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.
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