From Days Gone By April 21, 1932

 April 21, 1932.

    Local citizens met in the city council chambers favoring the location of a city hall, city offices, city fire department and calaboose or jail in one building uptown. The city owns the site of the old power plant near the Chevrolet place but this did not appeal to the citizens. They want everything centrally located uptown. In City Court, Andrew Tant, white man, pled guilty of assault and battery. Judge Brinson gave him eight months on the gang or fifty dollars.

    The American Legion and the three city churches will hold Memorial services at Brown Memorial next Sunday, instead of on Memorial Day. Rev. P. T. Holloway, pastor of the Methodist church will deliver the sermon and the local U. D. C. will have charge of the music. Veterans of all wars are encouraged to attend.

    Mr. Dewitte Brinson, local businessman has been urged to run for a spot on the Board of Trustees of the schools in the county. State Game Warden R. L. Roundtree declared he would enforce the laws in regard to closed fishing season from April 15 to June 1. Before the season closed, Mr. Bob West, a worker at A. F. Flanders drug store, caught an eight and a quarter pound trout at Coleman's Lake. The largest caught around here this season.

    Senator William J. Harris, 64, passed away after a long illness. He was Georgia's senior senator and he was buried at Cedartown. John W. Williams, local from here, worked under him doing the cotton census here for five years.

    Sheriff W. D. Rowland jailed six people, four white and two black. Down at Gumlog artesian well Saturday night and Sunday morning there was a drunken brawl going on and officer George N. Ivey arrested three white men and one white woman, Henry, Cuen and James Sheppard and Mrs. James Sheppard charging them with drunk on the highway and rioting at the well. Wilbur Knight was put in jail on a charge of pistol toting and pointing it at another. Lee Roy Cooper was arrested for being disorderly.

    A colored woman by the name of Redmond Mills, living on the Philip Price place in the eastern part of the county, was hit by a flash of lightning Thursday evening and died instantly. She was leaving the house and when in the yard the stroke flashed down and hit her, breaking her bones up badly. The woman would have given birth to a child soon.

    Mrs. Anna Shurling died at the Bethany Home in Vidalia. She was a sister of Captain Thomas Wiggins Kent. She had one son, William Shurling, and was buried in Westview.

    Mrs. Mary A. "Vashti" Crawford, 71, died at her home in Vidalia. Before marriage she was a Mixon, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. P. Mixon of Kite. She was born January 31, 1861 and wife of the late David Algerene Crawford, former county sheriff that was murdered in 1924. She had 4 daughters, Mrs. R. S. Mixon, Mrs. M. B. Watkins, Mrs. C. F. Corley, Mrs. J. M. Dean, sons, J. C., J. W. and Tom. Sister Mrs. R. T. lovett, brother J. P. Mixon, 26 granchildren and 19 great-great grandchildren. She was buried in Kite Cemetery.

    This years graduates of Wrightsville High School are, Ethel Anderson, Kate Bryan, Irene Beasley, Ruby Claire Bray, Julia Chester, Laverne Claxton, Rossie Mae Cox, Sara Douglas, Nellie Kitchens, Attice Oliver, Mildred Rachels, Evelyn Snell, Margaret Holloway, Mary Powell, Leslie Price, Agnes Horton, Nannie Helen Tanner, Louise Vickers, Nellie Pool, Robert Attaway, Roy Brantley, Chauncey Brinson, W. C. Claxton, William Flanders, Bill Hall, Clark Harrison, Charles Hicks, Rex Jackson, Marion Jackson, Cameron Kent, Walter Lovett, Wilson Marshal, Hubert Outlaw, Elmo Price and Ansalon Powell.