Wilkinson County, Ga.
MISC. NEWS TIDBITS
Extracts 1940's - 1950's

About 1947, newspaper unknown
         A Golden Wedding Anniversary was celebrated in Irwinton by Mr. and Mrs. John Norton Todd on June 21. (Mrs. Todd was the former Laura Iverleen Wood). The reception was held at the residicen of Judge and Mrs. George H. Carswell, which was the girlhood home of Dot Wood and where she was married June 22, 1897.   The couple were married by Rev. W. S. Baker went by horse & buggy to McIntyre to  board the train for their wedding tour.
    Guests were  A. C. Todd; Mrs. Ralph Culpepper; Mrs. James McCarty, New York City;  Mr. & Walter Todd, St. Petersburg, Fl;  Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Pritchard, Sr;  Columbia. S.C.; Mr. & Mrs L. R. Langley;  Bill & Jean Langley, Montgomery, Al; Mrs. Charles Todd, Edna Earl Todd, Charles, Jr., Bill and John Todd, Julia Todd, Nan Wood, Mrs. C. C. Skelton, all of Atlanta; Mr. & Mrs. Harold Carswell; Mrs. L. B. Simmons; Dorothy Simmons; Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Lindsey, all of Macon; Mr. & Mrs. T. Earl DuPree; Mr. & Mrs. Fred Norwood; Decatur; Mrs. Byrd Lovett, Sandersville; Mr & Mrs Ramsay Simmons; Virginia Claire Simmons, Bainbridge; Mr. & Mrs. N. C. Hughs, Moultrie; Mr. & Mrs. Emmett Craddock, Kay Craddock, Mrs. Rosa Pritchrd, Griffin; Mrs. L. G. Barnhart, M. Thayer Barnhart, Jacksonville, Fl; Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Carswell, Jeffersonville; Judge & Mrs. George S. Carpenter, Milledgeville.

1950's
Nov. 4. 1957 Marietta Journal
James. M. Gibson, a native of Gordon and son of C. F. and Leila Gibson,  (died 1911) was the mayor of Symna, Ga 1949 - 1953 and 1958 - 1960. In 1921, he got his nickname  after Hoot Gibson, the cowboy actor, while in the navy and "took a fling at boxing." He knocked down 7 times, in first round, in Panama Canal Zone. "The audience started yelling, "Hoot", get yourself a mule." The nickname stuck.":

May 1, 1958 Marietta Journal
Bernice McCullar writes that Principal Dwight Compton of the Wilkinson County High School  was the" most creative, imaginative geometery teacher" she had ever seen.
 
 


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