From Days Gone By March 18, 1929

 March 18, 1929.

    The Wrightsville & Tennille No. 1 passenger train from Tennille to Dublin had a very bad wreck near Lovett Sunday morning. It carried a number of heavily loaded box cars loaded with fertilizers. Just as the train was rounding the long curve in front of the I. T. Jackson home this side of Lovett the derailment occured. Seven or eight box cars ploughed up the track for a long distance but the engine remained on the tracks as did the two passenger coaches in the rear. No one was hurt.

    It is believed that spreading rails caused by a wet road bed caused the derailment. All the available work hands rushed to the scene and began to clear the wreckage and getting the box cars back on the rails. By late Sunday night the tracks were cleared and train service resumed Monday morning.

    Wrightsville is planning a clean up date to have all the premises free of trash, cans, etc. and to fixup the trees, fences, yards, alleys, lawns, streets and vacant lots so no uncanny sights appear anywhere.

    Farm relief loans can be had soon according to L. E. White of Columbia, South Carolina who told Congressman Larsen that blanks should be out this week to the county committees. There will be $35,000 to $40,000 alloted to Johnson County and will be dished out according to actual relief.

    Farmers sold three car loads of hogs to the White Provison Company. The hogs sold for 9:61 for No 1s amounting to $4,413.35.

    The city authorities made an exchange with the machine people for a larger tractor. They exchanged the Catapillar 20 for a 30 which seems to work better for the citys needs.

    it was a rainy day, two ways, for darkies like John and Ethel Junior who were caught Friday at Scott by officers Carter and Smith. The pair entered town with a new automobile which belonged to a Griffin, Georgia man. Curious manuverings tipped the officers that something wasn't right. They were stopped and arrested for stealing the car. They were placed in the Wrightsville jail.

    The ladies ordered flower seeds from Hastings for the courthouse and beds were made around the square. Mr. James D. Bush donated 18 pruned pecan trees for the lawn.

    County Agent m. E. Crow moved from Wrightsville to the Tanner-Bullard plantation outside the city to the two-story residence of Mrs. Nana Tanner Bullard just south of town.

    Miss Geneva Powell and Mr. Dan McCoy, Jr. were married by Judge Gordon Sammons at Moore's Chapel. She is a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Willie Powell and the groom is a young farmer of the Liberty Grove community.