FIFTY AND 100 YEARS AGO CONTINUED
Monday, Sept. 21, 1970 Competition great among tree salesmen
GRIFFIN, Ga. (AP) – There is such a thing as statusseeking among the men who sell Christmas trees.
To some of them, status is having one of their trees in the governor’s mansion.
Thus, on Oct. 9, members of the Georgia Christmas Tree Growers Association will convene to consider, among other weighty matters, the matter of a tree for the mansion.
Many of the association members, says T.J. Williams, president of the group, are expected to bring sample trees with them.
The association has already laid down guidelines for competing for the honor of having a tree placed in the mansion. Foremost among them is that the tree must be between five and seven feet tall.
Association members have been told that the trees must be of a “shape and size” appropriate for the mansion.
B.R. Murray, association secretary, said that some growers were caught short and don’t have trees large enough for consideration.
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1970
Coosa beauty wins Floyd county title
Mary Siegel, a 17-year-old beauty from Coosa High School, has her sights set on a bigger prize today after receiving the crown as Miss Floyd County on Tuesday night at the 22nd Annual Coosa Valley Fair.
She beat out six other beauties from high schools for the title, plus the right to represent the county in the Miss Coosa Valley Fair contest Thursday night. That’s the big prize Mary is seeking, but she’ll be up against some 15 other beauties from the Coosa Valley area.
Mary is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Siegel Jr., 123 Glendale Rd. Her ambition is to become a mathematics or chemistry teacher and maybe teach dancing lessons on the side.
Presently she’s vice president of the Coosa Beta Club and Garden Lakes Baptist youth council, and is a member of the science club, pet club, student council, girls’ athletic association, Garden Lakes Choir and chaplain of the Tri-Hi-Y.
She also has been a varsity football and basketball cheerleader for three years.
Thursday, Sept. 24, 1970
Women city-county golf tourney opens Monday
The ladies have saved the best for the last. That’s right, the annual City-County Women’s Golf Championship will be held Monday and Tuesday at Callier Springs and this event officially rings down the 1970 curtain on tournament golf for the golf area.
This is the No. 1 event among the ladies in that it decides the championship for Rome and Floyd County. The ladies may sign up anytime before 9 a.m. Monday, officials said, with first-round action soon after that.
The entry fee is $6 and prizes go to the top places in each flight. These flights, by the way, will be decided on the basis of opening play. The tournament winds up Tuesday.
Defending champ is Sandra Duncan, who has won just about every prize open to lady golfers in Northwest Georgia.
In the meantime, the men are getting set for their final tournament, which comes up this weekend at Green Acres. It’s the first annual Wallace Hendricks Amateur Invitational and some 100 golfers are expected to play.
Already in the field are most of the top amateur golfers, including both Jerry Argo and Martin Ball, who teamed this past weekend to capture the GEAA lowball tournament.
100 years ago as presented in the September 1920 editions of the Rome Tribune-Herald
Reverend A. L. Turner, former pastor of the Denbigh Baptist Church in Newport News, Va., was indicted by a grand jury and charged with attempted murder. There are two counts of the indictment and the court action followed an alleged row in the congregation resulting in a free-for-all fight on a public road some weeks ago. It was charged that the pastor produced a weapon and threatened certain members of the congregation.
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It will cost, according to Justice E. P. Treadaway, about $125 to hold the second gubernatorial primary in Floyd County on Oct. 6, and he says he is willing, so far as acting as one of the managers at the Rome box is concerned, to donate his services as a matter of duty, if others will do the same.
There being no funds to finance the second primary, it is expected that the justices in this, as in other Georgia counties, and the persons who will act as clerks, will be asked to donate their services. There will only be one name on a ballot, so that the work will not be very hard.
Should managers and clerks in Floyd County, however, be unwilling to act without recompense, somebody will have to finance the primary here and friends of the candidates are expected to do so.