June 30, 1932.
Mr. E. J. Claxton and Mr. H. P. Howard, owners and managers of the popular Bee Line Springs recreation grounds at Kite are having quite a large patronage at that place this season. They are now planning a big sing there for next Sunday, July 4th, with the promise of a large attendance. It will be an all day affair.
More than 1,000 turned out at the courthouse for the Southeast Georgia Singing Convention. it was hot but the music rolled on as well as the perspiration. Outside, Officers Rowland, Brantley, Tapley, Crawford and Mayo reported no arrests and no cause for any. Mr. Tom L. Martin furnished ice water throughout the day.
Mr. C. T. Moseley who farms the Hicks place reports a fine crop of cotton, corn and other grains. Mr. R. P. Hicks remarked it was the best crop he had ever seen on the place. Mr. M. A. Jackson is sending a lot of farm and garden produce to the curb market in Atlanta.
Work on the Price-New Home Consolidated School will soon begin. it will be a large, commodious structure. There was 235 girls from the Savannah and Macon Districts to attend Camp Wilkins in Athens. Those attending from Johnson were Gladys Wells, Ruby Ivey, Susie Mae Rogers and Nettie Sweat.
The City of Wrightsville will close up for the 4th of July. The courthouse will be closed. The filling stations will remain open as well as the cafes. Its back again, the supreme outstanding picture of all time will be at the Palace Theater, THE BIRTH Of A NATION, this time with sound.
A telegram came in announcing the death of Mr. Z. A. Douglas at Hot Springs. He is a brother of Messrs. John A., R. R., E. A., Reuben and Brown Douglas. In the New Home community was the marriage, Saturday, June 18th, of Miss Nannie Belle Harrison and Mr. Ellie Belcher by Rev. Bennett Davis. She is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Harrison. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Sunny Belcher and by occupation a farmer.
Twelve years earlier, 1920, Miss Eva Drake and Mr. Horace Wheeler were married. Ex-Mayor Shurling erected a home on North Marcus. School was suspended on account of the flu epidemic. Snow fell in Wrightsville. Miss Louise Reynolds and Mr. Beverly B. Hayes were married. Sheriff-Elect Jonah Davis died of pneumonia before taking the oath of office.
But few politicians ever went around this country boasting of being able to "give any county to anybody", to say nothing about the peanut fellow. Georgia had a man one time who could and did have that honor, but all generations since the time Noah and his old boat, there have been but few Tom Watson's.
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