Miss Edna Davis was declared winner of the top prize, a Ford automobile, in the Tribune-Herald’s great subscription contest which concluded this week a half century ago. Willie Scoggins received $100 in gold as the second prize (Mrs. T.T. Port, the former Edna Davis, reports that the Ford was delivered to her residence in the country by a two-horse wagon, but that she was never able to use the machine because of the condition of the roads). … One of the heaviest fogs in the history of Rome enveloped the city for two hours fifty years ago. It was so thick that it was impossible to see but a few feet; the freight on the Southern passing through had its danger signal displayed, and traffic was greatly impeded. … Will Swindell, who was at work in the carding department at Lindale, got his hand badly smashed in the nicker-in of a fast moving card. …
Fire destroyed the DeSoto warehouse near the ball park on the West Side, together with 420 bales of cotton, farming implements and wagons Sunday morning fifty years ago. The total loss amounted to about $40,000, according to C.C. Bass, owner. The cotton was the property of different parties and was fully insured. It was believed that someone carelessly threw a cigar in the cotton Saturday, setting it on fire, and slowly burning. It was not seen until the flames burst through the roof Sunday. The blaze was discovered by L.L. Garrett, who worked for the DeSoto stables nearby. He gave the alarm and all the horses, mules and vehicles were removed from the stable, but all the firemen worked with vim and confined the blaze to a warehouse. A stream of water was constantly kept on the burning cotton for four days and the Land Company’s bridge was roped with no vehicles allowed to go over it.
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By week’s end all the schools and Shorter College had closed for the Christmas holidays in 1912. A majority of the Shorter girls left on a special train over the Southern. … “The Mothers and Teachers Cooperative Club” was organized at a teacher’s institute for the Lindale district and civic juvenile and parents’ clubs were organized when the institute was held at Van’s Valley and West Rome School. … A Boy Scout troop recently organized in Lindale by Miss Lillie Mae Duke was in thriving condition. They had a hike from Lindale to Rome and attended a motion picture. … A large turkey got loose and flew on a building on the west side of lower Broad Street. Several bystanders shot at it with a small rifle and killed it. Quite a number collected and watched the execution of the turkey, which was quite a novel site on a busy thoroughfare. …
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The bridges across the Etowah River in East Rome and on South Broad were declared unsafe by Engineer T.H. Booz and Major D.M. Anderson. It was probable that there would be no more continuous street car service to East and South Rome until more substantial bridges were built. … The Carnegie Library had just received a splendid set of Charles Dickens’ works. … The Rev. C.K. Henderson moved into the new parsonage of the Second Avenue Methodist Church, which was just completed on East Eighth Street. … Mr. and Mrs. Claude Porter and little daughter, Martha, moved to their newly purchased home on East Second Avenue, the former Norris Smith residence. … The cost of living in Rome reduced by about 25 percent in 1912 under 1911. ….
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