Rome, Georgia - History (part 15 of 17)

Windows in the court house offices of Judges Moses Wright and W. J. Nunnally were smashed. A lot of women and children were attending a court hearing in Judge Wright's office, and they sought places of safety. The Judge's office was in the teeth of the gale, as it were, but the occupants soon got into a different position.

Rome's commercial concerns hit by the storm quickly began to get back into shape. Carpenters and tinners did a land office business, and many others, including electrical workers, did pretty much the same. The forces of the Southern Bell Telephone Company and the Rome Railway & Light Company worked hard to restore conditions to normalcy.

Insurance men carrying tornado policies made ready to pay up. It was a new experience for them to get hit. W. B. Hale, of the Hale-Brannon Co., declared his firm stood ready to protect Romans and if another such rumpus came, he would surrender the cash. The others felt the same way about it.

As usual with tornadoes, the weather following was cold. The thermometer dropped down to where folks thought a freeze might greet them Monday morning.

An Informal Garden Of Days That Are Past

This Third avenue spot was included in "Belvidere," the home place of HoUis Cooley, which later became the habitation of Walker W. Brookes and Judge Waller T. Turnbull. It nestled at the foot of old Shorter Hill.

but this did not come. A stiff wind most of Sunday aggravated the situation. Opinions seemed to be that fruit and crops would be hurt, but not seriously.

Tremendous Storm

On Thursday, the 12th inst., at one o'clock, a violent storm, moving in a Southerly direction, passed over this place, carrying with it dense, black clouds of dust, leaves, branches of trees, and all sorts of light trash, and doing very considerable damage in its course. The bands of ^olus seemed to have been loosed and verily "the winds did blow and crack their cheeks."

The following damages by the storm have come to our knowledge : Two freight cars standing on the track just north of the depot were driven down the track, by the force of the wind, to the foundry, where a switch being turned wrong for them to go farther, they were thrown from the track and one of them smashed up ; about one-third of the sheet iron roof of the depot on each side of the building, commencing on the north end, was torn off; the chimney of the store of Sloan & Hoopers was blown down, breaking through the roof and into the store room of Magnus & Wyse, just missing several persons sitting there; the chimney of the store occupied by W. T. Newman and owned by P. M. Sheibley was blown down and broke through the roof; the sky-light to Bearden's Daguerrean gallery was blown quite off. and the entire chimney to Wm. R. Smith's old store was blown entirely down. We hear that the tin on the whole south side of the depot at Kingston was blown off and carried in the arms of the storm to the hotel of Mrs. Johnson; the depot at Cass Station suffered the same fate, and that at Cartersville was entirely uncovered, and several other buildings injured.

Capt. Partin, the old cotton buyer, while riding up Broad street was blown from his horse, and being blinded by the storm, while attempting to get into Harper & Butler's Hardware store, fell into the ditch and severely sprained his ankle. A Rev. Mr. Lowe, of the Methodist Church, traveling in a buggy, was overtaken by the storm on the Summerville road, some six miles from here, and seeing a tree about to fall on them, himself and negro boy, barely saved their lives by jumping from the vehicle; the falling tree killed the horse and crushed the buggy. Thousands of trees were twisted off, but, the ground being so very dry and hard, comparatively few were turned up by the roots. All through the country great damage has been done to fences and out-buildings. - Rome Tri-Weekly Courier, July 14, 1860.

General Description Of Georgia

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIA (From Sherwood's Gazetteer, 1829) "Georgia is bounded on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina, on the northeast by South Carolina, from which it is separated by the Savannah River; on the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by Florida; and on the west by a corner of Florida and Alabama. The line between this state and Tennessee begins at Nickajack, in Latitude 35 degrees. West Longitude from Washington City 8 degrees, 38 minutes, 45 seconds, and runs due east 110 miles within a mile of the corner of Habersham and Rabun counties, where it meets the North Carolina boundary. The line between us and North Carolina is 30 miles in length, so that the whole of our northern boundary, from Nickajack to Elicott's rock, at the head of the Chatuga, is 140 miles. From the confluence of the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers, in Latitude 30 degrees, 42 minutes, 42 seconds, and Longitude 8 degrees, 53 minutes, 15 seconds, to the head of the St. Mary's, the distance is 157 miles. Extend this line to the Atlantic, 47 more, and we have a southern boundary of 200 miles. The Chattahoochee, in its various meanderings, forms the western boundary, 360 miles, to Miller's Bend, in Latitude 32 degrees, 52 minutes, IG seconds. Longitude 8 degrees, 12 minutes, 45 seconds. Here the line diverges from the river, and runs north 90 degrees, 26 minutes. West, to Nickajack, a distance of 146 miles.

"Georgia extends from Latitude 30 degrees, 34 minutes, 26 seconds, 6 North, to the 35 degree; and from 3 degrees, 45 minutes, to 8 degrees, 38 minutes, 45 seconds. West Longitude from Washington City. Length from north to south, 300 miles; breadth from east to west, 240, containing upwards of 58,000 square miles, equal to 37,120,000,000 acres. In shape, this state is a pentagon, having its northeastern angle in Rabun, its southeastern in Chatham, its south-southeastern in Camden, its southwestern in Decatur, its northwestern on the summit of Rackoon Mountain, in the Cherokee Nation.

"Sir Walter Raleigh is the reputed discoverer of the territory now called Georgia. {Historians, is that correct? - Author.) On the 9th June, 1732, a charter was obtained of George II, King of England, to plant a colony. Nov. 24, 114 persons, with James Edward Oglethorpe as Governor of the Colony, sailed from Gravesend, Eng. On the loth January, 1733, they arrived at Charleston; repaired to Georgia, which was named after the king, and laid out Savannah in February. The Creek Indians, who then had possession of the country, were invited to a council; about 50 chiefs assembled and granted the colonists full and free liberty to settle their land.

"In 1751, the colonial assembly, consisting of 16 members from the 11 districts, was authorized; and this body met in Savannah, 25th January.

"In 1752, the trustees, finding the colony did not flourish under their patronage, I'esigned their charter; and the province was formed into a royal government in 1754, by the appointment of John Reynolds, Governor.

"The reigns of the British government were thrown ofl" in January, 1776. The provincial governor, Wright, was imprisoned, and Archibald Bullock acted as governor. In 1777, our constitution was formed. The separate sections of the settled parts of the state were denominated parishes, St. John's, St. Paul's, etc., eight in number; now they were called counties; and, except Liberty, received their names from distinguished individuals in the English Parliament, who were opposing the war and justifying the Americans in their manly resistance to oppressive taxation without representation. The constitution was revised in 1789 and 1795.

"The sessions of our legislature were held at Savannah until 1776; then the body met in Augusta. Its sessions were at Savannah and Augusta, as the perilous

The Cows Which Supply Shorter College With Milk The Old Broad Street Bridge Over The Etowah River

This hooded structure was swept away in the freshet of 1886, after which a steel bridge was built, and finally one of concrete that is "freshet proof."

conditions would admit, to the close of the war. Major Prince could find no account of any session in 1780. The governor and council were once at Ebenezer, when it was dangerous to remain at either of the above cities.

"The first session at Louisville was held in the winter of 1795-6. In 1807. Milledgeville became the seat of government, ana tne sessions of the legislature have ever since been held in that place.

"By royal charter of the King of England, dated June 9, 1732, to Gen. Oglethorpe and other trustees, the lands between the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers were granted in trust, and in 1763, the lands between the Altamaha and St. Mary's. In 1739, Gen. Oglethorpe held a treaty of friendship with the Creeks, at an Indian town, on the west bank of the Chattahoochee, above the falls, called Coweta.

"By a treaty held at Augusta, 1773, with the Creeks and Cherokees, the lands were acquired which now compose Wilkes, Lincoln, etc.; and by another treaty at the same place, in 1783, the land was acquired up to the mouth of the Kiowe, and the line followed nearly the present line between Elbert and Franklin, leaving Danielsville a little south; thence on west to the source of the Appalachee; and down this stream, the Oconee, and Altamaha, to an old line. The south part of this territory was, in the next year, named Washington county, and the north part Franklin. The treaty of Golphinton was held in 1785. Possession was obtained of the lands included in a line running southwest, from the forks of the Ocmulgee and Oconee to the south stream of St. Mary's.

"The treaty at Shoulderbone, 1786, was not to acquire land, but to establish the others more permanently, and to secure the punishment of offenders.

"In 1802, by a treaty held at Fort Wilkinson, just below Milledgeville, part of the lands between the Oconee and the Ocmulgee was obtained. The line began on the Appalachee, at the High Shoals, leaving Madison four miles east, crossing Little River at Lumsden's Mill; Commissioner's Creek at Rushing's Mills, and down Palmetto Creek to the Oconee. In 1805, at Washington City, the remainder of the lands between the Oconee and Ocmulgee were acquired, up to the mouth of the Alcovee River, the corner of Newton and Jasper counties. These lands were distributed by lotteries since, and all acquired.

"In 1814, Gen. Jackson having conquered the Creeks, on the Tallapoosa, made a treaty with them at Ft. Jackson on that river, by which the lands between the

Wesley O. Connor In His Favorite Turn-Out

Prof. Connor served for a long time as head of the state school for the deaf and dumb at Cave Spring. He was the owner of one of the most complete collections of Cherokee Indian relics in Georgia.

Chattahoochee and Altamaha were acquired. This territory includes Early, Baker, the south part of Irwin, Appling, Ware, etc. The act to survey these lands was not passed until 1818.

"In 1817, by treaty at the Cherokee agency, and by another at Ft. Laurens, on the Flint River, in 1818, that territory which now includes Newton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Walton, most of Hall and Habersham, was acquired. In 1819, by a treaty at Washington, Rabun county was obtained, and the western part of Hall and Habersham to the Chestatee. In 1821, the lands between the Flint and the Ocmulgee were acquired by a treaty. The counties are Monroe, Bibb, Crawford, Dooly, Houston, Upson, Fayette, Pike, and Henry.

"In 1825, those between the Flint and Chattahoochee were acquired by treaty at the Indian Springs. Counties - Coweta, Campbell, Carroll, Troup, etc."

General Information

Population: Rome, 13,252 (including environs, 20,000); Floyd County, 39,000. Assessed tax valuations, City of Rome, $14,000,000. Assessed tax valuations, Floyd County, $22,500,000. City of Rome tax rate, $1.50 per $100; Floyd County, $1.50 per $100. Commission manager form of municipal government.

A Noble Roman Father And His Six Noble Sons

1 - James Noble, Sr. 2 - William Noble. 3 - James Noble, Jr., once mayor of Anniston, Ala. 4 - Stephen N. Noble, superintendent of Jenifer Furnace and builder and superintendent of Clifton Furnaces, Ironaton, Ala. 5 - George Nob'e. 6 - Samuel Noble. 7 - John W. Noble, builder of Rome's clock tower in 1871 and St. Michael's and All-Angels' Episcopal Church, Anniston. The Nobles made cannon for the Confederacy and built the South's first native locomotive. Several of them left Rome to found the thriving town of Anniston.

The Noble Brothers' Foundry & Machine Works

This concern manufactured the first locomotive in the South which was made out of native materials, and during the Civil War supplied the Confederacy with cannon. The plant was located at the N., C. & St. L. Railway and the foot of E. Third Street. It was destroyed in 1864 by Gen. Sherman and rebuilt after the war. The Nobles abandoned it in the eighties when they moved away to found Anniston.

Industrial Data

Rome's two pants factories make 725,000 pairs annually and fill large United States and Mexican orders; Rome's industrial machinery manufacturers sell to North and South American markets; Rome-made scales and trucks have worldwide sale; Rome Tannery tans leather for Diamond Belting Co.; Rome's two box factories have annual output of 780,000 boxes; Rome is the home of famous McKay Disc Plows.

Rome manufacturers make the following: Plows, guano distributors, pea hullers and agricultural implements, steel wheelbarrows, trucks, mill supplies, scales, turbine water wheels, saw mills, grates, castings, hollow-ware, cotton seed oil and hulls, fertilizers, barrels, boxes, ordinary face and fire brick, sewer pipe,

A Group Of Boosters For Rome

Of "live wires" the Hill City has no lack. The seven up before the camera are: 1 - Thos. E. Clemmons; 2 - J. D. Robards; 3 - Judge W. J. Nunnally; 4 - Prof. Paul M. Cousins; 5 - A. A. Simonton; 6 - Rev. Geo. E. Bennett; 7 - Dr. Carl L. Betts.

tile, cotton duck, bags, rope, hosiery, ore. cars, furniture, chairs, cornices, interior fittings, sash, doors and blinds, marble monuments, coke and tar, mattresses, belting leather, pig iron, pants, overalls, uniforms, candy, cigars, ice cream, buggies, wagons, fire apparatus, medicines and medicine preparations, harness, tinware, beverages, etc.

Found in Rome territory: Iron ore, halloysite, limestone, manganese, bauxite, kaolin, ochre, fire clay, building stone, potter's clay, lithographing stone, bituminous shale, iron pyrites, mica, graphite, quartz and plumbago.

Agriculture A Leading Citizen Of Rome

The late Wm. Melville Gammon, merchant, who did a great deal ot constructive work. He served for years as chairman of the Floyd County Board of Roads and Revenues and as first commissioner of the City Commission. The county's modern roads stand as a monument to his efforts.

An Old Indian Caught On The Wing

Wm. J. Carter, herb doctor, 98 years old in 1919, at the Confederate Veterans' Reunion in Atlanta. Dr. Carter lives in Montgomery, Ala. He was a scout for Forrest and knew well Wm. Smith, of Rome, great-great-grandfather of the two lads in the picture - Geo. Bernard Bonney (left) and Holbrook V. Bonney.

Recreational Features

Rome Baseball Club, member Georgia State League. Motor boating, bathing, fishing, hunting. 2,000 automobiles registered in Rome and Floyd County.

Election of June 5, 1902 - Legislature: Wm. H. Ennis, W. A. Knowles, Wm. S. McHenry; Clerk of Court: D. W. Simmons; Tax Collector: John M. Vandiver;

Election of Mar. 18, 1920 - Solicitor General City Court: James Maddox; County Commissioners: Wm. L. Daniel and J. Dave Hanks (for city), T. C. Autrey, W. P. Bradfield and J. E. Camp (for county); Clerk of Commission: J. R. Cantrell; Tax Collector: Thos. E. Clemmons; Tax Receiver: Weldon W. Hawkins; Clerk of Court: Sam L. Graham; Ordinary: Harry Johnson; Sheriff: Robt. E. Wilson; Treasurer: W. W. Phillips.

Note: In a special election Sept. 19, 1901, John M. Vandiver was elected Tax Collector to fill the unexpired term of V. T. Sanford. In the dispensary election of Feb. 19, 1902, the majority for the dispensary system and against the open saloons was 269, the vote being 1.459 for dispensary and 1,190 against. In the dispensary election of Apr. 19, 1904, the majority for the dispensary system was 1,258, the vote being 2,231 for dispensary and 973 against.

Running East And West Running North And South

Agricidtnral Fair Association (For the Cherokee Country of Georgui and Alabama) . - Organized July, 1869, at Rome. The first fair was held m the autumn of 1869 and the second Oct. 11-14, 1870, at which time the directors were: A. A. Jones, president; Geo. S. Black, vice-president; B. F. Jones secretary; Chas. H. Smith, C. W. Sproull, J. W. Turner, J. A. Stewart, W. F. Ayer J H. Dent, M. Dwinell, W. H. Jones, Dr. J. P. Ralls, M. H. Bunn, Wm. H. Stiles, Cicero C. Cleghorn.

The 28 Presidents Of The United States Statistics Of The Presidents

Note. - The above information was taken from the World Almanac, New York, N. Y. It will be noted that the total in numbers is 29. This is caused by the fact that Grover Cleveland's name appears in two columns.

sterling R. COCKRILL, once of Nashville. Tenn., and his "shack" on the Alabama Road, DeSoto, where he conducts a scientific truck farm. Mr. Cockrill farmed for years at Carlier Springs. He is a graduate of Cornell University and a cousm of Helen Keller.

Top, left to right, Byard F. Quigg, superintendent of the Rome Public Schools; D. A. Nolan, in his uniform as a member of Rome Commandery, Knights Templar; B. A. Richards; C. M. Strange; bottom, J. Frank McGhee, Jr., Dr. A. F. Routledge, in his World War uniform, and Jas. W. Bryson.

From the foregoing table, which has been tabulated by W. E. Bowers, County Agricultural Agent, from agricultural census reports of Floyd and adjoining Georgia counties, it will be seen that Floyd County leads in the number of farms and has made a much greater increase since 1910, with 13.7 per cent, than any of the other counties named, almost doubling Bartow, the nearest in gain to Floyd.

Floyd shows a creditable increase in improved lands during the last ten years, having 9.3 per cent more, or a greater increase than any of the surrounding counties, except Chattooga, which shows a 27.3 increase.

The increase in land and buildings since 1910 shows Floyd ranking third in per cent but greater in total increase, with almost seven million dollars. Chattooga has increased her value 159.9 per cent; Gordon comes next with 148, and Floyd has a 143.6 per cent increase. Bartow and Polk have about the same, with more than 94.

Mr. Bowers has received about 100 reports of different Georgia counties, and says that anyone who is interested in the agricultural census of any of these counties can get the report at his office. - June 29, 1921.

Farm Values In Floyd Show Enormous Increase

The Director of the Census announces, subject to correction, the following preliminary fig^ires from the Census of Agriculture for Floyd County, Georgia: those for 1920, since the present census was taken in January, before the breeding season had begun, while the 1910 census was taken in April, or about the middle of

A population table sent to John Camp Davis, of Floyd's delegation in the House of Representatives, by Senator Wm. J. Harris at Washington, shows some interesting facts touching the State, Floyd County and Rome. In 1790 Georgia's population was 82,548, and in 1920 2,895,832, an increase of 286,711 people over the 1910 census, or 11 per cent. The increase for the United States was 14.9 per cent. There are 13,252 people living in Floyd County towns and 26,589 in the country; in 1910 there were 12,099 in the towns and 24,637 in the country; and in 1900 there were 7,291 in the towns and 25,822 in the country.

Top, left to right, Milford W. Howard, native wood hauler of DeSoto, who was named representative to Washington, and wrote a book, "If Christ Came to Congress;" Judge Augustus K Wright in Federal and Confederate Congresses; Judge John W. Hooper, who befriended the K^ ^^."^.V ,,,?^ Henry Lumpkin, congressman; Thos. C. Hackett, congressman; Dr. H. V.

M. Miller, Demosthenes of the Mountains," United States Senator; Judson Claudius Clements, congressman and Interstate Commerce Commission chairman

Governors Of Georgia

Fire Department in lS6d (Voluntee)) . - James Noble, Jr.. chief, W. T. Mapp, first assistant chief; R. T. Hoyt, second assistant chief; W. T. Seavey, secretary. Rainbow Steam Fire Engine Co. No. 1. - Mulford M. Pepper, president; T. S. McAfee, vice-president; E. J. Stevens, secretary.

More Silhouettes By Eugene Le Hardy De Beaulieu

On Thursday, June 16, 1921, the voters of Floyd County, by an almost unanimous vote, authorized an issue of $750,000 bonds for road improvements, following a resolution favoring the issue passed by the County Board of Roads and Revenues at its meeting May 11. A considerable part of this money has already been spent, and Floyd County is assured of a system of roads that cannot be excelled in Northwest Georgia, The program called for the expenditure of $616,000 on 257 miles of first and second-class roads, and the balance, $134,000, on second and third-class roads. It follows:

First-Class Roads Second-Class Roads

Historic Gavel. - The Xavier Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is the possessor of a gavel made from the historic wood of the old La- Fayette House, Montgomery, Ala. The place was torn down in 1900 and the gavel was presented by Mrs. R. V. Mitchell.

City Marshals ayid Police Chiefs. - Samuel Stewart, before and after the Civil War; Dr. S. F. Powers, Jobe B. Rogers, J. B. Sills, Col. E. J. Magruder, Jas. C. Brown and J. B. ("Pink") Shropshire, marshals; Wm. H. Steele, Jas. A. Collier, H. H. Wimpee, Chas. I. Harris (first term), Henry J. Stewart (grandson of Col. Samuel Stewart), Wm. S. Simmons and Chas. I. Harris (incumbent).

Congressinen in Roine. - On Apr. 23, 1909, a committee of Congressmen and other leaders sat down to a banquet as the guests of the Merchants & Manufacturers' Association at the Hotel Cherokee (Armstrong). Among those present were Congressmen Jas. A. Tawney, of Minnesota; Geo. P. Lawrence, Massachusetts; John A. Moon, Tennessee; John L. Burnett, Alabama; Gordon Lee, Georgia; and Jos. L. Ransdell, Louisiana; Senators A. S. Clay and Thos. W. Hardwick, Georgia; Jos. M. Brown, Governor of Georgia; Jos. M. Terrell, former Governor of Georgia; John Temple Graves, W. J. Spillman, of the Federal Department of Agriculture, Washington, and W. W. Finley, president of the Southern Railway.

J. N. King, president of the Merchants & Manufacturers' Association, presided as toastmaster and introduced a number of speakers who discussed the question of opening up the Coosa River to navigation. Mr. King paid the following tribute to Rome:

"Surely the Great Giver of all good never delivered into the hands of mortal stewardship a section more favored, a fragment of this old earth more blest than this in which we live; a climate more healthful, or natural resources more abundant. Remarkable Rome! - remarkable in that she is not now a city of 50,000 souls instead of having to wait for that minimum of population. Remai'kable Rome! - born under the blue canopy of a North Georgia sky, than which there is nothing more beautiful in Italy or Switzerland; in an atmosphere free from the extremes of temperature, and laden with the perfume of the blossoms of rare fruits and flowers; resting in a cradle of most exceptional natural advantages, nourished by the rich and varied agricultural products of her fertile valleys, strengthened by the iron in her rugged hills; quenching her thirst in her own bubbling springs; clothed with the cotton grown in her broad fields; made warm by the coal within reach of her extended hands; with her beautiful head resting upon the mighty shoulders of old Mount Alto, her shapely feet bathed in the cooling water of the deep-flowing Coosa, and her graceful sides laved by the health-giving tides of the swiftly-flowing Etowah and Oostanaula, - surely, gentlemen, surely never was a city more favored, never were a people more blessed!"

After the Freshet. - Floyd County folks "did about" as a consequence of the freshet of March-April, 1886. Col. W. G. Gammon was chairman of the county board at that time, and he called his compatriots together in a special session. The minutes of A. W. Shropshire, clerk, show the following entries during April :

Ferry boats were ordered put on the Etowah at Broad Street and at Howard Street (Second Avenue), and Wm. M. Towers was awarded a contract to construct a foot pontoon bridge at the former site.

Capt. Wm. T. Smith was authorized to build a pontoon for passengers and vehicles. Pedestrians were charged 3 cents to cross, or 5 cents round trip, and vehicles paid 20 to 35 cents, round trip.

Hines M. Smith, engineer, later constructed a military bridge at Broad Street from the old timbers of bridges that had been washed down the Coosa. He was allowed $2 per day for his services, but this was increased to $100 a month.

The Morse Bridge Co. got the contract for constructing the new iron bridges. The Broad Street bridge iron cost $5.75 per foot, and the iron for the Howard Street structure $4.55 per foot (erected), making $12,000 for the former and $8,000 for the latter; the total for both, with masonry at $12,000, was $31,030.

A bond election for bridges and other improvements failed June 3, with 1,719 for and 2,218 against, and two-thirds needed to carry; 2,997 had voted at the last general election. The bonds carried at a second election.

Rome'S Splendid Waterworks Plant

At top is the Fort Jackson filter station, and at bottom Sam P. Frye^ superintendent, at one of the immense outdoor tanks. In center is a peek at North Rome from the plant elevation.

A FAMOUS FLAG. - Miss Sallie Howard, daughter of the Rev. Chas. Wallace Howard (owner of "Spring Bank" plantation and school near old Cassville, Bartow County), and sister of the late Miss Frances Thomas Howard, author of "In and Out of the Lines," is the possessor of a handsome water color sketch of the old battle flag of the Eighth Georgia Regiment. The original flag, she says, was borne aloft in the following hectic engagements :

First Battle of Manassas, Seven Days' Battle, Second Battle of Manassas, Chantilly, Boonesborough, Suffolk, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Frankstown, various skirmishes on Jones Island, near Charleston, Campbell's Station, E. Tennessee engagements, siege of Knoxville, attack on Fort Sanders, Battle of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, the flank movements of Grant, including Cold Harbor; Bermuda Hundreds.

AS THE WAR OPENED. - Rev. John Jones, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, on April 13, 1861, wrote Rev. Dr. Palmer, Presbyterian minister at New Orleans:

"The war has opened. At this moment the Charleston batteries are playing on Fort Sumter. I unite with you in praying for our native South. 'May the Lord cover her head in this her day of battle!"

Mayoralty Election In

MAYORALTY ELECTION IN 1872.* - For the 1873 term, Maj. Wm. r'ranklin Ayer was elected over Attorney J. I. Wright. A mixed council went in. The tickets follow:

For Mayor - W. F. Ayer; for aldermen: First Ward, Dr. G. W. Holmes and Terrence McGuire; Second Ward, Col. W. G. Gammon and W. L. Whitely; Third Ward, J. A. Stansbury and J. L. Cam,p.

For Mayor - J. I. Wright; for aldermen: Dr. G. W. Holmes and A. Tabor Hardin; W. L. Whitely and Dr. R. V. Mitchell; Robt. T. Hargrove and Edward H. West.

CITY OFFICERS IN 1888.*=^- Mayor - Maj. W. F. Ayer; city attorney, Junius F. Hillyer; city treasurer, Edward C. Hough; city clerk, Mitchell A. Nevin; chief of police, Capt. Edward J. Magruder.

FREE BRIDGES. - How the toll bridges of Rome were made "free" is related by the late Judge Joel Branham in his booklet, "The Old Court House in Rome," (ps. 24-26) :

On Dec. 5, 1872, the East Rome Town Co. obtained a conditional license from the Board of County Commissioners establishing their new bridge over the Etowah to East Rome as a "toll bridge." A bill of injunction had been filed against the company by Col. Alfred Shorter and Judge Augustus R. Wright, owners of the other bridges yielding an income, and who made the point that the Inferior Court had issued them an exclusive grant. Judge Robt. D. Harvey denied the injunction, and the decision was affirmed by the State Supreme Court and then the U. S. Supreme Court,'''** where it was fought out by Judge Joel Branham for the company and by Judge Wright in person for himself and Col. Shorter.

A. Thew H. Brower later purchased a large block of the company's stock and 20 acres of land on the ridge along the river below East Second Avenue, and at his instance the bridge was eventually opened to the public, toll free. Still later the county bought all the bridges and abolished the tolls.

Clergymen Of Rome In

CLERGYMEN OF ROME IN 1888.**** - Rev. G. T. Goetchius, Presbyterian; Rev. Robt. B. Headden, Baptist; Revs. W. F. Quillian, W. M. Bridges and W. F. Robison, Methodists; Rev. C. Buckner Hudgins, Episcopalian, and Rev. Father M. J. Clifford, Catholic.

THE TRIBUNE IN 1888.***** - When John Temple Graves came to Rome from the Atlanta Evening Journal to establish the Tribune of Rome on Oct. 2, 1887, he had evidently imbibed some of the lofty enthusiasm which was so prevalent among members of the Rome Land Co. and other "boom" org^anizations of the period. He gathered around him for his new paper not only 60 able stockholders (suggestive of the present-day arrays) but put on the payroll a producing force of 43 people, or three times as many as the experts say are necessary to put out a paper in a town the size of Rome. The 43 follow:

Cleaton, assistant; E. Fletcher Smith, night editor; Jno. G. Taylor, business manager; F. A. Webster, bookkeeper; Sam C. Whitmire, collector; Henry Thompson, office boy; Fred H. Wright, composing room foreman, and B. C. Edwards, Dick Dempsey, J. B. Spence, J. N. Swaggarty, W. H. Peters, B. C. Kelton, G. S. McAfee, A. B. Theobold, F. J. Estes, Tom Turner, W. B. Lathrop, C. A. Cook, P. A. W. Keel, Tom Barnett and W. H. Mayneck, with Pete and John Roser as "devils;" Sam Whitmire, superintendent of machinery and press room; Oliver Elmore, pressman, Charlie Wright, feeder, and Hienry Thomp. son, mailing clerk. In the carrier and delivery department were Simon Ray, Jimmy and Willy Elders. John and Henry Wright, John Harper, Bob Moss. George Starr, Scab Higginbotham and Hayes Ray; the Associated Press reporters were Cothran Smith, Luther Gwaltney and Wirt Marshall.

The leaders in the movement for an up-to-date daily newspaper were J. W. and J. A. Rounsaville, Dr. J. B. S. Holmes and Dr. Robt. Battey. Dr. Battey was made president, and the other directors were Dr. Holmes, J. A. Rounsaville, Col. Graves, R. T. Armstrong, T. F. Howel, and D. F. Allgood. In addition to the directors, the stockholders were H. B. Parks & Co., Alfred S. Hamilton, Emmons, Mc- Kee & Co., Simpson, Glover & Hight, Elbert T. McGhee, R. G. Clark & Co., Chas. H. Cothran, C. Oliver Stillwell, Geo. M. Battey, Wm. W. Seay, J. A. Smith, Jos. B. Patton, Robt. H. Jones & Sons, E. H. Colclough, Dean & Ewing, Wm. M. Towers, Almeron W. Walton, Joel Branham, T. J. McCaffrey, D. B. Hamilton, M. A. Taylor, Jas. T. Vandiver, B. T. Haynes, Mark G. McDonald, Henry A. Smith, P. L. Turnley & Co., W. H. Wardlaw, Jas. G. Dailey, Chas. D. Wood, M. A. Nevin, Wm. H. Roe, Jas. Douglas, L. R. Gwaltney, A. McGhee, Henry G. Stoffregen, Jas. D. Gwaltney, Wm. H. Adkins, Jno. T. Warlick, Jack King, J. T. Crouch & Co., Park Harper, R. J. Ragan, Jno. J. Seay, H. D. Cothran, Jno. Montgomery, David W. Curry, Bradford & Watts, Lamkin & Funkhouser, Harper Hamilton, Capt. W. N. Moore, Wm. A. Wright, Jno. G. Taylor and Jno. H. Reynolds.

The Tribune of Rome was a mint of money from the start - for the stockholders to pay out. One day a "niass meeting" was held, and orders given to "cut to the bone." This was done, and after struggling along for three years with his "corporal's guard," Col. Graves departed for a different clime. In the meantime, Frank L. Stanton had broken in from the Smithville (Lee County) News, but his prodigous efforts to prop things up with poety availed little, and he escaped to Atlanta a short distance ahead of the crash.

"OWE NO MAN ANYTHING." - "The Cash System is Best for Merchant and Customers." - Messrs. Editors : With your permission we take this occasion to set forth to our friends and patrons a few reasons why we ought to be encouraged in our recently adopted system. Cash. We believe it is best for both merchant and customer. When we go to market with the cash, we are independent and can buy goods when we please and where we find goods at the lowest prices - we buy at reduced prices and divide with the customer. The customer is under no obligation to buy of us because of an unpaid debt, whether it is to his interest or not; merchant and customer stand on equal ground. Again, the cash system makes no bad debts. It is the good solvent customers that pay the merchant, who loses by those who don't pay. Trade is like the fluid in a spirit level - it will equalize itself - and competition compels merchants to sell as low as they can afford to, and if they can afford to sell at 25 per cent and lose 10 per cent for bad debts and lawyers' fees, then of course they can sell at 15 per cent profit when no bad debts are made.

By the credit system, bad debts have always been made and always will be made, and bails and attachments, and bills of injunction, and lawyers' fees and court costs, and livery bills, and troubles with trust estates, and administrators and guardians create a heavy sinking fund in every credit house, and the loss is met by the promptly paying, solvent creditors. The credit system must employ a good bookkeeper and pay liberally for one. Day book, journal, ledger, note book, invoice book, cash book, bills receivable and bills payable and hundreds of dunning letters are indispensable - but with us "Othello's occupation is gone" - the bookkeeper is absent behind the counter.

of the year, for with us the year has no end; there are no long accounts to be astonished at, no family jars, no cloudy evenings at home because of the family's extravagance. The cash system saves the buyer a good deal by forcing economy upon him - his purchases will be less if he pays the money down. His family will buy fewer of the fancies that dazzle the eye, and will themselves begin a new system of economy. It avoids the necessity of performing that unpleasant duty of prying into everybody's financial condition and of refusing credit to clever men because we fear they can't pay promptly - perhaps never. We intend to make a fair and diligent experiment, to test its virtues thoroughly; we assure you that this is no trick fixed up to trap the unwary, but an honest effort, worthy of consideration.

Jones, Scott, Omberg & Co

Finally, we say to our friends that there is one unanswerable argument which we shall leave untold. If you will call at our place of bueiness we will take much plaesure in giving you this vmwritten reason, and will even make your pocket sensible of its truth. JONES, SCOTT, OMBERG & CO.

THE CARELESS SMOKER. - Will the next nation-wide crusade be against the use of tobacco? There are many who believe so. The other day T received a questionnaire from a New York company that makes a business of compiling information as to public opinion on public questions. It is getting the sentiment of newspaper men all over the country as to whether the anti-tobacco movement is favored or opposed by the people of their communities, wrote J. D. McCartney in the Rome Tribune-Herald Jan. 7, 1921.

To the average man it seems absurd that anyone should attempt to take his pipe or cigarette or cigar away from him. Twenty years ago the average man thought it silly to talk of taking away his beer - but they did it. It would not surprise me in the least if there should be legislation against the use of tobacco within the next decade. To be sure, tobacco never caused men to beat their wives, or lo"se their money, or neglect their children, or do the hundreds of other evils charged against liquor. But there are many people who consider that tobacco lessens the efficiency and impairs the mentality of its users, hence they regard it as a curse. Many more regard it as a nuisance.

Personally I do not favor anti-tobacco legislation, having used tobacco in the past and knowing just how enjoyable it is. But as a non-user of tobacco at present I am aware that many smokers - in fact, most smokers - are utterly inconsiderate of the comfort and convenience of those who do not smoke. As the non-smokers outnumber the devotees of the weed, it is by no means improbable that legislation restricting the use of tobacco may be enacted. Certainly the sellers and users of tobacco might take a leaf out of the book of the sellers and users of liquor, who by abusing existing rights and privileges hastened the day of their taking away. If saloonkeepers had all been decent and law^-abiding, liquor would still be with us. If tobacconists and smokers would be law-abiding and considerate there would be no danger of legislation against tobacco.

There are laws in many states against the sale of cigarettes and tobacco to minors. Those laws are constantly violated and this gives a just cause of complaint to the anti-tobacco people and is a powerful weapon for their cause. The general indifference of smokers to the rights of non-users of the weed is, however, the main thing that strengthens the hand of the agitators against tobacco.

If there was an organization whose members were pledged to the decent use of tobacco, and the consequent consideration for the rights of others, there would be no need for blue laws to suppress smoking. To begin with, an accompaniment to the use of tobacco is the constant and unhygienic spitting, half of it due to habit and entirely unnecessary. The expectoration may be aimed at a cuspidor, but it often finds its way to the floor, the sidewalk, or the rug. The practice is disgusting and it ought to be stopped.

Smokers are constantly encroaching on new territory. They "light up" in cafes and restaurants at the conclusion of their own dinner, without a thought that they may be spoiling the dinner of someone else. They inhale deeply and blow clouds of smoke all over whoever may be sitting next to them. They erect their smokescreen in every public gathering, even though ladies may be present. At banquets or lodge meetings they soon get the air so thick it can be cut with a knife and the unhappy non-smoker, compelled to attend, goes home with smarting eyes and aching head. They trail their fumes through business offices and homes. At the theaters they twist nervously until the intermission, when they crawl over other people in a mad rush for a cigarette, then crawl back again, reeking with the fumes of tobacco. Such a thing as exercising a little self-restraint in public places, where the health and comfort of others might be affected, never enters the head of the average smoker - and if there is a growing sentiment against smoking, it is the thoughtless smoker who contributes most to the growth of that sentiment.

There is a more serious side to the question, and that is the loss of property and sometimes life due to the careless handling of fire. Just recall the many newspaper accounts of fires attributed to a "smoldering cigar butt" or "a carelessly thrown match." Look at the furniture in any public place or hotel. You will find desks scorched, furniture blackened, rugs

Capt. Chas. Nicholas Featherston

The smoker has the privilege of freedom and full enjoyment now. If he continues to abuse it by making himself a nuisance to non-smokers, by burning carpets, scorching furniture, spitting on the sidewalks and setting fire to houses, it is problematic as to how long this freedom will continue. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the cigarette boot-legger may be a development of the future.

"The Portsmouth Transcript exclaims against the shameful desecration of church floors and walls by thoughtless and mannerless tobacco chewers. We copy the last paragraph of the article:

" 'It is contrary to common etiquette to expectorate in a parlor. Why not in a church? We have seen a pious pew holder praising God and rolling his quid in the most delighted manner imaginable - spitting great jets of amber and groaning "Amen" in the next breath, singing half a line of a hymn and spitting and grunting the other. The vestibules frequently suffer and stains are everywhere visible. How much of the poetic beauty that shines along the pathway of religion and invests it with a charm which causes even the infidel to respect it will remain if the filthy customs of perverted taste are tolerated in its temples? Why should a beautiful house be consecrated to God, if it is to be desecrated by indecency? We should as soon see a man carry his bottle with him, and drink in full view of all, as to see him sit and squirt, or clandestinely dribble his disgusting expectorations amidst the pews and aisles of the sanctuary. The deed would be more decent, at least would not defile, as well as insult, the House of God.' "

FATHOMING A VACUUM. - Although C. A. Bundschu, North Rome meat market man shot in the head last Thursday night by Mark Johnson, tried to smoke a cigarette this morning to soothe his nerves, the experiment was not very satisfactory, and the patient had to throw the weed away. His wife helped him fire off, but owing to the fact that the right side of his face is paralyzed, he could not get up enough vacuum or suction to make a draught to cause it to burn.

A discussion was started in The News office the other day concerning the physical aspects of smoking a cigarette. One man said that a cigarette is consumed because a vacuum is formed in the mouth of the smoker which causes the air to rush into the burning end from without and through the cigarette into the mouth and throat, causing combustion of the smoking materials and carrying with it the smoke. Another was of the opinion that no vacuum was caused, that it was entirely a matter of draft. If you will reverse the current, contended this latter gentleman, you will find that you get an effect that is not caused by a vacuum. Smoke issues in increased volume from the end of the cigarette, or "pill."

DAYS OF THE "HOWLING DERVISHES." - In few towns do the white and colored races get along better together than in Rome. This has not always been true. In Reconstruction days, for instance, the situation was chaotic, to say the least. A citizen wrote the Weekly Courier of Thursday, Aug. 20, 1868, as follows:

"Mr. Editor: We have the most pious reverence for the Christian religion and its honest votaries - we have been reared to esteem those who profess and follow its teachings, as the salt of the earth. More than this, we have as little sectarianism and as large a charity for all Christian denominations as any one, but we must and do solemnly protest against the use now being made of the houses of religious worship by the colored population of the city. Their manner of conducting religious sei'vice is not only a nuisance to those who live near, but it is a mockery and an insult to Him for whom these temples have been built. Let any one who has not heard those howling Dervishes in their nightly orgies draw near some night and listen. A few minutes will suffice to convince.

"At a recent attendance we heard a whining voice sing out, 'I'm gwine to Heben on a white hos.' Another jumped up and echoed, 'Bless de Lord, here's a poor sister gwine to hell on a black mule.' One raises her hands and with eyes fixed on the ceiling screams, 'I see Jesus, I see Jesus, I see Jesus a lookin' at me.' Another replies, 'I see him, too, a lookin' out de winder at me.' Another cries, 'Bless de Lord, tell Jesus to send down a rope, and I'll climb up to Heben.' This last idea strikes a dozen or more with force, and they jump up and down, shouting, 'Send down de rope, and we'll all climb to Heben.'

"Now, Mr. Editor, our observation long has been that the negroes who have the most of this kind of religion are the very meanest of the race. They are most idle, rougish and disobedient. They will shout all night, on Sunday night, and old Satan will possess them all the week after. The best negroes of the community are not of this sort, and there are very many good ones - negroes who make good servants, faithful agents, and diligent laborers. These have the sympathy of our race, and will always have it. They will be supported and protected by us. But there is a class, and it is much the largest class, who are idle and vicious, who make no effort to lay up a dollar for winter or want or sickness. We are informed that our city fathers have expended within the last 18 months nearly a thousand dollars in burying the pauper negroes. A negro child died in the city on Thursday last about noon. The sexton was sent for, and he informed the mother he had his orders to bury no more at the public expense. The house was full of negroes. They sang over the child all night, and had a good time, but made no more demonstrations whatever towards its interment. Next day about noon the sexton called again and found no progress. He called on a negro carpenter near by, and told him he had better make a box, or some sort of a coffin. The carpenter utterly refused, and the sexton had to bury the child at last.

"The mortality of the negroes in the city for the past year has been ten to one as compared with the whites, and it is not decreasing, but increasing. The charity practiced by our physicians among them has become a serious tax upon their time, and this is no small charity of this kind-hearted profession, for it is done among the most ignorant and neglectful of our population. What is to be done with them? Are they under our care and protection, or not? If they are, then they ought to be under our control. Surely we have laws enough to reach the case. Will the city fathers, or the grand juries, or both take the matter in hand? We owe it as a duty to the negro and to ourselves. If pestilence comes among us, it will find an inviting field in these hovels, and from thence it will spread among us all.

"No, let the negro be made to undex'stand the laws of labor and the laws of society. Freedom has exhausted itself in an effort to civilize him. There are many poor, very poor whites in our community, but they know they must labor and toil and struggle. They are generally cleanly and industrious - at all events, they live, and are not termed as paupers.

"Now we are not of the faith of Ariel - far from it - we believe the negro has a soul. More than this, we believe, as a race, they are peculiarly religious in their notions, and what is most wanted is a control of them by reasonable and well-directed effort. They should not be allowed to become vagrants and paupers, nor should they be allowed to howl and whoop like Hottentots and savages, under the idea that such is the way to worship God. If, however, this way is their profession, let them worship so far from our habitations as not to annoy or distui'b our repose in the still hours of the night.

"We have said this much upon a subject that will have to be considered hereafter, though it is ignored now. The time has passed when the negro is considered superior to the white race. The time is almost at hand when he will take his own proper position, and be made to know his entire dependence upon his white friends. We fear that few of them will profit by any advice we may give, for their elevation has been so sudden and their ignorance so feasted by office seekers that they are not in condition to know the truth."

THE COST OF HIGH LIVING. - An exchange asks, "How civilized are we?" Not very, perhaps, when you consider that the big portion of our tax money (some say 95 per cent) goes into wars or preparations for wars, the big portion of the balance goes for luxuries and a measly sum, comparatively, goes toward education and other things that benefit the masses.

"For every dollar we spend on public education, we spend 25 cents for ice cream, 50 cents for jewelry, 35 cents for soft drinks and 30 cents for furs.

"The $50,000,000 a year we spend for chewing gum is two and a half times the total expenditures for normal schools and almost exactly the same as all state and city appropriations for higher education.

"The U. S. Commissioner of Education points out that if we would smoke two cigarettes instead of three, two cigars instead of three, take two chews instead of three, and add the money thus saved to the teachers' pay roll, the salaries of teachers could be increased 120 per cent.

"As it is pretty generally admitted that our teachers as a class are criminally underpaid, these figures are, to say the least, rather humiliating.

" 'We think we believe in education,' says Claxton. 'No doubt we do believe in education in a way, but we have not paid and do not pay much for it.' "

Suppose we should spend 50 per cent of our tax money for education. Wouldn't we be well enough educated eventually to do without some of the luxuries, including wars? - Rome News, July 18, 1921.

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2, Calhoun Road; No. 3, Kingston Road; No. 4, Carlier Springs and Chulio; No. 5, Foster's Mill and Livingston District; No. 6, Black's Bluff Road and Cave Spring; No. 7, Horseleg Creek (Coosa River) and Burnett's Ferry roads; No. 8, Alabama Road, via Hamilton's and Shorter College; No. 9, O'Brien Gap and Redmond Gap Roads; No. 10, Chulio and Wax.

on screen at Elite Theatre; Tribune-Herald flashed results on Lanham store. 5 - Miss Margaret Romaine, soprano, in recital at Shorter College.

11 - Thos. H. Johnston, dean of St. Philip's Cathedral, Atlanta, addressed Rotary Club at Brown Betty Tea Room on Irish and International affairs. Parade down Broad Street by Confederate Veterans, World War Veterans, Boy Scouts and others, celebrating signing of the Armistice with the Germans.

12 - Rev. John H. Elliott, of College Park, started two weeks' revival at the First Presbyterian church. Hagenback-Wallace Circus disbanded for the season at Rome.

14 (Sunday) - Ice on streets; 25 degrees. Congressman Wm. D. Upshaw, of Atlanta, spoke on "A Stainless Flag and a Sober World" at the First Baptist church in the morning, the Cave Spring Methodist church and Shorter College in the afternoon, and the Fifth Avenue Baptist church at night.

16 - Municipal election; Miss Ava Duncan was first Rome woman to vote, and Paul I. Morris first man to vote, at court house. Conference announced change of Rev. T. R. Kendall, Jr., from First Methodist Church to First Methodist at Gainesville, Rev. Elam F. Dempsey, of First Methodist at Athens to First Methodist at Rome; Rev. J. R. King, presiding elder of the Rome District, superannuated, and succeeded by Rev. W. T. Irvine, of Augusta.

28 (Sunday) - Rev. T. R. Kendall, Jr. left for Gainesville, and Rev. Elam F. Dempsey, of Athens, assumed pastorate of First Methodist church.

4 - Horace A. Wade, author at 12, drew 2,000 people in success talk at City Auditorium. Floyd County Farm Bureau guests of Kiwanis Club at Hotel Forrest in move to establish creamery.

7 - Rome Writers' Club organized with Mrs. Perrin Bester Brown president and Jack D. McCartney secretary. 10 - Alex W. Chambliss, mayor of Chattanooga, appeared in civil case in Judge Moses Wright's Superior Court at Court House.

21 - President-elect Warren G. Harding, going to Florida, spoke ten minutes from rear of train to crowd of Romans at Southern Railway depot, promising an understanding between North and South, and was heartily cheered.

24 - Miss Elizabeth Lanier, of Greenwich, Conn, (now Mrs. Robert Boiling, of Philadelphia, Pa.) arrived to spend a week teaching folk songs and dancing at the Berry Schools.

27 - Mrs. George Maynard Minor, President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Mrs. J. L. Buell, State Regent of Connecticut, at Berry Schools on visit. City Commission instructed Chief Harris to stop children from skating on streets.

FEBRUARY - 7 - Dr. Chas. E, Barker, of Detroit, Mich., in talks deploring modern moral tendencies, addressed boys and girls, then women, at Auditorium, was entertained by Rotary Club at the Brown Betty Tea Room for dinner, and spoke again at night at the First Baptist church. 8 - W. A. Sutton, principal of Tech High School, Atlanta, spoke to Boy and Girl Scouts at City Auditorium. Georgia School of Technology campaign for $5,000,- 000 launched in Floyd County. Wilson M. Hardy's garage on 3rd Avenue smashed by landslide from old Shorter College Hill.

4 - Better business predicted in Rome as Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States, is inaugurated at Washington, D. C.

10 - Georgia Federated Musical Clubs, Mrs. Frederic E. Vaissiere, of Rome, president, opened three-day session in Carnegie Library Auditorium; delegates welcomed by Miss Lula Warner, president of the Rome Music Lovers' Club, and Mrs. Wm. P. Harbin, and response was made by Mrs. Harry P. Hermance, of Atlanta.

20 (Sunday) - S. E. DeFrese, of Chattanooga, president of the Rome Municipal Gas Co., arrived at Hotel Forrest to investigate complaints against service furnished by his concern. Left hurriedly when Rome News invited irate citizens to lodge complaints with him by telephone.

4 - Georgia Tech Industrial Tour party, with K, G. Matheson, Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, former Governor Jos. M. Brown and others and Tech band, lunched at Hotel Forrest, was welcomed by J. Ed Maddox, responded through Dr. Matheson and inspected Rome.

5 - J. H. Hoffman, Atlanta landscape architect, inspected City Auditorium Park with Mrs. W. M. Henry and Miss Anna Graham, of Women's Club. Simpson Grocery Co. fire; loss, $125,000.

21 - Dr. Albert Shaw, of New York, editor of American Review of Reviews, and Mrs. Shaw arrived for five-day visit to Berry Schools from Cuba. Seventh District Water Power Convention in hot session at City Auditorium. Floyd County men pledged $6,000 to Georgia Tech fund.

26 - Confederate Memorial Day exercises in Myrtle Hill Cemetery led by Judge John W. Maddox, Capt. Henry J. Stewart, Rev. E. R. Leyburn, Miss Helen Knox Spain and Major Wm. A. Patton; about 200 present.

28 - City Attorney Max Meyerhardt, Mrs. Roy Berry, Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson, Mrs. C. T. Jervis and Mrs. James Maddox as committee laid before State Railroad Commission at Capitol, Atlanta, Rome's complaint against inferior gas service.

1 (Sunday) - C. R. Wilcox, of the McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tenn., arrived to take charge of the Darlington School. Camp sites at Cloudland, Chattooga County, offered Boy and Gii*l Scouts by Will and John Ledbetter. Rev. J. Ellis Sammons preached first sermon as pastor of the First Baptist church.

2 - Southeastern Express branch office opened. City Commission in special session voted wreaths for Battey shaft May 5 at Rome and Grady shaft May 24 in Atlanta.

4 - Medical Association of Georgia opened three-day session at City Auditorium. Seventh District Masonic convention opened two-day session at Masonic Temple. University of Georgia drive for $1,000,000 started. Municipal band stand announced ready on City Hall park site.

5 - Masons adjourned after midnight feast at Masonic Temple. Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of Baltimore, Dr. E. T. Coleman, of Graymont, Dr. Howard E. Felton, of Cartersville, and Dr. Geo. R. West, of Chattanooga, spoke at unveiling of monument to Dr. Robert Battey in City Hall Park, and shaft was accepted for City of Rome by Ernest E. Lindsey. Doctors i-epaired to Coosa Country Club for barbecue; at morning session passed resolutions giving to Dr. Crawford W. Long credit for the discovery of anesthesia, and calling on the Legislature to appropriate money to put his statue in Statuary Hall at Washington.

14 - Rome Curb Market opened opposite postoffice on Fourth Avenue, with Mrs. Hamilton Yancey, Jr. and Mrs. Bessie B. Troutman, president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Chamber of Commerce, and Chief of Police Charlie Harris in charge. Aurora Borealis seen in sky near midnight; got Thos. Colegate out of bed.

18 - Third Boy and Girl Scout trip, to Black's Bluff, Coosa River, on Annie H. At Macon: Drill team of Rome Commandery No. 8, Knights Templar, Chas. N. Burks, drillmaster, won $100 Liberty Bond for drill.

21 - Shorter players staged Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." 2 - Municipal band stand in City Hall Park presented to City of Rome by Women's Club through Mrs. W. M. Henry and accepted by E. E. Lindsey for City. Rev. J. Ellis Sammons delivered baccalaureate sermon at Shorter College.

A Substantial Amphitheater For Oratorical Fireworks

The Floyd County Court House, built in 1892-93 by Jos. B. Patton, contractor, and which replaced the old structure of Court (East First) Street, where barristers had pleaded the cause of justice for half a century. The northern outlook is upon the Oostanaula River.

23 - Rev. Wm. Russell Owen, of Macon, delivered Shorter Commencement oration; award of diplomas and barbecue at "Maplehurst." Berry Schools summer season opened.

26 - Rev. Elam F. Dempsey spoke at Edmonia Newman Institute graduation exercises at First Baptist church. Darlington School commencement in East Rome.

JUNE - 3 - Ralph Bingham, Philadelphia humorist, delighted large Chautauqua crowd. 5 - North Georgia Fair Association directors elected H. A. Dean president; John M. Berry first vice-president; H. H. Shackelton second vice-president; James M. Harris treasurer and Lester C. Bush secretary. 6 - Women held mass meeting in favor of issue of $750,000 road bonds for Floyd County. 16 - Floyd County's $750,000 road bond issue carried by 3,102 to 67. 21 - District School performance at City Auditorium as benefit for Women's Auxiliary of Chamber of Commerce.

1 - Judge Moses Wright, Barry Wright and Harry P. Meikleham speakers at Lindale, when Massachusetts Mills Auditorium is accepted by American Legion as memorial to Lindale men who lost lives in World War. 2 - Greenwich, Conn.: J. Simpson Dean, Princeton 1921, of Rome, won Intercollegiate Golf championship, defeating Jesse Sweetser and others. 4 - Double header baseball game at Hamilton Park: Lindale 5 - 2, Rome 2 - 3.

Motor boats active all day on rivers. 7 - Opening gun fired in fight to extend city limits of Rome and include 7,000 more people and revenue. Doctors returned from Seventh District Society meeting at Calhoun. Adj. Gen. Peter C. Harris told Rotary Club at Hotel Forrest ha hoped for early end of all wars. 9 - Municipal swimming pool project started.

13 - Robt. W. Van Tassel, of Lindale, made Colonel on Governor Hardwick's staff. 16 - Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson sold controlling interest in Rome Tribune-Herald to

J. Ed Maddox, Thos. W. Lipscomb, E. E. Lindsey and associates. 27 - "Sequoyah," house boat built by Scoutmaster Ed King's Boy Scout Troop 2, launched on Oostanaula river in Fourth Ward before large crowd; prayer by Rev. J. L. Hodges; principal speakers, James Maddox and Claire J. Wyatt. 80 - Rev. Harry F. Joyner's Maple Street Community House playground and gymnasium opened in East Rome. 31 (Sunday) - Notice given of approaching city Clean-up Week.

AUGUST - 3 - Committees named for Home-coming Week, October 10-16. 8 - Limits extension bill introduced in Georgia Legislature, Atlanta, by Hon. John Camp Davis, of Floyd.

11 - News - Kiwanis dairying and creamery project commended at Hotel Forrest luncheon by Roland Turner, of Southern Railway Development Service. Rotary Club, Walter S. Cothran, president, started city planning project.

19 - Kiwanis Club and Women's Auxiliary of the Chamber of Commerce presented Miss Frances Brown, lyric soprano, in song recital at City Auditorium.

20 - Dr. Carl Betts, Richard A. Denny, Jr., and Edward Hine winners of finals cups in North Georgia Tennis Tournament at Coosa Country Club.

22 - Hughes T. Reynolds, Kiwanis Club president, and W. E. Bowers, county agricultural agent, addressed one-day farm institute members at Berry School. Dr. Carl Betts' Scout Troop 4 off for Ship Island, Oostanaula River, on Annie H.

24 - Barclay Terhune, Chulio District farmer, again brought to Rome first bale of cotton of season; sold to Taul B. White at 21% cents a pound.

27 - Coosa Country Club held swimming and diving contests. Miss Helen Knox Spain started Rome Musical Center on Lower Broad Street, with touch of Bohemia. Floyd County Farm Bureau's first annual picnic at Morrison's Camp Ground.

2 - Rev. S. E. Wasson, of Atlanta, and Rev. Horace Freeman, of Newnan, officiated at military funeral at First Methodist church of Lieut. Walton Shanklin, U. S. A., killed in France Oct. 15, 1918, in Argonne Forest drive. City Commission refused petition of Rome Municipal Gas Co. for increased gas rate. Lee J. Langley, attorney, appointed by Governor Hardwick member of State Waterway and Canal Commission. Girls' School at Mt. Berry opened. 3 - Hugh L. Hodgson, pianist, and T. Goodwin, both of Athens, motored through

Rome on way home from Chattanooga tennis tournament. 5 (Labor Day) - Boy Scout swimming and diving events at "Head of Coosa." Motor boat races won by Fred Hoffman's "A. M. L." Baseball, double header: Lindale 6 - 2, Rome 2 - 1. 6 - Rome committee failed to make connection at Cartersville with Dixie tourists going to Cincinnati from Jacksonville. Cotton up; 20 cents a pound.

11 (Sunday) - Rev. and Mrs. G. Campbell Morgan and Misses E. and K. Morgan and Howard Morgan, their children, had supper at the Hotel Forrest en route to their new home in Athens, Ga. Gordon L. Hight returned from Chicago radio convention.

13 - Jas. A. Holloman, of Washington, addressed Kiwanis Club at Hotel Forrest on tax problems. Fatty Arbuckle movie pictures at Elite Theatre called off by Manager O. C. Lam. Main leak under Oostanaula River at Fifth Avenue caused City Manager Sam S. King to cut off water for about 10 hours for Fourth Ward, West Rome and Berry Schools.

15 - Shorter College opened forty-eighth annual session with 207 girls from 16 states; 135 from Georgia, 15 from Alabama, 15 from Florida and 12 from Tennessee. Senator Wm. J. Harris, of Cedartown, on visit to Rome and Berry Schools.

20 - Public meeting addressed by Linton A. Dean, Bernard S. Fahy, Byard F. Quigg, H. H. Shackelton, Rev. W. M. Barnett and Gordon Watson, urging more money for public schools.

23 - Miss Madeline Cashin, of Peoria, His., put on local amateur players in "O, 0 Cindy!" Gay Jespersen's Lindale band signed for North Georgia Fair, October 10-15.

8 - Miss Louise Berry elected Queen of Home-coming week and ball. Football at Hamilton Field : Rome High School 30, Disque of Gadsden 0. 10 - Fritz Lieber, Shakespearean player, in "The Merchant of Venice" at City Auditorium. Governor Thomas W. Hardwick, of Atlanta, spoke at opening of North Georgia Fair on state tax and revenue problems.

14 - Home-coming day at Fair. Races. Miss Louise Berry crowned Queen by H. A. Dean, following addresses by H. H. Shackelton, home-coming chairman, and Hon. Wright Willingham. Hon. Claude H. Porter spoke under auspices of the League of Women Voters in favor of disarmament and peace. Day's attendance, 10,000. Queen's Ball at Shrine Hall at night, Fred Malone acting as King.

14 - Dairy Day at Fair. Roland Turner and J. F. Bazemore, speakers. Races. Boy Scouts in Indian pageant at night. Football at Marietta, Ga.: Rome High School 6, Marietta High School 0.

16 (Sunday) - Mrs. John R. Barclay assured of strong support in race for Rome postmastership. W. A. Parker, of Community Service, New York, N. Y., spoke at First Methodist and First Christian churches on need of more recreational and outdoor facilities in Rome as an aid to healthful and wholesome young citizenship.

Making The Most Of War Conditions

"Big John" Underwood, the grocer, "steered" away from Rome, according to "Bill Arp's Scrap Book," to accept a commission at Savannah as a member of the staff of Gov. Jos. E. Brown Lacking harness, he employed other means. "Big John" was in the Georgia Guard detail which arrested John Howard Payne in 1835. Many other Romans refugeed from the city from 1863 to 1865.

James Noble, Jr., and associates founded the Rome Volunteer Fire Department? Henry W. Grady was a member of Rainbow Steam Fire Engine Company No. 1?

George Barnsley, of Barnsley Gardens, Bartow County, before 1861 boarded with Mrs. J. G. Yeiser on Third Avenue, and Frank L. Stanton lived there for a short time?

Major Wm. A. Patton, stationed at headquarters telephones, helped direct sector artillery operations in the World War battles of St. Mihiel and the Argonne, France?

Coosa Old Town was an Indian village on the Coosa River near Rome, South Rome side, and was destroyed on or about Oct. 17, 1793, by Gen. John Sevier, ancestor of numerous Romans?

An erratic character known to the Cherokee Indians as the "Widow Fool" operated a ferry in 1819 at the forks of the Oostanaula and Hightower (Etowah) Rivers?

Major Ridge's ferry, opposite his home on the Oostanaula, was seized in 1835 by a white man named Garrett, who claimed Ridge would not run it or let anybody else run it?

Father Ryan, Indiana poet, once visited Rome to see about the Kane property in New York, and was the guest of Mrs. Mary Adkins, mother of Wm. H. Adkins?

Before Barney Swimmer and Terrapin, Cherokees, were hung on Broad Street for robbing and murdering Ezekiel Blatchford (or Braselton), of Hall County, a land seeker, in 1837, they were allowed to take a last swim under guard at the forks of the Etowah and the Oostanaula?

"Ga-la-gi-na" ("male deer" or "turkey") who later took the name of Elias Boudinot, president of Congress, was born in the present Floyd County in 1803?

Jack King was the second of Capt. Jno. D. Williamson in the Calhoun-Williamson duel. Dr. Henry Halsey Battey was his physician, and Capt. Jno. J. Seay and John G. Taylor were spectators?

Col. Chas. Iverson Graves was in charge of the Confederate Naval School at Richmond, Va., in the Civil War, and in 1865 sent his wife and son, Chas. I. Graves, Jr., then a baby, in a covered wagon to Georgia from Richmond, in company with Mrs. Jefferson Davis?

Judge William H. Underwood, father of Congressman Jno. W. H. Underwood, represented the Indians in claims against the Government, and sleeps in an unmarked grave in the old Seventh Avenue Cemetery, Rome?

Fourteen thousand Cherokees, headed by John Ross and others, marched afoot 600 miles to "The Arkansaw" in 1838 and 1839, and 4,500 of them died of disease or exposure, or were slain by United States troops, and the pilgrimage was known as "The Trail of Tears"?

Cave Spring, on Little Cedar Creek, was incorporated with a "growth radius" of 1/4 mile and is an older town than Rome, and Rome is older than Atlanta?

Gen. John Floyd, of Fairfield Plantation, Camden County, made possible the peaceful settlement of Floyd County by dispersing Indian bands in Alabama? Also that Floyd County was named for him in 1832 when "Cherokee Georgia" was broken up into counties?

Gen. Beauregard said after the First Battle of Manassas, "I lift my hat to the Eighth Georgia Regiment! (Rome companies). History will never forget you!"?

Gen. Forrest, with 410 Confederates, Sunday, May 3, 1863, captured 1,466 Union soldiers, marched them into Rome and saved it from destruction?

Maj. C. A. De La Mesa, U. S. A., hung a large American flag over Broad street in Reconstruction days and forced ex-Confederates and civilians to salute it?

Henry Grady was accustomed as a Rome newspaper editor to scratch notes on his cuffs? That his trunk was attached when he left Rome for Atlanta, and his wedding silver was threatened?

Major Chas. H. Smith ("Bill Arp") wrote a saucy open letter in 1861 to "Abe Linkhorn"? The original Bill Arp was a Chulio District farmer? Major Smith was a law partner of Judge Joel Branham and Judge J. W. H. Underwood?

Theodore P. Shonts, Chicago and New York traction magnate, came to Rome about 1900 to select a school for his daughters, Theodora and Marguerite, and on requesting a negro cabman to take him to the most interesting spot in town, was driven to Myrtle Hill Cemetery?

The Noble Foundry made cannon for the Confederacy in the Civil War, and the machine lathe that bored them is still in use at the Davis Foundry & Machine Shop?

Rome's business district was burned by Sherman's army in 1864, and the message that brought his orders to march to the sea was sent from Rome?

Mayor Zach Hargrove once issued $50,000 of local money to meet a financial stringency, and was called to account by the Federal authorities?

Mrs. Wilson's father, the Rev. Saml. Edward Axson, accepted the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in 1866 without any promise of salary?

William Jennings Bryan, Wm. G. McAdoo, Col. Roosevelt, Dr. Albert Shaw, Miss Ida M. Tarbell andDr. Howard A. Kelly have addressed the students of the famous Berry Schools?

Ferries were a profitable industry before Rome's bridges were built? Col. John H. Wisdom rode like Paul Revere to warn Romans of the approach of the Federals from Gadsden in May, 1863?

Benj. Cudworth Yancey, brother of Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama, secession leader, served as minister to Argentina? Also that he was slated for Ambassador to Great Britain by President Buchanan when Civil War complications interfered?

A casual Roman - Capt. John D. Williamson - participated in the last affair of honor in the South under the code duello, with Pat Calhoun, of Atlanta, near Cedar Bluff, Ala., Saturday, Aug. 10, 1889?

Two Romans - Rev. G. A. Nunnally and Seaborn Wright - once ran for Governor on the Prohibition ticket, and Seaborn Wright was mentioned for President? Hooper Alexander ran for Governor and Congress?

Judge John H. Lumpkin died on the veranda of the Choice House (later the Central Hotel), July 10, 1860, while conversing with political friends? Howard Tinsley is in the consular service at Montevideo, Uruguay?

A locomotive of the Rome Railroad, called the "Wm. R. Smith," was used April 12, 1862, in the pursuit past Kingston after Andrews' Wild Raiders on the "General"?

Dr. George Magruder Battey, of the Augustus N. Verdery place, "Riverbank Farm," had one of the finest poultry establishments in the United States?

Rome and Georgia doctors held indignation meetings and threatened to lynch Dr. Robert Battey for performing the Battey operation, Aug. 27, 1872? Also that Dr. Battey defended himself so ably at a meeting in the State Capitol, Atlanta, that Henry W. Grady referred to him as the "Cicero of the Georgia Medical Profession"? Dr. Battey was a civil engineer, then pharmacist, and had six children before he practised medicine? In his youth he clerked in a dry goods store at Detroit, Mich., for Zach Chandler, later United States Senator?

Col. Hamilton Yancey roomed with Henry W. Grady at the University of Georgia, Athens, and was one of his groomsmen at his marriage in Athens to Miss Julia King.?

"Maplehurst," home place of the president of Shorter College, was bought in January, 1869, by Capt. J. M. Selkirk, of Charleston, and later became the property of Hugh T. Inman, of Atlanta, and Joe L. Bass, of Rome?

Dunlap Scott, member of the Legislature, passed around a petition March 20, 1872, for a bill admitting Forrestville (North Rome) into Rome? North Rome was first called Woodville?

The Nobles left Rome and founded Anniston, Ala., because they thought East Rome land they wanted for their foundry extensions was priced too high?

Other names suggested for Rome were Hillsboro, Hamburg, Warsaw and Pittsburg? Also that South Rome along the Etowah River was once known as Hillsboro? Also that the Etowah was sometimes known as "Hightower"?

The Rev. Marcellus Lyttleton Troutman, Methodist minister of Pope's Ferry, graduated at the University of Georgia law school after he was 50?

Generals of the Northern Army occupying Rome in 1864 accused prominent Rome women of supplying the Confederates with information by "underground telephone"?

A Cherokee Indian returned from Indian Territory about 40 years ago and dug for buried treasure on the Sproull (Haynes-Howel) place, north of Rome?

Colquitt's Scouts hung Col. L. D. Burwell several minutes by the neck to make him tell where his money was hid? Also that Mrs. Robt. Battey concealed $500 in gold in her stockings and shoes for him?

Miss Florence Fouche, the newly-wed wife of Capt. Edward Jones Magruder, of the Rome Light Guards, went marching off to war with him with pistol and dagger in her belt?

Capt. Reuben Grove Clark donated $3,000 toward the Sunday School room of the First Presbyterian Church in 1896, and it was named the Rosalie Clark Memorial?

Miss Elizabeth Lanier, granddaughter of Sidney Lanier, the poet, spent a week from Jan. 24, 1921, at the Berry Schools? That Dr. Albert Shaw, of New York, editor of the American Review of Reviews, visited Berry April 21-26, 1921, with Mrs. Shaw and called the school idea the greatest in America?

Daniel R. Mitchell sold the Mitchell plantation of 2,500 acres, up the Oostanaula, including Whitmore's Bluff and Island, in 1863, for $80,000 in Confederate money in preference to $60,000 in gold?

Chief John Ross was arrested in Tennessee in 1835 near Spring Place, Murray County, with John Howard Payne, author of "Home, Sweet Home," and John H. ("Big John") Underwood, of Rome, was one of their military guard?

Ross offered to sell the Cherokee lands to the Government for $20,000,000, but the proposition of his rival, Ridge, for $5,000,000, was accepted?

Major Ridge was breveted by General Andrew Jackson for bravery at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Tallapoosa River, Alabama, March, 1814? Also that the Cherokees nicknamed Jackson "Straight Talk"?

Judge Jas. M. Spullock, superintendent of the W. & A. (State) Railroad, contracted with the Noble Foundry for the construction of the first locomotive built of native materials in the South, the Alfred Shorter (1856), at $11,000, and Governor Jos. E. Brown refused to pay such an "excessive price"?

In June, 1839, at an Indian Territory settlement, Major Ridge was shot to death from ambush; his son John was killed with knives, and Elias Boudinot, editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, was hacked to death with tomahawks by Cherokees who claimed they had betrayed the Nation?

Rome and Floyd County have produced or sheltered the following: Congressmen Augustus R. Wright, Thos. C. Hackett, John H. Lumpkin, Jno. W. H. Underwood, Judson C. Clements, John W. Maddox and Milford W. Howard; United States Senators H. V. M. Miller and Wm. J. Harris; Comptroller General John T. Burns. Attorney General Richard A. Denny, Assistant Attorney General Graham Wright; William H. Hidell, secretary to Alexander H. Stephens; John Johnathan Pratt, inventor of the pterotype (typewriter) ; Col. B. F. Sawyer, inventor of the paper bag and a newspaper press; James Noble, Sr., and his six sons, the "Iron Kings"; Frank L. Stanton; the Rev. Jas. W. Lee; Jas. W. Lee, Jr., New York advertising expert; Major Chas. H. Smith ("Bill Arp") ; Montgomery M. Folsom; Jno. Locke Martin; Jos. A. Magnus; Israel S. Jonas; Jno. H. Towers, naval aviator; Gen. Wm. L. Marshall; Eliza Frances Andrews, botanist; Miss Martha Berry; Geo. B. Ward, mayor of Birmingham; Arthur W. Tedcastle, shoe merchant; Jno. W. Bale, speaker pro tem of the Georgia Legislature and later Indian claim agent; Edward A. Heard, New York dry goods merchant; Will McKee, Boston shoe merchant; Edward E. Magill, of St. Louis; Dr. Elijah L. Connally, M. B. Wellborn, Walter C. Taylor and Walter G. Cooper, of Atlanta; Dr. Julius Caesar LeHardy de Beaulieu, yellow fever expert of Savannah; Eugene LeHardy de Beaulieu, chief construction engineer of the Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad ; Prof. Wesley O. Connor and Prof. Jas. Coffee Harris, principals of the Georgia School for the Deaf, Cave Spring; Gen. Francis S. Bartow, of Savannah and the Confederate Army; Col. B. F. Sawyer, Geo. T. Stovall, Phil Glenn Byrd, Melville Dwinell, John Temple Graves, J. B. Nevin, J. Lindsay Johnson, M. A. Nevin, Chas. H. Smith ("Bill Arp"), W. A. Knowles and A. B. S. Moseley, newspaper editors; Gen. James Hemphill, of Mississippi; Joseph Watters, Dunlap Scott, William Smith and James Wells, Legislators; Dr. W. C. Doss, of College Park, Ga., and Allie Watters, of Atlanta, inventors of the Doss punctureproof automobile tire; J. H. Lanham, inventor of the Lanham cotton cultivator; Thos. F. Pierce, Wm. M. Crumley, Atticus G. Haygood, Alex M. Thigpen, Wm. H. LaPrade, Sr., Gen. Clement A. Evans, Weyman H. Potter, T, R. Kendall, Sr., W. F. Quillian, S. R. Belk, J. H. Eakes, B. F. Eraser, C. O. Jones, Walker Lewis, S. E. Wasson, Chas. H. Stillwell, W. M. Bridges, J. M. M. Caldwell, George T. Goetchius, Sam P. Jones, G. G. Sydnor, C. B. Hudgins, Father M. J. Clifford, and Marcellus L. Troutman. among ministers; L. P. Hammond, T. R. Garlington, James Banks Underwood, G. W. Holmes, Robert Battey, J. B. S. Holmes and Henry H. Battey, among doctors; John Temple Graves, Jr., and James Montgomery, authors; Gordon L. Hight, wireless expert; Hooper Alexander, United States District Attorney, and David J. Meyerhardt, Assistant United States District Attorney?

A SPLENDID METEOR - On last Thursday night we were so fortunate as to behold one of those grand meteoric phenomena of which we had often read, but never before witnessed. A little before 10 o'clock our attention was attracted by a streak of pale white light which seemed to proceed from the moon. It moved with great rapidity across the sky, increasing in brilliancy and size, until about half way its career, it appeared as large as the full moon, its body as dazzling as the sun, surrounded by a beautiful purple and blue light, and followed by a stream of fire a foot or two in length. Just before it apparently reached the earth it changed to a red ball of fire, and exploding with a cracking noise, threw off fragments in every direction and disappeared. Its course was from southeast to the north and was visible not more than half a minute, but in that time traversed nearly the entire arch of the firmament, hundreds of miles in length. Although the moon, which was shining very brightly, was completely eclipsed, yet if that luminary had been below the horizon the effect would have been grander, if possible.

None of the meteors recently seen, of which graphic accounts have reached us, could have excelled this in magnificence and sublimity. Its size, brilliancy and velocity excited in the beholder sensations of mingled awe and admiration. It impressed us as a spai-k from the glory of Heaven, appearing for a little while to remind man of the existence of an avenging God and the doom of this wicked world, and then as if to remind him of His mercy also, it speedily vanished, lest he might gaze upon it and perish. - Rome Tri-Weekly Courier, 1860.

TOM COLEGATE SUSPECTED - Don't know whether Thomas Colegate, prominent advocate of the single tax system, and resident of the Fifth Ward, had anything to do with it, but it matters not whether he was the cause of this week-end of rain or not, he is responsible for a great deal of disappointment on the part of ardent lovers.

Last week, getting out his books on the stars and other things in the heavens, he made the discovery that on the night of November 27 the old world would pass through the tail of Biela's Comet, or rather what had been the tail, and that as it did the country would be treated to a great and grand shower of shooting stars.

This show comes about by reason of the fact that this comet has become divided against itself and is now only a mass of flying fragments, having broken in half a number of years ago, and is continually breaking up since that time.

John Towers comrranded the trans-Atlantic expedition in the spring of 1919, andpersonally had charge of the NC-3, which was nearly lost in, a storm. (Note condition of lower wing). Lieut. Commander A. C. Read, in the NC-4, completed the flight to Plymouth, England, via the Azores and Portugal. It was the Irst time an air ves.sel had crossed the ocean.

The dates v^^ere kept, and maybe the rest of it was carried out, but the shooting stars were not seen, for the skies are dark with clouds, and the heavens cannot be seen. It's a sad world, and no one is to blame but the weather man, unless Mr. Colegate by reason of the fact that he feared his reputation as an astrologer brought out the clouds and turned on the rain.

Lightning bugs can't even be rung in, as their season has passed with the coming of Jack Frost. - Wm. A. Patton in Rome News, Nov. 28, 1920.

ROME IS TREATED TO HAIL - Hail, hail, the gang don't care! This parody on the popular song was sung by early risers going to work Tuesday about 8:30 o'clock in certain sections of Rome, including East. Rain fell hard first, then hail for five minutes, then more rain. The sky looked like it would be overcast practically all day.

leaves, and citizens used rakes, especially at Second avenue and East Second street. Much warmer weather ruled during the day, and fires were not badly needed. - Feb. 8, 1921.

Comet Fizzles Out

SEES WILSON IN METEOR - A meteor of unusual brilliancy was observed in the northern heavens Friday night, March 4, about 6:40 by students and teachers of the Berry School as they were leaving the dining hall and going to their dormitories.

David Reynolds, who occupies the chair of history and has made a reputation at Berry as lecturer on "Southern Heroes and; Celebrities," immediately attached a significance to the falling star in connection with the passing of Mr. Wilson from his high public position. "The brightest star in the political firmament is thus passing," said Mr. Reynolds, as he watched the meteor sweep slowly across the northern sky from west to east and disappear from sight.

"I consider Mr. Wilson the third great American - Washington, the Father of his Country; Lincoln, the Emancipator, and Wilson, the great Pacificator and Idealist - stand alone and unique among the many lesser stars in the wide stretch of our firmament of the great and wise and good leaders that have been raised up for our country." - Mar. 7, 1921.

Aurora Borealis Thrills

AURORA BOREALIS THRILLS ROME - The occasional appearing Aurora Borealis appeared in the sky over Rome last night near midnight and cut its capers for about 15 minutes, finally retreating after a spasm of subdued but spirted flashes. The flashes seemed to come together at a central point at zenith, arriving from a considerable distance outward. They shed a little light as far down as earth. The light was in beams.

Robert Shahan, Boy Scout and resident of Eighth avenue, phoned The News that he and Porter Harvey and Cundy Bryson were on Tower Hill watching the performance. The News passed the word to Thomas Colegate, the well-known astronomer, of 103 Myrtle street, South Rome, and Mr. Colegate declared he would stick his bean out the front door immediately.

Webster's Shorter School Dictionary gives the following definition of aurora borealis: "An atmospheric phenomenon consisting usually of streams

After the above was written, a fair young lady of East Rome phoned The News that a young man calling on her had discovered the lights in the sky while looking for an inspiration up there. - May 15, 1921.

Records kept by Miss Mary Towers and by her father prior to his death showed that the previous high record was in 1913, at 109 degrees. No higher temperature has ever been recorded here. - Aug. 1, 1921.

A STAR THE LOVERS SAW - How many people saw that wonderful shooting star Monday night about 10:10 o'clock? (Of course all the lovers did!) It seemed to leave its place over Lavender Mountain and proceed in a curve toward John's Mountain, in a generally northern direction. For ten or fifteen seconds it could be seen, shooting like a fireball. Wonder it didn't hit some other star, and cause a shower of sparks to descend. Maybe it didn't because space is so infinite. The distance between stars must be as great as from the earth to the moon, which the astronomers say is 93,000,000 miles, if your correspondent remembers correctly. - Sept. 20, 1921.

PASTOR SINGS OF ROME - The Rev. J. L. Ballard, of Atlanta, a visitor to Rome Thursday, January 13, throws some nice bouquets at the Hill City in the current issue of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate, as follows:

"The work of the week was closed Thursday at Rome. Were you ever in Rome? If you never were, the first time you have the opportunity, go. It is one of the most picturesque places the writer ever saw. Wide streets, all paved, splendid stores mostly of brick or stone. Fine office buildings and handsome residences. But my, what a beautiful church ! It was built in 1884 by the wonderful man, Dr. J. W. Lee, who was the greatest church builder among us. Bro. Irvine, the presiding elder, and Dr. Dempsey, pastor of the

"The week's work was closed at beautiful, picturesque Rome. A hurried walk to the ti-ain, a ride to Kingston in sight of the beautiful Etowah River, then through the mountains trimmed with sleet and snow, and we came to Atlanta." - Jan. 24, 1921.

TO SWAT TEA HOUNDS - A brand new social club has been formed at Rome for the purpose of pursuing pleasure to her seductive lair and making war on all "tea hounds, lounge lizards, chewing gum buddies and cake eaters," as the charter preamble fiercely states. The members are petitioning informally for the right to operate and be operated upon in the courts of Epicurus, God of Pleasure, father of Epicurean June; Cupid, God of Love and Trouble, and Thor, God of Thunder and White Lightning. Thev are Ed Caldwell, W. E. Weathers, Fred Hull, Will A. Patton, Roy Echols, Fred Malone, Edwin Reese, Donald Cantrell, W. B. Watts, Denny King, Tom Rawls, Alfred King and Harris Best - thirteen leathernecked gentlemen who rise above the superstition of unlucky numbers.

The constitution swears, in addition to other things, that "the object of the corporation is not pecuniary gain for itself and members, but rather for a generous distribution of any pecuniary gains the members might latch onto from any possible source," and this object has caused their friends to hint that a deep-dyed plot is being hatched to resurrect the "Boys of Poverty Hall." The name for the present will be the "Moonlight Golf Association," and the members intend to let theirs shine. Branch clubs, not clubs on branches, are to be formed if desired.

The chief meeting place is not stated, but a rumor has it that the first initiation will be held at the place "where the jay-bird jarred the mountain," near Black's Bluff. If sky water does not prevent, that meeting will probably be held tonight, and the first monthly dinner will occur within a week at the Forrest. There will be no officers for the present, unless Charlie Harris should butt in. Each of the Silent Thirteen will govern himself in accordance with the emergency and the best interest of (the) society. - 1-25-'21.

NOODLE SONG SKETCH - Major Tom Noodle's entertainment for the teachers last night at the court house was a success from every standpoint. The Major presided with a dignity and grace befitting the occasion, the Berry School quartette sang cleverly, as did Fred Hull in a solo, and the character sketch, "Old Black Joe," was well presented. Miss Ruth Colegate's reading was greatly appreciated.

The hit of the evening was a sketch entitled "Deal Fair," a sermon by a Methodist preacher, Byron Watters, of Pinson, assisted by his audacious deacon, Frank Gaines. Major Noodle, Miss Carrie Mull, Robt. Cowan and L. O. Phelps put on another clever sketch entitled "Charlie Over the Forest." Lemonade was not served, said the Major, because no lemons could be found in the crowd. - Jan. 7, 1921.

A CHEERFUL CHRISTIAN. - Sam P. Jones, in Rome: "Christians should not be long-faced, but bright and happy. God never made a man who loved fun better than I do, and I'll say right here. Judge Bleckley told a mighty big truth when he said: 'The next best thing to religion is fun.' "

Jim White, Robert Middleton and Albert Lehman took Mrs. White and several other young ladies down to Hunt's Pond, about seven miles from Rome, on the Cave Spring road, Saturday, Jan. 22, on a fishing trip.

Prof. Albert Lee Snyder, the Griffin weather prophet, was once heard to remark that the people who go picnicking in winter time will live to wear overcoats in July, so we shall see. - Jan. 24, 1921.

SPRING MUST BE HERE - Some fisherman has stretched a trout line across the Oostanaula River just above the Fifth Avenue Bridge. Fishing this year is going to be good, especially below the lock and dam on the Coosa, say the wise ones. - Mar. 20, 1920.

More Customers Saturday

BACK WITH FISH STORIES - W. C. ("Hawkshaw") Smith, assistant chief of the fire department, returned to his duties this morning at headquarters at the City Hall after a stay of ten days at a camp at Little River Falls, Lookout Mountain. DeKalb County, Ala. Mr. Smith was as brown as a nut after his vacation. He reported having caught a lot of bass, bream and trout, as long as his long arm, some of them.

HISSING RATTLER IS KILLED - A rattlesnake that rattled and hissed when aroused Monday morning was killed by Deputy Sheriff Lindsey Wright, of Sheriff Wilson's force. Mr. Wright was passing in an automobile when he saw the snake stretched out in the Redmond Gap road, on Lavender Mountain. He shot once with his pistol and missed. The next shot hit the snake in the body, which caused him to coil and express his anger in his own peculiar way.

The snake's head became as large as a man's fist, and Mr. Wright drew a fine bead and shot through it. Mr. Wright left the snake, but severed his rattles, which were twelve, with a button. These he brought to the court house and showed his friends. The snake was as big as a man's forearm and about four feet long.

THE MAIN QUALIFICATION. - When Maj. Chas. H. Smith (Bill Arp) was mayor of Rome in 1868, he and the city council received the following communication :

"I herewith make application to your honorable body for the office of night marshal of the city of Rome, and if appointed I promise in order to discharge my duties faithfully to try and keep awake at all hours.

The Boat And The Drenched Boatmen Landing

BOAT UPSETS - An interesting experience from the standpoint of the spectators and an exciting one from the standpoint of the participants was staged Friday morning about 9:30 o'clock 100 yards above the Fifth Avenue Bridge when a batteau containing John Camp Davis, the well-known lawyer and member of the Legislature, and the Rev. Gordon Ezzell, pastor of the North Rome Baptist Church, capsized and threw them into the water, along with two boatmen.

The pastor and the attorney had taken a boat run by Cecil McGill and a man named McLeod on Fifth avenue, Fourth Ward, with the idea of paddling through the immersed "Beaver Slide" section and of landing at Sixth avenue and West First street, near the Auditorium. They went up Avenue A and then curved southward. After crossing the main body of the Oostanaula well above the bridge they encountered very swift water in a clump of small trees, and the boat hit a limb at the same time that the water hit its port side, upsetting and throwing one of the boatmen out. The others clung to the trees and the boatman grabbed his boat and swung it in, at the same time keeping his paddle, which was also new.

A shout went up from the crowd on the bridge, and two men with boats put out to the rescue. One was George Camp, janitor at the court house, and the other Mr. Mclntire, fisherman well known in the Fourth Ward. Mr. Mc. Intire took Mr. Davis and Mr. Ezzell into his boat and paddled them back across the river and landed them at the Rome end of the bridge, whence they went to Mr. Davis' office in the Masonic Temple to dry.

The other two clung to the trees a while longer and received assistance from Mr. Camp, who helped bail out their boat, m which they finally paddled to Sixth avenue and West First street, when they went to dry in the basement of the county jail. The distance from the trees to this point of landing was about 400 feet, and from the trees to the point where the other two landed about 600. The first pair clung to the trees about 15 minutes and the other two about 10 minutes longer.

The boatmen were due to have received some pecuniary consideration for the trip, but this was forgotten in the excitement. The friends of all congratulated them on such a thrilling experience, and in a group on the bridge composed of Aimer R. Davis, Jack Mc- Cartney, the Rev. H. F. Saumenig, and W. C. Rash, it was remarked that since Mr. Ezzell was a Baptist and Mr. Davis a lawyer, a little water would hurt neither, and that the boatmen were used to it by nature and training.

Justice E. P. Treadaway yesterday bound over Charles Hand, charged with kicking Linton Jones, 10-year-old boy. near the Rome Hosiery Mills and on a tender part of his anatomy. - Feb. 11, 1921.