From Days Gone By March 10, 1932

 March 10, 1932.

    Mrs. I. Bashinski, President of the Georgia Division U. D. C., met at the home of Mrs. E. A. Lovett to organize a chapter for Johnson County. Mrs. H. M. Shurling, Chairman of the state program committee of the U. D. C. presided over the program. Present were Mrs. J. Roy Rowland, Mrs. R. R. Douglas, Mrs. J. M. Page, Mrs. Otis Chivers and a Mrs Peacock of Dublin. Mrs. H. M. Franklin, Mrs. W. H. Colgate and Mrs. Fred Daley of Tennille. Officers elected were, President, Mrs. W. M. Shurling, 1st VP, Mrs. E. A. Lovett, 2nd VP Mrs. R. R. Douglas; Recording Secretary Mrs. Roy Rowland; Corresponding Secretary Mrs. J. E. Cook; Treasurer Mrs. Millard Daley; Registrar Mrs. Lewis Lovett; Chaplain Mrs. S. M. Johnson; Custodian of Crosses Mrs. Fluker Tarbutton; Historian Mrs. A. L. Hatcher; Reporter Mrs. H. T. Johnson; Parlamintarian Mrs. E. E. Daley; Honorary President for Life Mrs. E. A. Lovett.

    Other members were Mrs. John Douglas, Mrs. R. R. Martin, Mrs. Tom Jenkins, Mrs. J. M. Cook, Mrs. T. L. Lovett, Mrs. J. W. Brinson, Jr., Mrs. R. B. Thompson, Miss Mary Sanders, Mrs. R. T. Lovett, Mrs. W. H. Lovett, Mrs. C. B. Harrison, Miss Ora Lee Barnes, Mrs. George East, Miss Mae Ware Daley, Miss Grace Hutchinson, Miss Martha Martin, Miss Mary Lovett, Mrs. S. H. Hatcher, Mrs. B. B. Tanner, Mrs. Bessie Willis, Mrs. Robert Cullen, Mrs. M. E. Woods and Mrs. Curtis Summerlin.

    Col. J. Eugene Cook announced there will be a public meeting at the court house for the purpose of organizing a Roosevelt-For-President Club in this county. The Georgia American Legion reports it has gotten employment for 2,500 citizens in the push to fight the depression. It the full payment bill passes and becomes law, every veteran of the World War in Georgia will receive a pension certificate. The total sum for the veterans of Johnson County will be $153,440.10. The average certificate is worth $1,000.

    Mr. Ellis Claxton of Kite, M. T. Riner of Meeks, Dr. H. B. Bray and County Agent E. G. Blackwell of Wrightsville attended the Aberdeen-Angus Bull Sale in Savannah as more interest is shown in better beef type cattle in the county. The farmers of the county have sown from 15 to 500 pounds of carpet grass for pasture with 15 pounds the required amount per acre.

    A meeting was held in Swainsboro of the Coast to Capital Highway Association for which road crosses Johnson County from Adrian to Scott. They are urging the highway department to complete the paving on Federal Route 80. Its the only Federal milage in the county at this time.

    Sheriff W. D. Rowland has two prisoners in jail for City Court. All Superior Court defendants on the criminal side are out on bond. Recently he held about a dozen, but they have either plead guilty, given bond, or released on other ways. The two prisoners, Eva Tillman and Nora Waters, both colored, mixed up in an ugly affray in the city and both came out with bad wounds. Nora got all cut up with a razor, twice on the leg and once on her body causing her to bleed profusely. Eva got a bad blow on the head from a piece of iron, also a wound or two in the face. The rucas started over foolishness one of them declared.

    Hon. Charles M. Wood died at his home in Baker County near Newton. He was a native of Johnson County. He held the office of Ordinary for many years in Baker County. His children are Cecil Wood, Mrs. Will H. Mixon, Mrs. T. D. Wood and sister-in-law Mrs. T. E. Hayes.

    Mr. J. V. Greenway, 71, died in the Sandersville Sanitarium and was buried in the family cemetery. He is survived by his children Mrs. Philip Price of Donovan, Mrs. Samps L. Powell, Mr. H. L. Greenway and Mr. J. G. Greenway.

From Days Gone By March 3, 1932

 March 3, 1932.

    The Kite fathers and sons enjoyed a program and banquet hosted by Professor E. D. Tollerson of the Kite Consolidated School's agricultural department. Present were fathers: W. M. Anderson, Jr., W. B. Meeks, B. A. Anderson, T. J. Powell, N. D. Frost, S. J. Stephens, John C. Powell and M. F. Hatcher. Sons attending were: Lamar Anderson, Loran Cook, Milton Powell, Leon Wiggins, Ralph C. Anderson, Gamette Stephens, Theron Anderson, Virgil Powell, H. G. Brantley, Jr., W. S. Kight, Jr., Lamar Frost, Sam Meeks, Ovis G. Douglas and Elton Riner.

    Mr. Z. A. Houser of Scott is considering running for the lower house of the General Assembly. Three may run for Judge in Laurens County, Col. Russell M. Daley, Congressman W. W. Larson and Judge Jim Hicks. There is also talk of L. L. Porter and Harry L. Taylor running.

    Judge W. C. Brinson sentenced John Todd to  6 months county gang for a misdemeanor. William Curry plead guilty to simple larceny and was fined $100 or 11 months. Both went to the chain gang.

    Flem Meeks, a white man from around Meeks, had been in jail several days under warrant charging him with threatening to burn private property. Henry G. Tyson prosecuted him but in the hearing it was determined not enough evidence to hold him.

    Work is going fast in Emanuel County's end of the Bee-Line highway building bridges and they have almost completed to the county line at Kite. Washington County is working on their part from the Johnson line to Ball's Ferry. Clerk G. B. Harrison added a fine addition to his office equipment with a new noiseless typewriter.

    The Wild West Show last week held at the Hamilton filling station lot drew large crowds who got many a laugh out of the performances by the actors and animals. The American Legion will host an Old-Time Fiddlers Convention later this month.

    The residence of Mrs. J. F. Renfroe burned on South Myrtle Avenue and she lost everything. She, her young son and Mr. Norris Rowland, a boarder in the home, were in it when it caught fire. The origin of the fire was unknown.

    In commemoration of the 200th birthday of George Washington, the Garden Class of the Adrian High School planted a water oak tree on the public square assisted by the Boy and Girl Scouts. Mrs. Izzie Bashinski will meet with Wrightsville ladies at Mrs. Alf Lovett's for the purpose of organizing a U. D. C. Chapter here.

    Mrs. Dr. P. B. Bedingfield died quietly at her residence five miles east in the Beulah community. Before marriage she was Miss Sallie Frost, a native of Washington County. She wed Dr. Bedingfield 49 years ago and would have been 65 years old. Her brothers were Eugene, Dr. W. J. Frost, sisters Mrs. W. E. Josey, Mrs. Robert E. Smith, half-sisters Mrs. T. J. Fulghum and Mrs. Gordon Price, half-brothers J. A. Frost. Two children died in infancy and two living, William P. and Dr. Wade R. Bedingfield. Burial was at Beulah.

    On February 26th Willie H. Wood had a fatal stroke. He was a 39 year old native of Johnson County. He left a wife, two sons and a daughter. Brothers W. B. and M. A. Woods, four sisters Mrs. Mary Lizzie Eubanks, Mrs. Annie Laura Phillips, Mrs. Nannie Mae Outlaw and Miss Clemmie Woods. Burial was in Westview.

    Mr. N. B. Snider of near Kite died of a heart attack. He was 71 years old and survived by a wife, two daughters and three sons. He was buried at New Home.

    Mr. H. R. Beasley of near Kite, his 12 year old daughter, Gladys, has had infantile paralysis for eight years and is trying to raise the funds to carry her to the Scottish Rite Hospital in Decatur.