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.