From Days Gone By July 28, 1932

 July 28, 1932.

    W. C. and Quincy Carter of the Spann Community, charged with assault to murder at the free for all fight at Idylwild, which Allie Fountain and Cleo Dismuke were hospitalized, have been released on bond of $500 each. Dismuke is healing at home and Fountain just released. He received several stabs in the abdomen requiring a blood transfusion.

    Harvey Foskey of Scott, is in jail on a charge of assualt to murder and officers are seeking his father and another son on similar charges in an altercation in which J. J. Harrison, Jr. was injured.

    From a law-abiding standpoint, Georgia was worse off in 1931 than the year before. Nineteen out of every one thousand persons of the State were committed to jail, an increase of seven percent. Whites were ten percent higher while blacks were only five percent.

    Records compiled at Tuskegee Institute show only five lynchings in the first six months of 1932, the same as 1931. In 1922, ten years earlier, thirty were lynched in the first six months. During the first six months of 1932, officers prevented thirteen lynchings, eleven in the southern states. Of the persons lynched, two were white and three black. The charges ranged from rape, murder, threatening murder and dynamiting a store.

    Friday afternoon a severe gale hit portions of the county and some very heavy damage reported. At Rehobeth Church, where a revival meeting was in progress, Mr. J. B. Wombles and family went down in a two-mule wagon. He unhitched the mules and tied them to seperate trees. When the cloud came with a lot of thunder and sharp lightening hit one of the trees and killed both mules on the spot. Other parts of the county heavy winds did damage to growing crops.

    Mr. Herbert Sanders lost a very valuable mule last Sunday, being struck by a hit and run driver the night before near Idylwild. The mule was being driven home by Jessie Jones, negro farmer on Mr. Sanders place, when the car struck the animal, injuring it and wrecking the wagon. Jones escaped injury and drove the mule home where it died the next morning. The driver stepped on the gas after the accident and has not been found yet.

    Mr. & Mrs. J. O. Dalton announces the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy Naomi to Mr. Lethard S. Freeman of Milledgeville. She was a graduate of Wrightsville High School.

    The city was saddened Tuesday by the death of the young man, Mr. Earl Layton after a short illness due to malarial fever. He was stricken last week on an Ogeechee River fishing trip. He was 20 years old, a promising football and baseball athlete. He lived here all his life, his father being the late J. M. Layton who was Coroner at the time of his death. Surviving are his mother, brother Minton, sister Ora Lee. He was buried at Union Hill.

From Days Gone By July 21, 1932

 July 21, 1932.

    A fire of an undetermined origin, but believed to have resulted from a live wire or short circuit, totally destroyed the home of Mr. L. E. Parker early Thursday morning. Mrs. Parker and some of the children were in Athens while Mr. Parker and the other children were staying at relatives in the county. The blaze was discovered around 2 am by Mr. B. B. Tanner, but it had gained such headway that the house was engulfed in flames. Tanner went into the house but was forced out by the flames before he could save anything other than the porch furniture. The damage was estimated by Parker at upwards of $5,000, partially covered by insurance. He has not decided yet to rebuild. At present he occupys the home of H. L. Fulford.

    Another disasterous blaze occured Friday about noon when the home of Mr. L. E. Vanlandingham, near Brantley's Chapel, burned to the ground, originating from a flying spark. He had just returned from town and saw the fire when it started, but before he could get help the building was almost entirely in flames. He had just recently removed his meat and lard from the smokehouse to a side room in the house and it also burned. He was partially covered by insurance. At present he and his family are living in another home on his farm.

    Throughout the summer months, the city's three churches will unite in union services on Sunday nights. The usual morning services will continue to be at each church. Miss Miriam Cook, daughter of Mrs. J. M. Cook, has been elected music teacher of the Kite Consolidated School. The Headlight is now in its 48th year.

    On June 10th, relatives and friends assembled at Rehobeth to celebrate the anniversary of Elizabeth Garnto. She has reached her 91st birthday. Her sister, Mrs. M. M. Stephens will be 96 next February 21st. Another celebration was that of Mrs. Julia Loyd, a sister of the late Isham and Henry Stephens. She turned 90 at the home of Mr. Andrew Loyd near Meeks. Also Mr. J. W. Bailey turned 76 with a gathering at his home near Moore's Chapel with 9 children, 35 great grandchildren and 1 great, great present. A family reunion was held at the home of Mr. & Mrs. D. J. Turner in the eastern part of the county. Mrs. Turner turned 56.

    Sweet potatoes have been moving from Kite for the past two weeks at prices that have satisfactory and profitable to the growers. For the third consecutive year the Kite community has shipped the first new potatoes to the Atlanta market. A truck is now leaving for High Point, N. C. loaded with 200 bushels of the tubers.

    The state highway system at present comprises 8,018 miles, of which 1,000 miles added in the last six months. During 1930 and 1931, the state paved 600 miles per year.

    Savannah Beach, more familarly known to native Georgians as Tybee, is rapidly regaining that popularity which the old Tybee enjoyed in its heyday, the depression to the contrary notwithstanding: The business section which was destroyed by fire has been rebuilt and visitors will find a clean, attractive resort awaiting them on their vacation. However, there is an objectionable feature and that is a 25 cent assesment charged all cars entering the beach as a parking priviledge. Many want this eliminated. It may serve a good purpose but it leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of those who have to wait in a line of autos more than a block long just to pay two bits to enter the park. A warning may be approprately issued to motorists from this section to the beach that there is no stock law in Emanuel and Bulloch Counties, or if there is, the law is not enforced and cows and hogs travel the highway at will, day and night, thus forming a dangerous hazard to speeding travelers