100 Years Ago
100 years ago as presented in the September 1920 editions of the Rome Tribune-Herald
Fanning 12 men and allowing but one hit, Lee Bolt, pitching for Lindale, defeated Piedmont in Lindale by the score of 322, the winning run crossing the plate in the eighth inning after two men were down, and it being too dark for further play.
Besides the pitching of Bolt, the game was featured by the hitting of Donaldson, who secured three clean singles out of three times at bat and of Creed Cook, who hit two singles and a triple, Akins hit a couple of safeties, Bots one and Bolt one, Bolts being a twobagger. Pilcher’s scratch and field hit in the eighth inning drove in the winning run.
Monday, Sept. 28, 1970 Cuban government ready to swap hijackers with U. S.
MIAMI ( AP) – Cuba says it is willing to enter an agreement with the United States to rneturn airplane hijackers, but only if such as pact also covers the hijacking of boats.
This could involve Cubans who steal boats to come to Florida, and the State Department declined immediate comment while it studied the statement by Foreign Minister Raul Roa.
Roa’s statement was broadcast by Havana Radio on Saturday night in an unusual public communique.
“The problem of the hijack of planes could not be solved by simple publicity measures,” Roa’s statement said.
“If the United States government wishes to discuss this problem in a serious and definitive way, the Cuban government is willing to subscribe immediately an agreement on the basis established in the Cuban law No. 1,226, Sept. 16, 1969, which includes besides the hijack of planes, the hijacking of ships and other violations of regulations and laws ruling the international traffic,” Roa said.
He added, “We do also express in a final and categorical way that we will not accept and will not respect any international agreement relating to the hijack of planes, unless it concretely includes all piracy forms and violations without any exception.”
Roa also declared that Robert Labadie, 27, a U. S. Army private put aboard a U. S. Army plane at a Cuban airfield and returned to this country last Thursday as an accused airplane hijacker, should be treated as a mental case rather than a criminal.
Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1970
Empire Furniture Store expands Rome facilities
The grand opening of the new and enlarged Empire Furniture Store, at 515 East Second Ave., will begin at 9 a. m. Thursday. The store will remain open until 9 p. m. Thursday and Friday.
The new store will offer a complete line of services, including free delivery with the option of home approval. Qualified salespeople will be available.
All displays are set in individual room groupings with complete accessories and are qualitycoordinated by price and style. There is also a complete home display with three rooms in various styles.
The new store has fee parking with direct entrance to the store and has nine well- lighted display windows.
Empire, which is a member of seventy- store chain, was opened in Rome in 1964 after the Toles’ brothers retirement. It has since doubled its display area and increased its personnel by 80 percent. It was recently recognized as one of the outstanding stores in the Empire chain.
It is managed by James Cordle, a Floyd Countian, who was employed by Maxwell Brothers Furniture for 20 years prior to joining Empire in 1967. He lives on the Old Summerville Rd. with his wife, Ima Jean, and two sons, Steve and David.
Billy Land is the assistant manager, and the sales staff includes Martha Taliferro, Kitty Amos, Marie Haney, and Donald Purdy, Sally Oxford and Idelle Holsomback are the office staff, and deliveries are made by Henry Ridley. Thomas Mullinax and Robert Helton.
100 years ago as presented in the September 1920 editions of the Rome Tribune- Herald
The handsome coronation gift to be presented to the lady chosen queen of the homecoming week pageant in October will be on display this week in the window of the Wyatt Jewelry Company.
Voting boxes were placed at prominent points in the city and voting for a choice of a queen began at once. It became evident right at the start, that the contest will engender strong interest and it promises to be exciting.
Votes will be counted, for the present, on Mondays and Thursdays and published Wednesdays and Sundays. Later on, the results of the voting will be published daily, as the counting is to be done daily.
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The apprehension of three men who were seen leaving Rome on a freight train has been asked by Police Chief Harris of the authorities at Chattanooga, in the direction of which city the train was going. The men are suspected of being implicated in a holdup said to have occurred near the Second Avenue bridge recently and of having burglarized the store of Bruce Suits, near the Anchor Duck Mills.
The police have not learned the details of the holdup on Second Avenue but it was reported to them recently though the name of the victim is withheld.
Suits was in the city hall jail on a charge of being drunk and disorderly and his store was burglarized while he was in the lockup. The burglars are said to have secured a quantity of merchandise.
Sheriff Smith has been requested by the police to assist in apprehending the guilty persons
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President Ban Johnson, of baseball’s American League, is quoted by newspapers as having said he had “heard statements that the White Sox did not dare win the 1920 pennant because of the managers of a gambling syndicate, alleged to have certain players in their power, and had forbidden it.” The gamblers are said to have backed Cleveland.