From Days Gone By Aug. 19,1929

 August 19, 1929.

    There is a regular organized post of the American Legion here now. The full organization was completed last week in the City Council chambers. Col. Guy Alford of Swainsboro, a post organizer, is one of the leading Legionares in this part of the state. The officers elected were: Commander- B. B. Hayes; Vice-Commander- H. B. Bray; Sargent-At-Arms- Z. A. Cullens; Finance Officer- E. Q. Martin; Agent- Arlie Price; Historian- W. N. Price; Chaplain- T. E. Jenkins.

    The legislature has put on a six cent tax on gasoline and four cent on motor oils as of September 1st. Users are at present paying a tax of four cent on gasoline and nothing on oil. This should net the State eight million annually. The Neill-Traylor highway milage bill will increase state highway milage from 6,300 miles to 9,000 miles.

    Mr. John A. Douglas is the City Collector for Wrightsville and will begin collecting on the 15th. Miss Nannie Kennedy has accepted the teaching of Home Economics at Fernadina High in Florida. Mr. & Mrs. James I. Spell have returned to their home in DeLand, Florida. Mr. John R. Rowland celebrated his 79th birthday surrounded by his children, grand and great grand children, cousins and many good friends.

    Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Brown had a boy on the 14th in Savannah. Mr. & Mrs. Laudice Lovett will move to Milledgeville where he accepted a salesman position with Georgia Power Company. Prof. J. W. Williams moved to Bogart, near Athens, and take charge of the consolidated school there. Mr. Walter Smith is now in Macon at Southern Business College taking a Commercial Business course. Miss Ollie Eve Hatcher of Kite married Mr. J. J. Nixon, Jr. of Augusta on August 17th.

    A camp for farm women will be at the Wrightsville School house consisting of refinishing furniture, vegetable gardening, poultry raising, home orchard, breadmaking and keeping cows for profit. Mayor Monroe Cook is shipping a carload of Porto Rico sweet potatoes netting him $1 per bushel. Cotton picking is moving along fast. Farmers feel the crop will not be as large as expected. Mr. S. P. Rice brought in a sample of his corn that measured 14 inches in length and two and one half inches in diameter.

    Mr. Sherrod Renfroe died on August 19th at the age of 74. The funeral was at Gethsemne church with burial in Westview. He raised three sons and six daughters, those that survive him are E. O., Q. J. and W. W. Renfroe, Mrs. George Young, Mrs. J. A. Bush, Mrs. H. L, Smith, Mrs. Ira Waters, Mrs. H. L. Blount and Mrs. J. B. Raymond.

    Little Barney, the 13 year old son of Mr. & Mrs. Johnnie Kittrell died August 15th. He had been bad afflicted and suffered severly for near two years. He was buried at Union Hill.