September 16, 1929.
On the Ohoopee bridge, a mile east of Adrian, was the scene of a fatal accident when two trucks crashed. One killed, a second badly injured and 2 or 3 more badly shaken up. Robert James Ellison died instantly and W. H. Anderson's leg was broken. The two trucks left Adrian headed towards Meeks, the front truck driven by a white man and a number of Adrian boys riding with him to the river bridge. The second truck was driven by a negro man. The first truck was owned by Mr. Henry Hutcheson and driven by his son. Giving the Adrian boys a ride he stopped on the bridge to let the boys out. The second truck came up and crashed into them. The impact threw the Ellison boy into the concrete bridge railing killing him instantly. He was the grandson of Capt. T. J. James, founder of Adrian and was just 14. Anderson is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Horace Anderson of Adrian. Ellison was buried in Adrian.
Mr. Pink Morris of this county is in a very pitiful condition from an auto accident several weeks ago on the Ohoopee River bridge at Gumlog when a car driven by Mr. Riley Sheppard left the bridge and went into the swamp. Both were hurt but Sheppard has recovered. Morris was hit on the head and his mind has not been right since. He is in the care of Sheriff Rowland on complaints his folks want him treated at the sanitarium in Milledgeville but they are not accepting inmates at this time.
There is action along the Bee Line highway again this time it comes from Wilkinson County, here to boost the highway. Wilkinson wants it, Jones and Twiggs wants it, Johnson started off wanting it. Emanuel hasn't refused it but has been cold-footed on it. Bibb is also on board. All the interested counties will meet soon at Ball's Ferry to discuss the entire route from Macon to Swainsboro. Congressman W. W. Larson and Carl Vinson are invited guests.
The recent legislature made a new highway system that includes the Jeff Davis highway from Wrightsville to the Jefferson line, the road to Emanuel line below Kite, and the road to Ball's Ferry. The Jeff Davis from here to Bartow is included in the 800 miles added by the State. Johnson's first priority is fixing Price's bridge which has been an eye-sore for years.
The county forces eliminated the bad curve below Farmers Gin where the street comes into the road from Kite. A sharp corner was cut down and fixed. Georgia Power removed two large transformers and replaced with three 350 K.V.A. transformers which gives Wrightsville twice the amount of power.
Scott High School opens the 23rd. Miss Bertryce McWhorter will teach at Alma High School. Mrs. J. W. Vanlandingham will teach in the Samaracand College in North Carolina. Miss Lillian Hicks is teaching at Kite. A dozen students are in college at Cochran. They are Nannie McAfee, Nancy Crowe, Brown Davis, Edd Jordan, Beverly Kennedy, Lamar Hatcher, Willard & Bertrice Price, George Morris, Ernest Cheaves, Albert Meade and Carl Walker.
Mr. Mason Davis is manager of the Dixie Grocery Store, one of the Parker chain, in Wrightsville located in the Ford building. Mr. J. T. Duff for Duff Brothers, large county farmers had a result of 10 to 12 bales of cotton to the plow and some are getting 14 bales but none are falling below 8 bales. Its a 17 horse farm and they have ginned 120 bales and will probably get 60 more.
Sleuth work by officers of the county captured Joe Archer and Bose Johnson, two colored farmers and they pled guilty to cotton stealing. Judge Brinson gave them eleven months each on the chain gang, both are old men. They are repairing the bridge across Cedar for the county.
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