From Days Gone By Aug. 12, 1929

 August 12, 1929.

    Judge W. C. Brinson opened City Court with a heavy list of cases to be disposed of. Solicitor Rowland, assisted by Eugene Cook representing the State. There were a number tried Monday and up to 2 pm with acquittals preponderating and a couple of mistrials. A number of guilty pleas were entered and fined accordingly. Tuesday Judge Brinson turned it over to Judge Camp to preside in a disqualified case of Mrs. Sara Brinson vs The Woodmen of the World, a suit to collect insurance on the late Dr. R. E. Brinson. The jury awarded Mrs. Brinson $2500.

    Notice was given that all automobile speeders in the city limits will be brought to justice from now on. It will be enforced. Mr. Raymond Rowland now has an office position with Lovett Lumber Company. Mrs. Quergeon Martin bought out the millinery store of Mrs. Mae Parker and will open a new shop in the brick building across Elm Street. Miss Ethel Price who just graduated from the A. & M. College at Cochran, has accepted a teaching position in Arizona. Mr. Henry Heath of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and his three children are here on a visit with family.

    Col. Charles S. Claxton calculates that the bad hail and wind storm a few weeks ago damaged one of his crops to the amount of 100 bales of cotton alone. Private Steve Jackson of Fort Bragg, N. C. was home enjoying his 21st birthday. Harvey Spell will move his family to Wadley where he becomes its new chief of police.

    While enroute to his father's, Mr. Cecil Anderson had a very bad accident with his new auto just across Cedar. The car hit a tree face to face after it had jumped a ditch or two and swung through some bushes. He was accompanied by a young lady friend from Macon. Both were jostled up but only had minor brusies.

    Rev. Bascom Anthony, D. D., presiding elder of Thomasville District and former pastor at Savannah plans to retire from the ministry under the South Georgia Conference. He is the best known minister of his denomination. By the next conference he will be 70. They will make their home in Macon but will spend alot of time at Doboy Island. He has been a conference member for 47 years.

    Miss Ethel Scarborough, 24 of Dublin, died in a Savannah Hotel Sunday. It is said she died from the affects of a dose of poison she took when she reached her boarding house after being accompanied home by a young man friend. She was a daughter of Rev. & Mrs. Henry Scarborough.

    Mrs. Martha M. Davis, wife of ex-sheriff Lewis Davis, died at the residence in town, August 9th, from a heart attack. Earlier in the day she carried out her daily routine when in the afternoon complained of chest pains and laid down to rest. Soon after Lewis went in to check on her, summond a doctor but expired before he arrived. Mrs. Davis was a native of Tennessee. She was a Baptist and was buried in Westview.

    

From Days Gone By Aug. 5, 1929

 August 5, 1929.

    The beautiful program out at the Stokes cemetery at the unveiling of the monument over the grave of Elisha Walker came off great by prominent personages of the state. It was the first sort of excercises to take place in our county. The records and information was unearthed by the untiring efforts of Dr. & Mrs. W. J. Flanders, Mrs. Lota W. Orr and Mrs. John Lott Walker and the state archives. It was prepared by Lucian Lamar Knight who also used information from the family Bible.

    The excercises were in charge of Mrs. J. E. McGlaw, regent of Shellman, Georgia, Chapter D. A. R. Elder Reese Griffin gave the invocation. Little Freddie and Jackie Walker, two of the youngest descendants unveiled the marker. Then a wreath was placed by Mrs. Parmelia Stokes Walker and Miss Martha Stokes. The six little girls, ages 5 to 11 sang, "Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean". The main address was given by Dr. Flanders which covered Elisha's history since he obtained the title of land where they stood from the government in 1784, and has remained in the family ever since. The benediction was said by Rev. S. C. Olliff, President of Andrew Female College. Lunch was then spread on the ground at the home.

    Mr. A. H. Edge brought Wrightsville its first new bale of cotton for 1929 to Rowland's Ginnery. It weighed 517 lbs and brought 20 cents per pound and bought by J. H. Rowland. Soon after, Mr. Cal Dixon brought a new bale to the Lovett Gin weighing 510 lbs. Lovett Gin baled the third bale for Garland Mayo and Rufus Tanner which came from Pringle weighing 381 lbs and sold for 18 cents per pound. Last week Dublin got its first bale from J. R. Smith of Johnson Co. weighing 442 pounds.

    County Agent Crow took 15 club boys to Camp Wilkins in Athens. They were: Woodrow Spell, Paul Flanders, Jack Robinson, Clark Harrison, Chauncey Brinson, Robert Brinson, Ralph Brinson, Weston Veal, Morris T. Riner, Jr., Samuel Riner, Buck Tyson, Graybill Hutcheson, Charlie Hatcher, Paul Doke and James Vickers.

    At the home of Dr. Thomas E. Vickers was organized a Farmer's Club for southwestern Washington County. The Union Warehouse Company applied to renew its charter. Harry Rowland, Huland Simon and Beverly Kennedy took a trip to Kentucky to the caves of that state. Mrs. R. L. Stephens is in New York purchasing her fall merchandise for their store. Wrightsville is now selling gas at 19 cents per gallon. Mrs. Mae Parker closes her millinery business and goes to Converse College in Spartenburg, S. C. Miss Theo Parker will teach at Greensboro, Alabama. Mr. Ben J. Wiggins and family had an auto accident which crushed up his left hand and arm badly.

    Mrs. A. L. Thigpen of Oconee died at Rawlings Sanitarium. Before her marriage she was Miss Lula Flanders, a sister of Mrs. O. P. Prescott. Her husband and six children survive her. She was buried in Westview.

From Days Gone By July 29, 1929

 July 29, 1929.

    Oxford Noble Pennithorpe, a purebred Jersey cow, owned and tested by William Jackson of Donovan, has just been awarded a Silver Medal by the American Jersey Cattle Club for the fine showing she made on her first official production test, started when she was three years and ten months of age. In 365 days this fine producer yielded 675.87 pounds of butterfat and 9,537 pounds of milk, missing a Gold Medal award by less than 25 pounds of butterfat. In her best month she yielded a total of 69.97 pounds of butterfat. She was with calf 253 days during the test and qualified for her Silver Medal in Class AA. This new Silver Medal cow was sired by Viola's Fawn Prince, and she is his first daughter to be officially tested. Her dam is Pennithorpe's Noble Daisy.

    Planter N. D. Norris praised the county for more and better marketing conditions here. His praise of chickens and hogs was loud, but he says this does not go far enough. That produce of all kinds can be marketed here that could be as good as the poultry and swine. He especially mentioned onions, sweet potatoes and melons.

    The Elisha Walker monument unveiling was postponed until next Saturday on account of some far away authorities not being able to get here. President J. N. Hall of the Johnson County Singing Convention says the August event will be at Gethsemne church.

    Dr. John G. Harrison, Dean of Mercer University and a Johnson countian, has had thrust on him another honor, being appointed as a member of the State Board of Education by Gov. L. G. Hardman. At Camp Wilkins, Athens, last week in the Speaking Contest by the Future Farmers of America of Georgia, Eugene Price of Adrian High School won first place in the finals and won $25.

    Policemen Crawford and Mayo found an abandoned car on North Marcus and parked it in a local storage room pending a claim of ownership. It was a 1928 Ford Roadster. It had a Macon City tag on it, was without gas, curtains up, and a bathing suit in it.

    The cotton season is just ahead and prospects are good for a splendid crop, to please the optimists. To tickle the pessimists it might be said there are also prospects of too many boll weevils along now.

    Solicitor J. Roy Rowland is about to assume the duties of his office again after almost a year of being in ill health. Mr. & Mrs. Floyd B. Brantley had a daughter, Phyllis Janette, on July 21st.

    Playing at the Wrightsville Theater, "A Woman's Justice", and Buddy Roosevelt in "The Devils Tower". Also "Tarzan The Mighty".

From Days Gone By July 22, 1929

 July 22, 1929.

    The unveiling of the monument at the grave of Elisha Walker will occur on the 27th at what is known as the Stokes graveyard, 7 miles west of town. This is organized by the D. A. R., Mr. Walker being a veteran of the Revolution. A marker will also be placed on the grave of his daughter, Mrs. Permelia Walker Rawls. The descendants of this veteran include the Walkers, Brays, Jordans, Moores, Stokes, Youngs, Hammocks, Holts, Seals, Raines, Rawls, Robinsons, Flanders and many more.

    Friday afternoon late a terrific hail and wind storm hit the eastern part of the county in a narrow, long streak, and did a lot of crop damage where it hit. The hail many said was the largest they ever saw. Around Rehobeth church seemed to be the worst hit. Corn was beaten down and the fruit and leaves beaten off of cotton. Fences suffered from falling timbers and one plantation house was hit by lightning on the farm of Frank Price. A number of chimneys on the Claxton and Cook farms went down in the gale. The Stephens place suffered too.

    Lots of farmers just south of Johnson are shipping a great abundance of watermelons. The W. & T. railroad have handled special freight trains the past two weeks. A total of 377 cars have traveled the rail up to Saturday. Last year the rail shipped 415 cars and they expect 500 cars this year.

    Ruth Elders, the woman daredevil, who attempted to cross the Atlantic in an airplane, and was later picked up in mid-ocean, will appear as leading lady with Hoot Gibson in "The Winged Horseman", an airplane picture at the Wrightsville Theater.

    Private Ralph C. Anderson is now in the 30th infantry in Hawaii. His uncle here is Zack Anderson. Mrs. Tom E. Jenkins is secretary and treasurer of the 12th District Auxiliary Georgia Rural Letter Carriers Assoc.

    T. L. Martin, secretary Board of Trustees, states the Wrightsville High School will be on the A-1 state accredited list, with the probability of being on the Southern list, which it has never been before. Tuition is free through grammer school with a small fee for high school. They are discontinuing the vocational department for financial reasons. Miss FloRene Hatcher will be director of music at the Jackson High School.

    Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Brantley had a daughter on July 16th. They have 3 sons. It is a granddaughter of Mr. Frank Flanders.

    Miss Lee Smith, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Smith wed Mr. Marcus R. Stallings of Tampa on July 7th. Miss Mary Lou Barnes, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Lee Barnes married Dr. W. C. Lowe of Jacksonville. Miss Mary Brooks of Donovan, daughter of Mr. A. R. Brooks, wed Mr. Cecil Bailey on July 18th. Mr. Bailey is from a prominent McRae family. He is employed with Sims Grocery in Wrightsville and will make their home in Donovan.

    A wedding of widespread interest was that of Miss Margaret Kent, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Kent, a graduate of Bessie Tift College. She wed Mr. Aubrey L. Jones of Richmond, Virginia. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Jones of Erwin, Tenn. and is manager of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Richmond.

    

From Days Gone By July 15, 1929

 July 15, 1929.

    The Wrightsville Commercial Club took action over certain legislation proposed that effects Johnson County and it was transmitted to the legislators with the request to carry out the wishes of the Club if possible. The Club opposes the placing of the Solicitor-General of this circuit on a salary of $3,250 to be paid by the respective counties in proportion to their population. They also went on record opposing the Bond Bill. It favors Judge Hatcher's to increase the highway milage from 6,300 to 7,300 miles, and naming the location of the additional milage, wherein Johnson County would get the Bee-Line and the Jefferson Davis Memorial highway on the state system.

    Judge Bascom S. Deaver of the Middle District of Georgia in Macon, refused to appoint a receiver for the estate of C. G. Rawlings, which was asked by two creditors. He ordered attorneys to draw a decree enjoining L. B. Holt, trustee, Sandersville banker, from disposing of any portion of a large tract of morgaged land on which the Southern Cotton Oil Company of Savannah has a claim of $20,000. The order will permit the sale of the land, provided the purchaser will deposit into court a sum of money sufficient to satisfy the claim in the event a judgement is rendered in favor of the Savannah company at some future date, or make a bond to protect it.

    The petitions for receiver were brought by the Savannah corporation and by Mary Rawlings Houston, daughter of C. G. Rawlings. Mrs. Houston also asked an accounting of Mr. Holt as trustee of her father's estate. Mr. Rawlings is serving a life term in the State Penitentiary.

    Professor Knox of Metter was chosen to head the local high school system at a meeting of the board of trustees. He has many years experience as superintendent of some of the leading high schools of the state. He will move his family here over the summer.

    County Agent Crow held his tenth poultry sale of the year. This one netted farmers $1,008.32 and was bought by the R. L. Warren Produce Company of Atlanta. There was a total of 5,676 pounds shipped. Mr. Henry Hammock brought in the first open cotton boll of the season.

    Alice Watkins files for divorce from Lewis Watkins. The Wrightsville Theater is featuring Richard Barthelmees in "Scarlet Seas", also Al Hoxie in "Two Gun Murphy".

    The Wrightsville Tigers, colored team, defeated the Soperton Bears in baseball. Lefty Reese held Soperton to two hits while Wrightsville batted eight runs.

    Mrs. Sallie Lockhart, 85, passed away at her daughters, Mrs. George A. Smith on the 13th. She suffered a fractured hip ten weeks ago. She was out in the yard and passing through the gate when the wind storm blew it against her. This, and other ailments just grew worse. She was the widow of W. H. Lockhart and was born in Warren County. She was a Methodist and survived by six children. She was buried at Warthen.