From Days Gone By September 29, 1932

 September 29, 1932.

    Plans for increasing business in the county and appointment of a committee to promote interest in the November election was the subjects of the American Legion meeting this week. Businesses were asked to sponsor a "Dollar Day" sale on various items for one day, during which real bargains would be offered to the public. B. B. Hayes was declared winner of the medal offered by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the ex-service man most useful to the Post during the past year.

    Mr. J. M. Blizzard won the Wrightsville Headlight's watermelon contest with a 49 pounder. The city council recognized the depressed business conditions and ordered a revision of special licenses reducing them. A fire originating from a defective stove flue totally destroyed the home of Mitchell Harris, colored. He did manage to save some furniture. The Wrightsville & Tennille discontinued all but one train per day between Tennille and Hawkinsville. A decrease in patronage made this necessary. The school bells tolled for the school system. It will operate as long as funds are available. Officials do not anticipate at present more than a 4 month term. 

    Mr. & Mrs. Kelley Powell had a son, Hollis Ray, on September 18th. Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Renfroe of Otter Creek, Florida, had a daughter, Marjorie Anne. Renfroe is a son of Mrs. J. F. Renfroe of Wrightsville.

    Johnson County's application for government cloth through the Red Cross was decreased to 4,800 yards on account of the limited supply of raw cotton donated by the government. The county applied for 44,692 yards. This means the only ones in the county that will get cloth are those strictly on charity.

    James Hodges Price, 4 year old son of C. E. Price, died at home after a 2 week illness. Survived by father and siblings, Mrs. Mildred McCord, Mary & Annie Myrtle Price and Elmer Price. He was buried in Westview. W. T. Harrison, Sr., highly respected farmer died at his home near Beulah and was buried there. He was 65.

    Rev. James Edward Page, 23 year old minister of Harrison, died at his parents, Mr. & Mrs. J. O. Page. He had been ill about 6 weeks with typhoid he caught while holding a revival at Cedar Grove. Born in Washington County and ordained a minister just 2 years ago. He graduated Brewton-Parker in 1931 and was attending Mercer. He served Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Plains and one in Wilkinson County. He was buried in Harrison cemetery.

    The county agent makes the following statement which is still true today. "All the world loves an honest man. All the world despises a liar. Every one in town lays his heart at the feet of the young man who starts out in life proposing to be himself and nobody else; depending on God and himself and nobody else; refusing to take advantage of any accident of name or position; a young man who prizes his character above all things; a hearty hater of shamand pretense, who had rather die than to climb to highest pinacle of fame and fortune under false colors. On the otherhand, there never lived who did not despise a hypocrite, a deceiver. And yet there are young men who start out in life deliberately undertaking to make their way through the world pretending to be something they are not. What is it that causes a man to deliberately choose a life of greed and dishonesty? An inordinate desire for anything may lead either to violence or deceit. Violence is risky and some times costly. Any coward can be a deceiver. Be honest! Be yourself."