From Days Gone By April 15,1929

 April 15, 1929.

    The differences existing as to which is the legal highway route from Wrightsville to Dublin is about to be cleared up and the upper route may be held as the legal highway. It is said the decision of Marks vs. State Highway Department settles the matter. A lawyer in the case states, "The upper route is the legal route, and the highway dept. is without authority to abandon it and take the lower route." The survey of the upper route will start soon. Laurens County is beginning their survey. Judge Flanders expects to begin the survey and right-of-way to Route 15, the upper way.

    Laurens County is working hard to get Route 80 paved from Dublin to Scott. This highway crosses Johnson from Scott to Adrian, then on into Emanuel where they are preparing to extend the paving, and on to Bulloch to Chatham. Captain Wright has been busy building bridges across the small streams in Johnson from the recent heavy rains.

    The county Board of Education has two new members appointed by Judge Camp. They are Tom J. Powell of Kite and M. A. Jackson of Wrightsville. Dr. Lee Wheeler recently moved from Kite to Swainsboro to practice medicine. The Buick Motor Company had a demonstration car here on display. Messrs. Brown and Gaston of the Buick Atlanta Branch came with it. The showing was held at the Wrightsville Chevrolet place. Ordinary Flanders distributed the second quarter Confederate pension money to the widows and veterans of the county. A check of $50 each was given to 15 vets and 19 widows.

    A car load of poultry left Wrightsville and about 200 poultry raisers put money in their pockets. The car load contained 11,204 pounds bought by the Tennessee Egg Company for $3,024.24. Besides that, the county farmers are selling one to three car loads of hogs each month at good prices. Donovan is flowing with milk. Mr. William Jackson has one of the best dairies in the state. The big turpentine still out on the Harrison place burned to the ground. It was a huge loss to owner, Judge U. R. Jenkins.

    Officers from the sheriff's force had a lively chase up on the Tarbutton place after a colored man named Seymore Hurst, for whom they had a warrant. Seymore and Earnest Waters, colored laborers for Mr. R. R. Doke had a bloody mix up Friday night which badly disturbed the colored community. Seymore is said to have thrown an old club axe at Waters hitting him in the back of the head making an ugly wound. Waters was able, afterwards to run Seymore down and gash him on the head once or twice with a knife. When deputies Smith and Tapley went to make the arrest Saturday they found a hot chase ahead of them. With the aid of Mr. Doke they took to capture Seymore who was at home but fled on the officers arrival. After an hour or more the man got away in the swamps of Buckeye and is still at large. Officer George Smith ran into a hidden wire fence while on the chase and has a bad scratch on his leg.

    News reached here of the death of Col. G. C. Clegg at his home in Trinity, Texas on April 11th. He was formally of Johnson, a son of Capt. W. O. Clegg, a soldier of the 60s. He practiced law at Trinity with his son, Col. J. B. Clegg.

    Mrs. Jim Smith died in a Dublin hospital where she was in ill health. She taught school at Red Hill and a daughter of Mr. Bud Beasley of near Dublin and a daughter in law of W. R. Smith. She was buried at Poplar Springs near Adrian.