From Days Gone By May 27, 1929

 May 27, 1929.

    Johnson County's road building force under Captain C. T. Wright are going right ahead throughout the county. They have done much the first five months of this year. New bridges across many streams have been built and the roads put in good shape. Johnson now have some of the best around. Lately work is being done towards Brantley's Chapel and Beulah Church. The other half of the crew is working around Adrian.

    The Standard Oil Company has leased the Sinquefield Filling Station on Tompkins Corner to Mr. Bernard B. Tanner who will operate it. The local Standard Oil Rep is Mr. Dewitte Brinson. Lotus McAfee and Wannie Price have opened an ice cream business and meat market in the Georgia Filling Station. Mr. E. N. Hitchcock is with Mr. L. E. Parker in a new grocery firm in the Ford building. Mr. Jimmie Neal, son of Mr. & Mrs. J. R. Neal, has gone west to work with the Union Pacific Railroad at Salt Lake City.

    The county agent had another big hog sale which yielded fancy prices. The 179 head brought $2,658.19 which is good now-a-days. The two carloads were purchased by T. & F. Packing Company and sent by the W. & T. to Macon. Mr. Edgar Kitchens near Moore's Chapel states the boll weevil's are the worst this year he's ever seen.

    Only two cases were heard in Mayor's Court. Two colored men charged with fighting. They pled guilty and got small fines being the cases weren't aggravated. Sheriff Rowland fixed up papers to send another colored woman to Milledgeville. Her mental capacities weren't straight and often tried to hurt herself. The Wrightsville Theatre re-opened under new management and was called the Idlehour Theatre. Professor J. Y. Chastain brought to town a grape shot cannon ball he found in a branch near his home. He thinks it is from the war of the sixties or the revolution.

    Johnson County has been a heavy loser lately by deaths among the leading families of the county, but death will find us all sooner or later.

    Shade Wheeler of Kite died following an illness of several days. He was entered at the Wheeler Cemetery. Mrs. Billie Pool of near Donovan died the 23rd. She was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Pittman and was buried at Beulah.

    Col. Marvin P. Kea died at his brothers, Dr T. B. Kea in Adrian. He was stricken at the Shade Wheeler funeral and carried to his brothers where he lived only a few hours. He was also a brother to Solicitor Fred Kea of Dublin. He was about 48. Surviving him also were his wife and one son, Marvin, Jr., Dr. Victor Kea, Mrs. George Mason, Mrs. Helen Deckle and Mrs. Mary Flannagan. He was buried at Kea's Church near Adrian.

    Mrs. Elizabeth Traywick died at Judge & Mrs. J. L. Kent's residence. She was the widow of Mr. A. J. Traywick of Washington County. She was buried at Linton. Miss Mattie Crawford died at her mother's, Mrs. W. T. Crawford on North Marcus Street. She is also survived by her siblings Mrs. Jonah L. Davis, Mrs. A. T. Cobb, Miss Louella Crawford and Chief Will J. Crawford. She was buried at Westview.

    James Robert Brady was born December 8, 1892 and died March 28, 1929. He was a young man and never married leaving a father, brother and two sisters. He joined Gumlog Church early in life. He was a Mason of the Kite Lodge since 1917.