The Rome Boy Scouts, numbering about 12, left at 4 a.m. on a hike to Atlanta accompanied by Pierce McGhee, the trek taking them three days of walking and camping in the woods at night, and they returned tired but happy with their adventure. … Darlington School was to begin its eighth year Monday with a good enrollment, a teaching staff of three and an athletic coach. Dr. A.W. Van Hoose, president of Shorter College, subscribed $100 to the proposed establishment of a Y.M.C.A. in Rome. …
The board of county commissioners took the first step toward moving the county chain gang — lock, stock and barrel – into Rome for four months of street work this week a half century ago.
The first work was to be the paving of East Second Avenue to the city limits and also to extend the paving on North Broad Street, and if tie allowed, West Fifth Avenue paving was to be completed to the city limits.
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Romans read that Congress closed another billion dollar season following a lengthy filibuster, the total appropriations for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1912, being $1,195,000,000. Repairmen examining the furnishings of the House of Representatives discovered that Speaker Champ Clark used the gavel with such effect during the previous months that one entire section had been pulled away. … The postmaster general announced that the department in January 1913 would put into general operation the recently authorized parcel post system, which was to extend over millions of miles. … The Floyd County delegation to the state Democratic convention included J.S. Crawford, Sap Reese, Ed Maddox, Harry Meikeleham, C.S. Gossett and Tom Salmon. …
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A tree near the residence of Cicero Hammond in Armuchee was struck by lightning, the bolt passing through a
window of the house and demolishing a bed on which two of his little children were sleeping. The children were not harmed in the least, but Mrs. Hammond, standing nearby, was slightly shocked. … Charles J. Ogles, Lindale correspondent of the Tribune-Herald, while riding his bicycle between Lindale and Boozeville, was struck by a boy, Jerry Jolly, riding the handlebars of his bicycle, and both landed 15 feet farther up the road, sustaining bruises.
This accident broke Mr. Ogles’ record of never having a fall in 15 years. … J.M. Jones lost a fine $250 mule in a runaway. One of his men was driving a hay-wagon out Summerville Pike when the tongue chain broke, throwing the wagon against the team and breaking the animal’s leg. … Ernest Pullen, 15, who lived on the Rounsaville farm on the Lindale Road, broke his arm when the mule he was riding from the field became frightened at a train and ran away. …
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