'One mean goat'

Franklin Akins won prize in drawing 70 years ago

In this photo from 1940, then 3-year-old Franklin Akins is shown in a cart being towed by a goat he won in a contest sponsored by the Bulloch Herald. Akins said Curly was not a very friendly goat. - photo by Photo courtesy of Franklin Akins

BoyandHisGoat 1112 WEB — In this photo from 1940, then 3-year-old Franklin Akins is shown in a cart being towed by a goat he won in a contest sponsored by the Bulloch Herald. Akins said Curly was not a very friendly goat. - photo by Photo courtesy of Franklin Akins

That goat was mean. Seventy years ago - on Christmas Eve 1940 - this newspaper, then called the Bulloch Herald, held a prize drawing for children. In league with Homer C. Parker, who was Georgia's state comptroller general at the time, the Herald awarded a goat, wagon and harness to a boy who could register in advance but had to be present to win.

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