100 Years Ago

100 years ago as presented in the September 1920 editions of the Rome TribuneHerald

Little Tim Roberson in Lindale has an educated spider at work in a part of the hedgerow at his gate. Recently the spider started off with one large “w” and continued down one large perpendicular line with a row of letters, all of which more or less resembled a small “w”.

The newsman is of the opinion that the spider is either indicating his rejoicing at the election of Watson, or predicting the election of Walker. Some of the more pessimistic ones believe that the spiders “w” is nothing more nor less than a forewarning of another war, while others who viewed the spider’s work took it lightly by stating that the letter only indicated more work.

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Men coming from the section of Floyd County near the Polk County line report that unknown parties have placed notices on a cotton gin in Floyd County, warning the owners not to begin operation before January 1921.

Posters of a similar nature they state are on one or two gins across the line in Polk.

It is said that several neighbor farmers in that section are building in cotton houses to hold their cotton until the price is sufficiently high to pay, at least, the cost of making it and give a fair profit to the producer.

The movement to have the cotton crop of north Georgia held this season by the growers, in order to keep the price from slumping, was reported by Haralson County to be spreading.