tom J. Burke.

    Several Deputy Game Wardens have been named in the county. They are Bennie Garnto, Kite area; Cordie L. Wiggins, Bartow area and J. C. Smith, Adrian area.

    All slot machines in the city limits of Wrightsville must go. Chief W. J. Crawford has orders from the Mayor and Council. They have till the 15th to move them out without trouble.

     Mr. Talmadge Harrison of Kite took a warrant out on Zeke Parker, colored boy, for stealing a hot lunch and $4 from his store. Officer Geo. N. Ivey arrested the 18 year old and took him before Judge Brinson who gave him 10 months on the road gang. Sheriff Rowland carried Mr. Pink Morris to the State Sanitarium in Milledgeville.

    Mr. & Mrs. Elwood Jackson had a daughter on August 24th named Gloria Ophelia. Mr. & Mrs. Tom C. Brantley had a daughter on October 1st. Miss Lillian Brantley, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. F. B. Brantley of Union Hill community wed Mr. Jas. A. Colston on October 6th. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Colston of Kite.

    Little Reese Bray, son of Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Bray, after eating a few pecans, had a bad time for about two weeks. He was carried to Claxton-Montford Hospital in Dublin where he got along alright. It is thought the pecans affected his stomach much like poison.

    Mrs. Pollie Ann Tucker died at her home having been stricken suddenly. She lived only a few hours from the stroke. She was about 80 and a native of the county, her maiden name was Townsend. She was buried in Westview. Mrs. Thomas Carter died at home from about a week's illness. She was 75 and was a Hall before marriage. Surviving children are Jesse and Shade Carter. She was buried in the family cemetery.

    Another of the few remaining Confederate veterans died. Mr. Ben Y. Wheeler of near Kite who was 82. He lived on the place he was born and was buried in the Wheeler Cemetery. One brother survives, Henry Wheeler, one daughter, Mrs. Dallie Woods, and four sons, William W., J. D., M. B. and George T. Wheeler.

    Mr. E. A. W. Johnson died at his home on corner of Myrtle Avenue and Elm Street. He had been bed ridden about a day. Johnson's death removes a prominent landmark and one of our first citizens. He had much business interests here and helped build up the town. He was married twice. His first wife, Mrs. Cora Bullard died September 18, 1924. Their children living are Mrs. Dr. C. E. Brinson, Miss Ola Johnson, Herbert, Louie, Stacey, Howard and Roy. His second wife was Miss Mary Joiner of Harrison. Dr. S. M. Johnson was a brother and a sister Mrs. Laura Hartley. He would have been 68 on October 31st. He was a member of the Christian Church and was buried in Westview.

    

From Days Gone By Sept. 30, 1929

 September 30, 1929.

    The local American Legion Post will sponsor the big Johnson County Fair, October 28th to November 2nd. They have secured Rock City Shows to come for the full week. This is one of the best carnival companys  in the south. They consist of seven rides, fourteen shows and concessions, and a brass band.

    Recent rains over the past ten days have put the highest water marks on many streams in the east of the county. Rains have fallen almost incessantly over this time. Roads and railroads were hardest hit. Mail service is not available and some trains stopped completely. Kite and Meeks have not received mail in a week. Many farmers have unpicked cotton and seed has sprouted in it. It has been impossible to reach Swainsboro, Midville, Augusta or Louisville. Near Wadley a fish pond dam broke washing out the tracks of the Central of Georgia, wrecking train No. 4 causing the death of Engineer Gilbert W. Callahan.

    The legislature made a change to the game and fish laws. It permits shooting doves in September, closes in October, and opens again November 20th to January 31st. Squirrel season is November 20th to last day of February. Steel traps are now illegal and trapper's license discontinued. Other seasons are quail and turkey November 20th to March 1st, wood duck September 1st to January 1st, deer November 1st to December 31st.

    The cigarette tax law is now in effect and dealers in Wrightsville will now pass this tax on to the consumer. This sends the price to 17 cents a pack. The money collected from this tax goes into the Confederate pension fund.

    Cotton ginned in the county up to September 16th is 6,730 bales. This time last year the total was 851 bales. The Wrightsville School has more than 400 registered pupils this year. Prof. J. Y. Chastain is opening a school at Pringle.

    Coming into town on a truck, Mr. Clifton Rowland suffered a broken leg when he jumped to the ground as the truck left the road near the home of Edgar Kitchens on Kite road. He was riding on a load of lumber which was driven by a colored boy and he was caught against the steering gear by the lumber but not badly hurt.

    A gale hit the home of Rev. G. F. Sumner near Gethsemane Church badly damaging it. A large tree fell on the house and the roof joists holding is all that saved them.

    Cilo Wright, colored woman out near Nat Bray's Store, didn't like the way Clara Johnson, her colored neighbor, was doing. Clara stated that Cilo had charged her with a razor. Clara said she didn't like the looks of that razor in the hands of Cilo, who seemed to be mighty mad with her, so she backed off and fled to safety. She went to town an swore out a warrant for Cilo who she said threatened her all because of "her man".

    The following is a list of businesses operating in the city of Wrightsville in 1929:

Brinson Drug Store, M. S. Duggan Groceries, Farmers Supply Co., Brantley's Drugs, W. F. Outlaw-Blacksmith, Lovett & Co., Claxton & Norris- National Life Ins., Kent & Johnson Ins.,Hall Brothers, Wrightsville Grain Co., Clayton Lord Groceries, J. E. Glisson - Fish Market, Charlie Sheppard's Barber Shop, Beverly B. Hayes, A. C. Price - Cigars & Cigarettes, Wrightsville Hardware Co., G. B. Hitchcock - Nash Clothes, L. A. Lovett - Ford Dealer & Gulf Gas, Neal Grocery Co., Wrightsville Headlight, Chas. C. Blankenship - Jeweler/Optometrist, Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad, Bank of Wrightsville, Spell Cleaners, Kaplan's, Sims Store, T. V. Kent - Undertaker and Shoe Shop, E. L. Rowland - New York Life Ins., Wrightsville Motor Co. - Chevrolet, W. T. Davis - Horses & Mules, Peoples Hardware Co., Claxton & Cook - Farm Loans, Hayes Cash Store, Tanner's Service Station - Standard Oil, Palace Cafe - Mrs. Gordon Clark, J. T. Miller - Ins., Flanders Drug Store, Crown Service Station, W. L. Thompson Ins., T. L. Chester - Contractor, Exchange Bank, Gannon's Barber Shop, Arlie Price Drug Store.

From Days Gone By Sept 23, 1929

 September 23, 1929.

    For a dozen years or so the Bee Line highway project has been worked on. Interest in the road has never lagged in the proposed route from Macon to Irwinton, to Wrightsville, Kite, Swainsboro on to Savannah. The scene was at Ball's Ferry where Washington, Wilkinson and Johnson have for years cried the need of a bridge across the Oconee. Everyone there was a Bee Line booster and enjoyed a big dinner on the grounds. Congressmen Larson and Vinson were there and pledged their unstinted support of the proposed and unfinished route. Signing the pledge for Johnson County was Ordinary W. J. Flanders.

    The county is at work on the Jeff Davis so the highway department will take it over. They are hard at work on Price's bridge. Mr. William Bedingfield, Jr. is now with the Brinson Drug Store. Prof. John R. Roundtree of Adrian is principal of the Rentz Consolidated School and Miss louise Burke of Scott teaches third grade there. Mr. J. S. Stephenson of Kite moved to Vidalia taking a position with the International Harvesting Company.

    The organization of a local Parent-Teacher Association is soon to be complete. Mrs. H. B. Bray is temporary chairman. Savannah is planning a big day on October 9th as they honor Count Pulaski.

    Sheriff W. D. Rowland holds Harold E. Smith, a young white man in the county jail charged with the theft of a roadster automobile which he drove into town. Acting on information furnished him as to the car, numbers and license they located him in the city and arrested him. A telegram from Minot, North Dakota, signed by Sheriff W. E. Slaybaugh was received advising Rowland to hold Smith and the car, that he was coming for them.

    Georgia Power Co. is going ahead with immediate plans for construction of a 12,000 acre storage lake on the Oconee River at Furman Shoals and build a great plant. Power from this development will feed lines into Wrightsville. It is expected to be completed in 1931. It will have a 60,000 horsepower capacity and will feed into the existing network of 110,000 and 44,000 volt transmission lines into Macon and Augusta divisions. This plant will be fed by a vast lake impounded by a solid concrete dam and earth abutments which will be 3,000 feet long and 90 feet high. This great lake will cover 12,000 acres and will lie chiefly in Baldwin, Hancock and Putnam counties with perhaps small portions in Jones and Greene.

    Mrs. Lewis I. Davis died suddenly at her home 7 miles south of Wrightsville. She was sitting on the porch with her grandchildren when she began feeling badly. She went in an laid down on her bed. When the grandson's went in to see about her she had passed. She was a Miss Tharpe before her marriage and a sister to J. T. and J. C. Tharpe and Mrs. Tom Veal. She was a member of Gumlog where she was buried.

    Mr. Sanford Claxton died very suddenly in Kite. He had been unwell for some time. That morning he entered his cousin's store to make a purchase when he became violently ill and died in the store. He is a son of Mr. M. J. Claxton of Kite. He was married and had one child. He was buried at Gumlog.

    Ralph Eugene, the two month old son of Mr. & Mrs. Minton Sikes, died September 17th at home in Wrightsville. The babe was buried at Gumlog.

From Days Gone By Sept 16, 1929

 September 16, 1929.

    On the Ohoopee bridge, a mile east of Adrian, was the scene of a fatal accident when two trucks crashed. One killed, a second badly injured and 2 or 3 more badly shaken up. Robert James Ellison died instantly and W. H. Anderson's leg was broken. The two trucks left Adrian headed towards Meeks, the front truck driven by a white man and a number of Adrian boys riding with him to the river bridge. The second truck was driven by a negro man. The first truck was owned by Mr. Henry Hutcheson and driven by his son. Giving the Adrian boys a ride he stopped on the bridge to let the boys out. The second truck came up and crashed into them. The impact threw the Ellison boy into the concrete bridge railing killing him instantly. He was the grandson of Capt. T. J. James, founder of Adrian and was just 14. Anderson is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Horace Anderson of Adrian. Ellison was buried in Adrian.

    Mr. Pink Morris of this county is in a very pitiful condition from an auto accident several weeks ago on the Ohoopee River bridge at Gumlog when a car driven by Mr. Riley Sheppard left the bridge and went into the swamp. Both were hurt but Sheppard has recovered. Morris was hit on the head and his mind has not been right since. He is in the care of Sheriff Rowland on complaints his folks want him treated at the sanitarium in Milledgeville but they are not accepting inmates at this time.

    There is action along the Bee Line highway again this time it comes from Wilkinson County, here to boost the highway. Wilkinson wants it, Jones and Twiggs wants it, Johnson started off wanting it. Emanuel hasn't refused it but has been cold-footed on it. Bibb is also on board. All the interested counties will meet soon at Ball's Ferry to discuss the entire route from Macon to Swainsboro. Congressman W. W. Larson and Carl Vinson are invited guests.

    The recent legislature made a new highway system that includes the Jeff Davis highway from Wrightsville to the Jefferson line, the road to Emanuel line below Kite, and the road to Ball's Ferry. The Jeff Davis from here to Bartow is included in the 800 miles added by the State. Johnson's first priority is fixing Price's bridge which has been an eye-sore for years.

    The county forces eliminated the bad curve below Farmers Gin where the street comes into the road from Kite. A sharp corner was cut down and fixed. Georgia Power removed two large transformers and replaced with three 350 K.V.A. transformers which gives Wrightsville twice the amount of power.

    Scott High School opens the 23rd. Miss Bertryce McWhorter will teach at Alma High School. Mrs. J. W. Vanlandingham will teach in the Samaracand College in North Carolina. Miss Lillian Hicks is teaching at Kite. A dozen students are in college at Cochran. They are Nannie McAfee, Nancy Crowe, Brown Davis, Edd Jordan, Beverly Kennedy, Lamar Hatcher, Willard & Bertrice Price, George Morris, Ernest Cheaves, Albert Meade and Carl Walker.

    Mr. Mason Davis is manager of the Dixie Grocery Store, one of the Parker chain, in Wrightsville located in the Ford building. Mr. J. T. Duff for Duff Brothers, large county farmers had a result of 10 to 12 bales of cotton to the plow and some are getting 14 bales but none are falling below 8 bales. Its a 17 horse farm and they have ginned 120 bales and will probably get 60 more.

    Sleuth work by officers of the county captured Joe Archer and Bose Johnson, two colored farmers and they pled guilty to cotton stealing. Judge Brinson gave them eleven months each on the chain gang, both are old men. They are repairing the bridge across Cedar for the county.

From Days Gone By Sept. 9, 1929

 September 9, 1929.

    A big whiskey and a distilling raid was made by Sheriff W. D. Rowland and Deputy Jim Tapley down on the Little Ohoopee in the eastern part of the county. The big moonshine factory was running in full blast when the officers got in to where the plant was carefully built but the fellows who operated the business didn't care to have such heavyweight visitors just at that hour and had put distance between themselves and their illicit shop in the swamp. The 150 gallon copper still had just been re-charged it looked like, and was turning out some good-looking liquor, according to the deputy. About half a barrel there went the way of all "shine" when a couple of officers seize it and it with a large vat of "mobby", and a lot of other materials were destroyed on the spot. There was evidence around the place of big whiskey operations for some time and this is likely to head in on a lot of plans to carry on in greater volume hereafter.

    Mr. B. R. Morrow of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Farmer's Seed Loan Office will be in Wrightsville every Monday until further notice to assist the farmers in remitting their obligations to the government. Mr. F. C. Powell of the Corley-Powell Produce Company in Atlanta writes that Johnson farmers are raising more food products for distant consumption and is doing a good job of it. Many large trucks are now hauling cotton to Augusta and Savannah averaging 16 to 18 bales per truck. Little cotton is being shipped by rail. The county agent will have another hog sale on the 25th.

    Prof. D. W. Urquart is entering in the poultry and egg business at Pringle. Mr. Avery Glover, while cutting some forage for his animals was bitten in the finger of his left hand by a rattlesnake and he had to shake the snake loose from his hand. He used a belt for a tourniquet and headed for town for medical aid. He is ok but in a lot of pain.

    Kite Consolodated School opens the 17th. Wrightsville High opened with 344 enrolled. Harrison School opens on the 16th. Mr. Wesley Brinson is going to Georgia Tech. Martha Martin and Florence Brinson go to Georgia Normal in Statesboro. France Flanders, Juliette Roundtree, Nannie Claire Hicks, and May Ware Daley return to Wesleyan College. Louise Kent and Louise Neal attend GSCW in Milledgeville. Elizabeth Kent and Lula Harrison attend Bessie Tift College. Mamie Riner and Emily Moye attend Statesboro Teachers College.

    Miss Claudia Riner will teach at Adrian. Miss Nannilu Moseley will teach at Bogart. Mary Sanders and Doris McIntyre will teach school at Dexter.

    The Kite College list is Ellen and Annie Mae Hatcher, Gladys Hill are attending GSCW in Milledgeville. Verestal Anderson and Allie Belle Fortner are attending the Statesboro Teachers College and Mr. Julian Minton is attending Georgia Tech.

    Mr. & Mrs. Cleo Johnson moved to Milledgeville where he is a traveling salesman for Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. The Wrightsville City Council hopes to do something for the dilapidated sidewalks before long. Ordinary W. J. Flanders and District Manager W. S. Dennis of Dublin have been in consultation on two roads, the Jeff Davis from Bartow to Wrightsville and Route 15 from Wrightsville to Dublin.

    Miss Pennilou Josey, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Josey from the eastern side of Johnson married Mr. Robert Hatcher of Tennille on August 31st. He is a Washington County business man. Miss Erna Flanders Wheeler of Wrightsville married Mr. Alexander Morrison of Broxton on September 3rd in Aiken, S. C. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. C. C. Wheeler.

    Mrs. M. A. Carter of Scott died on August 31st after a lengthy illness. She was 72 years old, widow of Dr. Carter. Surviving are several daughters and three sons.

From Days Gone By Sept. 2, 1929

 September 2, 1929.

    The local American Legion is stepping out strong sponsoring the big county fair which they claim will be the largest and best ever held in the 12th District. They have the promise of the aid of the local citizens, past fair management, the county agents and the business houses. An exact date has not been set.

    Two big checks have come to Ordinary J. W. Flanders. The past due money for the Confederate veterans and the second quarter gas tax check. The veterans check was for $1,600. Each veteran received $50, payment based on $200 per year. The 1919 legislature increased the pensions to $360 per year payable in $30 each per month, but does not go into effect till January 1930. The State spent four hundred thousand to pay Georgia pensioners this quarter.  The gas tax check amounted to $1,418.14 for the second quarter. 

    Wrightsville High School opens on the tenth. Miss Christine Claxton is in nurse training at Oglethorpe University in Savannah. Mr. Harvey Hatcher will enter the School of Commerce at University of Georgia. Mrs. O. H. Tompkins will be principal of Pebble City, Georgia schools. Miss Beulah Moseley is in Athens at the State Normal College.

    Miss Erna Flanders wed Mr. Alex Morrison at Aiken, South Carolina. Miss Alma Webb wed Mr. Talmadge Logue on August 25th. Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Beddingfield had a boy, Hugh, Jr. on August 22nd.

    At the home of Will Cochran near Donovan, Layson Beecham wanted to do away with a dynamite cap that was left in the house, took it outside and pitched it some 50 feet into the yard. It exploded and sent some sort of missile, part of the cap, or rock, which hit an 18 month old baby boy sitting on the porch, in the right jugular vein of the throat. The child was bleeding profusely and rushed to Dr. Brantley who dressed it. The boy is said to be ok.

    C. S. Bradshaw, Jr., about 6 years old, smothered to death in a pile of cotton in the back of his father's barn, 5 miles west of town on the Dublin road. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Bradshaw. It was about 30 minutes his mother found him breathless. Only his feet and part of his legs stood above the cotton. Efforts to revive him did not work. His father was off on a fishing trip at the time. He was buried at Pleasant Grove.

    Maybelle Hall, colored, got the worst end of a bloody fight in her home, and her husband Willie, charged with attacking her as she lay in the bed. She said Willie jumped out of bed, hit her over the head with a fire poker almost bending the rod double. She jumped up to try to defend herself but her face and eyes were full of blood and could not see. He then began pelting her with his fists. This went on about 20 minutes when she finally made a run to the neighbors. Willie changed his bloody clothes, then went to Chief Crawford who locked him up. Maybelle filed attempted murder against him and he is now rooming with Sheriff W. D. Rowland.

    Have you ever heard of a cow giving birth to a calf when the mother cow was less than a year old? Well this happened in this county. The cow liked three weeks being a year and gave birth on the plantation of Mr. Brown Douglas. Old timers say this was a very unusual thing.

    Farmer Monroe Cook is gathering 5 acres of old time bunch butter beans on his Adrian road farm. He expects to pick 2,000 pounds with an average market price of seven cents. He is shipping them to Atlanta. This crop of butter beans will be followed by cabbage. This is another example of farmers diversifying from cotton.

    Mr. Walter Eugene Smith of Pleasant Plains community died on August 27th after being confined to his bed for three weeks with typhoid fever. He was a deacon at Pleasant Plains and buried at Beulah. He was 32 years old and left a wife, seven children, three brothers including Will Tom Smith, a sister, and a half sister.

From Days Gone By Aug. 26, 1929

 August 26, 1929.

    County Agent Crow and a number of farmers sold a car load of sweet potatoes at a dollar a bushel in 50 pound hampers. In this car were 634 hampers to be shipped to Chicago. In another carload to Chicago held about 500 hampers. This excites renewed interest in diversified agriculture.

    Farmer W. H. Holton, on the Jenkins place for 13 years and running, is a good farmer, and results show a good cotton farmer. He has 40 acres in cotton now. While he expected 25 bales, his crop will go to 28 to 30 bales. That's pre-boll weevil levels. How does he do it? He fights the weevil. He says there are three crops of the insects. The first dosen't amount to anything. The second strew the crop of weevils to do the damage and the third crop will eat it up unless you poison them or destroy in some way. He goes after all three crops of the insect. On his 40 acres he has spent $90 in poisoning. He estimates ten bales of cotton by doing so were saved.

    Mr. & Mrs. Oralee Walker had a girl on August 24th. Miss Louise Tanner and Mr. Luther Manning married August 17th. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie T. Tanner. Miss Ethlyn Moore, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Moore wed Mr. Bascom C. Weill who is a traveling salesman.

    Mr. Francis Shurling will attend Oglethorpe University. Miss Martha Martin and miss Florence Brinson are attending Georgia Normal School. Miss Nancy Rowland is attending GSCW at Valdosta. Miss Caroline Blount is going to the State Normal at Athens and Ethlyn Blount will teach music in Unadilla.

    Mr. Henry Tharpe of Stevens Hardware Company in Dublin is going to Atlanta to work for Fridgidare. The American Legion is considering sponsoring the fall fair in October. Playing at the Idlehour Theatre is Jacquline Logan and Ina Keith in "The Lookout Girl", also Buddy Roosevelt in "Lightning Shot".

    Judge W. C. Brinson, City Court judge has suspended court until November on account of the farmers gathering in their crops. Ordinary Flanders has assessed the road tax this year at $3.00 each.

    Mrs. Annie Webb McAfee, daughter of the late J. D. Webb, died on August 20th. She was born December 29, 1865 and married John A. McAfee, Jr. on September 9, 1886. She a faithful member of Arline Chapel Methodist Church. Her children are Mrs. J. W. Vanlandingham, Miss Bertha McAfee, Otis, Lotis, John D. McAfee, Mrs. J. R. Williams, Mr. J. M. McAfee and Mrs. C. A. Turner. She was buried in Westview.

From Days Gone By Aug. 19,1929

 August 19, 1929.

    There is a regular organized post of the American Legion here now. The full organization was completed last week in the City Council chambers. Col. Guy Alford of Swainsboro, a post organizer, is one of the leading Legionares in this part of the state. The officers elected were: Commander- B. B. Hayes; Vice-Commander- H. B. Bray; Sargent-At-Arms- Z. A. Cullens; Finance Officer- E. Q. Martin; Agent- Arlie Price; Historian- W. N. Price; Chaplain- T. E. Jenkins.

    The legislature has put on a six cent tax on gasoline and four cent on motor oils as of September 1st. Users are at present paying a tax of four cent on gasoline and nothing on oil. This should net the State eight million annually. The Neill-Traylor highway milage bill will increase state highway milage from 6,300 miles to 9,000 miles.

    Mr. John A. Douglas is the City Collector for Wrightsville and will begin collecting on the 15th. Miss Nannie Kennedy has accepted the teaching of Home Economics at Fernadina High in Florida. Mr. & Mrs. James I. Spell have returned to their home in DeLand, Florida. Mr. John R. Rowland celebrated his 79th birthday surrounded by his children, grand and great grand children, cousins and many good friends.

    Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Brown had a boy on the 14th in Savannah. Mr. & Mrs. Laudice Lovett will move to Milledgeville where he accepted a salesman position with Georgia Power Company. Prof. J. W. Williams moved to Bogart, near Athens, and take charge of the consolidated school there. Mr. Walter Smith is now in Macon at Southern Business College taking a Commercial Business course. Miss Ollie Eve Hatcher of Kite married Mr. J. J. Nixon, Jr. of Augusta on August 17th.

    A camp for farm women will be at the Wrightsville School house consisting of refinishing furniture, vegetable gardening, poultry raising, home orchard, breadmaking and keeping cows for profit. Mayor Monroe Cook is shipping a carload of Porto Rico sweet potatoes netting him $1 per bushel. Cotton picking is moving along fast. Farmers feel the crop will not be as large as expected. Mr. S. P. Rice brought in a sample of his corn that measured 14 inches in length and two and one half inches in diameter.

    Mr. Sherrod Renfroe died on August 19th at the age of 74. The funeral was at Gethsemne church with burial in Westview. He raised three sons and six daughters, those that survive him are E. O., Q. J. and W. W. Renfroe, Mrs. George Young, Mrs. J. A. Bush, Mrs. H. L, Smith, Mrs. Ira Waters, Mrs. H. L. Blount and Mrs. J. B. Raymond.

    Little Barney, the 13 year old son of Mr. & Mrs. Johnnie Kittrell died August 15th. He had been bad afflicted and suffered severly for near two years. He was buried at Union Hill.

From Days Gone By Aug. 12, 1929

 August 12, 1929.

    Judge W. C. Brinson opened City Court with a heavy list of cases to be disposed of. Solicitor Rowland, assisted by Eugene Cook representing the State. There were a number tried Monday and up to 2 pm with acquittals preponderating and a couple of mistrials. A number of guilty pleas were entered and fined accordingly. Tuesday Judge Brinson turned it over to Judge Camp to preside in a disqualified case of Mrs. Sara Brinson vs The Woodmen of the World, a suit to collect insurance on the late Dr. R. E. Brinson. The jury awarded Mrs. Brinson $2500.

    Notice was given that all automobile speeders in the city limits will be brought to justice from now on. It will be enforced. Mr. Raymond Rowland now has an office position with Lovett Lumber Company. Mrs. Quergeon Martin bought out the millinery store of Mrs. Mae Parker and will open a new shop in the brick building across Elm Street. Miss Ethel Price who just graduated from the A. & M. College at Cochran, has accepted a teaching position in Arizona. Mr. Henry Heath of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and his three children are here on a visit with family.

    Col. Charles S. Claxton calculates that the bad hail and wind storm a few weeks ago damaged one of his crops to the amount of 100 bales of cotton alone. Private Steve Jackson of Fort Bragg, N. C. was home enjoying his 21st birthday. Harvey Spell will move his family to Wadley where he becomes its new chief of police.

    While enroute to his father's, Mr. Cecil Anderson had a very bad accident with his new auto just across Cedar. The car hit a tree face to face after it had jumped a ditch or two and swung through some bushes. He was accompanied by a young lady friend from Macon. Both were jostled up but only had minor brusies.

    Rev. Bascom Anthony, D. D., presiding elder of Thomasville District and former pastor at Savannah plans to retire from the ministry under the South Georgia Conference. He is the best known minister of his denomination. By the next conference he will be 70. They will make their home in Macon but will spend alot of time at Doboy Island. He has been a conference member for 47 years.

    Miss Ethel Scarborough, 24 of Dublin, died in a Savannah Hotel Sunday. It is said she died from the affects of a dose of poison she took when she reached her boarding house after being accompanied home by a young man friend. She was a daughter of Rev. & Mrs. Henry Scarborough.

    Mrs. Martha M. Davis, wife of ex-sheriff Lewis Davis, died at the residence in town, August 9th, from a heart attack. Earlier in the day she carried out her daily routine when in the afternoon complained of chest pains and laid down to rest. Soon after Lewis went in to check on her, summond a doctor but expired before he arrived. Mrs. Davis was a native of Tennessee. She was a Baptist and was buried in Westview.

    

From Days Gone By Aug. 5, 1929

 August 5, 1929.

    The beautiful program out at the Stokes cemetery at the unveiling of the monument over the grave of Elisha Walker came off great by prominent personages of the state. It was the first sort of excercises to take place in our county. The records and information was unearthed by the untiring efforts of Dr. & Mrs. W. J. Flanders, Mrs. Lota W. Orr and Mrs. John Lott Walker and the state archives. It was prepared by Lucian Lamar Knight who also used information from the family Bible.

    The excercises were in charge of Mrs. J. E. McGlaw, regent of Shellman, Georgia, Chapter D. A. R. Elder Reese Griffin gave the invocation. Little Freddie and Jackie Walker, two of the youngest descendants unveiled the marker. Then a wreath was placed by Mrs. Parmelia Stokes Walker and Miss Martha Stokes. The six little girls, ages 5 to 11 sang, "Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean". The main address was given by Dr. Flanders which covered Elisha's history since he obtained the title of land where they stood from the government in 1784, and has remained in the family ever since. The benediction was said by Rev. S. C. Olliff, President of Andrew Female College. Lunch was then spread on the ground at the home.

    Mr. A. H. Edge brought Wrightsville its first new bale of cotton for 1929 to Rowland's Ginnery. It weighed 517 lbs and brought 20 cents per pound and bought by J. H. Rowland. Soon after, Mr. Cal Dixon brought a new bale to the Lovett Gin weighing 510 lbs. Lovett Gin baled the third bale for Garland Mayo and Rufus Tanner which came from Pringle weighing 381 lbs and sold for 18 cents per pound. Last week Dublin got its first bale from J. R. Smith of Johnson Co. weighing 442 pounds.

    County Agent Crow took 15 club boys to Camp Wilkins in Athens. They were: Woodrow Spell, Paul Flanders, Jack Robinson, Clark Harrison, Chauncey Brinson, Robert Brinson, Ralph Brinson, Weston Veal, Morris T. Riner, Jr., Samuel Riner, Buck Tyson, Graybill Hutcheson, Charlie Hatcher, Paul Doke and James Vickers.

    At the home of Dr. Thomas E. Vickers was organized a Farmer's Club for southwestern Washington County. The Union Warehouse Company applied to renew its charter. Harry Rowland, Huland Simon and Beverly Kennedy took a trip to Kentucky to the caves of that state. Mrs. R. L. Stephens is in New York purchasing her fall merchandise for their store. Wrightsville is now selling gas at 19 cents per gallon. Mrs. Mae Parker closes her millinery business and goes to Converse College in Spartenburg, S. C. Miss Theo Parker will teach at Greensboro, Alabama. Mr. Ben J. Wiggins and family had an auto accident which crushed up his left hand and arm badly.

    Mrs. A. L. Thigpen of Oconee died at Rawlings Sanitarium. Before her marriage she was Miss Lula Flanders, a sister of Mrs. O. P. Prescott. Her husband and six children survive her. She was buried in Westview.

From Days Gone By July 29, 1929

 July 29, 1929.

    Oxford Noble Pennithorpe, a purebred Jersey cow, owned and tested by William Jackson of Donovan, has just been awarded a Silver Medal by the American Jersey Cattle Club for the fine showing she made on her first official production test, started when she was three years and ten months of age. In 365 days this fine producer yielded 675.87 pounds of butterfat and 9,537 pounds of milk, missing a Gold Medal award by less than 25 pounds of butterfat. In her best month she yielded a total of 69.97 pounds of butterfat. She was with calf 253 days during the test and qualified for her Silver Medal in Class AA. This new Silver Medal cow was sired by Viola's Fawn Prince, and she is his first daughter to be officially tested. Her dam is Pennithorpe's Noble Daisy.

    Planter N. D. Norris praised the county for more and better marketing conditions here. His praise of chickens and hogs was loud, but he says this does not go far enough. That produce of all kinds can be marketed here that could be as good as the poultry and swine. He especially mentioned onions, sweet potatoes and melons.

    The Elisha Walker monument unveiling was postponed until next Saturday on account of some far away authorities not being able to get here. President J. N. Hall of the Johnson County Singing Convention says the August event will be at Gethsemne church.

    Dr. John G. Harrison, Dean of Mercer University and a Johnson countian, has had thrust on him another honor, being appointed as a member of the State Board of Education by Gov. L. G. Hardman. At Camp Wilkins, Athens, last week in the Speaking Contest by the Future Farmers of America of Georgia, Eugene Price of Adrian High School won first place in the finals and won $25.

    Policemen Crawford and Mayo found an abandoned car on North Marcus and parked it in a local storage room pending a claim of ownership. It was a 1928 Ford Roadster. It had a Macon City tag on it, was without gas, curtains up, and a bathing suit in it.

    The cotton season is just ahead and prospects are good for a splendid crop, to please the optimists. To tickle the pessimists it might be said there are also prospects of too many boll weevils along now.

    Solicitor J. Roy Rowland is about to assume the duties of his office again after almost a year of being in ill health. Mr. & Mrs. Floyd B. Brantley had a daughter, Phyllis Janette, on July 21st.

    Playing at the Wrightsville Theater, "A Woman's Justice", and Buddy Roosevelt in "The Devils Tower". Also "Tarzan The Mighty".

From Days Gone By July 22, 1929

 July 22, 1929.

    The unveiling of the monument at the grave of Elisha Walker will occur on the 27th at what is known as the Stokes graveyard, 7 miles west of town. This is organized by the D. A. R., Mr. Walker being a veteran of the Revolution. A marker will also be placed on the grave of his daughter, Mrs. Permelia Walker Rawls. The descendants of this veteran include the Walkers, Brays, Jordans, Moores, Stokes, Youngs, Hammocks, Holts, Seals, Raines, Rawls, Robinsons, Flanders and many more.

    Friday afternoon late a terrific hail and wind storm hit the eastern part of the county in a narrow, long streak, and did a lot of crop damage where it hit. The hail many said was the largest they ever saw. Around Rehobeth church seemed to be the worst hit. Corn was beaten down and the fruit and leaves beaten off of cotton. Fences suffered from falling timbers and one plantation house was hit by lightning on the farm of Frank Price. A number of chimneys on the Claxton and Cook farms went down in the gale. The Stephens place suffered too.

    Lots of farmers just south of Johnson are shipping a great abundance of watermelons. The W. & T. railroad have handled special freight trains the past two weeks. A total of 377 cars have traveled the rail up to Saturday. Last year the rail shipped 415 cars and they expect 500 cars this year.

    Ruth Elders, the woman daredevil, who attempted to cross the Atlantic in an airplane, and was later picked up in mid-ocean, will appear as leading lady with Hoot Gibson in "The Winged Horseman", an airplane picture at the Wrightsville Theater.

    Private Ralph C. Anderson is now in the 30th infantry in Hawaii. His uncle here is Zack Anderson. Mrs. Tom E. Jenkins is secretary and treasurer of the 12th District Auxiliary Georgia Rural Letter Carriers Assoc.

    T. L. Martin, secretary Board of Trustees, states the Wrightsville High School will be on the A-1 state accredited list, with the probability of being on the Southern list, which it has never been before. Tuition is free through grammer school with a small fee for high school. They are discontinuing the vocational department for financial reasons. Miss FloRene Hatcher will be director of music at the Jackson High School.

    Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Brantley had a daughter on July 16th. They have 3 sons. It is a granddaughter of Mr. Frank Flanders.

    Miss Lee Smith, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Smith wed Mr. Marcus R. Stallings of Tampa on July 7th. Miss Mary Lou Barnes, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barnes married Dr. W. C. Lowe of Jacksonville. Miss Mary Brooks of Donovan, daughter of Mr. A. R. Brooks, wed Mr. Cecil Bailey on July 18th. Mr. Bailey is from a prominent McRae family. He is employed with Sims Grocery in Wrightsville and will make their home in Donovan.

    A wedding of widespread interest was that of Miss Margaret Kent, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Kent, a graduate of Bessie Tift College. She wed Mr. Aubrey L. Jones of Richmond, Virginia. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Jones of Erwin, Tenn. and is manager of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Richmond.

    

From Days Gone By July 15, 1929

 July 15, 1929.

    The Wrightsville Commercial Club took action over certain legislation proposed that effects Johnson County and it was transmitted to the legislators with the request to carry out the wishes of the Club if possible. The Club opposes the placing of the Solicitor-General of this circuit on a salary of $3,250 to be paid by the respective counties in proportion to their population. They also went on record opposing the Bond Bill. It favors Judge Hatcher's to increase the highway milage from 6,300 to 7,300 miles, and naming the location of the additional milage, wherein Johnson County would get the Bee-Line and the Jefferson Davis Memorial highway on the state system.

    Judge Bascom S. Deaver of the Middle District of Georgia in Macon, refused to appoint a receiver for the estate of C. G. Rawlings, which was asked by two creditors. He ordered attorneys to draw a decree enjoining L. B. Holt, trustee, Sandersville banker, from disposing of any portion of a large tract of morgaged land on which the Southern Cotton Oil Company of Savannah has a claim of $20,000. The order will permit the sale of the land, provided the purchaser will deposit into court a sum of money sufficient to satisfy the claim in the event a judgement is rendered in favor of the Savannah company at some future date, or make a bond to protect it.

    The petitions for receiver were brought by the Savannah corporation and by Mary Rawlings Houston, daughter of C. G. Rawlings. Mrs. Houston also asked an accounting of Mr. Holt as trustee of her father's estate. Mr. Rawlings is serving a life term in the State Penitentiary.

    Professor Knox of Metter was chosen to head the local high school system at a meeting of the board of trustees. He has many years experience as superintendent of some of the leading high schools of the state. He will move his family here over the summer.

    County Agent Crow held his tenth poultry sale of the year. This one netted farmers $1,008.32 and was bought by the R. L. Warren Produce Company of Atlanta. There was a total of 5,676 pounds shipped. Mr. Henry Hammock brought in the first open cotton boll of the season.

    Alice Watkins files for divorce from Lewis Watkins. The Wrightsville Theater is featuring Richard Barthelmees in "Scarlet Seas", also Al Hoxie in "Two Gun Murphy".

    The Wrightsville Tigers, colored team, defeated the Soperton Bears in baseball. Lefty Reese held Soperton to two hits while Wrightsville batted eight runs.

    Mrs. Sallie Lockhart, 85, passed away at her daughters, Mrs. George A. Smith on the 13th. She suffered a fractured hip ten weeks ago. She was out in the yard and passing through the gate when the wind storm blew it against her. This, and other ailments just grew worse. She was the widow of W. H. Lockhart and was born in Warren County. She was a Methodist and survived by six children. She was buried at Warthen.

From Days Gone By July 8, 1929

 July 8, 1929.

     The Fourth of July was pleasantly spent by the people with picnics, dinners, ball games, and many went fishing. Mr. Lucian L. Lord and about 500 guests enjoyed a birthday dinner for his wife and his son, Albert also turned 21. The 50th wedding anniversary of Rev. J. W. Spell was also celebrated. Then later in the afternoon Albert and Miss Jessie Townsend were married.

    Mr. J. W. Claxton returned from an extended tour through North Carolina with the Locust Grove Institute band in which he plays. Mr. George Bray is now the chief soda jerker at Brinson's Drug Store. Sunday and Monday gas was selling in Wrightsville for 20 cents per gallon, down 5 cents and is still holding there. The Ford Motor Company produced 1,065,630 cars and trucks the first six months of this year. Just for June they produced 177,419 units.

    The smaller paper money sent out by the Federal Reserve is allowing banks to exchange old, worn out larger bills for new ones. The new bills are two-thirds the size of the old bills. The potraits on the new money are: $1 Washington; $2 Jefferson; $10 Hamilton; $20 Jackson; $50 Grant; $100 Franklin; $500 McKinley; $1,000 Cleveland; $5,000 Madison and $10,000 Chase.

    The local banks released their statements of condition. The Bank of Wrightsville $208,290.88; Farmers & Merchants of Kite $29,983.28; The Exchange Bank $255,877.30; The Bank of Adrian $69,143.27.

    Johnson is in for a good crop this season, the best in 10 years. Corn is good and cotton is coming along fine. If the weevil is kept down watch the cotton figures this year. Some tobacco is growing good too. The South Georgia Tobacco markets open July 23rd with high prices predicted.

    Johnson Counties legislators have been appointed to lots of committees. Sen. Felix C. Williams is on Amendments to Constitution; Appropriations; Banks & Banking; Finance; Chairman Fish & Game; Military Affairs; Municipal Government; Special Judiciary; UGA and its branches. Rep. A. L. Hatcher's committees are Chairman of General Judiciary; Appropriations; Education; Public Highways; State of the Republic and UGA. Rep. Hatcher has introduced two big bills. A game and fish matter and road proposition. This bill would add 1,000 miles to the highway system and giving the system 7,300 miles and naming certain state aid road milage. This additional milage includes roads from Bartow to Wrightsville to the Laurens line, and the Bee Line highway.

    Miss Elizabeth Jackson, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. M. A. Jackson married Mr. Lafayette Popwell at Clanton, Alabama. They will live at Lakeland, Florida. Miss Sara Lovett, daughter of Mrs. E. A. Lovett wed Mr. Roy Leon Thompson on July 3rd. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Thompson of Cochran. They will live at Cordele.

    One of the worst derailments of the W. & T. yet happened at Idylwild as No. 1 was enroute to Dublin. Seven boxcars left the tracks but no one was hurt. It was a long train with Engineer W. D. Stokes and Capt. Barfield the Conductor. They were running at moderate speed crossing the Idylwild trestle with 19 cars, 2 coaches and the engine. Between the long trestle and the short one where Mr. Lindsey was killed September 4, 1925 in a bad wreck, the company has maintained good tracks. But it was on this small curved stretch it happened. It is believed a boxcar jumped the track and derailed seven others, two heavily loaded and five empties stuck in the embankment. The car loaded with merchandise shot to the left and stood upright on the opposite side of the coal car. Crews worked all Monday afternoon and night to clear the wreckage and the train was running as usual on Tuesday.

From Days Gone By July 1, 1929

 July 1, 1929.

    Cheered by the fact that the operation has proved successful, Miss Lavada Rebecca Amos, Augusta honor student, whose 8th operation gave her something she had not had in the 20 years of her life---her eyesight--is recovering from the operation performed in Augusta last week. The bandages were removed from her eyes by Dr. Wade R. Bedingfield, noted Augusta surgeon and eye specialist, who, in the case of Miss Amos, performed his second operation to overcome one which previously had failed. It was the second time that the physician has restored the sight of one who was blind from birth. Miss Amos's eyes will be kept bandaged for some time yet in order to accustomed to the light gradually. Dr. Wade R. Bedingfield is a Johnson County son who is fast forging to the top in his profession.

    Lee Wright, colored farmer on the Will Raley plantation was freed in the preliminary hearing given him by Justices Anderson and Roundtree. Wright was charged for murdering George Wynn. George had threatened Lee time and time again and witnesses testified that Wynn was advancing on Lee with a knife and a plow handle. Lee pled self defense when he got a shotgun from Coon Walker's house and shot Wynn in the right side. Wynn ran up the road to his front yard and fell dead. Wynn's family testified that he was drinking at the time.

    Prof. E. D. Tollerson of Franklin has been elected principal of the Kite Consolidated School for next term. Hon. A. Lee Hatcher, Johnson's representative in the legislature, is introducing a special bill to put the Bee Line on the state highway system.

    Pastor Jesse E. Hall and his congregation at Beulah have done over the church building and now looks like a new one inside and out. The tall dilapidated steeple, with the big bell in the tower, has been removed and the paint brush used freely. The quaint old window blinds have been taken down and the glass stained giving better inside light. They will have a big revival soon.

    Mr. Leander Moseley, 83, died peacefully at his home Tuesday morning. He had been confined indoors most of the last year on account of feebleness. He was born and reared in Emanuel and moved here 63 years ago. Early in life he married Miss Mary Jane Heath and had 12 boys and 3 girls. Those living are Cannie, W. L., D., Jeff, Seaborn, C. T. and Watson Moseley, Mrs. Mabell Attaway and Mrs. Isabel Weiner. His wife also survives him. He was a Confederate veteran, a Baptist of Brown Memorial and for many years a stock owner and a director in the Bank of Wrightsville. He was buried in Westview.

    Mrs. Carlton Rowland died at the home of Mr. & Mrs. J. S. Rowland. She was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Cal Dixon and survived by her husband and infant son. She was buried in the Kent cemetery. Judge E. Martin Price died Saturday morning at Pringle. He was a Mason and was buried at Pleasant Hill in Washington County.

    Mrs. Sallie Warren died at home near the city Friday morning. Eight children were born to her and her first husband, the late Amos J. Bush, with three living, James D., Tom, and Mrs. Elvira Chappell. She was born April 9, 1852 and married twice. She was a member of Brantley's Chapel but was buried at Beulah.

    When Mr. Lee Kennedy and Miss Alma Davis were wed at Brooklet, the groom became a brother-in-law to his son, Mr. L. A. Kennedy, Jr. The son has been married several months and while visiting him, the father met the sister of his son's wife and were married.

    Miss Joyce Jenkins wed Mr. Millard Ray. She was a daughter of Mr. H. L. Jenkins living near the Johnson/Washington line on the Tennille road. Mr. Ray is a merchant of Coleman, GA and member of the firm of Rogers & Ray.

    Idylwild has invited a large crowd to the resort to spend the glorious fourth with free entrance to the grounds.

From Days Gone By June 24, 1929

 June 24, 1929.

    Lee Wright, colored farmer on the Raley plantation will be given a peliminary hearing on the charge of murder which was laid to him by relatives of George Wynn, his colored neighbor, who it is alleged Wright killed on Easter Sunday morning in a melee. It is said a number of colored people witnessed the killing. Wright has been in jail a few weeks, having been apprehended in Macon by Sheriff Rowland.

    Judge W. C. Brinson heard two cases in City Court against colored fellows, one pled guilty the other was tried. Ozie Fields was tried on the charge of being drunk and cursing on the highway and was given a fine of $100 or 10 months, and half of the $100 fine was suspended under probation to his employer, Mr. Lovett Claxton. George May said he let his fingers stick to some meal that didn't belong to him and he got a sentence of $40 or 8 months. He worked for Col. C. S. Claxton.

    By people not going fishing on Sunday, the law stopping fishing in Johnson for three months expires June 29th. July 1st the people can fish within the law in any stream in the county. Two years ago the Grand Jury made fishing prohibited in this county during April, May and June.

    County Agent M. E. Crow is called the best agent in the state, says Johnson is in for a good crop if the people will fight the weevils and the season hits right on all the crops which have been mighty fine so far. Those aggresively fighting the weevil should make good. Corn is looking well also. He advises a free use of poisons on cotton but is inclined to lean to the dust and powder instead of the mixture as a remedy, "Trouble the weevil and not him trouble you."

    The dairy business seems to be a prosperous one in Johnson now and for some years past. Good cows have been the boast of a number of citizens for years. The largest cattle owners produce milk, cream and butter in abundance and sell quantities by shipping it away or as much as local markets can consume. Mr. William Jackson at Donovan runs a dairy of from 90 to 110 cows. He ships the products to Savannah and other markets. On the list of supplies to the local markets are Mr. Ben Peddy with 15 to 20 cows, Mr. Louie T. Kent with 10 to 15 head, Mrs. Ben Hill Moye with a dozen or more and Mr. Frank Flanders with a half dozen or so.

    The Sea Island Yacht Club is opened by the hotel on St. Simons for private parties and dances. It is expected that the Yacht Club, with its broad veranda overlooking Frederica River will be the scene of many social functions.

    The Idlehour Theatre will be showing "Casey Jones", the greatest railroad picture ever. And coming in July will be "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Universal's $200,000 production.

    Miss Estelle Clark, Miss Bessie Bell and Miss Gertrude Delph are anticipating the attendance of the Tybee Beauty Pagent at Tybee next week. The committee would like to have a number of entrants from here and in the county.

    Nelson M. Shipp, divisional director of the joint committee for highway bonds says the proposed bond issue would be an $80,000 savings to the tax payers of Johnson. Under the current plan the county contributes one-fourth of the cost of constructing state highways. Johnson with only 16 miles would have to pay $80,000 of the $320,000 at the rate of $20,000 a mile. Under the new proposal to bond the state and have these highways paved entirely with monies from auto license fees and gas taxes. All of Johnson's 16 miles of state highway would be paid out of these fees. This means the city/county would pay the bulk of the amount, as this county has only 952 autos. No state highway should be built from property tax. The so called gas tax in reality is not a tax, but rent, and a paved highway is the most rentable thing in the world.

    The people of Johnson should have the benefit of an airline route to Macon and a bridge across the river. This should be a state highway with out county contributions. Wrightsville is situated in the highway of the world, opportunely placed on the map, and much more travel would come this way if that road and bridge could be worked out. A five year building program is contemplated.

From Days Gone By June 17, 1929

 June 17, 1929.

    Miss Helen Shurling 15, Miss Mary Shurling 17, two sisters, and Miss Morell Wood 15, were badly hurt on Sunday afternoon near Tennille on the bridge at Deep Cut over the Central Railroad track sending all to the hospital. A big Buick going at a fast speed across the highway bridge swerved at them as a prank as they stood on the bridge but hit them all. Helen was thrown off the bridge, 10 feet below breaking her jaw and internal injuries almost fatal. Mary was bruised internally and the Wood girl a broken leg. The girls, wounded and bleeding were left there crushed in agony on the ground. The little boy with them escaped uninjured. The Sunday afternoon Kodaking party was turned into a bloody, excruciating painful calamity.

    The car stopped about 100 feet away, one of 3 men got out to take a look at the situation, got back in and sped away. The injured girls were rushed to Sandersville and a hot chase set up to catch the fleeing car, all surrounding counties were on the lookout with over a dozen counties involved. Finally the 3 were arrested and landed in the Sandersville jail held without bond pending the outcome of the girls. Those arrested were John Frank Rogers 23, Union Point, George Wilkins 25 and Nathan Rogers 22 of Washington County.

    Tom Page, Johnnie Beasley and S. A. Attaway all reported burglaries around their places, the thieves seeming to target meats in the farmers smokehouses. The nightly marauders carried away some hams and other kinds of meat. They are telling folks to lock their smokehouses and get a good dog.

    Hon. Nelson Shipp of Macon is coming to Wrightsville to speak on bonds for good roads. The poultry sale netted farmers $1,408.51. Idylwild is having a big square dance this night. There will be a tent meeting at Scott between A. L. Foskey's store and McGahee service station. The prohibition enforcement matter is getting old. This way of shooting into cars with innocent and helpless is no way to aid the cause and the people have about lost all sympathy with the revenuers who operate this way.

    Pasturing cattle is becoming a big industry these days and has made its way to Johnson. Mr. W. H. Lovett has bought some fine breeding stock having several hundred head up on the Tarbutton and Parson place. Dr. H. B. Bray has a large number also.

    Rev. F. C. Oliff has accepted the presidency of Andrew Female College at Cuthbert. Rev. Oliff is a half Wrightsville man having married a daughter of Judge & Mrs. W. J. Flanders.

    Miss Myrtle Frost of Wrightsville and Mr. Louis Veal of Milledgeville were wed at Tennille Methodist. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. E. R. Frost of here. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Veal. Miss Irene Smith of Decatur wed Waymond A. Clay of Dekalb Co. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Sidney F. Smith and a graduate of Kite and Martha Berry College. They will live at Viola, GA.

    Miss Henrietta Odom of Newton wed Mr. Edwin Ferrell of Albany on June 1st. Her parents are Mr. & Mrs. Robert Benton Odom of Newton and she was the former Miss Penny Dent of Wrightsville. Mr. & Mrs. James L. Miller celebrated 60 years of marriage on June 17th. James is one of a few Confederate veterans left in the county.

    Mr. Tom V. Sanders died at the hospital in Dublin where he lived for 35 years practicing law and livestock farming. His plantation was considered a model farm. His parents and family moved to Wrightsville from Griffin where they were all raised. He is survived by brothers Wade, Walter D., E. E. and H. B. Sisters Mrs. Lena Cunningham and Mrs. Ella Duffee. He was buried in Westview.

    Mr. Stephen J. Ham, 63, died in Savannah hospital on June 8th. He was born in Ft. Valley but for 15 years lived at Scott, employed by the Central Railway. He was prominent in the Masonic and Woodmen fraturnities. Surving is his wife, 3 brothers and 3 sisters. He has no children but one granddaughter, Mrs. W. C. Smith and grandson, Rance Smith of Scott. He was buried at Carters Chapel.

    Mr. Jim Sumner, 72, respected citizen of Soperton fell dead as he entered the Soperton post office. He had been sick and off duty as mail carrier from the post office to the train there for a few days, but upon improving he had gone from home to the office to do some writing when he fell dead of heart failure. He formally resided in Johnson where he has a large family connection. His children are Mrs. Bennett Tapley, Mrs. Robert Webb and George and Trellie Sumner. He was brought back and buried at Pleasant Grove.

From Days Gone By June 10, 1929

 June 10, 1929.

    The city and the county are to have a live American Legion Post here. This was assured in a rousing meeting at the courthouse, and it will accept every qualified ex-serviceman in the county. Mr. Tom Jenkins was selected as service officer to further the plans of organizing the Post. There are 15 or 20 veterans already signed up for Legion membership. They will have a speaker here in a few days.

    Revenue officers from Savannah raided the county and took out a large copper still and destroyed a lot of the ingredients around the place in the eastern part of the county. Some whiskey was found away from the still, also large quantities of sugar was destroyed. It is said the distillers used the same well of water that was used a few months ago in a still taken by county officers. No arrests were made as no one was on site.

    Another party of boys are headed to Fort Moultrie, Carl Walker, M. A. Jackson, Jr., Lanell Mixon, Ben Hill Moye, Kelley Brown, Hubert Outlaw, B. E. Jordan, Harry Rowland, Beverly Kennedy and Vallaird Blount. Harvey Hatcher, son of Mr. & Mrs. H. G. Hatcher was among 101 cadets who graduated from Riverside Military Academy and is planning to attend UGA.

    The fishing laws will likely be charged after this year. Just a few days and you can lawfully fish in any stream in the county. Mr. Charlie Bray states that he is getting results in fighting the boll weevil by having insects caught at a cent apiece. Mr. Hudson Brantley's barn went up ablaze losing 3 mules, some hogs, corn, a Ford car and some farm implements.

    Mr. Louis Smith was coming to town from Idylwild during a rain storm and just before reaching Mrs. Meeks home, the auto hydroplaned and turned over in a ditch. Six people were in the car. One was rushed to the hospital and the rest just had bumps and brusies.

    While his wife was watching from the front porch, her husband, Robert Tanner broke his neck when his auto turned over. It was his first car and first time driving. He was coming from town where he just bought it. They lived on the Widow Rogers place below Scott. As the car suddenly swerved to the roadside he fell to the side and caught across the neck by the frame of the windshield. He was just 23. His wife was Miss Leotha Purvis, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Tom Purvis. He was buried at Piney Mount.

    After many days of illness at her home near Donovan, Mrs. Charlie Walden died June 5th at 60 years of age. She was the former Annie Pittman. Her husband and several children survive her. She was a member of Beulah Church were she was buried.

    Mr. Richard T. Lovett died at home in Dothan, Alabama June 8th. He was returned here by train to the home of Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Lovett and then buried in the Lovett Cemetery. He was a former state representative and business man here before moving to Alabama. He was 72.

    Another Donovan death was Mrs. A. R. Brooks at the Dublin clinic. She was born in Washington County Aug. 25, 1869 to Morgan L. & Martha Joyner Jackson. She taught school before marrying Alonzo R. Brooks on March 13, 1892. They had 4 children, Effie, Cleon, Cecil and Mary. She was a member of the Christian Church and was buried in the Oconee Cemetery.

    Eustus Fulford, infant son born May 5th, died on June 4th and was buried in the Kent Cemetery. His mother preceded the babe only ten days earlier.