October 6, 1932.
Wrightsville High School football season opens against Swainsboro at the local fairgrounds. This years team is mostly new players but have been excellently trained by Coach McDonald. The first string includes Claxton Clarke, center; Grady Sumner, "Preacher" Holloway or James Vickers, tackles; Dick Shurling, guard; Ralph Brinson, end; Hugh Hall, backfield; Carl Moore, E. R. Spell and Kight, all new members.
The 10th and 11th grade home economics girls organized a club with Ruby Kate Price, President; Veola Riner, Vice-President; Lena Lovett, Secretary-Treasurer; Sadie Hall, Reporter. The teacher, Miss Lucile Suddeth, home economics teacher is sponsor. The Home Demonstration Agent is having a clothing clinic for renovation and remodeling of old clothes and hats. Miss Martha Martin, daughter of R. R. Martin, is now teaching at Adrian Consolodated School.
Judge Grover C. Bidgood failed to pay his municipal taxes six months before his election. Mr. O. D. Cullen filed a petition in Laurens Superior Court to oust him as the presiding officer of the Dublin City Court. Mr. & Mrs. M. A. Jackson lost their home to a fire. Roy L. Dowd and Corine Bragdon were wed by Rev. John L. Ivey. He is a son of Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Dowd and the brides parents are Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Bragdon of Metter.
Mr. John A. Douglas, cotton census reporter for Johnson gives figures up to September 16, there being 3,780 bales ginned up against 5,327 this time last year. The sugar cane crop of Johnson County appears to be getting taller and taller as well as adding to its quality. Mr. H. T. Tharpe of New Home brought in the tallest of the season establishing a new record. It measured 8 feet 2 inches. It topped the previous record by some 8 inches.
The veterans will get their checks this week through Ordinary W. J. Flanders. It was $50 each for the veterans and 16 widows. The veterans left are Henry Wheeler, Sim L. Cooper and A. J. Hall. Mr. W. H. Lovett was formally nominated state senator from the 16th district by the convention at Idylwild. The soda parlor and cafe of Luther Downs is now being operated by Roy Frost. It will be called Frost Soda Parlor and Cafe. Road construction expenditures reached a new peak in Georgia last year. Johnson County is still without a hard surfaced road. Johnson is one of the very few counties in Georgia that is without a paved road of some kind, and its stratigic location on the Bee Line and Jefferson Davis highways should merit action.
The statements of condition of the local banks. Bank of Adrian $49,899.18; Exchange Bank $165,029.25; Bank of Wrightsville $161,957.75.
Mr. & Mrs. Reuben Carroll, near Wrightsville, infant child died and was buried at Liberty Grove. Mr. Carroll is a farmer in the Hall community.
Mr. Bartow Brantley, prominent county citizen died in a Dublin hospital and was buried at Union Hill. He was 59, a native of Washington County but lived here for many years. Surviving are his mother and children, Floyd, George, Bill, Buford Brantley, Mrs. Clayton Lord, Mrs. G. D. Davis and Mrs. J. A. Colston.
There are countless numbers of families in this county who are in need of food and raiment. They are not starving and naked, to be sure, but they are in need. There is no way to get around this. It cannot be denied. In recent months the Red Cross distributed a large amount of flour. Although they tried hard to distribute to the needy only, but there were those who claimed a share and received it, who were not entitled to it. A man who will receive in this manner something that he is in less need of than his neighbor, when his neighbor and his children are hungry, has not a spark of charity in his heart. Now the cloth ration has been cut, this cloth should go to those little children who are without clothes to enter school; to the families of fathers who are out of work and no means of support and those widow mothers who are facing the prospects of a hard winter without sufficiant clothing to warm their bodies. If you can buy do not stand in the way of those who can't.
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