From Days Gone By April 8, 1929

 April 8, 1929.

    Mr. Earnest Lee Harrison, a Johnson County son, lost his right hand in the operation of machinery in a machine shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey where he was employed in the shops of the Durant Motor Company. This according to his brother, Mr. Leonard W. Harrison.

    The 15th annual session of the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia will be held in Augusta this month. Johnson County does not have a commission form of government but is run by the Ordinary W. J. Flanders, assisted by County Warden C. T. Wright. They will be attending for the county along with A. L. Hatcher and C. D. Roundtree.

    Groceryman L. E. Parker is bringing to the city by truck a lot of Florida vegetables which he retails out of his store. He makes two trips a week, requiring a day and a half each trip. He travels from 52 to 100 miles below Jacksonville.

    Ordinary W. J. Flanders is having some fine roads built around Donovan. Mr. Silas Price has gone to Gila Bend, Arizona, to work with the Southern Pacific Railroad. This is where his sister resides. They are children of Mr. & Mrs. D. C. Price. Mr. B. C. Weill says he will likely open Idylwild next week for the summer season. He has recently done a lot of work there.

    A meeting of Johnson County farmers interested in poultry will be held at the court house on the 13th to organize a county Poultry Breeders Association. Its asked that each participating farmer should have at lest one hundred laying hens. In order to reach this goal, it is necessary to have an organization that will secure a paying egg market, good quality feed at a reasonable price and last and greatest benefit derived there from will be the systematic study of breeding, feeding and management in general of the flocks.

   Much interest is being taken this year in farming and if the seasons strike our section right there is going to be a good crop made, all of which is encouraging. Farming is about all we hope to depend on in this territory now and their success brings prosperity to the people.

From Days Gone By April 1, 1929

 April 1, 1929.

    Several of the ex-servicemen of Johnson County, after a long delay, are now considering organizing a post of the American Legion in Wrightsville. Mr. Beverly B. Hayes received word from Col. Guy Alford of Swainsboro that he would help establish one here. It will take 15 to 20 ex-servicemen interested, hold a brief meeting, elect a temporary commander and adjutant, agree they want a post here, select a name and petition for a charter to the state commandery. The cost is $2 per man, $1 for state dues and $1 for national dues including a subscription to the Legion monthly. Local post dues are fixed by each post. Alford advises the state convention will be in Brunswick in June.

    Adrian, the smallest town of the eleven that contested with a program over WMAZ won a silver cup and a banquet to the town for the best musical program over WMAZ radio. Each town was given an hour air time. Adrian won with 3,431 votes cast by listeners. The Adrian entertainers were Mrs. L. D. Bailey, Mrs. E. A. Taylor, Mrs. M. C. Flanders, Mrs. J. R. Rogers, Mrs. F. L. Kea, Miss Flora Jones, Mr. G. W. Bailey, Mr. G. A. Fountain and Mr. J. B. Hutchinson.

    The local banks released their statements of condition. The Exchange Bank $280,324.87; Bank of Wrightsville $241,678.12; Farmers & Merchants of Kite $31,716.14; Bank of Adrian $76,776.36.

    Mr. Carl Roundtree, a Wrightsville boy and reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser in Alabama, does heroic work in that flooded area. He delayed his story to the paper to save two women and a baby near Elba, Alabama.

    The State Prison Commission reviewed eleven cases at the State Farm in Milledgeville and denied clemency to all. Mr. Charlie G. Rawlings was one of the eleven who is serving a life sentence for complicity in the killing of Gus A. Tarbutton. His plea was denied.

    On Easter Sunday Miss Bessie Wynn Powell and Mr. Roy Frost were wed at the home of Rev. J. E. Hall. She is a daughter of Mr. Silas L. Powell and he is the youngest son of Mr. & Mrs. E. R. Frost, owners of the Frost Hotel in Wrightsville.

    Lewis H. Holt, Jr., 21 and a student at the University of Georgia died in a Dublin hospital from many injuries when his car overturned several times on the Dublin-Milledgeville road. Holt would have graduated in June with a law degree. He was buried in Sandersville.

    Two colored men mixed it up in an Easter brawl near Mitchell Grove colored church on the Dublin highway. George Wynn died from a breech-loading shotgun to the pit of the stomach fired by Lee Wright. They lived about 200 yards apart on the plantation of Mr. W. H. Raley. The fatal shooting took place at Coon Walker's house. A large number of coloreds were there at the time. When Wynn was shot he ran for home falling dead in his yard. Sheriff Rowland was called but Wright had fled for parts unknown.

From Days Gone By March 25, 1929

 March 25, 1929.

    The Sam Hill rose up mighty high in John Hill at the Moxley saw mill on this side of Kite and John says he couldn't help it. John had warned Charlie Johnson to let Hill's wife alone and told him he must stop paying attention to her. But Johnson didn't stop and came to the mill with Hill's wife. A row ensued. Hill grabbed his shotgun and made for Johnson. The gun wouldn't fire but one time and the shot went wild. Hill then took the barrel and went for Johnson and the wife and her mother. Hill brained Johnson to death on the spot and beat up the two women. Hill went to Kite and told officers what he did and asked to be arrested. He felt like he was justified in his actions. The two women are still among the living.

    Mr. Wren Spell died from a pistol bullet in his head Monday morning in his room in the home of Mr. & Mrs. John A. McAfee. Evidently being suicide. People at the planer mill where he worked said he had made statements to that effect. He went in the lumber office and secured a 32 SW revolver and rushed away driving his car from the planer to the house where he told Mrs. McAfee of his intentions. She begged him to stop but rushed passed her to his room. Mrs. McAfee ran to the neighbors when she heard the gunshot. Tom Reese happened by and she had him go check. Tom entered his room and found Spell lying on his back on the floor, shoes off, hat off, his head lying on a folded quilt, pistol wound in the right side of his head. He was still breathing. His brother, E. R. Spell was notified and came over. The wounded Spell lived about an hour. He wrote three notes, one to W. H. Lovett requesting to be put away nice. One to his father not to worry about him and the third note said "Good-Bye". He was a son of Mr. & Mrs. Ben R. Spell, Sr. He was buried in the Williams graveyard.

    Miss Goldos Chester, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Chester was hanging curtains using a fork which slipped entering her left eye. Mrs. Edd Jordan was hurt while riding in their car on a slippery road throwing her arm into a glass window cutting her in about three places. No one else was hurt.

    Ethel Flanders, a troubled colored woman was taken by Sheriff Rowland to the asylum in Milledgeville. She was in jail awaiting trial. She was a bad prisoner, tearing up everything she got her hands on in the jail and would have demolished it if she could have.

    The turpentine business is quite an operation in the county with seven stills with 750,000 cups on trees this year. Percy Rice and Carter own a still each at Scott. H. C. Williams at Adrian, Morris Riner at Meeks, Carr & Howard and Claxton & Claxton at Kite and U. R. Jenkins near Green B. Harrison's place.

    Agent Crow assisted the poultry sale at Adrian selling 5,029 pounds to the Gertz Produce Company of Chicago for $1,229.45. It has rained more this March in Georgia than any March ever recorded. According to the U. S. Weather Bureau in Atlanta 12.83 inches has fell in the state. Some were accompanied by heavy winds and some small cyclones. J. H. Rowland lost the roof of a barn at a tenant house across Cedar from a twister. Many trees were uprooted also.