May 19, 1932.
John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk boat builder, confessed to police that his activities in the Lindbergh kidnapping negotiations were figments of his imagination. Curtis had told of a ship with kidnappers aboard and went into details as to negotiations designed to effect return of the child. It was a notorious bid for notoriety and money.
Saturday and night were bad times for two Johnson County tax officials. W. T. Johnson, Tax Receiver, lost his home by fire about 4:45 in the afternoon, and J. Nat Riner, Tax Collector, lost his big barn about 11 that night. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. J. D. McAfee were in the main part of the house sewing when the fire caught up in the ceiling. Johnson had about $600 insurance. The house was on the north side of town.
Mr. W. H. Lovett will run for State Senate. He is one of the leading financial pillars of this part of the state. He is engaged in farming and other businesses including lumbering, manufacturing fertilizers, banking, trucking, railroading, merchandizing and real estate. He is married to Louise Lovett, daughter of Mrs. E. A. Lovett, and has two children, Billy and Betty.
The results in the Scott trustee election, with two positions to fill were, J. C. Carter 121; R. T. V. Schwalls 104; J. M. Smith 34. Miss Vivian Outlaw leaves for a tour of New York. There will be a co-op poultry sale here next week. Mr. C. L. Wiggins of Kite has three sets of twin calves which will give some momentum to his cattle enterprise.
The paper says, put the Jefferson Davis highway through this year. We live in one of the few Georgia counties minus any paving. Route 15 into Dublin is expected to be a real paved road some time soon. Johnson County is anticipating this and is working to that desired end. From 20 to 40 autos now cross Ball's Ferry daily. When the Bee Line is finished it will take two ferries to accommodate the traveling public at this point.
Mason's Bridge, the old wash hole, is getting patronage by the hundreds daily already. J. W. Claxton has become sole manager and proprietor of Idylwild Park purchasing the interest of Mr. McBride. The big, new ice manufacturing plant of Tom L. Martin is in full operation. He will make enough ice to supply trade all over the countryside. City trash moving goes on Saturday nights around midnight and after, according to Bennett Tapley who drives the city trash truck. The idea is to move the trash and rubbish from the streets and sidewalks about the time the stores close.
Dublin baseball team easily defeated Wrightsville 17 to 1. Captain Bluford Blount of the newly organized baseball team here is getting a new line-up to play Wrens today.
The Johnson County Home Demonstration Council, chaired by Mrs. C. E. Harrison, is sponsoring a curb market on Bradford street opposite Col. Claxton's office. Mrs. T. L. Raines is market master. It will be held twice per week on Wednesday and Saturday rain or shine. Wrightsville is a small market and most families have a garden, cow and poultry. However there is a season these cannot be bought. This lack affords an opportunity for the farm home-makers to market their surplus from their farms. The theme is to keep Johnson County money at home.
The Adrian School graduates this year are: Amanda Lou River, Preston River, Barbie Hutcheson, Annie Belle Harrell, Louis Curry, Lanier Flanders, Barnie Sammons, Maggie Mae Webb, Ruby Smith, James Renfroe, Mary Alma Carter, Jessie Nell Thigpen, Doris Smith, Gifford Douglas, Lotis Barwick, Mattie Phillips, Zelma Morton, Harris Horton, Annie Laurie Mason, Sara Chapman, Delmas Pope, Gladys Hall, Mary Stewart and Doyce Price.
Someone has well said, "This depression will be over before 80 percent of the people know it." The 20 percent are industriously busy preparing for better times. The 80 percent will be bemoaning their own fate and the other fellows good fortune. Fortunes and independence are built on faith and the intestinal fortitude to stick on the job when the other fellow has given up. These 20 have faith, they are improving their land, buildings, laying the foundation when better times have finally and impressively arrived, which they will. The 80 will want to buy at a low price what the 20 have acquired at a low price. There never was a time like the present to start a foundation of good hogs and cattle.
