From Days Gone By Nov. 12, 1926

 November 12, 1926.

    The time for qualifying for city offices for Mayor and three Councilmen has arrived. The time of R. H. Rowland, B. B. Hayes and H. T. Johnson is out as councilmen and they will either run again or someone else will. So far Mr. James D. Bush has qualified for councilman.

    Mayor Martin and policeman Spell and Garrard held Mayor's Court with seven cases up, and seven went down against the defendants clearing the docket. The officers aim to keep down crime and petty offenses in the city limits.

    Judge B. B. Blount opened City Court with a lot of heavy business. Solicitor Rowland called the criminal cases and were tried in one day. A few entered guilty pleas, some were freed by the jury and others found guilty. In the civil case between W. B. Meeks and Alvah Wheeler went to the jury but by nightfall had not rendered a verdict.

    The downtown businesses have dressed up their windows. They have taken great pride in window dressing making the city look better. Even the grocery stores have joined in.

    Eight years ago, November 11th, the World War came to an end and this day is set aside as "Armistice Day", and Governor Walker issued a proclamation. Mrs. W. M. Shurling is in Atlanta attending a meeting of The Daughters of the American Revolution. She is chairman of the Forestry committee on the executive board.

    Mr. James Jordan, a brother of J. E. Jordan of here, and T. C. Jordan of Bartow, was accidentally shot at his home Saturday at Bartow. He was lifting a double barrel shotgun from the back part of his car and it discharged into his stomach. He was rushed to Augusta but died. He said he didn't think it was loaded. He was buried in the Bartow cemetery. He was for years a mail carrier from the Bartow post office.

    Mr. Albert Baker, aged colored man, was found dead on the ground at his home near Mr. Will N. Stoke's residence. The old man evidently had gone to the window, had heart failure and fell out the window according to Coroner Clayton.

    Capt. Alonzo Drake of the government aviation service in D. C. came to town to visit his sister, Mrs. James M. Luck. During the war he was in charge of air service at Mitchell Field near New York City. His home is near Adrian.

    There is too much of this illicit whiskey traffic going on in our good county. We hear of young boys being drunk and see older ones "out-of-the-way" on the "stuff". Whiskey dealing isn't all the bad things going on but it plays a big part in the crime here.