From Days Gone By Oct. 27, 1932

 October 27, 1932.

    Wrightsville High School continued to march to a championship with a scintillating aerial game that wrecked the Green Hurricane of Dublin, 26 to 0. Dublin was considered the strongest team in the district. The combination of Jack Moye and Hugh Hall goes most of the credit. The two new Board of Education members were J. H. Rowland and C. H. Martin.

    A Lion's Club was organized here with R. L. Stephens, merchant, as President. Charter members include, J. W. Brinson, J. Kaplan, J. E. Cook, J. M. Cook, J. E. Hall, H. T. Hicks, H. T. Johnson, L. A. McCrary, H. B. Bray, R. E. Hayes, H. F. Tarbutton, H. K. Adams, Lee McDonald, H. G. Hatcher, W. C. Brinson, E. G. Blackwell, D. T. Brinson, J. E. Vanlandingham and H. P. Hoard.

    The home of Ed Jordan on Route 3, who were at home at the time in the kitchen fixin dinner, when fire was discovered. It gained so much headway they could only save a little furniture and some linen. It originated in the front of the house. Fire destroyed the home of Tom Belote near Scott. The whole top was on fire before it was discovered and nothing could be done but watch it burn.

    The Kite Meat Curing and Cold Storage Plant, a new enterprise will open November first. It has an electric-driven equipment for curing meat and cooling the storage plant have been installed. Mr. George Vickers brought in a long sweet potato measuring 21 inches had it been straight. Mr. H. P. Attaway had some sweet potatoes, 8 which weighed 12 pounds 2 ounces taken from the same hill. One of the county's most progressive merchants, H. Sperling of Kite, announced a goodbye sale. He is leaving Kite for a future location.

    Little Miss Mary Frances Harrison and Master Howell Mayo were chosen mascots of the Hallie Huff Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy. She is five years old and daughter of Clerk and Mrs. C. B. Harrison. Howell is a son of Mr. & Mrs. Delmar Mayo. Mr. & Mrs. M. G. Holt of New York had a daughter, Mary Louise, on September 26th.

    John Kennedy, 15, of Lollie, Ga. was buried at Blue Springs Church. He died after being paralyzed for three months after breaking his neck while diving into a shallow water at Terrell's bridge. He is survived by parents, Mr. & Mrs. J. O. Kennedy.

    Preston Norris, former Wrightsville citizen and law examiner in the Department of Interior since 1917 in Washington, died there after an illness he had since September 29th. He was 53 and buried in Westview. A native of Johnson County, surviving is his mother, Mrs. J. F. Norris, brother, J. B. W. Norris, sisters, Mrs. W. Fitzgerald, Mrs. H. B. Adkins, sons, Gerald, Benjamin and Francis, daughters, Christine and Kathleen. He was a member of the Christian church and the Odd Fellows.

    Eugene Talmadge, nominee for Governor, thinks there is a danger of over emphasizing athletics in college. "Football is one of the finest of sports, but at present, I beleive, is being carried to an extreme that will eventually make academic work secondary to athletics and brawn ahead of brain. Look at the expensive stadiums colleges have built throughout the country, while in most instances the buildings and equipment are badly in need of repair and insufficiant properly to accomodate the student body. Instructors are poorly paid, while coaches draw magnifcient salaries."

    Talmadge was asked, "Do you think intercollegiate athletic competition should be abolished?" "Not at all" Talmadge said. "I merely think that there is a growing tendency to place sports at the head of all college activities, a tendency which should be curbed. After all, young men go to college seeking an education. Their muscles can be developed plowing the fields and toiling the soil."

    "I was a scrub halfback at the UGA for 4 years, and you know a person has to love the game to be that. It's the advantage given athletics that I object to. It's an easy matter for a prep school star to get a scholarship at most any college, while his physically weak brother has to get through school the best way he can."

From Days Gone By October 20, 1932

 October 20, 1932.

    Wrightsville High School pep is reaching toward the boiling point this week because the local football boys go over to do battle against their greatest gridiron rivals at Dublin. Coach McDonald's boys have had little opposition thus far, having scored a total of 42 points to nothing by their two opposing teams. Swainsboro was not able to make a first down against our boys, Wrens did not threaten our goal, but were able to make four first downs, all by passing. Dublin has not been defeated but only beat Swainsboro by one touchdown. Wrightsville and Dublin are the only undefeated teams in the sixth district.

    With a total valuation of its resources given at $49,899.18 on September 30th, the Bank of Adrian failed to open its doors last Saturday morning. Hon. Morris T. Riner, President, and the Directors are seeking aid from the R. F. C., hoping to get affairs fixed and reopen the bank. The banks bills payable was only $7,034.05. The bank had about $15,000 on demand and on time deposit, with a surplus of $1,000. Loans amounted to $32,380.79 at that time. The bank owns $12,000 in property and about $6,000 in cash and cotton, mostly cash. The closing of the bank created much interest in the Adrian community. This leaves the two banks in Wrightsville which are going strong.

    The State Highway placed its last marker in Richmond County on the Jeff Davis Memorial Highway at Belair, ten miles from Augusta. Services were sponsored by the U. D. C. The fire alarm sounded there was an impending blaze on the John R. Grice property up on the hill near the water tank. Of course it was immediately extinguished by the city fire laddies. State Game & Fish Commissioner Peter S. Twitty issued a commission to J. Cannie Sumner of Spann as District Game Warden. He would cover Emanuel, Jenkins, Treutlen and Johnson. He was a son of Judge W. D. Sumner, a former representative of the county.

    Miss Bertie Price of Kite and J. L. Fuller of Atlanta married. She was a daughter of the late Bishop Price and granddaughter of Bud Townsend of Kite. Mr. Fuller was a successful businessman in Atlanta. Miss Nora Smith and J. D. Ivey wed October 16th. She is daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Smith near Scott, groom is nephew of Rev. John G. Ivey of Wrightsville.

    On October 14th, Miss Evie Smith became the bride of Dr. Phillip B. Bedingfield, performed by Rev. Jesse E. Hall. She was a daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Smith, former residence here but moved to Laurens County. Dr. Bedingfield is a leading practicing physician of this county. He is President of the Exchange Bank and lives about 5 miles out Pringle road.

    In Little Cedar swamp two and a half miles east of Wrightsville, officers Vernon Raines and Jim Tapley made a raid on a whiskey outfit and captured a couple of men on the spot. The copper still, a square 25 gallon can, set on its moorings already for business which had been going on some time. Just before the visit of the officers, a couple barrels of beer were destroyed by them but no whiskey was found. Massie Jones and Eph Davis, two colored men, were arrested and brought to jail.

From Days Gone By, October 13, 1932

 October 13, 1932.

    Georgia Democrats put on a big pot in Atlanta when Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt comes to the capitol city next week. He will be at Warm Springs all this week. Great throngs of Georgia people will go to Atlanta to help out the next President of the United States. The railroads are granting very low rates on all lines into the city. All state and city officials, clubs, schools, colleges and higher ups will be there.

    The Democratic National Committee organized for the party the Roosevelt Motor Club of America. The branch office is in Atlanta and is establishing an agency in each county. Col. J. Eugene Cook is Chairman in Johnson County and organizing the Democrats who own cars to help raise funds.

    In observance of Armistice Day November 11th, the American Legion will present a special program. They are asking for information on those who have died during or since the war. The Legion wants to compile a complete list of those that died during the war. Mayor of Atlanta, James L. Key, will be here as will Honorable Luke Arnold, his Executive Secretary.

    New Home School suspends school for the week on account of the spread of diphtheria in the community. Former Wrightsville Mayor, E. E. Sanders, plans to run for Mayor again. It was not known yet if the current Mayor Hatcher will run again.

    In the Grand Jury Presentments, recommended a county policeman. Bridges repaired at Garnto's Mill, two on Kite road from W. W. Colston's to Kite. New bridges from Bud Reese's to John Q. Ivey's, also Gumlog bridge and banisters on Johnson's bridge. There were over 94 on the county's paupers list.

    Ordinary W. J. Flanders received a lot of help in road building. Numbers of people have given their labor on the roads to pay their road tax for the year. A force just left town with hoes, shovels and axes. A few people chose to pay their road tax of $2.00.

    The County Commissioners supported the constitutional amendment that passed in 1931, to be ratified November 8th by the voters. It will decide whether the various counties of the state shall be repaid the money they have spent in building the state highway system.

    Mr. D. R. Thomas, development agent of the W. & T. Railroad, reported on conditions of the boll weevil. Its one of the first times with the greatest quantity of cotton boll weevils Georgia has ever had, and, the greatest number of farms failing to show an actual profit. Also in the midst of the depression. He stresses the immediate destruction of cotton stalks, as soon as picking is finished, which will have the effect of forcing the weevil to move to other fields for its food, or finally go into hibernation, for the Winter, empty and in such weak condition that it cannot survive to come out next Spring. This was recommended by E. C. Westbrook, cotton specialist in the Extension Service of the Georgia State College of Agriculture.