From Days Gone By Oct. 28, 1929.

 October 28, 1929.

    Those qualifying for the city elections on November 5th are, for Mayor, T. L. Harris and C. D. Roundtree. For Councilmen is Dr. H. B. Bray, M. S. Duggan, J. A. Hall and B. B. Tanner.

    Mr. & Mrs. M. E. Crow, Miss Rowena Chester, R. L. Stephens, J. H. Rowland, Arthur Rowland, Lovett Claxton, W. C. Chester, Frank Jordan and C. D. Prescott joined more than twelve hundred citizens from Georgia, Florida and South Carolina and reported that Savannah will eventually get her port facilities and establish a co-operative market plan for agricultural products.

    The Southern Bell people will soon move their telephone exchange in Wrightsville from its present location to rooms upstairs in the Brinson Drug Store. The Myrtle Grove School is progressing under its teacher, Miss Jonnie Mae Outlaw of Milledgeville. The trustees are J. T. Phillips, J. Q. Ivey and Tom Brantley. Miss Alma Sumner of Spann, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Sumner, married Mr. Emory Stewart of Wadley who works for the Georgia Power Company.

    Mr. Hubert Odom, a grandson of Mr. & Mrs. Richmond Sammons, was killed early Sunday in an auto accident near Swainsboro, two miles out on Graymont-Summit road. Odom was in a car with Charlie Grimes as it collided with a car driven by Mr. Joe Kitchens, who had his wife and Cleone Kitchens, 17, and Mary Lou Kersey, 14. Grimes and the Kitchens family escaped with minor injuries except for Mrs. Kitchens who was hurt pretty bad. Grimes and Odom were in a Sport Coupe while Kitchens was in a Ford Touring car with only a lantern for a light. Hubert Odom was brought home and buried at Union Hill.

    James Green, colored man about 30, was shot with a 38 S. & W. pistol when he jumped upon the running board of the open touring car of Mr. Newton Powell, who was taking three young ladies out for a ride on Saturday night. The shooting took place in the city limits on the Bee Line highway in Jenkinsboro area. Powell tried to push the man off but he grabbed Powell's left arm at which point Powell shot him close range and he died instantly. Green was later picked up and carried to his home on Mr. Ostell Bray's plantation. The Coroner empaneled a jury of J. A. Douglas, S. M. Johnson, C. H. Roberts, W. C. Chester and C. E. Price. The jury rendered the verdict that Powell was justified in the act.