From Days Gone By Sept. 2, 1929

 September 2, 1929.

    The local American Legion is stepping out strong sponsoring the big county fair which they claim will be the largest and best ever held in the 12th District. They have the promise of the aid of the local citizens, past fair management, the county agents and the business houses. An exact date has not been set.

    Two big checks have come to Ordinary J. W. Flanders. The past due money for the Confederate veterans and the second quarter gas tax check. The veterans check was for $1,600. Each veteran received $50, payment based on $200 per year. The 1919 legislature increased the pensions to $360 per year payable in $30 each per month, but does not go into effect till January 1930. The State spent four hundred thousand to pay Georgia pensioners this quarter.  The gas tax check amounted to $1,418.14 for the second quarter. 

    Wrightsville High School opens on the tenth. Miss Christine Claxton is in nurse training at Oglethorpe University in Savannah. Mr. Harvey Hatcher will enter the School of Commerce at University of Georgia. Mrs. O. H. Tompkins will be principal of Pebble City, Georgia schools. Miss Beulah Moseley is in Athens at the State Normal College.

    Miss Erna Flanders wed Mr. Alex Morrison at Aiken, South Carolina. Miss Alma Webb wed Mr. Talmadge Logue on August 25th. Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Beddingfield had a boy, Hugh, Jr. on August 22nd.

    At the home of Will Cochran near Donovan, Layson Beecham wanted to do away with a dynamite cap that was left in the house, took it outside and pitched it some 50 feet into the yard. It exploded and sent some sort of missile, part of the cap, or rock, which hit an 18 month old baby boy sitting on the porch, in the right jugular vein of the throat. The child was bleeding profusely and rushed to Dr. Brantley who dressed it. The boy is said to be ok.

    C. S. Bradshaw, Jr., about 6 years old, smothered to death in a pile of cotton in the back of his father's barn, 5 miles west of town on the Dublin road. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Clarence S. Bradshaw. It was about 30 minutes his mother found him breathless. Only his feet and part of his legs stood above the cotton. Efforts to revive him did not work. His father was off on a fishing trip at the time. He was buried at Pleasant Grove.

    Maybelle Hall, colored, got the worst end of a bloody fight in her home, and her husband Willie, charged with attacking her as she lay in the bed. She said Willie jumped out of bed, hit her over the head with a fire poker almost bending the rod double. She jumped up to try to defend herself but her face and eyes were full of blood and could not see. He then began pelting her with his fists. This went on about 20 minutes when she finally made a run to the neighbors. Willie changed his bloody clothes, then went to Chief Crawford who locked him up. Maybelle filed attempted murder against him and he is now rooming with Sheriff W. D. Rowland.

    Have you ever heard of a cow giving birth to a calf when the mother cow was less than a year old? Well this happened in this county. The cow liked three weeks being a year and gave birth on the plantation of Mr. Brown Douglas. Old timers say this was a very unusual thing.

    Farmer Monroe Cook is gathering 5 acres of old time bunch butter beans on his Adrian road farm. He expects to pick 2,000 pounds with an average market price of seven cents. He is shipping them to Atlanta. This crop of butter beans will be followed by cabbage. This is another example of farmers diversifying from cotton.

    Mr. Walter Eugene Smith of Pleasant Plains community died on August 27th after being confined to his bed for three weeks with typhoid fever. He was a deacon at Pleasant Plains and buried at Beulah. He was 32 years old and left a wife, seven children, three brothers including Will Tom Smith, a sister, and a half sister.