THE ET CETERA CHRONICLES - VOL. 75

 THE ET CETERA CHRONICLES - VOL. 75

GET EM BREEZY! - Former Dublin High standout football player, Breezy Wynn, and his friend Frances Miller, were taking a walk on a cold night in Knoxville, Tennessee.  Breezy and Frances were waiting on a waitress to bring their supper from a corner drug store, when they notice a robbery going down in a nearby shoe store.  The thieves began to run and so did Breezy.   Doing what he did best, Breezy, bound for glory as a tough running back and a tougher linebacker, sprinted toward the fleeing felons Wynn was aided by two deputies and some of his fellow Tennessee football players when he tackled one of the miscreants for no gain.  Dublin Courier Herald, January 27, 1932. 

CHICKENS IZ SMART  - Lots of folks had seen pigs who seemed to be highly intelligent, but when Gladys Graham brought her rooster to Condor School for a demonstration, all of the children were thinking to themselves that chicken are smart animals as well.  Graham would simply say scratch and her bird began to wildly move his claws.  When she said, “crow,” the children heard the distinctive early morning rooster crow.  Dublin Courier Herald, February 18, 1932. 

I TOLD YOU CHICKENS IZ SMART - W. J. Colter, of Cadwell,  was riding along one day when he accidentally ran over a flock of chickens.  Colter never thought about the matter again.  Two months later, Colter heard that J.A. Dominy, who lived on the Dexter Road, had lost his best white Leghorn.  Dominy was reunited with his chicken.  Then men figured that the chicken somehow jumped up and hitched a ride instead of becoming road kill.  Dublin Courier Herald, March 23, 1932. 

PRIMIS MAXIMUS - Dubliner’s were right proud of their high school students who participated in a state wide Latin contest.  Three Dublin teens, under the tutelage of Miss Mary McDouglad,   participated and all three won first place in their divisions in the June 1932 contest: Marie Buie in Division 2, Evelyn Wagnon in Division 3, and Sophia Benchina in Division 4.  Dublin Courier Herald, June 11, 1932. 

YOUNG MAN, YOU’RE GROUNDED - City Court Recorder and Dublin  Mayor was known to be a fair man.  So, when a scared 12-year old boy was brought up before him, he showed leniency.  The boy was charged with stealing sack from D.S. Brandon & Company’s grocery.  The judge followed the old maxim, “let his mamma handle it,” so he confined him to his mother’s yard for 20 days.  Dublin Courier Herald, July 18, 1932.

LOOK UP IN THE AIR! - During the 1930s, it was not unusual to see a lighter than air dirigible in the skies.  But in Laurens County, far from big cities and military installations, the site of a United States naval airship was more than thrilling.    On the morning of June 13, 1932, the constant droning of the engines of the U.S.S. Akron could be easily heard by folks in Dexter as the helium filled airship headed off to the east toward Soperton and her eventual destination Paris Island, South Carolina. No one that could have imagined than with ten months, the Akron would be lost along with most of her crew in violent thunderstorm off the coast of New Jersey.   Dublin Courier Herald, June 14, 1932.   

HOOKED ON CHECKERS - Artis Smith and H.D. Heath loved to play checkers.  They played many a game, but sometimes they got on the wrong side of each other.  One night, the action became so heated, that Heath had Smith locked up in the Laurens County jail.   All alone and no one to play checkers with, Heath went to the jail and dropped the charges against Smith so they could resume their game.  Dublin Courier Herald, August 2, 1932.

  A DEN OF THIEVES - The old swimming hole on Rocky Creek between Dublin and Dexter gained quite a reputation for swimmers and pleasure seekers on hot August afternoons.  But, where there are easily distracted people in a cool creek on a hot day, miscreants are soon to follow.  On one Sunday alone, a tire and a car battery were stolen, along with a woman’s dress and several children’s dresses.  Among the other things which went missing were several pairs of men’s shoes, various pants and shirts, along with neck ties.  Dublin Courier Herald, August 2, 1932.